Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 15 Eavesdropping on the Corner
Huo Huaiyu's question interrupted what Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Li were saying just now. Huo Mingzhu had already noticed that her grandmother was unhappy, but she still indulged Huo Huaiyu's words and deeds, as if she didn't realize that something was wrong.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li said with a little embarrassment: "The child Huaiyu has also grown up gradually. Looking at it today, he looks a little like Ajin. They are sisters after all. There is also an account in Yunxi's family letter to convey to my aunt and uncle." Greetings, how could you forget your little cousin?"

How could Huo Mingzhu fail to recognize that this was Li Shi's perfunctory words, if Huo Huaiyu was really mentioned in cousin Yunxi's family letter, it should only be written when she was around to remind her.Yun Xi has always been careless and careless, only studying the art of war in detail, and she has written many family letters on behalf of her.With the brother-sister friendship where she eats and lives with Yunxi, Huo Huaiyu would be too overreaching if she wanted to get involved!

However, Huo Huaiyu didn't realize it, and asked: "Auntie, when will the cousin return to court? I am bored at home all day, I really envy my sister who can stay in the border city for a long time and see all kinds of scenery! Those customs, cousin It would be great if you could tell me!"

"This..." Li didn't know how to answer.

"Yu'er, don't ask again..." Lin Ruyi hurriedly got up and scolded Huo Huaiyu angrily, but she didn't think it was too late. Mrs. Lin's face had already sunk down, she picked up the crutch beside her and slammed it on the ground heavily, annoyed He said incessantly: "The daughter in the boudoir should be well-educated, polite, gentle and virtuous, and she should be a young lady in a serious manner. This is right. Ru Yi, how did you teach your daughter? Do you think that the border town is Is it a paradise on earth? Or do you think it’s a joke for men to fight on the battlefield? My Lin family has defended our home and country for generations. There are too many men who died in battle. Some of them can’t even return to their hometown with their bones. Taste! Hmph!"

Mrs. Lin's face suddenly changed, and Huo Huaiyu was so frightened that she was dumbfounded. She just stood up and was about to admit her mistake to her grandmother, but she didn't expect her mother, Lin Ruyi, to slap her with a slap. With a loud slap, the whole room fell silent.

"Mother?" Huo Huaiyu covered her face in disbelief, and turned to look at Lin Ruyi. Lin Ruyi's face was flushed with anger, and tears had already flowed down. She didn't look at her, but said to Mrs. Lin: "Mother, I didn't teach Huaiyu well, let her be self-willed, arrogant and rude, if you want to punish, just punish me."

Huo Mingzhu originally hugged Huo Huaiyu who was beaten, but now she couldn't hold her anymore. Miss Huo saw her mother take over all the mistakes, but she didn't realize it was wrong at all. On what occasion, he stomped his feet and said, "Mom, you just beat me to death! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

She didn't really stay where she was and waited for Lin Ruyi to hit her. She covered her face and trotted outside.

"Huaiyu, come back!" Lin Ruyi turned to chase after her.

Huo Mingzhu hurriedly got up, helped Lin Ruyi up, and pretended to comfort her: "Mother, don't go, let me go, although Huaiyu is young, she still needs face, you really shouldn't hit her, She must be very sad, let me go and see."

"I still have the general knowledge." Mrs. Lin turned her head away, extremely disappointed with Huo Huaiyu, and there was no sign of retreat in her mouth.

Huo Mingzhu signaled to everyone, then chased them out.She might not really want to chase Huo Huaiyu, she walked around the mansion slowly, when it was almost time, she pulled a girl and asked, "Have you seen Miss Yu?"

The girl said: "Just now I saw Miss Yu running out of the house crying, as if she was wronged, the servants went to pull her, but they couldn't."

Huo Mingzhu then came to the door again, Lin Butler greeted her as soon as she saw her, and said: "Miss Ajin, that Miss Yu asked the coachman to take her back to the general's mansion first, I didn't dare to stop her, so I had to let her go, what happened?"

Huo Mingzhu's heart sank like water, and she sighed as her elder sister: "Uncle Zhong, that girl Huaiyu was spoiled by my mother, she just ran out after suffering some grievances, I have searched all over the Hou's mansion but have not seen her." She, alas, mother should be angry later."

"I see. If they are all as sensible as Miss Ajin, Second Miss will be relieved." Lin Zhong sighed.

