Chapter 108 The Marquis's Commoner Wife 18

The steward handled all of this, and Han Yongjin went directly into Shou'an Hall.

The old lady already knew what had happened in the Wutong Courtyard. At this moment, she clutched her heart and looked at her own son with disappointment. "Jin'er, you have disappointed your mother too much. Yingying is your own cousin. It is already an injustice for her to be your concubine. How could you... how could you lay a hand on her?"

"You, you go and fetch a doctor for Yingying right now to heal her leg, otherwise, Mother will never forgive you!"

"Mother, that night, you deliberately drugged me and got Xiangyun into my bed, didn't you? And you deliberately had the maid tell Aunt Zhang, just to make Yan'er disappointed in me, right?"

Even a few days before Yan'er's accident, you arranged for someone to rob and rape her on the road, but the incident happened in the courtyard where Yan'er was staying that very night, so your plan didn't have a chance to be carried out, right?

The old lady clutched her chest in shock and slumped into a chair, stammering, "You, you..."

How did he know? How could he have found out so clearly?

But the next second, the old lady felt relieved. So what if her son found out?

She is his mother!

Can he still send her to the yamen for sentencing?

She stood up angrily, walked step by step towards her own son, pointed her finger at his nose and yelled, "Yes, I did it!"

I simply don't like Ning Shi. If you hadn't been so firm, I would never have allowed a country bumpkin like her to enter the Marquis's mansion. She's just a commoner; she's not worthy of the prestige of my mansion!

As a result, you were bewitched by that vixen and lost your soul. How could I have given birth to such a stupid thing like you!

You keep accusing me, but did I force Aunt Bai to have the child in her belly?

"Slap!" The old lady's face was slapped crooked by Han Yongjin!

The old lady was in so much pain that her head spun for a moment. When the pain slowly subsided, she finally came to her senses, raised her hand to touch the corner of her mouth, and sure enough, there was a trace of blood on her fingertip. "You, you wretched child, how dare you hit me! I am your own mother!"

"If you hadn't been talking about having offspring every day, would I have been so bewitched as to go looking for Aunt Bai?"

If you hadn't insisted on bringing Chu Yingying into the family, how could Yan'er have lost her fertility?

You should be grateful you're my mother, otherwise I would have killed you with my own hands today!

From now on, you live your life, and I live mine. Don't interfere in my affairs anymore, or I won't hesitate to send you down to join my father!

What does it matter if he is her own mother? His mother always puts her own family first. As long as it is good for her family, no matter how dissatisfied he, her son, is, she will use her status to force him to do it.

A mother like that, whoever wants her can have her, he certainly doesn't want her anymore.

Watching her son stride away, the old lady felt a chill run from her feet to the top of her head. She no longer needed to feign illness, because her heart was truly aching, throbbing with pain…

Not only my heart, but the slap was also quite severe; my head, face, and even neck hurt...

The old lady couldn't understand how she and her son had ended up like this.

If word gets out that a son has beaten his own mother, not only will the son lose his reputation, but the mother will also be too ashamed to face anyone.

Even now, the old lady still felt that her reputation was more important than anything else.

"Come, someone come!"

When Granny Feng entered, she immediately noticed that something was wrong with the old lady. After all, the five finger marks were too clear. Realizing something, Granny Feng's pupils instantly contracted. "Old Madam, are you feeling unwell? This servant will go and call the family physician for you right away..."

"No, don't go... Go get me a glass of water, and get me a cool towel while you're at it... Don't let anyone know I'm sick."

Granny Feng realized that what had happened today could not be spread, so she had no choice but to agree.

The old lady took the medicine and fell asleep. When she woke up, she was paralyzed on the bed.

Originally, the old lady's health wasn't that bad. Ning Yan had given her some medicine when she served tea on the first day she entered the mansion. The medicine wasn't very strong, and the dosage was small. After taking it, it only made her irritable. To put it simply, she was easily angered and would flare up at the slightest provocation. Even the doctor couldn't detect it when he took her pulse.

People who experience extreme emotional fluctuations are prone to illness. With the Marquis of Zhennan's intervention, the old lady became paralyzed.

Of course, Ning Yan would be even happier if she knew.

Ning Yan had long been wary of Chu Yingying. She didn't care that Han Yongjin had other women. Everyone should rely on their own abilities, and whoever gets what they want can keep it, as long as you don't cross my line.

But Chu Yingying was different.

In her previous life, it was she and the old lady who conspired to kill the original owner of this body.

So when Chu Yingying pretended to be poisoned that night, she applied medicine to the rim of the teacup. As long as she had sex with a man, she would get pregnant, but the child would miscarry. Even if she managed to save the pregnancy early, she would still die during childbirth.

