Li Qingluo was shocked when she heard this. "How could this be? Are they really not afraid of your father at all when they act like this?"
Pei Nanjia: "It's only because my mother... once fell into a brothel, so my father and mother have become the shame of the second branch of the Peiguo Mansion."
"But wasn't it Duke Pei's family that harmed my mother when she ended up in a brothel?"
"It was my grandmother. She listened to my great-grandmother and thought that if she killed my mother and threw her into that kind of place, my father would give up!"
"Who would have known that my father would risk half his life to rescue my mother."
"In the end, my mother didn't lose her virginity, but my father almost died."
"Afterwards, my grandmother actually wanted my mother to leave, saying that if she stayed, my father would lose everything..."
"But grandma doesn't know that if my mother hadn't persuaded my father, he would have wanted to take my mother away from all the troubles in Jinling City long ago."
"Even if they were to live as idle wanderers, without a career in government, my father would have been able to survive by collecting herbs and my mother would have been able to weave cloth, and they wouldn't have suffered the hardships in Jinling."
"But my mother remembered my grandmother's miserable life. My grandfather passed away right after my father was born. So she didn't want me to make my grandmother lose another son."
"Fortunately, my father heard these words despite his illness. He said that if it weren't for my mother, he would have died as a child."
"My mother saw that my father was willing to risk his life to uphold their relationship, so she naturally didn't let him down."
"She is willing to be just a concubine in this life, and to stay with my father without any official status."
Li Qingluo was shocked and thought: Is there really such a loyal and faithful relationship in this world?
We don't need status, fame, wealth or glory, but we want to be together.
Regardless of the future, at least for now, there are still such loyal men and women in this world, which is really rare!
Li Qingluo also understood why Pei Nanjia said this to her.
She exposed her own scars and showed Li Qingluo the pain of her life that was criticized and despised by the world in order to comfort herself.
Li Qingluo understood her painstaking efforts and could not help but firmly hold Pei Nanjia's hand: "Nanjia, although you have parents who love you, you must have suffered a lot since you were a child, right?"
"The Duke of Pei's Mansion compromised with your parents, but they indulged your sisters, who have been bullying you since childhood. I never thought that such a prestigious Duke's Mansion would do such a thing!"
Pei Nanjia's eyes turned red.
Since she was young, she really has never had a close sister.
No one had ever said that to her.
They even think that she is content enough with such a life, right?
She was just a concubine's daughter, yet she enjoyed the honor of being the most honorable girl in the Second Courtyard.
Although he was of low status, he had a loving pair of parents...
But those mockeries and insults, those slanderous and contemptuous words, are all true.
Therefore, what Li Qingluo just said really touched Pei Nanjia's heart.
She almost couldn't control herself and burst into tears with Li Qingluo.
But fortunately, it hasn't gotten that bad yet.
When she was ten years old, her father had gained some trust from the emperor, and the situation of their Second Courtyard at home had improved a lot.
Later, she became close to her third brother again, and no one dared to bully her openly at home.
Pei Nanjia: "Don't be fooled by the glamorous exterior of our Peiguo Mansion. But over the years, our inner court has been far from peaceful. There's no shortage of dirty and filthy things happening here, just as in other families."
"In the past few years, we have been supported by our great grandfather from the first house. If he were to pass away one day, our second and third houses would be immediately separated."
Li Qingluo: "I heard that the old man is not in good health now? What kind of elder is he at home?"
Pei Nanjia: "Anyway, for the past year, I've been taking medicine every day and seeing the doctor every month. I don't usually go to the eldest room, and I just heard that my great-grandfather hasn't left his bed for three or four months."
"What kind of person is he... I met him twice when I was little, and both times scared me to death."
"Anyway, he was very fierce when he scolded people, and there was a long scar on his face. We youngsters were very scared when we saw it."
"Also, he has a somewhat violent and erratic temperament... I heard that after returning from the border, his temperament changed drastically, becoming bloodthirsty and inhumane. Anyway, he did a lot of foolish things in the past."
Li Qingluo was surprised.
This is completely different from what she imagined the old Duke Pei to be.
"What are these confusing things, Nanjia, can you tell me a few?"
Pei Nanjia didn't understand why Li Qingluo asked these questions.
He just tilted his head and looked at her.
Li Qingluo knew she couldn't hide it any longer, so she had to speak frankly: "You should know something about the relationship between my grandmother and your Peiguo Mansion, right?"
Pei Nanjia: "I heard it from my grandmother. During the war at the border, of the three Pei sons... only one returned. Although my grandfather's death had nothing to do with my great-aunt, I heard that the death of my third grandfather... has always been a source of resentment in my great-grandfather's heart."
"Later, your great-aunt and grandfather both returned home safely, but our Pei family... Although the grudges between the elders have nothing to do with us younger generations, the Duke Pei's Mansion and your General's Mansion have always had a rift over the years and have not interacted with each other. Even when we met, we treated each other as strangers."
Li Qingluo smiled bitterly.
"My grandmother's knot in her heart is also because of her brothers, isn't it?"
"She heard that the old Duke was not in good health, so she was very anxious and wanted to... hope that one day she could meet the old Duke again and have a meal with him. Deep down, she hoped that the old Duke would still recognize her as his sister."
Besides, Li Qingluo didn’t think that what happened back then was her grandmother’s fault.
On the battlefield, life and death are determined by fate.
Nan Jia looked very embarrassed after hearing this.
"I advise you...I advise you and your great-aunt to give up this idea. I didn't explain it to you clearly just now, but in fact, my great-grandfather has been becoming increasingly delirious in the past two years."
"How many slaves and maids in the mansion suffered at his brutal hands after he returned from the battlefield? He's old and can't move these past few years, but his temperament is still as unpredictable as ever. When he's able to move, as long as he can draw his sword, he's bound to inflict bloodshed."
"He's already going crazy."
Li Qingluo didn't expect it to turn out like this.
It seems that my great uncle must have suffered a lot of trauma on the battlefield that year, otherwise he would not be so different from the steady brother that my grandmother described.
But Li Qingluo didn't want to disappoint her grandmother.
How could she give up so easily when she hadn't even tried?
Seeing her like this, Pei Nanjia sighed: "If you insist on giving it a try, then go meet my third brother."
Li Qingluo looked up: "Your third brother?"
Pei Nanjia smiled: "The eldest grandson of the third branch of the Peiguo Mansion, the third child in the family, Pei Sanlang."
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