CH 53.1

53. Claiming Lives (1)

Yu Qingjia pleaded guilty and knelt down.

Soon, the lights in Yu Laojun’s room were brightly lit, and everyone was awakened by the commotion.

Since everyone was moving around, no matter how careful they were, the curtains would not close tightly.

The night breeze whistled in through the gaps, and when the cold winter wind blew, Yu Laojun’s remaining drowsiness dissipated.

She is too old to stay up, she was already sleepy and had a headache, but now that she was hit by the cold wind, it seemed that even her brain throbbed dully.

Yu Qingya and Madam Li also got up in a hurry.

They hadn’t been asleep for a long time, and they were suddenly called up when they were just in the middle of falling asleep.

They were so startled that their appearance didn’t look so good.

At least Yu Qingya was young, But Madam Li’s skin was sagging, dry and yellow, and she couldn’t even hide her old age.

Madam Li used to see people with the image of a dignified lady, but now that she was no longer covered by makeup and powder, everyone realized that she had become like this.

Madam Li’s appearance was originally unremarkable, she was simply relying entirely on her makeup and clothes.

Since she got up in a hurry, she didn’t have a high bun or fancy dress on her body.

Everyone saw that her complexion was sallow with her hair disheveled.

She actually looked like a yellow-faced woman 1(yellow-faced woman, is often referred to as “黃臉婆” (yellow-face wife). It describes a woman who has been married for a long time. The (face) color indicates that she has aged with the burden of housework. Ancient women’s cosmetics are backwards, with face powder containing lead, and those generally used are toxic, long-term use can also lead to pale yellowness. So in older women, the longer the time of use, the more severe it looked.), a far cry from her original appearance.

The maids were secretly staring at Madam Li’s appearance at the moment, each with their own thoughts.

Madam Li didn’t notice that her aging appearance was completely seen by others, her eyes were so sleepy now, but because of Yu Laojun, she couldn’t even yawn.

Madam Li braced herself up and asked, “Sixth Miss, what’s going on here?”

Yu Qingjia said with an honest and sincere expression,

“I followed the fourth sister’s reminder, to pull up the quilt for Yu Laojun every half an hour. But when I came over to tuck the quilt, I didn’t know what I did wrong, which made Yu Laojun displeased. This is the reason why Yu Laojun started giving me a lecture. I didn’t expect to disturb my aunt and fourth sister, which really made this Sixth Miss feel very sorry.”

Madam Li was speechless for a moment, she thought that Yu Laojun had fallen ill at night, but it turned out that she was just tucking in her quilt?

Apparently, Yu Laojun also thought it was quite ridiculous.

But now that the room was full of people, and Yu Qingjia looked obedient and filial again, she would seem to be intentionally making things difficult for others if she lost her composure this time.

Yu Laojun was agitated by the cold air outside, she had a headache, so she pressed her forehead.

She really didn’t have the energy to speak, so she said weakly, “All right, I’m fine here, you all go down.”

Yu Qingjia still knelt on the ground and refused to get up, so Yu Laojun had no choice but to say,

“You can also get up too, your heart is good, just be careful in the future. From now on, be more mindful of your actions.”

This is tantamount to saying that Yu Qingjia is not at fault, so Yu Qingjia slowly got up, still standing meekly and obediently at the side.

Everyone was tossed around suddenly, and now that they know it was just a false alarm, they can’t say whether they are all relieved or helpless.

They can only go back again under the bombardment of the cold wind.

However, before they could say their goodbyes, they inevitably had to say a few words about what happened, it took a while, and so after everyone went out, time had already passed for a long time.

Yu Laojun has never stayed up so late before, she has long lost her energy, so she quickly laid back on the bed to rest as soon as the lamp was turned off.

Now Yu Laojun had no intention of calling Yu Qingjia, she thought she could finally live in peace for a while, since she hasn’t caused any trouble, but that does not mean that the other person will let her off so easily.

So when Yu Laojun was about to to fall asleep, she heard Yu Qingjia ask softly,

“Laojun, do you want some water?”

Yu Laojun was so dazed and confused that she barely had the strength to speak.

She just moved her lips a little, and Yu Qingjia interpreted her meaning as a need to drink, so she thoughtfully brought a glass of water to her mouth and fed it to her.

After being fed to drink a glass of water, Yu Laojun’s sleepiness that she had finally aroused was gone again.

It was extremely uncomfortable for the elderly to stay up late, and Yu Qingjia saw that Yu Laojun was tossing and turning and couldn’t sleep, so she filially came over to give her great-grandmother’s legs a massage.

However, Yu Qingjia didn’t know where the beauty massager was placed, so she lit the lamp and opened the heavy closet to look around.

When the lights in the main room turned on with a faint sound of rummaging through things, the maids outside couldn’t sleep again.

A servant girl of the main courtyard hurriedly put on her clothes, raised the lamp and stood outside the curtain and asked,

“Sixth Miss, what are you looking for?”

“Laojun is not feeling well, I want to give Laojun’s legs a massage, but where did you keep the beauty massager?”

The maid had no choice but to lift the curtain to enter, and help Yu Qingjia find something.

The small beauty massager was soon handed over to Yu Qingjia and she tried it on her hands.

Now she was not in a hurry to give Yu Laojun a leg massage.

She simply asked,

“I saw that Yu Laojun is sleeping restlessly, she kept turning over and over. I remember, that my fourth sister sent Yu Laojun a calming incense before, please take it out and light it for Yu Laojun.”

The maid was stunned by her question, “Sixth Miss, it might take a while to find the incense, it’s already so late at night, and I’m afraid it might be difficult for us to find it. So why don’t we wait until tomorrow at dawn and I will personally come to find the spices for you?”

“How can this be possible?”

Yu Qingjia said righteously,

“Yu Laojun is not sleeping well now, so how can we, who were from the younger generation, wrong her for fear of causing trouble? Hurry up and find it so Yu Laojun can sleep well.”

The maid was speechless.