"Where did you take it?" Old Man Chi pressed.
From this perspective, what happened back then seems rather unusual.
Yang Yi: "When we found my aunt, we met a monk. The monk said that my aunt's birth chart was not compatible with Lin Jianglai's family, and that he needed to help change her luck."
Furthermore, Auntie must not be allowed to leave Huaiyuan Town in the future, otherwise the fate of her destiny will be reversed for nothing, which will have a negative impact on the Lin family.
Lin Jianglai believed him and handed his aunt over to the monk. Then he and his wife lied and said that their daughter had been entrusted to a relative in the countryside to look after for a few months.
At the time, his wife was pregnant again, so she believed him. It wasn't until more than half a year later that the monk told Lin Jiang that his luck had changed and he could take the child back.
Because children's appearances change quickly, although his wife initially felt something was amiss, she eventually dispelled her doubts after spending some time with the child.
So, Aunt, the reason Lin Jianglai was so opposed to you and Uncle getting together back then was because he believed what the monk said.
He was worried that if you left Huaiyuan Town with your uncle, it would have a negative impact on the Lin family, which is why he tried so hard to stop you.
After you and your uncle left, the Lin family encountered robbers while escorting goods. Lin Jianglai's eldest son was injured and lost an arm, after which he could no longer work as a deliveryman.
From then on, the business of Lin's Escort Agency declined steadily.
A few years later, Lin Jianglai's third daughter-in-law died in childbirth, along with her child! This made Lin Jianglai even more convinced of the old monk's words.
So, Aunt, the reason Lin Jiang didn't want to see you at all is because of this. He blamed everything on you.
This is the fundamental reason why Lin Jianglai treats Aunt Chi this way!
Otherwise, even if the child isn't biologically related, it's impossible to have no feelings for them after raising them for over a decade.
Old Man Chi was so angry he slapped his thigh:
"When Lanniang and I were together, he tried so hard to stop us, and I thought he just couldn't bear to see Lanniang marry far away. But it turns out it was all for his own sake!"
If he had known this would happen, why would he have been so tolerant of Lin Jiang in the first place?
That old geezer is no good.
Chi Tang was shocked. She was even more worried that her mother had also believed the monk's words and would really blame Lin's misfortunes on her. So she quickly said:
"Mother, Grandma said before that all the bad things in the family were because of you, is that true?"
"Nonsense! What does this have to do with me?"
Mentioning her mother-in-law made Aunt Chi furious, and she rejected the idea without even thinking.
Trying to shift the blame onto her?
Keep dreaming.
Chi Tang chuckled, "Then it's wrong for Grandpa to push all the blame onto Mom, isn't it?"
Yang Yi's eyes flickered.
This child is really interesting.
This time, Aunt Chi hesitated and did not answer.
Clearly, the bad things that have happened in her family over the years have had a significant impact on her.
"Don't be stupid, you woman! If my mother said that to you, you would have already turned on me. Now that your father is saying that to you, you think he's right?"
"...foster father."
Yang Yi calmly offered his reminder.
His grandfather shouldn't take the blame.
Although my grandfather didn't love my aunt as much as my grandmother, he wouldn't do such a despicable thing.
After being interrupted by Yang Yi, Aunt Chi no longer had the energy to argue with Uncle Chi.
She sighed, her expression a mixture of sadness and joy.
“I always thought my dad was dictatorial and everyone had to listen to him. But no matter what, he did have some feelings for me, but…”
Aunt Chi felt that her attempt to see him today was a joke.
It was all just because of what the old monk said?
"besides."
"Anything else? What else?"
Aunt Chi was numb to it all.
Is there any truth more cruel than this?
Yang Yi said, "More than 20 years ago, when you and Uncle were together, Lin Jianglai insisted on separating you not only because he didn't want you to leave the town."
And the most important reason was that a wealthy man in town had taken a liking to you and promised Lin Jiang a dowry of one thousand taels!
For Lin Jianglai, Aunt Chi was just someone he was using.
Because he knew that she wasn't his biological daughter.
On the contrary, the old lady was unaware that her biological daughter had passed away, so she doted on Aunt Chi very much.
"What rich man? Could it be that guy from back then..."
Old Man Chi stood up in shock, but even in his astonishment, he did not fully recount the unsavory events of the past.
Back then, to prevent the two of them from being together, that old geezer Lin Jianglai did something quite shameless.
Otherwise, Lan Niang would never have abandoned her family and traveled thousands of miles to go with him.
That incident crossed Lan Niang's bottom line, causing her to completely abandon her family.
He was puzzled at first.
Even if Lin Jianglai doesn't like him, he wouldn't send his own daughter into the tiger's den.
Now it seems, it was probably all for that thousand taels of silver!
"Despicable! Shameless! Vulgar and obscene!" Old Man Chi shouted angrily.
Chi Tang stared in shock, her mouth agape.
It must be really tough on her father; he never went to school, yet he can still use idioms to curse.
It wasn't easy.
"Why? Even if I'm not his biological child, he still raised me. Hasn't he ever thought about me at all?"
The cruel truth, learned more than twenty years later, almost broke Aunt Chi.
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