Marrying Wife and Concubine Together: After Rebirth, I Remarried the Scumbag's Father on the Sp

Chapter 476: Burden

Mrs. Lu naturally understood her mother-in-law's difficulties. Over the years, she seemed to be in a good position, but in fact, she was seriously dragged down by the sickly eldest son in the mansion.

Although he was terminally ill, he still held the heart of his father-in-law, Duke of England.

Lu Dongnan once threatened that as long as the eldest son was alive, no one could touch his mother's dowry.

For so many years, we have relied on my mother-in-law's dowry to support all the expenses of the house, and we have long been unable to make ends meet.

If it weren't for her status as a princess, the entire Duke of England's mansion would have fallen into decline long ago.

She took a deep breath and said, "Mother, you spent all the money you had so hard to collect on this life-extending pill. Are you really going to give it to that sickly person? If he lives one more day, we can't touch his mother's dowry!"

Madam Lu's mocking gaze fell on the purple brocade box. She whispered, "Don't worry, this life-threatening pill will be very effective!"

As soon as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to the Duke of Yingguo's mansion, they saw Lu Dongnan with white hair rushing towards them in panic.

He yelled angrily, "Where have you been? Do you know that Qingyu is sick again?"

Madam Lu quickly explained, "Don't be upset, father. Today, the Fang family held a fundraising banquet for the soldiers fighting on the border. They teamed up with the wife of the Marquis of Zhan Yi, Lin Yiwan, to donate two life-extending pills as a prize. Mother worked tirelessly to raise 15,000 taels of silver, and finally managed to buy one for the eldest young master!"

No matter how great the dissatisfaction was in southeastern Shandong, it was suppressed in an instant.

He had long known that Madam Lu was also living a tight life, and that the prince was not doing his job properly, spending all his time in debauchery. How could the mansion have any income?

But she managed to scrape together so much money to buy the life-extending pills, which was enough to show that she really cared about Qing Yu.

He immediately said with guilt: "Madam, I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to go to buy the life-extending pills for Qingyu. I wronged you!"

Madam Lu walked quickly forward, not even looking up as she spoke, "You and I are husband and wife, why are we saying those strange words? Qingyu may not be my flesh and blood, but seeing him lingering on his sickbed for so many years, I feel heartbroken. How could I just watch him get seriously ill and do nothing?"

As they were talking, the couple had already arrived at Lu Qingyu's room.

At this moment, the frail young man lying on the bed suddenly became emotional. He shouted angrily, "Get out! Get out now!"

Lu Dongnan's expression suddenly changed, and he asked anxiously, "Son, what's wrong with you?"

Lu Qingyu's face turned pale and ugly. He gritted his teeth and shouted angrily: "Get out! Don't you understand what I said? Get out of here!"

Just when Lu Dongnan was at a loss, Madam Lu rushed forward, lifted the quilt and said, "I'm afraid that the eldest son has wet the bed again? I'm here, and I can help you clean it up!"

Seeing her skillfully pull away the wet quilt, Lu Dongnan's eyes immediately turned red.

He felt that he was such a bad person. How could there be a stepmother in this world who would change the diaper of her seriously ill son?

Mrs. Lu naturally couldn't stay in the house anymore, so she immediately walked out quickly.

Coming under the eaves, she squinted her eyes and murmured, "Yinyin, your aunt will definitely avenge you. Walk slowly on the Naihe Bridge and let the Lin family go faster. Maybe you can run into them!"

She ordered people to buy a fine coffin for Pei Yinyin and buried her in the Pei family's farm outside Beijing.

When she came back after finishing her work, she saw that Old Madam Lu had already come out of the room of the eldest son Lu Qingyu.

She said inconspicuously, "Ask the kitchen to make another bowl of Ganoderma lucidum soup for the eldest son. Don't worry about the money. Others can suffer a little, but you must not let him suffer even a little bit!"

"Yes, daughter-in-law will give the order right away!" Mrs. Lu Shao agreed quickly.

Old Madam Lu left with her, and only Lu Dongnan and his son were left facing each other in the room.

After a long moment, he spoke first: "Son, what are you still on guard for? Even now, do you still think this stepmother isn't sincere to you? She's a princess of the current dynasty, a royal princess, yet she changes your diapers. Even your father can't do that!"

Lu Qingyu's eyes were frighteningly red. He bit his thin lips hard but said nothing.

Lu Dongnan continued chattering, "You heard what she said outside just now. Ganoderma lucidum is so expensive, yet she insisted on giving it to you. Also, do you know what she did when she went out today? She donated all the money she had scraped together, a full 15,000 taels, in exchange for a life-saving pill for you!"

Lu Qingyu turned his head to look at him: "Father, do you want me to hand over all the dowry left by mother to her?"

Lu Dongnan frowned and advised: "Father just wants to tell you that your stepmother really has nothing to say about you. Just because she changed your diaper with her own hands, you shouldn't reject her like this!"

He paused and smiled bitterly, "Qing Yu, if your mother were alive, she wouldn't necessarily be able to do this, would she? Your mother can't stand the slightest bit of dirt. When you accidentally soiled her clothes as a child, she would get furious. She never had eyes for you. All she had were those exotic flowers and plants and those paintings gathering dust in the cupboard!"

Lu Qingyu clenched his fists hidden under the quilt. He closed his eyes tightly and said, "Father, I'm tired. You go out first!"

Lu Dongnan sighed in frustration, turned around and walked out quickly.

He didn't know at this moment that a different picture was emerging in his son's mind.

He had not yet fallen ill at that time, but one time he came back from the academy drunk.

He stumbled into his room and just as he lay down on the bed, a woman suddenly jumped into his arms.

He was unconscious at the time and was also young and full of vigor. How could he bear it?

When the clouds and rain stopped, he fell asleep in the light fragrance of cloud camellia.

When he woke up, the bed looked as if no one had been there.

Only the fragrance of Camellia lingered in the nose for a long time.

Later, he learned that his stepmother liked to use cloud camellia scented powder to fumigate her clothes. It was a kind of flower with a strong and unique fragrance that came from the place where she married, and it was not found in the prosperous dynasty.

Thinking about what they had done that night, he felt regretful and blamed himself.

He originally wanted to go to his father to apologize, but he was afraid that it was just his imagination. After all, it happened when he was drunk, and he himself couldn't be sure.

Overwhelmed with worry, he moved directly to the academy and never returned to the Duke's Mansion.

It was not until he suddenly became seriously ill that he was sent back to his room.

Every time she came to take care of his medicine personally, he just wanted to speak out the questions that were weighing on his heart.

But in the end I still couldn't open my mouth!

He knew better than anyone that no matter whether the story was true or false, as long as he said it out loud, the entire Duke of England's mansion would be finished.

At this moment, he felt that the woman was deliberately torturing him.