Chapter 427 (2/2)
Fu Rong can't say much about his grandmother, but at this moment, after seeing a Du family thinking about her, he has no reason to feel a little disappointed. He looks down at his tea bowl and says, ”no, I asked my mother when I was a child. She didn't tell me or let me mention it. I went to ask my father, and he said he didn't remember...”
It was a lie, but her father didn't want to say it, and she couldn't help it.
She looked gloomy, and Xu Jin couldn't bear to see her. He took his wife to his lap, held her hands in his hands, put his chin on her shoulder and said, ”since father-in-law and mother-in-law don't want you to know, now I've told you, don't show your stuffing in front of the second old man.”
She was curious at first sight. Xu Jin also felt that there was no need to hide this matter. Fu Pinyan didn't want to mention it because he had experienced some hardships personally. Fu Rong and his brothers and sisters had not experienced them. Even if they knew the old things, they would not care too much.
Fu Rong looked at him expectantly, and for the time being suppressed another perplexity.
Xu Jin kisses her face and explains in a low voice.
Du's family is a farmer's family in the suburbs of Beijing. There are two brothers on the Du family. After their parents died one after another, the three brothers and sisters lived together. Du's family was so poor that he borrowed money from all over the country to marry his daughter-in-law when he was 20 years old. Du's second brother was envious of him. He sold Du's family to renyazi and planned to marry his daughter-in-law with the money from selling his younger sister.
Later, Du became a servant girl in the Duke's house of Jingyang. The old Marquis thought of him and took over his body. After giving birth to Fu Pinyan, he carried him to his aunt. At Du's side, Du Laoer saved enough money to marry his daughter-in-law. He was bitten by a poisonous snake when he was cutting firewood in the mountain soon after his marriage. He left without leaving any offspring, and his daughter-in-law also remarried. Du and his wife were in charge of a funeral. When they were more in need, they tried to ask for money from Du. After Du died of illness, they went to Fu Pinyan.
Fu Pinyan was still young at that time. He secretly helped his uncle and aunt for a while. When he found out that the other party was insatiable, he asked the old Marquis to come forward and finally broke off the relationship with the Du family with a sum of money.
According to the law, that sum of money is enough for the whole family to live without worry. Unfortunately, he made friends carelessly. He was abducted and became addicted to gambling. He soon lost all his family property and almost lost his house. With no money, no land, and no sister to sell, the couple sold their youngest son to the chess club as a clerk.