Chapter 257 The Queen Mother committed suicide, she has no face to live
Facing the mother who was so desperate that she wanted to commit suicide, Xie Junlin frowned.
He didn't know how to persuade a woman who had been humiliated to such an extent, especially since he was her son.
As a son, nothing he could say would be appropriate regarding the words carved on his mother's body.
Xie Tianyou beside him spoke slowly.
"Mother, death cannot protect me and my brother. Only by letting everyone know who harmed you and what kind of pain you have suffered can you protect us and yourself."
Queen Mother Jiang suddenly turned and looked at Xie Tianyou.
Her eyes were filled with fear, and she shook her head desperately, "No! I won't tell you! I'd rather die!"
Xie Tianyou had a calm expression. "You are not even afraid of death, so what else do you have to be afraid of? If you don't tell me, I will tell you--"
Xie Junlin turned and looked at Xie Tianyou.
"You know about this?"
Xie Tianyou hummed.
He stepped forward to support Queen Mother Jiang and said to Xie Junlin, "Originally, you should ask your scumbag and bastard father about this matter—"
When Xie Junlin heard that his younger brother actually called his deceased father "scum" and "bastard" in front of all the civil and military officials, his eyebrows jumped.
Could it be that...
The one who carved the words on my mother's body was my father?
He couldn't believe it. He didn't know how a husband could do this to his own woman...
He took a deep breath and said, "That's also your father. Don't be disrespectful, Ayou."
Xie Tianyou sneered.
"I am disrespectful to him, but does that scumbag deserve my respect?"
"Back then, he was so incompetent that he forced the people to revolt. When the rebel army entered the capital, that heartless, ungrateful and incompetent bastard abandoned his country, abandoned the people who were crying and struggling in a pool of blood, and also abandoned you. He took your mother as a hostage and fled south with his closest people..."
"When they passed through a mountainous area, they were robbed by bandits. When they were running for their lives, the dog man thought there were too many people in the carriage and the horse couldn't run fast enough, so he wanted to throw a few people away."
"He couldn't bear to throw away his favorite concubine, and he couldn't bear to throw away his and the concubine's precious son, so he ignored the pleas of his mother and others, and kicked his mother and several other concubines off the carriage with a ferocious look on his face."
"At that time, there were so many bandits following them, shouting and screaming for war. Have you ever thought about what kind of situation a few beautiful women would end up in if they were caught up by those vicious villains?"
"How much do you understand how desperate and hateful my mother must have been when her husband kicked her off the carriage and into the wolf's den?"
"So what if I call him a scumbag, a bastard, or a dog? It's because he doesn't deserve to be a human being!"
Xie Junlin looked at Xie Tianyou in astonishment.
He suddenly looked at Queen Mother Jiang, who was crying with her face covered, her face pale.
He staggered back, muttering, "My mother never told me about this..."
All the officials were also shocked.
They looked at each other in bewilderment; no one knew that such a thing had happened back then!
When the enemy army was approaching the city, the late emperor took Xie Junlin's mother as a hostage in order to force his eldest son Xie Junlin to defend the city gate to buy time for his escape. He said that if Xie Junlin dared to abandon the city and flee, Xie Junlin's mother would be torn into pieces.
He was so heartless and ungrateful that he had already done justice to the mother and son. Later, when they were in danger, he actually kicked the mother off the carriage and left her to the bandits?
Is he really still human?
Xie Tianyou glanced at everyone and looked at Xie Junlin indifferently.
"Of course the Queen Mother will not tell you about this."
"She was afraid that you would know how she escaped from the bandits and that you would despise her. She kept this dark and tragic past a secret. She wanted to maintain her noble image as the emperor's biological mother so as not to embarrass you, the emperor..."
Xie Tianyou changed the subject.
“But I don’t think there’s anything shameful about it.”
"She did nothing wrong. She was just abandoned by her husband. It was her husband who personally sent her to the hands of those bandits to suffer such humiliation and torture. It was her husband who destroyed her chastity. How could a weak woman like her who could not even lift a finger do anything wrong?"
"Oh, that damned man, seeing my mother risking her life to escape from the bandit's den, he didn't feel the slightest bit of shame, not the slightest bit of guilt, but instead he blamed my mother for being unfaithful. He said that my mother should have committed suicide after experiencing such a thing. How dare she run in front of him and let a great emperor suffer such humiliation?"
"My mother was already in such a miserable state, but at the instigation of the Imperial Concubine, he left these two words on her body, hoping to make her feel ashamed for the rest of her life..."
