Chapter 366: Chapter 6: Such a Pity (Second Update)
Over by the garden, Qin Miao saw Ruan Yu standing motionless for a long time, and her heart ached as if it had been torn out and crushed. She murmured, "Enough, enough, this is all fate!"
Saying this, she walked towards the main house and happened to meet Pig Pig coming to find someone.
Knowing that her aunt had sent Mrs. Sun, Qin Miao gave a bitter smile. It was time for her to return and fulfill her duty as a daughter of the Qin family!
"Ruan Yu, from now on, we part ways, and you shall be no more than a bystander!" Qin Miao said harshly and quickly left.
She didn’t see the tear that fell from Ruan Yu’s face onto the ground behind her, evaporating in an instant under the sun.
As the saying goes, "A man sheds no tears easily, only when truly heartbroken."
...
After Qin Miao and Mrs. Sun had left, Ruan Sixth Son was led into the main house by Pig Pig.
"What happened?" Ruan Yu wiped his face, feeling his heart in chaos.
Qin Miao was never the delicate type, and it was the first time he had seen her cry like this today.
Ruan Sixth Son shuddered. Had her family arranged a match for her? Thinking of this, a surge of blood rose to his chest, but Ruan Yu suppressed and swallowed it down.
Qin Miao was already eighteen this year. If she didn’t marry soon, she’d become an old maid!
Susu hadn’t expected that Qin Miao hadn’t told her brother about the arranged marriage to the Tartar.
With a sigh in her heart, these two unfortunate souls—weren’t they just making things difficult for her? Should she say something or not?
Ruan Sixth Son said in a deep voice, "No need to hide it from me. Has the Qin family arranged a marriage for her?"
Susu shook her head, then nodded, leaving Ruan Sixth Son a bit helpless, "What do you mean by that? Speak! Even if... even if she has a marriage arranged, I can only be happy for her."
"It’s the imperial decree for a marriage!"
"An imperial decree for a marriage? Then it must be...," Ruan Yu wanted to praise the lucky man who had won the beauty, but the words wouldn’t come out.
However, he heard his sister say, "What is it? A marriage of equal rank? A match with a talented suitor? Or someone with great bearing?"
The sarcasm in Susu’s tone left Ruan Sixth Son startled, and then he gave a faint smile that looked more like a cry, "No matter what, it must be better than me."
"Better than you? Brother, that lunatic has made Sister Miao Princess Yonghe and arranged her marriage to the Tartar. The person she’s marrying is the Batraj you once captured alive!"
As Susu finished speaking, the room felt as if someone had pressed the pause button, leaving it deathly silent.
It seemed like an eternity passed, yet also just the blink of an eye.
Ruan Yu stood up and walked towards the outside, quickening his pace as if about to run, but suddenly stumbled and fell hard on the stone slabs in the courtyard, blood instantly pouring from his head!
Susu was shocked and ran out, pressing her sleeve to his wound and shouting at Pig Pig, "Quick, quick, go get a doctor!"
But Ruan Yu didn’t care; he just held Susu’s hand tightly, almost pleading, "Susu, prepare a horse for me!"
In that moment, seeing her brother like this, Susu resented Qin Miao in her heart.
The decree was signed and accepted, so why come to disturb him!
"And what if the horse is ready? What if you catch up with her? What then? Could you abandon everything and run away together?
If you’re willing to elope with her regardless, would she be willing?
Since she didn’t say anything to you, she must have already made up her mind. Today, she came just to make a clean break, so you won’t linger anymore."
"Susu, you..." Ruan Yu looked at Susu in disbelief, not expecting his sister to say such heart-piercing words to him.
"Brother, stop thinking about it. Whether you call me heartless or cold, just forget her now!"
When Hong Sheng and Brother Lin returned, the scene they saw was this.
"What happened?" Hong Sheng and Brother Lin hurriedly ran up.
Susu handed Ruan Yu to Hong Sheng, her voice cold as if it was tinged with icy shards, "The Hundred Commander probably isn’t feeling well and fell outside. Why didn’t you, as Shangguan, take care of your subordinates? Let him recuperate properly in the camp for now!"
Hong Sheng was almost frightened to death by such a wife, and didn’t bother with his bloody "cousin-in-law," instead reaching out a hand, trying to comfort Susu.
"Wife, are you okay?"
Brother Lin, seeing his downcast and silent Sixth Uncle and his Thirteenth Aunt not even looking at him, said helplessly, "Let’s find a place for Sixth Uncle to settle for now. Did you call a doctor? Do we have any golden sore medicine at home?"
Susu gave a disapproving glance to the utterly clueless Hong Sheng, "Take them to the guest room!" With that, she went to the East Wing.
Hong Sheng: ...
Why am I always the one who gets hurt?
Ruan Sixth Son’s forehead was only superficially scratched, looking alarming but not a very serious injury, so Susu dared to leave it to Hong Sheng to handle.
Susu went straight to the East Wing.
Mantou, six months old now, had been moved from the main house to the East Wing when solid foods were introduced.
The child ate and slept well, already nine months old, and no longer needed night feedings, allowing Susu to sleep through the night.
When Mantou first moved out of the main house, Susu thought her son wouldn’t adapt, but surprisingly, he adapted well while she found herself struggling to adjust.
Susu recalled how she would wake up in the night habitually and try to go to the East Room to check on her son, only to be held back by Hong Sheng, prompting the realization that "Only when you become parents do you understand the love of your own."
Her old grievances towards her parents gradually dissipated as Mantou grew.
The main house in the courtyard consisted of three bright and two dark large rooms with two smaller side rooms, while the East Wing had one bright and two dark large rooms with two side rooms.
The bright living room was furnished as a playroom, the bedroom was in the northern room, and a small study was in the southern room.
All the windows in the three rooms were inlaid with large, transparent glass panels, more luxurious than the main house.
When Susu entered, the room was very quiet, indicating that she and her brother had frightened them earlier.
Looking at her son reaching out from the thick carpet for a hug, Susu finally smiled, took off her shoes, and sat down casually. Smiling at the somewhat stiff Qi Qiao and others, she joked, "What’s wrong? Don’t you recognize your lady?"
Bai Yue and Chang Sheng were also there, now nine and seven years old, old enough to require some separation from the opposite gender.
But since they grew up around Susu, they were no different from their own siblings, and felt more at ease than Qi Qiao and the others.
"Young ones have never seen lady so angry?" Bai Yue commented a bit bashfully.
Susu hugged her son and kissed him, listening to this and shaking her head, "I wasn’t angry, just wanted to wake him up a bit."
Then she laughed and said, "Just pretend none of this happened and don’t mention it again!"
Qi Qiao, Linlang, Wei Defu’s family, Chang Sheng, and Bai Yue all answered respectfully.
"Cool!"
When Susu heard this sound she thought it was an illusion, but saw Qi Qiao and the others showing excited expressions, "Lady, lady, the little young master is calling you!"
The small person was still unstable, clinging to Susu, looking up at her with a little face, and smiling with four small white teeth on display.
In Susu’s daze, Mantou saw his mother ignoring him and anxiously tugged on Susu’s clothes, "Cool, cool... mom!"
Susu laughed and kissed her son’s small face hard, "Mom’s little darling and treasure!"
For you, mom can learn to be a gentle Bodhisattva, and can also become a fierce protector!
So, brother, I’m sorry!
