Chapter 303 Everyone has their own secrets
In the hall of Ran Mansion, the atmosphere was a bit depressing.
When they learned that Ran Qingchen had left without saying goodbye, everyone had mixed reactions.
The first one to make sarcastic remarks was undoubtedly the second lady Hu Meixin.
Ever since Ran Qingchen pinched her neck and almost killed her, this woman's hatred has been buried in her bones.
Ran Qingchen didn't dare to say a word when he was there, but now that he was no longer in the house, he felt more confident to curse.
"I'll just call her a white-eyed wolf."
Hu Meixin sneered, "Knowing that the Ran family was in danger, she ran away secretly and left us and the old lady here. Waiting to be beheaded by the court is really filial."
Zuo Su said with some displeasure: "Qingchen is not that kind of person"
"Not that kind of person?"
Hu Meixin's heavily made-up face was full of sarcasm, "What about her?"
Zuo Su sat in a dignified posture, always looking like a conservative lady, looked up at old Mrs. Ran and said:
"Old lady, Qingchen told me before that she wants to go to Shiwanda Mountain to find Jiang Mo.
But I don't want her to go. After all, the court's attitude towards us is unclear at the moment. Leaving rashly may It brings danger to us. Especially the old lady is in poor health and can't bear the torture.
It's just that Qingchen seems to be very reluctant to let go of Jiang Mo. Maybe Jiang Mo is more important in that girl's heart. But old lady, I believe Qingchen will come back.”
Listening to Zuo Su's words, the faces of the Ran family members in the hall looked a little ugly.
For a man who abandoned her, she was willing to abandon her own family. The behavior of this girl is really chilling.
Even the uncle Ran Jinyi, who used to take good care of Ran Qingchen, also looked livid.
So Ranjinyi came to Jinxiu to ask.
Jinxiu originally wanted to conceal it, but after being pressed, she had to tell the truth: "The young lady did go to find my uncle."
The girl didn't know that the same words had gone awry under Zuo Su's deliberate guidance, causing everyone to become increasingly dissatisfied with Ran Qingchen.
“You’ve all heard it.”
Hu Meixin mocked again, “That girl doesn’t care about our life or death at all. She keeps saying that she has to think about the Ran family and be filial to the old lady. In the end, I didn’t care about anything for a man.”
Jinxiu realized later and quickly waved her hands and explained: “No, Miss, she——”
“Qingchen went to pursue herself. Is happiness wrong? ”
Zuo Su said coldly, "What can Qingchen do to our Ran family? What if the court wants to ask us about our sins? Anyway, I, Zuo Su, am not afraid of death. As long as Qingchen is happy."
Hu Meixin was angry. Smiled: "You are a monk. You have seen through the world of mortals and are not afraid of death. No one can stop you from being noble. But we are afraid of death. I don't want to lose my life because of being contaminated by light dust."
"Okay, Stop arguing."
Old Mrs. Ran tapped her cane and was about to speak, but she coughed and covered her lips with a handkerchief.
Jin Xiu quickly stepped forward and rubbed the old lady's back.
Looking at the haggard old lady, Jinxiu shed tears: "Old lady, Miss is not that kind of person."
Old lady Ran waved her hand, glanced down at the blood stains on the handkerchief, and quietly Stacked up, he slowly said to the restless or angry people in the hall:
"That child Qingchen will come back, there is no doubt about it. In fact, I, the old lady, don't want Qingchen to come back. If she really leaves The further away from the capital, the better.
I know you are scared and angry, but you don’t have to worry. As long as I am here, you will be fine. < br>
If you are worried about being implicated, you can leave. I won’t blame you, old lady. ”
Everyone in the hall fell silent.
Old Mrs. Ran sighed: "If the Ran family is really in trouble, I should be blamed. The Ran family is in decline now. It's because I am a useless old woman. I just want to put the burden on Qingchen."< br>
“Mother——”
Ran Jinyi’s face was full of shame, “I am useless. As the head of the family, I should take on more responsibilities.”
This At that time, Ran Jinsheng, the second child who had been silent, said:
"Mom, even if you don't want Qingchen to come back, as long as our Ran family is in the capital and the court threatens us, Qingchen will still have to come back."
Ran Jinsheng paused and said: " I have a way to protect our Ran family and Qingchen from coming back."
"What way?" Hu Meixin asked curiously.
Ran Jinyi frowned slightly.
My second brother is just doing nothing, so what good ideas can he come up with?
Ran Jinsheng looked at the old lady, moved his butt out of the chair, and said cautiously: "I think it would be better for our Ran family to make a statement to the outside world and sever ties with Ran Qingchen. In this way, we can also be considered as arrogant to the court. If you understand your attitude, Qingchen will not come back -"
"Presumptuous!"
Before Ran Jinsheng finished speaking, Mrs. Ran slammed the table.
