Chapter 943 - Unbearable Truth
Chapter 943 Unbearable Truth
“Why… why do I have to meet this person?” Under the influence of Madam Di, Qin Yuru unconsciously asked in a low and trembling voice.
In fact, Qin Yuru didn’t just come back to complain to Madam Di. Her real purpose was to get Madam Di’s help.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have come back to the General’s Mansion!
“Mo-Mother, who is this person?”
She tightly held the stuff wrapped in a handkerchief Madam Di had just given her and fixed her eyes on Madam Di, while in her mind flashed every word from Countess Yong and Old Madam Di’s conversation on which she eavesdropped last night.
“Mother, I want to get her out of our family!” said Countess Yong in a sharp voice, which was completely different from her usual generous and decent one.
“She is your younger sister’s biological daughter. How can you do this?” Old Madam said sadly, “Even though you don’t care about your sister’s feelings, you need to consider Qin Huaiyong. The Emperor thinks highly of him and will send him to Xu State soon. If Di Yan divorces Yuru now, our family must estrange from hers, which means burning Yan’er’s bridges!”
“Mother, what are you worried about? Qin Yuru is just a bastard. If General Qin makes a punitive expedition against us, I’ll make it public. At that time, he hastily married Madam Di to cover her premarital pregnancy, didn’t he?” said Countess Yong in an angry and harsh tone.
“You… How can you say that…”
“Why can’t I say that? Mother, all the people in our mansion have been living an unpeaceful life because of her! What a scourge she is! Are you going to keep taking care of that bastard until all of us are tortured to death?” Countess Yong’s voice became angrier and angrier.
“She is not a bastard!” Old Madam retorted with great determination.
“Isn’t she? Then, why didn’t the guy show up and marry Madam Di at that time? He made her pregnant and then disappeared!” said Countess Yong in a vulgar voice like a termagant in the marketplace, without any dignity of an aristocratic family. That showed how much she hated Qin Yuru.
“She… she had no other choices at that time… The guy… had… had a wife…” Old Madam argued for Madam Di.
“Sister-in-law had no other choices? You must be joking, Mother. If General Qin hadn’t married her, she would have secretly given birth to Qin Yuru in our Duke Yong’s Mansion, wouldn’t she? As the old saying, like parents, like daughter! How can Qin Yuru be a good woman if she has bad parents?” Countess Yong sneered and cursed.
“Don’t talk nonsense… Her biological father is also from a distinguished family…” Old Madam felt embarrassed and rebuked her.
“Distinguished family member? What kind of distinguished man would do such a disreputable thing like that? If he is from an aristocratic family, why didn’t he bring Sister-in-law back to his mansion? Sister-in-law might be willing to be even a concubine!” Countess Yong sneered relentlessly.
At first, Countess Yong actually knew nothing about it. She didn’t dare to ask too much about her spoiled sister-in-law at that time. After all, she had just married into Duke Yong’s Mansion. Moreover, Old Madam Di doted on her sister-in-law. But later, after knowing about Madam Di’s hasty marriage with Qin Huaiyong, Countess Yong began to regard Madam Di as an immoral woman, who had to marry Qin Huaiyong after having sex with another man.
Qin’s Mansion was not in power at that time. At first, Duke Yong’s Mansion wanted to break off the engagement between Madam Di and Qin Huaiyong. However, they had no choice but to let them marry.
After Madam Di got married, she gave birth to Qin Yuru “in her early pregnancy”.
Actually, it was not a premature birth but a full-term normal delivery. It was a lie to trick Qin Huaiyong.
Countess Yong didn’t know who Qin Yuru’s biological father was.
“You… you’d better not ask…” Old Madam Di shook her head.
“How can you still keep it a secret in such a situation? It might help us reverse our downward situation if you make it public!” said Countess Yong. In the beginning, she didn’t intend to dig it out because, in her previous conversation with Duke Yong, she seemed to know that Madam Di’s lover was not an ordinary person. However, she wanted to catch every chance now.
She would do anything as long as Di Yan could get his title back!
“I… I…”
“Mother, just tell me whether that person can help us or not. Does he have a good reputation? You don’t want to see Yan’er lose everything, do you? Yan’er has never been a good scholar. If he loses his title, our mansion will fall and we will be no different from the ordinary people outside!” Countess Yong burst into tears.
“I… I…” Old Madam Di couldn’t speak clearly.
“Mother, please! If that guy can help us, let Sister-in-law ask him for help! If he can’t, I won’t keep Yuru as my daughter-in-law. Yan’er must divorce her and marry another woman from a noble family. In such cases, Yan’er might get a promotion with the help of his new wife’s family…”
Qin Yuru couldn’t hear what Countess Yong said later. In the whole process of eavesdropping on them, Qin Yuru could only hear some broken sentences, but she could understand them and find the big secret about herself.
