Chapter 376 Redemption
The voice was not loud, but there was absolutely no room for negotiation.
Unable to help himself, Lu Hanzhou let go and watched Xu Zijin go into the house.
Xu Zijin walked into the empty room woodenly.
She closed the door and sat on the empty bed.
At this time, her blood was flowing backwards, her limbs were numb, and her head was buzzing.
She was fidgety and restless.
She wanted to question and go crazy, and she was so sad that she didn't know what to do.
In fact, Xu Zijin knew that he shouldn't feel bad.
After all, she only married Lu Hanzhou to complete the mission.
And I also swore never to fall in love again.
She didn't do it, so why should she feel bad?
But, for no reason at all, she just felt uncomfortable.
It was even more painful than before to watch Yang Shengjun pick up Wang Lu and leave in front of everyone.
It's a feeling like the sky is falling.
If it weren’t for the mission, Xu Zijin knew he might choose to divorce.
I have too many secrets.
And it's a secret that cannot be told.
If Lu Hanzhou starts to suspect her at every turn, she would not be able to live like this.
The saddest thing now is that she is not even qualified for a divorce.
It was agreed that she had completed her mission, and the old woman forced her to get married, but she didn't ask her to have any feelings...
——She did it knowingly!
——She deserves it!
——She herself has no self-control.
——She herself is so useless.
I was being pretentious, but the tears still rolled down my cheeks silently.
Xu Zijin didn't wipe them away, because tears that were not worth shedding did not need to be wiped away.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
The long-lost voice suddenly rang in my mind.
Xu Zijin immediately flashed into the space. The old woman seemed to have become younger, and she looked radiant today.
"No."
The old woman chuckled when she heard this: "You should be feeling uncomfortable. This is how young people should be."
Is she young?
Xu Zijin smiled bitterly: "I am an old vegetable stalk, an old cucumber painted green. How can I still be young?"
The old woman was still smiling, and her smile even became more intense.
"Girl, don't you realize that I'm very happy today?"
Like a conditioned reflex, Xu Zijin asked: "Are you happy?"
The old woman laughed out loud: "Yes, yes, there is a happy event, a happy event, and it is a big happy event!" "I tell you, I fell in love with a man, I am in love."
fall in love?
Looking at the old lady with white hair,
Xu Zijin just felt his face hurt!
She twitched her lips and looked at the old man in front of her who was smiling like a young girl: "...Twilight romance?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm only a few hundred years old, how come it's already dusk?"
As soon as the words fell, the old woman glared at him and said, "Don't belittle yourself, okay? As long as you have a young mentality, you will always be young."
"I am very young, don't ever say I am old!"
"Girl, you are young in every aspect now. You just need to make your mentality younger again."
"Want to hear my story?"
Xu Zijin was in a bad mood at the moment, and she thought it was better to listen to a story than to let her imagination run wild.
"Go ahead."
"It's a long story..."
The old woman gradually fell into memories.
"Back then, I was the legitimate daughter of an imperial merchant."
"In order to marry into a good family, I read the Four Books and Five Classics and learned about virtues from a young age."
"The purpose of training is to learn how to be a good mistress and a good mother with all your heart and soul."
"When I was fourteen, I got engaged to the son of the Duke Shengjun, who would later become my husband, Gong Shiyang."
"He was born in a noble family, handsome and free-spirited, and a master of both civil and military affairs. He immediately won my heart."
"I love my husband, just like you. I have liked him since childhood and I will not marry anyone else."
"I became a wife of a noble family at the age of sixteen. I feel that my happy life is about to begin."
"But who would have thought that he would go to the border on his wedding day, and would be gone for ten years."
"Those ten years were very hard but also very fulfilling for me."
"I used my dowry to turn a shaky family into the most affluent family in the capital."
"I am waiting for his return with a loving heart."
"I thought he didn't come back because he couldn't, but later I realized he didn't come back because he didn't want to."
"It turns out that he met a pretty, charming, bright and lively girl at the border."
"That woman doesn't know anything about virtue or morality, nor does she know the Four Books and Five Classics, but she knows how to please men."
"My man not only married her as his legal wife at the border, but they also had two sons and two daughters in ten years."
"All the money they used was taken from the old lady's account and used for charity."
"Fifty thousand taels of silver a year, I earn that."
"I learned this news from the old lady, the maidservant who worked with his grandmother."
"Because I saved her only grandson, she told me the truth in order to repay the favor."
"If she hadn't told me, I might have been a workhorse for the Gong family my whole life."
As the old woman told the story, Xu Zijin's discomfort gradually disappeared.
Her eyes became colder and colder: "What happened next?"
"later?"
Xu Zijin looked at the old woman and asked, "Then...did you commit suicide?"
The old woman smiled sweetly: "Girl, do you think I am that kind of person?"
"A woman from a wealthy family who has made a name for herself in the business world would commit suicide? You really look down on me."
"Later, I pretended that I knew nothing and continued to manage the Gong family and continue to be filial to his parents."
"But I spent half a year gambling away everything the Gong family had!"
"Including the palace's house deeds, land deeds, and land, and then he became a monk."
——This method... is amazing!
When Xu Zijin heard this, he immediately admired her: "You are awesome, well done!"
"There's no need to show mercy to those scumbags!"
“Hehehe…”
The old woman chuckled twice: "Women can be deceived, but they must not cry and become numb after being bullied."
"Seeing their family being driven out of their old house and ending up in a dilapidated temple, my heart was at peace at that moment."
"A month later, he came to the nunnery from the border to question me, asking why I was so cruel."
hehe.
When Xu Zijin heard this, he said, "Pooh!" "How dare he come to question you? It's true that the lowly are invincible!"
Isn’t it?
The old woman smiled softly: "I only gave him one sentence: Since you are heartless, I will give up. I am not a servant of his Gong family."
"He ate my food, drank my drinks, and then betrayed me. I ask him, who gave him the face?"
"In fact, I didn't gamble away all the Gong family's property. The casino was originally owned by my cousin from my mother's side."
"But the major shareholder behind it is the Imperial Concubine's only son: Prince Cong, the future emperor. No one dares to touch it."
"I kept all the things I brought from my mother's home there."
"I donated all of his Gong family's property to the nunnery."
"Later, I used all my money to help countless orphans, widows and poor scholars in a nunnery."
"Perhaps my good deeds touched the heavens. One day, a white-haired old man gave me a book."
"I practiced according to the instructions in the book and survived until now."
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