Chapter 275 Trust
Although winter is over, the weather is still not warm.
Xie Chengzhi was doused with cold water, and then suddenly learned that Xie Qi was the owner behind Jixia Manor. In his anger, he went back to his room and developed a high fever.
No one boiled water for him, nor did anyone prepare medicine or call a doctor. Soon after, he became feverish and dizzy.
When Xie Lurong knocked on the door, no one answered for a long time, so she had no choice but to push the door open and go in.
Xie Chengzhi huddled under the covers, shivering.
"Father, Father, how are you?"
She stepped forward and nudged Xie Chengzhi, "Dad, are you hungry? I'll go make you some porridge."
After a while, Xie Chengzhi turned around in a daze.
“Lu Rong…”
He had barely opened his mouth when he burst into tears, sobbing, "Your father is useless, utterly useless. Where did I go before? I was always addressed as Master Xie. And now? Now I've been played for a fool by a lowly creature I never even looked at before..."
"How dare he? How dare that bastard?"
Xie Chengzhi, with snot and tears streaming down his face, said, "Now, even if I want to eat roast duck from Zuixianglou, I have to depend on your mother's attitude. What kind of life am I living?"
"I'm sorry to your grandmother. I'd rather be dead than live like this."
Xie Chengzhi's face turned bright red and burning hot from the high fever. He cried and cursed for a while before getting out of bed.
"Lu Rong, I'm so sorry. You've grown up so much and I still haven't been able to earn you a dowry. I'm such a disgrace..."
“Your younger brother Yingshou is so young, yet he has to eat dried vegetable porridge with your mother every day. How did our second branch of the family end up like this?”
"father……"
Xie Lurong felt a pang of sadness, realizing that her father still cared about her.
She sobbed and whispered, "Father, please don't go looking for those women anymore. Can't you just stay home and live a good life with Mother?"
"When Yingshou and I grow up, we will take good care of you and Mother, Father..."
Xie Lurong raised her hand to wipe away her tears, "I'm begging you, please talk to your uncle and ask if I can go back to work at the weaving and dyeing workshop."
“Let’s live like before, like when Grandma was alive.”
“Lu Rong, you don’t understand. How can a man always work for someone else? Of course, I, Xie Lao Er, want to be my own boss.”
"I have to make something of myself, otherwise my grandmother will look down on me for the rest of my life."
"Even when the old lady was dying, she looked down on your father... I have to prove myself and make something of myself to show your grandmother."
“Father, Grandmother doesn’t look down on you. She still cares about you.”
Xie Lurong said, "Grandmother left something for Father before she died, and she left it to Father through me."
“Mother said that it was because Grandmother was worried about you, and she did this after thinking it through and making sure she understood the situation.”
Xie Chengzhi's face and eyes were flushed from the fever, and his eyes were swollen like fish bubbles from crying so much. When he heard this, he stared straight at Xie Lurong with his eyes wide open.
"What? Your grandmother left me something? What did she leave me?"
Xie Lurong bit her lip, feeling hesitant.
But when I saw Xie Chengzhi crying with his eyes red and tears and snot flying everywhere, my heart softened little by little.
This is her father after all. How could she just sit idly by and do nothing?
"Grandmother gave it to Father..."
Xie Lurong gritted her teeth: "I left Father a shop and a thousand taels of silver."
"What? What shop?"
Xie Lurong said, "It's true. The contract is in my hands. I'll go get it for you, Father."
After saying that, she turned and ran back to her room.
She pulled out the shop deed and the thousand taels of silver Zheng Shu had given her from the deepest part of the cabinet, and touched them with a sense of loss.
"What are you doing?"
Zheng Shu stood by the door, staring intently at Xie Lurong.
Xie Lurong clutched the shop deed and silver notes, and stammered, "Mother, Father just wept bitterly, I think he must have repented."
"He cried and said he was sorry to us, and sorry to Grandmother. Mother, Father must have seen through those hypocritical prostitutes. Let's give Father another chance."
He will change.
Xie Lurong's eyes welled up with tears. "Once Father recovers, I will ask my aunt to let Father return to Xie Family Garden to work."
