Chapter 69: The Evil Stepmother is Ready to Be Evil to the End (1)
Time passed quickly and the three children grew up.
The eldest son took part in the imperial examination and won the third place. The second son became a famous businessman with a huge fortune. The third son inherited Xu Yan's mantle and became a doctor.
Xu Yan was so happy when she saw her three sons had achieved so much.
Her three sons got married one after another within a year, and Xu Yan thought that she would spend the rest of her life enjoying the company of her grandchildren.
Unexpectedly, on this day, a woman claiming to be the mother of the top scholar came to the door.
The three children saw the woman and confirmed that she was their biological mother.
The eldest brother asked Xu Yan for her opinion, wanting to keep his mother in the mansion and support her for the rest of her life.
Although Xu Yan felt sad, she couldn't say no.
The biological mother of the three children moved into the eldest son's Tanhua Mansion.
Xu Yan lives in the east courtyard, and she lives in the west courtyard.
In the first few months, the East Courtyard was as usual, full of laughter and joy, and the three children did not treat Xu Yan badly because of their mother's arrival.
After a few months, the laughter in the East Courtyard became less and less, until it disappeared.
The huge East Courtyard was deserted with only Xu Yan left, while the West Courtyard was bustling like New Year's Day every day.
Xu Yan listened to their laughter all day long and cried alone.
After a long time, Xu Yan found that the way the three children looked at her had changed. They became disgusted, and their attitude towards her was full of impatience.
Sometimes, Xu Yan even suspected that she was hallucinating. The child she had raised for nearly twenty years actually looked at her with resentment.
Soon, she was driven from the east yard to the back yard by the eldest brother, because his mother had a bad leg and the west yard was damp and not suitable for her to live in. His mother also didn't like strangers living in the place where she had lived, so she let Xu Yan live in the back yard.
The boss's words "stranger" made Xu Yan so heartbroken that she almost lost her life.
She was unable to refute and had to move to the backyard.
There was only a woodshed in the backyard. The room was not big, half of it was used to store firewood, and the other half was used as Xu Yan's bedroom.
Her diet also changed from four dishes and one soup to a piece of pickled vegetable and a steamed bun.
That day, Xu Yan felt bored staying in the backyard, so she went for a walk in the garden.
She happened to see her eldest daughter-in-law taking her son to play in the garden. Xu Yan hadn't seen her grandson for a long time and missed him very much, so she walked towards them.
As a result, before his hands could touch his grandson's clothes, he was pushed to the ground by his eldest daughter-in-law.
The disgusted expression on the eldest daughter-in-law's face made Xu Yan feel like she was something unclean.
She was forcibly dragged back to the backyard by the servants.
That night, Xu Yan was ordered by her eldest son not to leave the backyard unless necessary.
Xu Yan was forced to live alone in the backyard for a year. Apart from the maid who brought her meals, she hardly saw anyone.
On New Year's Day, the eldest brother sent a maid to ask her to go to the front yard to eat.
After walking out of the backyard, Xu Yan discovered that the backyard of Tanhua Mansion had been marked out.
Tanhua Mansion already has a new backyard, and her small yard can now be regarded as just a neighbor of Tanhua Mansion.
At the banquet, Xu Yan ate the food in front of her with a dull look in her eyes.
The laughter and joy at the table had nothing to do with her.
She only knew that the dish in front of her was ten thousand times more delicious than steamed buns and pickles.
After dinner, Xu Yan was about to go back to the backyard. When she stood up, she didn't notice that there was a little man standing behind the chair.
As the chair was moved back, the little man was knocked to the ground and burst into tears on the spot.
The child's grandmother was the first to run over, hug the child, and coax him gently. After coaxing the child, Xu Yan was startled by her sudden kneeling.
"Sister, I know you hate me for taking away the child you have raised for more than 20 years. If you have any hatred or resentment, come to me alone. Don't harm the child. I beg you," the delicate hairpin on the woman's head swayed back and forth as she kowtowed, leaving Xu Yan at a loss.
Xu Yan didn't need to look up to feel that there were more than a dozen pairs of resentful eyes staring at her.
Before New Year's Eve was over, Xu Yan was kicked out of Tanhua Mansion.
She couldn't go back to the backyard that had been marked out.
On New Year's Eve, Xu Yan became a homeless person, wandering on the streets. She remembered what the woman said to her before she left home.
"Do you know why they hate you so much?" she said with a smug look on her face. "That's because I told them that I was divorced and kicked out of the house because their father fell in love with you. He divorced me for you..."
Xu Yan knew that this was not the case. The fact was that she had an affair with a widower in the village, and the father of the child found out and kicked her out of the house.
The matchmaker introduced the two of them after the original owner was driven away.
But no matter what the truth is, it no longer matters to Xu Yan.
She raised the child for more than 20 years, but they convicted her without even asking her a single question. It was obvious that they didn't trust her in their hearts.
What's the point of her saying more?
The weather was getting colder and colder. Big snowflakes started floating in the sky and soon the ground was covered with a layer of white.
Xu Yan huddled in the corner of the backyard, trembling all over.
If she froze to death here, would anyone care? Would anyone collect her body? Thinking of this, Xu Yan closed her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, Xu Yan was awakened by noisy talking.
What caught my eye was a group of familiar people, and looking beyond the crowd, I saw a familiar scene.
She was sent back to the village overnight, where she had been when she first came through.
She originally thought it would be good to come back and live her own life, just like raising a group of ungrateful people.
But things are far from as simple as she thought. Those people in the village who used to worship her as a god, now hate her as much as they were grateful to her.
Xu Yan knew without thinking that the person who sent her here must have given some instructions.
The house she lived in was demolished by the villagers on the day she woke up.
She became completely homeless and had nowhere else to go, so she had to find a cave in the mountains to live in.
She wanted to find herbs to sell and make money, but ever since the villagers learned about herbs, no herbs could survive on the mountain.
She had no money and nothing to eat, and she froze to death in the cave within a few days.
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After Muyan understood the plot, she looked up and saw the child in the sun looking at her eagerly.
"Look, do I have any clothes to wear? Don't you know to find clothes for yourself after you've done it?" Mu Yan said unhappily.
When the child heard Muyan's words, he went into the house looking for clothes with a wronged look on his face.
Muyan is a "person" who doesn't know what compassion is. After she understood the original owner's memories, there were only two words in her mind: you deserve it.
She is not like the original owner who cherishes her child as her life.
go to school?
Haha, give it all to me to farm and make money.
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