Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 17
In the past, Huo Mingzhu always acted like a soft persimmon and let them handle her without hesitation. Now she just followed Lin Ruyi's wishes, frowned and blamed herself: "Mother, my injury is not a problem, but Huaiyu , I am worried that something will happen to her, Uncle Zhong said that she got into the carriage and left, and I don't know if she has returned home, let's go back and have a look!"

"Okay!" Lin Ruyi responded too quickly, and when she realized that she was too anxious, she hurriedly looked at Huo Mingzhu, but Huo Mingzhu's expression was very open, and her eyes were unusually soft, and she didn't mean to blame her at all.

Lin Ruyi felt embarrassed instead, holding Huo Mingzhu's hand and said: "Oh, Mingzhu, you have always loved Huaiyu the most, even more than me as a mother. It is true that the eldest sister is like a mother. Yes. Then let's go and tell your grandmother, she wanted to see you for a long time, and she just sat for a while and left, I'm afraid it's not good."

After finishing speaking, he took Huo Mingzhu into the threshold and said goodbye to Mrs. Lin.

The grandmother's attitude was still lukewarm, and she ignored Lin Ruyi, she just patted Huo Mingzhu's hand, and sighed: "Ah Jin, it's your first day back in Beijing, according to the rules, grandmother shouldn't stay You lived in the Lin Mansion. How about this, you go back with your mother first, and when your father comes back, tidy up the household chores, and then come to have a good talk with grandma."

Huo Mingzhu finally understood why her grandmother always favored her so much in the past and present, and the old man's guilt and pity were all given to her alone. Seeing her, she must have thought of her dead mother, Rujin.

And Huo Mingzhu finally understood why Lin Ruyi was not as comfortable in front of her grandmother as she was in front of her mother-in-law, because Lin Ruyi had a lot of guilt and dirty thoughts hidden in her heart, and even her death could not make up for the pain of a mother who lost her daughter , and can't erase the dirty things I did in the past...

Huo Huaiyu was wronged, and took the spacious carriage away in a chic manner. Lin Ruyi obviously didn't want to stay in the mansion for a moment, and didn't tell the butler to send them off in the sedan chair of the Hou Mansion, so she didn't hesitate to ride in the same sedan chair with Huo Mingzhu.

The sedan chair was narrow, so it was inevitable that there would be some shaking. Huo Mingzhu was always observing Lin Ruyi's face—it was always pale and bloodless, and it was obvious that she was worried about what her grandmother said just now.

Huo Mingzhu pretended to be ignorant and asked: "Mother, your complexion is a bit bad, are you feeling unwell?"

She asked hypocritically, with her daughter's extreme concern mixed in her tone.

Lin Ruyi turned her head to look into her eyes, but she didn't meet her eyes. She rubbed her forehead with a dry smile and said, "It's okay, I'm probably a little tired..." She was afraid that Huo Mingzhu might misunderstand her, so she hurriedly explained: "Mingzhu, if you can come back, the mother can sleep peacefully tonight. The child is outside, and the mother is always uneasy. If there is any trouble, she will think that something has happened. Sigh, you are not a mother yet, probably not understandable."

Huo Mingzhu pretended to blame herself: "It's all because of my daughter's unfilial piety, and my mother has been thinking about it for ten years. If I had known that my mother would not sleep well because of this, my daughter should have taken care of herself and returned to you."

Lin Ruyi was a little silent when she said a word. After all, she was born as a young lady and had been a mistress for more than ten years. She calmly stroked Huo Mingzhu's head and smiled, "Good boy, haven't you come back yet? Before you get married, you can always be by your mother's side."

Huo Mingzhu and Lin Ruyi were perfunctory all the way, laughter came from the sedan chair from time to time, giving people the impression that the mother and daughter are harmonious, and the young lady is better than her own daughter.

After returning to the General's Mansion, Lin Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the carriage parked in front of the door, and asked the servant at the door, "Has Second Miss come back?"

"Mrs. back, I'm back."

Huo Mingzhu sneered inwardly, Huo Huaiyu is really a child after all, she ran home whenever she was wronged, and she refused to cause trouble. It can be seen that Lin Ruyi and Huo Zhengde are quite strict with this daughter on weekdays , never let her go like this.

"Mingzhu, I'm going to have a look at Huaiyu, this girl has a bad temper, maybe she's smashing things in the house. Your feet are inconvenient, go back to Chenxiang Garden first, and I'll go there later when the imperial physician arrives." Lin Ruyi and Huo Mingzhu broke up after entering the mansion, and explained it angrily.

Huo Mingzhu smiled indisputably: "Okay."

Watching Lin Ruyi leave anxiously, Huo Mingzhu returned to Chenxiang Garden with Sulu's support, and after a short rest, she heard strange footsteps outside, mixed with a male voice that she hated, getting closer .

"Doctor Liu, this way please."

It was her father Huo Zhengde.

(End of this chapter)