I became an official of the imperial court by eating melons when I was still a baby

System: [Unfortunately, things in this world are always unpredictable. ]

[At that time, your grandfather was the first one to be rescued. He had been pestering Father Liu to learn martial arts, so he was naturally at the end of the team with Father Liu, so he was buried the shallowest. He was rescued that afternoon.]

[Because of his good health, your grandfather regained consciousness soon after being rescued. Father Liu arranged for your grandfather to go to a nearby village to find someone to help, while he stayed to continue rescuing people.]

[Perhaps it was God's mercy, the rain stopped that night. With the efforts of Liu's father, several people were rescued one after another, all of whom were at the back of the team, including your grandmother.]

[Your grandmother was able to hold on until Father Liu came to rescue her, thanks to her wet nurse, Xu.]

[At the last moment of her life and death, Xu suddenly rushed towards your grandmother and used her body to hold the wooden board on the top of the carriage. The board just blocked some of the mud and sand, creating a breathing space.]

[After Father Liu dug through the mud and took away the wooden plank, he found Xu. By then, Xu had already died, her body was completely stiff, but she was still holding on to the wooden plank tightly, protecting the person underneath her. Father Liu also took a lot of effort to move Xu's body away and rescue your grandmother.]

At this moment, Old Madam Qin closed her eyes deeply, clenched her fists with all her strength, and finally held back her tears, causing her eyes to turn red.

She remembered her nurse's last moments, caressing her cheek with her trembling hands. She breathed weakly and said to her with her last bit of strength: "Miss, you must live well. In the future you will have a husband who loves you and children who respect you. You will live a happy life. It's a pity that this old slave will never see it again..."

At that time, she could only hold tightly to her wet nurse's hand, tears streaming down her face. In the pitch-dark space, she silently told herself to "keep living" over and over again. To her, that period of time seemed as long as a lifetime.

Mr. Qin reached out and held Madam Qin's clenched fists. He applied a little force, and the warmth in his palms passed through the tightly pressed skin and reached Madam Qin's heart.

She understood that he wanted to use the warmth of his palms to tell her: It's okay, everything is over.

Qin Yue couldn't help but sigh: [Grandma's wet nurse must have loved her very much! ]

System: [When your grandmother was born, Xu was by her side, taking care of her from childhood to adulthood, treating her like her own daughter, so the relationship was naturally deep.]

Qin Yue: [What happened later? ]

System: [Later, when your grandfather went to the nearest village to look for help, he happened to meet soldiers coming to the village to rescue.]

[But the road was muddy and difficult to walk on. By the time they arrived at the scene, two full days had passed. Father Liu had also been digging for two full days and nights. He was already very weak, but he still insisted on saving people, repeating the digging action like a machine, as if he was tireless.]

[The leading officers and soldiers split into two groups according to the situation at the time. One group took the rescued wounded to the nearest county town for treatment, while the other group stayed behind to rescue people.]

[Father Liu and the other two were taken away by soldiers for treatment along with other wounded. However, halfway to the county town, Father Liu developed a high fever due to infection from the wound on his hand and two days and two nights of sleeplessness. He died before he could make it to the county town.]

Qin Yue: [Father Liu, he really is, I am crying to death, why can’t good people live long?! Woo woo…]

Everyone sighed after hearing this.

After finally avoiding the mudslide, he lost his life while saving someone. For a moment, he didn't know whether it was worth it for Father Liu to do this.

At the side door of the flower hall, the middle-aged woman's hands were clenched tightly in her sleeves. Because she was holding too tightly, her nails pierced her skin, and blood slowly dripped down, leaving spots of blood on the ground. Her tightly pursed lips were also completely bloodless because she was holding too tightly.

When Mr. Qin recalled the scene at that time, his heart still ached slightly.

When he came back with the officers and soldiers, he saw Father Liu, covered in blood, digging in the mud and sand with empty eyes, as if he was about to fall down in the next second.

He immediately stepped forward to stop him, and the moment Liu's father looked back at him, he saw a look that he would never forget in his life.

How to describe it? It is a kind of person who is always tense. When he suddenly sees hope, his eyes suddenly shine. But the next moment, the string in his brain suddenly loosens, and he is instantly overwhelmed by pain, and his eyes lose the last bit of light, experiencing ups and downs.

In the days that followed, he thought countless times that if he had not left at that time, Father Liu might not have died.

Unfortunately, there is no if, everything is too late.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in a dark blue brocade robe at the main table looked at Master Qin and slowly said, "I have heard a rumor, but I don't know whether it is true or not. I want to verify it with my brother-in-law."

"I heard that Zhao'er's biological mother was once your adopted sister? Is this true?"

The person asking the question was none other than Madam Qin's biological brother, Yu Yan, the current Duke of Rong's Mansion.

Over the years, Duke Yu has been watching his sister lock herself in a Buddhist temple, becoming increasingly haggard, and her family members are heartbroken.

What happened back then happened too suddenly, and by the time they received the news, it was already a done deal.

He wanted to beat up the old boy from the Qin family at that time. If his sister had not tried her best to stop him, he would have pinned the old boy to the ground.

He also advised his sister that if she wanted to avoid that old guy, she might as well just divorce him to avoid hiding. With the support of the Duke's Mansion, she was not afraid that the Qin family would stop her.

But no matter how much I tried to persuade her, my sister wouldn't agree, saying that she was afraid it would affect Qin'er.

What a bullshit influence! He must still be unable to let go of that old guy!

Thinking of this, Duke Yu glared at Master Qin again.

Master Qin was a little confused by the stare, but he faced his eldest uncle's fierce gaze and answered honestly, "The rumors are true. Zhao'er's biological mother, Concubine Liu, was indeed my adopted sister."

"My eldest uncle should remember that when my wife and I were young, we encountered a mudslide in Yuzhou. It was Aunt Liu's father who saved us. Unfortunately, his father had a high fever while saving us and could not be saved."

"Later, I found out where Concubine Liu lived through the escort agency and sent Father Liu's coffin back to help with the burial. Concubine Liu was only nine years old at the time. I felt sorry for her being alone, so I adopted her as my sister."

"I originally wanted to bring her to live in the capital, but she didn't want to. So I asked someone to send her some silver every year so that she wouldn't be in such a state of poverty. We also occasionally exchanged letters every year."

"When Qin'er was three years old, she suddenly came to the capital to seek refuge with me."

"Later, she entered the Qin family."

After Mr. Qin finished speaking, he looked at Old Madam Qin with some guilt.

Since the Qin family was founded, it has been an ancestral precept not to take concubines.

As co-experiencers of the Yuzhou incident, Mr. Qin and his wife had a sense of mutual sympathy. Since they lived in the capital, their contacts became closer, so they gradually fell in love and naturally got married.

In the first few years of their marriage, the two were very much in love.

Until one day, Aunt Liu knelt down in front of Old Madam Qin.