An Accidental Rebirth: The Surrogate Bride - Chapter 91

Watching Zixiu fall to the ground, Luo Huali was scared out of his wits. Though he had dashed over as fast as he could, he failed to catch Zixiu in time. In a panic, he had left the ritual that physical contact between men and women was considered inappropriate behind. “Zixiu, how are you feeling? Where does it hurt? Come on, say something!”

Curving up on the ground, Zixiu groaned in pain and couldn’t utter a word. Even though he felt like his butt was splitting, what was killing him was the pain in the belly. He had never suffered so much pain, which was even hundreds of times worse than the last time he had been kicked by Nangong Du! Therefore, the next second, he burst into tears again!

“Zixiu! Zi…” The moment his fingers touched Zixiu’s swollen belly, the flustered Huali froze on the spot. ‘Heavens! Zixiu is really pregnant!’

Hearing someone shriek, Nangong Du and Yan Lingxiao stopped fighting at once. However, when they rushed to the backyard, they saw a pile of hay burning! Luo Huali had been in such a hurry and he had thrown the torch onto the haystack by accident! As it hadn’t rained for days and everything was very dry, the fire spread quickly in all directions.

The two of them were all stupified. They had noticed that the roof of Zihu’s house was covered with thick thatch when they were fighting. Needless to say, if they let the fire spread, not only would the house burn to ashes, but it would also start a mountain fire!

Anxiously they looked through the burning flames for the one who had just screamed.

When he finally saw Zixiu in his senior brother’s arms, Lingxiao heaved a sigh of relief. Though he felt lost and jealous, he was clear that it wasn’t the right time to argue with Luo Huali. Moreover, his conservative and upright senior brother had been thinking that Zixiu was a girl, so he would never take the opportunity to harass him. Anyway, it was better to leave Xiuxiu in Luo Huali’s care for the time being than to let him fall into the hands of that pervert! At the thought of this, Lingxiao felt less jealous and he immediately said loudly, “Senior Brother, please take care of Xiuxiu for me!”

He then turned to Nangong Du, thinking that if this asshole insisted on making trouble, he would kill him before putting out the fire! However, to his surprise, Nangong Du turned to leave without a glance at him.

“Humph!” With a snort, Lingxiao rushed to the front yard following Nangong Du and secretly took out the fan from his sleeve. However, when he was about to shoot the silver needles from his fan, he saw Nangong Du bend over and pick up the barrel on the ground. “Huh?”

“Humph!” Nangong Du snorted as well. ‘Yan Lingxiao must be thinking that I’m a useless dandy! Without his father’s protection, I would have gotten the brainless Liu Zixiu with no sweat!’ From the terrible scream, he was certain that Zixiu was in trouble again. ‘You deserve it! Why did you shut me out? You coward, if you opened the door earlier, nothing would have happened!’ he thought resentfully. Zixiu was lucky enough to have two senior brothers proficient in medicine by his side, so Nangong Du was sure he would be fine. However, he was worried that Zixiu might blame him in the future once the Cirrus Valley was burned down. Though he hadn’t set the fire, for the sake of the King of Medicine, Mr. Liu, he decided to get off his high horse as the prince and put out the fire in person.

“Fi…Fire! 112… No… 122? Er… Hurry up! Dial 119…”

The ‘coward’ was muttering from behind again, but in a lower voice as if he was dying. Looking back, Nangong Du saw Zixiu’s senior brother had come to the front yard with Zixiu in him arms as if he were holding a rare treasure.

“Humph!” With another snort, he broke in on Zixiu’s muttering and asked grumpily, “Where can I fetch some water?”

Lingxiao, who had just come back to his senses, flared up again when he heard Nangong Du yelling. “What are you yelling for? Don’t you see Xiuxiu’s very sick..”

At the mention of this, he suddenly turned back to Zixiu, as if he had just remembered something. Zixiu was covering his belly with his hands, and though under thick clothes, his belly bulged noticeably! Could it be…

The blood drained from Lingxiao’s face in an instant. At the thought of the miserable shriek, he rushed to Luo Huali in horror. “Senior Brother, what’s wrong with Xiuxiu? How come he suddenly had a pain in the belly? What the hell happened?”

“119… Fire…” Zixiu muttered in a state of semi-consciousness with his face twisted in pain. Luo Huali didn’t answer Lingxiao. Judging by Zixiu’s pulse, he could tell Zixiu was very likely to lose ‘her’ baby.

“A sign of miscarriage?” From his senior brother’s expression, Lingxiao immediately figured out what had happened.

Hearing that, Nangong Du, who had been wearing a poker face couldn’t help but sneer. “This is ridiculous! There’s no way Liu Zixiu…”

“You bastard!” With a roar, Lingxiao suddenly turned around. Staring at Nangong Du furiously, he went on cursing, “You scumbag! If it weren’t for you, Zixiu wouldn’t have suffered so much! If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have nearly died in an assassination attempt and been poisoned! How could you make sarcastic remarks like this?! I’m going…”

“Enough!” Luo Huali’s heart sunk when he heard that Zixiu had been poisoned, and he suddenly interrupted his junior brother. Given the circumstances, Lingxiao couldn’t have lied! It seemed he and his master had got it wrong. If it was really false pregnancy, Zixiu’s life was on the line!

Realizing that Zixiu’s condition was even worse than he had imagined, with a physician’s excellent psychological quality, Luo Huali calmed himself down soon. He then placed his hands on Zixiu’s belly, trying to ease his abdominal pain. Meanwhile, he ordered the two, who were staring at each other in rage, “What are you standing here for? Go put out the fire! We have to move Zixiu to a warm place!”

“119…” Zixiu was still muttering the number, which didn’t make any sense to other people.