"I thought you had a change of conscience and wanted to come back to see your parents at home, but it turns out that you don't go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing."
"No, it's not." Ma quickly defended.
"Although my daughter has not come back, she is always thinking of you and her mother in her heart.
My daughter also knows that my father is old and it is really difficult for me to ask you to return to Jinling now.
But, dad, I have three children in total, two of them have been lost in the palace, and only one, Chang Lin, is around.
Dad also has children, if he encounters such a situation, might he stand by and watch?"
"My daughter is your daughter, and she is also a mother. For the sake of her children, she has to go even if she is facing mountains of swords, seas of fire, dragon pools and tiger dens.
Therefore, no matter how guilty I feel, I can only shamelessly come and beg you, daddy..."
Ma's sincere words made Mr. Ma a little moved.
Ma is not a good daughter or a good wife, but she is a well-deserved good mother.
This can be regarded as a rare advantage of hers. If she could watch her child in trouble and remain indifferent, Mr. Zhong would feel that he had given birth to this daughter in vain.
After a pause, Mr. Zhong asked: "How do you want me to help you?"
"Right now, Zhong Ming has completely lost face with Shen Muchi in the court. The two sides are evenly matched, and it is difficult to tell the winner for a while.
Her father had been in the court for decades and had great authority and numerous disciples. The daughter thought... she thought that if her father could come forward, Zhong Ming would be invincible.
My daughter remembers that there was a man named Wang Yuanqin. His father was kind to him, and he is now serving as a member of the Royal Forest Army..."
"You want me to rebel?"
When Mr. Ma heard this, he stood up suddenly.
"Are you crazy?"
Look at his good daughter, she hasn't been home for several years, and when she finally came back, she actually encouraged her own father to rebel.
How could Ma Huairong give birth to such a daughter?
Mr. Ma knelt on the ground, looking up at Mr. Ma with pleading eyes.
"It's not that my daughter is crazy, it's that Zhong Ming and Shen Muchi have reached the point where they are determined to fight to the death. Other than that, my daughter has no other choice."
"You don't have to say any more."
Zhong Ming flicked his sleeves and took two steps forward. He didn't want to see Ma again, so he only replied: "If you want me to rebel, you should give up your intention."
"Our Ma family has always had a strict family tradition. From generation to generation, we have never had any treacherous officials or traitors."
When Mr. Ma said this, he couldn't help but laugh: "You are indeed capable. You are the first person in our family."
"Just go away. I will not report this matter to Your Majesty. I will just pretend that you have never been here. From now on, you don't have to say that you are my daughter."
Master Ma said this decisively.
Ma was stunned for a moment, and the last light in his eyes disappeared.
The remaining embers finally burned into ashes.
In fact, she was not surprised by this result. She knew better than anyone what kind of person her father was.
She just came with the mentality of giving it a try. Before she came, she had already thought of such an ending.
It's hard to say sad, let alone disappointed.
She still knelt behind Mr. Ma, but she smiled widely: "Okay, okay, the father is unwilling to help his daughter, and the daughter knows it.
My daughter does not blame her father. My father is a good official who is upright and strict and loved by the people. My daughter is truly proud of her father.
It is the daughter who has brought shame to the family, and the daughter has no face to face the ancestors of the Ma family. The father is unwilling to recognize me as his daughter, and the daughter will never mention that she is her father's daughter in the future."
When Ma said this, she wiped away her tears with her hands.
"Daughter, please kowtow to your father," she said.
"I'm going to say goodbye. I probably won't see my parents again. My daughter can't repay the kindness of my parents in raising her. If there is an afterlife, I will repay you like a cow or a horse."
After saying that, Mr. Ma touched his head to the ground and kowtowed solemnly to Mr. Ma.
Very pious.
one……
two……
three...
Mr. Yu looked anxiously on the sidelines and kept tugging at Mr. Ma's sleeves.
Mr. Ma, however, had a hard heart and refused to look back at Mr. Ma no matter what.
Only the glint in the corners of his eyes could still reveal some softness in his heart.
After kowtowing three times, Ma stood up.
She said: "My daughter is gone, father, mother, take care..."
"Suqin!"
As soon as Mr. Ma finished speaking, he heard Mr. Yu screaming at the top of his lungs.
Master Ma was startled and turned around in panic, only to see Mr. Ma hit his head against a pillar in the lobby.
With a loud "thud" sound, Ma's body fell down.
"Su Qin..."
When Mrs. Yu saw this, she quickly ran over and hugged Mrs. Ma in her arms, but saw a large gash on her forehead, with blood trickling out.
Seeing this, Mrs. Yu felt hurt and anxious. She didn't know what to do for a moment, and tears fell down her eyes.
"You...you are killing your mother..."
Mrs. Yu couldn't help crying, and said in a sad voice: "It's so hard to come back, why did it end up like this? Suqin..."
Mrs. Ma fell into Mrs. Yu's arms. Looking at her mother's anxious look, she just said, "My daughter is unfilial and has made my mother worried."
Here, the expression on Mr. Ma's face gradually changed from worry to calmness.
"Okay, okay, okay, you are getting more and more capable now, and you will threaten me with death."
"Not a threat."
Ma looked at Mr. Ma weakly: "My daughter really can't live anymore. She will go down this road sooner or later anyway. Instead of watching her child die in front of her, it is better to end it first.
At least if you die here, you can always see your parents in the future."
This is the place she misses and cares about the most, and it is also the happiest place in her life. When she came here, she had already thought about it. If there was no way out, she would rather die beside her parents than in the Zhong family.
When Mrs. Yu heard this, she couldn't stand it anymore.
"Master, just agree to her." She begged Master Ma.
"I beg you, I beg you. She is our daughter. You loved her so much and liked her so much. How could you be cruel and watch her die?"
"You still said that!"
Lord Ma looked at Mrs. Yu: "It's because you spoiled her and relied on her in everything that she became like this.
Do you know how much a loving mother loses her sons?"
"If you lose, just lose!" Yu hissed!
"Anyway, that's the way it is now, and all the mistakes are my fault alone.
What is right and wrong, what is the loyalty of monarchs and ministers, what does the morality of the world have to do with me? What does the common people have to do with me? I want my daughter, I just want my daughter to live...
Suqin is the child's mother, so why am I not?
You want me to watch my child die in front of me, I can’t do it, I can’t do it!”
Mr. Yu's words left Mr. Ma completely speechless.
He looked at his wife and daughter like this.
After a long time, he sighed heavily and said: "Injustice, all injustice..."