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"Second sister in law …"

The weak woman on the bed coughed a few times. Her chest and lungs moved up and down and her face flushed red. She was obviously anxious.

"Hurry up and get out of here!"

Mrs. Wang snapped.

He really did not expect his second wife to have such an imposing and imposing manner when she looked so benevolent.

"Yes."

This is the first time I've seen her behaving so submissively like this.

"Second sister in law, she's right. I'm afraid my illness is really good. I just want to go back and see father, mother, and elders."

Although I had already thought that my mother probably wanted to go home after finding the Lu family, I was still a little surprised when I heard her say those words.

The man he loved deeply. Had the mother completely given up on the matriarch's identity? Or was he already hating her to the bone, wanting to go back to seek his family's power?

However, no matter which of these two ideas she had, it was definitely impossible.

With her current physical condition, even getting out of bed would be very difficult, let alone the long journey from the border to the capital.

"Auntie Qing, this is what you think during your illness. It's already September, maybe you'll be fine after the fall!"

The second wife did not answer her mother's words, but only tried to comfort her.

"Second sister in law …" Mother took hold of Second Wife's hand and hot tears began to roll down her cheeks. "Look at me, I'm just waiting for the blood to run dry. If I am fortunate enough to be able to hold on a little longer and see my parents again, if I am unlucky, then bring my body back. In the future, by my parents' grave, I will make a hole and when the two elders return, I will go to the Underworld to serve them with my filial piety … "

"Look what you're talking about!"

His mother was crying on the bed, and his second wife was crying on the bed as well. She was crying even more miserably than the patient.

"The Old Granny naturally has us as wives to show our filial piety, don't worry." Look at how you are sick because of the Yang family, aren't you still taking care of yourself? Look at how your family is doing, your old lady isn't in good shape either, and all the family matters are actually in the hands of Chong'er. As a young lady who hasn't left the pavilion yet, she should have been embroidering and writing in her room. But now, because of you, she actually started to do the accounting. Isn't this all your fault? If you get up early and take over this family, Yuanyuan will marry as well, right? "You can't just let a girl like her, who hasn't left the pavilion, make her own dowry, can you?!"

His mother looked at Second Madam Lu, who had been drowning, and grabbed onto her wooden stick tightly, unwilling to let go even for a second. However, at this moment, he discovered that it was originally a rotten piece of wood, but it didn't need to be gripped tightly to become sawdust. Disappointment overflowed from his heart.

No matter what her mother said or how she begged, Second Wife wouldn't let go. She only advised her to take care of herself.

Even I could see that my mother had lost her edge, but how could someone as shrewd as Second Wife not be able to swallow her anger after being hollowed out for three to five years? It was just that her family didn't agree to it, so she didn't dare to agree without permission!

From the letter her mother sent out, it could be seen that although her mother's heart yearned for kinship from her family, she also understood in her heart that the Lu family had long given up on her daughter. However, it was for the sake of the card in her hand and the little bit of wealth that the Yang family still had left, so she said that she had something to say at the end of the letter.

His mother's foolishness did not lie in her stupidity, but in the fact that she would always place her future in the hands of others and turn herself into an accessory. Moreover, people would never treasure those that were easy to get their hands on.

"Second sister in law, you are right!" A strange and mocking smile appeared on his mother's face. "It's just that I'm the Lu family's daughter after all. I haven't returned to my parents' home for more than ten years. It wouldn't be too much to want to go back and take a look, right?"

I sighed to myself.

However, as a second wife, how could she decide whether her mother was coming or going? She was only sent to inform her mother of the Lu family's decision!

What a pity!

His mother had placed her hopes on her sister-in-law's heart, and now that she placed her hopes on her son, she was extremely familiar with the relationship between people. She was afraid of the wind and rain.

"What grandma says is right. Let's talk about it when I go back to discuss it with the old lady!"

Second Wife's face was full of anger. She withdrew her hand and was about to stand up and leave.

The mother on the bed closed her eyes, her entire face contorted in pain, but her voice was still very calm:

"Second sister in law, don't you know where the account book and body deed are before leaving?"

