Koi baby helps his mother farm and becomes the richest man

"My mother is right," Qin Ying walked in, lifting the curtain. "Ladies, a person's life is long, but few can reach a hundred years. It's short, but it's still a few decades.

“It’s not that there aren’t some people who live a smooth life, but there aren’t many either.

"Let's not talk about anything else, just take my mother for example, she became a widow at a young age, raising a child and farming alone, how easy could her life be?

“As the saying goes, ‘There’s always trouble around a widow,’ but the villagers aren’t so disciplined.

"Which girl isn't delicate and soft when she's young?

"Why did you torture my mother into what others call a 'shrew'? Wasn't it just so she could live a good life?"

"Oh, stop talking about me!" Aunt Zhao thought of the past, her eyes slightly red, and she quickly interrupted.

"Okay," Qin Ying smiled at her and patted her hand gently, "Let me talk about myself. There are many things I haven't told my mother. To be honest with you two Miss Zhous, I was born into an official family. My father was a Hanlin attendant.

"It's just that something unexpected happened in the capital, my father died, and my mother took me and fled.

"As a woman with a child, the journey was extremely difficult. The most dangerous time was when we were targeted by kidnappers and nearly abducted.

"That's because among those who were abducted was my old neighbor's sister.

"The neighbor girl was pretty, so she received a lot of preferential treatment. She used this to tip us off, allowing us to escape.

"But when I met her again..." Qin Ying closed her eyes, tears welling up in her eyes, "When I met her again, her face was ruined, one of her hands was missing, and she was crazy.

"My mother and I originally wanted to take her with us, but when we changed her clothes, we saw that there was not a single piece of healthy flesh left on her body.

"Before she died, my sister said, 'I'd rather be a dog in peace than a person in chaos.'

"We couldn't even afford to buy a coffin for my sister, so we had to bury her hastily. Now I even forgot where that lonely grave is.

"Later we ended up here. My mother fell ill and fainted on the roadside. The Guo family saw us and initially ignored us. I gave them the jade pendant I was wearing around my neck.

"My mother woke up and quietly told me to be more diligent in the future at the Guo family and to keep valuables close to me.

"They rummaged through our bags many times." Qin Ying couldn't help but sneer when she said this.

Aunt Zhao spat on the ground and cursed, "What a piece of shit!"

"To be fair," Qin Ying said calmly, "We've been living in fear for so long, and now that we can settle down, we're both very happy.

"That period was actually not that bad. Guo Nier was difficult to take care of, and the Guo couple were always making indirect accusations. Fortunately, Guo Wen would occasionally speak up for us."

"Bah!" Aunt Zhao said disdainfully, "He just chatters. I don't see him actually doing any work!"

Qin Ying shook her head and smiled: "For people like us who have experienced so much hardship, a little bit of kindness is already very precious to us.

"My mother's illness never fully healed. The Guo family suggested several times that I marry Guo Wen, but my mother refused. I wasn't there when she passed away. I went to make soup for her.

"When I came back, my mother had passed away. The Guo family said that my mother's last words were to marry me to Guo Wen.

"After I finished mourning for my mother, I was fourteen years old. The Guo family proposed that I marry Guo Wen. Guo Wen was the one in their family who treated me the best, and I was so eager to have a family, so I agreed.

"Who knew that on the day of the wedding, soldiers came to recruit young men and took Guo Wen away.

"Guo's parents were frightened and have not been in good health since then.

“The drought followed, and we had less and less food at home, and life became increasingly difficult.

"The old couple didn't make it and passed away one after another. The valuable things in the house were always kept by me. I had no other choice but to sell two of my mother's old things to help them deal with the funeral.

"After that, it was just me and Guo Nier, the youngest daughter of the Guo family, left at home. Idlers from our own village and other villages would often come and harass us. If it weren't for my mother's righteous intervention, I don't know what would have happened to me.

"Suddenly one day, seven or eight people burst into the house and started rummaging through everything without saying anything.

“At first I thought there were strong men coming, so I wanted to call the neighbors for help.

"Who knew that it was Guo Nier who brought these people here? They were her uncle's family. They took away everything edible and useful in the house."

Taking a deep breath, Qin Ying looked at Zhou Qi and Zhou Mian: "It was a year of famine, there was no harvest in the fields, no water in the wells, they didn't give me a way to survive.

"I thought, death is fine, at least I can be reunited with my parents in the underworld. But the feeling of starvation is really unbearable. My stomach feels like it's on fire. I scratched the kang mat to chew it, and my mouth was cut open...

"Later, I saw my parents coming to pick me up, and I was glad that these hard times were finally over.

“But when I opened my eyes again, I was at my mother’s side.

"At that time, she still had a little bit of food, but she and Hu Zi were reluctant to eat it, so they only ate a few mouthfuls a day, barely making ends meet.

"But she cooked me half a bowl of cornmeal..."

When she said this, Qin Ying felt a lump in her throat and started to cry.

Aunt Zhao stretched out her arms and hugged her, "Good girl, it's all over, don't be sad!"

She took over the conversation and said, "From that time on, I treated Yingzi as my own daughter. We ate grass roots together and picked tree bark together, and we managed to get by for more than two years.

"Everyone in the village who had somewhere to go has left, and those who are left are just waiting to die.

"In the end, there was really nothing to eat, so we had to eat mud. There was no mud in our village, so we had to go to Kaoshan Village, 20 miles away, to get some.

"They have a well that still produces water. It's called water, but it's actually mud. We are from other villages, and we can only carry half a bucket each time. We only go once every ten days, so the three of us have to be very frugal with this half bucket of mud.

"But if you eat too much mud, your stomach will feel heavy. To be frank, you can't even defecate.

"We knew there was no way out. Yingzi went to visit her mother's grave and planned to burn herself to death when she came back.

"You don't know, at that time, cannibalism was rampant everywhere. Our village was relatively better off, but in other villages, they would take turns eating children. The dead were dug up and eaten right after being buried.

"If we didn't set the fire, we would have been eaten!

"Who would have thought this girl was so kind-hearted that she even found a doll when she went out.

"To be honest, I was against it at the time, too. But I couldn't persuade her!"

The two sisters listened, huddled together, and could hear each other's rapid heartbeats. They didn't know that other people's suffering was no less than theirs!