Didn't he pride himself on being a devoted lover? Then let him see how his most cherished son was spoiled and how his seemingly upright and kind aunt was actually the mastermind behind it all. She wanted to see how heartbroken he would be in the end.
Just thinking about it makes me feel incredibly happy.
As for the ancestral hall, just as Hesheli had predicted, Aunt Hua did send someone there, and the eldest young master was indeed appeased.
When Hesheli heard this, he thought to himself, "She is indeed as stupid as ever."
“Aunt, why bother with that fool anymore? Even if you don’t care about him, Father won’t say anything.”
Aunt Hua said, "How could I possibly want to please him? But you need to know why we, mother and son, exist. It's because your father thinks I will protect him, and also because you can help him in the future. If we don't take care of him, how can your father explain himself? Besides, you said he's a fool, and now he's completely at our mercy."
"Auntie is right." But the thought of having to grovel before a stupid good-for-nothing all day made her feel particularly uncomfortable.
Aunt Hua knew exactly what her son was thinking, and she was unwilling to accept it, especially since she knew... which made her even more unwilling.
"Don't worry, one day your father will run out of patience. When that happens, as his only successful son, everything in the mansion will be yours."
Upon hearing this, Guo Qixun felt much better.
"Auntie, do you think your son should do something else?"
Aunt Hua knew more than her son, so she didn't want him to do that.
"Guoxin's personality is already formed. You don't need to do anything extra. Just study hard and be a more obedient and sensible child than Guoxin. Although your father loves Guoxin, he can't ignore the family. Sooner or later he will realize that Guoxin is not the right person to inherit the family business. Besides, with his troublesome nature, he may ruin himself without us having to do anything. Don't get your hands dirty, it's not worth it."
“Auntie is right.”
Guo Qixun was young and considered himself more capable and talented than Guo Xin, but the only difference was that he was born to the primary wife, so he always ended up being subordinate to him in everything he did.
He had endured the feeling of always having to be inferior to others for more than ten years, and he had had enough of it.
However, he was able to listen to Aunt Hua's advice.
Another half month passed, and Luo Xue found some new information, which she obtained from the granddaughter of an old man who had served in the Qiu family more than ten years ago.
Luo Xue secretly investigated and discovered that the servants who served the young lady more than ten years ago, especially those who served her closely, were either missing or dead.
It took a lot of effort to find the source as the old woman's granddaughter.
That person was already married. More than ten years ago, she was just a ten-year-old child in the mansion. Her grandmother was the one who served Madam Qiu at that time. She was a lowly servant in her courtyard and not a very important person.
The old woman was on duty the day Qiu Wen was born, which is why she was killed. However, she didn't notice the ten-year-old child.
"Miss Chen, I've called you here today to ask you something." With that, Luo Xue placed the silver on the table.
Luo Xue investigated Chen Xiang's family background and found that they were not particularly wealthy, because the cost of education has been greatly reduced thanks to government policies, making it affordable for many ordinary people to attend school.
Some people harbored the idea of changing their social standing, so they sent their children to school.
That's what Chen Niang's husband's family thought, and Chen Xiang also agreed that the children in the family should study, hoping that one day they could change their lives.
But with so many children, it's impossible to send all of them to school. Even if we can only afford to send one, the family still struggles to make ends meet.
Seeing the amount of silver that Luo Xue gave him, Chen Xiang was undeniably tempted.
However, she did not immediately take it.
"What is it, young lady?"
"I wonder if Miss Chen still remembers working for the Qiu family with your grandmother?"
Chen Xiang's expression changed.
"What does the young lady want to know?"
"Back then, you should have been with your grandmother at the Qiu family's house. That period also happened to be around the time the eldest daughter of the Qiu family was born. But after only a couple of days, all the servants around Madam Qiu were replaced. The key thing is that not long after, these people either disappeared without a trace, or we died in an accident. Miss Chen, who was also your grandmother, also accidentally fell into the water and died not long after!"
Chen Xiang: "But I don't know why Madam Qiu would do this."
Luo Xue naturally knew these things as well. Back then, her grandmother was just a lowly servant, so she probably didn't know much either. The Qiu family was only moderately wealthy back then, and Madam Qiu didn't have many servants. When Qiu Wen was born, there weren't many servants in the original small house, so they were basically all dismissed. Whether they knew or not, back then it was probably better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free.
"I just want to know, were there any other people who gave birth with Madam Qiu back then?"
I do know Chen Xiang.
"There was such a person. She knocked on the door of the Qiu residence in the middle of the night. It was my grandmother who opened the door. I remember it very clearly. I was awake at the time. I remember my grandmother mentioning that Madam Qiu would not be able to give birth for another half month. So the delivery room that had been prepared was given to the new pregnant woman. As a result, Madam Qiu also started to have abdominal pain halfway through the delivery."
It was quite a coincidence that the two children were born at the same time. Grandma said at the time that it was fate to give birth to a boy and a girl at the same time. She mentioned it a few times, but later she heard that the mother was the wife of a wealthy family in the capital, so Grandma stopped talking about it.
Not long after, Grandma left her new home. Just before that, I had gone home with my parents, and Grandma fell into the water on the way. I was staying with her out of necessity; usually, in such situations, we wouldn't tell the new homeowner.
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