happy rebirth

Hearing the news of his biological mother suddenly, Xie Jinhua could no longer control his emotions well.

Compared with the house-climbing girl who climbed into the bed, and the kabuki who redeemed herself from a brothel, naturally the Aunt Jiang who Gao Nanny spoke of was more in line with the image of a mother that Xie Jinhua had constructed in her mind.She is weak and innocent, yet she is strong and quiet.He even felt sorry for his biological mother because of it.

And Xie Jinhua's thoughts are of course not suitable to talk to people other than Ke Qi, so Ke Qi became his best and only listener.

Ke Qi was by Xie Jinhua's side when Nanny Gao was telling the story of the past, listening carefully to every word.The information they both get is equal.But in the following time, Xie Jinhua still started with the words "Did you know" with bright eyes, repeating to Ke Qi what he heard from Nanny Gao over and over again.Ke Qi could understand Xie Jinhua's excitement, so he repeated it with him tirelessly.

When it was time to go to bed at night, both of them were lying on the bed, Xie Jinhua was still talking about Aunt Jiang.

Ke Qi had already thought about it during the day. Before going to bed, he must look at the small mole on Xie Jinhua's left shoulder.It doesn't make sense that Li Yang has seen the mole, but he hasn't seen it, right?He was curious about where the mole had grown.As a result, Xie Jinhua temporarily forgot about it while talking about it.

In the darkness, Xie Jinhua did not know how many times he was repeating the same topic.

do you know!My mother must be literate!

do you know!My mother must be very gentle!

do you know!I'm sure there are many places that resemble my mother!

"Well, I know..." Ke Qi was still trying to agree with Xie Jinhua while he was half asleep, "By the way, remember to ask where mother is from tomorrow."

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that! I hope Madam Gao knows this." Xie Jinhua said.

Ke Qi didn't even know how he fell asleep.

On the second day, Xie Jinhua quickly had breakfast, and couldn't wait to call Gao Nanny to him for questioning.He had already decided in his heart that Nanny Gao was not someone Aunt Jiang would use highly, but even if Nanny Gao could only give some vague information, Xie Jinhua was willing to listen to her more.

Through Gao Nanny's words, the image of Aunt Jiang became more intuitive.

She was a weak woman with a sad temperament, she didn't like to talk, and liked to sit alone.

When asked about Aunt Jiang's origin, Nanny Gao actually said a very familiar name called Xie Jinhua.Ke Qi originally guessed that Aunt Jiang should be from the suburbs of Beijing, but she didn't expect that she was from Yeqiu Village, the same village as their friend Ye Zhengping.What a coincidence!

"Anyway, it's been a long time for me to sleep, why don't we go to Yeqiu Village? Maybe we can find the house where my aunt lived. By the way, there must be many people in the village who remember my aunt." Ke Qi said.In front of the servants, he and Xie Jinhua still called Aunt Jiang "Auntie".

Xie Jinhua's heart has already flown to Yeqiu Village.

Yeqiu Village is a big village, bigger than Luoquan Village and Haojia Village.The villagers of Yeqiu Village are considered well-off as a whole, so there is a private school in the village, and many scholars have been born in these years.Hundreds of years ago, "Ye" was the common surname in the village, but now there are only a dozen households with the surname Ye left in the village. Today, the two biggest surnames in the village are "Jiang" and "An".I heard that the two surnames wanted to change the name of the village.

Xie Jinhua couldn't wait any longer, so Ke Qi asked someone to get the carriage ready.

Even if the road was repaired, the road to Yeqiu Village was still incomparable to the official road, and the carriage was very bumpy.When Xie Jinhua went back to Yeqiu Village, Ke Qi was called back to Xie Mansion by his elder brother, and he only brought Li Yang by his side.At that time, because it was too bumpy, Xie Jinhua used Li Yang as a human cushion.

As the best life assistant, Li Yang is always anxious about the young master's worries and thinks about the young master's thoughts. This time, when the carriage started to bump, he took the initiative to straighten out his generous chest and said, "Master, come on!" The way down is a bit difficult, would you like to lean on Xiao'er?"

Hearing this, Ke Qi glanced at Li Yang silently.

Li Yang immediately retracted.

