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Chapter 11: Her Mother’s Past
She shook the rattle drum in her hand again, leaned her little head on Shen Ding Shan’s shoulder, half-squinted her eyes, and shook it again and again.
Her father and mother were married in their teens. The two have always respected each other after marriage. They were also deeply affectionate. Daddy had never thought about taking a concubine. He only needs to have her mother. Since he was a child, he only wanted to take a single wife, and he didn’t want to have a group of wives and concubines.
Later, he met her mother, who was also an amazing woman. Although she said that she was from a merchant family, her father had not changed his original intention towards her mother. Later, he married her mother. Then, her father really did not take a concubine. There was only her mother in the house. The two had a very good life, but there was one problem. They didn’t have any children. But her Daddy did not care at all. He just said that it all depended on fate, perhaps he was destined to be childless in his life.
But her mother couldn’t do it. She knew the importance of heirs to men, so she just gave him a concubine, her mother’s dowry maid at the time.
Shu Xiang also grew up with her mother. The two were like sisters. In fact, her mother was not jealous at all. It was not because of generosity, but because her husband was too kind, and she always wanted to do something for him.
It’s just that after receiving Concubine Shu, Daddy has never visited Concubine Shu at all. Her mother tried her best. In the end, she even used Aphrodisiac. Her mother was a genius in making incense after all. Her Daddy didn’t know who it was, but he thought the woman was her mother, but in reality, she was actually her mother’s dowry maid.
Later, father and mother had a cold war for a long time because of this, but he still couldn’t let go of his mother. In the end, he figured out that if he had no children, he might not care, but mother would become a sinner through the ages.
Then Daddy accepted Shu Xiang, and also gave her the title of Concubine Shu, but he still rarely went there, and Concubine Shu never thought of competing with her mother for favor. As her mother’s maid, she has always served close to her mother. She had to say that the people her mother chose were all good, and her vision is also wonderful.
It was just that she gave birth to such a useless and stupid daughter like her.
Concubine Shu also didn’t have a good life. She was pregnant once and gave birth to a pair of twins, but the fate didn’t favor her. The children were only a few months old, and she got sick and died. The two children were raised by her mother. They fell ill when they were young, and it was her mother who took care of them all night. The first word they learned was also mother. Her mother never treated the two children as the children of a concubine. She treated them as her own children. She also never thought of the day when she would be pregnant, and sometimes she herself thought that she was destined to be childless in this life.
But no one thought that, when Shen Ding Shan went to expedition that year, she found out that she was pregnant. At this time, the children were already five years old. Even so, her mother loved them as always, and regarded them as her own children. Later, she gave birth to a daughter. When she was immersed in her own daughter, her father was caught as a prisoner by the enemy troops. There was a rumor that he had committed treason.
Speaking of treason, the people in the ancestral home of the Shen family wanted to get rid of Shen Ding Shan before, but they never thought that they could have such a glory because of her father only. The Shen family could still stand in the capital because Shen Ding Shan used his own flesh and blood in exchange for it.
He became famous at the age of twelve, came victorious in countless battles, and was favored by the emperor. He was also granted the title of general, rewarded thousands of taels of gold, and rewarded fertile land. If he were not there, the Shen family would be just one declining family.
After Shen Ding Shan’s accident, the people of the Shen family forced her mother to take the three children away, and they didn’t even want to let them take away anything. Even her mother’s dowry had to be left behind in the Shen family.
Later, her mother took the two children under the age of six, and one in her arms. She was displaced and homeless. A woman and three children had a difficult life, but even so, Mother never let them be hungry, even if she didn’t eat her own food, she wanted to feed them. Later, they met the robbers. Her mother, in order to protect her eldest brother and eldest sister, held her and drew away the robbers. Later, her eldest brother and sister got separated from them. Her mother searched for her elder brother and elder sister, and finally settled in Yuhe Village. The reason for stopping was only because she knew she was sick, and maybe her time was running out.
Later, the mother and daughter lived in the village for two years. At first, her mother was able to embroider some things to subsidize the family. Later, she couldn’t do it because of her health. Then the medicine became useless, and she died leaving her four-year-old daughter behind.
As for her eldest brother and eldest sister, they had the money left by her mother, and they had never suffered because of that.
But her mother took her with her, suffered all kinds of hardships. She was beaten, scolded and bullied ever since she was a child. And when Daddy found her back, he was full of guilt for her, even her big brother and sister, they gave her all their love, but they were all personally sent by her to the guillotine.
She leaned her little head on Shen Ding Shan’s shoulders. Because of the years he spent in the battlefield, his muscles were very hard. Unlike her mother, her mother has always been fragrant and soft. But her mother is no longer there, but Daddy is still there, so it was fine.
“Let’s go, A Ning, daddy will take you to the theater, alright?”
Shen Ding Shan smiled at his daughter. His smile has always been murderous and frightening to the enemy. He was a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty who can kill a hundred enemies. But now he was cautiously coaxing his four-year-old daughter in his arms.
This was exactly his beloved wife’s daughter.
He held his daughter with one hand and let his daughter sit on his shoulders, just like many ordinary fathers. He took his daughter to the theater together. The people on the stage danced and sang.
Shen Qing Ci actually listened to it. Though she didn’t understand, she still watched it with gusto, because she hadn’t seen a drama in many years.
T/Talks: I dunno if I’d be able to update this weekend… So I updated in advance.
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Thank you for updating!!!!
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Thanks for the update! I hope she takes revenge against that Shen family. Her mother really sacrificed herself. 😭
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