"Isn't this my home? How else can I go home?" Because she had been a child herself, and because she had children of her own, Nan Qu never gave a child a perfunctory answer, even if the child looked only five years old.
Unexpectedly, Nan Qu's words brought tears to the child's eyes. When the child was not crying, Nan Qu could still speak to him normally, but when he cried, it put Nan Qu in a difficult position.
Because when this child cries, it looks very similar to when Nan Qu first met Nan Xing and he cried.
Now, Nanxing is doing very well, and Nanqu never imagined that one day she would think of him again.
"If you stop crying, we can have a proper talk. But if you keep crying, I'm not going to talk to you anymore."
Upon hearing Nan Qu's words, the child immediately covered his mouth with his small hand, trying hard to hold back his sobs. However, tears still streamed down his face, and his eyes were red and swollen. He looked at Nan Qu pitifully and sobbed, "Who, who's crying? I, I won't cry. I won't cry in front of you. You, you're a liar, a big liar. You said you'd come find me if I went with my older brother, but you didn't."
As the story progressed, the child stopped crying and began to speak coherently: “I heard everything from my sister-in-law. When the family was exiled, you didn’t want to suffer, so you made an excuse to stay with the Xiao family. The Xiao family was worried that I was too young and were willing to vouch for me to stay. You begged Grandma not to let me go with you, but Qingli went with you instead. In the end, those two got together and ruined you.”
Nan Qu couldn't help but laugh when she heard this: "Does someone this young know what it means to get together?"
Upon hearing Nan Qu's words, the child's face flushed red, and he said angrily, "Of course I know! It's because those two secretly got together behind your back! My sister-in-law told me everything. You deserve it! Who told you to choose that wicked woman Qing Li and not let me stay with you?"
Nan Qu sighed: "Although this matter has nothing to do with me, you may have misunderstood something."
The child looked at Nan Qu with a puzzled expression.
Nan Qu laughed: "As far as I know, the Tang family was originally exiled here according to the conditions. But now it seems that it might just be a scheme by the person above and the Tang family to eliminate the hidden forces here. Of course, if you don't understand, that's fine."
But you must understand that those in power are inherently suspicious. How could he so easily let the Tang family leave, especially since someone had given that person information about the Tang family's rebellious intentions? Therefore, it's more accurate to say that the Xiao family kept your sister in the Xiao family under the guise of being Xiao Jiangchang's fiancée, and then used the excuse that you were too young to keep you there as well.
But in reality, he was just a hostage left in the capital.
Although I don't know what your sister was thinking, Qingli fell for Xiao Jiangchang and jumped headfirst into the relationship. So the Tang family, in a show of righteous indignation, replaced you with Qingli.
That's why Tang Qingyang looked so guilty when he came last time. Because Tang Qingrou was the one who was abandoned.
There's not so much love and romance in the world; it's mostly about choosing between rights and interests.
After hearing Nan Qu's words, the child stood there stunned for a long time, his little face full of shock and disbelief. Tears welled up in his eyes again, but he stubbornly refused to let them fall. With a sob in his voice, he said, "You, what you said is all true? Then, then isn't my sister too pitiful? She was used as a pawn, and, and abandoned."
Nan Qu gently patted the child's head and said earnestly, "Many things in this world are just so helpless. Being born into a family like that, many times you can't even control your own destiny."
The child sniffed, saying with some resentment, "Hmph, that Qingli is too wicked. She abandoned her sister for her own selfish desires and even tricked you. If I had known all this earlier, I definitely wouldn't have let her get away with it."
Nan Qu smiled and said helplessly, "It's all in the past, there's no point in dwelling on it anymore. Besides, the situation at the time was complicated, and it wasn't something she could decide on her own."
The child persisted, clenching his little fists angrily: "How can that be? She has to pay the price for what she did wrong. You're just too easy to bully, always forgiving others so easily."
Looking at the child's indignant expression, Nan Qu felt helpless. She had told him many times that she was not her, but the child probably wouldn't listen. Instead, she was curious about what he wanted to do, so she said, "Then tell me, what kind of price do you want her to pay? We can't just go and settle accounts with her now, that would only make things worse."
The child tilted his head and thought for a moment, but couldn't come up with a good idea. He muttered, "Anyway, we can't just let it go like this. I'll definitely come up with a way later to let her know that there's no good end for bullying people from the Tang family."
Nan Qu sighed again, took the child's hand and said, "Alright, alright, don't just think about these unhappy things. We need to look forward. Right now, you should live well here and take good care of yourself. That's more important than anything else."
After finishing speaking, Nanqu suddenly remembered something: "By the way, what's your name?"
Unexpectedly, the child, who had just recovered, started crying again: "Brother said you forgot me, but I thought you were lying. How could you not even remember my name?"
Nan Qu persisted, saying, "Because I'm not your sister. Do you see any similarities between me and the sister you remember?" Nan Qu genuinely had no interest in acknowledging the Tang family, perhaps out of guilt, or perhaps for some other reason.
The power struggles between large families are too complicated. She came to enjoy the food and didn't want to get involved.
The real Qingrou is dead. She has no right to forgive anyone on her behalf, nor does she want to live on in these people's hearts and change their memories of the girl who, even in the end, thought of that home and wanted to be with them.
Although Nanqu has no memories of the original owner, how much hardship would a girl who is powerless in the capital have to endure to get here?
What made her so persistent? Although she collapsed on the way here, in the original owner's heart, the Tang family was her sacred place, the place she wanted to return to even in the end.
She didn't want to use this body to see the darkness hidden deep within the Tang family, leaving her with unfulfilled grievances in death.
I don't want my eyes to be disturbed by those things, affecting my mood on this journey through time and space.
"If you'd like, you can call me Sister Nanqu. By the way, tell me your name, and you can come visit me sometime. If you're looking for your sister, I'm sorry, I'm not. You might be disappointed; perhaps you could try looking elsewhere."
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