Chapter 21: Aunt Xu

On the day I was born, my biological mother died. I was in the Cui family, raised by Aunt Xu. She is the biological mother of the eldest brother Jingyun and your mother-in-law.

Since his father's youth, Aunt Xu has been his personal maid. She was older than her father's. For many years, she has been serving her father wholeheartedly and meticulously. Gradually, they develop emotions. She became an indispensable person in her father's life. Father was used to her, like he was used to the air. And the absence of her is also like the lack of air.

When her father became an adult, he asked his parents to take her as a concubine. The elders of the family also liked Xu's thoughtfulness and self-preservation, so after obtaining the consent of her great-grandmother, she became her father's woman. They lived together in harmony and affection, and had a very good and sweet time.

But all sweetness is going to disappear in the end, either in one way or another.

When my father is older, he has to take on the mission of being the son of the family. He was taken by the elders of the family to meet the old Han king, was knighted, and began to serve the royal court. Before going to Dongcheng, he and Xu said goodbye to each other, and they were all admonished. Because Xu had already given birth to a son for him at that time, and now he is pregnant with a second child with a big belly, and he will soon give birth. Her father cared about her all the way.

During the visit, the old Han king liked his father very much, so he added extra favor and assigned him a family affair that was the right family, and married another prominent family in Lingnan. The daughter of the Ding family who was assigned to marry is your mother. Your mother was only 16 years old at the time, younger than when I married Liu Shen, with a gentle temperament and beautiful appearance.

When this marriage was confirmed, both your father and your mother resisted in their hearts. They were all depressed because of the marriage. However, the most depressed is still the pregnant Xu family, and the news of the marriage is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for her. However, in her capacity, she was not qualified to speak and did not dare to show any dissatisfaction. What's more, she has to cheer up twelve points of joy and drag her heavy body to help the elders prepare for your father's wedding. Seeing your father's depression, she can't show her sadness, and she must comfort your father in peace. All these grievances, she hid in her heart.

There is only one person in the world who has seen her tears alone in the middle of the night, how she held her heart, and cried silently. This person is the eldest brother. The eldest brother was a little boy at the time, but he remembered how his mother had fallen from heaven to hell.

Because of tiredness, because of sadness, because of depression, because of worry, Xu went into labor the night before your father's wedding. The delivery did not go well, and she suffered in pain for a long time, and she died. However, the wedding ceremony that had been determined, and so many relatives and nobles of the clan were present, it was impossible for it to be stopped because of the labor pains of a humble concubine. Father can only leave her sweaty, tumbling and hissing, and on the line of life and death, and set off to marry your mother. When your parents visited the church, Xu struggled desperately, bleeding like a river, and finally gave birth to another boy, and he almost only had one breath left. However, because the labor was too long, the baby boy only lived for a while before he stopped breathing. Jingyun, just like that, watched his mother almost die, and lost his own half-brother and half-brother. He desperately bit his fists with his teeth in the midst of his mother's wailing all night, biting both fists to the point of blood.

Before your mother entered the door, the eldest brother hated her to the core. From a very young age, he had hidden murderous intentions against her. However, he was forced to call her mother, and he had to be with his biological mother and be respectful to her. None of his childish murder attempts were unsuccessful.

On the wedding night, your father absentmindedly picked off your mother's hijab with 10,000 worries about Xu's mother and son. He lifted the hijab for several seconds before his eyes focused on your mother's face. But when he saw your mother's face, he was there all at once. He never imagined that the grace of King Han would be so grand. Because, she is so young and beautiful! Her gentle smile, like a pearl of the night, illuminated the dark night of the entire Zhuangji.

The outcome of this war was predestined from the very beginning. Your mother is young and beautiful, has a quiet personality, has a literary talent, and is also noble, she is almost 30 years old, has given birth to two children, and is almost illiterate, and she cannot be compared with her at all. Soon, your mother will win the full affection of her elders and father. Although your mother has a gentle temperament and has never been bad to Xu and Jingyun, many of the things that Xu and Jingyun once had have have been gone.

However, in this earthly world, there is no victor. It didn't take long for your mother to get a headache and she was very sick. And at this time, she was also pregnant. Despite the persuasion of all parties, she refused to give up the fetus in her womb, and she risked her life to give birth to you for her father. After giving birth to you, her health deteriorated even more, and she died soon after. Her death left your father heartbroken. Your father hugged you in swaddling clothes, knelt in front of her spirit, and swore in front of the Ding clan that he would never marry a wife again in this life. The position of Mrs. Masamurai has been hanging there ever since. Aunt Xu became the de facto mistress of the family again.

When you were less than 4 years old, your father sent you to study art in the Qingliu Sect. You've been gone for 13 years.

From then on, the family returned to its former peace, as if it had never happened to your father to marry a wife.

However, the eldest brother is well aware that not nothing has happened.

Now my father has a son-in-law, and the family business has an heir. He will never have any hope of becoming a concubine. He hates you so much. From a very young age, he has always wanted you to die quickly to give his brother the death of his younger brother, who died at birth. In his life, he has always had this hope, and it has not changed for a day.

He never accepted it, never even thought that you, too, were his own brother.