Volume 1 Chapter 5 Not Betraying Deep Affection

  If Xie's family is going to decline, then let it thoroughly decline! If Zhao's family is going to be ruined, then go ahead and thoroughly ruin it.

  This life, I won't follow my uncles to do business and make a lot of money just because of the deceiving words that Auntie said.

  The title of the first lady of Yangzhou, she can't have it for herself, but she wants to accompany Xu Yin for a lifetime. He will become the champion of Yangzhou and has a bright future ahead of him. If she wants to marry him and spend her life with him, she cannot tarnish his reputation.

  Find a way to break off the engagement with Zhao Qiusheng and remarry Xu Yin, using her whole life to repay his deep affection from past lives.

  In this life, I want to see with my own eyes how the Zhao family becomes a laughing stock in Yangzhou, selling their ancestral home and living off the proceeds.

  I'd like to know more about how Zhao Qiu Sheng's deep affection for his cousin will play out after the complete downfall of the Zhao family.

  I don't know if there will be deep affection between the poor husband and wife. I also don't know if Zhao Qiusheng will cherish his weak and infertile cousin-in-law. Looking forward to it!

  And that old woman, in her past life, was most proud of her good reputation. In this life, I will personally tear off her face skin and let her suffer the ridicule of the world.

  There was also a grandfather, but he was an unfeeling and ruthless man. He had been cruel to his wife in the past, and before marrying her, he had already taken up with her younger sister. After his wife's death, this old woman was quickly promoted by the grandfather to become the matriarch of the Xie family.

  Grandfather's ruthlessness made grandmother melancholy all her life. After Father fell ill, Grandfather never cared about Father's life or death, nor would he care about his own life or death; what he cared about was the money he earned.

  Just treat such a grandfather as a stranger then.

  As for his parents, after he started his own business, his father had always been resentful of him, and his mother was the same, blaming himself for not making good use of his reputation.

  In the past, I thought that my parents were like what my aunt said, thinking that they would understand that the Xie family had long since declined. Father's large amount of medicine, if he couldn't earn it himself, how could he sustain his life?

  It wasn't until now that I realized, I was foolish, foolishly being taken advantage of by my aunt and grandmother, foolishly having all my blood and sweat squeezed out by them.

  The money he earned for himself was only used to make a dowry for his enemies, while his own reputation was left with a stench that lasted for ten thousand years, and his parents were stimulated into a coma.

  It wasn't until now that I realized, the more expensive the medicine I bought for Dad, the better it was supposed to be, but the more harm it actually did to him.

  Actually, if Father didn't eat those expensive medicinal materials like ginseng, bird's nest and lingzhi, his body would have recovered long ago.

  However, if Father's body had recovered earlier, Auntie would have come up with another trick to harm Father and Mother.

  At this time, I was only twelve years old. My grandmother had been dead for two years, and my father had been bedridden for two years. In this house where my aunt was in charge, I now had no advantage at all.

  Find a way to let Father and Mother see the cruel heart of Auntie, and also make Father realize that Liu Lingling, who is taking care of him on the side, is actually a pawn placed by Auntie to keep an eye on Father.

  Also known as Niang Xingwu, this Liu Lingling is not her good sister, no! Even if she has a look of being exceptionally filial to Father, even if she took care of Father without taking off her clothes during his severe illness.

  Although I have made up my mind in this life to see the decline of the Xie and Zhao families, I am not unprepared. Without money in hand, it won't do.

  Think of a way to replace the expensive medicine with similar but non-toxic ones from the market, which is not only beneficial for Father's body but also allows you to accumulate a lot of money.

  Auntie isn't always bragging that the Xie family's money is all spent on Father's health? Then take advantage of this year, when she's putting on the most pretentious act, to make a big profit from her and use it as a shield for herself in the future.

  Use this money to take good care of your younger brother and parents. Also, provide financial support for Xu Yin's studies and exams.

  I remember that last year in the twelfth month, ten days before New Year's Eve, Xu Yin got a serious illness due to catching a cold in the rain. I secretly hired a doctor for him and spent 50 taels of silver on medicine, which helped Xu Yin pass through the gate of death.

  In this life, I will not let Xu Yin suffer so much. I will also remind Xu Yin that ten days before the New Year, on the day he got rained on, do not go out. Even if you go out, be sure to bring an umbrella.

