Xie Ming

Chapter 581: The Past of Changting
Continued from above
"Later, it got to the point where people hated it."

"There's no way."

"I had a hard childhood, and most of the suffering I went through was caused by my father."

"After that, when I was ten years old, my father, I don't know where it came from, finally came to his senses."

"He has finally given up on his illusory dream of a career in government."

"It's true that if you don't grit your teeth and give up the idea, you won't be able to succeed."

"Because my family is really in a difficult situation and there is nothing to do."

"If we don't find a way to make money, forget about going to high school. The three of us might even starve to death on the kang."

"So, my father lowered his status and followed an uncle in the family to work as a legal advisor."

"General, I'm sure you've heard of this before."

"It is said in the folk saying that this department's class is not up to standard, and Shaoxing is good at making plans for himself."

"Among the 360 ​​professions, the profession of legal advisor is the most prosperous in Shaoxing."

"Oh, if you ask me, it's nothing but a high-sounding title in exchange for a living."

"So my father, since he was a scholar, had no choice but to join the ranks."

"Two years later, he became a little famous in the village, and our lives started to get a little better."

"But, who could have expected it?"

"My mother and I have just had enough food for a few days."

"During the New Year's Day of that year, it was said that an official in the capital was recruiting staff."

"My father became more energetic after hearing the news."

"He was obsessed with becoming an official in the capital, and he was forced to stop taking the exam."

"Now that the tribe has heard this news, he is ready to get married again."

"Moreover, my uncle who brought him into the industry also intends to go north to seek big things."

“So, the two of them hit it off right away.”

"I don't care. I'll beat him to death and bring him to Beijing."

"But, after all, we just had a few full meals at home."

"It's a long way to get to Beijing."

"How can you stay in a hotel, eat, drink, defecate and urinate on the road without money?"

"For this idea, my father Gu Maowen acted on his own will. Under the instigation of some evil-minded people in the clan, he even sold off the ancestral home."

"He is going to pursue his future happily."

"But if this happens, it will make my mother and I suffer."

"Mother couldn't argue with him, so she had no choice but to vacate the house after my father moved north."

"He dragged me back to my mother's home in Yangzhou in anger."

"I think at that time, my mother had no other options."

"No matter how bad it gets, at least we have a roof over our heads when we go back."

"So, when I was a little over ten years old, I came to Yangzhou."

"And this stay lasted for four or five years."

While he was talking, Xiao Lang listened quietly beside him, letting him recite without disturbing him.

As he looked at Changting, he chattered for a while, perhaps his mouth was a little dry, so he paused and drank two more sips of wine.

Then, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and continued.

"Ugh--"

“Yangzhou, what a great place!”

"But, that's for the sake of others."

"My mother and I say that once a daughter is married off, she is like spilled water."

"By that time, my grandparents who were in charge of the house had already passed away."

"The Gu family in Yangzhou, the eldest master died early, and later he became the second master, Gu Huaili, the head of the family."

"When you live under someone else's roof, things are different from what they were before."

"During those years, my mother was already not well-received in the Gu Mansion."

"It was because of that evil woman Xing."

"Of course, no matter whose family it happens to, it's hard to be happy about it in the clan."

"As for green plum."

"Hu——" While saying this, Changting drank heavily again.

"She, Zhao Qingmei, was originally the niece of a distant relative of the prefect Zhao Xiande, a distant cousin of the prefect." "Because of some unknown lawsuit, Qingmei's father took the blame for someone else."

"Zhao Xiande must have felt guilty for leaving an orphan and a widow behind, so he took her in and raised her in his family."

"At that time, Qingmei was only in her early teens."

"We are about the same age."

"Due to the relationship between the Xing family and the Zhao family, Qingmei would come to stay at the Gu family for a short period of time when she was old."

"After a while, we started playing together."

Changting was telling the story slowly and leisurely. After hearing this, Xiao Lang, who was standing nearby, couldn't wait any longer and interrupted to mention Gu San.

"Oh?"

"What about the third Gu from the Gu Mansion?" Xiao Suiyan asked.

"Yeah? Hi."

"The third child of the Gu family is several years younger than my childhood sweetheart and I. We couldn't have played together at that time."

"It was only when I was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was a little older, that he started to follow me around and play with me occasionally."

"He's just a young master."

"He has the same personality as his mother. He is not a person that anyone would like to see."

"I'm not really that close to him, and his mother keeps us at a distance, saying she's afraid I might have evil intentions and harm her son again."

"So, Lin finally came. I didn't have many opportunities to meet him, and he didn't bother to deal with me."

Changting thought about the past for a moment, and also thought about the situation in the alley a few days ago, and his heart was inevitably moved.

In this regard, Xiao Zhizi felt embarrassed by the question, so he hurriedly spoke again, intending to ask him to go back to what had just happened.

"Well, that's how it is."

"Okay, it's not worth mentioning, so let's not talk about it."

"So, what happened later, you and your childhood sweetheart?" Xiao Gu called back.

"Uh"

"Oh, actually there's not much to say afterwards."

"Qingmei is smart enough, and her own situation is awkward, so sometimes she is more pragmatic, which is understandable."

"It was like this when I was in Yangzhou."

"Later, my stubborn father, after barely settling down in Beijing, could not wait to write a long letter urging my mother and I to head north."

"The traffic was slow then. It would take about two months for my mother and I to arrive."

"My father, I don't know what happened to him, but he made a small fortune."

"It was with this money that I bought the house in the capital."

"But the good times didn't last long. Two years later, when my father was thrown into prison, my mother and I finally understood what debt he had helped the official settle."

"When the crime was exposed, he was made an accomplice and thrown into prison. Before the New Year, within a month, he could not bear the torture and died in prison."

"Fortunately, the case wasn't a big deal back then."

"The police saw that my mother and I were orphans and a widow, so they didn't confiscate the newly bought house."

"I don't quite understand what's behind this."

"My uncles and aunts who went to the capital together went with me because of that matter."

"This case is even more beyond my understanding."

"Fortunately, this time at least my mother and I still have a place to stay."

"Later, I joined the army and became a conscript."

"From time to time, we get a small amount of rice and flour, which is enough for my mother to eat at home."

"As for Qingmei, when we first arrived in Beijing, we did have some private correspondence."

"Can"

"Girls should not be kept at home when they grow up."

"I was in that situation again."

"How can I say more than one word?"

"She eventually got married. In her last letter, she said that the matchmaker was a clerk under her cousin."

"He has a good family background and works in the government, so it's more respectable to say it out loud."

"I can tell from what she wrote that she must be satisfied."

"Even though I didn't want to believe it at that time, I knew in my heart that it was the truth."

(End of this chapter)