Chapter 484 - 482: No Principles
But Maternal Aunt Liu was different. She was anxiously hoping for Ye Hongyang to return so that she could go to the Duchess’s courtyard and thoroughly inquire whether Maternal Aunt Zhao was truly pregnant.
Today, nearing noon, just as Maternal Aunt Zhao had returned to her room, Nanny Qian led two physicians over. After a round of examination, no news was disseminated; one merely saw Nanny Qian escorting the physicians out, leaving behind two servant women to guard the door of Maternal Aunt Zhao’s room.
When Nanny Qian came again, it was to lead people: a group of servant women and maids gathered Maternal Aunt Zhao’s belongings, leaving nothing behind. The crowd then accompanied Maternal Aunt Zhao, who just up and left like that.
When the two physicians had entered, Maternal Aunt Liu had already felt a bad premonition. She cautiously stepped forward to inquire twice. Although the old woman servant conversed with her politely, she said nothing of substance.
It was rather Nanny Qian who, upon seeing her standing there unwilling to leave, indifferently said, "Maternal Aunt Zhao won’t be staying here for a while and will accompany the Duchess at Yangyi Court."
Maternal Aunt Liu, keen of mind, immediately had a seventy to eighty percent guess. As soon as Nanny Qian and others left, her complexion utterly collapsed. The thing she feared most had finally happened.
Maternal Aunt Liu, completely distraught, returned to her own room. She carefully recollected, where could there have been a slip? The nights when the Princely Heir stayed in Maternal Aunt Zhao’s room—she had calculated them meticulously. Currently out of favor, she could only make compromising requests. She would rather have the Princely Heir spend a couple more nights in Maternal Aunt Zhao’s room than swap out the days when Maternal Aunt Zhao was more likely to conceive. Logically speaking, Maternal Aunt Zhao should not have been able to conceive.
Yet things still developed in the direction she feared the most.