Why am I talking so much about this!Li Yang shed tears of regret in his heart.

Ke Qi then smiled and said to Xie Jinhua: "Brother Xie, what Li Yang said is good, you might as well lean on him for a while, so as not to feel uncomfortable." Li Yang is so big, leaning on him can perfectly weaken part of the shock , is simply a good boy who must go out.

Xie Jinhua's face turned pale, and he said, "Thank you, Brother Ke, for your concern, I..."

"Don't hesitate, rely on it. Both Li Yang and I can adapt better than you." Ke Qi smiled sincerely.

What can Li Yang say?Thank you, Master Ke, for using my body to curry favor with the master?Awesome, my young master Ke!

The carriage drove directly to the main entrance of Ye Zhengping's house.Ye Zhengping was feeding the chickens in the backyard, and his niece Hao Xuan'er was endorsing books in the yard.Hearing the movement, Ye Zhengping walked back to the front yard.When he saw Xie Jinhua and Ke Qi, he was very surprised.It's not that he doesn't welcome young couples to visit, it's just that for classmates and friends, it's somewhat impolite to come to the door without posting a post.Ye Zhengping almost thought that something happened.

Ye Zhengping hurriedly led the people into the main room and sat down.

Ke Qi squeezed Xie Jinhua's hand, so Xie Jinhua just smiled and left everything to Ke Qi.Ke Qi didn't say the reason, but asked straight to the point: "Brother Zhengping, was there ever a scholar with the surname Jiang in Yeqiu Village? If he could live to this day, he would be around fifty years old..."

Although this question was asked endlessly, Ye Zhengping didn't get to the bottom of it, and said, "Are you asking about sister Yu's house?"

"Sister Yu?"

"Gold and jade are jade." Ye Zhengping said everything he knew.He is seven or eight years older than Xie Jinhua, that is to say, he still has the impression of what happened when Jiang Laoxiu died.Just after Jiang's filial piety was over, the woman named Jiang Yu was forced to almost lose her life.

Right on, right on!Xie Jinhua excitedly held Ke Qi's hand, the "sister Yu" Ye Zhengping was talking about must be his biological mother!

Ye Zhengping sighed and said: "Although I haven't formally worshiped my teacher, Jiang Xiucai is indeed my enlightenment teacher. It's just my mother..." Jiang Xiucai is an old widower, and Ye Zhengping's mother is a widow, so the two families cannot talk about each other in front of each other. The faces of the people are too close, otherwise the saliva stars will drown them.

"My mother Lian Yu's elder sister has no mother, so she often asked my aunt to take care of her in private. If you want to know about the Jiang family, you might as well ask my aunt." Ye Zhengping said again.The aunt in his mouth refers to An Xueyou's mother.Ye An's family got along well, and Ye's mother and An's mother were like sisters.

"Don't trouble Auntie for now, what else Brother Zhengping knows, please tell us." Ke Qi said.

The past is similar to what Nanny Gao said.Jiang Xiucai only got a daughter in middle age, so she was raised like a treasure like a jade.Therefore, Jiang Yu was different from other girls in the village since she was a child. Jiang Xiucai did not allow her to show her face in front of others, and detained her at home every day to study and embroider.And Jiang Yu is indeed a quiet person, and he only communicates with An Xueyou's mother on weekdays, because her embroidery is sent to the city by An's mother to exchange money.

When Jiang Laoxiu was alive, he rejected the family's proposal to call him an adoptive heir, and planned to leave all the family property to his daughter.But he died suddenly, and he didn't know how the clan finally operated, so most of his family property was taken away.When Jiang Yu became filial piety, she took out a legal book, saying that a family with daughters and no children can be no more than a stepchild, but it needs to donate [-]% of the property to the court, and the daughter can only inherit [-]% of it.

Jiang's clan was afraid that Jiang Yuzhen would sue them, so they planned to act first.At that time, Ye Zhengping's mother had already discussed with An Xueyou's mother that they wanted An Xueyou's father to visit Jiang Xiucai's old friends, and they would definitely be able to make decisions for Jiang Yu.However, Jiang's clan took action that night. They felt that as long as Jiang Yu was charged with adultery, even if Wang Laozi came that day, he would not be able to blame Jiang's clan.