Second Wife, who had already taken several steps forward, trembled. Apparently, her mother's words had caught her by seven inches.

"You won't give it to me, so why should I stay?"

Second Wife had the Lu Family's pride.

"Sigh …" I'll tell you about that place. How about you send me back to Beijing? "

Now that his mother knew about it, the benefits were much stronger than his feelings.

"This... "Fine!"

Lady Wang sighed and came back to sit in front of her mother's bed. She cuddled her mother with a doting smile.

"I said I didn't let you go back to the capital for your own good. Since you're already so ill, how could you stand the strain of that boat? When you have raised it better, naturally, Father and Mother will take you back for a walk! "Ol 'Three's wife is just pregnant. It'll be better if we go back and drink your nephew's full moon wine when you're well next year!"

This was turning hostile faster than flipping a book!

His mother nodded with a smile and half closed her eyes, as if she was sleeping.

"Lady Qing …" "… …" said Lady Qing. Where is that thing? "

Second Wife, afraid that her mother would fall asleep and delay her, hurried to push her mother to whisper in her ear.

"It's right in my manor."

His mother's voice was a little hoarse.

"Where is the manor?"

Even I found the second wife's voice a little urgent and uncomfortable.

"It's that manor of mine in Ping City."

Second Madam Lu looked a little embarrassed. She nodded and said, "I got it." She tucked her grandmother into a corner of her blanket and whispered, "Rest for now. I'll come and see you again!" Then he went out the door.

I hurriedly followed Second Madam Lu wanting to send her off, but the mother on the bed said, "Yuan'er, pour me a cup of water to drink!"

Wong nodded at me, and I hurried to get some water.

After a long time, my mother lay on the bed with her back to me. She neither spoke nor took the tea from me.

If I hadn't seen the tears sliding down her cheeks from the corners of her eyes, I almost couldn't have waited.

"Mother, you …"

I sighed, and took the pellet three steps away from her and sat down.

"Hahahaha!"

I did not think that a woman so ill could make such a high-pitched laugh.

"Do you know why she doesn't listen to that manor?"

"At that time, I was not pregnant at all. She said that she had some spiritual medicine and took the opportunity to sell the manor to me for 3000 taels of silver. How stupid I was then to think that a child could hold my husband's heart, and in the end everything was for naught! In vain! "Hahahahaha!"

His mother laughed and turned into crying. Her eyes were red, but there were no more tears.

"Let me tell you, other than yourself, no one else can be trusted in this life!"

My mother's shrill voice made my ears ring.

I smiled and passed the water over. "I already knew that," I replied in response to my mother's words.

"That's right!" If even a little girl like you knows about it, then why don't I know about it?! "

Her mother smiled wryly as she drank from her cup. Her hands were shaking so badly that the water spilled over her entire body, covering her entire body.

Did I know it from birth?

It was just that he had experienced too much pain.

I lowered my head to hide my sadness.

Fortunately, I was reborn once, and I can redeem my mistakes from my previous life. I wonder what mother will do in the future?

"I have something for you!"

The mother smiled faintly, with a touch of her former elegance.

I waited quietly for my mother's next words.

"In the cabinet over there, that blue cloth bundle."

Mother raised her right hand from the blanket. A small key hung from a bright red string tied to her thin, pale wrist.

His mother was now devoid of any blood, and her wrist bones were popping out of her skin and flesh. Blue veins could be seen wrapped around her arm, making her look extremely terrifying.

I went to get the bundle and put it on the bed in front of my mother.

"This is it!"

The mother smiled weakly and nodded. "Open it and take a look!"

Inside, there was a tattered account book with many torn and broken pages. Most of the pages had turned yellow, as if they would shatter at any moment if one were to flip through those pages.

I sat on the edge of the bed and took a look at some of the items written on it with the help of the floor lamp. It said … Back then, the Yang family helped the Lu family to set up the account books for the river repair materials …

"Back then, he was still the Second Prince. He took the job of an messenger to supervise the construction of the riverbank in Henan Shang Qiu. When he came back, he was recommended by his subjects as a prince." His mother smiled happily. "The names of the adults who signed the joint letter are on the last three pages of this account book. You can look them up."

