Chapter 59 Playacting, Who Cheated Who?
Sending Qiu ngmin away, Mada Lu asked servants in to clean and dress her up, and she was figuring out how to make this drama, “committing suicide to protect son,” much more real. So, she ordered servants to take two grandsons here to kindly and pleasantly show solicitude for them.
Qiu Hongzhi didn’t feel any strange for he had always been spoiled by his grandmother and father. But as to Qiu Yinzhi, who had been disliked by Mada Lu due to Princess Yang and had always been rebuked, he felt extrely flattered with surprise then.
After all they were her own grandsons. Seeing them, Mada Lu’s heart suddenly softened, and she opened a chest, taking a pair of jade kylins to give them, “These are the best pair of jade crafts of mine. Just for you brothers, exactly one for each.”
“Thanks, grandma!” Both grandsons said with one voice.
They both thought that Mada Lu was about to leave Prince’s Mansion. Thus, at this ti, it was not surprising that she would like to leave the young descendants so gifts. So they just thanked without asking for reasons—after all, it may make everyone embarrassed.
Mada Lu also felt pleased as neither of them ntioned the reason. After few words, she hastily sent them away. And she thought about to et her granddaughters as well. Actually, if she really did not want to live any longer, Commandery Princess Ningxin, Qiu Baozhu, who had married out of the mansion, should also be called back, but Mada Lu supposed that would be too affected, which may be utilized by the Empress party to accuse Qiu ngmin as he failed to find out the unusual situation of his mother.
Moreover, Qiu Baozhu, whose birth mother was forced to die by Mada Lu and Qiu ngmin together to give way to Princess Yang, who was the beloved daughter, the apple of eye of an influential dignitary and his wife, had never got close to Prince’s Mansion. After she married, except returning back on the third day of the wedding as the custom, she hadn’t stepped over the threshold of this family even once. Her husband’s family was also not as noble as Prince’s Mansion, so Prince’s Mansion seldom cared about her.
“This granddaughter is also ungrateful,” Mada Lu thought, “never mind, maybe just ask Mingzhu, Jinzhu to co and chat for a while, as well as Yuqing and Lizhang.”
Preparing everything as plots to make the drama real, Mada Lu had talked with all descendants. She stayed up late until the middle of the night, waiting for everyone to fall asleep, then quietly, putting on a new suit, combing hair and making up, even inserting a pearls and jade hairpin, and finally she took the pill which was given by her son with so water.
Although her son took it in person to show her the innocuity, she was still a little worried, so she just dug more than a spoonful, thinking that if the reaction would not be great after she ate, and then she could add so more. But she should ever never take too much of it.
However, which was beyond her imagination that even though she arbitrarily reduced half of teaspoon’s amount, once after she took it, she still felt like a sharp knife was cutting her intestines violently, and this pain made her can’t help to cry loudly!
Unfortunately, because she planned to do everything to make the drama as real as possible, she unusually ordered all servants to rest at night, with no one left!
“Little ngmin took it in front of , it seed this dicine wasn’t that strong!” Mada Lu can’t stop rolling on the wool-woven blanket. She had no ti to consider how much furniture she had knocked down, and she was just begging soone could find her, “Do I have such an uncommon constitution that is unable to take this dicine?”
As she was struggling to crawl towards the door, the door opened.
Mada Lu deeply breathed with a sigh of relief and was about to say sothing. But out of her expectation, the person quickly stepped into the room and then closed the door!
This action made Mada Lu startled and panicked, “Is that little b*tch again...?”
However, before her second thought, she was almost shocked to faint when she put all effort to look up! Under the light, the person who changed into the servant’s clothes and looked at her with a complex expression, could only be Qiu ngmin without anyone else!
When Mada Lu saw his son just quietly witnessing her rolling with great pain without doing anything to help, she suddenly realized sothing horrible, which made her feel like falling into an ice cellar!
But as the closest kin, the mother and the son, even if she had guessed eighty percent of the whole thing at this mont, she still held a glimr of hope, and she shouted piteously, “Little ngmin, I’m afraid I took too much of this dicine and I can’t stand anymore! Go to find a doctor!”
