Chapter 398 The cause of her mother’s death
A fourth-grade bachelor is two grades higher than her father and one grade higher than her second uncle. And her husband is a seventh-grade county magistrate. How many years will it take to survive? A genuine fourth grader comes back?
You know, her father also started his career as a seventh-rank county magistrate, Zhima Official, and now, it has been twenty years before he became an official from the fifth rank.
Now, she has to stay with the eldest young master of the Wang family, and she is unwilling to do so.
But if she doesn't give in, what can she do?
In the beginning, it was she who did not want Min Sibo, she was the one who rejected the marriage. She could not blame her second uncle, nor could she blame anyone else. If she wanted to blame, she could only blame herself. She blamed herself for being blind and mistaking pearls for fish eyes. , discarded at will, but benefited from the notoriously notorious woman in the second room of the Chu family.
After Xia Zihan persuaded them, a maid came over and asked them to go out for dinner.
Because it was a national mourning period, wedding banquets could not be held, so the Wang family prepared only ordinary home-cooked meals, and there were not many people, just four tables.
During the meal, Mrs. Wang specially arranged for Mrs. Chu and Mrs. Xia to be placed at two tables, and they were still the farthest away. The table where Xia Zihan was sitting was filled with a group of little girls, and there were two The young daughter-in-law is Xia Ziqing's sister-in-law, and Miss Wang is accompanying her.
And Xia Ziqing is the daughter-in-law of the Wang family. Like the maids, she has to wait on the table for several Lao An people.
Especially Mrs. Chu, Xia Ziqing served her with special attentiveness.
Xia Ziqing understood very well that as far as the relationship between the Wang family and the Chu family was concerned, as long as she could please Mrs. Chu's favor, she would be able to walk with her head held high in the Wang family from now on, and no one would dare to look down on her.
"I've finished drinking here. You go and wait on your grandmother. Your grandmother's face is so long. She must be unhappy about something. You are her eldest granddaughter. Go and have a look."
After Mrs. Chu finished her meal, she didn't forget to dig a hole for Mrs. Xia.
When leaving, Mrs. Chu held Mrs. Wang's hand and was reluctant to leave. She repeatedly asked Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang to visit the Chu family when they had time and burn incense for Mr. Chu Ge.
Mr. Wang is also a benevolent person. Thinking of the favor Mr. Chu Ge gave him for promoting him, his eyes turned red and he said, "It must be true. The teacher has not seen the student go for so long, so he is probably disappointed. The student has to go and tell him." Sin.”
"What's the crime? It's not been easy for you these past few years." Madam Chu said.
When she got on the carriage, Mrs. Chu saw that Mrs. Xia's face was dark with anger, and her eyes were like flames as she glared at her. Xia Ziqing comforted her for a long time, and Mrs. Xia finally did not embarrass the Wang family.
But the sense of humiliation that Mrs. Chu had suppressed many years ago seemed to have returned.
"Haha, that old godly woman is still as arrogant as a young lady."
After getting on the carriage, Mrs. Chu smiled teasingly.
Xia Zihan held her hand and leaned on her shoulder, looking like her grandmother had everything she needed, "Grandma, why should I be as knowledgeable as her and care about her without losing my place?"
"I don't want to care about her, but she has a temper. If you don't care about her, she will become arrogant. Typically, if you give her a color, she can open a dyeing workshop. Back then, your mother just didn't want to care about her. She always looked after your father. In order to save face, I endured it again and again, but later, your mother's regression made her become arrogant. In just a few years, your mother was reduced to a human being, and she didn't even do a good job in confinement..."< br>
Mrs. Zeng burst into tears when she thought of her deceased daughter. Once her words were opened, she couldn't hold them back. "When your mother was pregnant with you, it happened to be the twelfth lunar month, the coldest month of winter. How cold it was, and the road was slippery. Your mother got up early and went to her yard to calm down. She accidentally slipped on the road and got pregnant. She was lucky. Not only did she not say a word of comfort, but she also blamed your mother for not looking at the road while walking, which almost caused her grandson to fall. Lost.”
"If she is really good for her grandson, then that's fine. But when your mother's health is better, she will send her mother-in-law to say that she will continue to go to her place to take care of her morning and evening, and serve her with food and clothing."
"Your mother was raised like a pampered woman by my side. She used the best for everything and ate the best. She was served by eight maids and women. Her treatment was no worse than that of a princess. But when you go to her , not even as good as a maid. If the maid is pregnant, she will be given a holiday to raise a baby, but that old godly woman Well, she is really good, and she is really a mother-in-law. Your mother is only more than a month old, and she has not yet settled into the fetus. She has to serve her and eat day and night. She has to stand for more than several hours at a time. From the morning sun Go before it rises, and don’t come back until the moon is high.”
"You know the rules of the Xia family, right? The kitchen doesn't turn on after dinner time. You said, your mother has to wait for her to finish the meal, and the food is cold. If the kitchen doesn't turn on, your mother has to eat cold food. I still have to eat leftovers, which is usually a fool's errand. It's okay to fool her, but she was pregnant at that time, so she couldn't fool her. But when the old godly woman saw it, she pretended not to see it, and she didn't pity her. Until your mother was born in October, she didn't have a day to wait for her. .”
