Chapter 178 Meng's Mother Has Been Found
It is dusk and the golden crow is about to fall.
Dong Hua lowered her eyes to look at her master who was kneeling in front of the low table, coughed twice, and reminded him:
"Your Highness, the tea is spilling."
Hearing the voice, Feng Shu suddenly pulled back his thoughts, lowered his head to look at the table, and saw that the cup was filled with tea and even overflowed with a lot of tea.
A trace of discomfort flashed across his face. He reached out to take the cloth on the table and slowly dipped it in the tea, then asked:
"I remember that the Hanlin Academy was on duty at twilight hour, and Feng Shi had been gone for half an hour. Why is he still nowhere to be seen?"
Dong Hua turned her head to look at the sky outside the window, bent down slightly and approached Feng Shu, and asked tentatively:
"Then we need to send someone to take a look."
Feng Shu pursed her lips, and before she could answer, she heard footsteps coming from outside, followed by two knocks on the door.
His breathing stagnated, he looked up at the wide-open door, and said softly:
"Come in."
Outside the door.
Hearing this, Su Yuan nodded slightly to Feng Shi who was leading him over, and then walked into the house with a slightly hurried pace.
She stopped and stood beside Feng Shu, leaned over and saluted, and whispered:
"Your subordinate greets the Fifth Prince."
Feng Shu raised his head slightly to glance at the woman in official robes who was lowering her head, and clenched and unclenched his hands under the wide sleeves.
With an imperceptible tremor in his voice, he said "Stand up" and then raised his arm and pointed to the opposite side:
"Master Su, please sit down."
Su Yuan shook his head, raised his eyes to look at Feng Shu's profile, and asked with a little more anxiety in his words:
"No need to sit down. Fifth Prince, can you take me to see that person?"
Just after finishing my shift today, a woman in black came in, claiming to be Feng Shu's secret guard, and said she had news about my mother-in-law.
At first she didn't quite believe it, and followed with the idea of giving it a try. Unexpectedly, it was Feng Shu himself. It seemed that this matter was most likely true.
After all, there is no grudge between the two of them, so there is no need for him to lie to himself, right?
But there is one thing.
She still needs to confirm whether it is really him.
Feng Shu heard that she was in a hurry to go see someone, so he reached out his hand and let Dong Hua help him stand up. He quickly glanced at the woman with a warm look, and said in a cold and gentle voice:
"Come with me."
Side yard, side room.
As soon as Su Yuan entered the room, he saw a person wrapped in gauze lying on the bed.
Seeing this, she frowned, took a few quick steps to the bed, and looked at the woman's face.
I saw a middle-aged woman lying on the bed with her head tilted back. Her two sunken eyes were lifeless, her cheeks were sunken, and her whole body was skinny, almost like a skeleton.
To be honest, if Su Yuan hadn't had a photographic memory and hadn't compared the woman on the bed with her memory several times, she wouldn't have dared to confirm that this person was actually...Meng Mu!
It’s not her fault.
The main thing is that this man has become very thin and his skin color is completely different from before.
People say that eyes are the windows to the soul. In her memory, Meng Mu's eyes always sparkled with shrewdness, but now they are like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless.
And the other side.
Perhaps he sensed the inquiring gaze.
Mother Meng's eyelashes trembled, and her numb eyes turned slightly towards the bed, and the moment her gaze met Su Yuan's face.
Her pupils suddenly dilated, a ray of hope shone in her eyes, and her toothless mouth murmured, making a moaning sound:
"Uh, uh..."
Hearing the voice, Su Yuan frowned slightly and raised her hand to make a stop gesture to Meng's mother.
Then he turned around and looked at Feng Shu who had followed him and was standing at the door. He bowed to the man gratefully:
"Thank you for saving my life, Your Highness. I have confirmed that she is indeed my mother-in-law."
After that, her lips gradually straightened and she said worriedly:
"I just don't know how my mother-in-law is doing now, and what's wrong with her throat?"
Feng Shu frowned slightly and repeated to the woman the condition that Dong Hua had described.
Then he took out a certificate wrapped in a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Su Yuan. He glanced at Meng Mu, who was wrapped like a mummy on the bed, and sighed:
"This is evidence I found on your mother-in-law. I accidentally rescued her in the back hills yesterday morning. Because it was too late last night, I didn't send anyone to inform you."
"Oh..., the imperial physician who treated her said that it is not easy to move the patient now. Her vocal cords are damaged and she needs to be healed for a while. If Lord Su is at ease, please place her with me."
After hearing the situation, Su Yuan unfolded the yellowed and bloody certificate, read it quickly, folded it several times and put it in his sleeve.
Then he nodded and said "yeah", turned around and went back to the bedside, patted Meng Mu's arm with his palm, and said gently:
"Mother-in-law, I understand what you want to say. Now that you can't speak, you should take good care of yourself. When you are almost recovered, I will take you to do what you want to do."
On the bed, Meng's mother's eyes were now a little more lively, no longer as lifeless as at the beginning.
After hearing Su Yuan's words, she glanced at the woman's official uniform, a hint of hope emerged in her eyes, and she nodded imperceptibly.
——
The next day, after finishing work.
Su Yuan returned to the Su Mansion at dusk. Before he went to find Meng Yunqiao to tell her the good news that Meng's mother had been found, he saw Ji Shian in the study.
Su Yuan raised his eyebrows, walked to the couch opposite the woman and sat down, asking:
"Why are you here?"
Ji Shian looked up at her, held a porcelain jar in both hands and handed it to her, whispering:
"My mother and father came to the capital today and brought you the ashes collected from the Meng family in Tongcheng. They knew you were off duty, so they sent me to deliver them without stopping."
After saying this, she sighed and added:
"But there were too many people at the time, so my mother ordered people to deal with it secretly. In order not to cause a big commotion, they were gathered together and burned. If we were to deal with them individually, we really can't tell them apart now."
Su Yuan shook his head, reached out to take the porcelain jar and placed it on the side of the couch, and said softly:
"I am already very grateful that Your Highness can collect their bodies. It doesn't matter if they are complete or not. It is better than leaving them outside to be eaten by wild beasts."
After that, she turned her head to look at the sky outside the window, her eyes moved slightly, and she smiled faintly:
"It's getting late. I'm sorry to bother you making this trip today. I'll take you out of the house! Um... and by the way, tell the prince that I'll visit him another day when I'm free."
Ji Shian glanced at the porcelain jar that Su Yuan placed in the corner, and with a light sigh, he reminded:
"If you are busy, you don't have to visit for the time being. My mother told me when I came here that such a big thing has happened in the Meng family, and you, as a son's wife, naturally cannot stay out of it."
"She originally wanted to go to Beijing to arrange a wedding for you and Qiu Bai. It's okay to wait for a while. As for the wedding process, she has asked someone to prepare it first, and is waiting for you, her future son-in-law, to say when to hold it."
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