Jiang Yu struggled and ran out and jumped into the river.

"...Later it was said that Sister Jiang was saved by a nobleman, and in order to repay her life-saving grace, she stayed with that nobleman as a concubine." Ye Zhengping tried hard to recall what he heard when he was a child, "That nobleman They also sent a steward to the village to renovate Sister Jiang's house, and arrested all the people in Jiang's clan who persecuted Sister Jiang at the beginning. However, Sister Jiang herself never Never came back."

Jiang Laoxiu’s family property was also taken back, but Jiang’s sister was no longer needed, so she donated all of it to the village for the daily expenses of the private school in the village. .Because of this, although there is no one in the Jiang family, there are still people in the village who think of them well.When Jiang Yu was in the village, he was very low-key and rarely met people, but now he is beautified by the villagers into a fairy-like figure.

"My mother once said with emotion that she didn't help Sister Jiang, but fortunately, Sister Jiang still has a way out, and God has eyes for it." Ye Zhengping finally realized what was wrong while talking.Sister Jiang has gone to be a concubine for a nobleman, while Xie Jinhua is a concubine. Now Xie Jinhua is asking about the past of the Jiang family...

Ke Qi patted Xie Jinhua's back lightly, then looked at Ye Zhengping, and asked, "Is the Jiang family's old house still there? We want to go and have a look."

"Yes, yes, I'll take you there right now." Ye Zhengping said.

The house was refurbished more than ten years ago. Since people from the Xie Mansion helped rebuild the new house, good materials must have been used at that time, so it still looks rich now.It's just that there are fewer people in the house.Seeing the overgrown yard, Xie Jinhua couldn't control her tears for some reason.

Ke Qi didn't say anything, but just lent his shoulder to Xie Jinhua, making him cry a lot.

Ye Zhengping already knew it all.He left the young couple for dinner, and hurried to his friend's house to invite An's mother over.He also didn't say that Xie Jinhua was born by Jiang Yu, after all, Xie Jinhua hadn't admitted it yet.He only said that an old friend of Jiang's old scholar came to him.An's mother is a rare person in the village who has more contact with Jiang Yu. She still has an impression of that well-behaved girl, and can tell many vivid little things about her when she was a girl.

The Jiang Yu in An's mother's mouth is similar to the Jiang Yu in Gao Nanny's mouth.No, it should be said that the Jiang Yu in their mouths is the same.

Xie Jinhua listened intently.

Ke Qi felt strange again.

For example, Ke Qi was very popular before he traveled. If someone wants to investigate his friendship, when they go to his unit, someone will definitely say that he is very hardworking at work.When you go to his college, someone will definitely say that he always plays basketball with everyone.When he went to high school, some people would definitely say that he was willing to take the trouble to give lectures to others.When I went to his junior high school, some people would definitely say that he is a very responsible monitor.

This means that the same person will behave differently at different times even if they have the same personality.

And An's mother and Gao Nanny said almost the same thing.It's like, someone went to Ke Qi's university, and the people in the university said that Ke Qi was very popular because he was a good monitor in junior high school!Going to his high school, people in high school also said that Ke Qi was a good monitor in junior high school!Although this is indeed true, it sounds like Ke Qi only went to junior high school, and he has no other experience in high school and university.

But that's not a huge deal either.

Maybe it was because the college and high school classmates who were questioned happened to be unfamiliar with Ke Qi?

Maybe they just happened to hear about some old things related to Ke Qi, and Nanny Gao was the same.Therefore, Ke Qi didn't pay much attention to this issue. He already believed that Nanny Gao had never served Jiang Yu personally, and Nanny Gao must have heard everything about Jiang Yu from other people.And Jiang Yu only lived in Xie's mansion for more than a year.No wonder Gao Nanny can only talk about old things.

Ke Qi quickly thought of something else.

The Jiang family no longer has any immediate family members, and the clan and the Jiang family are somewhat dirty. I am afraid that no one has paid homage to the old scholar Jiang in recent years.

This is Xie Jinhua's grandfather by blood. Since Xie Jinhua knows about him, he should be buried in his grave.Thinking of this, Ke Qi didn't interrupt the communication between Xie Jinhua and An's mother, but walked out of the house lightly, and rushed to prepare things for worship.