Chapter 110: Persuading Mother
After reporting back to his mother, Jiang Wan returned to the carriage and waited quietly. About five minutes later, the carriage ahead finally started turning again, the horses' hooves clattering as they sped along.
The Jiang family's carriage also started moving behind, but it was still moving steadily and slowly, so it was soon left behind by the Qin family's carriage.
The eldest wife of the Qin family, Wang, was sitting in the carriage in plain clothes, looking very old-fashioned, and slowly turning the Buddhist beads in her right hand.
"That bastard is not worth dealing with. Don't humiliate your noble status for no reason."
Perhaps it was because she became a widow just over three months after her marriage, the once beautiful girl from a wealthy family has now become a mean and resentful woman.
"Mother, you'd better be careful with your words."
Qin Xiaochen's tone was not warm, his expression was indifferent and polite, and there was no warmth of motherly love and filial piety.
"I hope you'll remember why Grandmother asked you to stay at Kaifu Temple. If it happens again, even your son won't be able to protect you."
"How dare you! I am your biological mother, how dare you be so unfilial?"
Wang's eyes were gloomy and cruel with anger.
"Isn't everything I do all for you? Everyone else can say I'm vicious and cruel, but you can't!"
"For me?"
"Of course it's for you! I'm your mother, I can't have any bad intentions, right?"
Perhaps to prove that she truly loved her son, Wang enunciated every word she uttered.
"Your father was so cruel that he left us mother and me so early. We are an orphan and a widow, but we are the eldest son of the legitimate wife. Can't you see how difficult it has been for your mother to live in the Qin family all these years?
We finally waited for you to grow up. You are the only legitimate heir of the Qin family. In the future, who among those from the illegitimate families can be your rival?
And yet another bastard of unknown origin shows up!"
You can tell from her voice that she is really angry.
"Originally, your Third Uncle had no children, so he would have supported you wholeheartedly. But now that he has a child, how could he still care about you? How can it not be for your own good that I hired someone to deal with that bastard?
"As a result, you, a heartless child, have no understanding of your mother's painstaking efforts. Your grandmother so heartlessly banished me to Kaifu Temple. It would have been fine if you didn't defend me then, but now you're even saying such unfilial words to anger me. Are you still my biological son?"
"If I really wasn't your biological son, would I still beg and plead for you in front of Grandmother?
Don't keep saying it's all for me. You know exactly why it's for me, and I know it too. The more you say it, the more indifferent our mother-son relationship becomes. "Enough is enough, mother."
Qin Xiaochen twitched his lips sarcastically. There were things he really didn't want to say. But his mother was becoming increasingly forgetful, always using her motherly image to deceive herself. Why bother?
"Qin Xiaochen!"
Wang was so angry that she wanted to slap her son. It would be best if she could wipe away all the sarcasm on his face.
"I'm here, but don't be so mean and rude. It's not worthy of a lady from a noble family."
The boy's frown and disgusted expression were exactly the same as that cruel and cold-hearted man. Wang finally lost her temper and threw the rosary at him.
"For you, I became a widow in the Qin family at such a young age. You don't even say you're filial, but you're still so angry at me, you unfilial son!"
Qin Xiaochen frowned and fought back without moving.
"For me? Now is not the time to strangle me to death and threaten Uncle San to marry you?"
boom!
Wang, who was originally furious, was now in a panic.
"You, what nonsense are you talking about? When has such a thing ever happened? How dare you tarnish your own mother's reputation?"
"Whether it's nonsense or not, everyone knows it in their hearts. I'm not that stupid, so why would mother waste her time trying to deceive me? There's no need to do useless things."
Qin Xiaochen's emotions were incredibly stable, much like his biological father. After all, he was the eldest son of a prominent family, raised as the head of the household. Maintaining composure was a skill they'd developed since childhood.
Wang knew her son better or worse, and knew that since he said that, he must have had evidence, so she stopped trying to argue and burst into tears.
"Brother Chen, it was all my fault because I was young and impulsive back then. I shouldn't have said those things just to fight for power with the other branches. But son, I definitely don't mean that. I wanted to make our lives in the Qin family better, so that I could raise you peacefully. Can you understand my difficulties?"
"able."
Qin Xiaochen looked at her, his tone calm.
"I've heard my grandmother explain the details, and I deeply sympathize with your situation. But your Wang family also knows that my third uncle married you on behalf of my father to bring good luck. Otherwise, how could my grandfather, a fourth-rank doctor, have become the prime minister of Qin at the time?
I heard that in order to marry you, my grandfather gave up a grain route to your family, which allowed your branch to successfully recognize the Sanhuai Wang clan. Is this true?
Seeing his mother speechless, the noble young man sighed and advised her.
"Most of the time, people in this world are just exchanging interests. Some do it for power, profit, and fame, while others do it for love, for others, and for themselves.
Since you have chosen to accept it, you should make it without regret. Children of wealthy families enjoy the family's wealth, so don't always think that you have nothing to give.
Just hold on to wealth and a good person.
It’s hard to have it all in this world, I hope mother will reflect on herself.”
Wang's lips moved several times, but she couldn't utter a single word of rebuttal. Her cold-hearted son was no different from the man who had died so long ago, his calmness chilling to the heart.
But she also felt very wronged.
As the youngest daughter in the family, she was doted on by her family. She never dreamed that a so-called good fate would ruin her happiness.
"But your father died a long time ago. I was the Qin family woman that Qin Sanlang married, so why couldn't I be with him? I was only 17 years old back then, and that tablet in the Qin family ancestral hall has trapped me for the rest of my life. How unfair..."
"Where is fairness in this world? Although you are the youngest daughter of a legitimate family, it is impossible for your grandparents not to teach you what it means to be a member of an aristocratic family. You are not the Qin family wife that your third uncle married back, you are the Qin family wife that your third uncle brought back for my father!"
Qin Xiaochen sighed.
"Uncle San has lived alone in his mansion for so many years, perhaps because he wanted to distance himself from us, mother and son. Moreover, even a junior like me heard about his love-hate relationship with Xu Jiamingzhu many years later. How could you not know, mother?"
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