Song Shulan squatted in front of Song Jin Xiu, with tears falling heavily. Her pale face was full of panic: "But grandma, grandma has become like this, Tang Ning will not let me go."
She held Song Jinxiu's sleeves, her fingertips were trembling.
"And brother, she slandered brother so much that she even beat my grandmother out when she begged for mercy. Now people outside are probably talking about brother harming her life. She will destroy brother..."
The hands in Song Jinxiu's sleeves suddenly tightened, and his lips turned white as his jaw tightened.
"Brother, what should we do?"
Song Shulan lowered her head and lay on Song Jinxiu's hand, crying with fear.
Song Jinxiu wanted to comfort her and let her not be afraid, but when he thought of the rumors about the Song family and his own situation, all he could say was pale.
After the screen, Mrs. Song fell into a coma, and the room was filled with the sound of Song Shulan's low crying.
Song Jinxiu pursed her lips tighter and tighter. Just when she was about to speak, she suddenly heard the person in front of her sobbing: "Brother, it would have been great if Tang Ning had not come back. If she had not been rescued, she would have stayed here." How wonderful Qishan must be..."
"Shu Lan!" Song Jinxiu looked at her in shock, "What are you talking about?!"
Song Shulan cried so hard that her eyes were red: "I'm not talking nonsense, why did she come back, why..."
"Song Shulan!!" Song Jinxiu shouted sharply.
Song Shulan burst into tears, looking at the furious Song Jinxiu and crying: "I know it's too vicious for me to think like this, and I also know I shouldn't have such thoughts, but brother, she wants to destroy Song Tangning. You."
"Ever since Prince Cheng came back that day, I have had nightmares every night. I always dreamed that she destroyed the Song family. I dreamed that my uncle lost his official title, that my brother was spurned, and that the entire Song family was despised and ridiculed in the capital. Standing still, I woke up in fear, every time I was glad that it was just a nightmare, but today my grandmother was carried back bloody."
She cried until she sobbed,
"Brother, I'm afraid that those dreams will come true. I'm afraid that you will be destroyed by Tang Ning. She will not let us go. She will destroy the Song family..."
Song Jinxiu was frightened by these words, as if a wild beast had crashed into his heart, which shocked him. His face turned pale, and he curled up in his sleeves and trembled while holding his hands tightly, but he still forced himself to calm down and said:
"No, Tang Ning would not treat us like this. She is the daughter of the Song family, and I am her biological brother. She is not such a vicious person."
"Brother..."
"You don't have to say it, Tang Ning wouldn't do this to me!"
Song Jinxiu said angrily, "Tang Ning is extremely soft-hearted. She was just angry for a moment and was provoked by the eunuch named Xiao. In a few days, she will understand who her relatives are."
Tang Ning will not harm him!
Song Jinxiu didn't know whether he was persuading himself or admonishing Song Shulan. He said in a very serious tone to the girl in front of him: "Song Shulan, Tang Ning is your sister. You must not have any thoughts that you shouldn't have!"
Seeing Song Shulan shivering in fright, tears rolled down her pale face when she lowered her head.
His tone softened slightly: "I know you came up with this idea because you were afraid, but brother must not let you go the wrong way. The Song family still has father and brother, and we will protect you. Yes, Tang Ning was just confused for a moment, she will come back."
"Don't have evil thoughts and destroy yourself."
Song Shulan felt Song Jinxiu put his hand on her hair, and listening to his gentle admonishment, she choked and called "brother", but her downcast eyes were cold.
return?
She scoffed silently.
Song Jinxiu still hasn't understood that Song Tangning is cruel and will never reconcile with the Song family, but Song Shulan has never hoped that she can persuade Song Jinxiu to turn against Tangning.
She was very aware of the brother in front of her. He was a gentleman and cultivated himself strictly. He wished he had the rules engraved into his bones, but in reality he was extremely selfish.
