Qiu Chuying was so frightened by Qin Sheng's suggestive words that she broke out in a cold sweat. She used up the greatest willpower of her life to grit her teeth and not tremble, so as not to reveal her true colors in front of Qin Sheng.
Qin Rui is already dead, and he can't find another Qin Rui to serve the Qin family.
But if he honestly admitted the fact, Qin Sheng would definitely cut him into pieces and destroy his entire family. He returned home in a daze, feeling restless and even thinking about how to write his suicide note.
It was not until Qiu Lie came in and coughed that he was awakened from his deep thoughts. He coughed, looked at the sky outside, and asked in a hoarse voice: "It's already dark?"
Qiu Lie didn't understand, so he hummed and sat down opposite him in silence.
Qiu Chuying has always valued his eldest son. If he hadn't attached importance to offspring, there would have been no problems between him and Qin Rui.
Too many things happened today, and he was a little dazed for a moment. Through Qiu Lie, he seemed to see the scenes of the first few years after he got married to Qin Rui.
At that time, he was a young scholar who had won the third place in the imperial examination. He was in high spirits and the Minister of the Court took a fancy to him and wanted to marry his daughter to him. He originally wanted to refuse, but when he went to visit the Minister of the Court that day and happened to see Qin Rui admiring the flowers in Liuyun Pavilion, he suddenly changed his mind.
I forgot everything.
I have forgotten my parents and my fiancée in my hometown.
He wrote a letter home asking his parents to help cancel the marriage, and also shined at the elegant gathering hosted by the Minister's Office.
He successfully married Qin Rui and returned home in glory. His Yue family was strong and powerful, and his new wife was beautiful and gentle. He thought that his life would be happy and fulfilling like this.
But it turns out that life is not just about flowers, moonlight and beauty, but also about so many trivial matters and worries.
Qin Rui's health remained normal during the first year. He argued with his parents for a long time and made the facts and pros and cons clear to them. He finally had a peaceful year.
But noble ladies from wealthy families are simply incompatible with poor families.
Qin Rui was not the kind of person who would kowtow to her parents-in-law just because she couldn't have children, and she would not give in because of this. She still stood high and mighty.
But his mother is the one who regards giving birth to a child as the most important thing.
Even if you are a fairy, if you can't give birth, you are just a hen that can't lay eggs.
One refused to give in, while the other deliberately made things difficult for him. The conflict between the two became increasingly difficult to reconcile.
As time went by, his patience was exhausted, and he finally took the opportunity of a work assignment to take his wife with him to the new post, avoiding his parents' urging.
But you can avoid your parents, but you cannot avoid the secular gaze and rumors.
People at that time were ashamed of not having a son, but he not only had no son, he didn't even have a daughter.
He finally couldn't bear the constant criticism and went home after his three-year term ended. He accepted his parents' arrangement and married a second wife.
She's not an aunt, but the second wife.
This second wife was naturally his childhood sweetheart and his fiancée whom he had let down. She had been waiting for him, remaining chaste for him and waiting patiently.
He was also a little fed up with Qin Rui - she would never bow her head, always be superior, and never understand his difficulties.
He wanted his own child more and more every day, but she took countless medicines and worshipped countless gods, but it was still useless...
He still feels that he did nothing wrong. If he really did do something wrong, it was that he married a wife who could not be hit or touched.
Ever since he married his second wife, Qin Rui no longer let him in. She locked herself in the yard for years and no longer visited her parents-in-law morning and evening.
He simply gave up and stopped paying attention to these things that gave him a headache.
When Cen Liying gave birth to a son at the end of the first year after her marriage, he cared even less about Qin Rui.
His parents were already old, and their only wish in life was to have a grandson. However, as soon as his grandson was born, his father fell seriously ill and died.
He blamed Qin Rui for his father's death and finally lost his last bit of patience with her. He even confronted Qin Rui and told her that he was willing to divorce her.
But Qin Rui refused to divorce.
Just stay in this stalemate with him.
Until he heard the news that she was dead.
It was winter when Qin Rui died, and he broke out in a sweat when he heard the news - because at that time, his brother-in-law's classmate, Liang Shuang, the Guangdong Inspector, was on tour in Guangdong, and he was responsible for receiving him.
He fainted when he received the news.
He should have gone to report the death, but somehow he managed to conceal the matter and started telling lies from then on.
If there is one lie, it will take countless lies to cover it up.
He even deliberately changed Qiu Lie's birthday to a younger one.
He also asked Cen Liying to instruct Qin Rui's capable maidservant to go to the capital to personally deliver red eggs to announce the good news.
He also lied that Qin Rui was in poor health and could not travel all the way to Beijing to visit his parents.
Nowadays, it is common for a woman to never see her parents again once she marries, and no one will doubt it.
Even if she was the daughter of a powerful minister, even if Qin Dong was later promoted to minister, it would still be the same.
Moreover, in order to ensure that their daughters live well in their husband’s family and avoid being bullied, parents will treat their sons-in-law better.
When he got into trouble later, the Qin family suppressed it for him...
He felt a headache and held his head with his hands, then groaned after a while.
Qiu Lie felt that his father seemed to have aged a lot. Sitting opposite him, he didn't dare to call him for a moment. After a long time, he called him in a muffled voice: "Dad..."
Qiu Chuying hummed slowly, straightened her neck and looked at her son: "Didn't your uncle go to the Imperial College to see you today?"
"I also saw it on the street today." Qiu Lie answered irrelevantly: "Mother Qin said in front of my uncle that I was born only to an aunt, not to his sister..."
After such a thing happened, how could he dare to go to the Qin family and call them grandpa
He had heard his father talk about the Qin family's abilities countless times.
Even his mother, no matter how reluctant she was, still forced him to call Qin Rui his mother and Qin Sheng and others his uncles.
If the Qin family really knew the truth, he would definitely be killed without a burial place.
Qiu Chuying laughed.
"Of course not." He felt his throat tightened, and after a while he coughed, "Yes, he now doubts your background, so naturally he won't treat you the same way as before."
Qiu Lie was frightened by his words. He pursed his lips and looked at him helplessly. After a while, he forced a smile and said, "Dad, what should we do now?"
The Qin family is very capable. If they are really given time to investigate the matter, they will really have no chance to survive. What will they do then? He urged Qiu Chuying: "Dad, please think of a solution! Are we... are we just going to wait for death?"