"Her uncle, how did Zhou's second child take her life? Was it a difficult childbirth or a double tragedy?" Cai Xiaolian asked again.
It's impossible for one person and two lives to be lost; otherwise, where did Lu Zheng, whom we see every day in the village, come from?
"I only heard about it from my mother and father after Madam Zhou died. Don't ask them! My parents hate it when people eavesdrop!" Uncle Gu said mysteriously.
Cai Xiaolian and Gu Nian nodded.
Gu Xin, who loved eavesdropping, nodded somewhat guiltily.
"It is said that when Sister Jia was pregnant with her second child, she discovered that General Lu was corresponding with his childhood sweetheart. His childhood sweetheart even came to Sister Jia's door to provoke her. Sister Jia had a bad temper and immediately turned on him, splashing a pot of boiling water all over his face."
"The childhood sweetheart's family was of similar means to the Lu family. The Lu family matriarch was unwilling to fall out with that family over this matter, so she punished Xiao Jia by making her kneel in the ancestral hall. After General Lu returned, he didn't even consider that Xiao Jia was pregnant with his child, and didn't even go to see her. That night, Xiao Jia went into premature labor, and when the baby was a little over four months old, Xiao Jia passed away. According to my mother, she and Madam Zhou investigated and found that the childhood sweetheart had deliberately come to their house and angered Xiao Jia to death."
"My mother and Madam Zhou went to the capital and beat General Lu half to death, trying to take away Xiao Jia's two children. However, the Lu family was a Duke's mansion, and the two of them could only beat him up. It was impossible for them to take them away openly, and they couldn't even steal the children secretly. After returning, Madam Zhou died of depression. My mother was also very unhappy that year, and it took her several months to recover. My father took her to the county town, and she only felt better after three days of playing there."
"Oh! Poor Jia-jie, poor Jia-jie's children!"
"However, I heard that Sister Jia's daughter is quite capable. She protected her younger brother very well under her stepmother's care. But after Sister Jia's daughter got married, no one knows what kind of life her younger son had under his stepmother. In recent years, after Madam Zhou died, my parents have not had any contact with Master Zhou."
Uncle Gu sighed.
"If the older sister can protect her younger brother, why doesn't she always protect him?" Cai Xiaolian asked.
Gu Nian knew that the plot of the book mentioned that Lu Zheng's older sister, Lu Xue, was very intelligent and was favored by her grandfather because she was the first grandchild of the Lu family.
Unfortunately, when Lu Xue was fourteen years old, her grandfather passed away, and the siblings lost their protection.
Lu Zheng's father married his childhood sweetheart the year his mother died, and they had a son the following year.
In Lu Zheng's father's heart, Lu Zheng didn't exist at all, and he didn't care about him at all. In addition, Lu Zheng was born prematurely and was weak and sickly. If Lu Xue hadn't been Lu Zheng's father's first child, the treatment of the siblings might have been even worse.
Later, Lu Zheng's stepmother, Lin, arranged a marriage for Lu Xue with a playboy, the kind of playboy who had slept with all the maids in the backyard and even killed someone.
Lu Xue cried and shouted that she would not marry, threatening to kill herself. Her appearance reminded her father of the mother of her and her siblings, and he was furious. He immediately said, "Even if you die, you will die in your husband's family!"
Then he ordered his men to tie up Lu Xue and make her wait at home for her wedding.
Lu Xue was heartbroken and wanted to take her younger brother and die so they could go find their mother.
At this point, it was Lu Zheng who persuaded his sister.
Lu Zheng said, "Sister, don't you want to avenge Mother?"
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