To be a Virtuous Wife

Chapter Ninety Two "Karma"

Chapter Ninety Two Karma

"Zhuzi," Yao Xi's eyes were red as she helped Qu Yue Su sit up on the bed. Then she turned to bring over the medicine bowl, which was steaming due to the temperature of its contents, "Drink the medicine."

Qu Yue Su leaned weakly against the headboard. As she took the medicine bowl, she saw Yao Xi's burned hands and grimaced: "It's me who has dragged you down. All these years you stayed with me, when did you ever have to do this?" Even if she didn't see it with her eyes, she knew that the medicine had been brewed by Yao Xi on her own. Now that wang ye didn't come to her rooms, and wang fei targeted her at every occasion, even the servants in her yard dared to steal and cut corners, pointing at the mulberry and cursing the locust tree, much less the kitchen people.

"Zhuzi, what are you saying?" Yao Xi forced a smile and hid her burnt hand back into her sleeve, "Drink the medicine and after a night, it will all get better." Thinking about what Chief Steward He had just said, she almost couldn't keep the smile up. Now that even wang ye wasn't willing to help zhuzhi, how would they live?

Qu Yue Su finished the medicine in a few mouthfuls. Seeing Yao Xi's state, she sighed: "Yao Xi, do you remember my father's birthday banquet held five years ago?"

Yao Xi took the empty bowl from Qu Yue Su's hand and minutely shook her head.

"It's normal that you don't remember, but it remains fresh in my memory," Qu Yue Su grimaced, "That year, I accidentally broke a porcelain in Father's room. That day was Father's birthday and breaking something was unlucky. I was very scared and purposefully got someone to lure da jie into father's room ... ..."

When she heard, Yao Xi remembered. She recalled that after lao ye's birthday, he had been so angry that he slapped da xiaojie on her face and sentenced her to stand in the yard for a whole night. After that, da xiaojie became seriously ill. Furen wouldn't get a doctor to see da xiaojie. If it hadn't been that the Tian Family had sent someone to deliver something to da xiaojie, da xiaojie probably would have died that year. She hadn't thought that the matter had been connected to zhuzi, and even more, she hadn't thought that her zhuzi would have such tactics at such a young age. She hesitated before remarking, "Nubi remembers that da xiaojie nearly died that year."

"Yes, almost gone. At that time, I was afraid and guilty," she coughed, "But she lived. If she hadn't lived, then it would have been me who would've married into Duan Wang Fu."

Yao Xi's hand, which held the bowl, shook. She looked at the sickly complexion of zhuzi and supported her to lie down and tucked the blanket in. She comforted: "Zhuzi, you're sick, don't talk nonsense. Nubi will go see if there is something to eat." As she came out of the room, she released a long breath. She still remembered Mu Jin painstakingly begging zhuzi to beg furen to send for a doctor.

At that time, zhuzi's face was full of helplessness, and even used the reason of filial piety to refuse Mu Jin. Afterwards, zhuzi had sent her to give some pills to da xiaojie and never mentioned it again. She had never expected the truth of the matter was actually this. She rubbed her arms, feeling cold in the hot summer day.

"Isn't that Yao Xi?" A yahuan wearing green saw Yao Xi come out and hollered, "Is Qu ce fei well? Our zhuzi has missed her."

"Not well yet, thanks to yiniang for thinking of her." Yao Xi's smile wasn't pretty. This yahuan was one who served another yiniang. Usually, they didn't have much interaction. But now, even a personal yahuan of a yiniang could mock zhuzi.

"Such a hot day, it's such a pain to endure," The yahuan's tone suddenly changed, "I heard that when the Empress hadn't yet married, she had been abused by her family, don't you think ...... what it's like now, isn't it karma?"