The old lady Ran was shaking with anger and pointed at her second son angrily: "You...how could you say such bastard words! You are Qingchen's second uncle..."
Old lady Ran picked up the crutch, stood up and hit her second son.
Ran Jinsheng was so frightened that he quickly jumped up from his chair, hid behind his wife Hu Meixin, and said aggrievedly:
"Mother, I am doing this for the good of the Ran family and Qingchen. After all, mother, you are the princess of a different surname, Princess Wang. , As long as we cut off our relationship with Qingchen, I think the emperor will not do anything to us."
Hu Meixin also said in support:
"Yes, mother-in-law, what my husband said makes sense. Logically speaking, the emperor should have taken action against our Ran family a long time ago, but now there has been no movement, just waiting for our attitude.
Besides, it is not yet clear whether Ran Qingchen is a member of our Ran family. Definitely.”
As soon as these words came out, the old lady became even more furious.
She threw the crutch in her hand towards her daughter-in-law, which frightened the woman and hid behind her husband again.
"Get out! Get out! Get out!!"
The old lady was originally pale due to depression in her heart. At this moment, under the agitation of emotion, a stream of heat suddenly rushed to the top of her head, as if everything All the blood flowed upward in an instant.
Her body shook even more violently, her vision went dark, and she fell backward.
"Old lady!"
Jinxiu was startled and hurriedly supported the old lady.
“Mother!”
“Old lady!”
“……”
Everyone was also frightened and hurriedly gathered around.
Now the backbone of the Ran family is the old lady. If the old lady has her shortcomings, who else can protect the Ran family?
Jin Xiu was so anxious that he cried and pinched the old lady anxiously
Ran Jinyi reacted quickly, and after the panic, he hurriedly directed the servants at home and ordered them to go Looking for the doctor.
After a while, the old lady faintly woke up.
When everyone saw that the old lady was awake, their tense nerves were relieved, and their hanging hearts relaxed a little.
"Quick, quick, send the old lady back to the house."
Ran Jinyi said hurriedly.
Everyone was at a loss to get the old lady back to the house.
Ran Jinyi drove away his unsightly younger brothers Ran Jinsheng and Hu Meixin, leaving only his wife and Jinxiu. He looked at the haggard old lady Ran on the bed and felt very sad:
"Mom, I'm with you in Ran's family. Don't worry. You take good care of yourself. When Qingchen comes back, I'll take you out of the capital." You can't, you must not fall down."
Old lady Ran slowly raised her hand.
Ran Jinsheng wanted to step forward and hold his mother's hand, but the latter waved his arm feebly and pointed at Jinxiu.
Jinxiu, whose eyes were red from crying, quickly held the cold hand of Mrs. Ran: "Old lady."
Old Mrs. Ran's voice was weak and full of sadness:
"Jinxiu, tell Qingchen that she will always be the eldest lady of the Ran family and my granddaughter. No one will drive her away. Go, this will always be her home..."
"Old lady, take good care of yourself. The eldest lady will definitely come back. She just wants to end things with her uncle. The eldest lady will not abandon Ran. The family doesn’t care.”
Jin Xiu cried.
Old Mrs. Ran showed a smile and patted the back of the girl's hand: "I know that girl's temperament. Go find Jiang Yi, she will find Qing Chen, you follow her." Old lady..."
“Go and be obedient.”
The old lady’s eyes were kind.
Jin Xiu choked and nodded, stood up and walked out of the house reluctantly.
After Jin Xiu left, Mrs. Ran looked at Zuo Su and said softly: "Su'er, I have wronged you over the years."
Zuo Su's eyes showed some complexity, and then he forced out a smile, came to the bed and said: "What's wrong with you? Now, old lady, you should take good care of yourself. If Qingchen comes back and sees you like this, you have to I'm so sad."
Old lady Ran suddenly asked: "Su'er, do you think the Ran family should sever ties with Qingchen?"
Ran Jinyi's eyes moved with desire. He hesitated and finally did not speak.
Zuo Su was stunned for a moment and sighed:
"What do I know as a woman? As I said just now, the worst I can do is die."
Old Mrs. Ran said quietly: "After Qingchen's mother passed away, it was you and Jin Yi who took care of her. In Qingchen's heart, you are half a mother, and she will listen to your words."
Zuo Su He gently turned the beads on his wrist and remained silent.
"Su'er, please go and rest first. I'll talk to Jin Yi." Old Mrs. Ran said.
Zuo Su nodded, covered the old lady with a quilt, and left the hut.
Ran Jinyi came to the bed and whispered: "Mom, don't pay attention to what my second brother and sister-in-law say. I will teach them a lesson later."
Old Mrs. Ran stared at the ceiling in a daze, and murmured for a long time: "It's not like you don't know your second brother's virtue, it's just like this in this life.
As for your younger brother and sister, her child died in infancy. , It’s our Ran family who feels sorry for her.
