Chapter 944 Aunt is not a stepmother (19)

Even though Xun Yiming had become the cunning soul he was in his previous life, he couldn't help but feel a little panicked when he thought of his current situation. Everything was different from his previous life. His starting point had been lowered a lot. Not only was there no one around him who could help him, but they were all people who held him back. Could he still climb to the same high position as in his previous life?

Xun Yiming felt extremely irritated. His life in his previous life was so perfect, why did God let him live a completely different life? Even if he was a few decades younger, he couldn't be happy at all. After all, who could be a powerful official for so long and get used to being a humble and unsatisfactory official again?

"Husband, how are you now? Let the doctor take a look." Xiuniang brought in an old doctor.

Xun Yiming let the doctor check his pulse, then asked Xiuniang, "Is there any news about my sister?" He no longer cared that his wife was not the lady from a wealthy family, Zhou Duanrong, but the beautiful girl from a humble family, Xiuniang.

Seeing that her husband was not in good health and was still worried about his sister, Xiuniang said unhappily, "No! My husband, you have been looking for her for so long. You have done your best. Why do you have to continue? Grandfather, grandmother and father have all given up..."

"Shut up! Yuan'er is my only sister, and I will never give up on her." Xun Yiming said to Xiuniang with cold eyes. He really loved this sister who depended on him for everything, and he couldn't help getting angry when he heard Xiuniang's words.

Xiuniang had no choice but to lower her head and said nothing more. She had no good feelings towards her sister-in-law. Not only was she willful and capricious, but she was also very stupid. She even caused a scandal of eloping with someone, causing unrest for the whole family.

After the doctor felt Xun Yiming's pulse, he wrote a prescription and said, "Master Xun is fine. He is just angry and overworked recently, so his mind is a little damaged. He will be fine after a few days of rest."

After Xiuniang sent the doctor away, Xun Yiming was unable to fall asleep and rest. He had experienced such big things as starting over in his new life and his sister eloping with someone. How could he sleep?

He tossed and turned in bed for most of the night, and only managed to get some sleep in the second half of the night. When he woke up the next day, he looked even more haggard and listless, but he was still thinking about Xun Linyuan, so he forced himself to stay awake and started asking about the search for his sister.

As expected, there was still no result. Xun Yiming could only worry, but his official position was too low and he could not mobilize more manpower and resources to search for it.

He wanted to go out and look for it himself, but his body wouldn't allow it, so he could only stay in bed.

"How are Yuan'er and Jing'er doing in school now? Have they asked a teacher for enlightenment?" Xun Yiming remembered that he had two sons at this age in his previous life, so he asked Xiuniang. Although his wife has changed, the children should not be changed, right? He thought uncertainly.

However, Xiuniang asked him in confusion: "Who are Yuan Ge'er and Jing Ge'er?"

Xun Yiming was shocked. Could it be that his two smart and lovely sons were gone? Seeing Xiuniang's inquiring eyes, he quickly smiled and said, "Nothing, I suddenly thought of my relatives' two children. Oh, where are our children? I'm sick, and they won't come to visit me, their father?"

When Xun Yiming was receiving the memory last night, he only skimmed through it quickly, focusing only on the important things and not taking other trivial matters to heart at all. Children belong to the category of "trivial matters", which is why he "stumbled" at this moment.

Xiuniang was horrified. She said in panic, "Husband! You must have hurt your brain. We don't have a child. Are you confused?"

"We don't have children? Not even one?" Xun Yiming had a bad feeling in his heart. In his previous life, when he was this age, his two sons could run around and start their education, but now he didn't have any children at all?

Xiuniang mercilessly broke his fantasy and said, "My husband, we really don't have any children yet. I have brought you several concubines in the past few years, but none of them got pregnant... But the doctor said that it might be because our children came late, so there is no need to worry too much..."

Xun Yiming no longer had the heart to listen to her consolation. He was blankly thinking, why is it that he is so unlucky in this world? His wife changed, his child was gone, and his beloved sister eloped with someone and didn't know whether she was alive or dead...

Why has he fallen to this point?

Xun Yiming racked his brains to find the reason, but after thinking about it, he only found a reason that he didn't want to admit, but it was the most reasonable reason, that is, in this world, his stepmother and aunt died at the beginning, and she couldn't marry into the Xun family at all, so it was impossible for her to raise them diligently and responsibly, and it was impossible for her to take care of the household affairs for his father, so that his father could work hard in the officialdom without any worries and create a brilliant starting point for him...

And his sister, without the careful guidance of her stepmother, became stupid and willful, and did the foolish thing of eloping with someone, which directly ruined her own life.

When Cao Shichu was working diligently for the Xun family, what did he think of her? He felt that this stepmother was really stupid. She had no scheming at all and actually treated the child left by the original wife as her own and taught him to become a talent without reservation.

At first, Xun Yiming secretly despised her in his heart, thinking that he had played her in the palm of his hand, so he had a sense of superiority in front of her, and even felt that it was her honor that he and his sister were willing to let her raise them...

But now it seems that Xun Yiming has to admit that without Cao Shichu, their stepmother, their Xun family is in a mess.

In his previous life, he actually didn't care at all that his father divorced his stepmother and sent her to the family temple. He also never thought about going to see her, taking care of her, and making her life better. He was busy trying to please his superiors, make friends with colleagues, and enjoy himself with concubines... How could he have the time to spare for a stepmother who had long been useless?

He knew that his sister was slandering her, and his father knew it too, but what did it matter? Someone had to be held responsible for the things his sister accidentally caused. Rather than letting his sister's reputation be damaged, it would be better for her, the stepmother, to make another contribution. Didn't she treat the siblings as her own? In this case, wasn't it right for her to sacrifice herself for her daughter? So they sacrificed Cao Shichu, and they sacrificed with confidence and without any guilt.

When Xun Yiming thinks of these past events today, he can't help but wonder whether everything he and other members of the Xun family have suffered in this world is the retribution for exploiting and framing an innocent person in their previous life?

Was it his sister's fate that she eloped? She was doomed to have no good ending for doing such a thing, so was she atonement for her sins in her previous life?

(End of this chapter)