Holding back tears, Lüzheng said sorrowfully, "The old lady... has passed away. Miss, please accept my condolences..."
Zhu Jiayu looked at her, and her heart sank.
Before she could say anything, Qingshang had already knocked on the door.
Zhu Jiayu waved for Lüzheng to leave, then got out of bed to light the lamp and personally invited Qingshang in.
As soon as Qingshang entered the room, she knelt down before her, holding a letter above her head with both hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "Miss, this is the letter that the old lady instructed me to give to you before she passed away."
Zhu Jiayu hesitated before taking the letter. She opened it in front of Qingshang and found it contained a list, ending with a handwritten letter from Old Madam Qiu.
The letter stated that by the time Zhu Jiayu read it, she would no longer be alive. The list compiled in the letter consisted of former colleagues of Old Master Qiu in the court, all of noble character, whom Zhu Jiayu could trust. This was the only thing her maternal grandmother could do for her.
Qingshang calmly relayed to Zhu Jiayu what her master had told her during the day.
Zhu Jiayu was silent for a moment, then asked her, "What about the old lady's health?"
Qingshang sighed, "The old lady's health has been poor for a long time. However, if she had been treated with the gentle tonics prescribed by the doctor, she would have had at least one or two more years to live. But because of the matter between Miss and the Marquis's mansion, she had the doctor prescribe strong medicine, hoping to buy her three months of life, but she never expected..."
Zhu Jiayu silently echoed her words in her heart: But she never expected that all her efforts would be in vain, her life force would be depleted, and her final scheme would fail.
Too much scheming and cleverness can backfire and cost you your life.
She did not feel grief over the old lady's death. She and the old lady had never had any affection for each other, and the time they spent together had always been filled with a tense and confrontational atmosphere. But at this moment, she still couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness.
She recalled what Rong Heng had taught her in her previous life: "You should not have crossed the river, yet you crossed it! You died while crossing the river, what can be done about it now!"
For Madam Qiu, what could be a bright future for the Qiu family but a river she was determined to cross in her destiny?
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