Sun Yannan asked, "How come no one in the village knew about this? Did Deng Yaozu deliberately conceal the fact that his son was dead and only hold a funeral for his wife?"

Xiaotian said: "The matchmaker said that Deng Yaozu was completely broken at that time. He sat there with a pale face and his eyes wide open.

When Xi Po left, he didn't move. Xi Po was only in her thirties at that time, and now she is almost fifty, but after more than ten years, she still remembers the situation of that day clearly. At that time, the room was filled with red eggs prepared to send to the whole village, but she didn't expect it to end like this.

When she left, she didn't even feel comfortable taking the money wrapped in red cloth on the table. She just took a little errand fee and left.

After she left, she never told anyone about this. After all, she was a matchmaker, and her delivery was so tragic that it would be unlucky to tell others about it. I'm afraid that fewer people will ask her to deliver their babies.

She also felt uncomfortable, and she avoided the village for years. When she later heard that Deng Yaozu had a son, she thought he was the son of a new wife.

Sun Yannan wondered: If what the midwife said was true, then this child was the father-in-law and Jinshu's? Had they broken the rules they had made with their grandmother, secretly had a child, and then handed the child over to Deng Yaozu, who had lost his wife and child, to raise him?

But if that was the case, Jinshu had already died and Deng Yaozu had passed away due to illness. Why did Shi Zhongwen hide the child's background when he brought the child back?

Now there is no need to cover up for Jinshu. The child can be brought back and registered under the name of the deceased concubine Jinshu. Considering the family business of the Shi family, returning as a concubine's son is better than as an adopted son. What is the purpose of not changing the surname and not acknowledging the ancestors?

If this child is not Shi Zhongwen and Jinshu's child, then where did this child come from?

Before Sun Yanan could figure out the matter, suffering suddenly came one after another.

Amnesia swept the whole country, and Shi Yue unfortunately suffered from amnesia. His mother-in-law Peng Jing was extremely anxious and stayed with her son all day long.

I heard that the eldest son of the eldest branch of the Mei family in Anping County had always been mentally retarded and stupid. His mother took him to see countless famous doctors and used various folk remedies and medicines. I heard that the mentally retarded and stupid son was constantly improving and getting better and better.

Although Peng Jing didn't know whether these rumors were true, she still contacted the eldest daughter-in-law of the Mei family, hoping to get some prescriptions from famous doctors and medicines and hope for treatment from her, even if it was just some vague encouragement.

Not long after, news came that the son-in-law, the young master of the Lu family, had also suffered from amnesia, which made Madam Shi and her mother-in-law even more worried.

Sun Yanan was in charge of the family affairs alone. Ever since he knew that his adopted son had a suspicious background, Sun Yanan quietly transferred back Xiaoyue, who had been sent out to take charge of the affairs. On the first day Xiaoyue was transferred back, a big event happened.

The adopted son was reading by the lake in the backyard when he met a maid who was playing there with a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.

Somehow, the adopted son picked up Sun Yanan's son, picked dandelions by the lake, and blew them onto the lake. The big and the small were having a lot of fun.

The maids who were paying close attention at first gradually relaxed their attention, while the two, one big and one small, slowly moved closer and closer to the lake, picking dandelions one by one, as if they were unaware.

Finally, when the adopted son picked up the little baby, he seemed to have sprained his ankle, and both of them fell into the lake.

Xiaoyue, who had just been transferred back to the mansion, saw it from afar and rushed into the lake like an arrow. Xiaoyue could swim, so she rescued the young master. All the maids were shocked, and then the adopted son was pulled up as well.

But after the young master was rescued, he seemed to have suffered from amnesia, looking a little dazed and silly, and his eyes were obviously different from the clear and bright ones before.

Sun Yannan suffered a series of blows and was a little dazed. His mother-in-law wrote a letter to the Mei family crying. She heard that the two children in the eldest branch of the Mei family were both mentally retarded, and now the situation in their master's family was the same.

Xiaoyue came to tell Sun Yanan that when she jumped into the lake to save people, she saw the adopted son pushing the young master deeper into the water, kicking the young master's head hard, and constantly stepping on the young master to prevent him from floating up.

Xiaoyue dived down and grabbed her. The adopted son saw Xiaoyue and even wanted to violence her without any fear. But when he saw many people gathering around and some servants jumping into the water, he withdrew his hand and turned to move towards the shore.

Sun Yannan issued a strict order that the adopted son was not allowed to enter the backyard from then on, and sent servants from his family to guard the intersections between the front and back yards.

That day, Sun Yanan held her dazed husband's hand, and Xiaoyue was beside her holding her drowsy son. They walked face to face with Shi Chongwen and the adopted son.

Sun Yannan looked at Shi Chongwen quietly, and he also looked at Sun Yannan calmly, as if they were not just a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law. For the first time, Sun Yannan did not greet her father-in-law. She just walked sideways. When the two passed by each other, she clenched her fists and said, "I will not lose and I will not fall down."

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Mei family brought the mentally retarded child to Pingchang County. It was said that she came here to follow in the footsteps of a famous doctor. Sun Yanan did not expect that the arrival of this child would bring life to her son.

When the foolish eldest son of the Mei family showed a silly smile and wanted to hug his son, Sun Yanan was very worried.

She and Xiaoyue stood nearby nervously, prepared for any unexpected events.

At this moment, Sun Yanan suddenly saw the jade pendant hanging on the eldest son's chest shine brightly. After a while, the son who had not called her for a long time suddenly turned his head from the arms of the eldest son of the Mei family and shouted "Mother" to her.

Sun Yannan was completely stunned. Her son hadn't called her for a long time, but now he seemed to have fully recovered, with clear and bright eyes and lively expression. He was no longer drowsy and silly.

All this happened in a flash, and the suffering of the past days seemed like a dream.

Sun Yanan couldn't understand. If the jade pendant on the eldest son of the Mei family had such amazing powers, why was this child always mentally retarded?

Because she had felt the same way, she had special respect for the mother of the Mei family who had worked hard for more than ten years.

She didn't know at that time that this piece of jade could resist damage and heal injuries to a certain extent, but it could not change fate.

Sun Yanan ordered all the servants in her yard to hide the fact that her son had recovered. She wanted to see what her father-in-law Shi Chongwen was trying to do.

Sure enough, not long after, Shi Chongwen asked the elders of the clan to open a clan temple.

Now, his eldest son, Shi Yue, has developed amnesia, and his youngest great-grandson has unfortunately fallen into a lake, drowned and damaged his brain, and has become mentally retarded after being rescued from the lake. Shi Chongwen wants to change his adopted son's name and surname and officially adopt him as his legitimate son.

As the legal mother, Peng Jing was unwilling to register the son under her own name, so Shi Zhongwen wanted to divorce her.

Shi Chongwen scolded his wife Peng Jing, saying that she was unclean because she had had an affair with a man outside the family; that she was unfaithful and unrighteous because she had stolen a seal with a man outside the family and tried to rob her husband's family of 250,000 taels of silver; and that she was disobedient to her husband because she was unwilling to adopt the orphan of her husband's colleague and was unfilial because she would have no offspring. Therefore, he divorced her.

Old Mrs. Shi, who had been bedridden due to successive misfortunes suffered by her grandson and great-grandson, came over despite her illness and tried to support her daughter-in-law, causing a temporary stalemate in the situation.