Chapter 15 Zhang
Zhang had not touched cosmetics since the accident, and she never thought she would see herself with makeup on again. But Su He would go to the shop to buy the best cosmetics, cut the best silk, and bring them back to dress her up beautifully.
The morning sun was the most brilliant, and she would sit in a wheelchair and let Su He push her around the corners of the mansion. The lake pavilion in autumn was the most beautiful, and Su He would cook wine and tea, and take her to see the maple leaves covering the mountains and the sunset in the evening.
But suddenly one day, she quietly stopped coming.
The maids said that it was because Su He was jealous that the young master brought back a concubine with both children and daughters, but she had not been pregnant for three years, and she proposed a divorce because of this.
Zhang liked Su He to be the mistress of the Lu family and her daughter-in-law. She never made any mistakes in anything she was in charge of.
As for the concubine Liu Qiuqiu, she hated her every time she saw her.
Wasn't it because of the concubine that her legs were broken by Lu Chengye?
Zhang lay in bed unable to move, with a mess of thoughts in her mind until Liu Qiuqiu appeared beside the bed, with her belly bulging, pretending to take care of her.
A few seconds later.
Liu Qiuqiu ran out of the room, covering her mouth and nose, and couldn't help vomiting when she thought of the stench coming from Zhang's bed.
Mingchun patted her back and handed her water: "Auntie, let's send the servants to do it."
After vomiting, Liu Qiuqiu leaned against the pillar and panted heavily, shaking her head to stop herself from thinking about the situation in the house.
But if she didn't show the compassionate attitude of caring for her mother-in-law, how could Lu Yanxiu take her more seriously?
Liu Qiuqiu looked at the sky, estimated the time when Lu Yanxiu would come back, and gritted her teeth and said: "You go in first, I will come later. After all, she is my mother-in-law, and I may be able to do what the young lady can do."
Mingchun was shocked and complained silently in her heart.
As a maid, she called Liu Qiuqiu "aunt" because the children were the blood of the Lu family.
Until now, the young lady has not even had a drink of the tea offered by Liu Qiuqiu, but she has already called her husband and mother-in-law happily. How shameless!
Mingchun entered the house, washed Zhang's face with hot water, and wiped her limbs. Looking around the house again, when she saw the window sill covered with dust, she couldn't help but complain about the maids in Youranju.
"Where is the young lady?"
There was no smile on Zhang's gloomy face, and she only had a little hope when she mentioned Su He.
"The young lady went home to visit her relatives. As for when she will come back... I don't know."
Zhang asked again: "Does she really want to divorce? Break up with Yan Xiu?"
"I don't know."
Mingchun didn't want to say much about the masters' affairs, so she lowered her head and stopped talking, and quietly cleaned up the house.
Zhang knew that although Su He was soft-hearted, once she made a decision, she could not change her mind.
In this case, Su He will no longer be her daughter-in-law.
Liu Qiuqiu calmed down and walked into the house. She changed her disgusted expression and came to Zhang's bed with a smile, trying to suppress the disgusting smell: "Mother-in-law, the young lady is not here, I will serve you tonight, are you uncomfortable?"
Zhang looked at her charming face and stared at her closely, "What's your name?"
"My daughter-in-law's name is Liu Qiuqiu..."
"How dare you! Su He is my daughter-in-law, where did you come from? How dare you come to the Lu Mansion to make friends?" Zhang frowned and looked at her coldly, her eyes full of disdain.
Liu Qiuqiu didn't expect her to react so strongly. She didn't say anything, but Zhang obviously regarded her as an enemy.
Mingchun mentioned before that Su He cared more about Zhang than anyone else. She must be unhappy when she knew that Su He was leaving the Lu Mansion.
Liu Qiuqiu secretly rejoiced that Zhang was a cripple and no one in the mansion respected her, otherwise she would be a real obstacle!
Since she was talking with a gun and a stick, Liu Qiuqiu stopped pretending.
"Why do you say that, mother-in-law? Do you think I'm easy to bully?"
She picked up the basin on the bedside and poured it over Zhang's head. The warm water slid from the seams of her hair into her clothes, and then became icy cold. Zhang screamed and picked up the lantern beside her and threw it at Liu Qiuqiu!
Mingchun saw this and shouted, "Aunt, be careful!"
She was the person assigned by the old lady to serve Aunt Liu personally. If anything went wrong with the baby in her belly, the old lady and the young master would definitely punish her immediately!
"Ah!"
Liu Qiuqiu screamed, covering her belly with her hands and not daring to move. She was relieved when she heard the lantern fall to the ground with a clang.
Fortunately, Zhang's arm didn't have much strength, and the lantern was thrown off-center, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous if it hit someone.
Lu Yanxiu, who had just returned to the mansion, heard the news that Liu Qiuqiu went to Youranju, so he followed without stopping. Who knew that as soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he heard screams coming from inside!
He rushed into the room and saw Liu Qiuqiu standing by, crying with grievance, holding her belly with her hands, looking frightened.
"I just wanted to wipe the body of the Madam, it's all my fault that I accidentally knocked over the basin..."
Mingchun had his back to them just now, and only heard the conversation, but didn't see what happened. Liu Qiuqiu knew that Lu Yanxiu would be on her side, and in the absence of substantial evidence, Zhang couldn't make any excuses.
Zhang was furious. She was about to tell Liu Qiuqiu about her crimes, but she didn't expect her son to point at her wet body without any reason and said coldly: "Qiqiu is pregnant, but she was still thinking about serving you. Even if she accidentally spilled water, as an elder, can't you be a little tolerant of her?"
"You are so blind! I'm so wet? And she didn't do it on purpose?"
Zhang really regretted giving birth to such a heartless son!
"It's all my fault, it's my fault..." Liu Qiuqiu wiped away her tears, raised her eyes, and felt inexplicably happy to see Zhang, who was burning with anger. She continued to add fuel to the fire with a crying voice: "I think it's the young lady who serves more attentively, unlike me, who is always rash and makes the eldest lady unhappy."
It would be fine if Su He was not mentioned. When he heard her name, Lu Yanxiu took a deep breath and said with disdain: "You are pregnant, how can you compare with her? Giving birth to children is hard enough, you don't have to take on the responsibility of serving your mother, leave it to the maids."
Hearing this, Zhang couldn't stop crying.
Her son could understand the difficulty of a concubine giving birth to children, so why couldn't he understand the difficulty of her as a mother?
"Mother, since you don't want to see Qiuqiu, she won't set foot in Youranju anymore. Tomorrow when Su He returns home, I will ask her to come and see you." Lu Yanxiu explained expressionlessly, as if the discord between Zhang and Liu Qiuqiu was a big deal. But in front of outsiders, Lu Yanxiu showed a very enthusiastic motherly heart, but he never thought that his heart was rotten.