His pale face at that moment, as well as the trembling curve of the hand on his knee when it tensed up, all showed that he didn't care at all about what Song Tangning did, as he said.
He was just deceiving himself and not wanting to admit that he was evil in his heart.
She just needs to plant the seeds and wait patiently.
If Tangning doesn't come back for a day, they will turn against each other sooner or later, and Song Jinxiu will understand sooner or later that only by destroying Song Tangning can he and the Song family be saved.
…
After all, the Song family invited a doctor. Song Tan hurried back with the Lu family. The doctor looked at it carefully and shook his head.
"The bones in the old lady's hand were badly broken, and the person who did it used clever force to shatter her wrist tendons..."
"What's the meaning?"
"The old lady's hand is useless."
Song Tan's face looked extremely ugly.
Song Jinxiu also had a look of confusion on his face: "How could it be useless? It's obviously just broken. Can't it just be continued?"
"It's not as simple as Mr. Song said."
The doctor of the Lu family said calmly: "The old lady is already old, and her muscles and bones cannot heal as easily as those of young people. Moreover, the person who did this deliberately wanted to cripple her and almost crushed her entire wrist bone."
"If you could have found a doctor who specializes in trauma to treat you in time when the accident happened, you might have been able to save a few points, so that the old lady's hand would not be completely disabled, at least it would be normal outside. But now that it has been delayed for too long, the broken The bone inserted into the broken tendon and injured the main artery, so if you want to stop the bleeding, you have to remove the bone fragments.”
"As soon as the broken bones are removed, the tendons and veins on the wrist are completely destroyed. Even if the Great Luo Immortal comes, the hand cannot be saved."
Song Jinxiu shook his body in disbelief.
Song Tan took a deep breath and asked the doctor, "Then my mother has other problems. Why has she been unconscious?"
"The old lady was injured and in unbearable pain. She was suffering from convulsions and high fever, and the bleeding was not stopping, so she fell into a coma. She is already old. If she can't survive this kind of suffering, I'm afraid..."
"Doctor Li, I know that you are the doctor of the Lu family, and your medical skills are no less than those of the Imperial Medical Office. I beg you to ensure that my mother recovers well no matter what."
Song Tan's expression changed, and his tone was very low.
"As long as you can save my mother, everyone in the Song family will definitely remember your kindness."
Then Dr. Li said: "Don't worry, Mr. Song, I will do my best. I will first prescribe a prescription for Mr. Song to take for people to take the medicine. I will use acupuncture to stabilize the old lady's symptoms, and first remove the bone fragments to stop the bleeding."
Song Tan quickly got a pen and ink and asked him to prescribe it. After getting the prescription, he quickly went out and walked to the front of the hospital.
"Steward Chen, take this prescription and go to the best medicine hall in the city to get the medicine immediately."
He paused while speaking, lowered his voice and said to the person standing in front of him,
"Find someone you don't know to go there. Don't use people from the mansion, and don't let anyone know that it's the Song family who is getting the medicine. Also, after the person you called arrives, give the prescription to the medicine hall under other excuses. The doctor will take a look at it, and if there are no problems before you come back to get the medicine, remember to do it more discreetly."
"Third Master?" Butler Chen was stunned for a moment.
Song Tan's voice was very low: "The Lu family may not take advantage of the chaos to muddy the waters."
The life and death of Mrs. Song is crucial to the future of the Song family's heirs. If she dies, everyone in the Song family will be worried. Naturally, they don't want anything to happen to Mrs. Song, but the Lu family is different.
Mrs. Song's life would be of no benefit to them. At most, she could earn some favors from the Song family. However, if Mrs. Song really died because Xiao Yan injured her, then Xiao Yan would be involved in a big problem, and the Lu family might not be unlucky. In order to deal with Xiao Yan, Hui would play tricks on the soup and medicine.
Butler Chen's expression changed instantly, and he quickly grabbed the prescription in his hand: "Don't worry, Third Master, I understand."