“Wouldn’t I know you so well? I told you to take two spoons at most, and I know you would only eat one spoon for most.” Qiu ngmin pitifully looked at her while his words were like knives, “I had eaten the antidote before I took a spoon of it in front of you. So, I guess you would try the sa amount, a spoon, after you saw do it successfully.”
Mada Lu was already sore to death with all three tiers of clothes wet with sweat, but the pain deep in her heart was worse than the poison. She couldn’t believe it, “You... why are you doing this?! I had already told you that I am willing to die for you! Why, why do you lie to your mother?!”
Her own son told her to act in a play, so she believed him. She happily chatted and cared for the young children, then grooming, putting on the best new clothes, and planned to cooperate with her son to deal with Qiu Yelan. But who could imagine, the person Qiu ngmin really wanted to get rid of was not Qiu Yelan but his birth mother!
The pain in Mada Lu’s heart at this mont was complexed beyond words!
She would rather be asked to die by Qiu ngmin in the day—though that would also be painful and overwheld with grief, it would still be happier than now, being tricked into death by her own son step by step!
Qiu ngmin looked at her with pity, but said, “Mother, you have always had a bad ti, and you can’t bear others to live well, even including your own child! Although the old Princess had quarreled with my father for several years because of my birth, which was totally your design, however, to be honest, the old Princess was nice and impartial to others, and she only hated you and father, but had never mistreated for it.”
There was a gleam in the very deep of his eyes, not for Mada Lu, but for the deceased old Princess. “I still rember the old Princess holding under the cherry-apple tree to enjoy the flowers. When did the old Princess start to keep in distance? Why did she finally turn to be totally indifferent to and even drive out of the Mansion? It all started from the day you incited , and I believed that the old Prince had a vicious motive when she tried to treat well!”
“Actually, you said those words for nothing more than yourself. You were scared, weren’t you?” Qiu ngmin burst into tears sorrowfully. “You designed the birth of only for pursuing wealth and status. Although the old Princess was soft-hearted and did not want you to die, but you were not allowed to et my father anymore. Grandmother hated you for breaking the rules and never liked you as well. If I alienated from you as others did, how could you gain your ends? So, when you found the old Princess treated well and I also liked the Old Princess, you were scared. You couldn’t leave any possibility for to get along well with the Old Princess! Unfortunately, I was too young and too naive at that ti, thinking that my birth mother would never hurt . So I believed you! But the old Princess had her pride. When she found out that I doubted her, she simply refused to explain anything under the anger! This misunderstanding got deeper and deeper. In the end, I completely lost the old Princess’s favor!”
“If I were raised by the old Princess, instead of living a poor life with you for so many years.... Even if you may co to the Mansion now, I should also be able to give you so benefits in private and send so servants for you. And that’s all! Enough! So how could I be cornered by a niece and was unduked for the guilt?”
Qiu ngmin seed like laughing at himself, “Outsiders thought that Old Princess was more or less sorry for , and I tacitly approved it in public. But deep in my heart, it was very clear: how could it be the old Princess treated bad! In contrast, it was treating her so terribly! — How kind the old Princess was at that ti! However, because I listened to you, I gradually broke her heart! I was not her own son, and she lost her face soon after her marriage because of my birth. But she tolerated so much, and let grow up without any hurt. She also conventionally gave money before asked to leave the Mansion when I grew up. She had done too much for . What can an official mother do more?”
Mada Lu’s face was covered with tears, and she bit the wool-woven blanket on the ground to bear the pain, crying, “So you always rember the old Princess?! Fine, when you were a kid, the old Princess treated you well! But why didn’t you think about this? She had no son of her own at that ti. Treating you well, on the one hand, she could separate us mother and son; on the other hand, both your grandparents would think her as a good mother. Who in this family wouldn’t say that she is a virtuous wife and generous mother? You were spoiled at that ti, knowing nothing about my life, your own mother’s poor life!”
