Yang Ruoqing did not talk to Xiao Yu in this room. Instead, she and Xiao Yu went to the boudoir where Xiao Yu lived before she got married. They closed the door and talked about themselves.
Before closing the door of the room, Aunt Guihua was still uneasy and followed behind and begged Yang Ruoqing: "Qing'er, help Auntie persuade Xiaoyu and let her think more about good things. Don't get into trouble. You can't talk better than me." What I say works.”
Yang Ruoqing nodded, then closed the door and returned to the dressing table here.
Xiaoyu sat in front of the dressing table and raised her pale fingers, which were so thin that only the knuckles were left, and brushed the dressing table inch by inch.
"If there was a medicine in this world, drinking it would allow you to go back to before you got married with your current memories, to the time when you were still at home and a girl to be married, how great would that be!" Xiao Yu murmured. road.
"Qing'er, if I can get that medicine, I will get it no matter the cost. If I drink it, I will never go to Xiushui Town until I die. I will never see Ning Su again, let alone fall in love with him and marry him. "
"If it hadn't been for that, I wouldn't be in this embarrassing situation now. My son was implicated by me. Son, I'm sorry, mother..."
Xiaoyu lay on the dressing table sobbing, her thin shoulders hunched slightly, heartbroken.
Yang Ruoqing came behind Xiao Yu and gently stroked Xiao Yu's back. Xiao Yu turned around, hugged Yang Ruoqing's waist, and started to cry.
Yang Ruoqing stayed with Xiao Yu silently. When Xiao Yu was almost done crying, she handed over a handkerchief.
"I have cried all the people who should have cried, and all the grievances that need to be vented have been vented. Now stop crying. If you continue to cry, you will go blind," she said.
Xiaoyu sobbed and nodded slightly, "I'm really useless. If something goes wrong, I just cry and there's nothing I can do."
Yang Ruoqing said: "Now is not the time to feel sorry for yourself. Please cheer up and tell me the whole matter."
"Why was it that when I saw you last time, we agreed that you would protect your body, why are you so thin now?"
Xiaoyu lowered her eyes, her wet eyelashes trembled slightly, she twisted the handkerchief in her hands and said in a low voice: "The reason why I am so thin is not because of my own diet problems. You left some for me when you left. With that silver needle, my meals are safe.”
"The reason why I became so thin is because of these ten days."
"That damn wet nurse has no brain. She doesn't know if she was harmed by someone or if she received someone's favor. She was obviously sick and deliberately hid it."
"I still had to breastfeed my son after taking the medicine, which ended up hurting my son."
"In the first few days when my son got sick, the Ning family didn't allow me to see my son or accompany him. I was so anxious and endured that I became so thin."
"I want to write a letter to Ning Su and ask him to come back as soon as possible. Why won't our son come back even if he is deaf in one of his ears?"
"My mother-in-law forbids me from writing letters. She said there is a war in the south and she forbids me from writing letters to distract him."
"My mother-in-law said that Ning Su is not a doctor. Even if he comes back, he can't cure the child's ears. The family sent the child to Changhuaizhou to ask a famous doctor to treat the child's ears."
"I wanted to go to Changhuaizhou to accompany my son for ear treatment, but my mother-in-law wouldn't let me."
"That wet nurse was beaten more than ten times by my mother-in-law and she found a nurse to sell her. My mother-in-law said, since everything has happened, those who deserve punishment are being punished, and those who deserve treatment are being treated. Please tell me not to make a fuss! "
"Qing'er, am I making a fuss when I accompany my son to Changhuaizhou for ear treatment? Am I looking for trouble?"
Xiaoyu raised her head, looked at Yang Ruoqing with tearful eyes, and asked sadly.
Yang Ruoqing shook her head, "Of course not, you are the mother of a child, and it is only natural that you stay with your child."
This is the truth, but in the Ning family, Xiaoyu, as the child's real mother, has no power to argue with her husband's family.
Why?
This is not only because of Xiaoyu's background, but also because of the strict patriarchal system of this feudal society.
"Has the child been sent to Changhuaizhou now?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.
Xiaoyu nodded, "It's been five or six days since I sent him here, and no one has heard from my brother. I don't know how the child is doing."
Yang Ruoqing asked again: "Who are the people who accompany the children?"
Xiao Yu said: "My father-in-law and Ning Su's aunt, the two of them accompanied the child to Changhuaizhou and settled at the second sister Ning Su's house."
"That day I went to beg my mother-in-law to let me go to Changhuaizhou, but my mother-in-law wouldn't let me go."
"Last time, the second sister Ning Su had a tire slip because of me. My mother-in-law said that I went there because I was annoying, and scolded me, saying that I didn't understand the general situation."
"She said that she didn't think well before she let me become her daughter-in-law. She said that my cultivation, family background and character are not worthy of Ning Su..."
Hearing what Xiaoyu said, Yang Ruoqing frowned again and again.
Xiaoyu's voice then sounded: "My mother-in-law even scolded my parents, my brother and my sister-in-law. I knew that my brother and sister-in-law were in the wrong, so I didn't argue. When my mother-in-law scolded them, I still stood by and apologized. "
"But she actually dragged my parents into it and scolded me. I won't agree to this."
"My parents gave birth to me and raised me. Although my family is poor, I am also my parents' treasure."
"My mother-in-law is an elder. She would scold me to death without even saying a word. But my parents are the same generation as her. We are all biological parents. My parents are Ning Su's father-in-law and mother-in-law."
"My mother-in-law can't ridicule my parents like that, no, absolutely not!" Xiao Yu shook her head, with anger on her face.
"What? Did you contradict your mother-in-law?" Yang Ruoqing asked.
Xiaoyu nodded.
"I have been keeping my stubborn temper in check for the past few years, and I have carefully learned to be a big housewife. But the things my mother-in-law said about my parents were really intolerable to me. As soon as my stubborn temper came up, I immediately refuted her. I was speechless, my hands were shaking with anger, and I almost fainted," she said.
Yang Ruoqing smiled and gave a thumbs up to Xiaoyu: "Well done, this is the Xiaoyu I know."
"But, didn't you receive a greater punishment afterwards?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.
Xiaoyu smiled bitterly: "I knelt in the Ning family's Buddhist hall for three days and three nights, and was given two bowls of water every day."
Yang Ruoqing took a breath and looked at Xiaoyu, who looked like a paper figure again, "What's the end? How did I let you out?"
When asked about this, a weird smile appeared on Xiaoyu's face.
"I should be grateful to Ning Su's cousin, Miss Cao San. It was her who persuaded my mother-in-law to let me out," Xiao Yu said.
"Miss Cao San? Ning Su's cousin? Is she the one from Ning Su's aunt's family who is engaged to Ning Su?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.
Xiaoyu nodded.
"Isn't it her? Before Ning Su and I met, the elders of the Ning family and the Cao family both wanted to get married, and they reached a tacit understanding in their hearts. Miss Cao San also likes Ning Su, but this matter has not been formalized yet. Take the clear road."
