The chattering sounds and funeral music coming from nearby, along with the enormous coffin in front of her, made Qingyin know without even thinking where she was.
Qingyin remained expressionless, shifted her legs which were stiff from kneeling, and began to absorb the original owner's memories.
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After a while, Qingyin rubbed her throbbing head, and was speechless for a moment.
Indeed, when people are speechless to a certain extent, they have nothing left to say.
Qingyin's eyes went blank for a moment as she skipped over marriage, the death of her husband, and becoming a widow.
Well, the original owner of this body was an extremely unlucky and pitiful person.
The story begins at the very beginning. The original owner's biological parents were Minister Lin and his wife, who were both serving in the capital. The original owner was the first child of Madam Lin and was highly valued by the two. However, Lin's father, who was just a minor official and a third-rank scholar at the time, accidentally got involved in the struggle for the princes due to the court's internal strife and was framed. As Lin Zerui's father-in-law, Prime Minister Bai, in order to protect his son-in-law, had no choice but to remain neutral and give his unfortunate son-in-law a hand by sending him to Nan'an County, a remote place, to serve as the county magistrate for a period of time.
At that time, Madam Lin was eight months pregnant and her relationship with her newlywed husband was at its sweetest. How could she bear to leave Lin Zerui and separate from him? She cried and begged her father to leave the capital to find Lin Zerui. Her father could not persuade her otherwise, so he sent someone to take good care of her and send her to Nan'an County.
Having just left the capital, Madam Lin, a young lady from a prominent family, was too frightened by the outside world. On the way, she was so frightened that she suddenly experienced abdominal pain and was about to give birth prematurely. The guards who were following her were terrified and hurriedly found the only abandoned temple where Madam Lin could give birth. They then called for a doctor and a midwife to help Madam Lin deliver the baby.
Unexpectedly, they encountered a pregnant peasant woman in the temple who was about to give birth, and they found an abandoned temple nearby.
The two were lucky enough to find a midwife, who happened to be an old woman passing by and preparing to return to her hometown with her granddaughter.
However, the midwife had recently developed stomatitis and was unable to speak. It was her daughter who heard the guard's loud shouts and pulled her grandmother up.
Upon hearing that a midwife had arrived, the guards almost gratefully escorted her back to the temple.
Inside the temple, a midwife was taking care of two pregnant women.
Hu's mother went into labor quickly and gave birth in no time, while Lin's mother had a more difficult delivery. However, with the help of an experienced midwife, she was able to give birth smoothly. The two new mothers lay semi-conscious on a bed of clothes. The midwife wrapped the two babies in the same cloth and placed them on a bed of thick clothes.
As a result, a man who was looking for a midwife on the road ran over. It turned out that his wife had gone into labor, and he remembered that his great-aunt was the midwife and was going home today, so he hurriedly came to find her.
Upon hearing that it was a relative who had given birth, the midwife became anxious and asked her granddaughter to give the gift money on her behalf. She then hurriedly followed the man away.
Then, Madam Lin's nanny accidentally switched the babies, and the original owner became Hu's mother and Hu Dashan's third daughter.
Hu's mother and Hu Dashan lived in the remote Shizi Village, a well-known poor village in the surrounding area. The land was barren and could not grow much food, and the local villagers were all poor. The Hu family was the poorest family in the village.
Hu Dashan was the second child in his family. He had an older brother who was valued by his parents, and a clever and talkative younger brother. However, he was clumsy with words and could not speak well, so he was not loved by his parents. When he reached marriageable age, he would not have been able to get married if he had not saved his mother from drowning.
Because he was not loved by his parents and was influenced by his family, Hu Dashan became obsessed with having a son and desperately wanted to have one. Unfortunately, Hu's mother gave birth to two daughters. The third child was supposed to be a son, but he was accidentally switched with someone else and became the original body. Hu's mother gave birth to the original body. If it weren't for the damage to her body, she probably would have had to give birth again.
Seeing that his mother could never give birth to a son, Hu Dashan gave up hope. He treated his daughters indifferently, just like someone who had given up on life.
Because she couldn't give birth to a son and her health was failing, Hu's mother vented her frustrations from the gossip in the village on this third child.
As a result, the original owner of this body lived a pitiful life. However, Hu's mother and father were not the kind of heartless people. On the surface, they still took good care of the original owner. When the original owner reached a certain age, they found her the most suitable husband, an orphan who had just lost his parents, Duan Min.
In other words, the original owner became the widow's dead husband.
Duan Min, who had just married the original owner of this body, was unfortunately selected for the imperial conscription. He died after serving as a soldier for half a month, and the money that the people on the front line had given to the original owner as a subsidy disappeared after half a month.
The original owner of this body, a woman who had just received a little bit of affection from her husband, was heartbroken.
Then, at this time, the original owner's biological parents came looking for him.
After a chance encounter with the midwife who was on her way to the capital for business, Lin's parents, despite their shock, decided to find their biological daughter. As for Lin Nanxu, who had been switched at birth, they couldn't bear to part with such an outstanding young master from a prestigious family who was admired by everyone. They concealed the truth from the outside world, saying that the original owner was a second young lady who had accidentally wandered out into the world and gotten lost.
Because of some kind of disdain, the two didn't even come in person, but instead casually called a few maids and guards to pick them up.
Because her husband had just died and she had heard that she was not her parents' biological daughter, her dead feelings were rekindled. She longed for her biological parents' love, so she left Shizi Village and set off for the unfamiliar and bustling capital city.
Unfortunately, the original owner's expectations were misplaced.
Her arrival in the capital was merely a transition from one tomb to another, one that appeared luxurious on the outside but was rotten inside.
A village girl who grew up in the countryside and was completely out of place in the capital, she was disliked by her parents not only because she was a widow, but also because she was illiterate, ugly, and had calluses on her fingers from farm work. All of this made her disliked by the self-proclaimed noble ladies and gentlemen of the capital. Because of her timid nature, even the servants in the mansion bullied this widowed true heiress from the countryside.
Under this oppressive and pitiful life, Hu Sanya, or rather Lin Qingqing who changed her name in the capital, became corrupted. She was insanely jealous of Lin Nanxu, who had switched identities with her and was enjoying the life she should have had.
Under the instigation of her subordinates, Lin Qingqing began to target Lin Nanxu, but her simple scheme was quickly discovered by Lin's parents, who then became even more disgusted with their biological daughter who grew up in the countryside.
A few years later, she found a poor family willing to marry her off, and got married so that she wouldn't have to see him or worry about him anymore.
The original owner of this body was not valued by her new husband, nor was she loved by her parents. She became depressed and seriously ill. If it weren't for Lin Nanxu secretly taking care of her, she probably would have died young.
Even so, the original owner didn't care for long, and died of depression two years later while lying in a hospital bed.
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