The anger on Ma Si Niang's face subsided, replaced by a hint of emotion. She stood up, bowed to Mo Yunxiang, and said, "Sister was wrong just now. Your mother is indeed a daughter of the Yun family, sensible and considerate of the bigger picture. I apologize to you here."
Mo Yunxiang quickly returned the greeting and said, "Sister, you are too kind. Your carefree and righteous spirit is something my mother could only envy. My mother was bound by those rules all her life and lived a very unhappy life. If there is an afterlife, she would like to be like you, a female knight-errant, repaying kindness and avenging wrongs."
"A lifetime? Could it be your mother?"
Mo Yunxiang couldn't stop her tears. "Yes, my mother is dead."
"Huh? How did she die? What does this have to do with the unfaithful man?"
Mo Yunxiang hurriedly said, "Originally, I was going to talk about the ungrateful benefactor, but I ended up rambling on about my mother. However, if I didn't talk about these things, you seniors wouldn't know the great kindness that the ungrateful benefactor showed to my mother and me."
"It's alright, I'm just sitting here all night anyway, so it's good to hear what you have to say."
"Thank you, sir. I'll continue. Later, as I grew up, my maternal grandfather was reinstated by the emperor and became an important official in the court again. My father became kinder to my mother again, and even my two older brothers treated her with respect. However, my mother was already disheartened and ignored my father no matter how much he tried to please her."
“My father owes his current wealth to my mother. As my two younger brothers grow up, they are afraid that one day I will get married and take my mother’s dowry and our family’s property with me. They conspired to marry me off to a distant relative of my aunt. I once secretly met that person in my aunt’s room. He was a sickly opium addict who conspired with my aunt and two younger brothers to seize the family’s property. My aunt lied to my father, saying that marrying someone she knew would be better for me in the future. But my father believed her and really wanted to marry me off to that person. My mother naturally refused, so my father beat her until she was on the verge of death. I also received many beatings.”
At this point, the person was choked up and tears streamed down their face.
Everyone stared at her, feeling extremely sorry for her and pity her. They didn't rush her but listened to her slowly tell her story.
Mo Yunxiang, unwilling to keep everyone waiting, wiped away her tears, took a breath, and said, "Coincidentally, that day, the heartless man passed by my house and saw my father beating my mother. He was immediately enraged and demanded to know why my father was beating my mother. My father knew that the heartless man was highly skilled in martial arts and could not answer. So I told him everything about my father."
Upon hearing this, the heartless man cursed my father as worse than an animal, saying that women should be pampered and cherished, especially since my mother had done nothing wrong. He said my father was such a beast and didn't deserve to live in this world. He beat my father severely, making him experience every kind of beating my mother had suffered. My father lay on the ground, barely breathing. I'm not afraid of being laughed at by you elders, but I was overjoyed.
Later, the unfaithful man wanted to kill my father, but my mother stopped him, saying that she was a daughter of the Yun family and couldn't commit patricide. The unfaithful man was a little angry and said my mother was old-fashioned. Actually, I also thought my mother was old-fashioned. Alas! But my mother said that when the emperor dismissed my grandfather, he had no choice. My grandfather wouldn't commit patricide, and she wouldn't commit patricide. The path they chose was theirs to walk.
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