Chapter 458 Orphan Wanshuang 2
Seeing her mother struggling to get up, Ning Wanshuang carefully helped her up and sat with her back against the headboard.
He also took out a thick cushion and placed it on her lower back to make her as comfortable as possible.
After hearing Madam Ning cough a few more times, she smiled and said:
"Recently, I've often thought of your father and your brother. I feel vaguely as if they are still here."
She raised her hand with difficulty and pointed in the direction of the main hall.
Ning Wanshuang looked in the direction of her finger and saw a yellow pear wood dining table that had faded in color.
That was where the family used to have their meals.
The laughter and joy of the past are now only a thin layer of dust on the table.
"In the past, our family had the most fun when we had meals. We drank and had fun, and listened to your father bragging. He said that he could fight fifty enemy soldiers alone. Even though you were still young at that time, you already understood how to ridicule people."
Madam Ning said, shaving Ning Wanshuang's face, "You shave your own face like this and say that your father is bragging, shame on you. Haha~ That's great, if Xiuqi was still alive, he would have married and had children by now, right?
But he will definitely ignore your sister-in-law. After all, that child is thinking about how to defend the country and win more battles..."
Her withered hand moved inch by inch to the back of Ning Wanshuang's hand.
I wanted to hold my daughter's hand again, but I no longer had the strength to do so.
Ning Wanshuang understood and quickly held Madam Ning's hand, tightening it again and again.
She has never been a crying woman, but at this moment, she has already burst into tears in front of her mother.
"Mother, I am an unfilial daughter. I killed my father and brother..."
"Silly child, I don't blame you." Madam Ning smiled gently, "If you hadn't married the emperor, your father and your brother might not even have this posthumous honor. But child, mother wants to ask you, the man you wanted so much to marry back then, now you have been with him for ten years, are you living the life you wanted?"
Ning Wanshuang cried and shook her head, her eyebrows drooping, she no longer dared to look directly into her mother's cloudy eyes.
"Mother, I know I was wrong..."
Madam Ning also shook her head gently, "Wan'er, you have to know that there is no right or wrong in life. Just like an arrow shot from a bow cannot be retrieved, you have to walk the path you have chosen, even if it is wrong."
She leaned back and her voice gradually weakened.
"Mother will go to look for your father soon. Mother hopes everything is fine with you. Child, let it go. Don't resent the emperor anymore. He has treated you with sincerity over the years. Otherwise, after the Ning family fell, you would not have been honored and become the most respected imperial concubine."
Madam Ning murmured, forcing Ning Wanshuang to look into her eyes, and then said in an extremely firm tone:
"Wan'er, mother has let it go, are you still clinging? Mother knows your character. You and mother are the same. You seem to be free and easy, but in fact, you value feelings the most. Since the emperor is the person you have liked since you were young, then you should try to forgive him and accept him again. Get along well with him. For yourself, and for little Jinyue, do you understand?"
Of course Ning Wanshuang understood what her mother meant.
How could the mother forgive Xiao Jingheng? She just couldn't let go of her ignorant daughter, so when she was dying, she said that she forgave the man who killed her husband and son.
Even if I don't forgive you, what can I do?
Xiao Jingheng is the emperor and Ning Wanshuang's husband. Once he enters the palace, there is no way out.
The dead cannot be resurrected. Is she going to let her daughter resent Xiao Jingheng for the rest of her life and end up with a miserable life?
Madam Ning knew very well that only when Ning Wanshuang eliminated her hatred for Xiao Jingheng from the bottom of her heart, her future would be easier.
Then the mother can rest in peace in her nine springs.
And in the countless nights after the death of her father and brother, Ning Wanshuang had taken off her disguise and faced her own heart.
I have to admit that she is spineless. Until now, she still loves Xiao Jingheng.
But this love was mixed with hatred and had changed its flavor early on.
Love will become dull as it continues over and over again.
However, hatred can continue to gain driving force from the continuation of the behavior.
She could no longer sincerely treat Jamel Xiao as an equal, but in order to reassure her mother, she still said:
"Don't worry, mother. I know what to do next. You have worried about me all my life. I am unfilial to you for letting you suffer in this life. If there is an afterlife, I hope you will not abandon me and let me be a daughter of the Ning family and serve you and father well."
Madam Ning nodded slightly, then raised her hand with great effort to wipe away Ning Wanshuang's tears.
"Silly girl, you will always be my mother and the best daughter."
On the ninth day of the second month of the tenth year of the Qiyuan reign, Ning's wife, Zhou, died of illness in her old home in Kyoto at the age of forty-six.
Imperial Noble Consort Ning Wanshuang mourned for seven days and returned to the palace on February 16th.
This day is Jin Yue's birthday, and also the anniversary of the death of Ning Wanshuang's two previous sons.
[Review: The first child was a miscarriage due to a fall, and died on 2/16. The second twin boy and girl were born on 2/16, and the boy died at birth. The girl, Jinyue, was also born on 2/16.]
On the way back to the palace, Ning Wanshuang passed by Jinxiu Tower in Kyoto. She saw a red peony shirt placed near the door.
Thinking that Jinyue, like her, likes the bright colors of flowers,
So Ning Wanshuang bought the dress as a birthday gift for her child.
On the way back to the palace, when passing by the Imperial Garden, Ning Wanshuang saw from afar that many palace servants gathered near the rockery, and it was quite lively.
Just as I was wondering what was going on, suddenly, a little eunuch appeared from nowhere, rushed forward and almost bumped into Ning Wanshuang.
Liu Yue stood in front of Ning Wanshuang and scolded the young eunuch harshly.
"What are you so flustered about? Be careful not to offend the Imperial Concubine!"
The young eunuch looked up and saw that it was Ning Wanshuang. He was so frightened that his face turned pale.
He knelt on the ground with a thump, and said with a sobbing voice and trembling lips and teeth:
"The Imperial Concubine...Princess Jin, Princess Jin Yue...she fell off the rockery!"
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