Chapter 136: Regret
After Ruihong gained her freedom, she paused and kowtowed to Old Madam Song.
"Thank you for your care over the years, old lady. Now that Ruihong has returned home, she will always remember your kindness and pray to the Bodhisattva, wishing you peace and prosperity."
After she finished speaking, she sighed and cleaned the furnishings in the house for the old lady.
This was her last time working for the Song family.
There was no expression on Old Madam Song's face. She just stared blankly at the hanging bed curtain.
There was no life in her cloudy eyes.
The whole person is breathing out more than breathing in.
How long she can last depends entirely on whether God is not so cruel to her.
Old Madam Song rolled her eyes, staring at her numb legs without blinking.
Suddenly I remembered that I used to suffer from many illnesses, both major and minor. At that time, Su Tan would invite the best doctors to treat her and was generous with the medicine, arranging only the best.
I heard that Su Tan was not at ease if he let others do the task of decocting medicine, so he always did it himself.
Tears of regret flowed from Old Madam Song's eyes.
When did it start to change?
She herself had forgotten it.
Perhaps as Song Tingchen's official position became higher and higher, and members of the Su family unfortunately died on the battlefield, she began to feel that Su Tan had no one to rely on, and gradually she began to dislike everything about this daughter-in-law who was good in every way.
But just at this moment, the gentle and docile Liu Qingyin appeared.
Liu Qingyin's father died while saving Song Tingchen.
Liu Qingyin is also very obedient to everyone, especially to Song Tingchen, and even to Song Xiao.
Liu Qingyin said at that time that her uncle wanted to give her to a bully who was over fifty years old as a concubine so that he could take over the property left to her by her parents.
She knelt in front of him and Song Tingchen, begging them to give her a way to live. She didn't need anything else, just to be accepted as a slave.
At that time, Old Lady Song had already made up her mind. She felt that Liu Qingyin was really beautiful and gentle, and it would be unfair for her to be a slave or a concubine.
She pressured Song Tingchen to marry Liu Qingyin as his concubine.
This matter reached Su Tan's ears.
Su Tan didn't say anything, but told Song Tingchen expressionlessly that if he wanted to marry a concubine, then they should get a divorce.
She and Song Tingchen both felt that Su Tan was too extreme.
Somehow this matter reached Liu Qingyin's ears.
Liu Qingyin didn't want to make things difficult for them, so she actually intended to end her own life with a white silk in Tingfeng Pavilion.
Fortunately, Song Tingchen rescued the person in time, preventing a tragedy.
After this incident, Song Tingchen and Su Tan had a huge quarrel. Seeing that Su Tan insisted on being reasonable, Old Madam Song asked Song Tingchen not to indulge this woman anymore and to divorce her first. After a few days, Su Tan would be obedient and admit her mistakes to them.
But who could have known that after Su Tan divorced, he never returned to the general's mansion.
“Huh—”
Old Madam Song clutched the bed curtain tightly, as if she had a thousand words to say.
But she couldn't utter a word.
Old Madam Song didn't know whether she regretted it or not.
Tears kept welling up in her eyes, and she couldn't help but think, what if Liu Qingyin hadn't appeared, or if they hadn't allowed Liu Qingyin to be compared with Su Tan.
Does that mean that now she won't end up in such a miserable situation?
Old Madam Song clutched the bed curtain tightly and coughed repeatedly.
Ruihong shook her head, and her faint voice, along with the sound of the wind, fell into Madam Song's ears.
"Old Madam, Princess Jiayi once said that although your health is not good, if you are well taken care of, you may live to be a hundred years old."
"Now it's like this, even I feel sad when I see it."
Old Madam Song was stunned for a moment, and just stared at her blankly without saying a word.
Ruihong shook her head, turned around and walked out without saying anything else.
The moment she walked out of the Song family's house, she looked up at the warm sun in the sky, and still felt a little guilty.
She could see that Liu Qingyin had other intentions in transferring him away from Song Xiao, perhaps wanting to completely ruin Song Xiao.
After a pause, Ruihong took a deep breath.
But he found a scholar from the family of the person he trusted to write a letter on his behalf.
She sealed the letter, hesitated for a long time, and finally came to the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. She stuffed silver into the doorman's pocket and handed him the letter, begging him to hand it to Su Tan.
The concierge narrowed his eyes.
He had an excellent memory. When he glanced at Ruihong and saw her face, he immediately remembered where he had seen her before.
"You are the one who is with that ungrateful little wolf."
As the doorman spoke, he began to laugh.
"You Song family are really interesting. In the past, when you saw that our Dingguogong Mansion was deserted, you wanted to step on it. Now that our eldest daughter has returned, you all rush to curry favor with her. You even have to act like the kings and masters, as if our Dingguogong Mansion owes you a debt."
"That ungrateful little bastard just left not long ago, what are you doing here again?"
Is Song Xiao really going to be beaten to death?
That's not a coincidence.
My eldest daughter is out.
This time, the eldest lady said that she would not come back for ten days or half a month.
Ruihong shook his head and understood that the Su family’s resentment was not directed at him, but at what the Song family had done.
"I am no longer a servant of the Song family."
She briefly explained how she redeemed herself.
After a while, he continued, "After all, Young Master Song Xiao was once well-cared for by County Lady Jiayi. Even if he is useless, he is still the child born from County Lady Jiayi's belly."
Ruihong said this not to make amends for Song Xiao, nor did she want to kidnap Su Tan. At this time, why should she still consider Song Xiao, this ungrateful person?
She just felt a little sad.
When she first came to the Song family, she felt that the Song family was thriving and that life would get better and better.
Who could have imagined that it would turn out like this?
Ruihong sighed, a look of sadness on her face. "That Liu is very scheming. Who knows what treasonous things she'll instigate the young master to do."
"If it were anything else, it would be fine, but I'm afraid he will implicate Princess Jiayi, and that would be really bad."
She presented the letter and said, "When County Lady Jiayi returns, please make sure to deliver this letter to her."
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