"During that half year, my mother's life in their hands was even more miserable than that of the lowest slave."
"That bastard lost his kingdom and drank all day. When he was drunk, he would go crazy and beat people. The imperial concubine didn't dare to step forward, so she pushed the queen mother forward. The queen mother was always beaten all over her body by him. Before the wounds healed, she had to wash clothes, cook and serve them, and then she would experience a new round of beatings..."
"Fortunately, my brother, you are brave enough to save our mother."
"You held the capital, recruited soldiers and began to fight back against the rebels to seize the world. When the news spread to the small village, that bastard was excited. Seeing that you were so successful, he naturally didn't dare to abuse your mother anymore. He once despised your mother for being dirty, but he began to favor her again. Not long after, your mother became pregnant with me..."
"After my mother gave birth to me after ten months, your power in the capital had grown stronger. So that bastard ignored the fact that my mother had just given birth and was still in confinement after giving birth, snatched me away and gave me to the imperial concubine as a hostage. He forced my mother to go to the capital alone to find you, and asked you to lead the troops to welcome this bastard emperor back..."
At this point, Xie Tianyou laughed at himself.
"So, my brother, do you understand now why that bastard could watch the imperial concubine torture me and ignore me even when I became autistic? Because he thinks my mother is dirty. He favored her just to please you, a capable and promising son. He kept me alive just to threaten you..."
Xie Tianyou looked into Xie Junlin's eyes and shook his head, "Brother Emperor, I have never been the child he expected. In his eyes, I am worse than a dog. If it were you, would you recognize this father? Whether you recognize him or not, I don't. That is your father, not mine. I don't have a father."
Xie Junlin's eyes turned red when he heard this.
He looked at poor Ayou, and then at his poor mother with tears streaming down her face.
He never knew that his mother had such a secret in her heart, and he never thought that his mother had suffered such humiliation in the past.
At that time, my father fled to a remote mountain village and there were few people alive around him. Not many people knew about this matter, so naturally no one leaked the news.
His mother refused to tell him, and his father was too guilty to tell him, so how could he know this secret?
He walked forward step by step, choking with sobs, "Mother, you have suffered..."
Queen Mother Jiang shook her head desperately.
She has tried her best to forget these past events. She has been trying to deceive herself over the years. She is clean and innocent.
She thought that the person who knew the secret was dead, and the secret would go into the coffin with her. She could keep her chastity and innocence and be a noble queen mother for the rest of her life...
She didn't expect that she would mess things up like this tonight.
If she had known this would happen, why would she harm Shen Yuanwei? Now Shen Yuanwei is unharmed, but she has suffered a terrible defeat.
She really is regretting it so much.
Queen Dowager Jiang wiped her tears, glanced at the onlookers who sympathized with her, and then looked at Xie Junlin again.
She said, "Son, things have come to this point and there is no way to end it. Mother's secret is known to everyone. Only when Mother dies can you and your brother have peace of mind..."
She choked up and said, "They say that death is the greatest thing. If I die, no one will make malicious assumptions about me or insult me. If I live on, people will always talk about my dirty deeds and gossip about them..."
Xie Junlin clenched his mother's hand in pain, "No, the one who deserves death is the father, what does it have to do with you? Mother, live well. As long as your son is alive, no one will dare to talk about him in front of you."
Queen Mother Jiang smiled bitterly.
She murmured, "No one dares to talk about it in front of me, but people will talk about it in private... I can't hide in my bedroom and cover up this kind of thing..."
At this moment, a familiar voice exploded in my ears.
"Empress Dowager, hiding in the bedroom won't work. Will hiding in the coffin work? If you hide in the coffin, you are just trying to cover up your crimes. If they want to use your romantic affairs as a topic of conversation, they will not let you go even if you die."
“…”
Queen Mother Jiang was stunned.
She suddenly looked at the woman who was speaking.
Her eyes fell on Shen Yuanwei and she felt pain in them.
The reason she became like this tonight was all because of this woman. Now this woman is going to ridicule her and laugh at her, right?
Just as she was about to speak, she heard Shen Yuanwei continue to say——
"You don't believe it, Queen Mother? If you don't believe it, then look at the great poet who lived a hundred years ago. He has been dead for a hundred years and his body has rotted away, but isn't the story of him and his daughter-in-law still circulating in the market today?"
"So, if you just want to use death to make people shut up and stop talking about you, then you are doomed to die in vain. Even if you die a hundred times, they will still talk about you. It is better to live well. Your life is your own. When you die, those who talk about you will not be sad. Only your two sons and your grandson will be sad."
