Xiao Ling'er was speechless. His adopted brother was a crybaby who cried all the time.
He sighed and asked, "Haohao, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"
"Sister, I miss dad. I miss such delicious food, but dad has never even seen it." As Xiao Yuhao spoke, his golden beans fell more and more violently.
father?
A handsome man's face and a series of things related to him flashed through Xiao Ling'er's mind.
The man's name was Xiao Changhe, the original owner's father, and he was very handsome.
In my memory, everyone in the Xiao family is good-looking, but Xiao Changhe is the most handsome one among them.
Although he was the most handsome, he was the least favored because when Old Lady Xiao was pregnant with him, Old Man Xiao had an affair with Widow Tian next door and was obsessed with marrying her.
Of course, Old Man Xiao did not marry her in the end, because the night before the wedding, Widow Tian was found drowned in her own cesspool.
Many people in the village suspected that it was Old Lady Xiao who did it, but the village chief of Daoxi Village was a member of the Xiao family, and he deliberately covered up the case, so Widow Tian’s death was left unresolved.
However, even the death of Widow Tian did not dispel Old Lady Xiao's hatred. She felt that everything was caused by Xiao Changhe. In her heart, Xiao Changhe was a disaster star.
Therefore, Xiao Changhe's life in the Xiao family was not easy. He was always treated coldly, and it was common for him to suffer from hunger and cold.
None of the good things in the Xiao family fall on him, and he is the one who does all the heavy work.
He was like an invisible man in the Xiao family, with an inferiority complex and was taciturn. He worked hard every day to complete the tasks assigned by Old Mrs. Xiao, otherwise he would go hungry.
Later, it was also Old Lady Xiao who planned to marry the original owner's mother. The original owner's mother, Mu Xiya, was the daughter of a scholar from the neighboring Mujia Village.
Old Mrs. Xiao was also from Mujia Village. Once when she returned to her parents' home, she heard that the highly respected Mu Xiucai and his wife in the village had met with an accident and both passed away.
Only Mu Xiya, an orphan girl who was about to come of age, was left alone and helpless with no one to rely on.
Old Mrs. Xiao had evil intentions and planned to let Xiao Changhe marry the girl so that she could take over the property left by Mu Xiucai.
However, Mu Xiya had already been engaged, so Old Lady Xiao could only use underhanded tactics and directly let Xiao Changhe seduce Mu Xiya in order to make the matter a fait accompli.
This was the first time Xiao Changhe disobeyed Old Lady Xiao. He didn't want to be a despicable and shameless person.
As a result, he was beaten half to death by Old Lady Xiao and had to lie in bed for half a month before he could walk.
When Old Lady Xiao's plan failed, she took action herself. She pretended to be injured and used Mu Xiya's kindness to trick her into the Xiao family. She locked her in the woodshed and forced Xiao Changhe to sleep with her.
Xiao Changhe naturally disagreed. Old Lady Xiao threatened him that if he didn't agree, she would let Mu Xiya become Xiao Lao Da's concubine. Xiao Changhe had no choice but to go into the woodshed.
In the end, although nothing happened between the two, the fact that a man and a woman spent a night together alone ruined their reputation.
What's more, under the deliberate spread of the news by Old Lady Xiao, Xiao Changhe and Mu Xiya already had a baby and were pregnant.
When Mu Xiya's fiancé's family heard these rumors, they were so angry that they broke off the engagement with Mu Xiya the next day.
Mu Xiya, whose reputation had been ruined, had no choice but to take all her property to the Xiao family.
She and Xiao Changhe didn't even have the simplest wedding ceremony, and the dowry she brought went directly into Old Lady Xiao's private vault.
Mu Xiya is the daughter of a scholar. She is gentle and humble and never argues with others. Even when her dowry was taken away by her mother-in-law, she did not resist much.
Fortunately, after marriage, Xiao Changhe treated Mu Xiya very well. When his mother-in-law beat and scolded Mu Xiya, Xiao Changhe would silently stand up and bear it for her.
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