After that day, Zhu Qingning kept his promise and often brought his daughter to visit Gu Zhen.
Gu Zhen was naturally overjoyed.
Nie Xun's attitude remained the same. No matter how Gu Zhen tried to please him, he had no intention of softening. This made Zhu Qingning extremely puzzled.
"What's wrong with Chengyun?" Zhu Qingning sighed. "Today, she told me what happened in the past. She really has her difficulties."
Nie Xun was reading a book in the courtyard. His expression was calm. Zhu Qingning approached him with a smile and curled up into a ball in his arms.
Disturbed by his wife's childish behavior, Nie Xun could only free one hand to hug her and the baby in his arms tightly.
Zhu Qingning used a gentle voice to slowly recount what he heard and sighed at the end.
"Chengyun, there are all parents in the world. She really has her difficulties. Can't you be a little more softhearted?"
After all, Nie Xun was the person who slept with him. Zhu Qingning understood him the best.
There was one thing that she did not understand. He was obviously kind to Gu Zhen on the first day, but he became cold after a few days.
"Wuniang, the hearts of people in this world are not as simple as you think. You are so innocent and gullible. How can your husband rest assured? " Nie Xun hugged her with one arm and rested his chin on her shoulder. His voice was a little tired. "According to what you said, she did have her difficulties back then. But speaking the truth doesn't mean that she didn't hide anything. It's good for you to bring the child to visit her in the future. Just don't connect me with her anymore. "
Nie Xun's temperament was different from ordinary people because of his childhood experience.
His adoptive parents had no children and treated him like their own. He was also grateful, but this did not mean that he had forgotten his childhood memories.
That memory would not fade even when he was old.
That year, he was dug out from the soil. After a few hands, he was sold from Dongqing to Zhongzhao.
Someone bought him to ask for a child. The mistress was hot-tempered and violent. She often scolded and beat him because she felt humiliated when she saw him. His existence constantly reminded her that she could not have a child. In the cold winter, the woman pressed his head into the water. The more he struggled, the harder she used. When he was three or four years old, he simply held his breath and pretended to be dead. The other party threw him into the water and left while scolding him.
Of course, this couldn't be the end. Not long after he became a child beggar, he was targeted by a trafficker who specialized in abducting and selling child beggars and sold to the next family.
He had met all kinds of people. Someone had taken a fancy to his face and bought him into a men's establishment. If the place had not been burned down, Nie Xun would not have been able to escape. Someone purely had the hobby of torturing young children for physical pleasure. He had broken his arms and legs, and the little finger of his right hand was still stiff. His body bore the scars of his childhood. Some of them had healed long ago, while others were still stubbornly present.
Nie Xun was a tenacious person. If he didn't want to die, he naturally wouldn't die.
Everyone had parents, and so did he. Where were his parents?
Did they have no choice but to sell him because their family was poor, or did they encounter a great change that caused him to be kidnapped by human traffickers?
He wanted to understand.
This obsession kept him alive.
At that time, Nie Xun probably didn't expect his parents to be so noble and unattainable.
If he had known earlier, perhaps he wouldn't have had to suffer so much. It would have been better to bang his head against the wall and beg for an afterlife.
"Why?" Zhu Qingning turned her head and kissed him on the cheek, interrupting his memories. Now, she still acted like an innocent young girl and said coquettishly, "Chengyun, you should at least tell me the reason. You're always unwilling to explain, and others will misunderstand that you're an unfilial son. "
Nie Xun smiled bitterly. He didn't say it because he didn't want his wife to know.
"You'll know when you pay attention to Eldest Sister-in-law's situation."
Zhu Qingning didn't understand. "What does this have to do with Eldest Sister-in-law?"
She really didn't understand. This was clearly a knot between Nie Xun and Gu Zhen. How did Eldest Sister-in-law get involved?
Nie Xun looked down. Zhu Qingning placed the child in the sleeping basket at the side, held his right hand with both hands, and kissed his little finger.
"You're always like this …"
Nie Xun felt that his hair was about to go bald from worry. He was at his wit's end when it came to his wife.
"If you don't want to be like this, then explain. You also know that if you don't explain clearly, I won't understand sometimes. "
Nie Xun had no choice but to mention a few words in her ear.
The smile on Zhu Qingning's face instantly froze.
"This …"
Nie Xun said, "Wuniang, if it's possible … I really want to bring you back to see my parents and tell them that I'm married."
Zhu Qingning only came back to her senses after a long while and said, "My actions these days … Aren't they making things difficult for you?"
Nie Xun whispered, "As long as it's you, it's not difficult."
As the end of the year approached, Jiang Pengji let some people return to Wanzhou first. Meng Heng was one of them.
When he arrived, he couldn't wait to see his wife and child. The smile on his face was more like a child's.
His wife wiped his sweat and said angrily, "You've traveled a long way. Aren't you afraid that the child will be dirty? Go wash up and then kiss him. "
Meng Heng could only obey. He took a comfortable bath and changed into new clothes.
He asked about the situation at home, and his wife told him everything.
"Is Chengyun being taken care of?" Meng Heng asked.
Although the two brothers didn't acknowledge each other as relatives, Meng Heng felt guilty towards Nie Xun. After all, they had schemed against each other, and now it was time to make up for it.