"Well, since Huaiyu has gone back, I can only go in and tell my mother and grandmother, Uncle Zhong, please do your work." Huo Mingzhu said, and turned back to her grandmother's garden again.

Along the way, there were fewer and fewer traces of the maids. Huo Mingzhu felt strange, and just passed under the window when she heard a yelling sound, and her footsteps slowed down involuntarily——

"Mother, I am also your biological daughter, and I was born as a young lady of the Hou Mansion, but you are so eccentric and treat me like this in front of your sister-in-law and servants, where do you want me to put this face?!"

It was Lin Ruyi's voice, questioning and crying.

Huo Mingzhu didn't want to listen to the corner, but the gentle and virtuous Lin Ruyi, who always greeted people with a smile, had such an excited side. Huo Mingzhu faintly felt that she might hear some secrets that she didn't know before. She looked around and saw nothing. With the person at his side, he lowered his body and hid in the lush vegetation.

"Your mother, I am old, but I am not old and foolish!"

Grandmother's voice was also different from the past, obviously extremely dissatisfied with Lin Ruyi, her voice was trembling.

"Apart from your elder brother Cong Yue, my old woman has only two daughters, you and Ru Jin, but think about the scandalous things you did with your brother-in-law back then! If you hadn't had an affair with Huo Zhengde in the boudoir, your Will my elder sister die when she is seriously ill? A Jin, who is only two years old, and you still mention your face to me?! If you really have face, you should think about the Lin family and your sister!" Grandma was emotional Huo Mingzhu, who was squatting in the bushes, almost fell over when she confide the truth. Is there something wrong with her ears?What is grandmother talking about?
"Your sister died of illness, but you were pregnant before she got married. I discussed with your brother and had to marry you into the Huo family. Obviously, I was taking care of a pair of widows and weak girls in the Huo family for your sister. In secret, I was just covering up for you! It's good for you, I became the general's wife as I wished, gave birth to a little daughter, and sent your sister's weak girl to the border town! How can you be so cruel?!"

"It's not my intention to send Mingzhu to the border town! It's my mother-in-law who asked someone to make a fortune telling her that Zhu's fate is filled with evil spirits. If she is kept by my side, the entire Huo family may suffer disaster. Otherwise, how could I send my sister's child away?" These years, I love her like my own flesh and blood. How can I not personally arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation for her? Even her food, clothing and medicine in the border town are arranged by me personally. How could my mother think that I abused my sister's flesh and blood?!" Lin Ru Yi retorted, her words were already crying, she refused to mention those scandals.

"Forget it! Forget it! If you really feel sorry for Ah Jin, my old lady won't ask for anything from you. You can do a big ceremony for her, and invite all your relatives and friends to come to watch the ceremony, and choose a good marriage for her. As a mother, do it Only for this reason can I be sincere! When the time comes, my old woman will be buried, so I can give your sister an explanation!"

"Mother, you trust me..."

What did they say later, Huo Mingzhu couldn't hear a word, just repeating these truths like a bolt from the blue in her mind.It turned out that her mother did not die of infatuation, but because she learned that her sister had an affair with her husband when she was seriously ill!It turned out that it was not because she was weak that she needed to be raised in a border town, but because her grandmother and father made a fortune for her, and with the words of a magician, she was given ten years of lonely and helpless life in a border town!It turned out that the sudden loss of family affection and love betrayal that she thought in her previous life had been foreshadowed early in the morning, but she was too stupid to be kept in the dark until her death!
Huo Mingzhu's hand tightly grabbed a bunch of thorny flower branches in front of her, and she didn't even notice it piercing into the flesh—the hatred she climbed up from hell couldn't be gathered in the ordinary food of the world, and she was still thinking about it. Was it a nightmare created out of nothing, but this time, her hatred suddenly soared to the peak!

What kind of loving mother and younger sister are innocent?all fake!

The upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked. With Lin Ruyi's example of despicable and filthy husband who wins his sister, how can he fail to raise Huo Huaiyu, who is unmarried and pregnant, who wins the love of others!
Huo Mingzhu's eyes were bloodshot with hatred, she wanted them to pay the price!She will let Lin Ruyi and Huo Zhengde know that they will be punished for their shameful deeds!God will not repay, she will repay!
She wants the whole Huo family and the man who betrayed her to be buried with her mother!

(End of this chapter)