Gong Yi pondered for a moment before looking at Ding Ba with kind eyes, "Child, I am sorry for your mother. If you want to blame someone, blame me alone."
Ding Ba was completely bewildered. "Grandpa, I don't know anything about this!"
Who knows how his mother got lost back then? And to be honest, Ding Ba still doesn't have the self-awareness of a member of the Gong family. He can't bring himself to call his maternal grandfather; he always feels awkward about it.
Gong Yi sighed again and began to recount the events of that year. It was a rather long story, and everyone held their breath, listening silently to the bloodshed, national hatred, and family feuds of that time.
“Back then, I was willing to die, and it was worth it to exchange my death for the safety of my descendants. So a week before the incident, I secretly arranged for reliable people to send my children and wife away, leaving only me in Pingjiang.”
“But I never expected that my dear brother would…” Gong Yi’s voice choked with emotion as he continued, “When I woke up, the Gong family had already been in trouble. I had no choice but to go south to meet up with the children. But… when I got there, I learned that my daughter had been lost on the way. The situation was critical at the time, and I couldn’t stay in the south with my whole family. I searched the surrounding area but couldn’t find my daughter, so I had to board a ship. After that, I never heard from my daughter again.”
Gong Yi closed his eyes tightly in pain. For the past forty-eight years, he had missed his daughter every moment. Several times he dreamed that his daughter had grown up and was very beautiful, just like her mother.
Gong Yi felt a tightness in his chest, his heart clenching. That woman was the source of his lifelong pain.
She was also the woman he hated and loved the most.
Fate really knows how to play tricks on him!
The atmosphere in the room became heavy, and everyone could feel Gong Yi's sadness. Nearly fifty years later, he was still so distressed when he talked about the past, which showed how much he truly loved his daughter.
But--
"Why did Gongzhu get lost? There were so many children at the time, how come only she was lost?" Lu Mo asked.
It is clearly written in Princess Luo's book that Gongzhu was not the youngest child. Some of the children were even in their swaddling clothes. It is strange that a five-year-old girl could not be protected.
Gong Yi's expression was grim. After hesitating for a moment, he finally revealed the reason: "Zhu'er was intentionally abandoned by my wife. My three sons all knew this, but they did not stop it."
Everyone was shocked. They never expected that this was the reason. Gong Yi's wife was known for her virtue. How could such a virtuous woman be so heartless as to abandon a five-year-old girl?
Even though Gong Zhu was not born to Madam Gong, she was still Gong Yi's biological daughter. At that time, the country was engulfed in war and people were struggling to make a living. How could a five-year-old girl survive?
"Why did you abandon my mother? She was only five years old. What did she do wrong?" Ding Ba asked angrily.
Gongsun Yu looked somewhat embarrassed. He was also surprised. How could his kind and gentle great-grandmother do such a cruel thing?
But then he remembered that his great-grandfather and great-grandmother had never had a good relationship and didn't even live together. It wasn't until his great-grandmother passed away that the old man went to see her. The two locked themselves in a room and talked for a long time, and no one knew what they said.
After his great-grandmother passed away, the old man ordered a grand funeral, which was held in great style.
Gongsun Yu now understood that there was such a big knot between the old man and his great-grandmother, and it was no wonder that the old man could ignore his three sons.
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