If she wants to leave the Ran family, give her more money and settle her down in secret. Don’t let her be bullied.”
“Yes. The child will be settled well."
Ran Jinyi nodded lightly.
Old Mrs. Ran turned her head slightly, staring at her eldest son with soft eyes, her tone was full of guilt and apology:
"I insisted on letting you marry Su'er, and gave you the responsibility of the Ran family. "After all, it was your father and I who made you give up your latent studies. I can't help you."
Ran Jinyi wanted to comfort you, but when he looked at his mother's sincere and guilty eyes, his heart suddenly felt. acid.
He clenched his fists and lowered his head without speaking.
As a bachelor of Wenhua Palace, he should have had a better future. When he was so high-spirited at the beginning, he should have married the woman who...had been waiting for him so hard.
It's a pity that all this has become a pity.
Old Mrs. Ran laughed at herself: "Sometimes I know you don't like it, but I still stubbornly make decisions for you, thinking it is for your good.
When the third child died, As a mother, I have to be responsible. To put it bluntly, it is all because of me, the old lady, that the Ran family is in this situation.
It is right for Suer to hate me. "< br>
Ran Jinyi was stunned and looked up at old Mrs. Ran: "Mother, madam, she has always respected you."
Old Mrs. Ran showed a bitter smile: "Lao San once told me that a bird that has been kept in a cage for a long time longs for freedom. The longer it is kept in a cage, the more docile it will become, but it will also become more and more fierce.
Su'er is such a bird, she has been imprisoned in a cage since she was a child.
Jin Yi, you don't understand your wife, if Su'er wants to leave the Ran family. Let her go. If she wants more..."
The old lady did not say any more.
Although Ran Jinyi was surprised, he didn't take the old lady's words to heart.
He doesn't like his wife.
Old-fashioned, traditional... He has been trained by a very strict family since he was a child.
There is no fun in bed either.
Such a woman is suitable to be a traditional good lady, but not a wife.
While Ran Jinyi was thinking, he saw that the old lady had fallen asleep.
He quietly left the house.
The moment she closed the room, Mrs. Ran murmured: "Jiang Wan, you won after all."
......
Ran Jinyi was pregnant with a heavy heart In a good mood, he went to the small courtyard where he lived.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw his wife Zuo Su standing quietly in front of an orchid, seemingly in a daze.
Ran Jinyi glanced at it and prepared to enter the house.
"Your brother is right."
Zuo Su suddenly spoke, turned to look at her husband and said, "If you want to save the Ran family, if you want to save the old lady, if you want to save Qingchen can only let the Ran family sever ties with her."
Ran Jinyi was stunned and said stiffly: "Do you think the old lady will agree?"
Zuo Su said lightly. : "You are the head of the family. Now that the old lady is getting weaker and weaker, you can only support the family. Anyone with any brains knows that Qingchen will destroy the Ran family, and they all hope that you will make this decision.
You just need to deliberately hide it from the old lady when you issue a statement that the Ran family is severing ties with Qingchen. Now that Jin Xiu is not in the house, who will tell the old lady? "
Ran Jinyi fell into silence.
After a moment, he was upset and waved his hands and said: "Let's talk about it. "
"She has no blood in her body. "
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zuo Su's mouth, "The reason why you are nice to her is simply because... you like Jiang Wan. ”
"Shut up!"
Ran Jinyi's complexion changed.
"What? Did I tell you right? When your third brother died, you were the happiest——"
"I told you to shut up!!"
< br>Ran Jinyi rushed to his wife and raised his hand to slap her.
But looking at his wife's deliberately raised provocative cheeks and her mocking eyes, she felt inexplicably flustered.
At this time, he suddenly felt that the wife in front of him was so strange.
Zuo Suyu caressed the man's heart with her hand, tapping her fingers lightly, feeling the heartbeat of the man. She, who is usually dignified and graceful, rarely showed a bit of charm:
"Ran Jinyi, do you know what to do? In fact, in your heart, you agree with your brother's proposal."
The woman turned around and entered the house with her graceful waist twisted.
Ran Jinyi was a little distracted.
After a long time, he came back to his senses, looked at the night sky, sighed, and left the small courtyard.
......
As the night deepened, in the Buddhist hall, Zuo Su took off his simple and conservative clothes after knocking on wooden fish and reciting Buddhist scriptures.
The woman lay naked on the cold ground.
Then she placed the wooden fish between her legs, picked up an embroidery needle, and stabbed herself one by one... The woman closed her eyes and bit her lip.
In the dark night, on the rooftop opposite, Dugu Luoxue, dressed in a plain white dress, looked at the house silently.
With his cold and clear eyes, he seemed to be able to see the woman in the room.
Dugu Luoxue's red lips opened slightly and slowly spit out one word:
"Desire..."
(End of this chapter)