Chapter 313 - Enter King Rui’s Mansion (1/2)
The bad state of disrepair in the room was beyond Mo Xiangrui’s imagination.
A crude table was in the middle of the room with one broken leg.
The table with three legs was in imminent danger of falling down.
There was a big bed with a width of less than one meter and a half in a corner, and a woman at her last gasp was lying in it.
The woman was covered with a dirty and heavy cotton quilt, showing only her small face.
She didn’t wear make-up on her face, yet she looked weak and more charming because of her illness.
However, the woman covered her lips and coughed seriously. Her face twisted in pain.
It didn’t look ugly but showed weird beauty.
Mo Xiangrui recognized her at first glance and rushed to the bed at once, shouting emotionally, “Ruyue.”
The woman called Ruyue seemed to have finally found that there was an uninvited guest in the room. She suddenly raised her head to have a look.
When she saw Mo Xiangrui clearly, her pupils widened in disbelief all of a sudden.
Next second, beyond expectation, she suddenly lifted the quilt and covered herself in it, hiding herself. It seemed that in this way, nobody could find her.
However, her illness didn’t understand the owner’s hard effort, and she still coughed in a muffled voice in the quilt uncontrollably.
In this shabby room with air leaks, it was weird.
Mo Xiangrui was confused by the woman’s subconscious action, but soon he understood why she behaved like an ostrich.
As expected, Qi Zhengdao hurriedly rushed to the bed and started to pull the woman’s quilt, saying endlessly, “Mother, your illness can be cured. Look, who did I bring? Come out now.”
The woman still covered herself with the quilt and remained unmoved. She said in a deep and muffled voice, “I don’t want to see him. Tell him to go. I won’t see him.”
It was Qi Zhengdao’s first time to see that his mother shouted regardless of her manners, so he was stunned.
Looking at the arched quilt and then at Mo Xiangrui, he couldn’t understand why his mother refused to see his father when he came even though she missed him every day and night.
Qi Zhengdao couldn’t figure it out, while he was more worried about his mother’s health, so he advised anxiously, “Mother, just come out. If you are not treated, it will be too late. I beg you, okay?”
The woman in the quilt stopped moving and refused in silence.
Qi Zhengdao didn’t know what to do, while Xiang Xiangrui strode over and pulled the boy aside, standing next to the bed.
He stared at the arched quilt and pursed his lips, feeling that his voice was hoarse. “Ru…yue.”
The woman in the quilt seemed to be frightened and trembled violently, but she just hid in it and refused to go out or make sounds.
Mo Xiangrui was anxious and personally pulled the dirty quilt that he would never touch at ordinary times, shouting continuously, “Ruyue, I know that it’s you. Come out now. Let me see you. I want to see you.”
Nobody knew if the last words “I want to see you” worked, and the quilt which covered her tightly could be lifted.
Mo Xiangrui got joyful and pulled the dirty quilt, looking at her. The woman was ghastly pale and sank into a coma unexpectedly.
“Mother, Mother, what’s wrong with you? Don’t leave me.” Qi Zhengdao turned pale with fear and rushed to hug the woman.
Qi Zhengdao looked terrified and shook the woman’s body repeatedly, trying to wake her up, with his tears falling without a stop.
In the beginning, Mo Xiangrui was scared out of wits and stared at the woman in the bed, remaining still.
Mo Junyang next to him reminded in time, “She must be just in a coma.”
Mo Xiangrui finally reacted and pulled the quilt away. He didn’t feel disgusted with the dirty quilt but carried the woman, ordering the people outside in a loud voice, “Somebody, go to the imperial palace and ask a royal doctor to come. Tell Doctor Shen to wait in the mansion.”
After he ordered, the guards waiting in the room didn’t reply after a long while but looked at Mo Junyang hesitantly.
In fact, the first order was fine, and it was not difficult to find a royal doctor in the imperial palace, as the king’s mansion had this right, while the second order…
The miracle-working doctor Shen Luo stayed in King Rui’s mansion in name, yet anybody knew that he worked for Mo Junyang.
It was no problem if King Rui needed to be treated, but he directly ordered Shen Luo to treat a woman who might become Mo Junyang’s step-mother in the future without asking him. Didn’t he embarrass Mo Junyang in public?
The relationship between the father and son was in imminent danger.
After Mo Xiangrui said that, he realized this point and turned pale immediately.
He looked at Mo Junyang in embarrassment, yet when he met the young man’s eyes, he looked away with guilt.
“Junyang, I…”
King Rui had a guilty conscience and wanted to explain, but he didn’t know what to say. He stuttered and couldn’t find a presentable reason.
Mo Junyang kept his composure and ordered, “Why don’t you do as His Highness ordered?”
He pondered for a moment and then stated, “That woman looks weak and probably needs to stay in the mansion for a period before she recovers. Go back and tell the servants to clean up the Qingshui House to settle them.”