Chapter 132 - The Wish before Death (1/2)

Shi Qingxue refused directly and didn’t want to have anything to do with Shi Baojin.

“I beg you. Baojin is about to be sentenced to death. Before going, she regrets treating you like that in the past and wants to apologize to you. If you don’t agree, she wouldn’t die with relief.” Shi Baoyou said while sobbing pitifully.

Shi Baoning was about to enter the room. Hearing that, she instantly came up to help Shi Baoyou and wiped her tears carefully.

Meanwhile, she looked at Qingxue disapprovingly. “Qingxue, even if Baojin did something wrong to you, Baoyou is always nice to you. How can you treat her ruthlessly?”

Shi Qingxue was speechless and knew that no matter what happened, the weak would easily win others’ compassion, so she didn’t say anything.

Dong Shuang standing aside was resentful because her lady was bullied by others, especially one of whom was her sister helping an outsider. It was annoying.

She couldn’t help but say angrily, “My Lady, you are not fair. Lady Baoyou made things difficult for Lady Qingxue and asked her to visit Lady Baojin in the prison. Lady Qingxue is unwilling to, and Lady Baoyou cried. How can you blame my master?”

Shi Baoning had no idea why Shi Baoyou came to the Luotong Boudoir, and Qingxue was always aggressive, so she thought by instinct that Shi Baoyou had suffered injustice. And she hadn’t expected it, so she blushed automatically.

She was bashful and embarrassed, so she could do nothing but rebuke, “We are talking. Why did you interrupt as a maid? Did the old maids teach you for nothing?”

Dong Shuang shrank her neck and trembled, too scared to speak a word.

Shi Qingxue couldn’t bear to see that and pulled Dong Shuang to hide behind her, saying indifferently, “Baoning, you can get angry, but why did you vent your anger on a maid?”

Shi Baoning noticed the indifference in Qingxue’s tone. Seeing that her sister helped a maid, she was furious, about to lose her temper, but Baoyou pulled her sleeve. So Shi Baoning controlled herself and asked, “I hear that Baojin wants to see you, right?”

“Hmm.”

Shi Qingxue responded with no emotion and didn’t say more.

Shi Baoning frowned and said with displeasure, “I know you bear a grudge against Baojin, but the dead should be respected. Why do you still bother about her?”

Shi Qingxue smiled, which made the other two think she was about to agree, and then told the truth coldly. “She is not dead.”

Shi Baoning was put in an awkward situation by Qingxue’s noncooperation and thought her dignity as the eldest lady was provoked. So she showed her displeasure. “But you didn’t want to save her. Now she is dying. Are you so cruel and unwilling to make her last wish come true?”

“…Cruel?” Shi Qingxue felt that her heart was stabbed, and it didn’t hurt a lot, but she felt sour and depressed.

She raised her head and looked at Shi Baoning with a complicated expression. She wanted to ask, “Am I a cruel person in your heart?”

But Shi Baoning turned away and avoided seeing her.

Ha!

Shi Qingxue laughed with self-mockery and gave up her plan to defend herself. Anyway, the two in front of her, or everybody in this mansion believed that she was cruel, and it would be useless to say anything.

She was clear that they said Shi Baojin hoped to see her for the last time because they wanted her to get soft-hearted.

“Since you two said that, if I don’t go, Baoyou’s tears and Baoning’s lesson would be wasted.” Shi Qingxue finally agreed.

Shi Baoyou smiled immediately and seemed not to notice the sarcasm in Qingxue’s words, saying, “I am going to tell someone to prepare the carriage. It won’t take long.”

She ran away rapidly and was afraid that Shi Qingxue would regret.

Shi Baoning looked awkward and probably realized that she was not friendly just now, so she explained softly, “I don’t force you to save Baojin, but she wants to see you before she dies, and you have to see her. Otherwise the outsiders would comment on you. I did it for your good…”

“Okay, you don’t need to say more. I understand.” Shi Qingxue interrupted her and smiled. “Baoning, if you have nothing to tell me, please go back to your room.”

Those whose courses were different couldn’t lay plans for one another. She had been objected and criticized a lot from her family today and didn’t have enough energy to talk with Baoning.

Shi Baoning bit her lower lip and didn’t want to go. “Mother told me to keep you company. Let’s go together to see Baojin in the prison, and then you won’t feel uncomfortable.”

Shi Qingxue didn’t care and agreed, walking out of the Luotong Boudoir with Xia Mang.

Dong Shuang wanted to go with them, too, but Qingxue didn’t allow her to.

The maid was straightforward and liked to defend her lady against an injustice, and Qingxue wouldn’t let her maids be bullied.

It was hot in June, but the prison was cool and wet. Anybody standing inside would tremble with fear.

Shi Qingxue felt cold and quivered, silently looking at the untidy person in the room with messy hair, whose face couldn’t be seen clearly.

For a long while, the prison was quiet.

Shi Baoyou found that Qingxue didn’t want to say something first and then called in a low voice, “Baojin, Qingxue came to see you. Just tell her what you want to.”

The person in prison curled up and shrank after being scared by Shi Baoyou’s words. She made sounds of “Hmmm” like little animals and nobody could hear what she was saying.

“What’s wrong with her?” Shi Baoning looked at the person inside in surprise and couldn’t believe that was Shi Baojin who was always arrogant. Why would she make herself so miserable?

Shi Baoyou looked worried and sighed gently. “When I came to see her a few days ago, she could not think clearly. The environment here is poor and she is pregnant. Even if she is sick, she can’t be cured in time. I wanted to tell Doctor Qin to check on her, but the workers in the prison didn’t allow him to. I am afraid that she can’t insist for long.”