Unfortunately, this move was not used, as the Marquis of Zhennan never touched her from beginning to end.

As for the others, she was indifferent; let them do whatever they want.

...

Yangzhou.

The scenery in Jiangnan is beautiful, and the river water is as green as blue.

A luxurious ship was seen sailing westward, cutting through the waves. A beautiful woman stood at the bow, the river breeze ruffling her bangs and her skirt swaying slightly, as if she were about to ride the wind away.

"Yan'er, it's windy at the bow of the boat, why don't we go inside and rest for a while?"

The man in blue stepped forward and deliberately whispered in Ning Yan's ear, his tone extremely ambiguous.

The man in purple was not to be outdone, and draped the cloak he was holding over Ning Yan's shoulders, saying, "Yan'er likes to look at the scenery on both sides of the river, so it's good that you're wearing an extra layer of clothing. I'll make a bowl of soup to warm you up later."

A maid standing in the distance: Here we go again! The two young masters are about to begin their daily battle for favor. My master's irresistible charm!

The mistress the maid was referring to was Ning Yan, who had changed her name to Mo Yan.

Qiu Sheng also changed her name to Ning Lan, but her status remained that of master and servant.

Ning Yan hadn't originally planned to bring Qiu Sheng along when she was preparing to fake her death, but the girl was too clever and quickly realized Ning Yan's intentions.

Unlike Dongxiao, who still had family and could never return if she faked her death, Qiusheng was an orphan who couldn't bear to see the people in the mansion scheming against each other and longed for freedom even more.

Seeing that the lady was about to leave, he told Ning Yan what he wanted to say.

Ning Yan then asked her elder brother to prepare another female corpse of similar height for her.

These things are quite easy to find; after all, a lot of corpses are dumped into the mass graves every day.

She feared that news of her death would cause her family to go to the Marquis's mansion to fight the Marquis of Zhennan, and she was also afraid that her parents would have an accident due to excessive grief over her death. In the end, she decided to tell her parents and three older brothers.

Ning Yan made them rehearse for several days in advance, and all they did was cry.

If you can't cry, just hang your head and stay silent. If you make your hair and clothes look messy, you'll look haggard.

Ning's parents deliberately skipped meals for a few days, starving away all the weight they had gained since moving to the city. They also applied some special products that their daughter had found to their faces, making them look ten years older.

The four men in the family acted so well that the Marquis of Zhennan indeed didn't notice anything amiss.

Now that they have arrived in Yangzhou, Ning Yan is disguised as a man, but she is easily exposed, and the two people beside her are even more attached to her.

...

Ning Yan heard news of the Marquis of Zhennan again four years later.

Marquis Zhennan never imagined that Ning Yan would fake her death and escape; he genuinely believed that Ning Yan had died in the fire.

He felt guilty towards her, so he also helped the Ning family a lot.

Aunt Bai died of postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to his son.

Less than two years later, the Chu family ran into trouble. Chu's father was exiled for embezzling a huge amount of money.

The Marquis of Zhennan went to report to the old lady.

“Your family has been exiled. Since you feel so sorry for them, why don’t you go to exile with them? That way you won’t keep worrying about them.”

The old lady raised her only still-functioning hand and pointed it at her son's nose: "You, you, you..."

"What? Do you want to hit me? Or do you want me to go to the Emperor and plead for you?"

What kind of dream is this? I'm the one who submitted the evidence of my uncle's crime!

I only regret that I did it too late. If I had done it a few years earlier, my wife wouldn't have had this accident.

Now that the entire Chu family has been exiled, isn't Mother especially happy?

"How can you stay lying down when you're so happy? Come on, get up and let's celebrate as a family. I specially bought a lot of fireworks; we'll have a banquet for the whole family tonight, and then set off fireworks together."

He wasn't joking; he really did get the old lady up, put her in a chair, and had the maids carry her around the courtyard.

The maids trembled, all thinking the same thing: The Marquis has gone mad!

That day, the Zhennan Marquis's mansion set off fireworks all night long!

The old lady fainted several times from anger, but Han Yongjin woke her up by pinching her philtrum. When she was sent back to her bedroom, her philtrum was so pinched that the tender flesh was exposed and it was covered in bruises.

The servants who were attending to him confirmed once again that the Marquis had indeed gone mad!

He was driven mad by his wife's death!

Five years after Ning Yan faked her death, the old lady passed away.

The Marquis of Zhennan held a simple funeral for the old lady and buried her.

After the old lady died, he directly dealt with Chu Yingying, who was paralyzed in bed.

She must be quite happy to be strangled to death by her beloved cousin, right?

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