noffsinger Chapter 979: Wedding 2
Chapter 979: Wedding 2
After finishing the meal, Huo Tingfeng asked someone to call Huo's mother.
Upon learning that her son wanted to see her, Mrs. Huo naturally hurried over, and then the mother and son talked alone in the room for a long time.
After Huo's mother left, Jiang Chunxi quickly arranged for someone to help Huo Tingfeng take a bath.
"Tell me, what would happen if I drugged the general directly?" As soon as she returned to the courtyard where she lived, Mrs. Huo sent the other maids out and left only Nanny Zhu to serve her.
"Madam, why would you have such an idea?" Nanny Zhu asked in surprise, "Did the eldest master tell you something?"
"Hmm!" Mrs. Huo's expression was not pleasant. "You've seen Master's attitude since Tingfeng's accident. Haven't you seen how often he's been visiting his concubines' rooms? He simply wants them to give him more sons. He's ready to give up my two sons."
"Humph! It's really good. Before this, because Tingfeng was unconscious, I was only concerned about my son and didn't bother to pay attention to the general's plan. Anyway, those concubines are pregnant. If it's a girl, it's fine, but if it's a boy, forget it."
"But Tingfeng's words just now reminded me that the general's desire for a bastard is extraordinary. If I continue to use the old method, I'm afraid he will become suspicious. So the best way is to solve the problem at the source."
"But if the general gave a man a sterilizing drug and it got out, the first person he would suspect would definitely be you, Madam," Nanny Zhu said with a frown. "After all, people eat all kinds of grains, and getting sick is common. If the general is sick and the doctor takes his pulse, he'll know he's been drugged."
"What's more, even if the doctor doesn't diagnose the problem with the Chinese medicine in the future, if the concubines in the backyard can't get pregnant for a long time, the general will still suspect the lady!"
"If that's the case, the general probably won't have any affection for his wife."
"So what if there's no marital love? The general only treats me with dignity and respect, giving me the most basic of respect as a wife." Mother Huo's expression grew fierce as she spoke. "Everything in the general's mansion will only be inherited by my son in the future. No one else can get involved."
Nanny Zhu: "Since Madam has made her decision, I will send someone out to find medicine tomorrow."
"Alas!" Mother Huo sighed heavily and rubbed her brow with her fingers. "Unless it's absolutely necessary, I really don't want to take this step. After all, I don't want to get to the point where the general and I are disgusted with each other."
"But for the sake of my two sons, I, as a mother, have to be cruel. I can only blame that old general for being too bullying."
"It would have been fine when Tingfeng was unconscious, but now that Tingfeng has woken up, that old man, seeing that Tingfeng has problems with his legs, not only doesn't he think about how to cure his son's legs, he's even dreaming of giving birth to a bastard to replace Tingfeng, the eldest son."
"What's even more infuriating is that he gave up on his eldest son, which is fine, but he never considered his youngest son at all. What does this mean? It's like he gave up on both of my sons. So what else can I say to him? To prevent future troubles, he should just forget about having another son."
It's okay for the eldest son, but why did the husband give up even the younger son? If anyone is to blame, it's the husband's fault for being such a jerk, not the wife's cruelty.
The next morning, Huo's mother set out for Huangjue Temple. Although the result was not what Nanny Zhu had guessed, the master also said that Jiang Jiaoxi's horoscope was indeed incompatible with Huo Tingfeng.
This naturally made Huo's mother furious. She felt that her son must have been in trouble because of Jiang Jiaoxi. After all, her son had been engaged to Jiang Jiaoxi since he was a child. Fortunately, her son had not married Jiang Jiaoxi before suppressing the bandits, otherwise he would not have just been seriously injured, but would have been killed by Jiang Jiaoxi.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, so Huo's mother spread a rumor that Jiang Chunxi's horoscope indicated that she was destined to be a widow who would bring bad luck to her husband.
Rumors don't care whether something is true or not. As long as enough people spread it, even if it's false, it becomes true. So Jiang Jiaoxi's already bad reputation became even worse, and Jiang's mother's illness became even worse.
It was several days later when Jiang's mother learned about this. Her condition had not improved, but had worsened. When she learned about the rumors outside, it was like the last straw that broke the camel's back for her already ill body. She lay in bed unable to get up, looking like she was at the end of her life.
Of course, the situation of Jiang's father and two sons was not much better, which finally made Jiang Jiaoxi feel scared. She served Jiang's mother at her bedside every day, and even sent people to inquire about Jiang's father and two brothers every day.
Jiang Jiaoxi is Jiang's mother's second child, so the Jiang family has two legitimate sons, one is Jiang Jiaoxi's elder brother and the other is Jiang Jiaoxi's younger brother.
It’s just that boys and girls sit at different tables when they are seven years old, so the relationship between Jiang Jiaoxi and her brothers is just average.
"Mother, you have to get better soon," Jiang Jiaoxi cried, throwing herself on her mother. "Otherwise, if anything happens to you, what will your daughter do?"
"Don't cry," Jiang's mother said in a very weak voice, "Jiao Xi! I'm afraid mother is dying. Send someone to your grandfather's house and ask your aunt to come over."
Jiang's mother knew her daughter's physical condition very well. She felt that she only had one or two days left, so she had to arrange a way out for her daughter before she died.
As for the two sons...
Tears fell from Jiang's mother's eyes.
Guessing that her two sons were useless, Jiang's mother naturally had doubts. She thought that the four of them must have been tricked by someone else. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the four of them caught a cold at the same time and were all weakened by a minor cold.
But after thinking about it, Jiang's mother couldn't figure out who had the ability to drug the four members of her family at the same time right under her nose.
Mother Jiang was still very confident in her ability to manage the household. She thought that the Jiang family was under her control and that no outsider would have the ability to drug their family of four at the same time.
Of course, Jiang's mother also suspected Huo's mother, but Jiang's mother believed that Huo's mother did not have the courage to use such a cruel method. After all, this was aimed at destroying the whole family, and Huo's mother should not be so cruel.
The most important thing is that Huo's mother should not be so capable as to reach into the Jiang family's inner house. Moreover, if it was Huo's mother who gave the drug, she would not let her daughter go.
Anyway! Jiang's mother thought of everyone she could suspect, but she only missed Jiang Chunxi.
The reason, of course, was that she didn't take Jiang Chunxi seriously at all. After all, who would believe that a concubine's daughter, who lived worse than a dog at home, had the ability to drug someone?