Chapter 348: My Mother
Lin Dongjia didn't see Jiang Hongyu and was still advising her: "Don't trust men too much. Your dowry and children are the only things that cannot be taken away by others."
Ye Mingzhu didn't dare to look up at the expression on Jiang Hongyu's face. She coughed twice and reminded him, "Sister Lin, didn't you say you were a little tired just now? I'll ask someone to take you back."
Lin Dongjia shook his head: "I'm not tired..."
"Mr. Lin, I just heard your maid say that the wet nurse is looking for you." Jiang Hongyu looked at Mr. Lin calmly.
Lin Dongjia only then realized that Jiang Hongyu had returned and stood up hurriedly: "I, I'm hungry, Mingzhu, I'm leaving first."
She walked in a hurry. Ye Mingzhu was afraid that something might happen to her, so she quickly supported her and handed her to the maid before going into the house.
"What were you talking about with Mr. Lin just now?" Jiang Hongyu looked at her with a smile on his face, his eyes as deep as the sea.
Ye Mingzhu couldn't help but think of what Lin Dongjia had said just now, and blurted out: "Sister Lin just said that you will be favored by a noble lady in the future."
Jiang Hongyu raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Mingzhu. He kept looking at her until she felt a little uneasy before he said, "This situation will not happen."
Now it was Ye Mingzhu's turn to raise an eyebrow: "Why?"
Jiang Hongyu's tone of voice just now was so calm, as if he was talking about having noodles in the evening.
"When we got married, I said that I would only have you as my wife and no one else." Jiang Hongyu's face was full of seriousness.
"What if I don't have children in the future?"
Maybe it was because Ye Yun'an and Lu Dou had urged her to give birth a few days ago, or maybe it was because she was stimulated by Lin Dongjia just now, Ye Mingzhu suddenly brought up this topic.
Jiang Hongyu's face darkened and he quickly shook his head: "No, no matter if we have children in the future or not, we have each other."
This concept is more advanced than that of modern men. In this era when concubines are legal, how could there be men who think like this? Ye Mingzhu couldn't hide the surprise in her eyes.
Jiang Hongyu pulled the corners of his mouth, revealing a desolate-looking smile.
"Besides my mother and my wet nurse, I also have a biological mother."
What?
Ye Mingzhu was genuinely surprised. What was she saying? Aunt Jiang wasn't Jiang Hongyu's biological mother? But the way they got along didn't seem like it.
Jiang Hongyu nodded, glanced outside, and then lowered his voice and said, "I heard it from my maternal grandparents."
"My biological mother is my mother's half-sister. After my mother got married, she found out she couldn't have children. When she returned to her parents' home for help, my maternal grandfather thought of letting my biological mother bear a child for my mother, but my grandmother was adamantly against it."
"At that time, my grandmother had already chosen a small family for my mother to marry into. She would have been the principal wife, but my grandfather insisted and found my mother."
"My mother went to beg my grandmother to give birth to a child for my mother."
"Later, my biological mother gave birth to me but died due to complications during childbirth, so I became my mother's son."
These words contained so much information that all Ye Mingzhu could think of was mother and dear mother.
"Actually, my mother was strongly against my biological mother marrying my father, but my biological mother only wanted to give birth to my mother's children and didn't want to marry my father."
"I heard that my biological mother could have been saved after giving birth to me, but when she knew she was giving birth to a son, she lost the desire to live."
Jiang Hongyu's voice became lower and lower. He lowered his head to hide the sadness in his eyes.
"Your biological mother must have a very good relationship with your mother?" Ye Mingzhu said this with difficulty, because she could not understand how good the relationship between a legitimate daughter and a concubine's daughter had to be in ancient times for them to be willing to risk their lives to have a child for each other.
"Before my mother gave birth to me, she had a childhood sweetheart who died of illness. She didn't want to live anymore, so my grandmother arranged for her to live in a small household. But no one expected that my mother had already wanted to die. But my grandmother and mother treated her very well. She didn't want to bring shame to the whole family by committing suicide, so she died of complications during childbirth after giving birth to me."
When Ye Mingzhu heard this, he wanted to ask, was there something wrong with his mother's difficult labor?
"My biological mother's medical skills are even better than my mother's. She had prepared medicinal powder in her fingernails in advance. When she knew she was giving birth to a boy, she ate the powder directly and never came back."
Jiang Hongyu seemed to know Ye Mingzhu's question and gave her the answer directly.
"Who told you this?"
Jiang Hongyu really described it in too much detail, and it seemed that these were not told to him by Aunt Jiang.
"She was my father's maid. She wanted to sow discord between me and my mother. My mother wasn't in good health at the time, so I didn't dare ask her. I asked my grandmother, and she told me everything."
Jiang Hongyu showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "Before I could figure out how to ask my mother, something happened at home. My father died, and my mother and wet nurse protected me and exiled me. If it weren't for my mother protecting me along the way, I wouldn't have gotten here at all."
"Don't look at my mother as a legitimate daughter, but she was raised under protection. Apart from painting and medicine, she doesn't know anything else, but she is also very kind. My biological mother died after giving birth to me. She felt sorry for my biological mother and for me, so she treated me very well since I was a child, even better than her own children."
"You see, I am not my mother's biological son, but my mother is so good to me, and I will respect her well. So, children are not important, as long as the two of us are together." Jiang Hongyu raised his head and wiped away a tear that slipped from the corner of his eye.
"I, I don't think I ever said I couldn't have children."
Originally, Ye Mingzhu was listening carefully to the other party's narration of the mystery of his life experience, but at the end, she felt that the other party was implying that she could not have children, so she quickly clarified.
"I was just giving an example. I'm in good health." Ye Mingzhu nodded to show she wasn't lying. "Mom checked my pulse a few days ago, and I'm already in much better shape."
Jiang Hongyu was stunned at first, then overjoyed, and began to speak incoherently: "Okay, okay, that's good, that's good."
He took Ye Mingzhu's hand and then hugged her: "Mingzhu, we will both be fine in the future."
Aunt Jiang outside the house quietly backed away until she could no longer hear any sound from inside the house, then she slowly walked back to her room.
She didn't expect that Jiang Hongyu had already known her life experience for a long time, and for so many years, he had always treated her as his biological mother.
He was wrong about one thing. Of course, when her concubine sister came to her, she had the opportunity to refuse, but she wanted to have a child of her own, so she acquiesced to her concubine sister's behavior. However, when her concubine sister had heavy bleeding, she regretted it, but there was no chance anymore.
The concubine sister said with ease that Jiang Hongyu would be her child in the future, and she had only one request, which was to be buried with her childhood sweetheart.
She begged her mother to send her half-sister's ashes to be buried with her childhood sweetheart, and then raised Jiang Hongyu as her own son.
Over the years, the mother and son have depended on each other, and she really forgot that he is not her son.
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