Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: Da Qiao doesn't want to be a widow anymore

Chapter 286 Partiality
Old Madam Xun followed Qiao Wei's gaze and saw the half-opened sutra on the table. "I was just flipping through it when I had nothing to do. You definitely don't have your copy of 'Essential Techniques' with you. It's really too much trouble to go all the way from Wu County just for a sutra.

Besides, I am old now and my eyesight is a little blurry. I can't see such small words clearly. Don't waste your kindness."

Qiao Wei was not going to give up. "Since the characters are too small, why not re-copy them in larger characters?" Qiao Wei took the opportunity to recommend Qiao Rong. "Yong'er's handwriting is pretty good. She has nothing to do in the room. If the old lady doesn't mind, why not let Rong'er come to the old lady's room and re-copy the sutra for you while chatting with you to relieve your boredom!"

Old Madam Xun knew that Qiao Wei was looking for a support for Qiao Rong. She went to such great lengths to plan this. It must be because she, an outsider, had seen through some of the dirty tricks between the sisters of the Gu family and wanted Qiao Rong to come to her place to hide.

"What you said is a good idea." Although Old Madam Xun didn't know Qiao Rong's personality, she was a descendant of the Zhou family after all, so it was her duty to take care of her. "Then I will be polite and use Xiao Qiao."

"She is a junior, and it is her honor that you look up to her. If she can win face in front of you and look forward to the birth of the baby in her belly in the future, the old lady will have to be more partial to her!" Qiao Wei said with a smile.

Old Madam Xun was so coaxed that she couldn't close her mouth. "No wonder your little master is so sweet and endearing. I thought Zhongmou was not such a smooth-talking and pleasing person before. It seems that he has inherited it from you, his mother."

"I'm not being glib. I'm really grateful for the old lady's care. Besides, it's the old lady who's been troubled and worked so hard. My few words of thanks are not enough!"

After Qiao Wei left Zhou's house, he looked back at the plaque on the door of Zhou's house and murmured, "This arrangement should be foolproof!"

She should warn where necessary, win over where necessary, and make arrangements where necessary. This is all she can do now.

Sun An sat in the carriage and gently covered Sun Deng with a thin blanket. "I am still quite envious of Sister Qiao. She has a sister who thinks for her like this."

"You sound sour. Don't I have any plans for you?" Qiao Wei felt that Sun An's words were a little unfair. "I brought you with me because I was planning for you."

"I'm not talking about you, sister-in-law." Sun An was thinking about himself, "I have lived in my uncle's house since I was a child, and I am not familiar with my two elder sisters. My mother doesn't like them, so naturally she doesn't like me playing with them.

I finally met Xie Chunfu, and I sincerely regarded her as a sister, but I didn't expect someone to stab me in the back."

Sun An had to stay with Qiao Wei because of Sun Quan's teachings before, but after spending these days together, Sun An gradually understood what it felt like for someone to truly treat another person well.

It was not enough to simply give her some pearl hairpins and jewelry, or to accompany her to complain. Qiao Wei kept her by his side to give her lessons, arranged for Yuan Langlang to teach her skills, supported her wishes and gave her the opportunity to go to the battlefield to show her strengths.

The things that her mother didn't teach her in those years are now taught by Qiao Wei and Sister Yuan.

But she knew in her heart that if it weren't for Brother Zhong, Qiao Wei wouldn't have gone to so much trouble, and Qiao Wei's treatment of Qiao Rong was different.

Comparing the two, Sun An hated Xie Chunfu who deceived him even more in his heart. He even gritted his teeth when he mentioned the name Xie Chunfu. "When I think about having to live under the same roof with her for the rest of my life, I feel sick, just like how Sister Gu hated Mrs. Gu."

When Sun An said this, she looked thoughtful. Qiao Wei's heart was alarmed and she whispered, "Don't learn Madam Gu's methods. Her undisguised suppression will only give people excuses. You are the daughter of the Sun family, so you should act uprightly. These bright hands should not be tainted with unnecessary charges." Seeing Qiao Wei's nervous look, Sun An laughed instead, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I won't learn."

Even if I want to learn, I won't follow this idiot's method and get myself into trouble.

Qiao Wei could not stay in Shu County for too long, so he set off back to Wan County the next day.

When she left Wu County and went to Baishishan, she used the excuse that her mother was not in good health. After arriving in Shu County, Sun Quan sent someone to deliver a letter saying that Madam Qiao's health was really not good.

Although Qiao Wei was somewhat dissatisfied with Qiao's mother, he still rushed to the Qiao family in Wan County to see how Qiao's mother was doing.

"What happened to my mother?" Qiao Rui received Qiao Wei's letter early in the morning. He calculated the time and waited at the door of the house early. Doctor Zhang also followed him into the Qiao family's house.

Qiao Rui seemed to be in a dilemma, not knowing how to start. "Didn't my younger brother get married a few days ago? As we were still in mourning, it was not convenient for my mother and I to go, so we asked the servants in the mansion to go and deliver the gifts. When the servants came back, they said that the people in our family spoke very rudely. After my mother heard it, she was so angry that she fainted.

This is what happened after I woke up... I couldn't speak clearly, and my eyes... weren't right."

Qiao Wei felt that the symptoms were somewhat familiar and had some bad guesses in his mind.

When Qiao Wei met Qiao's mother, the situation seemed worse than she had expected. The description of her unclear speech and strange eyes was obviously an understatement.

When Qiao's mother saw Qiao Wei, she struggled to get up from the bed, but she could only look at her with sidelong eyes, making "oh oh oh" sounds constantly from her mouth, and her hand tremblingly raised from the quilt and pointed in the direction of Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei quickly stepped forward and held the old lady's hand, "Mom, I'm here."

Qiao's mother's eyes were gray and cloudy, but her eye sockets were full of tears. She opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word. Only a series of "Oh oh ah ah" could be heard, which showed her anxiety.

Qiao Wei has tried very hard to understand what Qiao's mother wanted to express, but no matter how she guessed, Qiao's mother could not give a clear feedback, so Qiao Wei had no way of knowing whether her guess was right or wrong.

Qiao Wei sighed and asked Doctor Zhang to come in and check Qiao's mother's pulse. He stood up and walked to the outer room to ask Qiao Rui, "What did you say to make mother so anxious?"

Qiao Rui carefully looked at Qiao Wei's expression and did not dare to answer easily.

Instead, a woman dressed as a woman beside him said for him, "It's because those old ladies in our family have been bullying our old lady, saying that her daughter was given away to someone else to sleep with for nothing, and she didn't even earn any benefit for her family..."