Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

14. Being Mrs. Xiao (3)

Translator: Sissy That Walk

Xiao Yi took Cao Mo to Banyan House to visit Auntie Lu.

Auntie Lu was reciting the sutra when a page arrived saying Cao Mo and Xiao Yi were about to visit her, she was surprised and asked her personal maid Lvzhu to inquire about what had happened in the morning.

Lvzhu went to Magnolia House and soon came back with the updates, Lvzhu even got the details that Xiao Yi asked his page to send for a doctor for Concubine Wu.

Hearing this, Auntie Lu figured why the newly weds made this trip. Xiao Yi was protecting his wife by finding him a reliable observer for anything might take place. Even though this was none of her business, Auntie Lu still decided to offer a hand, she knew the nicer she treated Xiao Yi, the more riled Lady Lu would get.

Lvzhu listened to Auntie Lu carefully, and she couldn’t help but exclaimed how considerate Xiao Yi was to Cao Mo.

“Yeah unlike his father, Xiao Yi is a man with a soft heart. I am going to help the kids out, I will do anything to poke that bitxx. By the way go get two ginseng from our Treasury, ginseng is good stuff, nourishing yin and tonifying yang.” sneered Auntie Lu.

Xiao Yi and Cao Mo arrived now, hearing Xiao Yi out, Auntie Lu smiled, “Yi, you are being too cautious, aren’t you?”

“Auntie, please help me, being cautious could spare some unnecessary rumpus especially Mo just married to our family.” with that Xiao Yi bowed to Auntie Lu.

Cao Mo followed suit.

Auntie Lu chuckled, she covered her mouth with her hankerchief, “Mo, it looks like you hve some etiquette to learn before Lady Dowager comes back from the temple, we will be expecting a lot of visitors for lunar new year, you are the young madam of the younger generation, hmm, visitors will pay extra attention to you.”

“Thank you so much for reminding us, Auntie.” Xiao Yi bowed again.

Cao Mo rolled his eyes, he was so tired of these customs, and he knew Auntie Lu meant well by pointing out he was not great at the etiquette, but he was not thrilled to hear the undertone — he was unpresentable.

However, he was here begging for a favor, so he smiled and nodded.

Auntie Lu and the two took the sedan chairs to Rain House.

A strong herbal medicine aroma came before they even made it to the gate. The house looked so deserted, not a single maid or page could be seen.

Cao Mo was not a Xiao, so he didn’t enter Concubine Wu’s room, Xiao Yi was not interested in this mess in the first place so he waited outside the door with his wife.

Auntie Lu entered the room, Xiao Li was boiling some water on the stove and she was the only one who was looking after her mother, soon there came Auntie Lu’s scream, “What’s wrong with the servants in Rain House? Why hasn’t anyone reported this?”

Xiao Li kowtowed to Auntie Lu, “Auntie, please, please send for a good doctor for my mother, she might suffer a miscarriage if she suffers this fever.”

Auntie Lu took a look st Concubine Wu who was lying in bed and asked Lvzhu to report this to Lady Lu.

Soon Lvzhu came back, saying that Lady Lu asked Auntie Lu to handle the situation for she just slipped in her yard and sprained her ankle, she needed to stay in bed.

Auntie Lu gritted her teeth, “Way to shirk her responsibility!”

Cao Mo was anxious outside the door, “Third Sister, just wipe your mother’s body with some warm water, it’s a good way to cool down the fever!”

Xiao Li loathed Cao Mo so much that she refused to listen to him, “This is all you fault, stop acting like you care! Because of you, First Brother punished me and grounded me, I was on my way to inviting a doctor, now you are here pretending you care, stop patronizing me! I don’t need that!”

Cao Mo was speechless, “My fault? Third Sister, let’s talk some sense here, shall we? It was you who knocked over a mammy and I fell down from the sedan chair, it’s not like your First Brother punished you out of nowhere!”

“Stop it! Like I said, it is all your fault, if anything shall happen to my mother, I’m ready to perish with you together!” with that Xiao Li rushing towards Cao Mo.

Xiao Yi went pale seeing this, he stepped forward and took Cao Mo behind his back.

Luckily Lvzhu stopped Xiao Li by pulling Xiao Li’s sleeves.

Cao Mo spotted some blebs on Xiao Li’s forearms, ‘Fever? Blebs? Smallpox?’

“Does your mother have these blebs?” asked Cao Mo with concern.

“No… no… my mother is just having a fever.” retorted Xiao Li.

Cao Mo didn’t buy that, if that was really the case, why was Xiao Li so cautious about this, she could have had reported this to Lady Lu and get her mother treated earlier! Unless she knew the disease her mother contracted was not a normal fever!

Thinking about that possibility, Cao Mo yelled, “Lvzhu, don’t touch her! That’s contagious!”

Auntie Lu realized how severe this might be, she asked Lvzhu to let go of Xiao Li.

Cao Mo took a step forward and grabbed Xiao Li’s sleeve, he took a closer look at the blebs, it was bad!

Xiao Yi was worried about Cao Mo, he wanted to pulled Cao Mo back, but Cao Mo was more worried for his husband who was already in delicate health, so he asked a maid to stop Xiao Yi.

Xiao Li was about to launch another attack against Cao Mo when Cao Mo glared at her, “I’m warning you Third Sister, you better behave yourself! Do you have any idea what this is? Smallpox! It’s deadly and it’s contagious! Quit running around like a madman!”

Xiao Li screamed, “You are lying! This isn’t smallpox!”

A doctor just entered the gate under the mammy’s lead, and he was about to turn around and leave when she heard what Cao Mo said.

Smallpox was deadly in that time and space! To make it worse, it was super contagious! It was hard to bring down the fever caused by it, it was almost like drawing lots once you contracted smallpox!

Auntie Lu also shivered hearing what Cao Mo just said, “Mo, do you have a cure now that you are able to recognize it?”

Cao Mo shook his head in dismay.

Auntie Lu had witness it what smallpox could do to people, ‘no wonder that shady bitxx didn’t show up!’

Seeing Cao Mo shaking his head, Xiao Li fumed, “If my mother isn’t getting cured, you are all going down with her!”

Cao Mo found it ridiculous, “Third Sister, mind what you are talking and who you are talking to! We are here to help you and your mother, don’t drive us off using your words!”

Auntie Lu rewarded the doctor two gold ingots and asked him to stay to at least have a look, and she sent a page to report Xiao Yugui that Rain House would be under a lockdown.