Chapter 598: First Chance (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Yanfei, you’re much better than Ah Qin.” Fan Mushuang teased Lu Qin with a smile. “She didn’t score and even got one point deducted.”
Lu Qin pouted and said coquettishly, “I just recovered from a serious illness, so I slipped up.”
Wei Jiaoniang stuffed Lu Qin’s right wrist into Gu Yanfei’s hands. “Yanfei, treat her.”
Lu Qin stuck out her tongue and was about to beg for mercy, but her wrist was already pressed down by Gu Yanfei.
Gu Yanfei checked her pulse and quickly let go. She smiled and said, “You can stop eating the doctor’s medicine.”
“Really?!” Lu Qin’s eyes lit up as if she had taken some miracle pill. She was instantly energized. “I’ve told my mother many times that I’ve recovered, but my mother didn’t believe me and insisted that I drink bitter medicine three times a day.”
“Hehe, Yanfei, if you say I’m good, my mother will definitely believe you!”
Lu Qin smiled from ear to ear as if she had received a treasured sword.
Hearing Lu Qin say that she drank medicine every day, Wei Jiaoniang showed a sympathetic expression. “Poor Ah Qin.”
“I’m fine now.” Lu Qin touched her nose and lowered her voice. She grabbed Gu Yanfei’s sleeve with one hand. “Previously, the two days I fainted were really…”
She bit her lower lip and had lingering fears. Her pupils constricted slightly. “That feeling is too terrifying. It was as if… as if I had been buried alive. I couldn’t breathe. My soul seemed to have been extracted from my body.”
“At that time, I thought I was really going to die…”
Recalling the feeling at that time, Lu Qin patted her chest with lingering fear. The feeling of her soul being extracted was too terrifying, too lonely, and too despairing. It was as if she was the only one left in the world, as if her soul was imprisoned by chains.
Lu Qin’s body trembled violently.
Wei Jiaoniang held Lu Qin’s shoulder and sat down on a bench by the lake. She comforted her with heartache. “Ah Qin, you’ll definitely have good fortune after surviving a calamity.”
However, Lu Qin wasn’t comforted at all. She said with a bitter face, “I don’t know if I’ll have blessings in the future. I’ve been too miserable these past few days.”
“It wasn’t easy for me to wake up. My mother and father were holding me. Not only did they feed me medicine every day, but they also insisted that I lie on the couch all day and didn’t allow me to go out. If it wasn’t for National Day, I wouldn’t have gone out today.”
During this period of time, Lu Qin felt like she was in jail and couldn’t go anywhere. Wherever she went, there were people watching her.
What was even more terrifying was that her mother seemed to have become a completely different person. She was very careful when talking to her. That kind of attitude that made her afraid of falling and melting made Lu Qin feel as if every day was a year.
Gu Yanfei’s gaze moved between Lu Qin’s eyebrows. She took out a red brocade bag from her sleeve and handed it to her. “This is a calming talisman. Keep it.”
“When we get back, I’ll send you some calming incense. Light it every night when you sleep.”
Lu Qin’s body was fine now, but her soul had left her body once, so it was still a little unstable. She should be fine after using the calming incense for a few days.
“Yanfei, you’re the best!” Lu Qin held the brocade bag as if she had obtained a treasure. She tilted her face and leaned against Gu Yanfei’s shoulder. She smiled brightly, like a kitten rubbing against its owner.
Staring at Lu Qin’s thin face, Wei Jiaoniang also felt her heart ache. She gritted her teeth and said, “The Hua family is so hateful! Do you know what happened to the Hua family after that?”
Gu Yanfei shook her head. After that, she never paid attention to the Hua family again.
Of course, Lu Qin knew. She rubbed the brocade bag with one hand and pursed her lips. “Hua Xi and Hua Zhao are both dead. The Hua couple was sent to the capital’s prison. I heard that Madam Hua went crazy because of the deaths of her two sons. She kept muttering that this is retribution.”
“After the Hua family’s case spread, a few families complained to the imperial capital. They were all families that had been married to the Hua family in secret in the past few decades. They said that if Old Master Hua died, his sons could pay with their lives.”
“My father said that this case isn’t easy to decide. Originally, this case involved more than 10 years ago, or even 40 years ago. It was so long ago that the people involved were all dead. There was no evidence, and there was no precedent to follow. Those victims are pitiful, but it’s probably not appropriate for the sins of their ancestors to be borne by their descendants.. I reckon there’s still a fight at the imperial capital and the Court of Judicial Review…”