Chapter 781 - 374: Do Something_1
After the feast and the child’s first washing, the guests gradually left. However, during the meal and the child’s washing ceremony, Huo Shuqin did not appear. Perhaps Grandma Huo really told Huo Ming about Huo Shuqin’s behavior that morning, and Huo Ming, fearing she might speak out of turn in front of everyone, did not let her appear.
On the way home, Qian Yixiu kept thinking that the Huo mother and daughter wanted the Qian family to speak for them to the Crown Prince. Well then, she would do exactly that. Tomorrow, she would make a trip to the Eastern Palace and tell Zhu Sujin that there was a ticking time bomb in the Eastern Palace and that he must take preventative measures and make proper arrangements.
However, shortly after returning to the Liang Mansion, she received shocking news—Huo Shuqin was dead.
Huo Shuqin died in the Huo family household, and Huo Ming went to the Palace again to confess his guilt to the Emperor. It was said that Huo Shuqin, feeling upset, went for a walk with her maid and both accidentally fell into a lake and drowned.
Qian Yixiu guessed that Huo Shuqin was likely executed by Huo Ming. Although she felt that there must be something hateful about a pitiable person like Huo Shuqin, she still thought that Huo Ming was too cruel and ruthless. No matter her faults, Huo Shuqin was his own daughter; how could he have had her killed?
Sister Zeng, however, said that Huo Ming did the right thing. No wonder the Emperor admired him for being decisive and efficient in his actions. Now, Huo Shuqin was like someone who had lost their mind. She wasn’t married into an ordinary family but to the Crown Prince, and her imagined enemies were still the Crown Princess Consort and Huang Liangdi. If she caused any trouble in the Eastern Palace, his Huo family would face being executed to the last member. Women in the palace could neither be divorced nor legally separated, so other than having her killed, there was no other way.
Even with Sister Zeng saying so, Qian Yixiu still felt uneasy and didn’t sleep well that night. She kept seeing Huo Shuqin’s bright, slightly upturned phoenix eyes before her—the eyes Huo Shuqin had before she had children, beautiful, bright, and full of hope for the future.
She was only eighteen this year; if it were her previous life, she would have been just a high school senior, in the most beautiful time of her life, not yet entering the complex social world. Yet now, she had already married, given birth to a daughter, lost a son, and reached the end of her life. And it was her own father, fearing she would bring trouble upon the family, who ended her life himself.