Chapter 242 Inner Demon
When Mrs. Zeng was filled with sadness and brought Xia Zihan to the Song family to pay homage to Mrs. Zeng, Song Baiqing stabbed Mrs. Zeng in a non-negative manner.
"I drove my mother to death. Isn't my aunt happy now? Seeing that my Song family is going downhill year by year, is my aunt very happy?"
"After breaking off the engagement for Chu Yu, is Auntie going to find a better grandson-in-law for Chu Yu than my brother Huai?"
"Or, is Auntie planning to keep Chu Yu to recruit a grandson-in-law for herself, so that the Chu family will not have a queen?"
Song Baiqing was like a mad dog, ignoring the mocking gazes of the people around him and attacking Zeng with sarcastic remarks.
Zeng was furious and stood in front of Xia Zihan, "Beast, your mother was angry to death by you. If you hadn't sold all her dowry to redeem a prostitute and raised an outlaw, how would she be alive? Are you mad at me?”
"No, my mother was forced to death by you." Song Baiqing roared loudly.
His eyes were slightly panicked, as if shouting louder could cover up the guilt in his heart, and perhaps erase the fact that Zeng had just exposed his affair.
Mrs. Zeng snorted coldly, "Humph, after the Song family broke off their engagement with the Chu family and married the Shi family, your mother was still happy. She learned that you sold all her dowry and borrowed two Ten thousand taels of usury is what makes you so angry that you can't afford to fall ill. You beast, you know that you are the one who made your mother angry to death, but you still want to put all the blame on the Chu family in order to make yourself feel better. It's weird. Come on to my head.”
How could she know about the usury of 20,000 taels of silver?
Song Baiqing panicked.
Mrs. Pei, who came after getting the news, almost went crazy when she heard that Song Baiqing had borrowed 20,000 taels of silver in order to support a prostitute.
"Song Baiqing, you actually borrowed so much loan money for a prostitute. How can you be worthy of me? How can you be sorry of your son? You are such a heartless and heartless person, ugh..."
Mrs. Pei knelt in front of Mrs. Zeng's mourning hall and burst into tears.
At this moment, she was really crying.
Before, Song Baiqing clearly said that he got the 20,000 taels of silver when he was a colleague at Yinlin Guard, but now, he said that it was borrowed as usury.
Haha, yes, he has only been a colleague at Yinlin Guard for a few months. Yinlin Guard is the emperor's bodyguard, how can it be so easy to get the money inside.
It's all her fault that she didn't think twice and was deceived by Song Baiqing.
Borrowing usury money has high interest rates. Currently, the Song family's property only earns two to three thousand taels of silver a year. I'm afraid it's not even enough to pay the interest on the usury money. If we want to repay the principal, we might even sell the entire Song family. .
Thinking that the Song family was about to collapse and be unable to afford it, Mrs. Pei was extremely grief-stricken, "Brother Huai, your father is sorry for you, for handing over such a desolate family to you, wuwu..."
After crying about little Zeng, we started crying about Song Huai.
After receiving the news, the Duke of Pei's family rushed to the mourning hall, beat Song Baiqing severely, and ordered him, "After my mother-in-law's funeral is over, bring your outer room back immediately. I want to take a look." , what kind of monster is it that makes you so obsessed that you abandon your wife, children, and even your home?”
Song Baiqing felt guilty for a while, but he did not think that he was wrong at all, "You still beat me, uncle, why are you allowed to have an outside wife and not me?"
In one sentence, Duke Pei was betrayed.
Mrs. Pei looked at Duke Pei blankly. Seeing that Duke Pei's eyes were averting, it was obvious that he had a guilty conscience. Mrs. Pei sneered, "Isn't she just a woman? If you like her, you can take her home. It's not like we haven't given you a concubine at home." Just one more woman.”
Mrs. Pei was trying to save her face and protect Duke Pei's face in front of people outside.
Duke Pei Guo saw the anger deep in her eyes and her sadness. He responded with a guilty conscience. He looked down on Song Baiqing even more.
In front of little Zeng's funeral hall, Song Baiqing became a joke, and the Song family became the laughingstock of others.
And Song Huai, who had been kneeling in front of the mourning hall, learned that his father had borrowed 20,000 taels of usury for a foreign wife, and his eyes were filled with hatred.
I hated my father's generosity to the outer room, and I also hated my father's indifference to him and his mother.
20,000 taels of silver, plus his grandmother's dowry, the amount of silver was actually cheaper than an outhouse, which made him, the legitimate son, hate it.
He still owes a foreign debt of three hundred taels.
He also planned to get three hundred taels of silver from Shi Wenting after returning home to pay off the foreign debt first.
Who knew that my grandmother would pass away.
After the Shi family learned about the Song family's current predicament, they also regretted marrying Shi Wenting.
"You said why are you so stupid and fell in love with Song Huai? What's so good about the Song family? There is such an unclear father-in-law. Even if Song Huai is good at learning, he can't help but be cheated by his own father. .”
"In the past few years, the Song family's property has long been unable to make ends meet, and everything they eat and drink comes from little Zeng's dowry. Now, little Zeng's dowry has been sold by one of your father-in-laws, and he also borrowed 20,000 silver in usury. How do you think you will live in the future? ”
Thinking about it, Ms. Dou felt worried for her daughter.
