Yuanyang quickly brought people over. The maidservant helped Pang Qing to the side chamber next door, and the imperial physician quickly came to treat Pang Qing.
Fortunately, although Pang Qing had squatted down, it had only affected her fetus. She only needed to take some medicine and she would be fine.
Just when everyone thought that Pang Qing had fallen down accidentally, Pang Qing suddenly cried to the maidservant who came to serve her. She said that she had not fallen down accidentally, but was pushed down by Jiujiu.
In order to increase her persuasiveness, Pang Qing did not hesitate to vaguely mention the dispute between her and Jiujiu in order to increase Jiujiu's motive for pushing her down.
The maidservant, who did not believe Pang Qing at first, instantly believed half of it when she heard Jiujiu's motive.
Pang Qing's husband, Official Li, did not know what was right or wrong. When he heard that Jiujiu had pushed down Pang Qing and caused Pang Qing's fetus to be affected, he did not think twice and went to reason with Jiujiu, wanting an explanation.
Xiang Bei, who was standing beside Jiujiu and listening to Jiujiu's story, directly protected Jiujiu when Pang Qing's husband came to explain. "Official Li, are you here to denounce us?"
"Your wife pushed down my wife and caused my wife's fetus to be affected. Shouldn't I be here to denounce you?"
"If it was really my wife who did it, it is understandable that Official Li is here to denounce us. However, this matter was not my wife's doing. Isn't Official Li's action a little inappropriate?"
"My wife is lying in the side chamber in extreme pain right now. You say that it was not your wife's doing?" Although his love for Pang Qing had faded a little, she was still his wife. She represented his face outside.
Jiujiu's action of pushing Pang Qing to cause her fetus to be affected was a public slap to his face. He naturally could not let this matter go.
If he could tolerate his wife being bullied to this extent, how could he establish himself in the imperial court in the future?
Xiang Bei stood in front of Jiujiu like a mountain and looked at Official Li. "Official Li, based on your wife's one-sided story, can I also say that your wife fell down and framed my wife for pushing her?"
"Nonsense." How could Pang Qing fall down and frame others for no reason?
Official Li had received orthodox Confucian education since he was young, so he did not understand these twists and turns. Therefore, his first reaction to Xiang Bei's words was that Xiang Bei was defending Jiujiu.
Seeing that Official Li did not believe her, he said, "If you don't believe me, you can come with me to the place where we were standing just now.... and you will see.."
"Let's go.
"Official Li now wanted Jiujiu and Xiang Bei to give him an explanation. Seeing that Jiujiu had taken the initiative to suggest going to the place just now, he gladly went. He was prepared to use facts to make Jiujiu and Xiang Bei apologize to him.
Jiujiu asked Yuanyang to turn on the lights and pointed to the traces on the ground. "Official Li, please take a look. What is this?"
"Footprints?"
Jiujiu nodded. "Yes, they are."
After Jiujiu finished speaking, Xiang Bei suddenly raised his hand and pushed Official Li.
Suddenly being pushed, Official Li instinctively struggled. Soon, there were traces of a struggle on the ground.
Official Li had come to find evidence of Pang Qing being pushed by Jiujiu. When he was suddenly pushed by Xiang Bei, he was instantly furious. "What do you want?"
In response to Official Li's anger, Jiujiu only pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "Official Li, please take a look. This is your footprints after my husband pushed you. This is your wife's footprints. What did you find?"
Official Li took a closer look and quickly found a clue.
His footprints were very messy because he was constantly struggling for fear of falling. However, Pang Qing's footprints were only in a small area and there were almost no traces of movement.
If Pang Qing had really been pushed by Jiujiu, Pang Qing would have struggled like him. Therefore, her footprints would be as messy as his.
There was only one reason why Pang Qing's footprints were so clear.
Although Official Li was pedantic, he was not stupid. It only took him a moment to figure out what was going on.
When he thought of how he had aggressively sought out Jiujiu to demand an explanation and was now exposed by Jiujiu, Official Li felt as if he had been slapped dozens of times in the face.
Official Li's expression was ugly as he said, "I have wronged Madam. Goodbye."
After Official Li finished speaking, he turned and walked toward the side hall aggressively. It was obvious that he was going to talk to Pang Qing.
Looking at Official Li's back, Jiujiu sighed faintly. She looked up at Xiang Bei and said irritably, "You look like you're attracting bees and butterflies."
Xiang Bei was scolded for no reason and felt wronged. "Madam?"
With Xiang Bei's help, Jiujiu walked out of the palace as she said, "Do you know why Pang Qing was so insistent on saying that I pushed her, regardless of her own belly?"
"Why?"
"Because she still can't forget you." Jiujiu laughed softly. "Although her character is not good, I didn't expect her to be so infatuated."
Xiang Bei, "…"
Although Pang Qing's fall was a big deal, it was self-directed and self-staged by Pang Qing. Secondly, it was a palace banquet and the Emperor wanted to suppress the matter out of fear of Grand Tutor Pang. Therefore, other than the few people who had interacted with Pang Qing, no one knew about it.
However, according to Yuanyang, Pang Qing's husband, Official Li, took in a concubine a few days after he returned and stayed with his concubine every day. Now, Pang Qing had become a joke in the circle. Everyone said that she was still pregnant, but her husband had already taken in a concubine. She was really useless.
Jiujiu was not interested in Pang Qing's joke.
The Spring Festival passed quickly.
Because Xiang Bei had been training for more than a year, the Emperor had taken office again. This time, Xiang Bei was extremely busy with work every day and rarely came back at night. Jiujiu and Xiang Bei lived under the same roof, but the time they spent together was extremely short.
Most of the time, Jiujiu was asleep and Xiang Bei was not back yet. When Jiujiu woke up, Xiang Bei had already gone to court.
Because of the Emperor's heavy responsibility, Xiang Bei still had to stay at his post even when he was on break. He was very busy.
While Xiang Bei was abnormally busy, some troublemakers appeared in Jiujiu's shop.
At first, someone said that the quality of the clothes in Jiujiu's shop was not good.
After Jiujiu had someone check carefully and confirmed that the clothes were from her shop, she gave two solutions. The first was to refund the money and make a new set. The second was to pay double the price.
The other party did not quarrel with Jiujiu and left after accepting Jiujiu's double compensation.
At first, Jiujiu thought that it was an accident. However, when the clothes were torn one after another, Jiujiu felt that something was wrong.
After Steamed Bun collected information, he found that the people whose clothes were torn were ordered after the Spring Festival. Jiujiu knew that she was being targeted by someone.
She was about to give birth. Once she gave birth, she would not be in the mood to clean up the shop for at least three months.
Jiujiu gave the staff and embroiderers in the shop a half-year long paid vacation.
As for the clothing shop, it was closed.
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