He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The arrival of this child was even more bizarre. He looked to be just over one year old, and couldn't speak yet. He was a delicate little boy. His mother had been holding him before Lu Sheng came out. When she saw Lu Sheng coming out, she stuffed the child into Lu Sheng's hands and then committed suicide.

There was a letter in the baby's cradle. Lu Sheng opened it and read it. Only then did they know what was going on with the child.

The child's mother is Wan Niang, and the child's father's surname is Zhao. Wan Niang and Xiao Zhao grew up together and have been in love since they were young. But Xiao Zhao's parents are both dead, and he is a scholar. The money left by his parents was used for his studies, and the family did not have much savings. Wan Niang's father was a gambler and owed a large sum of money to the gambling house. He despised Xiao Zhao's family for being poor and firmly disagreed with Wan Niang and Xiao Zhao being together. He wanted Wan Niang to marry a rich man in their town as a concubine to get money to pay off his gambling debts.

So Wanniang and Xiao Zhao eloped, heading north, and only felt relieved when they escaped to Liaozhou. However, Xiao Zhao's health became worse due to the exhaustion of traveling all the way. In Liaozhou for several years, Xiao Zhao and Wanniang worked hard to save more money for the family, and they became ill due to overwork. This year, there was a heavy snow, and Xiao Zhao caught a cold and died of illness.

Wan Niang could not accept the fact that her husband was dead and had wanted to commit suicide for a long time. Her child was still young. After a few days of confusion, she heard that the county magistrate and his wife had adopted a little girl. So she sold all the valuable furniture, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and houses in her home for silver, put it on the child, and asked the county magistrate and his wife to help her raise the child. She would go first.

Lu Yan was speechless for a long time after reading the letter. She was too lazy to correct the fact that everyone assumed she was the county magistrate's wife. Lu Sheng took out the silver that Wan Niang had exchanged from the swaddling clothes, more than 100 taels.

"The gold that she swallowed looked like an earring. It might have been bought by her husband." Lu Sheng said, "It looks like this is all her belongings."

Lu Yan was speechless for a while, but soon accepted the fact. One child is enough to raise, and two children are also enough to take care of. At one year old, they are weaned. All she needs to do is feed them some baby food every day, and let Lu Wei take care of the rest.

Lu Yan muttered, "Should we build an orphanage? Who can bear it if they throw their unwanted children in front of the government office?"

Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes: "Will it encourage them to abandon their children?"

Lu Yan also thought about it: "Let me think about it again. Mainly, I want to build a place for the elderly to gather there. The elderly and children are naturally close. The elderly can help take care of the children, and the children can accompany the elderly. I will think about it again."

"Then think about it again." Lu Sheng said, "What name should we give this child?"

Lu Yan blurted out without thinking: "Let's call her Lu Shuang. Lu Wei is Wei, let her adapt herself."

Lu Wei was indeed shocked. Just a few days after she became the only daughter, her parents found a younger brother. But they did not favor boys over girls at all. They just threw the child to her. Fortunately, He Wenjing was with her, so it was not a big deal.

Lu Yan said confidently: "We are both very busy every day, how can we have time to take care of him?"

Lu Yan was responsible for preparing baby food during cooking every day and didn't care about anything else. She would occasionally take some time off to play with the child and teach him to speak with Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng teased Lu Shuang to call him daddy, and Lu Shuang looked at him and giggled without saying anything.

Lu Yan pulled Lu Sheng, Lu Sheng looked back at her, and Lu Yan shook his head.

Lu Sheng was confused, and then he saw Lu Yan holding Lu Shuang and coaxing him to call her sister: "This is my sister! Do you know her? Call me sister!"

It was not until two months later that Lu Shuang finally spoke her first words, and the first thing she said was "sister". From then on, Lu Shuang kept calling her "sister" and would go to her no matter what she was doing. Only then did Lu Sheng understand Lu Yan's painstaking efforts.

Lu Sheng looked at Lu Wei, who was clinging to Lu Shuang and refused to let go, with sympathy, and said to Lu Yan with admiration: "It has to be you!"

During this period, Lu Wei went out countless times, and the Xie family confirmed that she was adopted by the county magistrate's family.

After much thought, Xie Er came up with a solution. He invited a doctor to his home for three days, and then arranged Xie Paner's funeral.

The neighbors were all shocked and talked about it.

"Is Pan'er dead?"

"I look healthy, don't I?"

"Hey, did you hear something?"

"what's up?"

"It is said that the county magistrate and his wife recently adopted a daughter who looks very much like Pan'er..."

"Huh? What do you mean??"

"Maybe the second son's wife can't tolerate her..."

Mrs. Xie was just coming back from outside when she heard a few old ladies gossiping together. She knew without even listening that they were not saying anything nice, so she went over to interrupt them, "What are you talking about?"

When they saw Madam Xie coming, they all changed their words: "Hey, we were talking about you two waiting for her."

"How come he suddenly disappeared when he seemed to be a good kid?"

Madam Xie laughed and said, "She caught a cold while going up the mountain with her father, and she hasn't recovered since returning. We've consulted a doctor for a few days but it still didn't work, and she's gone just like that."

They looked at each other and said nothing more, then responded one after another.

"Children are just short-lived."

"That's right. You have to be careful when raising children."

After three days of rest, "Xie Pan'er" was hastily buried on the mountain. After the funeral, Xie Er went to the government office to change the household registration and removed Xie Pan'er from the list.

These people in the yamen have seen Lu Wei more than once. When deleting the household registration, Nie Li gave Xie Er a meaningful look.

Xie Er was so frightened by the look on his face that he said with a wry smile, "Sir, is there anything wrong?"

Nie Li closed the household registration book and waved him off. He did not mention the fact that Xie Pan'er had died, but only said, "Go, Xie Pan'er has nothing to do with your Xie family from now on."