  After deciding how to spend the rest of her life, Xie Wenjing's mood relaxed and she gradually fell asleep in Du Mama's arms.

  Du's mother carefully laid Xie Wenjing down and let her sleep well, this child had a fever all night yesterday, kept talking nonsense, scared herself to death, fortunately the child is much better now. The fever has also subsided a bit, still a little low-grade fever. Should be getting better gradually.

  Xie Wenjing woke up and instructed Du's mother to tell her parents that she was safe, also asking her mother not to come over, in case she would infect her father with a cold, which would make his health even worse.

  Xie Wenjing's mother knew, uneasy, took Xie Wenjing's younger brother to stand at the gate of the courtyard, and from a distance said a few words to Xie Wenjing, only after making sure she was better did she reluctantly leave.

  Every day, he came over to take a look at Xie Wenjing. At that time, Xie Wenbao was not so spoiled yet, but just a naughty child who didn't love learning.

  Xie Wenjing did not have a resistant psychology, the previous generation's Xie Wenjing was strict in teaching Xie Wenbao, and Xie Wenbao relied on that old woman to protect him, so he was very resistant to Xie Wenjing.

  These days, Xie Wenjing feels very warm, quiet and happy.

  The yard next door is Xu Yin's yard, and every day I can hear Xu Yin's clear reading voice, which is what I want to hear most every day.

  Xie Wenjing even got the approval of Du's mother today, walked out of the house, stood at the edge of the courtyard wall, tiptoed and saw the young Xu Yin, who was only fifteen years old at that time, three years older than herself.

  Xie Wenjing walked through the small flower bed in her own courtyard, around to the back of her own small kitchen, and came to the wall of the courtyard that was only a wall away from Xu Yin's house. She rested her head on the edge of the wall and smiled as she gazed at Xu Yin who was engrossed in reading.

  At this time, Xu Yin was already fifteen years old, about 1.7 meters tall, slender in build, with a wheat-colored complexion, and although he didn't have the handsome looks of a white jade scholar, his facial features were very regular. Looking at such a young man, Xie Wenjing felt that Xu Yin was full of sunshine and vitality.

  Ke Xu suddenly saw Xie Wenjing smiling at him with a full face, and his face suddenly turned bright red and hid in his house.

  Xie Wenjing touched her forehead, wondering if she had just scared Xu Yin.

  Recalling the past, I really talked to Xu Yin for the first time on New Year's Eve two days ago this year. After Xu Yin recovered from his illness, he thanked me across the wall of the hospital and spoke to me for the first time.

  In his past life, from the time he was aware of things, he could hear the sound of someone reading aloud coming from next door every day. He knew that the Xu family lived next door and that it was Xu Yin who was doing the reading, the only son of the Xu family next door.

  Xu Yin's family was also a well-off family in Yangzhou City, but after Xu Yin's father, who was a scholar, fell seriously ill, they spent a lot of money on medical treatment. The illness did not get better, and he did not die either, becoming a burden to the Xu family.

  Other uncles of the Xu family were afraid that Xu Yin would drag down the entire Xu family, so they quarreled and divided the family property. The Xu Yin's family was allocated a courtyard with three tiled houses adjacent to their own yard.

  It was also because of this that Xu Yin's father got angry and passed away a few days later, causing Xu Yin's mother to cry until she went blind.

  Fortunately, this is the main city of Yangzhou. Although Xu Yin Niang has cried blind, relying on a vacant tile house rented out by her family, she can barely make a living, and Xu Yin's sister and mother support each other together. Xu Yin reads books at home by himself, reading the books left behind by his deceased father.

  Xu Yin reads books and also helps his family take care of their livelihood.

  It wasn't until the following month, after leaving home to learn business with his uncles and having some money in hand, that he met Xu Yin again. Before the new year, when he returned home, he coincidentally encountered Xu Yin who was seriously ill, and was moved by the sorrowful cries of Xu Yin's mother and sister, which softened his heart and made him think of saving him.

  Xie Wenjing smiled as she looked at Xu Yin, who was hiding away. She never thought that such a shy Xu Yin would secretly like her, and liked her so deeply, to the point where she couldn't repay his deep feelings even with her own death.

  Xu Yin, I'm not in a hurry, waiting to get familiar with you slowly, waiting for you to like yourself again. In this life, I will not disappoint your deep feelings.