"On the day you were born, you were waiting for her to get up in the morning. Tell me, how could she bear it? Your mother had such a big belly that she couldn't even see her own feet, but that vicious old godly woman was so cruel that she could not bear it. When your mother goes to wait on you, whose mother-in-law does this?”
"She did this without letting your mother tell anyone. She has to gain a reputation. If your mother's maid hadn't told me after your mother died, I wouldn't have known that your mother had suffered so much."< br>
"Your mother, she has been tortured to death by her life and death. Yu Niang, I hate it. I hate that she is evil-minded and jealous of your mother's background. She has never regarded your mother as a daughter-in-law. Your mother is in the Xia family The life I lived was not as gentle as that of a maid, and your father, back then, even if your father I said something for your mother, that old godly woman didn’t dare to tease your mother so hard, your father, well... I hate it too, but what I hate more is your mother, your mother’s temperament is not that of a weak one She is easy to bully, but why did she allow that poisonous woman to torture her? ”
"With your mother's status, even if she is exposed, I will not let her stay in the Xia family. I would rather raise her for the rest of her life." "You don't even know that at that time, your mother had just finished confinement. I went to Xia’s house and saw your mother. She was as thin as a bamboo pole and could fall over when the wind blew.”
"I feel bad for that girl, but she is stubborn. I want to take her back to the capital. She cries, makes trouble, and hangs herself. She is awesome with me, but how can she be so strong when facing that vicious woman? I couldn’t help it, your mother was spoiled by me, I saw her sad and reluctant to leave your father, so I finally followed her.”
"It wasn't until the news of her death came that I regretted it. If I had known this, I shouldn't have relied on her, even if it meant tying her up, I should have tied her back to the capital."
"But it's too late, everyone is dead, I regret it, and your mother can't come back."
"Because of this, I hate your father, I hate the Xia family, and I hate that old vicious woman even more. It was her who killed your mother."
Mrs. Chu shed tears as she spoke.
She hadn't thought about Chu Jiahui for a long time. Today she saw Mrs. Xia. As soon as she saw her, Mrs. Chu thought of her poor dead daughter.
Feeling sad, she couldn't help but cry, and couldn't help but tell Xia Zihan about her past grudges.
Xia Zihan's eyes were moist, and his throat was so tight that he couldn't make a sound.
In her previous life, her grandmother had never mentioned anything about her biological mother in front of her. Once, she had also doubted whether her mother had been killed. But after she returned to the Xia family, she secretly investigated the matter and asked I met several old ladies, and they all said that her mother was doing well in the Xia family.
After checking for more than a year, she found nothing suspicious, so she gave up.
Now that I think about it, those servants should have been warned by Mrs. Xia a long time ago not to mention her mother's affairs in front of her.
Old Mrs. Xia killed her mother and had a bad relationship with her grandmother. Old Mrs. Xia probably disliked her early on.
Therefore, when Mrs. Xu plotted against her, Mrs. Xia pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending that she didn't know about it.
Haha, she didn't know that she was allowing the Xu family to harm her. Without her approval, how could a step-sibling of the Xu family dare to plot against Xia Shiming's legitimate daughter?
Moreover, Mrs. Xu used a fake dowry to marry her off. She made such a big move and said that Mrs. Xia didn't know about it. Who would believe it?
Mrs. Xia knew it, otherwise, without Mrs. Xia helping Xu suppress her father, Xu would not dare to take action.
It was because of Mrs. Xia's connivance and instigation that Mrs. Xu dared to be so bold. Not only did she put mung bean powder in her food, but she also suggested that the sisters should marry at the critical moment. All of this might have been caused by Mrs. Xia and Mrs. Xu. It had been discussed behind the scenes a long time ago.
Xia Zihan thought about this, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
Mrs. Xia, in her case, really played the most poisonous role behind the scenes?
On the first day she came to Beijing, Mrs. Xia couldn't wait to force her to hand over all the Zhuangzi under her name to the management of her third uncle. If she hadn't lived one life longer than others, her soul would no longer be that of an inexperienced little girl. , I am afraid that I have long been frightened by Mrs. Xia's indifferent aura and majesty.
Mrs. Xia's plan was also to attack suddenly.
He thought that no matter how courageous and high-status she was, she was just a teenage girl. If she was scolded and frightened, she would obediently hand over the things with both hands.
Mrs. Xia didn't expect that she would argue hard and would rather die than hand over the things, right?
When leaving Xia's house, Mrs. Xia looked very embarrassed. She probably didn't get her idea or take advantage of her, and she resented her in her heart.
It seems that Old Mrs. Xia is a more scheming and cruel person than Mrs. Xu. Today at the Wang family, Old Mrs. Xia was humiliated by her grandmother in public. Thinking about it, she must have hated her and her grandmother very much.
It seems that she needs to send someone to monitor the Xia family. She must know their next move so that she can find a way to deal with it.
(End of chapter)