Fang Liyuan sent her the tonics, which were tested. There was no problem with it.

Old Mrs. Qiao nodded repeatedly.

She said, "It seems that Liyuan is a sensible woman. She accepted the baby after the talk with me."

After a pause, she looked at the servant and asked, "Then why did Bai Xiaoru ask me to come here?"

The servant had no idea.

She said, "Miss Bai looks frightened, and she keeps asking me to let you come over."

Old Mrs. Qiao was a little unhappy.

She thought Bai Xiaoru was making trouble out of nothing.

This time, Fang Liyuan didn't come here to make trouble as she did last time. She came here to show her concern and to promise to take good care of Bai Xiaoru's son. What was wrong with that stupid woman?

What a troublemaker!

If it weren't for the fact that Bai Xiaoru was pregnant with her great-grandson, she wouldn't have come here.

"Old Mrs. Qiao, please don't give my baby to Fang Liyuan." Bai Xiaoru cried as soon as she saw Old Mrs. Qiao.

Old Mrs. Qiao tried to say in a soft voice, "Bai Xiaoru, Liyuan is in poor health, and she is unable to bear children. Isn't it a good thing to give her your child? In the future, she will raise your child as her own child. Isn't that good?"

Bai Xiaoru shook her head desperately. "No, Old Mrs. Qiao, my baby would rather be brought up by you than by her!"

"Bai Xiaoru, a mother is necessary for a child. I can't be her mother after you leave here in the future. What's wrong with Liyuan being your child's mother? She will take good care of your baby."

"Old Mrs. Qiao, she won't. She won't be good to my child. She will destroy it!" Bai Xiaoru shouted.

This displeased Old Mrs. Qiao.

Her face turned gloomy. "Bai Xiaoru, what are you talking about? Liyuan has promised me that she will take the baby as her own child in the future. How can you say that she will destroy your child? How ridiculous!"

"Old Mrs. Qiao, she will surely kill my child. Please don't give this child to her!" Bai Xiaoru knelt down in front of Old Mrs. Qiao and begged.

She knew that if she told Old Mrs. Qiao what Fang Liyuan had said to her, she would not believe it. She would even think that she was talking nonsense, so she had to kneel down and plead.

She could only beg her in the humblest way.

Old Mrs. Qiao panicked when she saw Bai Xiaoru kneeling down.

After all, she was pregnant with Qiao Yaozu's son.

She immediately held up Bai Xiaoru and said, "Okay, I promise you that I won't give your son to her. I'll bring him up with me in the future."

Bai Xiaoru stood up.

Tears welled up in her eyes. "Thank you, Old Mrs. Qiao."

Later, Old Mrs. Qiao comforted Bai Xiaoru for a while and then left. Bai Xiaoru sat on the sofa alone, staring at the ceiling with empty eyes.

Later, a servant came forward.

Before leaving, Old Mrs. Qiao specially asked the servant to accompany Bai Xiaoru to relieve her boredom and make her feel better.

"Miss Bai, would you like some milk? Old Mrs. Qiao has told you to drink more milk, which is good for the baby." Although the servant was tall and strong, her voice was gentle.

Bai Xiaoru took the milk.

She had no appetite now, but she was willing to do anything for the baby.

She drank the milk in one gulp.

The servant took the empty glass and said, "Miss Bai, what's on your mind? Can you tell me?"

Bai Xiaoru looked at the servant and murmured, "Do you still remember that Mr. Qiao wanted to be with a woman called Qin Yu? At that time, all the people in the North opposed it, but then, Mr. Qiao made a speech. Do you still remember what he said in the speech?"

"Of course, I do." The servant got excited at the mention of this.

At that time, she was still a female soldier. When she heard that Mr. Qiao was going to be with a humble woman, she strongly opposed it and even participated in a demonstration. However, after hearing what Mr. Qiao said, she changed her mind.

She couldn't help but feel excited when she thought of what Mr. Qiao had said. She whispered, "Everyone is equal, especially love. Even powerful people can be together with ordinary people!"

Bitterness flashed across Bai Xiaoru's eyes.

She murmured, "No, Mr. Qiao is wrong."

The servant was stunned.

Mr. Qiao was the highest ruler in the North. No one dared to say that he was wrong. Now that Bai Xiaoru said so, the servant didn't know how to respond.

Bai Xiaoru continued to murmur, "No mistake could be worse than this."

Everyone could never be equal.

Humble ants would be humble forever.

Powerful people could easily trample ordinary ones to death.

Just like her, she was born to be a humble servant, and she could not even keep her own baby.

Even though she knew someone wanted to hurt her child, she couldn't protect him. She could only kneel down and humbly beg Old Mrs. Qiao.

Fang Liyuan was right. She was indeed a nobody.

Bai Xiaoru slowly and gently touched her belly with her hand. She muttered, "My baby, it's right for me to give you to Old Mrs. Qiao."

If the baby stayed with her, he would become a lowly ant like her and be bullied by others in the future without resisting.

Only under the protection of Qiao Palace, her son could become a strong man.

She didn't want her son to taste her hard life.

She had suffered enough, so she didn't want her son to be like her.

Old Mrs. Qiao returned to Qiao Palace and found Fang Liyuan.

"Liyuan, don't tell Bai Xiaoru that her son is going to be brought up by you. She doesn't want to give you her son." Old Mrs. Qiao sighed. "I don't know what's on her mind. It's her child's fortune to have a mother like you."

Fang Liyuan said on purpose, "What am I supposed to do? I thought about what you said to me last time carefully and got enlightened. Now I just want that child to be my son."

Old Mrs. Qiao said, "Don't worry. The child will be given to you. After all, it's impossible for a child to be raised up without a mother. Besides, I'm too old to raise a baby. I lied to Bai Xiaoru for comfort. After all, she is pregnant now. You can't irritate her again."

Fang Liyuan agreed without hesitation.

She said, "Old Mrs. Qiao, you're right. I'll tell her next time that I won't have her son so that she can be completely relieved."

The sensibility of Fang Liyuan was in sharp contrast to the mischief of Bai Xiaoru, which made Old Mrs. Qiao like the former more.

(to be continued)