My second brother and I made some inquiries about the man named Liu Xue, and someone who was well-informed took the initiative to present all his details to us!

Sheng Yunrong smiled and said, "This saves us a lot of trouble."

"That's right!" Sheng Hongye couldn't wait to interject, "Yunrong, you absolutely can't believe what kind of person Liu Xue is! He is just a poor scholar! And even though he passed the imperial examination, he didn't continue to pursue higher fame. Instead, he raised his daughter in a dilapidated courtyard and lived a hard life!"

Sheng Yunrong looked surprised.

She originally thought Ling Meng would hook up with a prominent VIP, but unexpectedly, he was just an insignificant scholar?

"So……"

"Then how did he get to know Ling Meng?" Sheng Yunrong was full of doubts.

Given Ling Meng's means and ambitions, how could she endure being treated like an invisible person by Qin Wenyuan for nine years, but why was she willing to spend time with a poor scholar?

"Indeed, my two brothers were also very curious about this!" Sheng Hongye narrated, "So we asked someone to find out, and the result was - it turned out that the concubine took the initiative to throw herself into Liu Xue's arms!"

"How could it be..." Sheng Yunrong was shocked.

"Yunrong, do you still remember the story that Qin Wenyuan once told you, that he and his white moonlight were childhood sweethearts in the village?" Sheng Hongxiao asked.

"I remember." Sheng Yunrong looked confused, "That woman was Ling Meng. But she mysteriously disappeared when she was fifteen."

"She is not lost." Sheng Hongye said with a hint of pride, "She actually eloped with Liu Xue!"

"What?" Sheng Yunrong was struck by a bolt from the blue.

"That concubine loved money like her life, and she looked down upon the poor people in the countryside. As for Qin Wenyuan, she never took him seriously. It is said that she accidentally discovered Liu Xue, a poor scholar who was easy to manipulate, in the town, and she used her charming means to skillfully seduce him and induced him to bring her to the capital." Sheng Hongye described in detail, "Liu Xue's family is located in a remote mountainous area. He almost exhausted all his family savings when he went to Beijing for the exam this time. He originally planned to return to his hometown after achieving a prominent reputation."

"However, he met the greedy Lingmeng."

After Liu Xue brought her to the capital, he fell into her gentle trap and couldn't extricate himself.

"He even gave up the imperial examination, just wanting to make Lingmeng live a comfortable life through hard work."

But once Ling Meng entered the capital, her ambition expanded rapidly and she was no longer interested in Liu Xue.

"She used her eloquence to persuade Liu Xue to join a brothel, hoping to get to know more lustful dignitaries and use this as a stepping stone to enter an official family."

However, Liu Xue mistakenly believed that she chose this path because of her poverty.

"Not only did he not stop it, he was even willing to sell himself just to let Ling Meng live a good life."

However, Ling Meng had been in the brothel for several years, but was ruthlessly kicked out because some of the mistresses learned of her intentions from the guests.

"She was forced to follow Liu Xue and bear children for him."

And when she learned that Qin Wenyuan was the Qin Wenyuan in the village back then, she once again used sweet words to deceive Liu Xue and turned into Qin Yuan's arms.

"Liu Xue still thinks Ling Meng was forced to be with Qin Wenyuan."

And he was at home, still eating the sesame cake pitifully, with the ten-year-old girl.

After hearing all this, Sheng Yunrong was unable to calm down the shock in her heart for a long time.

This story... is so gripping and unforgettable...

These two names, Liu Meng and Qin Wenyuan, are undoubtedly products of the same roots, they are simply... birds of a feather!

"Sister, how should we deal with the current situation?" Sheng Hongye was eager to try, knowing in his heart that such an incident would definitely cause an uproar.

Sheng Yunrong chuckled: "A scholar who has studied hard for more than ten years actually abandoned his hometown, relatives and ambitions for a dream... After being deceived and played with for so long, it's time for him to wake up completely."

Late at night, a secret letter traveled silently and as fast as the wind, crossing numerous mountains and finally arrived at Liujia Village three days later.

In Liujia Village, in a shabby room made of mud, the faint light of the kerosene lamp never went out until late at night.

The family sat around a rough table, facing the several-page letter, and let out heart-wrenching cries and shouts.

Their anger, unwillingness and heartache seemed to have traveled through the long river of more than ten years and collectively poured out on Liu Xue.

Liu Xue's fingers trembled slightly, and his back, which was only skin and bones, trembled involuntarily.

His face was as pale as paper, and beneath his thin cheeks, there was only deep fear in his pair of bloodshot eyes.

The letter fell to the ground, revealing the words engraved on it.

Dear.

Liu Xue, perhaps you have forgotten who I am, let alone the promise you made more than ten years ago.

Let me remind you.

I am your wife who was betrothed to you since childhood, the child bride who grew up with you.

It was Xu Ru, the one you vowed to marry with great fanfare more than ten years ago after passing the imperial examination.

I don't know how you have been getting through the past decade.

Because my parents and I always thought that you had died on the way to Beijing for the imperial examination.

You have not given us any news, no greetings of safety, not even a word for your fellow villagers to convey, making it impossible for us to believe that you are still alive.

What’s even more unbelievable is that you have been involved with a woman named Ling Meng for the past ten years.

Do you feel heartbroken?

Over the past decade, we have missed you day and night, and have wanted to find you countless times, to find your remains, and to bring you back to your hometown.

But we can't do that because all our family savings have been used to support you to go to Beijing for the exam, for travel expenses and meal fees.

In order to find you, your mother embroidered day and night, and as a result her eyesight was damaged and she was almost blind.

My father unfortunately died in an accident while picking wild bamboo shoots in the mountains.

After learning about your condition, your grandparents fell ill and your grandmother passed away yesterday.

I was the only one in my family who still had the energy to write letters.

Liu Xue, I don't blame you for not informing your family that you are safe all these years.

But I want to ask you on behalf of my grandparents and parents:

Do you still remember them?

Do you still remember the Liu family?

If you still have the heart and remember.

I hope that next spring, you can offer a stick of incense to your father from far away in the capital, and offer a stick of incense to your grandmother on the ninth day of the first lunar month.

As for me, my mother and my grandmother, you can choose any day to burn a stick of incense for us.

I hope you can get along well with the girl surnamed Ling in the capital, and that your maidservant Fang is happy and healthy.

May your unborn child have a worry-free life.

Your wife, Xu Ru.

Liu Xue's breathing became rapid, and he stared at the letter on the ground in horror. His body was shaking violently, and he couldn't control himself.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?" The eldest daughter frowned, and her sarcastic face was 70% similar to Liu Meng.

She straightened her back and came to Liu Xue, looking at him as if she had seen something horrible, staring at the letter on the ground, and shouted angrily: "Dad! What's wrong with you?! Can you hear me?"