Splendid Abandoned Wife

Chapter 457 The Qiu Family
With a "squeak", the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside, and a young woman of eighteen or nineteen years old came in carrying a basin of water.

"Mom, aren't you suffering from the cold?" the young woman asked with concern, "I told you to go to bed early at night and not knit so late, but you always don't listen."

The woman smiled lovingly: "It's okay. Most women's bodies are cold, and it's normal to sneeze a few times. But you, your body is getting heavier and heavier, and you are about to give birth. Just do some light work, and wash your face from now on." Don't bring water to wash your feet or anything else. I can feel it if there is an extra thread or a pebble in this family. You don't have to worry about me. Taking care of yourself and the child in your belly is more important than anything else." The Qiu family This was the only Miao Miao left. If it hadn't been for this niece, she wouldn't have had the courage to poke her eyes out, but she managed to avoid being hunted down, changed her name, and survived.

At that time, she was exhausted both physically and mentally from escaping and did not want to continue to live in exile. She unexpectedly learned that her brother and sister-in-law were gone, and her niece who was less than one year old became the child bride of the ten-year-old fool next door. She had always been ashamed of her stepfather and stepbrother late at night. He stole his niece back from the village overnight, hid in an ancient tomb, blindfolded her and trained for a year before she decided to stab her eyes hard. After the eye injury healed, she took her niece out of the ancient tomb to Linzhou Fucheng and bought this house. The small courtyard settled down.Now the neighbors on the whole street call her Mrs. Qiu very familiarly, and they all know that she is a poor widow who lives with her daughter after the death of her husband. In fact, Qiu is her stepfather's surname.

With the fan-weaving skills they learned since childhood and the brutal training they received after becoming a dead soldier, the lives of Mrs. Qiu, her aunt and her nephew gradually became stable and they had enough food and clothing.When her niece Qiu Nianzu was 16 years old, Mrs. Qiu arranged a marriage for her and agreed to be her adopted son-in-law.The son-in-law, whose surname was Cheng Mingfeng, was a useless scholar. Since the death of his widowed mother, it was difficult for him to live, let alone study, so he tried every means to please the mother and daughter of the Qiu family who lived in the same street, and recommended himself as a door-to-door son-in-law.

Although the Cheng family was poor and even rented their house, everyone said that Cheng Mingfeng was honest and talented, and would definitely go to high school in the future. Qiu Nianzu also had a good impression of the handsome Cheng Mingfeng. After thinking about it for a whole night, Mrs. Qiu invited the official media to tell him The marriage was settled.

Since she is the son-in-law of the Qiu family, she is one of her own. If the Qiu family becomes prosperous in the future and the Qiu family is proud of their ancestors, Mrs. Qiu will naturally treat Cheng Mingfeng without being stingy and provide him with delicious food and drinks to study. She will give him everything she asks for in class reunions and poetry gatherings. Yinzi asked him to attend in a dignified manner.

As soon as Cheng Mingfeng's mourning period was over, Mrs. Qiu arranged a marriage between her niece and Cheng Mingfeng, and then bought a carriage and a buyer to send Cheng Mingfeng to Beijing to take the exam.

To Mrs. Qiu's delight, less than two months after Cheng Mingfeng left, Qiu Nianzu found out she was pregnant.Inexplicably, Madam Qiu firmly believed that this child must be a boy, the eldest son and grandson of the Qiu family.As long as the child is born safely and grows up safely, she can be considered worthy of the Qiu family.If Cheng Mingfeng really gets on the gold list, his child's future future will not be bad.

The only thing that makes Madam Qiu a little uneasy is that half a year has passed and no news has been sent back from Cheng Mingfeng.

Madam Qiu has been weaving fans more and more frequently recently. Cheng Mingfeng has spent a lot of money on studying, taking exams, and getting married. Now the family's savings have been reduced a lot, and the imminent addition of a new child means that the expenses will continue to increase.After her niece became pregnant, she hired a neighbor to help with housework, coming in the morning and returning in the evening.It's enough now, but when my niece is about to give birth, I'll have to buy at least one more maid or servant.

If Cheng Mingfeng... she would still have to bear the burden of this family.Time is the hardest thing to deal with. Madam Qiu, who was originally full of confidence in Cheng Mingfeng's character, felt that she was becoming more and more fond of random thoughts and suspicions, which was not good.Seeing the thoughtful look on his mother's face and the flash of a bitter smile, Qiu Nianzu felt a little sour in his heart.When she was seven or eight years old, she knew that her biological parents were long gone and that her mother, who had worked so hard to raise her, was actually her aunt.At that time, her aunt told her that she was the only child left by the Qiu family and the hope of the Qiu family's bloodline inheritance, so she would not get married in the future, but would recruit a son-in-law.

After getting married to Cheng Mingfeng, she soon became happy again. Thinking that her mother's wish was about to be fulfilled, she was really happy.Her mother worked hard to raise her and gave her a life without worries. She was her mother in her heart.Therefore, no matter in front of or behind her, she always calls her mother sincerely. Even her husband Cheng Mingfeng does not know her mother's true identity.

First there was an aunt who regarded her as her own, then there was a husband she truly loved, and now she was pregnant with her own flesh and blood. Even if Cheng Mingfeng could not go to high school, Qiu Nianzu, who was not big-hearted, was still very satisfied with his life. Until recently, more and more people Neighbors are secretly talking about Cheng Mingfeng, who won the imperial examination and married the daughter of a noble family, and will not come back...

Qiu Nianzu was determined not to believe it at first, but more and more people started talking about it, and some even pointed out that the news was brought back by a neighbor's relative who also came to Beijing to take the exam. People outside looked at her with sympathy.

Qiu Nianzu's belief was shaken, but she did not dare to tell her mother.At the beginning, my mother was a little opposed to recruiting Cheng Mingfeng, saying that the most ruthless scholar was a scholar. She was deeply in love with Cheng Mingfeng, and then she always deliberately emphasized the neighbors' praise of Cheng Mingfeng's character in front of her mother. Only then did my aunt change her mind.If Cheng Mingfeng was really cruel, she deserved it. She was blinded and confused by his appearance, but she didn't want her mother to worry about her.

Slowly, and I don't know which day started, the mother and son invariably mentioned Cheng Mingfeng less and less. Their topics always revolved around the baby in her belly. This child's surname was Qiu, and everything else seemed to be unimportant.

"I will be very careful, mother." Qiu Nianzu put down the water basin and came over to help her mother take off the coat hanging by the bed. "The doctor said that if you move more, the labor will be less difficult in the future."

"Uh, mother, what is this?" Qiu Nianzu caught a glimpse of a strange-shaped small iron piece half exposed from her mother's middle coat, and curiously stretched out her hand to take it over to have a look. There were all wearing gold, jade, and silver. How could anyone put it like this? The small iron piece is worn close to the body, but it is still so ugly?Although their family was not rich, it was still okay to wear a gold or silver pendant. She wore a polished jade safety buckle close to her body, which her mother had begged for after she donated a lot of money for sesame oil in the temple.

"It's nothing, just a thought left by an old friend," Mrs. Qiu quickly stuffed the iron piece into her middle coat, fastened the loosened buttons, and said slowly as if nothing had happened. She turned around and put on her coat with Qiu Nianzu behind her back. Next, the closed baggy eyelids trembled slightly.

(End of this chapter)