Chapter 63: Hu Xiang

Grandpa did not refuse Hu Dabao's request when he made this request, but a few days after completing the ceremony, in the quiet early morning, grandpa left Hu Dabao's house silently with his things. Hu Dabao found that his grandfather was missing another day, and only a note was left on the table, which read: "Life and death are orderly, yin and yang are extreme, Fuxi gossip, and destiny is the policy." In addition, there is a piece of malachite that has been opened, this malachite is divided into two halves, and the grandfather means that he will have another child in the future, and then make a necklace for the two children to wear, which is also regarded as compensation for his wife.

Hu Dabao took the malachite, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the note, but he regarded it as a treasure, and specially bought a jade brocade box and sealed the note in the brocade box.

Time passed day by day, the two children are gradually growing up, in a blink of an eye, Hu Dabao's business is getting bigger and bigger, and the children are gradually growing up, when Hu Hui was six years old, Hu Dabao's wife was diagnosed with uterine problems in the hospital, that is, infertility, so at the request of his wife, Hu Dabao adopted a girl - named Hu Xiang, two years older than Hu Hui.

The longer Hu Hui grows, the more she has her original appearance, Hu Dabao loves her so tightly that he can't even feed her with her own hands, and because of the painful experience in the past, Hu Hui doesn't even have a slave by her side, and all the women from the nurse to the servants are women. When he goes out, he will be accompanied by a few female guards, in short, Hu Dabao's doting on Hu Hui is to an extreme degree.

But the more Hu Dabao's attitude is like this, the more Hu Dabao's wife has a caring and unreasonable attitude towards Hu Hui, and it can even be said that it is close to indifference. Since Hu Hui was born, Hu Dabao's wife has held the child only a handful of times, and his wife is not responsible for breastfeeding, but is fed by the nurse, and the relationship between Hu Hui and her mother is very light.

At the beginning, everyone thought that Hu Dabao's wife was patriarchal, this phenomenon usually happens to the head of the family, and it is very rare to be a patriarchal mother. But when Hu Dabao agreed to adopt his daughter, Hu Dabao's wife showed a motherly side.

This child was picked out by Hu Dabao from the orphanage, and when I picked it, I could see that Hu Dabao didn't seem to have a good interest in this child - I actually stood on Hu Dabao's side on this point. If nothing else, this kid is too ruthless. It may be that the director of this orphanage knew in advance that Hu Dabao was going to come to them to pick up the children and take them back for adoption, and when they went, all the children looked "pure", their eyes were shining, as if they were children descending from earth.

But Hu Dabao is honest and simple, and he has been doing business for many years, and he also has an eye for people, especially children. Children at the age of seven or eight in orphanages may be more precocious than children in ordinary families, but they are not comparable to adult society.

These children know that being chosen can change their fate, so they desperately pretend to show their advantages, Hu Dabao actually sees the open and secret battles between the children, although he doesn't like it very much, but he also understands. In a place like an orphanage, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a place to eat people, and what is even more sad is that the people who are eaten are eaten, and there will be no sympathy, after all, the most important thing in this place is the so-called poor people.

And Hu Dabao's wife chose a child with the most outstanding ability among these children-this child was later Hu Xiang. And whether it's Hu Dabao or I, the reason why I don't like this child is because this child personally pushed the girl who was superior to him in all aspects into the river, and watched her drown without frowning.

This was an accidental accident, when I followed Hu Dabao and looked around, Hu Dabao had no interest in choosing an adopted daughter, and only agreed to find an adopted daughter for comfort and compensation for his wife. But the woods near the orphanage were something he liked, and the vegetation here was subtropical, very similar to the ones he had seen when he was looking for treasure from the tomb.

As the saying goes, heroes don't mention the courage of the year, but how many heroes are there in this world, Hu Dabao knows that he is not that hero, but he can't forget the experience of looking for a tomb alone in danger in the past. Of course, Hu Dabao didn't know that he had missed a rare hidden mountain vein in a century, but for him, even if it was just looking for the small burial tombs of the ancient corrupt officials, it was a very exciting and thrilling experience, and it was an unforgettable experience of a lifetime.

Hu Dabao and the old housekeeper looked at this beautiful scenery and remembered the past for a while, and they were also arrogant and talked about the old housekeeper about the courage of the year - I listened on the sidelines and found that Hu Dabao had added fuel and vinegar to many places, such as what black blind man he encountered, and he also encountered a group of wild boars chasing and killing Ah Yunyun, in short, how thrilling it was.

The old housekeeper has been with Hu Dabao for many years, and he also knows that he has a hobby of bragging, and he probably doesn't believe it all, but he still feels a little amazed that his master used to be a captain who touched gold.