“Even if Aunt doesn’t agree, Father can make a comeback with the shop. Mother, didn’t you also say that Father is intelligent, but his mind is not on us?”
"Now that I see that Father has repented, how about we believe him this once?"
Zheng Shu listened, but her gaze gradually drifted away.
These words sounded all too familiar to her. When she first got married, she had chewed them over and over again and repeated them to Xie San Niang.
Zheng Shu looked at Xie Lurong, whose eyes were red, and gritted her teeth without saying a word for a long time.
After a while, Zheng Shucai said, "Do you know that this shop and this thousand taels of silver are your dowry? If you lose them, your family will not give you a single extra copper coin after you get married."
"I know."
Xie Lurong rubbed her eyes. "It doesn't matter if I don't have a dowry, but it's hard for Father to recover if he repents and loses his capital."
"Mother, let's trust Father one more time..."
"Mother, Chengzhi knows he was wrong, let's trust him one more time..."
“Mother, let’s trust him one last time. I will persuade Chengzhi to change his ways…”
For some reason, Xie Lurong in Zheng Shu's eyes slowly transformed into her own image, and she looked at the other person and chuckled softly.
Just like Xie San Niang back then.
Xie Sanniang was truly disappointed in Xie Chengzhi, but even so, she still left him a way out after her death.
But she was different; when she gave up, she truly gave up.
Thinking of this, Zheng Shu turned to the side and said, "It's up to you. That's your dowry. You can do whatever you want with it."
"But don't blame me for not telling you, once these things are gone, they're gone forever."
Xie Lurong hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
She took the shop deed and banknotes to the small kitchen, cooked a bowl of hot porridge, and then went to Xie Chengzhi's room.
Xie Chengzhi was either unconscious or asleep, Xie Lurong woke him up and handed him the porridge.
"Father, have something to eat first."
Xie Chengzhi took a sip in a daze, and Xie Lurong said, "Father, I've brought the shop deed that Grandmother left for you."
"Um?"
Xie Chengzhi took it blankly, looked at the name on the sales contract, and suddenly burst into tears.
"Mother, you still care about your child."
He clutched the sales contract and examined it repeatedly, then cried out, "It is my fault for being unfilial; I was unable to be filial to you while you were alive."
“Your child deserves to die. How can I face you in the afterlife?”
Xie Chengzhi raised his hand and slapped his own mouth, "I'm not human. Not only did I squander the family business, but I was also cheated by that bastard Xie Qi."
In the end, it turns out that it's still the mother who has the child in her heart...
"But I am an unfilial son. I have not been able to fulfill my filial duty to you in this life. I can only wait until my next life to find you. At that time, I will serve you like a cow or a horse without any complaints..."
Xie Chengzhi cried his heart out. He already had a high fever and was in pain all over his body, and now he was crying so hard that he looked like he was about to faint.
Xie Lurong felt heartbroken seeing this and couldn't help but shed tears as she gently comforted her.
Xie Chengzhi cried until he was exhausted and his mind became hazy. In the end, he even forgot what kind of funeral he was in.
After struggling for a long time, he realized that his stomach was empty.
He looked at Xie Lurong and said weakly, "Get me something to eat."
"Father, I've cooked you some dried vegetable porridge."
Xie Chengzhi was starving, so he took the porridge and slurped down a big bowl.
After finishing the drink, he became much clearer-headed and looked at Xie Lurong, saying, "What are you still doing here? I need to rest now."
Xie Lurong nodded and said gently, "Father, please rest well. I'll go see Auntie once I'm better..."
Xie Chengzhi frowned: "What do you want with her?"
“I will go and ask your aunt to give you a chance to return to the weaving and dyeing garden.”
What are you going back to the dyeing and weaving workshop for?
Xie Lurong said, "If Father doesn't want to go back, you can go to the shop and be the manager yourself. You can always make a comeback."
Xie Chengzhi rubbed his eyes and casually waved the shop deed in his hand: "This shop? Relying on this to make a comeback?"
Seeing his disdainful expression, Xie Lurong felt a bad premonition rising in her heart...
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