The housekeeper left in a hurry, and Song Jinxiu who followed him couldn't help but said: "Third uncle, the Lu family doesn't know how to do it. Shao Zheng and I are close friends..."
Shaozheng is Lu Zhinian's character.
Song Tan got angry when he heard this: "Then you were slandered by outsiders and when the Song family was suffering, did Lu Zhinian come to visit you once?"
Seeing his nephew's speechless look, he just felt extremely miserable.
"You and Tang Ning are brothers and sisters. She can watch your reputation be ruined and let others destroy your grandmother's hands. What do you think Lu Zhinian, an outsider, will do to you? He is the son of the Lu family and has been with you since elementary school. Song Jinxiu, a son of an aristocratic family who grew up putting family interests first, don't be naive."
Song Tan was still worried about Mrs. Song in the house, fearing that the doctor of the Lu family might do something.
He pushed away Song Jinxiu who was standing in front of him and said, "If you have nothing to do, just think about how to deal with the impeachment of Mr. Cao and others tomorrow morning. Don't stand here and be an eyesore."
Song Tan hurried into the room, leaving Song Jinxiu alone standing outside the door, frowning.
Duke Cao had already impeached him and his father yesterday, and even His Majesty had them punished in the palace until night, but the third uncle just said that there would be another impeachment tomorrow...
Song Jinxiu turned to look at Chang Sui standing next to him: "Yinquan, did something happen outside?"
"Mr. Lang..."
"Let me ask you, is there something going on outside?"
Yinquan hesitated for a moment, and when he saw Song Jinxiu's face became serious, he said in a low voice: "Someone saw what happened in Jiuyun Lane today. The young lady invited the imperial doctor to come over, but the old lady went to see the young lady but she was knocked unconscious. The matter has spread."
"Now people outside are saying that the husband did not succeed in murdering the young lady because he doted on his wife, and the Song family forced her to do so with filial piety. The husband and the old lady bullied the young lady when they saw that the second wife had no one to decide. They also said that the old lady When he failed to force the young lady to return home, he wanted to ruin her appearance and beat her until she vomited blood and fainted..."
Yinquan looked at Song Jinxiu's face and his voice became lower and lower.
"I went out earlier and found that there were a lot of people visiting our house. I also heard people talking on the nearby streets, saying that our Song family was mean and vicious, that the husband and the old lady were ruthless, and that, too, explain……"
"say what?"
"It is said that you deliberately abandoned the young lady on Qishan Mountain that day, just to kill her, and used the wife's help to seize the second house and property for the benefit of the Song family."
Song Jinxiu's eyes darkened and his body swayed.
"Mr. Lang!"
Yinquan was so frightened that he quickly supported him, "Don't be angry. These are all nonsense made by people outside. They made them up at random. How could you harm the little lady..."
Song Jinxiu listened to his persuasive words, but his face was still pale, and there was a faint smell of blood in his throat.
He knew that these were nonsense, and he had never wanted to kill Tang Ning, nor did he want to seize a second family property, but people outside didn't know.
Those rumors were like murderous blades, destroying the good reputation he had accumulated over the years, and no matter how false they were, they would become true over time. Even if they could be clarified in the future, his and the Song family's reputation would have been completely ruined. .
The words Song Shulan cried before suddenly appeared in Song Jinxiu's mind.
"Brother, Tang Ning even beat my grandmother. She won't let us go...she will destroy you and the Song family..."
"Why did she come back? Why didn't she stay in Qishan..."
If Tangning had stayed in Qishan, if she hadn't met Xiao Yan...
As soon as this thought arose, Song Jinxiu paused suddenly, his eyes widening in disbelief. His whole body seemed to have sunk into an ice cellar, and his whole body was stiff and cold.
he……
How could he...
How could he? !
Song Jinxiu seemed to be frightened by his own badness, turned around and walked out quickly.
"Langjun, Langjun, what's wrong with you?"
Behind him, Yinquan chased after him, but Song Jinxiu walked faster and faster, and even ended up running.