I've been listening to it all the time, although I've seen it with my own eyes, and I know that the story has something to add fuel and vinegar, but after all, it's human nature, so you might as well listen quietly and even have fun. Anyway, it's also in a dream, and I don't have a place to talk about exposing Hu Dabao.

While the two of them were chatting, they discovered that there was a small natural lake hidden in the middle of this green and dense forest. From a distance, it looks like someone has placed a huge mirror in the middle of this forest, and the sunlight is reflected on it, shimmering with golden light, which is very beautiful.

Looking at this natural lake, Hu Dabao suddenly remembered the matter of fishing jade lotus seeds near the lake and cutting flesh and bones in front of his daughter.

Hu Dabao is also stubborn, so he decided not to listen to others anymore, and the old housekeeper saw that Hu Dabao had no guards around him, so he had to follow alone. But this trip is really unbelievable - I didn't find it from a distance, but I found a person splashing in the lake up close, and I saw that he was drowning, and there was a faint cry.

And at this moment, in the lake, there was a small thin figure slowly swimming out, it was a girl, wet, thin white clothes soaked, and the flesh was exposed. She stood barefoot on the edge of the lake, undressing and squeezing the water with a blank face, while watching the girl in the lake drown.

When the old housekeeper saw this, he immediately wanted to call someone, but Hu Dabao silently stretched out his hand to stop him. The old housekeeper was stunned for a moment, looked at Hu Dabao's silent face, and understood something, sighed imperceptibly, shook his head and stopped talking.

I think I can probably understand why Hu Dabao stopped the old housekeeper - if the old housekeeper was born here, then the child in the lake might be able to save his life, but the one standing on the lake would not escape death - the most taboo thing in an orphanage is to be caught with pigtails.

The girl knew at a glance that she was going to frame the child in the lake, and the lake was rescued this time, and after coming out, the two of them could only live one, and no one would stop between the two until then. It may seem unreasonable when you think about it, but if you think about it for a while, you will understand the sighing truth.

Hu Dabao meddled or not, the ending of dying cannot be changed, so it is better not to meddle and not wade into this troubled water, it may be cruel, but if he didn't come here today, then this matter has nothing to do with him, just two orphans who have nothing to do with him.

After Hu Dabao and the old housekeeper went back silently, I stayed there until the end. In order to get rid of suspicion, the girl went deeper into the woods and started a wildfire, and did not return to the orphanage until her clothes and body were dry, which is hard to imagine as a child of seven or eight years old.

But fate is a wonderful thing, another day when Hu Dabao asked his wife which child he chose, his wife said you must like it too, I took a fancy to it at a glance. Then it was the girl who had watched her companion drown.

When the girl was brought by Hu Dabao's wife to stand in front of Hu Dabao, the expression on her face was like two people - a pair of narrow Danfeng eyes opened wide with all her might, blinking and looking up at the pot-bellied Hu Dabao, with admiration in her eyes, a trace of intimacy, but the most was deep longing.

Hu Dabao's mood was also very complicated, and when he asked his wife why he chose this girl, he learned that it was the best child in the entire orphanage who was drowned by this child yesterday.

It is said that this kind of child will not stay in the orphanage for too long, but this child belongs to a special situation - originally the child of a rich family, but due to an accident, the family was destroyed and sent to the orphanage here. It didn't take long to come, but it mysteriously disappeared two days ago. The dean said that her body had only been found in the morning in a lake in the forest, possibly drowned while playing in the water.

When he said this, the dean didn't look very pity, and Hu Dabao's mood was even more complicated. He repeatedly asked his wife many times if he had to bring the child home, Hu Dabao's wife was very resolute, and even had already thought of the child's name, so it was Hu Xiang.

Seeing that his wife liked the child very much, Hu Dabao felt guilty about his wife because of Hu Hui's matter, so he didn't say anything more and promised his wife to take the child back. But Hu Dabao was deceived - I, as a bystander, saw the truth that Hu Dabao did not see.

On the eve of returning to Hu's house, I saw Hu Dabao's wife pulling Hu Xiang in her bedroom to chat, chatting about the drowning girl - Hu Dabao's wife not only knew the truth, but she also instigated this matter.

She said to Hu Xiang, you are excellent in all aspects, but there is one who is better than you in all aspects, so as long as you have this child, you will not be taken away by us, you say, what should you do?

So, Hu Xiang gave his own answer. Hu Dabao's wife was very satisfied with this, she gently stroked Hu Xiang's head, and told her, that's it, if you are very good, but there is a person who is better than you in all aspects - let her disappear.

And at this time, I realized how vicious Hu Dabao's wife was. What has happened over the years has not only changed Hu Dabao, but also made her change dramatically. Thinking about it carefully, since that premature birth incident, it seems that the Hu family has never had a little maid delusional sparrow turning into a phoenix.