Transmigration: Space-Aided Rise to Power and Prosperity-Chapter 817 - 653: You Bring Nothing into Life, Nor Take Anything in Death
"What? Kill you? Grandfather wants to kill you?" Yao Mengxian was shocked, and she looked at Mrs. Yao with disbelief in her eyes.
Even Mrs. Gao and Lianxin were very surprised. Why would the old man want to kill his own daughter? They were utterly baffled.
Mrs. Yao laughed coldly a few times, "You can’t understand it either, can you? He truly wants to kill me. He said that my living is a disgrace to the Yao Family. As a woman of the Xue Family, I shouldn’t be alive. If I live, it will remind the Emperor of the Xue Family, of that traitor who secretly colluded with Da Xing. My existence would burden the Duke Mansion, I am also a sinner, so I can only die."
Mrs. Yao’s eyes were red, yet there were no tears. Perhaps she was numb, or perhaps she still held resentment towards Duke Zhen. At this moment, her expression was different from the previous lifelessness and became somewhat twisted.
Yao Mengxian was also trembling all over. She knew her grandfather was ruthless, but she didn’t know he would be ruthless enough to want to kill his own flesh and blood.
If he didn’t want to implicate the Duke Mansion, he could have driven her out or sent her to a nunnery. Why did he have to eradicate her?
Could it be that grandfather saved Mrs. Yao just for that divorce paper? Did he bring her back just to stop those aristocratic families from gossiping?
Yao Mengxian only felt a chill run through her body. Even a tiger, vicious as it is, does not eat its cubs! Things had come to this point, and yet her grandfather couldn’t even spare his daughter’s life.
"I was actually going to die, but he couldn’t wait. He even sent someone to deliver poison and asked me to leave a final letter, saying I was a guilty person, too ashamed to live in this world."
Everyone present took a deep breath. How heartless one must be!
"After I took the poison, an hour later, my mother brought a doctor for me. She cried and asked the doctor if I could be saved. Before I lost consciousness, I heard the doctor say that the poison had penetrated my internal organs."
Mrs. Yao’s emotions had completely settled down, but now there was suspense. No! There had already been twists and turns.
Mrs. Yao must have been saved, otherwise, she wouldn’t be sitting here recounting the events of those years to them.
"What exactly happened? And then?" Mrs. Gao asked eagerly; there must be more to this story.
"Was it that doctor who saved you, who later became your husband, Doctor Li?"
Yao Mengxian suddenly recalled that Doctor Li had just said Aunt was his wife. So now Aunt was starting a new life?
"Indeed! It was him!" Speaking of Doctor Li, a warmth finally appeared in Mrs. Yao’s eyes.
Yao Mengxian observed the gentle expression on Mrs. Yao’s face and felt happy for her.
It seems Doctor Li treated her aunt well. Not only did he save her aunt’s life, but he also saved his own life; they were a family after all.
"My survival was thanks to your mother. She knew what your grandfather was planning. Your mother couldn’t bear to see me die. She knew I still thought about my child, and at that time the Xue Family was still imprisoned."
Mrs. Yao, speaking of Yao Mengxian’s biological mother, felt a wave of longing.
"My mother?" Yao Mengxian had only vague memories of her mother. When she was learning to walk, her mother was already bedridden and unable to get out of bed.
Now, thinking back, she only remembered that vague, pale face. Although she couldn’t recall the visage clearly, she remembered her mother’s gentle and soft-spoken advice.
"Yes! She found a husband, devised a plan, and protected my life. Your grandfather considered me a sinner and certainly didn’t give me a grand funeral. I was hastily buried in a thin coffin, not even allowed entry into the ancestral tomb."
"I returned to my family home, and your mother would drag her sickly body to comfort me, saying that only living people had hope. She advised me to live well, for the sake of my child. She even knew I wanted to switch babies and said she would help me, but I refused. I knew her days weren’t easy, and I didn’t want to drag her down."
"After the Xue Family was executed in autumn, my husband locked me in a small courtyard, living in a daze. I was dumb back then. My husband resigned from the medical clinic and spent all day with me. We then took his daughter to a rural area in Jingyuan Prefecture."
At this point, much of Mrs. Yao’s inner resentment had dissipated. She was well aware of how Doctor Li had treated her over the years.
People are not made of stone; who can be without feelings? Even a rock would eventually be warmed.
Everyone couldn’t help but sigh. The story had taken such a turn, not perfect, but still bearable.
The first half of Mrs. Yao’s life was full of tribulations, and her later days were very frugal, but she didn’t mind.
What of great wealth and high status? Everything else is external; you come into life with nothing and leave with nothing. She had long seen through it.
Over the years, her gratitude towards Doctor Li had long turned into a deep, abiding love between husband and wife.
Unfortunately, there was still regret. She regretted not being able to claim the bodies of her child and former husband. Such traitors selling out the nation were not allowed a proper burial.
"It’s a pity that your mother was so diligent and thoughtful when advising me, but when it came to herself, she couldn’t think clearly. For such a frivolous and promiscuous man, why did she have to? Now, leaving behind a pair of children, she was truly foolish!"
Saying this, Mrs. Yao was overcome with sadness again.
She wanted to stay with both children, but they were forever separated. Mrs. Yao cornered herself, eventually abandoning her own child, seeking her own release.
Then Mrs. Yao thought of that heartless man again, and she asked with a cold smile, "Where is your father? Has he remarried?"
Yao Mengxian nodded, feeling little affection for her father.
Even though they all lived in the same mansion, apart from seeing her father once each day during morning and evening greetings, there was no other opportunity to see him.
Her father didn’t pay much attention to her either, and now that her stepmother was pregnant, her father wouldn’t prioritize her at all.
"I figured, how could someone so frivolous not remarry?" Mrs. Yao was dearly close to Yao Mengxian’s mother, but held much disdain for her own elder brother.
When her father personally went to the Liang Mansion to arrange a marriage for her elder brother, she thought her father had quite the thick skin.
Before her elder brother married, he already had several concubines, and if he hadn’t taken a wife, he probably would have had a whole courtyard of concubines by now.
His courtyard was always filled with the sounds of birds singing and flowers blooming, but since their mother managed the family affairs, the household rules were very strict.
Their mother had long given strict orders to not allow servants to spread rumors; otherwise, they would have their tongues cut and be sold to those despicable places. Because of this, not a single whisper escaped outside.
As a close confidante of the Liang Family, of course, she discussed these matters with the Liang Family. Sadly, men didn’t consider these things in marriage, and back then the two families were well-matched; naturally, they couldn’t oppose it.
Moreover, back then, she was also secretly pleased, thinking that having the Liang Family as her sister-in-law would make them even closer.