When the sound of wind filled his ears, Song Jinxiu tried desperately to get rid of the terrible thoughts in his mind, but the words "It would be great if Tang Ning stayed in Qishan" were like a tree taking root and piercing into the depths of his heart. , the branches grew quickly after being cut off.
If Tang Ning had not come back, his reputation would not be ruined.
If she had died in Qishan Mountain, her grandmother would not have lost her hand, and the Song family would not be in this situation.
Song Jinxiu's lips were pale, and she was trembling, trying to get rid of the things that were constantly rising in her heart, but those hazy things were accumulating more and more.
When he stumbled on the doorstep outside the courtyard, he sat down on the ground, looking at the mud-stained robe that was no longer white with a miserable expression, curling up and shivering.
Standing outside the verandah across a stone pillar, looking at Song Jinxiu who was in a state of embarrassment and crumbling, Song Shulan suddenly laughed.
It seemed that she didn't have to wait any longer.
…
Tang Ning had no idea what happened to Madam Song and the others after they returned. She was helplessly saying that she was going to hit Princess Cheng of the Song family with her eyes red with anger.
"I killed them!!"
"Hua Wu, Aunt Jiang, hurry up, stop my aunt quickly."
Hua Wu trotted to the door. Aunt Jiang was also helping, and finally blocked Princess Cheng back.
"Don't stop me, I have to destroy the Song family today!"
Princess Cheng was so angry that she was shaking all over. God knows how panicked she was when Grandma Jiang sent someone to tell her that Mrs. Song and the others had come to Jiuyun Lane.
She hurried over with people, but before she entered Jiuyun Lane, she heard that Song Tangning was beaten by the old godly woman of the Song family until she vomited blood.
At that moment, her vision went dark and she almost fainted.
"Who are they? They dare to bully you like this. If the Song family really loses their sister, the children of our Rong family will have no one to rely on, right?"
"That old pious woman from the Song family, I want to see which hand she hit you with. She was so brave that she dared to destroy your face!!"
How important is the appearance of a girl's mother-in-law? That old godly woman wanted to ruin Tang Ning.
Princess Cheng just wished she could tear Mrs. Song apart.
Tangning took a peek at Xiao Yan who was sitting not far away and said quickly: "The hand she hit me with is gone."
"Ah?" Princess Cheng was stunned angrily.
Aunt Jiang hurriedly stretched out her hand and dragged her princess back to the couch, then pushed her to sit on the couch and then said:
"My good princess, Governor Xiao has taught the Song family a lesson a long time ago, but he didn't tell them to go easy. They had just left when you came. Don't be impulsive and cause trouble. Stay calm and accompany the girls."
Princess Cheng was immediately dissatisfied: "I taught you a lesson, how did you teach me a lesson?"
Shouldn't it just be a few words of reprimand?
Mother Jiang naturally knew what her master was thinking, and she lowered her voice and said, "The lesson was terrible. Mrs. Song broke her hand and fainted in pain before being carried away. The eldest lady was so frightened that she almost went crazy."
Princess Cheng's eyes widened suddenly, and the next moment she turned to look at Xiao Yanshi and praised, "Well done!"
"The princess is too flattering. She is worried that Tang Ning has not left the Song family yet, so she keeps it a little bit."
Either because of that lady back then or because of Tang Ning, Xiao Yan was not indifferent to Princess Cheng.
Not only did Princess Cheng not feel that Xiao Yan's words were too vicious and arrogant, but she quite agreed: "These shameless people took advantage of Tang Ning's protection."
"It's okay. I'll come back to settle things after a while."
Princess Cheng nodded vigorously: "Director Xiao is right, sooner or later we will settle the accounts with them, but remember to take me with you next time."
Xiao Yan raised his lips: "Okay."
Only then did Princess Cheng smile.
Aunt Jiang: "..."
Princess, what's the matter with you? What about your gentle, quiet, dignified and elegant temperament? !
