allonlinenovel Chapter 149: Playthings ruin one life, raising poison makes three generations poor
Chapter 149: Playthings ruin one life, raising poison makes three generations poor
An was so excited that she stood up suddenly, then her eyes went dark and she fell back into her chair.
Qiu nervously went forward to hold her, but she shook her arms away excitedly.
"No, I want to go back and ask him how he could do this to me!"
As An was about to leave, Qiu stepped forward and stopped her.
Because what she was going to say today was too private, she had already sent all the servants away as soon as they entered the door.
There were no servants in the house now, so she could only face An's excited charge and stop the man herself.
"Calm down! Big brother just doesn't want everyone to know about this, so he asked me to help him and wanted to tell you this in this way."
"Tell me? I don't want to know! Zixian is my child. I have been raising him for twenty years!"
"But his biological parents' family is looking for him! He is not an orphan! If big brother had sent Zixuan home back then, he would also have someone who loved him!"
Seeing that An was becoming more and more unreasonable, Qiu lost her patience and her words were as blunt as a slap in the face.
"Zixian's family has been looking for him all these years. It was my eldest brother who had been struggling and selfishly didn't tell his family the truth. But his grandmother got sick last year, and the doctor said she might not survive this winter.
“The old lady’s greatest wish before she died was to see this ill-fated grandson.
"In this situation, what do you want my brother to do? He has been selfish for so many years and has occupied his child for so many years. He is sorry for his deputy general brother in the afterlife.
"Do we now want to make those who have already died in battle bear the stigma of being unfilial?
"Moreover, whether you admit it or not, that old lady is Zixian's biological grandmother. Do you want him to be unable to see his grandmother for the last time and live in regret for the rest of his life?"
Qiu's words were like a dense rain of arrows, piercing An's heart with holes.
She bit her lips hard to stop herself from crying out loud. She understood all these principles, but... who would understand the motherly love that had raised her child for so many years?
She slumped back in her chair, glared at Qiu for a moment, then raised her hands to cover her face and started to cry.
Qiu Zixuan looked at the people in the room, his heart so confused that he had lost his composure.
He walked around to An, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, pulled down her hands and gently wiped them on her cheeks.
"Mom, no matter whose child I am, you are my mother, the only mother I have in this world."
An looked up at him with tearful eyes, then stood up and hugged him.
"My Zixian, how could my Zixian have such a miserable life? How could I have such a miserable life?"
In the backyard, Zhang Shuier's room.
Lu Xinran was fiddling with the small pendant in his hand with his head down.
"You called us over in a hurry, but is there something urgent?"
Zhang Shuier paused holding the teapot and glanced at Lu Xinlan, hoping that he could help her out.
But Lu Xinlan just smiled, picked up a piece of butterfly cake, and slowly put it into his mouth.
How disloyal!
She looked away angrily, quickly searching for an excuse in her mind.
"I heard that you went to the palace yesterday. I thought you might have seen Wang's two granddaughters in the palace, so I wanted to ask about the situation in the palace."
Speaking of those two people, Lu Xinran suddenly became excited.
But she was still thinking about Wang's poisonous insect that would never gain weight no matter how much it ate.
She quickly recounted what had happened in the palace the day before, emphasizing that there was a poisonous worm in Wang's body.
"If we can make this Gu insect business bigger and stronger, won't we no longer have to worry about money in the future?"
By then, don't even mention buying two bowls of soy milk and drinking one bowl and dumping one bowl. You can raise thirty young handsome guys, changing one every day, and focusing on one new face every day~
Zhang Shuier: “…”
It’s okay to keep a young hunk, but she, she is a serious girl!
"You can give it a try, but I advise you not to have too high expectations. If you can make money from this, the Wang family won't be so tight on money."
Not to mention that five thousand taels was not enough, wearing only one set of clothes for several years was so pitiful that anyone who heard about it would be heartbroken and cry.
The little fire in his heart was extinguished once again. Lu Xinran thought of Wang's frayed clothes and sighed faintly, "That's true. Alas, antiques ruin a lifetime, and raising Gu will make three generations poor. Forget it."
The emperor felt despair when he heard about the chalcedony and dragon tendons.
"Let's not talk about this." She changed her mood and prepared to eat melons skillfully: "Why is your aunt here today?"
Zhang Shuier: “…”
This is actually the same question as the previous one, but she can't say it.
She looked at Lu Xinlan again for help. This time, Lu Xinlan did not pretend not to see it, but asked the same question with a puzzled look on his face, which made Zhang Shuier very angry.
"It was only after I sent you the invitation that I realized my mother had also sent an invitation to my aunt. I thought her inviting someone to the mansion would not conflict with my inviting you over, so I didn't mention it to you in advance."
"Is that so~" Lu Xinran did not doubt him. Thinking of what he had just complained about, he quickly organized his words and reminded him, "Your cousin...just let him be your cousin."
Zhang Shui'er, who already knew the answer from her heart, asked the question with a naughty smile even though she knew the answer.
"Why? Didn't you say before that my cousin is a very nice person?"
"He, he is really good..." Lu Xinran frowned and made an excuse: "But you are close relatives, and children born from close relatives are prone to genetic diseases. It's not good! Remember, cousins are not good!"
Zhang Shui'er burst out laughing.
It was really hard for her to come up with such a ridiculous excuse to stop her.
"Okay, I'll listen to you. We'll just be cousins."
She originally just thought that life would be better if she married into her maternal grandparents' home and had her grandmother's protection.
But my aunt’s personality is indeed a difficult problem. After all, if I really marry her, she will become my mother-in-law.
A few people were chatting and laughing, but they were all thinking about the situation in the old lady's courtyard.
I don’t know whether the An family will be able to figure it out in the end, and whether Qiu Zixuan will return to his ancestral home.
During lunch, a servant brought news that An had left the Duke's Mansion with her two children.
After lunch, the Lu family members said goodbye and left. The capital was very peaceful for the next few days, until Cuizhu rushed back seven days later.
"Miss, I just heard that the Dragon and Tiger General's Mansion has found the offspring of the Second Master who died in battle a long time ago. In half a month, the ancestral hall will be officially opened to let the found young master recognize his ancestry and return to his clan."
Cuizhu finished speaking in one breath, blinking her eyes and asking boldly, "Guess who this young man is?"
Lu Xinran: "...I guess it's Qiu Zixian from the Qiu family~"