The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Qin Ruying's original surname was Su.

She and the young master of the Su family were twins born from the same womb and looked very similar. When the brother and sister were first born, the Su family was very happy for a while. However, three months after the two were born, the young master Su began to have a high fever for no apparent reason and cried day and night.

I consulted many doctors, but none of them could cure me.

Seeing their son getting weaker day by day, Su's parents had no choice but to seek help from gods and Buddhas. It happened that a traveling monk passed through Gunzhou at that time. When he came to the Su family to beg for alms, he learned about this matter and used the art of spirit writing to tell the Su family's fortune. He said that the twins of the Su family were not a symbol of a dragon and a phoenix, but a dragon and a phoenix fighting each other.

They were a pair of enemies in their previous life, and were reincarnated as siblings in this life. Although they came from the same mother, they became brother and sister in this life because of the resentment in their previous life. It was probably that the Buddha wanted to use this blood relationship to resolve the hatred between the two, but at this time the two babies were still ignorant and started fighting instinctively. Because the sister overpowered the brother, the brother had a high fever.

If the two are not separated in time, then given the elder brother's current condition, he will definitely die.

After hearing this prophecy, Su's parents were horrified and immediately asked the monk how to save their son's life. Mr. Su even asked the monk in person if the girl died at this moment, could he save his son's life, and if she died, would his son be affected in the future.

The monk was silent for a long time after hearing this, then he sighed and chanted the Buddha's name, and said that it was enough to separate the two. Enemies in their previous life became siblings for the purpose of resolving hatred. If one of them was killed, they would still be entangled in this hatred in the next life. Moreover, the two children only needed to be raised separately before they became aware of the situation. It was not necessary to go to such an extreme situation as taking the life of the stronger of the twins.

After seeking medical treatment in many places without success, Su's parents sent their healthy daughter out of Gunzhou City overnight and placed her in a small temple in the countryside, asking a Buddhist nun to raise her.

By then, the wandering monk had already left Gunzhou. When Su's father saw that his son's condition had indeed improved after sending his daughter away, he completely believed in this mysterious way.

But although he had many concubines in his backyard, he only had this one son in all these years. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it was not right, so he consulted many fortune tellers and shamans to ask how to deal with the matter of these two children.

One of the sorcerers told Su's father that since the master said that the brother and sister had a grudge in their previous life, they must settle it in this life. Instead of waiting until the future for the girl to kill the Su family's only child, it is better to strike first. After all, for a "aristocratic family" like the Su family, family inheritance is more important!

Su's father listened to the sorcerer's words, hesitated for a few days, then called Su's mother and told her his decision.

Su's mother was heartbroken at first. After crying, she thought about her son, whose condition had gradually improved in recent days but who still looked frail. She raised him in the countryside with her daughter, whose living conditions were not as good as her son's but still looked stronger than him. Finally, she hardened her heart.

But perhaps God could not bear to see such parents who were more vicious than a tiger eat their own child. Before Su's father decided to take action against his daughter, the small village where the small temple was located in the countryside encountered a bandit disaster, and the small temple was also broken into by thieves. Fortunately, both the temple and the village only lost some money and food, and there were no major casualties. However, the girl who was abandoned by her parents was also lost in the turmoil, and no one knew where she went.

After the bandit incident, the young master of the Su family grew up healthy and well, so Su's father and mother believed that their daughter had indeed died in the year she encountered the bandits.

However, what they didn't expect was.

The abandoned daughter had actually been living well in this world. She was even raised by an old widow named Qin in a town not far from Gunzhou City and the small temple.

The old widow was already very old when she started raising the girl. Just two months before the incident with Young Master Su, the old widow passed away. Before her death, she called Qin Ruying to her bedside, took out the token left by the Su family when she was fostered in a small temple when she was young, and told her daughter the truth.

The so-called banditry did not actually exist.

It was simply because the nun in the small temple had always been kind to the villagers. After she accidentally learned of the Su family's parents' plan, she asked the villagers to join forces with her to stage this drama to save the life of the innocent baby.

The village was not big, next to a mountain, with only six or seven households. It was rare that the man was so simple-minded that he risked offending the Su family to help save a baby girl who had nothing to do with him.

Before her death, the old widow hesitated for several times whether to tell Qin Ruying the truth. On the one hand, she was afraid that the Su family's parents were still murderous after more than ten years; on the other hand, she felt that the young master of the Su family had grown up healthily, which just confirmed what the master said.

They came here as brother and sister to resolve their hatred, not necessarily to fight until only one was left. The two children who were raised separately have now grown up safely, and their daughter has been brought up with a very good temper, and they will definitely not fight for life again in the future.

Moreover, after her death, she would be the only one left. It was not easy for a woman to survive alone in this world. The old widow thought that her adopted daughter should have been a lady from a wealthy family, and she had been delayed for so many years. If she could find her parents, it would be more beneficial for her future marriage. Besides, so many years had passed. After all, as a parent, how could she still want to kill her daughter?

But... this is the daughter she raised. Even if there is just a little bit of accident, she is still afraid and reluctant.

She was hesitant and took her last breath to tell Qin Ruying the whole story, asking her to think carefully about whether to go and find her relatives or continue living alone.

If Qin Ruying finally chooses to recognize her parents, she must be extremely careful before clarifying the couple's attitude - although it is a bit cruel to say this to a girl, who would be willing to face a pair of biological parents who once wanted to kill them, and who may still hold that idea and have never raised them for a day?

If Qin Ruying chooses not to acknowledge it, then she should know more about what happened back then. Although the small place where she grew up would not likely be visited by "noble people" like Su's parents, what if?

The old widow soon died with endless worries about her daughter.

Qin Ruying was in a daze for a long time after learning the truth. She remembered how she was ridiculed as a fatherless child since she was a child, how her adoptive mother would occasionally show her loneliness late at night, and how others despised and teased her when they knew that she was a widow with an only daughter...

Qin Ruying finally decided to go to the provincial capital to take a look at his original blood relatives before making a decision.

She was not a woman with a very strong character, but because of a little hope in her heart for her biological parents and brothers, as well as the human desire to return to her roots, she chose to take out her savings and follow the caravan to a place she had never been to before.

But the "what if" that the old widow had always been worried about finally happened.