TSBFL Chapter 124.2

TSBFL Chapter 124.2

Chapter 124.2: 行刑

[Execution]

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This made Fěicuì startled, she hesitated for a moment, but still said her intention, “Old madam, just now Madam came back, but she only came back alone. Moreover, Madam also has fainted, I have already sent someone to invite a doctor to come, I still hope that the Old Lady can come over.”

 

The old madam nodded her head, she considered, already knew the situation, and then asked without slowing down: “What about the old master? Did the Old Master not come back together with Madam?”

 

Fěicuì stared at the old man’s thin back and cautiously said, “No, only madam who came back, no sign of the old master.”

 

The moment her words fell, the old lady who was still turning the Buddha prayer beads all of a sudden broke open, the beads strings all of a sudden fell apart, splitting and falling all over the ground.

 

Listening to the sound in the ear, Fěicuì panicked and looked at the beads that fell all over the ground, looked at the old lady and carefully said: “Old lady?”

 

At this moment, no one answered her back.

 

The old lady looked down at the beads all over the ground, signaled to the maid beside her to help her up, and then she went towards the door in steady pace, only to cross over the threshold and saw the blood-red sky outside. She slightly froze for a moment, and then sighed a long sigh in the empty corridor and appeared to be particularly lonely.

 

Fěicuì kept her head down and quietly followed behind the old lady, not knowing whether it was her fault or not, she always felt that in that instant, the old lady’s figure had become a little bit crooked, as if she had aged a few years in an instant.

 

By lending her subordinate’s arm to support her, the old lady quickly arrived at the door of Madame Zhao’s room, where many of the children of the Zhao family who had heard the news were already standing there.

 

At the sight of the old lady, a few flashes of surprise flashed across the faces of those who were in a hurry and wanted to come forward and said something to the old lady, but they were all stopped by the old lady’s hand.

 

“You guys stay outside, I’ll go inside and take a look.”

 

Several people glanced around and they answered one after another.

 

It was only after the old lady had gone inside that the people outside began to whisper, their words full of worry and trepidation. Only Zhao Jing looked worriedly at the closed door and pursed her lips tightly. The old lady came to the inner room with her maid’s support, and when she saw Lady Zhao, who was slowly waking up under the doctor’s treatment, she waved her hand to let all the people around her go down, and walked to the bedside by herself, looking down at Madam Zhao, who was lying there, not knowing what she was thinking about.

 

“Qin Xiang, where is the Old Master?”

 

Qin Xiang was Lady Zhao’s maiden name. Ever since she became Mrs Zhao, no one had called her that for a long time, so suddenly hearing this unfamiliar name, she hadn’t reacted, turning her eyes apathetically to look at the Old Lady.

 

Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, Lady Zhao’s expression on her face instantly changed to a fierce one, and she jumped in front of the old madam, shouting, “Mother, you must think of something, Master has been sentenced to death by the County Magistrate, and they are going to confiscate the property of our Zhao family!”

 

As soon as Madam Zhao’s voice came out, the old madam’s eyes suddenly widened violently with a hard to believe look on her face.

 

The old Madam glanced down at the frantic Mrs Zhao, her tone becoming a little unstable, “What did you say?”

 

Thinking that the old madam hadn’t heard her clearly, Madam Zhao repeated what she had just said, and then went on to recount the events of the day at the court one by one, not forgetting to curse at the end, “It’s all the fault of that damned bastard, if he had simply died in the fire, there would have been so much trouble today.”

 

Lady Zhao kept on cursing, and waiting until she finished, she realized that the old lady in front of her hadn’t said a word, as if sensing that something was wrong, she looked up and saw the old lady staring blankly and standing there, her old face streaked with tears.

 

“Mother, what’s wrong with you? Don’t scare me!” Mrs Zhao couldn’t care less about cursing, she looked at the old madam and screamed out in panic.

 

The old madam, listening to the shrill screams in her ears, looked down at her rude and reasonable daughter-in-law, her eyes full of despair, but her tone was exceptionally firm, “Qin Xiang, let it be! These are all retribution, these are all judgments, now retribution paid out in kind, also can be regarded as paying off the debt owed at the beginning. All those years of good life were stolen by us, and now we should be content with our situation.”

 

Dumbfounded after listening to the old madam’s words, Mrs Zhao’s face was a little stunned, and she said with a hard-to-accept expression, “Mother, what do you mean by this?”

 

But the old madam gave her a deep look, and did not continue to say anything to her, staggering away.

 

Looking at the old lady’s back, only then Mrs Zhao reacted and said loudly, “Mother, don’t you want to find a way to save Master? He is your only son, your own biological son ah!

 

The old lady turned a deaf ear to this, but suddenly stopped when she reached the door, and then said quietly, “At this point of time, do you think there is still room for maneuver?

 

We are just ordinary people, we are not capable of shedding off his crimes in the presence of witnesses and material evidence. It would be better to save our breath and find a way out for the children, after all, their house will be searched and confiscate its possessions and property soon, and what will happen to the whole family after that?”

 

Mrs Zhao froze at the old lady’s words and sat on the bed in a daze until the door of her room was opened and closed again, only then did she come back from her trance, and then covered her face and began to cry.

 

The old madam walked to the doorway, looked at the pairs of eyes staring at her, straightened her thin back, and instructed towards the people: ”Butler Xu, you go prepare a coffin, and ask someone to get the funeral hall ready and prepare a set of grave clothes for all the people in the family. Grandma Jin, you go and prepare some of Lao Ye’s favorite food. Feicui, you go and bring me the account book that Madam has in her hand!”

 

The people whose names were named were surprised and wanted to ask something, but after seeing the Old Madam’s expressionless face they all dismissed the idea, made a salute and hurriedly went to do their work.

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