The old lady is reborn

Rong Yueqi took the silver notes hidden in the room by Hua and lingered in the brothel.

He kept the girl he liked, Ruxia, for a month, and the two of them spent every day together.

He knew deep down that matricide was a grave crime and that it would be exposed sooner or later.

But I also felt that I could never live the path my mother asked me to take and the life my mother asked me to live.

To die under the peony flowers is to be a romantic ghost. So be it, enjoy life to the fullest, don't let the golden cup face the moon in vain.

If they die, they die. Aren’t there enough people who died in the Rong family?

Thinking of this, he smiled bitterly again. He thought the past days were just ordinary at the time, but now he thought that they could never be returned.

He was filled with hatred in his heart. He hated his grandfather for being so foolish that he was living a good life and dragged them, the younger generations, to get close to Tian Anran.

Intentionally or unintentionally, they were alienated from Rong Huaiyuan. He vaguely understood what his grandfather meant, which was that Song Ying's children were not Rong's children.

But in the end, the Rong Huaian who was replaced looked exactly like his grandfather.

Later, I was the only one left in my father's family. When I asked my grandfather for money, he gave it to me.

He also went drinking with his grandson and told him that he was deceived by Tian Anran. Tian Anran told the truth before his death.

Although he was a descendant of a concubine's family, as long as his grandfather recognized him, he felt that there was still some hope in staying in Kyoto.

But one day, my grandfather suddenly changed his attitude and said that Rong Huaishan was not his son, and none of Rong Huaishan’s sons were his grandsons.

Grandfather told Rong Yueqi to get lost, because seeing him would remind him that he had been deceived his entire life.

He didn't understand what happened, but from then on, his grandfather would neither see him nor give him money.

Rong Yueqi’s last bit of hope was gone.

From then on, life for him was all about enjoying life while he could.

……

Huai'an went back to the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion. Rong Yueqi had murdered his mother and was on the run, so he should inform his mother.

Song Ying was shocked after hearing the whole story. It is true that you cannot judge a person by his appearance. Even if no one forced him, Rong Yueqi would still commit violence.

Huai'an said: "Even though she was treated like this by Rong Yueqi, she often remained silent when her colleagues in the police station and Hua Shi were questioning her in writing.

If you were willing to provide some clues, your colleagues wouldn't have to conduct such a large-scale search."

Song Ying nodded: "From the perspective of a spectator, she really shouldn't be so. She feels bad for their misfortune and is angry at their lack of resistance.

But it is normal to be unable to understand why the son whom you treat wholeheartedly treats you like this.

From relying on him for life to drawing a sword against him, I can’t turn back now.”

She recalled that when she was brutally murdered in her previous life, she also wanted to ask "why". Later, she understood why good people should ask "why" for bad people.

Good people will never understand the evil deeds of bad people.

If you try to find a reason for other people's evil deeds, you will only fall into a deeper abyss of pain: you have done nothing wrong to others, but they treated you this way.

What did I do in my previous life?

Too good for them?

It's just that my existence hinders their development.

Thinking back to his previous life, after Rong Yueqi became rich and powerful, he seemed to like going to brothels.

Song Ying suggested to Huai'an: "Go look in the Hualou. I remember that Hua's child seems to like this."

Rong Huaian was a little confused. Rong Yueqi liked this? But after returning to the police station, he still suggested that his colleagues go to the brothel to look for it.

Rong Yueqi saw two strange people. He didn't pay much attention to them at first, but then he suddenly realized who they were and laughed at himself: They came so quickly.

Even the money I got from my mother hasn't been spent yet.

Forget it, this is my fate.

If they just arrested me, who would the money belong to?

Until this point, he still didn't know that Hua was still alive, and the silver he had not spent would naturally return to Hua's hands.

He just felt regretful that he was about to die but the money had not been spent yet.

……

Song Ying had just learned that Rong Yueqi murdered his mother in the morning. She chatted with Huai'an, and when the time came, they had lunch together.

Not long after sending Huai'an out, he heard that Rong Ruomei was seriously injured and asked Song Ying to meet her.

After Rong Ruzhi died, Song Ying buried him without holding a funeral. Rong Ruomei, who was living here at the time, told the four children that Song Ying was cold-blooded and heartless, as she didn't even hold a funeral for him after being married for decades.

When Song Ying found out about this, he kicked her out.

Did he have a funeral in his previous life? Was he buried? Why didn't Rong Ruomei say that they didn't even have a funeral after being married for decades.

When Rong Ruomei's husband Nie Quan was imprisoned for hiring a killer, her mother came to visit him in prison.

Lu Chunyun, who used to be a servant in his house, is now a jailer. When he heard that his unfulfilled vengeance was Rong Ruomei and that the old lady had lost her son, a flash of cruelty crossed his face.