His wife wanted to say something but stopped. Meng Heng asked her, "What's wrong? Is there someone making things difficult for Chengyun? "
"No, it's just …"
"Just? But what? "
Meng Heng ate some pastries to fill his stomach while he looked at his wife with concern.
His wife twirled her handkerchief in a dilemma. "A while ago, mother-in-law went to the manor to visit second brother and sister-in-law. She didn't have a good time."
Meng Heng wasn't surprised.
"This is in line with Chengyun's temperament."
If they were to acknowledge each other and have a family reunion right away, Meng Heng would feel that Nie Xun had been possessed.
His wife recounted the events of that day once more.
She and Zhu Qingning were close friends and sisters-in-law, so there were some topics that were not taboo.
The two sisters-in-law had the same opinion. They were both mothers, and they always felt that Nie Xun was too cold.
Meng Heng listened and clicked his tongue. "After so many years, she still has the same temperament."
His wife lamented, "Brother-in-law indeed had a hard time in his early years, but there's no lack of parents in the world. How can he be so cold-hearted?"
Meng Heng said, "Mother, if you continue like this, Chengyun's heart will only become harder and colder."
His wife was dumbfounded.
"Mother-In-Law treats him so well …"
"It depends on the situation. Mother has been in Wanzhou for a while. Not to mention sending people to the manor, has she ever asked about you and the child? "
His wife was stunned and said, "That … that she hasn't."
Not only had she not, she had once brought the child to the manor to pay her respects, but the maid had said that he was already asleep.
Later, she and her sister-in-law, Zhu Qingning, went to the manor together and met her mother-in-law for the first time. She was really beautiful, and it was hard to tell her age.
Meng Heng sighed. "I told Mother that Chengyun is still alive. How long has it been?"
His wife still didn't understand, and Meng Heng wasn't in the mood to explain. After all, it wasn't right to speak ill of his mother in front of his wife.
Was Gu Zhen a good mother?
To Liu Xi, she was probably the best mother in the world. Not only was she good with her words, but she was also good with her actions.
To the two brothers, she would always be good with her words, and she would only tell others how good she was.
Before Meng Heng wrote to Gu Zhen, she didn't know that her youngest son was still alive. On the surface, Meng Heng was her only son.
But what was her attitude toward her eldest son?
He lived in the Meng residence as a son of a concubine and was constantly on guard against his father's concubines.
In order to save himself, he was willing to become a hostage and live in Shangjing. The Meng residence basically didn't give him any expenses, and he had to pawn a few items from when he was one year old to barely make ends meet. He studied in a private school and had a high cultivation level. While studying, he sold his calligraphy and paintings to earn some pocket money.
Once, he wrote a letter full of hope to his mother, hoping that she would take pity on him and take care of him.
Gu Zhen took care of him and sent him a hundred taels of silver. Other than the money, she didn't say anything.
At that time, Meng Heng already had a sense of honor. His face was burning as he held the money his mother gave him.
The boy servant said, "Madam, did you think that Langjun was begging her?"
Meng Heng, who was eleven or twelve years old, felt that his pride and dignity had been shattered by his mother.
He begged for this money.
He "begged" for his birth mother's care and love, and in the end, he got money.
Meng Heng got married at twenty-three, and it was because the elders of the Meng family couldn't bear to watch it anymore and betrothed him to the daughter of a branch branch of a declining aristocratic family.
Did Mother say a word or two about this?
Before Meng Zhan died, he could say that the Meng family was powerful and she didn't dare to ask for her son's sake.
Now that Meng Zhan's body had been cold for a few days, she still ignored her eldest son and treated her eldest daughter-in-law and eldest grandson coldly.
She was such a mother, but she "poured out her heart and lungs" to her second son, whom she hadn't seen for more than twenty years.
Nie Xun wasn't stupid. The more Gu Zhen wanted to "make up" for her second son and treated him like air, the colder he would be.
Her eldest son had a mother-son relationship with her, but he was still so cold.
Then what right did her second son, whom she hadn't seen for more than twenty years, have to deserve her love?
Did she really want to get her son back and make up for the lack of motherly love? Or did she want to be forgiven to ease the guilt in her heart?
Meng Heng felt that Nie Xun could see it clearly.
His wife didn't know what Meng Heng was thinking and sighed.
"It wasn't easy for grandma in her early years. I heard that she was often bedridden. Can't you be more understanding?"
It wasn't easy for the daughter of the Gu family to get to where she was today.
"She doesn't want to take medicine to cure her illness. Can others force her?" Meng Heng said. "It wasn't easy? Maybe it was. "
His wife looked dissatisfied.
How could her husband say that?
"Although mother was the daughter of the Gu family in her early years, her treatment was similar to that of the legal aunt. Otherwise, she wouldn't have married into the Meng family in the past. I asked some elders and they said that the legal aunt treated mother really well. The people who were part of her dowry were all her confidants and all of them were capable … "Meng Heng said," After that, she remarried to Liu She. Everyone in the Liu family respects her. Now, the lord has earned her the position of Empress Dowager. As her sons, it's best for us to maintain our current situation if it's for her own good. "
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