Shi Wenting disagreed, "Mom, I'm worried about what those people are doing. My father-in-law can't figure it out. I have a mother-in-law above me. She can't be counted as my head."
She had just gotten married, and no matter how long her mother-in-law stretched her arms, she would be too embarrassed to ask her for her dowry and repay the usury money.
Even if asked, she would not give it. Her dowry was to be used as dowry gifts for her and Song Huai's children, but could not be used to repay usury for her father-in-law.
Otherwise, if this family is passed down to her and Song Huai in the future, what will she do to maintain this family?
Shi Wenting secretly decided not to give money to anyone who asked her.
Mrs. Dou also warned her, "You must take good care of your dowry. Don't let the Song family coax you into not knowing it."
She said that the Song family included Song Huai.
Shi Wenting waved her hand impatiently, "I know, I know, I'm not a child, I know how to do it."
But after little Zeng's first birthday, when Song Huai asked her for money in person, he couldn't resist Song Huai's pitiful expression, and gave him the thousand taels of silver from the bottom of the box when she got married.
Afterwards, her dowry mother told her earnestly, "The money was given by the madam to the young madam. How could the young madam give it to the prince so easily?"
Shi Wenting's face turned red and she said, "He and I are husband and wife, and he has already spoken. Can I not give it to him?"
If she didn't give Song Huai money, there would definitely be discord between the husband and wife in the future. It was not worth it to ruin the relationship between the husband and wife for a mere thousand taels of silver.
Shi Wenting was thinking so at the moment, but when she learned the truth, she hated Song Huai to death.
It turned out that the money Song Huai defrauded her time and time again was just used to buy good things and gave them to Peony.
Of course, this is something for later, let’s not mention it for now.
Let's talk about it first. After Mrs. Zeng scolded Song Baiqing in front of the little Zeng's mourning hall, she couldn't stay in the Song family any longer, so she took Xia Zihan back to the Chu residence.
But because of the death of little Zeng, the Chu family had a very sad Mid-Autumn Festival. Not to mention the joy of celebrating and eating and drinking, even the food for the servants was reduced a lot.
Hate Shi ordered the kitchen and prepared only a can of porridge and three vegetarian dishes, and Xia Zihan and I made a fool of ourselves and ate a meal.
Seeing that she ate less, Xia Zihan asked Su's mother to go to the kitchen to make some bird's nest porridge. She personally brought it to Zeng.
"Grandma, don't be sad. If you are so sad, I believe my great-aunt will also be sad when she sees you."
She brought the bird's nest porridge to Mrs. Zeng, "Grandma didn't eat anything in the meal just now. I felt sad when I saw it. Grandma, even for me, can you eat a little?"
Ms. Zeng, who was leaning on the big welcome pillow, saw her precious granddaughter begging her with tears in her eyes. She felt so uncomfortable that even if she couldn't eat anymore, she couldn't bear to worry her granddaughter.
Mrs. Zeng took the bowl and said, "I'll eat it, even grandma has finished it."
Silently, I ate up a full bowl of bird's nest porridge.
Xia Zihan breathed a sigh of relief, took the empty bowl and handed it to Qingya, then helped Zeng lie down, "Grandma, don't think about anything, have a good rest."
He took the thin quilt and covered Zeng's body.
Seeing the tiredness on Zeng's eyebrows, Xia Zihan felt extremely distressed, and was also afraid that Zeng would contract a heart disease from now on, so she said, "Grandma, don't forget that you still have me. I still need you, so you must do it for me." I take good care of my body and bones, don’t let me worry.”
"I don't blame you for what happened to my aunt. It's all my cousin's fault. My cousin has a guilty conscience and bites people in a hurry. Don't take what he says at ease."
Xia Zihan knew that Song Baiqing's words still left an imprint on Zeng's heart, and he was afraid that she would really contract a heart disease after going through this heartache in the future.
Xia Zihan tried to persuade her a few more times, but seeing that Mrs. Zeng was really tired, she quietly left the room.
As soon as he came out, Xia Zihan's face became gloomy. When he returned to the study, he slammed his fist on the desk angrily, "Song Baiqing, what a Song Baiqing. He is a wolf-hearted man, and he even wants to bite the Chu family. I will definitely blame him for this bad breath." It won’t stop here.”
"Go, replace the contraceptive decoction Mudan usually takes with the fertility decoction." Xia Zihan gritted his teeth and ordered Chu Cong.
She believed that as long as there was one Peony around, the Song family could be turned upside down.
The next day, Zeng became ill. Xia Zihan personally took Zeng's pulse and invited old man Bai to come and see Zeng.
Old Man Bai sighed and said, "She has a heart disease, and her heart is blocked. This disease is difficult to cure."
Heart diseases require heart medicine.
If Zeng herself can't figure it out and is trapped in her inner demons, then no one can save her.
Even the miracle doctor is helpless.
Xia Zihan, who had studied medicine for a while, understood this truth. Although he understood it, he still felt uncomfortable in his heart, and his desire to save Mr. Zeng was extremely strong.
(End of chapter)