Chapter 179 Uneasy
Xie San Niang sat on the soft chair, remaining silent for a long time, seemingly lost in thought.
When Xie Qi saw her glance at him, he couldn't hide the sharpness in his eyes.
Upon seeing this, Xie Sanniang suddenly patted the soft chair and exclaimed, "It's just like it! It really is!"
She turned her head toward Xie Shan, grinned, revealing her teeth, blackened and shrunken from the potent drugs, and gave a sinister smile.
"So, you were afraid when you saw that child, weren't you?"
She stood up, walked to Xie Shan's side, stretched out her withered hand, and pointed at Xie Shan's heart: "You should be afraid, after all, you once ordered someone to strangle that child's mother."
Upon hearing this, Shen Yuanzhu was slightly taken aback.
Before the people in the room could start to have wild thoughts, Xie San Niang said to Xie Qi, "Aren't you wondering why the whole Xie family dislikes you?"
"That's because your father isn't Xie Boyu, but him."
Xie San Niang pointed at Xie Shan, and everyone in the room except for the eldest son and his wife and Xie Chengzhi was extremely shocked.
"Come here quickly, call him 'Father' and see if he dares to answer."
Xie San Niang, acting as if she had gone mad, said: "This ungrateful wretch, who claims to be devoted to a woman for life, actually cheated on me with her after he was engaged to that woman."
"After becoming a son-in-law of the Xie family, he thought about her and longed for her his whole life, but what was the result!"
With a thud, Xie Sanniang slumped back into the soft chair and laughed heartily: "In the end, the person he had been longing for found him, gave birth to his bastard child, and then deceived him completely, leaving him utterly humiliated."
After a lifetime of stalemate with Xie Shan, Xie San Niang finally had to admit that the woman's methods were far superior to hers.
After exchanging a glance in front of the shop that day, the woman vanished without a trace, never to be heard from again.
Overnight, it was as if they had vanished from the face of the earth.
If the woman and Xie Shan had eventually grown to dislike each other and become estranged and numb, Xie Shan might not have kept her in his heart for so many years.
But the woman suddenly disappeared. Xie Shan and she had been husband and wife, but their marriage ended abruptly. How could he not feel sad and miss her?
Her sudden disappearance made Xie Shan think of all the good things she had done for him.
The woman taught him to read and write, did accounting, sewed clothes for him, and cooked for him. Everything about her became an untouchable treasure in his heart.
But Xie Shan didn't say anything, and she didn't ask.
A son-in-law who can carry on the Xie family business is enough.
In all those years she struggled on her own, what hadn't she seen? Why would she worry about his little thoughts?
She had been to brothels with a group of merchants to discuss business before, and besides, at that time, considering Xie Shan's outstanding abilities and the fact that he was expanding the Xie family's territory, she didn't care about personal feelings at all...
Thinking of this, Xie San Niang's hand trembled.
She thought she didn't care.
At that time, the two of them were busy with their own things during the day and had no time to think about anything else, until a shop assistant came to report that he had seen Xie Shan being very intimate with a woman outside.
She didn't take his words to heart until she discovered that Xie Shan had other ideas.
Xie Shan not only secretly copied the Xie family's farming and weaving charts, but also tampered with the accounts, and even took away the fish tally, travel permits, and a large sum of money.
Even if she could tolerate everything, she couldn't bear the thought of a son-in-law betraying her during her pregnancy.
On the day Xie Shan wanted to leave, Xie San Niang trapped him inside the house.
What do you mean by that?
Xie Shan said, "Yin Su is back. I have wronged her in this life. I want to leave with her."
"Leave? What a joke."
With her pregnant belly protruding, Xie San Niang sneered, "You wronged her, but do you think you've done right by me?"
"All these years I've fed you and given you drink, turning you from a beggar who begged his way through life into the famous Master Xie of Suzhou Prefecture. Is this how you repay me?"
“I am grateful for the meal you gave me that day, and I have never forgotten your kindness. But don’t forget, I built half of the Xie family’s business over the years with my own hands.”
"You shot it down?"
Xie Sanniang laughed arrogantly: "Without the support of my Xie family, how would you have built your business?"
"If you don't use the Xie family's name, go out and see if anyone will recognize you as a beggar?"
"Without me, Xie San Niang, you would have starved to death somewhere long ago. Now you're telling me that you built the Xie family's business?"
Xie San Niang pointed at herself: "Don't forget, even your name was given to you by me, Xie San Niang."
Xie Shan's name was given to him by her when they first fell in love and were deeply in love.
Xie Shan, Xie San Niang.
At that time, she thought that the two of them were intertwined, and she also regarded Xie Shan as part of the Xie family and as her support.
But what about now?
Xie Sanniang said, "I don't care who or what comes back, you go and deal with it."
"As long as you clean things up, you will still be the eldest master of the Xie family and my husband, Xie San Niang. I will pretend I know nothing else."
"impossible."
Xie Shan said, "Yin Su is my wife."
Xie Sanniang scoffed and laughed: "What kind of husband and wife are you two? You're nothing but illicit lovers."
"My relationship with you is one of illicit lust and debauchery."
Xie Shan said, word by word, "Although Yin Su and I have no marriage certificate, we have formally bowed to Heaven and Earth as our matchmaker."
"My relationship with you is merely a illicit affair."
After saying that, Xie Shan's expression turned cold: "No matter what, I will not abandon Yin Su this time, unless Yin Su becomes my concubine."
"A concubine..."
Xie Sanniang laughed so hard she bent over: "You're someone who married into the family and doesn't even have your own name, yet you want to take a concubine and marry a second wife?"
"Xie Shan, don't overestimate yourself. Go back to your textile and dyeing plantation."
Their expressions gradually darkened, and they parted on bad terms.
At that time, Xie San Niang had no idea that after the woman returned, she said that she had forced the other woman to leave for many years.
Upon hearing this, Xie Shan felt only heartache, yet harbored a deep hatred for her for a long time.
This caused a rift between the two of them.
Even when she found out later, she never explained; she was disdainful and didn't care.
Xie Shan developed feelings for someone else and stopped returning home. He even started living with that woman outside the marriage. At the time, she tried everything she could to separate the two, but to no avail.
Until that woman became pregnant with Xie Qi and came to his door.
The woman looked at her, her gaze unchanged from years ago.
Arrogance, disdain, and blatant mockery.
She kept the other person hidden for many years, until she became an indelible and indelible beautiful memory in Xie Shan's heart, at which point she returned to Suzhou Prefecture.
By then, she and Xie Shan had become like countless other couples in the world—close yet distant, cold and numb.
Both of them were pregnant, and they stood out conspicuously in the shop.
The woman remained silent, wandering around the shop for a while. Before leaving, she stroked her belly, gave her a gentle and bright smile.
The other person is young, and hasn't changed much over the years, unlike her...
Pregnancy was difficult; she exhausted her life force to give birth to Jingyuan…
Xie San Niang looked at Xie Qi with a solemn and complicated expression.
He is like his mother.
It terrified her, it disgusted her; Xie Qi's existence...
A life filled with unease.
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