Tears suddenly welled up in her eyes, and she asked sadly, "Am I so unforgivable?"
Song Qiao avoided her gaze, clenched his hands and asked, "Do you need my forgiveness? You have been living a happy life without me all these years."
"I am your mother after all, so why do you have to say such harsh words?" Seeing that she was unmoved, Mrs. Lu felt a surge of anger in her heart, but she quickly suppressed it and said in a gentle tone, "I just want to mend the relationship between us mother and daughter."
"You don't lack a daughter, nor do you lack this bit of affection. Why don't you tell me clearly what you want to do."
"I just wanted to get you some clothes, that's all."
"Yeah?"
Song Qiao turned around and walked to the maid holding the box and extended his hand to her.
The maid was stunned.
"Didn't you say this was for me?"
The maid quickly put the box in her hands.
Holding the box, Song Qiao said to Madam Lu, "I'll take the clothes. I don't need anything else. Don't find excuses to come here again in the future. I won't see you even if you come. Let's end it here between us." After saying that, he carried the wooden box and walked home.
Madam Lu said, "Well, you are indeed my daughter. You are so cruel."
Song Qiao paused slightly and continued forward.
Just as she reached the door, she heard the maid behind her exclaim, "Madam!"
She turned around and saw Mrs. Lu had fainted on the ground.
Song Qiao stepped forward and saw that Madam Lu was extremely pale. He hurriedly said to the maids, "Hurry and send her to the infirmary."
The maid said, "Madam, you are the wife of an official. Your body is worth a fortune. How can you go to a place like a clinic where all kinds of people gather?"
"Then you should quickly send her home and ask a doctor to treat her."
"It will take more than half an hour to go back." The maid looked at Song Qiao's family, "Why don't we help the lady to rest at the young lady's house first? I heard there is a Qianjin Hall nearby, and it will be quick to ask the doctor to come."
Song Qiao didn't answer.
The maid said anxiously, "Miss, even if you were an ordinary person, there is no way you would stand by and watch someone die without helping, let alone this is your mother."
Although Song Qiao didn't want to agree, he couldn't bear it after seeing Madam Lu's pale face, "Help her in."
Several people helped Mrs. Lu into the yard. Song Qiao cleared out a wooden couch in the main room for her to lean on and rest, then went to the backyard and poured her a bowl of water to drink.
The water was boiled when she went out in the morning and had already gone cold. One bowl of it woke up the "fainted" Mrs. Lu.
Mrs. Lu gave the maid a wink, and the maid left under the pretext of going to see a doctor.
Song Qiao put down the bowl and said, "You are pretending."
"Not entirely. I haven't been feeling well these past few days." Madam Lu's face was pale, and there was a hint of dejection in her expression. "I had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure. Who told you to be so stubborn?"
Then he sighed, "But you're still not hard-hearted enough. You're like your father in this respect."
Speaking of his father, Song Qiao finally couldn't hide his anger, "What on earth do you want to do by wasting your time like this?"
"I……"
"Don't tell me you want to compensate me! Are you the kind of person who feels ashamed and guilty?" Song Qiao's face had never had such a sharp expression. She had always been silent and forbearing.
Mrs. Lu's frequent visits these days, her concern that was sometimes real and sometimes fake, and today's teasing, completely aroused the pain and resentment that Song Qiao had suppressed over the years, making her like a rabbit whose tail was grabbed, finally showing its sharp teeth.
Mrs. Lu's face turned paler and paler, obviously hurt by these two sentences.
Song Qiao sneered, "My father and I have been in the capital these years. Even if the Lu family is keeping a close eye on us, if you really want to make amends, how could you not have the opportunity? You left me so cruelly back then, and you haven't cared about me all these years. Now you want to play the role of a loving mother. Don't you think it's fake and ridiculous?"
Madam Lu defended herself, "I had no choice but to keep you here. How could I, a woman, marry again if I took you with me? Besides, your father wouldn't allow me to take you away."
"Don't use him as an excuse. If you didn't want me, why did you give birth to me? If you didn't want to marry my father, why did you marry him?"
"One must obey one's parents' orders."
"Since you've agreed, why don't you stay faithful to her?"
"Because I'm unwilling." Mrs. Lu burst into tears. "I'm unwilling to spend my whole life with someone I don't love. I'm also unwilling to be like your father, your grandmother, and your grandfather, spending my whole life buried in the earth, an ordinary peasant woman."
Song Qiao roared, "But why should you let others shoulder your ambitions?"
"Ah Qiao, you will understand one day." Mrs. Lu wiped away her tears and said, "Power and wealth don't come out of thin air. If people want to obtain them, they always have to make choices and make decisions."
Song Qiao said bluntly, "So I have become your choice again, right?"
The house fell into dead silence.
Song Qiao took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and said coldly, "There's no need for you to hide anything now. Let's be frank. What do you want me to do for you when you come to me?"
Mrs. Lu opened her mouth, but she couldn't utter a word of the words she had prepared earlier. After a long while, she squeezed out a sentence, "I want to hear you call me mother again."
Song Qiao was stunned, tears climbing up his cheeks unconsciously.
Although she was not as close to Song Qiao as the other couple, she was still her own flesh and blood. Seeing her cry, Mrs. Lu felt distressed and pulled out her handkerchief to wipe her tears.
Song Qiao turned around and wiped it with his sleeve.
At this moment, a voice came from outside, "Is Madam Song at home?"
It’s Wen Hui.
"Yes." Song Qiao responded, then wiped his face and said to Madam Lu, "I need to entertain guests. Since you have nothing to do, you can leave."
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