Chapter 1216: The Village Girl and the Prince (7)
Du Yuan looked at Tao Shichu's leaving back, and finally returned to his home with a smile on his face. But as soon as he entered the door, a maid came to him: "Master! Please go and persuade the lady. She hasn't eaten or drunk anything for the whole day, and her body won't be able to bear it..."
The good mood that Du Yuan had brought back from outside seemed to disappear in an instant. His face turned cold, and he asked impatiently with a suppressed heart: "Why is mother so angry this time?"
The maid replied immediately, "Because the master brought back another girl yesterday, saying that she was a concubine sent by his colleagues. When the lady found out, she was very sad. She didn't eat or drink, and just cried..."
Du Yuan rubbed his forehead and said, "I'll go see her."
When he arrived at his mother's yard, he had just stepped in when he heard the voices of several maids persuading him and the very familiar cry of his mother.
"Madam, please at least drink some water. If you keep crying you'll get hoarse..." a maid whispered.
"How can I be in the mood to drink water? My throat is hoarse, and no one cares anyway..." Mrs. Du said in tears.
When Du Yuan walked in, he saw his mother leaning on the bed and crying with a handkerchief in her hand. Her eyes were red from crying. She was extremely beautiful, and her tears were like pear blossoms in the rain when she cried. She looked weak and pitiful. Although she already had a young son like Du Yuan, she was still as innocent and young as a 29-year-old girl, and still like a girl, as if love was the most important thing in life.
"Mother, why are you crying again?" Du Yuan asked, suppressing his impatience.
"Yuan'er! You are finally back? You don't know how much your father has gone too far. He brought another woman back yesterday. Does he still have me as his wife in his heart? He has to find other women to hurt my heart... Son, please persuade your father to send that woman away..." When Mrs. Du saw Du Yuan, she immediately felt like she saw a savior. She grabbed his arm and asked him to stop interfering with her father's affairs in the room.
Du Yuan tried hard to pull his arm out of her hand and said, "Mother, you know that father will not listen to me, let alone send his woman away. How come you can't see the truth for so long? Are there not enough women in his yard? One more is not much, one less is not little either. Can you stop deceiving yourself?"
When Mrs. Du heard what he said, she immediately exploded and asked him while crying, "Are you blaming me? It was obviously your father who did me wrong, but you blame me? You are indeed your father's son. You only stand on his side and ignore your mother's difficulties. I gave birth to you in vain..."
She cried harder and harder, and Du Yuan just felt very tired, a tiredness that came from the bottom of his bones. He had been accustomed to this scene since he was a child. Since he was three years old, his father had other women besides his mother, and his mother had already started crying and complaining, crying that his father had fallen in love with another woman and was fickle, forcing him, as a son, to persuade his father to send the other woman away.
Every time his father had another woman, this kind of scene would happen to his mother. At first, Du Yuan would worry and get nervous for his mother, and then listen to her and persuade his father, but he would always get scolded. Later, after it happened many times, he got used to it and became much calmer. He knew that neither of these two people would change their behavior because of him, so he could only endure it.
"Mom, why do you still care whether father has other women? Even if he has more women, it will not affect your status. You already have a grown son like me, and he will be your support in the future. You no longer have to rely on your father to survive. Why can't you be more open-minded?" Du Yuan asked Mrs. Du tiredly.
Who knew that when Mrs. Du heard him say that, she immediately angrily accused him, "What are you talking about? Your father is my lifelong support, how can I live my own life without him? Are you resentful of your father? As a son, how can you stir up trouble between your parents? How can you be so unfilial?"
When Du Yuan heard her words, he was stunned and speechless. He never thought that his mother thought of him like this. Didn't he really mean to persuade her not to be obsessed with her father's feelings? Why did she think that he was deliberately provoking their feelings?
Du Yuan felt like he had no way to defend himself and felt that he could not communicate with his mother. At this moment, he suddenly thought that it would be great if his mother was one of the resolute and decisive heroines in the Broken Love Sword stories, who could let go of feelings and was decisive in saying "If you are heartless, I will give up", and would not be unable to live because of emotional setbacks.
Having seen his mother suffer and feel sad because of his father's infidelity, Du Yuan always felt disappointed in her. He couldn't understand why she couldn't give up after being hurt so many times by her husband. This made him fear love. If falling in love with someone would make him so humble, he would rather not fall in love with anyone in his life.
Du Yuan thought of the heroines in the Broken Love Blade novel and couldn't help but think of Tao Shichu. If it were her, knowing that her husband brought back other women, she would definitely not cry like his mother and could only humbly beg her husband to change his mind, right?
"Rebellious son! What are you daydreaming about? Are you listening to me?" Mrs. Du was immediately irritated when she saw Du Yuan was distracted, and questioned him angrily.
Du Yuan came back to his senses, looked at his mother who was glaring at him, and said directly: "Mother, I'm sorry I can't do what you want me to do. You said I was unfilial, how dare I interfere in my father's affairs? Aren't you making things difficult for me? Since you care about my father so much, you should always put his wishes first. How can you complain that he is fickle? If you like him, you should fulfill his wishes, don't you think so?"
When Mrs. Du heard what he said, her eyes widened in shock. She was choked by his words and was speechless. She didn't know how to refute him, so she even forgot to cry and her face turned red.
Du Yuan pretended not to see the anger in her eyes and continued, "Mother, your eyes are all red and swollen from crying. If father sees you like this, wouldn't it damage your image in front of him? Also, if you don't eat or drink and ruin your health, wouldn't that mean you're just giving father away to that woman? It's not worth it..."
His words immediately made Mrs. Du exclaim, and she quickly asked the maid to bring her a mirror. When she looked in the mirror, she saw her red and swollen eyes, which had ruined her beauty by three or four points. So she immediately became anxious and hurriedly asked the maid to bring her powder to apply...
Seeing this, Du Yuan quietly left. In his mother's heart, his father was the first, her own beauty was the second, and he, the only son, was only in the third place which was not very important. Over the years, he had already recognized the fact.
(End of this chapter)
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