Chapter 58 Pushed into the Well She
subconsciously and habitually secretly looked at Ren Jianbai's face. Seeing that he was gloomy, Liao used her hands to push back her messy hair and tried her best to tidy up her clothes.
With a hoarse voice, Liao paused for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to call you anymore, so just let me call you a few more times?"
"You don't deserve to be called that." Ren Jianbai said.
"Yes, she was not worthy of him in the first place." Liao rubbed her red eyes with her dirty hands. "She was bought with money, and her status is very low. She is not worthy of the scholar."
"But my husband, don't forget that when I was bought home, you were so happy that you only boasted to others that you had a wife..."
"It's just a joke, don't take it seriously."
Ren Jianbai interrupted Liao and said, "Besides, there is no matchmaker or marriage certificate for child brides. It is just an unwritten custom of the elders. It cannot be considered a proper marriage."
"Not only me, even my parents, and the people in the same village, no one took this matter seriously. On the contrary, you are just a servant, but you dare to claim this identity. You are really brave."
Listening to Ren Jianbai's logical and emotional arguments, and even his scolding at the end, Liao could no longer hold back her tears, which surged down like a flood.
"Since my husband didn't like me, why did he marry me in the first place?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Ren Jianbai's face changed at first, and then became even more gloomy.
"How can you take a drunken incident seriously?"
Ren Jianbai shouted, "I was drunk and unconscious that day, and when I woke up you were lying on my bed. How do I know you didn't do it on purpose just to make me marry you?"
"When I was at home, I often heard people say that you had an ambiguous relationship with Ren Tiezhu from the village, and then you got pregnant. How do I know that you didn't have an affair with someone else and got this illegitimate child? So you wanted to put the blame on me and force me to marry you into my family?"
"I don't care about what you did in the past. I treated you as my elder and let you live a good life. I treated you as my parents. But you turned evil into evil. You always use this to threaten me. You also tried to take me for yourself. You tried to murder Miss Su again and again. You are so cruel and vicious. It's really hateful!"
hateful?
It's really abominable.
Liao bit her lip.
It was obvious that she was Ren Jianbai's child bride, who had raised him and was his legitimate wife. She was also the first woman with whom he had physical intimacy and with whom he had his first child. She should have been Ren Jianbai's wife, and Ren Jianbai should have been his husband.
But now, Ren Jianbai did not recognize her, did not admit that they had ever been husband and wife, slandered her for having an affair with someone else, and even personally brought her a bowl of medicine to abort the fetus in her womb. In public, he even only referred to her as mother and son, making it clear that he would not even leave her the position of concubine in the future.
Why? Because she was of low status, bought with money, like a commodity, not presentable? Or because she was old and her appearance was damaged, not as beautiful as Su Yujin, a young girl in her twenties?
But he had been happy before.
Even that night, he was very dedicated in his pleasure, and he just wanted to rub her into his body. He hardly had a moment of rest the whole night, and he even promised her a proper marriage in the future.
It is said that the truth comes out when one is drunk, so he must be somewhat sincere towards her.
But these sincere feelings gradually faded away.
If one were to carefully investigate the reason why his true feelings had faded, it was nothing more than that the beautiful girls out there saw that Ren Jianbai was handsome, had passed the imperial examination at a young age, and had a bright future, so they rushed to him.
Since those addicts had ill intentions, she naturally had to drive them away, lest the tree she had worked so hard to raise for so many years would eventually have its fruits picked by others.
It’s a pity that I met useless people.
At this point, even Ren Jianbai said that she was a vicious person.
If you say she has a heart of a vicious snake.
What about you, Ren Jianbai?
Since he had never thought of marrying her, never thought of giving her a legitimate status, then why did he buy her back, provoke her, and let her heart fall on him? If you think about it carefully, her current situation is all because of Ren Jianbai.
If we talk about hatefulness, she is probably not as bad as him.
But even though it was hateful, she couldn't hate it.
After all, he was the man she loved, her husband, and the father of her beautiful daughter.
Liao smiled bitterly a few times, unable to refute Ren Jianbai's words, and only said in a low voice, "If you think I'm hateful, why do you want to come and see me again?"
Ren Jianbai took a deep breath, suppressed his displeasure and disgust, and said indifferently, "After all, we are master and servant. You will be exiled after the New Year. I am afraid that I will not have time to see you off while studying in the county school. I came to see you before the New Year, which can be regarded as a farewell."
His relationship with the Liao family had just been clarified, and now everyone was praising his kindness and good deeds, which made him extremely popular and no longer received the cold reception he had received in the past.
So he came here now to consolidate his reputation.
Next, I want to ask a question.
Hearing Ren Jianbai say this, Liao closed her eyes.
I don't know whether I felt that I had no regrets now that Ren Jianbai was here to see me off, or whether I felt that everything Ren Jianbai said was just politeness, and there was no longer any ripple in my heart.
"Next, I also want to ask a question."
Ren Jianbai paused for a long time before making up his mind and spoke with difficulty, "My father slipped and fell into a well a few years ago and was not found until the next day. I remember that day you took clothes to the well to wash. Does this matter have anything to do with you?"
Liao opened her eyes and looked at Ren Jianbai with a piercing gaze, "I did it."
"You are willing to admit it."
"Of course I have to admit what I did." Liao laughed. "In fact, your mother was beside me that day. She saw me push your father down with her own eyes, but she didn't say a word."
Did the mother see Liao pushing the father into the well?
This was something Ren Jianbai had not expected.
His father was strict and had been very harsh on him since the day he started learning. He would not let him stop writing even when his hands were shaking.
If he made achievements in his studies and was praised by the teacher, his father would just nod in agreement. But if he was not as good as others in his studies, he would be punished by being forced to kneel until late at night.
Even though Ren Jianbai could understand that his father was a strict father and hoped that he would have a bright future, when he saw other fathers caring for him while his own wounds were getting new ones before the old ones were healed, he hated his father very much in his heart.
I wish he would die soon.
It must be said that although Liao's greed was disgusting, what he did was very much in line with his wishes.
But, my father was very good to my mother.
Why did my mother also...
(End of this chapter)
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