Chapter 55 The Rift from the Past Life
"...Your mother has long been disgraced, she's a slut! A whore, and you're a little bastard!" A child stepped on another beautiful little girl's kite.
"You still think you're the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan? Do you deserve it? You even dare to call me brother? I don't have a disgusting sister like you."
"You're talking nonsense! My mother isn't a slut!" the little dumpling said in a childish voice, glaring angrily with her big, innocent eyes.
"You little brat, how dare you talk back? Someone, throw this kite into the pond. Spring hasn't even arrived yet, and she's already thinking about flying a kite? She's a complete idiot!" The children laughed and cursed, using their childish voices to say the most vicious things.
"This was made for me by my father, you... give it back to me!" The little girl, holding her breath, lay on the ground, trying hard to pull the kite away.
But as soon as that chubby little hand touched the kite, it was stepped on by one of the older children.
"It hurts—" The little girl's face turned red as she cried, gasping for breath.
"What are you crying for? You snotty-nosed brat, if you cry again, I'll throw her in the pool and wash her clean!"
When Nannan was rescued, she was shivering from the cold.
Dou Wenyi panicked and, with trembling hands, peeled off the thick, wet clothes one by one, carefully wiping her clean with a cloth, and hurriedly changed her into clean and warm clothes.
"Mother, the kite fell into the water. I wanted to pick it up. Mother, I was wrong. Don't worry!" The little girl's voice was very soft.
Upon hearing this, Dou Wenyi's nose tingled and her eyes instantly reddened.
"Mother, what is a 'broken shoe'?"
Dou Wenyi felt as if a thousand arrows were piercing her heart. She could no longer hold back, and tears fell like beads. "My dear girl... what do you want to eat? Mother will make something delicious for you."
She implicated her daughter. Why was she kidnapped from the temple?
Despite not losing her innocence, her reputation was still ruined. Those terrifying rumors followed her like sharp arrows, making her unable to hold her head high for the rest of her life.
"Mother, can we not stay at the Marquis's mansion?" The daughter's clear eyes held a humble plea.
Dou Wenyi's heart was breaking. She held her daughter tightly, sobbing uncontrollably. In this vast world, without Xie Guidu's protection, she probably wouldn't even have a place to stay.
When Xie Guidu pushed open the door, he saw the mother and daughter hugging and crying. In that instant, his thin lips tightened and his heart clenched.
He had never seen her so distraught before. After standing silently for a while, he finally knelt down beside the mother and daughter and gently coaxed, "What's wrong?"
Dou Wenyi's voice choked with emotion, "Nannan's kite is broken."
"Don't cry, the kite is broken, little girl, Daddy will make you another one." Xie Guidu raised his hand and gently stroked her back. She was a mother herself, yet she was so delicate and sentimental.
“Father, Mother is not a slut.” The little dumpling suddenly looked up and stared at him intently.
The child's clear, innocent words pierced Xie Guidu's heart like a sharp sword. His face was filled with deep anger. "No, that's not it!"
Dou Wenyi, her expression sorrowful, mustered her courage and said, "Can't we not live in the Marquis's mansion? We can live separately after dividing the property. I just want my daughter..."
Xie Guidu panicked completely, his dark eyes filled with a chilling coldness. "If Nannan falls into the water, I will give you an explanation."
Half an hour later, in the main courtyard.
Those bullying children were all punished by family discipline, receiving dozens of strokes of the cane. They cried their hearts out, their cries were deafening.
When Xie Mengyao rushed in, she felt dizzy and her blood rushed to her head. "Brother, you've gone too far! Is your daughter's life precious, but my son Xuan's life isn't? Or do you despise us, a widow and orphan, for living under someone else's roof?"
Upon hearing the news, Madam Xue rushed over. Xie Mengyao, as if seeing a savior, threw herself into her arms and wailed, "Mother, Mother, it must be my sister-in-law who can't tolerate me and is sowing discord and instigating my brother. If anything happens to Xuan-ge'er... I won't live either!"
"Shut up!" Xie Guidu's eyes were sharp, and he wasn't buying her act at all.
I don't know where Xie Mengyao got her shrewish temper from.
"Xie Mengyao, if you hadn't secretly made your move, how could you have married such a scoundrel? How has she ever wronged you? You always act like a tyrant in the Marquis's mansion, calling her a bastard and a lowly child! She is my wife and your sister-in-law. We are husband and wife as one. When you curse her, you are cursing me."
Do you even consider me your older brother anymore?
"Alright!" Madam Xue slammed her hand on the table and said impatiently, "Gui Du, you are the elder brother, and your sister has had a hard time too. Please be more understanding and say less."
“Xuan-ge’er threw Nannan into the pond! That’s my daughter, your own granddaughter! You don’t like her, you can’t even tolerate my child?”
Madam Xue curled her lips, clearly disbelieving. "Impossible! It must be that Dou woman spreading rumors. Xuan-ge'er isn't such a tactless person. Someone, go and invite Madam Hou here."
"Xuan-ge'er and those brats have admitted it themselves." Xie Guidu felt a sense of suffocation; he didn't usually spend much time at the Marquis's residence.
The affairs of the court are complicated, and he is often sent out to work, sometimes for more than half a year at a time. This time he was discovered, but what about on ordinary days?
Does she live in misery every day?
Xie Guidu dared not imagine how she could possibly deal with a difficult mother-in-law like Xue.
No wonder she wanted to move out.
“Mother, she is already my wife. Whether you accept it or not, it is a fact. Please stop making things difficult for her.”
Madam Xue's face turned ashen. "There are so many noble ladies in Tianning City waiting for you to choose from, yet you had to set your sights on such a worthless woman who can't even bear you a son. Your father insisted that you keep your promise and marry her. What is there for you to be attached to in a slut like her?"
"Princess Fu'an is still waiting for you. She has never married and wants you to take a concubine. Why won't you agree?"
A smug glint flashed in Xie Mengyao's eyes as she seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, "Mother, the other day, I saw her with another man at the jewelry store. They were acting all secretive and intimate. Maybe she's already having an affair..."
Dou Wenyi leaned against the doorway, her whole body stiffening. In the end, she didn't have the courage to step over the threshold and fled in panic.
Xie Guidu jumped up and chased after him.
......
In the center of the mourning hall stood a sandalwood coffin. A gust of cold wind blew, and the unburnt paper money in the brazier flew into the air, fluttering wildly along with the white silk ribbons that filled the room.
Dou Wenyi, dressed in white mourning clothes, with chapped lips and a blank, lifeless expression, struggled to speak.
"My lord...our daughter is dead!"
Xie Guidu suddenly woke up with a start, covered in cold sweat, and the effects of his drunkenness completely dissipated.
He and Yi'er also have a daughter.
Suddenly, large tears fell down!
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