She was not Qin Huaiyong’s biological daughter! Her mother had sex with another man and got pregnant with her before marrying Qin Huaiyong! Moreover, her biological father might be powerful enough to make Countess Yong compromise. “If that is the case, I don’t mind changing my father.”
Anyway, Qin Huaiyong had never paid attention to her.
The most important thing now was to find the person. Her maternal grandmother would definitely not tell her. That was why she came home and saw her mother, Madam Di. “Since she has given birth to me, she has to be responsible for me. I can’t divorce Di Yan. How can I become a divorced woman and let him seek another way out…”
“Yuru… Yuru…” Qin Yuru didn’t wake up from the memory of last night until Madam Di shook her. When she was looking at Madam Di’s gaunt face, a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes. “With such a mother, it is no wonder that I have fallen into such a situation. It must be that I suffer these to pay for her fault!”
“Go… to find him… He is your… father…” said Madam Di. She had kept it in her heart for years, and she had thought that she would never have a chance to say it out.
“Qin Huaiyong no longer takes notice of me, only trying hard to keep me alive for the sake of Duke Yong’s Mansion. How can I expect a better life when Duke Yong’s Mansion is declining?” Madam Di thought.
“Go… go to tell him… to warn your uncle…” Madam Di gnashed her teeth with hatred in her eyes. “If they dare to treat you like that again… your biological father will avenge you…”
Madam Di had thought that her parents’ home was her reliable backup. But she realized that it was such a naive notion after witnessing what her daughter had suffered. Duke Yong’s Mansion intended to put all the blame on her and her daughter!
“How can I let them have their way!”
“Does Father have ascendancy over them?” Qin Yuru was so excited that her eyes were shining after hearing Madam Di’s confident words. “My father is actually a powerful man, isn’t he? He didn’t marry Mother because he was not allowed at that time. If that’s the case, I might become a Miss of a bigger aristocratic family in the future. Compared with it, the declining Duke Yong’s Mansion is nothing!”
Qin Yuru dreamt of seeing Di Yan kneel in front of her, beg her not to leave, and beat his other concubines to death or sell them to the dirtiest place!
Qin Yuru’s eyes lit up when she was thinking of that.
“If so, I am very willing to call him Father!”
“No, no! You, you go to Grand Prince’s Mansion… to… find… Fourth Master Chu…” said Madam Di with difficulty.
“The fourth lineal son of Old Grand Prince?” Qin Yuru asked in a trembling voice.
There was no excitement in her tone anymore. Instead, there was rage, hopelessness and hatred. It was Grand Prince’s fourth son, Chu Huairan!
Everyone knew that Chu Huairan was the most famous playboy in the capital city.
When it came to Old Grand Prince, he was one of the well-known figures in the capital city, as the Emperor’s senior uncle. However, he was just a powerless prince and never entered the Imperial Court.
So Grand Prince’s Mansion was just speciously powerful. Chu Huairan was even such a playboy that he would bring different women home and send them away when he was weary of them. As long as Fourth Master Chu was mentioned in the talk, everyone would shake his head and feel sorry for his incompetence. “He has never done anything agreeable.
“He is a typical example to explain what a loafer is!
“What a waste of his identity as a royal family member!”
“Just go!” Madam Di urged Qin Yuru anxiously. Since she had uncovered the secret, she certainly hoped that Qin Yuru could take advantage of it as soon as possible in case any incident happened.
“Mother… are you sure that it will work?” Qin Yuru was not satisfied and looked at Madam Di coldly.
“Yes, of course! Just go!” Madam Di nodded repeatedly and urged Qin Yuru again.
Qin Yuru could only wrap the stuff with the handkerchief and put it in her pocket. She asked Mei Xue to come in and help her to dress up. Then she left with Mei Xue.
Madam Di breathed a sigh of relief after Qin Yuru left. She leaned on the cushion and stared at the door with fierce eyes. “Don’t blame me for my ruthlessness! You ask for it!”
There were in the stuff not only the tokens of their relationship but also some evidence that could accuse Duke Yong’s Mansion. Madam Di thought in her heart, “Countess Yong thought I knew nothing. But Mother has early informed me of something about it.” Different from Qin Yuru, Madam Di had doubted Duke Yong’s Mansion early.
For example, Madam Di found that some servant girls in her courtyard, especially those who were attractive and looked like good girls, had secrets.
They looked like daughters from good families, but what they did was far beyond their appearances. Madam Di had been secretly investigating the servants sent by Duke Yong’s Mansion and dug out many secrets, part of which could benefit her a lot, and with which she could threaten Chu Huairan to help her in case he didn’t want to.
A crazy smile appeared on her face. “Of course, I won’t die. I will witness the death of those who want to hurt me. None of them is going to escape from my trap!
“Let’s get started from Qin’s Mansion! The first one will be Shui Ruolan as well as her bastard…”
“It’s on fire! Fire! Hurry up and put out the fire!” Madam Di didn’t realize that her bed curtain was on fire until a scream suddenly came from outside.