novelraw Chapter 1144 - 1107: You Were Meant to Be a Dead Man
Chapter 1144 - 1107: You Were Meant to Be a Dead Man
Stared at by Qin Liuxi, Old Madam Fan felt a chill penetrate her bones, as if she were in an ice cellar.
"Old Lady, it’s snowing, please invite Madam Xie inside." Nanny Cheng saw that her Old Madam seemed soulless, couldn’t help but call out twice, and squeezed her wrist.
A cold snowflake fell on her face, Old Madam Fan shivered all over, came to her senses, forced a smile, and walked forward, saying, "A servant reported, I didn’t dare believe it, but indeed it is you, Old Grand Dowager, visiting us. I haven’t seen you in over a decade, how have you been? Please come inside quickly for some tea."
The group entered the main hall of Shouning Courtyard.
Qin Liuxi didn’t have much of a reaction, but Shunfang and Mrs. Zhou’s eyes scanned the furnishings in the main hall, their expressions changing slightly.
Old Madam Xie sat down, her eyes still cloudy, able only to see shadows, facing Old Madam Fan’s direction, she said: "After Wan’er got married, she never interacted with her maternal family. I thought it was because the Fan family had strict rules. After all, they are a family of literary scholars, proud and aloof. Every festive season, when there were gifts, I assumed she was doing well. Never did I expect, the next news I received was of her death. She passed away so young, I never got to see her again. More than a decade has already passed, it truly is..."
Her throat choked, as if she couldn’t continue, the hand holding the dragon-headed cane trembled slightly.
The Fan family thought she was simply heartbroken, only Old Madam Xie knew in her heart, that she was angry; angry at herself, and hated the Fan family. Her good daughter married over, yet was gone before thirty. She thought the Fan family was good, a noble family of scholars, but never expected it to be a wolf’s den.
But if the Fan family was a wolf’s den, she was the one who pushed her own child into it, her guilt was greater!
Old Madam Fan felt somewhat embarrassed and slightly angry. The words just spoken by Old Madam Xie didn’t explicitly say, but implied that their Fan family tormented the daughter-in-law, leading to her early death.
This was blaming the Fan family.
But she didn’t consider, how Mrs. Xie behaved after marrying in. Coming from a general’s family, now part of the Fan family, naturally, she had to follow the Fan family’s rules and abide by their house regulations. The days of wielding knives and practicing martial arts were over.
Just following some rules, and she couldn’t handle it? Which family doesn’t treat their daughter-in-law this way?
Saying more is useless.
"Wan’er was a proud and arrogant child. The Fan family, with its generations of literary tradition, did not suit her, it was a lack of fortune..."
Thud!
Old Madam Xie’s dragon-headed cane struck the floor heavily, making a dull sound, like a weight on the heart, making it tremble with fear.
She looked at Old Madam Fan, her eyes clearly cloudy, yet Old Madam Fan felt that gaze was sharp as a knife, like Death staring at her.
Yes, this old lady nearing her end was not a kind person, she was one who could go to the battlefield with men and kill, those hands were stained with blood.
Old Madam Fan clutched her Buddha Beads, sweating with cold sweat.
"Lack of fortune?" Old Madam Xie sneered: "She indeed had a lack of fortune, gone before thirty, this fortune was indeed thin."
Her words, almost squeezed out through clenched teeth, her cloudy eyes seemed about to pop out, paired with that cold hard face, like an Evil Ghost claiming a soul.
Old Madam Fan’s heart raced erratically, swallowing hard.
"Our Wan’er lacked fortune, but the Fan family certainly has plenty of it. I find this Hundred Birds Facing Phoenix Double Chi Ear Large Heart-Shaped Bottle somewhat familiar, it was on my sister’s dowry list, wasn’t it?" Mrs. Zhou stood up, walked to the antique shelf pointing at the rotating heart bottle, then at a colored screen: "And this Five Blessings and Longevity Rosewood Screen is also my sister’s."
"This set of rosewood chairs, also on our young lady’s dowry list." Shunfang sneered: "The young lady lacked fortune, died early, leaving all the luck to the Fan family. Couldn’t gather a few decent pieces for the betrothal gift in the past, now prosperity blooms."
Qin Liuxi slouched in the chair, watching the two bombard, her eyes glanced at the sharp-featured Old Madam Fan, a look of disgust in her eyes.
This old woman, so poisonous and malicious.
Old Madam Fan, amid a barrage of overt and covert sarcasm, was so ashamed her face turned beet red, burning hot.
It wasn’t over, Shunfang walked around this main hall, found seven or eight pieces of the young lady’s dowry on display, immediately her eyes reddened with anger.
She was never an ordinary woman, but part of the lady army that went to battle with Old Madam Xie, born with a fiery temper, although with age she’d tempered herself somewhat, her temper was not pliant.
Now that she saw her young lady’s dowry in this old woman’s room, what about the rest?