Chapter 926 Auntie is not a stepmother (1)
"Shi Chu, how can you be so heartless? You even refuse to help your sister realize her last wish? Have you forgotten how much your sister loved you when you were a child? She raised you, how can you be ungrateful? Now she has left behind two young children, you should marry her and help your sister raise these two poor children, just like she raised you when you were a child..." A chattering voice sounded in Shi Chu's ears, talking non-stop, making Shi Chu very annoyed.
When she opened her eyes, she saw that Cao Liu's eyes were red and she was looking at her with disappointment and confusion. It was obvious that she was the one who had just spoken.
"Why don't you say anything? Are you still unwilling to agree to marry your brother-in-law as your second wife? What's wrong with your brother-in-law? He became a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy at a young age, and he is also very handsome. His family is also a wealthy family. You will definitely not be wronged if you marry into his family. What are you still struggling with?" Cao Liu continued to try to persuade Shi Chu.
Shi Chu understood what she meant just from what she said. It turned out that she was persuading the original owner to marry her brother-in-law and help her dead sister raise the children.
She immediately felt nauseous and wanted to throw the woman out, but she couldn't do that before she fully understood the situation. She had to hold back the nausea in her heart and said, "This matter concerns my whole life. I can't make a decision easily. I need someone to think carefully about it."
When Cao Liu heard this, she thought that she was finally moved by her words, so she said quickly: "Okay, mother will go out now, you stay in your room and think about it carefully, mother will wait for you to figure it out..."
She said as she walked out of the room.
Only then did Shi Chu begin to receive the memories of the original owner.
The original owner was named Cao Shichu, the youngest daughter of Cao Yi, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple. She was only sixteen years old this year. Two days ago, her elder sister Cao Shuhui, who was ten years older than her, died of complications during childbirth. Before she passed away, she was worried about her two children and was afraid that her husband Xun Xiu's new wife would treat her children badly, so she specifically asked the original owner to marry Xun Xiu and raise her two children on her behalf.
So the original owner, who had infinite expectations and aspirations for her future marriage and husband, was suddenly told by her family that she had to marry her brother-in-law as a second wife. This was like a bolt from the blue for her, because she had no fantasies about her brother-in-law and always regarded him as an elder. But because of her sister's death, she suddenly had to marry a man who she regarded as an elder. This shocked and stunned her, and she felt very embarrassed, so she was not willing to do it at all.
However, the original owner's parents did not want to lose Xun Xiu, a good son-in-law, and forced the original owner to marry. They also used the pity of their two nephews to gain her sympathy. Cao's mother kept saying how good Cao Shuhui was to the original owner and how much she loved her when she was a child to arouse the original owner's guilt. She also found several examples of stepmothers abusing stepchildren to persuade the original owner. In this way, she used two approaches and used moral blackmail to force the original owner to marry her brother-in-law.
The original owner endured her inner reluctance and married the old man, because considering the so-called "love" of her elder sister, she was very good to her nephew and niece, treating them as her own children, caring about their lives and teaching their talents.
By the time the original owner raised her niece and stepdaughter, who lost her mother at birth, until she was five years old, she finally became pregnant and had her own child, which she was quite looking forward to.
But unfortunately, when she was five months pregnant, she accidentally fell while walking in the garden and had a miscarriage. She also injured her body and could no longer have children.
Although the original owner was grief-stricken, she gradually got over it because of her nieces and nephews who treated her as their own children. She devoted her whole heart and soul to them, caring for and loving them wholeheartedly.
However, when her niece Xun Linyuan was fifteen years old and began to fall in love, she fell in love with an uneducated gangster who disguised himself as a poor student. The gangster looked decent and was good at pretending, so Xun Linyuan was easily bewitched by him. She even used her own private money to support him and help him study and take the imperial examinations, dreaming that her lover would come to marry her after he passed the imperial examination.
Xun Linyuan's abnormality was discovered by the original owner who had always loved her. The original owner was shocked and asked someone to investigate the gangster. It turned out that he was a liar, so she found an opportunity to tell Xun Linyuan.
Unexpectedly, Xun Linyuan didn't believe the original owner at all, and pulled the original owner to confront the gangster. The original owner produced evidence to prove that the gangster was indeed a liar. At this time, Xun Xiu happened to see the three of them arguing in the mansion. The original owner was about to explain and wanted Xun Xiu to get rid of the gangster and deal with the consequences for Xun Linyuan.
But unexpectedly, when Xun Linyuan saw her biological father, her brain, which was clouded by emotional shit, suddenly became clear, and she believed the evidence produced by the original owner. However, she could not admit that she was wrong in this matter, and she did not want to have a bad reputation or be misunderstood by her biological father. Therefore, she "had an idea" and immediately accused the original owner of finding a gangster to enter the house to tarnish her innocence.
The original owner never expected that her stepdaughter and niece, whom she had raised since childhood and treated as her own daughter, would actually confuse right and wrong and frame her in order to get rid of the crime. She tried her best to refute it, saying that she did not find the gangster, but a liar who deceived Xun Linyuan.
But Xun Xiu didn't believe her at all, and Xun Linyuan was eloquent, slandering the original owner that she was resentful that she and her brother had conspired to cause her to have a miscarriage when she was a child so that she could no longer have children, so she hired gangsters to destroy herself.
The original owner had just been slandered by the child she had loved since childhood, and then she suddenly heard that she had a miscarriage caused by two children. She was immediately devastated and collapsed.
Faced with his step-wife and biological daughter, with whom he had no feelings for each other, Xun Xiu naturally chose to stand on the side of his biological daughter, not to mention that the reasons given by his daughter were so convincing.
So Xun Xiu cursed the original owner for her vicious heart, and said that the child was ignorant before and did not mean to cause her miscarriage, but she had held a grudge for so long and had a vicious mind, so she was not worthy of being the mistress of the Xun family.
But considering that she had taken care of two children for more than ten years, even if she had no merit, she had worked hard, so he could not divorce her. However, she had to accept the punishment, go to the family temple to atone her sins, and be confined to the family temple for life, and she would never be allowed to come out again.
The original owner was sent to the ancestral temple to be kept under guard. Since he was a person who "made a mistake", he naturally had no good ending. He was not well fed or clothed, and had to do heavy labor while starving.
The original owner had been suffering in the ancestral temple for several years, but during these years, her beloved Xun Xiu and Xun Linyuan had never appeared once, let alone come to visit her.
When she was dying, she realized that from the beginning to the end, the Xun family had never treated her as a family member, but only as a tool to take care of their children. The two children, whom she loved with all her heart, had never treated her as a mother and had no feelings for her at all.
Her life became a joke, and she died with her eyes open and full of hatred.
(End of this chapter)
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