Chapter 109 Fireflies Under the Moon
Liu Fuying held the letter paper, his hands shaking.
She looked up at Pei Zhouwu who was standing in front of him, her eyes asking him if he had read the letter before.
Pei Zhouwu squatted down in front of her and held her hands tightly to help her stop trembling.
"A Ying, no matter who you are or whose daughter you are, you are still yourself. When you think about it in the future, everything in the past is nothing but a passing cloud. What matters most is who you want to be and what kind of life you want to live."
He held her gaze tightly, telling her that no matter what happened, he would be there for her.
"Hina, do you understand?"
Liu Fuying nodded vaguely, not knowing whether he really understood.
She lowered her head and continued to read the letter in her hand.
"Seeing this, you should have guessed that you are not Liu Fuying, the concubine of the Liu family, but Xu Liangyin. When my grandmother was still alive, she knew that if you continued to stay in the Shen family, you would cause unrest in the family, so the nanny secretly took you out of the Shen family at the instruction of my grandmother. After leaving Shangjing, you went to Yizhou and met the Zhao family."
The Zhao family is the maternal family of Liu Fuying's biological mother and the family of her maternal grandmother.
"At that time, Aunt Zhao had lost her daughter for two years. After her daughter's death, she also fell seriously ill and had been recuperating in Yizhou. She never returned to the capital. She did not dare to announce the death of her child, fearing that the Liu family would divorce her if they knew. She only said that the child was recuperating with her mother in a farm outside the city. If her daughter was still alive, she would be the same age as you, so she liked you very much when she saw you, so she adopted you as her own daughter and gave you a nickname. It is said that the night she saw you, there were fireflies flying all over the sky under the moon, so she named you Yueying."
With a click, tears fell heavily on the letter paper.
"Mammy doesn't know much about what happened afterwards. She only knows that you were brought to the Liu family three years later. At that time, you were eight years old. You must have changed a lot from the real Liu Fuying when she left at the age of three, so people would not doubt your appearance.
You suffered from shock and a serious illness after falling into the water. After you recovered, you lost your memory and couldn't remember anything.
As for your biological mother, Zhuang, she never married. She was afraid that it would be embarrassing if she had a child out of wedlock, so she lied that she married a family surnamed Xu from another place, but her husband died early, so she took you back to live with her parents. And my mother also never consummated her marriage with my father. She only said to others that she was not in good health and could not get pregnant.
You see, a wrong marriage led to such a tragedy.
The same is true for you and me, so we should also clean up the mess and get back on track.
No, it's me who should clean up this mess.
I knew your background three years ago, but I waited until now to tell you. I am indeed a bastard, so I dare not face you anymore. Fortunately, the Shen family will truly belong to you from now on, so I did not let Susu enter the Shen family. After all, it is no longer my home.
In fact, I have always envied you.
I envy you for living a transparent life. Even if you are scheming for the sake of profit, you are still bright and dazzling. You are always full of vitality, unlike me who is lifeless and dares to do but not to take responsibility. You are like a light that I can't catch, which makes me jealous and inferior. I can't touch it but I am afraid of losing it. I am afraid that after losing this light, my world will really be left with only a dead color.
I don't know how to describe this feeling, but I know it's not love between a man and a woman, so you don't have to feel pressured.
As for SuSu, I still love her, but she and I have sinned deeply against each other, and it is impossible for us to pretend that nothing has happened and go on as before.
If one could learn and sleep after death, it would be a great blessing from heaven.
Finally, I wish you peace and good health.
I also wish to grow old together with Pei Zhouwu, and live in love forever."
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"Ah-Hina?"
Pei Zhouwu saw that Liu Fuying's expression had been solemn for a long time and had not changed. He sat beside her anxiously, snatched the letter from her hand, put his arm around her shoulders and asked her to look at him.
"A Ying, look at me. If you feel uncomfortable, just vent it out."
However, Liu Fuying's expression was calm, and she didn't look like she was about to cry or vent.
She just looked at Pei Zhouwu calmly.
"I thought being a concubine's daughter of the Liu family was already very hard. Just now I thought my life experience had changed and that there was some great happy family waiting for me. Now that I've seen it all, I think it's better to be a concubine's daughter."
"Ah Ying..."
"No, no, no."
Liu Fuying suddenly shook his head vigorously again and hooked Pei Zhouwu's neck.
"If I am really Xu Liangyin, then I am the bloodline of the Shen family and the only child of the late old general. My second uncle's family has been imprisoned, so no one can compete with me for this family property in the future. It will naturally be mine."
Although only men can inherit family property, there are many families who only have one daughter in their lifetime, and they can't give all their property away.
Therefore, as long as a daughter gives birth to a boy, she can inherit.
But when she said this, although her face was smiling, her eyes were red and a little scary. I was afraid that she would hurt herself if she held it in.
"A Ying, listen to me..."
"No." Liu Fuying shook her head at him, her smile growing brighter. "I am happy, I really am happy, don't try to persuade me or comfort me, I know that."
She put her arms around his neck and leaned lightly on his shoulder.
I didn't cry, but my tears kept flowing.
"Don't talk, just hold me."
It was already summer, and the summer night wind brought a few fireflies hovering around the two of them. Pei Zhouwu gently loosened his arms around Liu Fuying and spread them out towards the fireflies, and the firefly actually fell onto his palm.
The flickering light of the fireflies illuminated the moist ripples in Pei Zhouwu's eyes.
After a while, the firefly flew away again.
Looking down, Su Yueying was still in his arms.
He tightened his embrace, and crystal tears slid out of his eyes and dripped onto her back. The more Liu Fuying tried not to cry out loud, the more he felt sorry for her. She had suffered a lot over the years.
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The next day, the imperial edict from the capital arrived.
Old Madam Shen also came to the front hall to receive the imperial edict. The envoy's words were read out in a heavy voice, and every word seemed to hit the floor tiles of the Shen family, and the entire front hall seemed to be shaking.
"Old lady!"
"Ma'am, are you okay?"
After the imperial edict was read, Madam Shen fainted from excitement.
"Madam Liu, oh, no, it's Miss Shen, please accept the order."
The envoy handed over the imperial edict, addressing Liu Fuying as Miss Shen.
Liu Fuying's face was stunned. Although she was not as excited as the old lady, she was unable to react for a while.
"Madam...Miss, please accept my order."
Jin Li nudged her hard with her elbow from behind, and she slowly came to her senses, thanked him, and took the imperial edict in both hands. However, she did not stand up until the envoy left for a long time, and it seemed that she could not hear the noisy sound behind her due to the old lady fainting.
"Miss, are you okay?"
"Jin Li." Liu Fuying looked at the rolled-up imperial edict in his hand, frowned, and asked uncertainly, "What did the envoy who announced the edict just now say?"
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