That was to say, while they were still in the residence, the Lu Family had helped to amass wealth for them. The one keeping the accounts was obviously the Yang family, but the one in the middle was the Lu family, not a single word was mentioned. If this matter were to be exposed, the Lu family would definitely be kicked out of the fray.

No wonder the Lu family urgently needed to find this account book. This was simply a dagger in the hands of the Yang family, it was unknown when it would stab into the Lu family's body.

Presumably, this account book was originally left in the Yang Family as a form of proof to hold back the Lu Family. Because her mother had already been married to the Yang family for a long time, and because her mother adored her father, she ended up in her hands.

Unexpectedly, this had become my mother's last life-saving charm!

With a shake of my hand, I accidentally dropped the account book onto the floor. A scattered page slipped out of it.

Mother sighed deeply and reached out her hand to ask me for the piece of paper on the floor.

I quickly picked it up from the ground and handed it to her.

"I assume you already know that your mother is from the Qin family."

I smiled and nodded.

"She is Princess Honghua's elder sister."

His mother smiled and teased, "When Uncle Qin was young, he was a little too preposterous. He was together with the renowned courtesan Wang Qingqing who once shook the capital. It was a pity that this uncle of the Qin had talent, but he was very timid. Upon hearing that his parents had married him with a beautiful wife, he had abandoned Wang Qingqing and returned home. Pity that Wang Qingqing was pregnant by herself, she could not stay in the brothel anymore. She could only use her savings to redeem her body and return to live with her little brother. She didn't want to think about how the person who sold her to a brothel would feel some pity for her. She only wanted to see how much money she had! "Pity your mother, your own mother was sold to a brothel by your own uncle as soon as she stopped breathing!"

I've always wondered why she was called Aunt Wang. So that's the reason!

Then, it was obvious that Aunt Wang knew of his origins.

The mother closed her eyes again and leaned against the pillow, breathing hard.

Her body was too weak, and she would not be able to breathe if she spoke too much.

"Then the Yang family found out about this shocking secret and redeemed Aunt Wang from the brothel, right?"

I took a spoonful of water and poured it into my mother's hand, watching her face slowly recover.

"No!" The mother laughed again, "A small family of the Yang family, how could they know this!"

So that's how it was!

The Lu family must have found out that Aunt Wang was the Qin family's daughter. At that time, née Qin was still the empress. Once her identity was announced, it would be an attack on Empress Qin's Qi King. As a member of the Second Prince's Party, the Lu family must be planning for their master, but the Lu family was too obvious, it was inconvenient for them to adopt a girl who had already entered the body of a slut, and the Yang family was just a martial artist, so it was more appropriate for them to work for the Lu family. For the Yang family, they could use Aunt Wang as a stepping stone.

So was it because of this that the Yang family was born in Jiangnan and was now living in Saibei?

"Was the Yang family in White City then?"

I asked my mother.

"That's right!" His mother smiled brightly, "It was because the Yang family had settled down in the north long ago that the Lu family decided to send her here to raise her."

"How old was Aunt Wang then?"

"I heard that he's just a three-year-old baby!"

Mother said deliver, not bring. He also said that the Yang family had settled down here, which meant that the Yang family had been doing business here for quite a while. That was to say that the Yang Family didn't specially move to this bitter and cold place in order to help the Lu Family hide this matter.

In other words, there were some matters that forced the entire Yang family to move.

Three years old, when he grew up, he would only have a vague impression. A person like Aunt Wang, who was both emotional and weak, would inevitably like to dress up her beauty. It was no wonder that when I asked her about her background, she only said, "I seem to remember people beating and scolding when I was young." It was no wonder that even though she knew of her own background, she still adopted her grandmother as her mother.

Every woman who lived in misery had an awkward life, but Aunt Wang's life was particularly bumpy.

The reason why she didn't want to return to the Qin family and instead only became an adopted daughter was probably because she felt that her background would become a disgrace to the Qin family.

But had Aunt Wang ever thought that regardless of whether she was willing or not, she was already at the heart of the struggle? No matter how hard she tried to avoid it, the truth would always be there.