Chapter 2408 The story begins with the previous generation

The story begins with my grandparents' generation.

My grandfather’s surname was Feng. He went out to study when he was a teenager. After finishing his studies, he traveled around and met my grandmother who made a living by collecting pearls.

My grandmother’s family has been pearl miners for generations and lives in Nanwan.

My grandparents fell in love and got married freely, which was considered a new trend in that time and place.

After getting married, my grandmother followed her husband, left Nanwan, and followed my grandfather back to his hometown.

The two had been married for many years and had a good relationship, but they were in their thirties and had no children.

Although my grandfather was an open-minded man and had no obsession with continuing the family line, his parents were traditional and feudal.

My grandfather's mother, Su Jiuyao's great-grandmother, was so anxious to have a grandson that she was so worried that she couldn't eat or sleep.

At that time, there was a girl working in my grandfather's house, only 18 years old, named Wenzhu. The girl was abandoned as a child and then adopted by my grandfather's family. She was already 18 years old.

Her great-grandmother wanted to find a husband for her, but she repeatedly refused until someone came to propose marriage. She then took the initiative to find her great-grandmother and told her about her worries.

She was grateful for the Feng family's upbringing, and she had long admired Jiuyao's grandfather, and was willing to have children for the Feng family.

If she was lucky enough to give birth to a descendant of the Feng family, she would not ask for any status, but only want to stay with the young master forever. She could just be the child's wet nurse and tell others that the child was born to her grandparents.

My great-grandmother liked this girl very much and had actually wanted her son to take her as a concubine. However, times have changed and the idea of ​​taking a concubine no longer exists, and it is impossible to ask her son to divorce. Now, when she heard that the girl did not want a formal status, my great-grandmother saw hope again and began to put pressure on my grandfather, using both soft and hard methods, hoping that his son would consummate the marriage with the girl.

My grandparents were a loving couple and would never accept this arrangement. In the end, my great-grandmother jumped off the bridge in anger.

My great-grandmother didn't die, but after all this commotion, my grandfather finally compromised.

A month later, the girl became pregnant.

However, as fate would have it, two months later, my grandmother, who had not been pregnant for many years, also became pregnant.

The next year, the girl gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. However, because the delivery process took too long, one of the children was already dead when he was born.

The one who survived was Feng Meiling.

Wenzhu died the day after giving birth due to exhaustion and heavy blood loss.

Jiuyao's grandmother was greatly traumatized by witnessing all this, and she gave birth prematurely, even though she was originally due in a month.

My grandmother also gave birth to a girl, whose placenta was pure white, like pearls, and she was named Zhuruo.

In this way, my grandmother had two daughters, and she told others that she was pregnant with twins.

As for the great-grandmother, she was so anxious to hold her grandson that she fell to the ground while holding the dead boy, wailing and never getting up again.

This series of experiences made my grandfather extremely sad, and he blamed all the sins on himself. He felt deeply guilty towards his mother, Wenzhu, and his wife.

My grandfather became ill due to depression and has been ill for a long time.

Grandma took him back to the place where they first met, the small fishing village, and she accompanied grandpa on the last journey.

From then on, grandma relied on helping people collect pearls to raise the two children alone. Her life was extremely difficult, but she finally managed to raise both girls healthily.

But the two children became more and more different as they grew up. Zhuruo looked like her grandmother, and Meiling looked like her deceased mother.

Zhu Ruo is an excellent swimmer. She dives to the bottom of the sea to accompany her mother in pearl hunting, and her diving time is longer than other pearl divers.

Meiling is a landlubber. She can't swim at all and can't be taught. It seems like she is born afraid of water.

Zhu Ruo was very skillful. She used those small pearls that were of poor quality and small in size and that no one wanted to make some hair accessories. She then put them on the market and they were sold out in less than half an hour.

Meiling is not good at these things, she is better at shopping in the market and dressing herself up.

Zhuruo knows that pearls are hard to come by and she cherishes them very much. She envies the designers in the local pearl factory and hopes that she can become a jewelry designer in the future.

Meiling would rather be the wife of the director of the pearl factory.

Zhuruo's academic performance is excellent, with half the wall covered with certificates of achievement, while Meiling is lucky to just pass...

In short, the two girls have completely different personalities and hobbies. People often tease Feng Meiling, saying that Meiling, you might not be her biological daughter.

This kind of joke doesn't bother you once or twice, but after hearing it too many times, you will take it to heart. Especially every time her mother takes her sister back from diving, the deep love between mother and daughter is in front of her, and Feng Zhuruo feels more and more like an outsider.

Some people also said that she was not her biological daughter. The resentment accumulated in her heart finally erupted. Feng Meiling went to question her mother in person, asking why she always guided Zhuruo carefully, but why she didn't teach her to swim and dive well. Maybe if her mother was more patient, she could do it too!

Feng Meiling was eighteen years old that year. Her mother sighed and told her her life story.

After hearing this, Feng Meiling burst into tears.

But the next day, she cheered up again. Since then, she has never questioned her mother again. When someone said that she was not her biological daughter, she spat at that person and cursed: If I hear you say that again, I will tear your mouth apart!

Another major event happened that year.

A group of city people came to the small fishing village, a group of rich young men and women, all of whom came to the fishing village for vacation and to experience farm life.

Among them is Su Shengnian.

Su Shengnian fell in love with Zhu Ruo at first sight, but Zhu Ruo had no feelings for him.

Meiling actually liked this young man very much. He was good-looking and, most importantly, came from a well-off family. The group of people who came with him surrounded him and called him Mr. Su.

Later, Su Shengnian and his group returned to the city, but Su Shengnian could not forget Zhu Ruo. He came to see Zhu Ruo every few days and always brought many expensive and exquisite gifts.

Zhu Ruo didn't even look at it and always returned it to Su Shengnian intact.

Meiling watched all this and her eyes turned red.

Finally, one time, Su Shengnian came to find Zhu Ruo, but Zhu Ruo and her mother went pearl diving, so Feng Meiling took Su Shengnian to her own room.

Like her deceased lowly mother, she humbly proposed to Su Shengnian. She said she didn't want anything, no status, no future, she just wanted him to love her once.

Su Shengnian is a romantic man, but not loyal. There is no reason for him to refuse a beautiful girl who comes to him on her own initiative and does not require him to take responsibility.

The following year, Feng Meiling gave birth to her eldest daughter, Su Canyue, and brought the child to the Su family.

The two elders of the Su family both wanted to save face. Since the matter was already settled and they had a child, and seeing that the girl was good-looking, had a simple background, and had a cheerful personality, they asked Su Shengnian to get engaged to her first.

However, Su's mother-in-law hopes that Feng Meiling will continue her studies when the child is older. It is not possible for the Su family's daughter-in-law to have no diploma.