My concubine is pregnant, I tear up the marriage certificate and marry another powerful official

"The bedsores have been festering and festering for the past few days, and the anger has taken its toll on my body. I've lost too much internal energy, and there's no cure. I'm afraid I won't survive much longer."

The expected statement did not surprise Zhang too much.

Since Lu Yanxiu and Liu Qiuqiu left yesterday, Zhang couldn't sleep all night, thinking back to the chaotic years of her life, which all started when she was sold to the Lu family as a child bride.

Liu was her mother-in-law, cunning and shrewd, always making things difficult for her. Before the Lu family became rich, she was often bullied, and it was common for her to be hungry and cold.

But her husband Lu Chengye was a playboy who was fond of red-light districts. Because of that little thing in his crotch, he ignored her and despised her.

The three children born were all given by Liu.

Zhang still remembered that Lu Chengye was standing by the bed, pulling up his pants, glancing at her with a dull look: "You are just a piece of wood!"

Lu Chengye wanted to bring the brothel girls back home to be his concubines, but Zhang refused. While he was away, she tied up several brothel girls and sold them to human traffickers. Finally, she sent them to wealthy families to be maids.

She didn't know that she was the woman that Lu Chengye had spent all his family fortune to redeem. During their quarrel, Lu Chengye accidentally broke her legs and she lost her freedom since then.

But until now, Zhang's parents' family, who live thousands of miles away in a rural town, still take it for granted that she lives a life of luxury.

"Mother, you look tired. Put on some rosy lip balm to look more energetic."

Su He dressed Zhang in a lavender plain silk dress and combed her hair into her favorite heart-shaped bun. The rosy and shiny lip rouge added a lot of color, and she didn't look like a sick person at all.

Zhang reached out to touch the tassels on the edge of her hair. She had beautiful eyebrows and a delicate head, and her temperament was as elegant as orchid. She never was more beautiful than the one in the bronze mirror.

"Will the mother blame her daughter-in-law in her heart?" Su He lowered her eyes.

The rumor in the mansion was that she was jealous of Liu Qiuqiu and wanted to threaten Lu Yanxiu by not taking care of her mother-in-law.

Zhang said, "I am Yan Xiu's mother. He can't even do what you do. How can I blame him for this?"

If it weren't for Su He, she would have died earlier and would never see her own life so vividly again.

"Yan Xiu..." Zhang hesitated and turned the topic to her other two children, "Zhili and Yunqing are much younger. After I leave, please take care of them for the sake of our past friendship."

Lu Zhili and Lu Yunqing are Zhang's second son and youngest daughter.

Hearing this, Su He felt the divorce letter in her arms getting hot.

Lu Yanxiu has not yet fully announced the matter, and Zhang still doesn't know about it, so she was asked to take care of her younger siblings as a sister-in-law.

but……

Wasn’t the care provided by Su He in the previous life enough?

Lu Zhili was eighteen years old and wanted to take the imperial examination to become an official. Lu Yanxiu had limited connections and could not find a better teacher to tutor him, let alone the threshold to enter the Imperial College. It was Su He who went to her mother's house to ask her father for help and allowed Lu Zhili to be admitted to the Imperial College as an exception.

There were many young noblemen in the Imperial College, and Lu Zhili, the younger brother of a fifth-rank official, was bound to be impolite in some ways, so all the troubles he caused were resolved by Su He.

Not to mention his entry into officialdom after the imperial examination, all the things Su He took care of for him in officialdom... it cost a lot of money and face!

Lu Yunqing wanted to interact with noble ladies, broaden her horizons, and marry a rich woman. Su He took her to various events in the capital, and tried her best to find the most expensive silks and satins, the finest cosmetics and creams, and even the items used by the empresses in the palace for her to use.

When it came to discussing marriage, he actively searched for young men from wealthy families to help her marry into a wealthy family and realize her wish.

Su He does everything herself simply because she feels sorry for their deceased father and disabled mother, and she wants to be a good role model as a sister-in-law. She truly regards them as her closest siblings!

How did the two repay her?

After Lu Yunqing got married as she wished, she became estranged from Su He, but she kept calling Liu Qiuqiu "good sister-in-law". She even said nonsense in front of Su He, saying that she didn't want to call a woman who couldn't give birth to a child her sister-in-law, and she even took the initiative to propose to Lu Yanxiu to divorce his wife!

Not long after Lu Zhili entered the court as an official, the Su family was framed by Lu Yanxiu for treason... Lu Zhili pleaded guilty to the emperor and even had the audacity to make up a lie, saying that during the imperial examination that year, the Minister of Rites Su Ronghai sent someone to leak the test questions to him!

The emperor once asked, "Is this true?"

Lu Zhili knelt in the magnificent palace and spoke sincerely: "Every word I said is true! It was because Su Ronghai sent someone to leak the exam questions that year that I did not participate in that imperial examination! I passed the exam in the spring three years later..."

“Why didn’t you report it then?”

Lu Zhili's voice trembled: "Your Majesty, you don't know that my eldest sister-in-law is the daughter of Su Ronghai. If I had reported this to your Majesty at that time, I'm afraid my disabled mother and elderly grandmother...would not have escaped my eldest sister-in-law's frame-up!"

This false testimony made the Su family even more miserable and left them with nowhere to go.

As his thoughts wandered, Su He came back to his senses.

I remembered that I hadn’t seen Lu Zhili and Lu Yunqing in the past few days.

Because Lu Zhili was studying at the Imperial College, he seldom went home. As for Lu Yunqing... it seemed as if she was deliberately avoiding him.

That's right, Mrs. Liu had known about Liu Qiuqiu's existence for a long time, and had sent her a lot of good things after she gave birth. Lu Yunqing must have known all about it, and she didn't show up on purpose just because she was afraid of saying something wrong and putting her brother in trouble.

Now that I think about it, I shed tears and felt so heartbroken, all because of the stray dog.

"Zhili and Yunqing have always been sensible and well-behaved. I don't need to worry about them." Su He had too much dissatisfaction and resentment in his heart, but he couldn't vent it in front of Zhang. When he mentioned the two of them, his tone was obviously different from before.

"I haven't seen the sun for a long time. Push me out for a walk." Zhang said. She looked out the window and saw birds flying across the clouds.

Su He pushed her into the yard. Lu Yanxiu and a group of maids were standing by one side. When they saw their mother dressed so brightly, their pupils slightly widened and it was difficult for them to recognize her for a moment.

He turned to Su He and saw her pushing Zhang with tears in her eyes.

After walking around the yard several times like this, Zhang finally lost interest. She asked Su He to stop and leaned over to whisper something to her.

Lu Yanxiu squinted his eyes and watched, not knowing what the two were talking about.

"Mother!"

Lu Yunqing arrived late and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Zhang, who was dressed in a wheelchair. Seeing that she was out of breath and didn't look like a lady, Lu Yanxiu scolded her casually, "You are a rich lady after all, you are panting and shouting, you are not in good shape!"

Lu Yunqing lowered her eyes: "I just heard that my mother..."

The maids all said that her life was coming to an end, and I was afraid...

Although she had no feelings for her mother, she was still a blood relative. Lu Yunqing didn't feel sad, but she was a little depressed.

Zhang finished talking to Su He. She raised her brows, looked at Lu Yunqing, and waved her over.

Lu Yunqing could feel her mother's skinny hands caressing her, the shape of the bones was clearly visible, it was really scary.