Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 125

Chapter 125: Chapter 124: Undermining the Enemy’s Foundations_1

Bai Jintong, worn out from planning future business ventures these past few days, had only awakened after sleeping for two hours.

Learning that her eldest sister and second sister had already gone to the mourning hall, she hurriedly got up, ate a couple of snacks to fill her stomach, donned her mourning clothes, and went out.

Bai Jintong briskly walked along the corridor decorated with white silk towards the mourning hall. From afar, she saw Nanny Jiang, who was beside her grandmother, followed by a servant from the outer courtyard. Both of them looked grave and were hurriedly heading towards Changshou Courtyard.

Puzzled, she mentioned this to Bai Qingyan and the others as soon as she reached the mourning hall.

“Something must have happened with grandmother, right?” Bai Jinzhi widened her eyes with worry.

“This morning I heard my mother say that grandmother mentioned that tomorrow’s funeral cannot proceed without someone conducting the mourning rituals. She intended to bring back that illegitimate son. It must be about him!” Bai Jinxiu said.

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Before the sisters could say more, guests arrived to pay their respects, and Bai Qingyan and the others had to bow and return the courtesy.

The news of the Duke’s funeral for the next day had spread, and more and more people came to pay their respects, making it impossible for them to leave.

In Changshou Courtyard.

The Eldest Princess sat leaning against five soft pillows embroidered with passionflower patterns. After listening to the trembling servant on the ground recount occurrences at the estate, her hand, holding Buddha Beads, suddenly clenched the corner of the black lacquered table. She widened her eyes and raised her voice in disbelief, “You say… That wretch did what?!”

Terrified by the Eldest Princess’s aura, the servant hastily kowtowed and stammered, “The young master… He insisted this morning that the new wife from the Ji family serve him breakfast. Later… Somehow, the new wife dashed her head against the wall and died in the room. The young master, enraged after being scratched on the face, hacked the new wife into pieces and… ordered for her body to be thrown out to feed the dogs! But that new wife was a commoner…”

“Wretch!” The Eldest Princess slammed her palm on the small black table.

Forcing a new wife to serve him led her to dash her head and die; what else could it have been for?!

Trembling with anger, the Eldest Princess restrained herself and asked, “How many people knew about that wretch ordering the new wife to serve him?”

The servant nodded, “The old servant has already heard that everyone at the estate knew the young master ordered the new wife to serve him. On the seventh day, the nanny sent someone to bring the young master to the estate. From the carriage, the young master saw that the new wife was pretty and demanded her to serve him. The new wife unwillingly obeyed, and the young master threw a tantrum. The people at the estate feared the young master’s wrath and urged the new wife to comply. This morning, the steward’s wife, along with several women friendly with the new wife, persuaded her again, saying that serving the young master breakfast would be good for her husband’s future in the duke’s mansion. That’s why the new wife went! Who would’ve thought she would die there!”

Nanny Jiang stepped forward and gently rubbed the Eldest Princess’s back, saying, “The steward has already confined everyone aware of the new wife’s death and sent the two women who reported it back, awaiting your decision.”

“How could that wretch be so vicious?!” The Eldest Princess’s chest heaved with fury, and her heart turned cold. The second son’s illegitimate child had been raised to be so cruel.

If it weren’t for the fact that this illegitimate child might be the last male descendant of the Bai family, she truly wouldn’t want to keep such a fiend.