The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 599: a good dog
Chapter 599 A Good Dog
“We’re here! This is it…” The jailer at the Dali Temple opened the cell door and said respectfully to Old Lady Fu.
“Thank you!” Old Lady Fu gestured to the nanny beside her to give the jailer some money as a reward, and said with a smile, “Thank you for your hard work. I’ll treat you to some tea.”
Fu Ruoxi, kneeling in the straw with her legs shackled and one arm missing, with a dirty face, looked up and saw her mother’s solemn features in the dim light of the Dali Temple prison. Fu Ruoxi tightened her hands on her knees and pursed her thin, cracked lips.
The jailer weighed the purse filled with silver and put it into his sleeve with a smile: “What are you talking about, Old Lady Fu! How can we jailers disobey the orders of the Crown Prince? Please take your time to talk! I will leave first!”
Old Madam Fu smiled and nodded to the jailer. After watching the jailer leave, her eyes fell on Fu Ruoxi, who was disheveled and missing an arm in the prison.
Old Madam Fu’s eyes were red, and she said to the old nanny beside her: “Warn someone if they come.”
“Yes!” The old lady nodded and saluted, then walked to the side in small steps and waited.
Old Madam Fu came in from outside the cell, staring at Fu Ruoxi with her red eyes.
Fu Ruoxi’s throat was churning, and he supported himself on the straw with one hand. The sound of iron chains rustling could be heard under his feet. He lowered his eyes, not daring to look into Old Madam Fu’s sharp eyes, and just kowtowed heavily to her.
Looking at her son’s empty sleeves, Old Lady Fu could hardly hold back her tears. She straightened her back, tightly grasped her cane, and said, “For the queen, you really dare to do anything! You don’t care about an old man like me, your brothers and nephews, and your wife, but what about your two sons? Do you want them to die for the queen too?”
Fu Ruoxi listened to the angry and choking voice of Old Lady Fu, and her body hunched lower: “Mother… the queen, she is pregnant, with a son…”
Before Fu Ruoxi could finish her words, Old Lady Fu raised the cane in her hand and swung it at Fu Ruoxi, making her groan.
Old Madam Fu’s tears flowed like broken strings. She gritted her teeth and swung her crutch again and again. Fu Ruoxi knelt there with one hand supporting herself, tightly grasping the straw under her knees. She said nothing and let Old Madam Fu beat her with her body tense. She almost fell to the ground.
I don’t know how many times Old Lady Fu swung at Fu Ruoxi, until she was no longer able to move, and the cane slipped from her trembling hands.
Old Madam Fu also knelt on the ground and cried out, clenching her fists and hitting Fu Ruoxi’s shoulders: “You have lost your mind, haven’t you! Do you know what will happen to our entire Fu family if you say this?! Are you really going to disregard everything for that woman Zhong Shaorong? There are hundreds of people in the Fu family, and your two sons… the youngest is only six years old, what did he do wrong! He is going to lose his life for that woman! Do you really want to see the entire Fu family, from the eighty-year-old old man to the newborn baby, go to the guillotine together to pave the way for that woman’s future?!”
Fu Ruoxi thought of her young son’s innocent smile, closed her eyes, and felt sorry for him.
“Think about Jian Congwen’s family back then! Censor Jian’s little grandson was only four years old. He went to the guillotine with Jian and was clamoring for crispy candies. What did you say at that time… Do you remember? You couldn’t bear to do that to other people’s children, but your son was only six years old! Six years old! How could you bear to do that to him?” Old Madam Fu grabbed Fu Ruoxi’s collar and burst into tears.
Thinking of how Jian Congwen’s young grandson was tied to the guillotine and told his mother that he wanted to go home to eat crispy candies, Fu Ruoxi’s blood rushed to her head and she burst into tears.
At that time, Fu Ruoxi couldn’t bear to hear the words of the four-year-old child, and almost rushed into the palace to beg His Majesty to let the ignorant child go.
But he was so overwhelmed by guilt and friendship that he completely ignored his elderly mother, wife and children.
“Mother…” Fu Ruoxi choked up and cried, “Mother… My child, I am sorry to you, my brothers, my wife and my children.”
Old Madam Fu choked up and took a deep breath, holding Fu Ruoxi’s shoulder, and said to him solemnly: “Son, I can’t save your life, but at least I can save the lives of the rest of the Fu family, and the lives of your son and his wife! Tell them that the Queen wants to use you to force the emperor to the throne, and say that the Queen is using the lives of the Fu family to force you to do so! The Crown Prince will save the lives of the rest of the Fu family.”
“Mother…you may not be able to believe what the prince says!” Fu Ruoxi said.
“If the Crown Prince can’t be trusted, can’t the Zhenguo Princess be trusted either? I went to find the Zhenguo Princess first, and it was the Zhenguo Princess who instructed me to find the Crown Prince!” Old Lady Fu gritted her teeth and lowered her voice, “The Zhenguo Princess meant that she couldn’t save you, but she could save the children. As long as we make preparations in advance and spend some money to save the children from suffering, the children will be able to come back when the Crown Prince ascends the throne and pardons the world.”
Fu Ruoxi still trusts Bai Qingyan.
Fu Ruoxi was not a person who was confused. He knew that Bai Qingyan did not kill him when he cut off one of his arms that day. He used the Fu family from Dadu to attack him in order to leave a way out for the Fu family from Dadu.
Otherwise, if he died at that time, it would have been confirmed that he had assassinated the prince. I dare not say nine generations of the family… at least most of the Fu family would have died.
Based on this point, Fu Ruoxi believed Bai Qing’s words.
But if the story is fabricated that the Queen threatened to kill Fu’s family members, can the Queen still survive?
“Son! Don’t hesitate any longer!” The wrinkles on Old Lady Fu’s face were filled with tears and she was extremely anxious.
“Mother, I… when Lord Lu, the Minister of the Dali Temple, comes to interrogate me, I… will tell the truth. But if you ask me to frame the Queen, I… can’t do it!” Fu Ruoxi choked.
“Good! Good! You are such a good son! A good husband! A good father!” Old Lady Fu shook her head and staggered to her feet. “The Fu family members are not important, only Zhong Shaorong is important! I… really gave birth to a good dog for Zhong Shaorong! I am sorry for your wife and your son… If I had known earlier why I would marry a wife for you, not only did you harm the good girl, but you also harmed my grandson… I am sorry for my in-laws and my daughter-in-law!”
Old Lady Fu said in a weak voice: “Before her mother-in-law died, she handed her daughter to me, hoping that I could protect their little girl for the rest of her life! I went against my conscience and let you marry my daughter-in-law to cover up your affair with Zhong Shaorong. In the past few years since I was away… she has been taking care of the household chores and serving her mother-in-law to perfection! Such a good daughter-in-law and such a good grandson, actually… died because my son couldn’t give up his feelings for another woman…”
“Mom…” Fu Ruoxi clenched her fists tightly and burst into tears.
“Don’t call me mom! I’m not your mom!” Old Lady Fu beat her chest and stamped her feet, looking up and crying bitterly.
Ah… Bald author thought we were third, but we were overtaken! We are fourth!!!
My heart suddenly sank!
But the bald author will still add more chapters. The little ancestors have really worked hard for this ranking, and the bald author knows it!