NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 66: Nauseating
Chapter 66: Nauseating
As soon as they entered, they noticed that Qiao Nian was already awake.
Madam Lin’s eyes immediately welled up with tears. She rushed to the bedside, looking at Qiao Nian with teary eyes, “You’re awake? Finally awake, it’s good that you’re awake…”
As Madam Lin spoke, two streams of hot tears rolled down her cheeks.
Lin Yuan, also with reddened eyes, followed to Madam Lin’s side and looked at Qiao Nian, her voice choked with tears, “Sister has finally woken up. Mother’s daily prayers and chanting weren’t in vain. If sister hadn’t woken up soon, I was worried mother would cry herself blind…”
Hearing Lin Yuan’s words, Madam Lin’s tears fell even more fiercely.
Qiao Nian’s brows furrowed slightly, and she remained silent.
She only felt waves of nausea rising in her heart.
She couldn’t understand how people could be so hypocritical.
They were the ones who sent her to her death.
Yet they were also the ones rushing to mourn her!
If someone who didn’t know the circumstances saw this, wouldn’t they praise these women?
It was truly nauseating.
Qiao Nian turned her head away.
Seeing this, Madam Lin sobbed as she slowly sat down by the bed, “Nian Nian, mother knows you’re angry, but I can explain this to you. Don’t ignore mother, alright?”
“Yes, sister, mother…”
Lin Yuan’s voice rose, only making Qiao Nian feel more irritated.
Just as she was about to speak and send them away, unexpectedly, Ning Shuang suddenly stood up and forcibly pushed Madam Lin and Lin Yuan aside, “Madam, the young miss has just woken up from severe injuries and can’t be agitated. You should go outside to cry!”
This maid had become bold enough to even drive away the mistress of the Marquis’s household!
But she was right to do so!
The doctor nearby also quickly spoke up, “Madam, let me check the young miss’s pulse!”
Hearing this, Madam Lin nodded repeatedly and made way.
However, she didn’t leave but stood at a distance, watching with great concern, occasionally wiping away tears.
The doctor checked Qiao Nian’s pulse and said that she had suffered severe damage to her constitution and needed a good period of quiet rest to recover.
Hearing this, Ning Shuang became even more righteous, “Madam, you’ve heard what the doctor said. Our young miss needs quiet rest. You should leave quickly! If the young miss gets agitated and something happens to her because of you… You surely don’t want to drive our young miss to her death, do you?”
These words were incredibly harsh.
It wasn’t something a maid should say.
But the young miss’s injuries were just too severe!
That day, when she and the other maids from Fanghe Court helped the young miss remove her clothes, the bloody and mangled scene had shocked them all!
Even this morning, when they talked about it, the maids’ eyes would still redden with indignation for the young miss.
People’s hearts are made of flesh.
Ning Shuang couldn’t understand how Madam Lin could be so heartless, so as she spoke, she lost control of her emotions, only realizing after she finished how daring she had been.
Madam Lin never expected a mere maid to stab at her heart like this. She stared at Ning Shuang with a shocked expression, unable to utter a word.
Seeing Madam Lin being bullied, Lin Yuan quickly stood in front of her and angrily rebuked Ning Shuang, “You maid, I thought you weren’t a good one last time! It was bad enough that you bullied me that day, but now you dare to bully even the mistress of the Marquis’s household! Don’t think that because my mother is kind-hearted, she can’t do anything about you. If sister doesn’t know how to discipline her maids, then I’ll do it for her today!”
As she spoke, Lin Yuan was about to rush forward to slap Ning Shuang.
However, a pillow suddenly flew at her, hitting her squarely in the face.
“It’s not your place to discipline my maid. Get out!” Qiao Nian shouted fiercely from the bed. The movement of throwing the pillow had pulled at the wounds on her back, causing excruciating pain.
Her hoarse voice conveyed her anger perfectly.
Lin Yuan’s eyes immediately reddened, “Sister, it’s your maid who’s being too disrespectful. I, I’m only trying to help sister…”
“Get out!” Qiao Nian shouted angrily again. Seeing they still didn’t move, her eyes fixed on Madam Lin behind Lin Yuan, “Does Madam Lin really want to drive me to my death?”
Madam Lin’s face was instantly covered in tears as she waved her hands in denial, “No, no, I’m your mother, how could I want to drive you to your death…”
Qiao Nian’s face was full of irritation, her breathing becoming rapid.
Seeing this, the doctor nearby quickly stepped forward and bowed to Madam Lin, “Madam, the young miss’s injuries are too severe and she needs quiet rest. If you have anything to say, please come back in a few days! Please…”
He made a gesture of invitation towards Madam Lin, his attitude very firm.
Due to the doctor’s special status, everyone in the Marquis’s household respected him greatly. Even if Marquis Lin were present today, they would have to obediently leave after the doctor’s words.
So, Madam Lin could only look at Qiao Nian tearfully one last time before leading the aggrieved Lin Yuan out.
As the door closed, Qiao Nian felt the whole world fall silent.
She couldn’t understand how Madam Lin could cry so naturally earlier, as if her heart was truly breaking.
As if she wasn’t the root cause of all this!
And that Lin Yuan was even more absurd!
How could they cry so rightfully, as if the whole world had wronged them!
They truly were mother and daughter!
Thinking of this, Qiao Nian couldn’t help but feel fortunate.
Fortunate that she had no blood relation to the people in this Marquis’s household!
She would never be as heartless, as hypocritical, as nauseating as them!
How good that was.
Qiao Nian stayed in bed for another two days.
On the sixth day, despite Ning Shuang’s dissuasion, she got out of bed.
“Young miss, the wounds on your back are still bleeding. Why don’t you rest for a couple more days?” Ning Shuang gently persuaded while helping Qiao Nian with her makeup.
Qiao Nian looked at her haggard face in the mirror and shook her head slightly, “I need to pay my respects to grandmother. If I wait too long, grandmother will worry.”
She hadn’t seen her grandmother for a full five days. If she didn’t go soon, grandmother might see through their well-intentioned lie.
Ning Shuang knew that only Old Madam in this household was truly good to her young miss, so it was natural for her young miss to care for Old Madam.
But…
“But your injuries…”
“It’s alright.” Qiao Nian smiled gently at Ning Shuang, “I’ll just go pay my respects and come back. Put some more rouge on my face. I don’t want grandmother to see me looking so haggard.”
Ning Shuang was a thousand times unwilling, but she still applied beautiful makeup for Qiao Nian and dressed her in the prettiest clothes before they left Fanghe Court.
Qiao Nian walked very slowly.
She felt that if she walked even slightly faster, the flesh on her back would start tearing apart.
By the time she finally reached the entrance of Old Madam’s courtyard, a thin layer of cold sweat had formed on her forehead.
She took a deep breath, adjusted her state, and then stepped into Old Madam’s courtyard.
But before she could see Old Madam, she already heard Lin Ye and others laughing in the flower hall.
It seemed… Xiao Heng was there too!