“…”
The words that Queen Mother Jiang was about to say were suddenly stuck in her throat.
She thought Shen Yuanwei came to ridicule her and take advantage of her misfortune, but it turned out that Shen Yuanwei came to persuade her to live well?
She stared into Shen Yuanwei's dark eyes.
She suddenly felt so ridiculous.
She would be abused by the Second Young Master Zhao tonight because of Shen Yuanwei. Shen Yuanwei made her lose her reputation, and now she pretends to be a good person and persuades her to live and not seek death?
She curled her lips sarcastically.
"Shen Yuanwei, you are the one who wants me dead the most in this palace. Are you really so kind as to want me to live?"
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up like this?"
"If you hadn't harmed me, I would still be keeping this secret for more than 20 years and serving as the queen mother with a clean record. Why would I need to die to protect my two sons?"
Xie Junlin and Xie Tianyou also looked at Shen Yuanwei with complicated eyes.
They also didn't expect that Shen Yuanwei would help them persuade their mother to stay alive.
They thought that Shen Yuanwei would only feel happy and wish their mother would die quickly.
Shen Yuanwei was being stared at by three pairs of eyes from the mother and son. She did not dare to show the slightest bit of guilt, nor could she admit in public that it was she who had caused Queen Mother Jiang to be like this tonight.
She said.
"Your Highness, everything that happened to you tonight was a mistake. I have never harmed you, and I did not know that you would end up like this."
"I admit it. I heard from Madam Cui that you wanted me to be raped by the Second Young Master Zhao tonight. You wanted me to be drowned in a pond. I hated you. But when I saw you being raped by the Second Young Master Zhao by mistake, I felt happy for a moment because you were the perpetrator to me tonight. Who doesn't want to see the perpetrator get punished?"
"But what you experienced more than twenty years ago was different."
"At that time, you were just a poor person who was hurt by your husband. You were a victim. As a woman, I hated your scum husband when I heard that you had such a pitiful experience. Which woman in the world would want to meet such a scum husband? Who would want to be abandoned and abused like this? I only have pity for the victimized woman more than 20 years ago. How could I think you deserved it more than 20 years ago?"
"So, Queen Mother, I sincerely hope that you can live. You survived all the trauma and abuse you endured in the bandit's den. Later, you survived the humiliation of having those two words branded on your body by the late emperor. Are you going to give up your life just because you are afraid of a few rumors?"
"It's not worth it. Nothing is more important than being alive."
Shen Yuanwei looked at Xie Junlin again.
She knelt down slowly.
"Your Majesty, a woman's chastity is indeed important, but there is a difference between a woman's active promiscuity and losing her chastity due to a thief's harm."
"Being hurt by thieves, the women have already endured an unbearable burden in life. They should have been loved and cared for by their families, and the warmth and happiness of the rest of their lives should have comforted their past pain. However, the word chastity forced them to commit suicide after being hurt by thieves. How cruel is this for them?"
"Is it really shameful for women who have lost their virginity to want to live? I just think that they have been hurt by others and can still withstand huge pressure and endure the world's curses to live tenaciously. This requires greater perseverance—"
"When a man survives after being tortured, you call him a hero, but when a woman wants to survive after being tortured, you call her shameless. Is this fair?"
"They are all heroes who are living in this world with scars and marks. Why should their right to survive be strangled just because they are women?"
"Your Majesty, I hope you can issue an edict so that all women who have been harmed by flower thieves and evil people in the world will not be forced to die by their families."
"Empress Dowager, I hope you can live well and set an example for those poor women in the world. People who have lost their virginity are not inferior to others. You have lost your virginity, but you still raised an emperor who rules the world. You should not seek death. You should live on and be the motivation for those victimized girls to live. Don't you agree?"
"You must believe that, although there will be men who curse you in the future, there will also be countless women who have suffered the same fate as you, who will worship you and burn incense for you every day. They will be grateful that you gave them the opportunity and courage to live."
“…”
Xie Junlin and Queen Mother Jiang were both stunned.
All the civil and military officials were stunned.
However, among the families of the officials, many women also knelt down with red eyes, following Shen Yuanwei, begging Xie Junlin to issue an edict and asking the Empress Dowager to live.
Some of them had lost their daughters. Their daughters were murdered by thieves, but they were forced to commit suicide due to the secular world...
They hope that women who are victims in the future will have one more option.
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[I was obsessed with the short drama last night and went to bed too late. I had no energy during the day, so I just finished writing 4,000 words now. Sorry, my dears, this is two chapters in one, muah! ]
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