Underneath A Thousand Skies ✔️

30 Favoring Qie Over Wife (30)

Unfortunately, Li Jia did not understand her good intentions. In this kind of way, the two of them continuously battled until the other side got weakened and lost.

Two months after Zhao Cheng left for the border, the girl on the bed that Ruolan and Minglan carefully attended to finally opened her eyes. Her expression was confused and slightly dazed, but it was mixed with traces of triumph.

Song Jia sighed with relief. She had finally won!

Ruolan dropped the porcelain bowl that she was using as a wash basin to wipe her sweat away and cried in alarm, "Wang fei!"

Minglan hurriedly brought a cup of water and helped Song Jia take a sip to moisturize her dry mouth. She was unaware of the things that happened in the period of time that she was gone and immediately asked, "How's Wen daifu?"

The clearest memory she had before she passed out was Wen Heng Zhi's face that was smeared with blood, and Zhao Cheng's expression that was twisted with anger.

Minglan felt a bit helpless. Wang fei did not ask about wang ye and how he felt seeing her with another man but instead directly asked about Physician Wen's health. This...

"Wen daifu is fine, asking wang fei to worry more about herself instead."

Ruolan was crying hysterically beside her. "Wang fei is finally awake, wuwu, wang fei is finally awake..."

Song Jia stroked her head as the corners of her lips raised up, "It's good that he's fine."

As they helped Song Jia wash up and change her clothes, Minglan narrated about the things that happened while she was asleep. Song Jia choked on the porridge that she was eating when she heard about her father's outburst, and only nodded about Zhao Cheng's journey towards the north. She was in the middle of finishing her meal when she saw that Minglan was biting her lips, seemingly hesitating on whether to tell her or not about another important matter.

"Speak out, what is it that happened while I was asleep?" With Zhao Cheng gone, she was now the temporary master of the house. She could not let anything happen inside the wangfu while he was gone.

Minglan and Ruolan exchanged equally distressed looks. In the end, it was still Minglan who opened her mouth and spoke up.

"Bai shufei...Bai shufei was found out to be pregnant."

Song Jia blanked.

Ruolan thought her expression was one of despair and knelt to the ground in a manner of one who had been personally wronged, "Wuwu, wang fei is so pitiful, she suffered from a terrible injury and can only hear bad news after waking up, wuwu..."

Song Jia ignored her and instead focused on Minglan, "How far along is she?"

"Not too far, the physician diagnosed her to be three months pregnant."

Three months...Song Jia put a hand on her aching forehead as she shifted sides again. Poor Li Jia...if she had won and she was the one hearing this news from Minglan instead, who knew how many arteries in her forehead would have burst out in anger.

"Does wang ye know?"

"Answering wang fei, the steward did not dare to let him know. There are all kinds of rumors floating in the capital that the battle in the north was the fiercest it had ever been, and if wang ye heard that he had left a child back home, who knows how he would react..."

Song Jia nodded. This was good thinking on their part. While in battle, it was necessary to discard other thoughts aside from the enemy that you were facing. Bai Mei Lien was the pearl at the tip of his heart, his only weakness. They could not take anything of hers lightly, for Zhao Cheng's sake.

"Give me some writing paper and an ink brush, this matter, I would tell him myself."

Towards the constant battle in the north, Song Jia did not really care. Ever since the world began, when one side had vast plains unbroken by plough and occupied only by tribes of wandering nomads while on the other are fields and gardens, rich with the products of agricultural industry, between the two, a state of perpetual hostility was inevitable.

Cain and Abel, Egypt and the shepherd kings, and this time the northern barbarians against the empire. War was the only foregone conclusion, as to which side would win, it would always endlessly vary according to the ability of the opponent that you were facing.

Using a zhongkai script, Song Jia slowly wrote down a letter to Zhao Cheng. She first gave him an apology, saying that she and Wen Heng Zhi had met by accident, and that she shouldn't have sneaked out on her own. Then the other trivial matters of the wangfu, like the bolts of silk that she gave to Bai Mei Lien for her to make some lovely dresses. Using this as a pretext, she informed him very gently that Bai Mei Lien had been pregnant for three months and that he should not worry, because she will take good care of her.

Song Jia then calculated the months and thought that it was almost the end of the year. She then added in her letter, almost as if in afterthought, 'It's good that sister Bai could give birth to the eldest child at this point in time, it would be even better if it was a son. Wang ye can then elevate her status to a cefei. After our divorce at the end of the year, wang ye can give her the official status of being your second wife. This is very possible with the merits that you will achieve in this battle. So wang ye, fighting!' [1]

Song Jia reread her letter again with satisfaction. She was certain that not only did she motivate Zhao Cheng to fight harder, she also made him forget her previous dalliance with Wen Heng Zhi because she was behaving so virtuously. She was so virtuous, how could she be seducing another man?

[1] This term actually translates to 'add oil' in Chinese, but I used the Korean term because it smoothly rolls off the tongue.

A/N: I'm updating crazily because I might not be able to update for a few days again! I'm pretty sure I made up for the last few days of absence this time, yes? ＼（＠￣∇￣＠）／