Lu Chunyun guessed that something might happen to Rong Ruomei, but he didn't intend to care.

When she was in the Nie family, she was often called to the inner room by Nie Quan. Everyone in the family turned a blind eye to the torture she suffered, including Mrs. Nie Rong Ruomei.

In Lu Chunyun's mind, apart from the groom who showed kindness to him, there were no good people in the Nie family.

Since everyone is only cleaning up the snow in front of their own door, there is no need for him to worry about the frost on other people's roofs.

The old lady of the Nie family was originally afraid that Rong Ruomei lived in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, so she was reluctant to take action. However, it didn't take long for Rong Ruomei to be driven out.

Fortunately, she had been tinkering with storybooks some time ago and had earned some money from the printing office and the bookstore, so she rented a yard to live in outside.

This made Old Lady Nie feel much more comfortable. But Rong Ruomei came to her on her own and wanted to sue the Nie family for dowry.

Old Mrs. Nie thought: I do have an idea, but I may not have the ability to do it.

Back then, the young girl from the Marquis Xiaoyao's Mansion sued the two marquisates' mansions in an attempt to get back her mother's dowry. Even though she had the support of the Dali Temple's Minister and won the lawsuit, it still took her several years to get the dowry back.

Rong Ruomei had no one to rely on, and she was divorced. Why should she get her dowry back?

While Mrs. Nie was calmly dealing with Rong Ruomei's dowry lawsuit, Rong Ruomei got into an accident.

When Rong Ruomei went out occasionally, she would go to a bookstore or a printing office. The bookstore was okay, but the printing office was a bit far away.

On her way to the Printing Bureau, the rented carriage suddenly slid sideways, overturned and fell into a ditch beside the road.

When she finally climbed out from the shattered wreckage of the carriage, she realized that she was in a position where no one could help her.

In the upper half of the cliff, unless another person falls down, all you can see when you look up or down is the whistling mountain wind.

But when she looked over there, and saw no horse or driver, hope began to rise in Rong Ruomei's heart again.

If the driver had jumped out of the car and was still on it, he would probably have tried to save people.

Although Rong Ruomei was several years younger than Song Ying, she was also an old lady. As soon as she relaxed, she felt pain all over her body, as if her entire body was about to fall apart after the fall.

But the groom had already been placed in a place for rest by Old Lady Nie. Two full days later, he lied that he had just woken up from a coma and then reported to the authorities.

However, the people from the Printing Bureau did not see Rong Ruomei that day, but they came to look for her the next day. Unfortunately, after a night of heavy rain, the traces of dust from the overturned car were gone.

I had no choice but to report him missing.

Rong Ruomei had swelling all over her body these past two days, probably because of a broken bone. She was conscious for the first half day, but then she was in a coma with a high fever.

Her whole body was burning hot and she was very thirsty. It suddenly started to rain at night. Rong Ruomei thought she was lucky at first.

The cool raindrops falling down felt very comfortable. She opened her mouth and drank the raindrops.

But gradually, I began to shiver with cold. My whole body was soaked, and the mountain breeze chilled me to the bone and heart.

After being frozen by the rain all night, many of Rong Ruomei's wounds seemed to be more serious.

On the second day, his whole body was burning like a charcoal. When he was finally found and rescued on the evening of the third day, he was already dying.

The doctor and his wife fulfilled their duties as doctors and treated all the injuries on her body.

As for whether the person can get better, that depends on herself.

Rong Ruomei felt that she could not survive and wanted to see Song Ying.

After Song Ying arrived, Rong Ruomei said, "I have called you sister-in-law for decades. Although you and my brother severed ties a few years ago, I know you don't want to hear it, but now I don't have a single relative except you.

My children and grandchildren were all corrupted by the old woman named Nie. I couldn't defeat her, and they all looked down on me and didn't treat me as their mother.

Now that I am dying, it is impossible for me, a divorced person, to be buried in the Nie family's ancestral tomb.

But if I divorced a woman, according to the ancestral tradition of the Rong family, I couldn't be buried in the Rong family. People like me would be buried in a mass grave. I'm afraid I don't want to be alone.

Although you are no longer the daughter-in-law of the Rong family, your two sons have outstanding status in the Rong family. One is the prince consort and the other is the Marquis of Nan'an, and you are the Lady Protector of the Country.

I still have some money, which I can give to the Rong family. Please find a way to bury me in the Rong family, next to my brother."

Rong Ruomei was in tears as she spoke. Song Ying went out without saying a word and asked the doctor and his wife, then came back in: "I think you're overthinking it. You should have a tough life."

"I know myself, I can't live anymore."

Song Ying glanced at her and said, "Nie Quan sentenced him to death in the autumn. There is still a review in the meantime. If there is new evidence that he was not the one who hired the killer, he may not die.

Can't you survive him?"