“So you drag your son into the mire with you?” Qiu ngmin said lightly, “When Princess Ruan was alive, she was always worrying that we would murder Qiu Yelan. Any food must be tasted by her half a day before her daughter was allowed to eat. You both are birth mothers, but why the only thing you keep doing was implicating your son into trouble, and into continuous trouble?”
“If I were the official mother, wouldn’t I love you?!” Mada Lu rolling to him, reaching out and grabbing his boots, wanly smiled, “After all, you bla for being unblessed with no luck and unable to be the wife but only a concubine, do you? But is it because of ? You think I am unwilling to be born as a noble and be married as the legitimate wife ceremoniously with a decent wedding?”
Qiu ngmin shook his head and looked at her with rcy, “Mother, you think that I treat you like this is for the resentnt in the past? No, those things have passed. You see, even if I rember the Old Princess in private, I have never cared more about Qiu Yelan. You know, I... am actually similar to you, not a grateful person! I am just worrying that you could once ruin your son’s future for your own before. Now, your son asked you to sacrifice for the family.... Would you listen to it?”
“I have told you, to die for you, I am always willing to die for you as your mother!” Mada Lu shed tears, shouting hysterically!
She saw that Qiu ngmin listened to her words without any change on his face, but he rely sighed, “You said you would like to, but as the previous matter, how could I believe you once more? Who knows if you promise it readily in front of but then with hate in heart, manoeuvre to make and my entire family to die with you!”
Mada Lu was trembling all over, not only for pain, but also for her shock and rage, “In your heart, I... your mother... is like this?!”
“You are the birth mother of . I... I really don’t want to do this.” Qiu ngmin whispered, “But you just spoke against to appoint Yinzhi as my inheritor, I... I am... sorry to you....”
“I... just... said... it... without... any... aning.... If... you... you really... want... to... appoint... Yinzhi....” Mada Lu gradually stopped struggling for she knew she was dying, and said at her last gasp, “I... as... your mother....”
“Not for this.” Qiu ngmin said indifferently, “I know why you oppose to appoint Yinzhi as my heir, for Yang, right? This ti, I was trapped by Qiu Yelan, so you would either bla Qiu Yelan or the old Princess. But actually you had never thought about my tough situation. You just slightly said that you made my whole family so many troubles as late as I had resigned and ca back ho today. But soon, you just followed the idea of suppressing Yang! If you ntioned, maybe only for one word, maybe just showing ambiguously that you would be willing to do anything for ... I, I would had not cheated to you like this!”
He looked with great sorrow at Mada Lu, who suddenly widened her eyes, and said, “You have always only thought of yourself! So to be honest, is there anything wrong I do to take precautions against you?”
... After a while, Mada Lu’s life gradually ended in silence, but Qiu ngmin was still worrying, and stretched out fingers to check the heart pulse. After assuring that she was really dead, he finally cried with tears, “What you mostly pursued in your life was to overpower the old Princess. Now you committed suicide for your son, so he no more needs to support you and could be able to keep the title of Duke of Xihe. Well, it’s also a kind of fulfillnt of your wish. I have never ntioned your bad behaviors within these years and treated you so well as the old Princess. For this ti, I have to do this to you, but I don’t owe to you. We mother and son... call it even!”
After he finished the words, he gently kicked, to shake off Madam Lu’s hand which was holding his whip, and then looked down to check if there was any evidence in her palm showing his presence. Finally, he sighed and turned to leave.
Qiu ngmin stumbled out of the back door of the courtyard where Mada Lu lived—he had arranged all for it, and there was no one as plan.
But at that mont he turned back to close the door, he heard a fearful cough right there under a nearby crape myrtle tree that made him almost frightened out of his wits!
“Uncle is really decisive and rciless!” Followed was Qiu Yelan’s voice, which was deliberately lowered but still revealed her kind of aningful smile, “I just made the suggestion few hours ago, and I have never imagined that you could make it so soon.... But, as the niece, I wanted to remind uncle that for such a good idea, would uncle cross the river and dismantle the bridge, to kill later?”
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