The Evil Man’s Lazy Lady Chapter 62 (Part 1)
Chapter 62: Ah Lan’s Thoughts (1) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
The Shu family was the prestigious Xinglin (honorific term for fine doctors) family in the capital. Among its ancestors, more than a dozen people worked in the Imperial Academy of Medicine. Three of them were tired officials and were sentenced to the fifth rank in court, including Shu Maoting’s grandfather Shu Huai, who was later involved in the secret affairs of the concubines and heirs in the harem. He took the initiative to take the blame and resigned. He opened a medical clinic together with his second son. With the medical skills passed down by the Shu family, he also gained fame in just a few years.
But saving lives was risky. When encountering intractable diseases, and healed, family members of the patient were grateful, and couldn’t wait to praise you as the reincarnation of Hua Tuo (famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty). If the doctor was not good, their complexion changed in an instant, call you a quack doctor, and couldn’t wait to smash your clinic and drown you with spitter stars. Generally, rich and noble people were tolerable, at most they only scolded you a few words, but if you encountered those unreasonable, powerful, and influential, a doctor would suffer a calamity.
Shu Huai’s eldest son had an old-fashioned personality and devoted himself to studying medicine. He hadn’t married when he was 23 years old. He didn’t expect to be framed by the concubine of Marquis Anping’s residence. He carried the black pot of the marchioness’s miscarriage and was severely disabled by the grumpy marquis. He was carried home and died the next day. The other party was a former favorite of the emperor in power with many military exploits, and the “evidence was conclusive”. Shu Huai had to knock down his teeth and swallow blood. After resigning from office, he took advantage of the time at home to patiently teach his second son how to behave in the world, not to be used by villains for doing good deeds.
It also blamed him for having a bad life. His second son had a smooth temperament, but unfortunately, he was a romantic child. He didn’t care about his wife’s face, spent most of his time drinking outside, and carried concubines one after another home. In the end, he provoked the young lady of a third-rank official’s family. She insisted on marrying him home in the name of a flat wife, and his wife who was eight months pregnant was so angry that she died in childbirth, leaving behind a poor premature son, Shu Maoting. If it wasn’t for Shu Huai to take care of him personally, one was afraid that Shu Maoting, who lost his mother at a young age, would also follow his mother.
That was a good thing, the flat wife directly became the stepmother.
The stepmother was a tyrannical and domineering person. She fought with the concubines when she entered the door, causing chickens and dogs to jump around in the backyard. She also forced her husband to dismiss all his concubines by relying on her strong background. Shu Huai was old. He had no intention or ability to intervene in the affairs of his second son. He only educated Shu Maoting wholeheartedly, personally enlightened him, taught him to identify various medicinal materials, taught him the art of fine doctors, and expected him to stir up the beam of the Shu family. However, after thousands of calculations, he didn’t even count that the stepmother was a ruthless one. She often bullied and suppressed the young Shu Maoting when he went out to see patients, either he was short of clothes or she condoned verbal insults from her servants. In the long run, Shu Maoting hardly dared to return to this family. If he hadn’t had a loving grandfather, he would have left long ago.
Shu Maoting didn’t want to trouble his gray-haired grandfather because of his own affairs, so he kept swallowing his breath. Later, when the stepmother saw he was getting more and more promising, she wanted to arrange a marriage for him. Shu Maoting naturally refused to be at her mercy, but as Shu Huai went out for more than a month, the stepmother tried every means to stuff one of her nieces to him. Who would have thought the ugly woman had an affair with the little servant in secret, the bead fetus was secretly bound, and she was already worried. But seeing Shu Maoting’s jade tree facing the wind, she actually cooperated with the stepmother’s strategy and got drunk and framed him. Shu Maoting refused to admit it. His father was so angry and beat him hard. The young and vigorous Shu Maoting was impulsive and ran away from home resolutely.
“When I came home, your father only said you had harmed someone’s daughter, but you didn’t want to be responsible and ran away. Naturally, I didn’t believe it. However, I made people inquire about it, and there was no news. I had to stop. I hope you still remember my old bones and come home soon. Unexpectedly, you are also cruel and heartless, which has made me wait for more than ten years in vain!” Shu Huai sat on the heated-brick bed and stared at Shu Maoting with a look of grief.
Shu Maoting and Qin-shi knelt side by side on the ground, the former said bitterly: “It’s not that this grandson doesn’t think about you, it’s just that his father was like that, this grandson really doesn’t want to go back.” If he didn’t go back, his grandfather didn’t have to work hard for his affairs.
Shu Huai took a long sigh, looked at the young couple in front of him, and said in a low voice: “It’s over, it’s over. All were old past events, and there was no point in pursuing them. Now that your father has also gone, and your stepmother has remarried, I am the only old bones left in the family, are you willing to go back with me now?”
Shu Maoting was shocked, looked up in disbelief, and his voice was intermittent: “Father, why did he...”
“There’s no need to mention his romantic debt owed by the previous life. If I hadn’t seen Ah Zhan on the street and saw he looked almost the same as you when you were young, and quietly inquired about his origins, I’m afraid I still wouldn’t know your news. I will be alone until I die, and there is no one to collect the corpse!”
Thinking of those years of loneliness, Shu Huai’s sadness came from it, and tears loomed in his cloudy eyes. Heaven had pity when he was about to die, he found his long-lost grandson and his great-grandson was the highest rank of the Imperial examination as the number one scholar. The Shu family finally had a successor. Now, his only wish was to pass on his medical skills to his grandson who was in his prime, while he still had the breath, so that he could go in peace.
Hearing such remarks from his grandfather who had always loved him, Shu Maoting felt extremely guilty and kowtowed three times to him. When he thought of his father, who was separated by yin and yang, there was a glint of water in his eyes. He hated that person for condoning his stepmother’s abuse and hated him for not believing him at all, but after all, it was a kinship of flesh and blood. When he heard the news of his biological father’s death, he still blamed himself a little, and then he thought of his grandfather’s lonely life for so many years, he was really sad.
Qin-shi basically understood because she felt sorry for her husband’s childhood situation and sympathized with the 70-year-old man in front of her, so she didn’t want to blame her husband for years of concealment.
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