After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 831 Pity
When Haitang wrote to her brother Haijiao before, she casually complained that her brother had concealed something in his letter to her, while the letters to his grandmother and cousin contained more details.

Furthermore, Hai Jiao concealed more about the relatives of the eldest house in his hometown. If his second uncle Hai Changan had not mentioned it in a letter to his wife, the family would probably not know what happened to his aunt Fang, nor what kind of dangers Hai Baozhu and Hai Baozhu, the eldest house cousins, were facing. Maybe Hai Jiao had his own plan, but if Ma had not known about it and immediately wrote to remind him to ask Ma Shangyi for help, how could they have rescued Fang's mother and daughter so smoothly and prevented Fang from being implicated in the Jiang family's crimes?
Haijiao sometimes has too many ideas. If in the previous life, he had no relatives, no one to rely on, and was used to taking on everything alone, it would be fine. But now that his family is big, he has money, ability and connections. Why does he always forget to ask his family for help when he encounters trouble? What should he worry about in front of his relatives? With the character of his grandparents, even if they are old and don't like his cousin Fang's remarriage, they will rescue her first, then admonish and reprimand her, and then arrange her future life well. They will never watch their niece and niece's great-granddaughter die!
Those concerns about the reefs are completely unnecessary.

Haitang guessed that when he lived in his hometown in his previous life, he often saw his clansmen secretly cursing Fang for remarrying, so he was worried that Hai Xiya would have the same idea, so he deliberately concealed the matter.

But he is alone. He has to stay in Beijing to participate in the military examination and take care of his relatives in his hometown. He is young and has no official position. He can only rely on the power of the people around him. What can he do? If the Jiang family is so easy to deal with, Fang would not have been desperate in her previous life. She was able to support the Hai family after her husband's death, and after marrying into the Jiang family, she fooled the Jiang family so that they did not swallow up all the Hai family's property for so many years. How can she be compared with ordinary women in terms of shrewdness and strength? But she can't do anything to the Jiang family, which shows how difficult this family is. What if Hai Jiao insisted on not asking anyone for help and failed to rescue Fang in time, but helped General Gu to find out the crimes of the Jiang family, so that the Jiang family fell, Fang was implicated, and her life was ruined. He wanted to save her but couldn't. I'm afraid he will have a knot in his heart for the rest of his life, right?
Therefore, Haitang advised him in her reply not to hide anything anymore. What family matters can't be told openly? Even if he has a secret that he can't tell his grandparents, what's the problem with telling her, his own sister?

She even knew the secret of his rebirth! Is there any secret in the world that is more untold than this? !
After reading her letter, Haijiao probably learned his lesson, so he wrote this time in extra detail, basically telling her everything he knew. However, considering that a large part of the letter needed to be encrypted before it could be sent, in order to reduce the workload, he simply mentioned some things that he thought his younger sister didn't need to know in detail, without going into detail. But when he wrote to his grandfather, grandmother, and cousin, he would try to be as detailed as possible to prevent them from making mistakes due to insufficient understanding.

For example, in the letter he wrote to his grandmother Ma, he detailed the process of rescuing Fang and her son, as well as their current living conditions in Yongping Prefecture. He even listed their daily expenses, pointing out that Fang had limited money on hand, but she still insisted on paying for her family's daily expenses out of her own pocket and refused to rely too much on the second wife. The reason was that Fang believed that her parents-in-law had acted in the past and had been unworthy of her stepmother-in-law Xie and the second wife's family. Now that the second wife had saved their mother and son, she really didn't dare to ask for too much, and only hoped not to drag down the second wife.

This incident made Ma feel even more sympathetic towards Fang.

In the second letter Hai Jiao wrote to Ma, he mentioned that although Fang had married into the Jiang family and became the eldest lady, her situation had not been very good. Fang was still on the side of the Hai family and always protected them. The eldest master Jiang was only interested in her for two years, but then he treated her like a housekeeper and asked her to manage the household expenses, but refused to pay her enough money, forcing her to use the Hai family's money to support the Jiang family. He also restricted her and her daughter Baozhu's freedom of movement, forbade her to have children, and forced her to take medicine if she became pregnant. He asked her to carefully raise the eldest son left by the original wife, but was always suspicious of her, allowing the original wife's relatives, confidants, and concubines to step on her.

During the years Fang lived in the Jiang family, she lived a difficult and humiliating life, and her health deteriorated a lot. However, for the sake of her daughter, she gritted her teeth and persevered. She was even able to make careful calculations without telling the Jiang family, and squeezed out three or four hundred taels of silver from the Jiang family's account to secretly support Hai Baozhu and his mother.

Although this amount of money is not much, Fang Shi was in such a situation in the Jiang family, and she did not use the money of the Hai family to support the Jiang family. Instead, she squeezed money from the Jiang family to support the Hai family. This was already impressive enough. Although compared with the property that the Jiang family had embezzled from the Hai family over the years, three or four hundred taels of silver was nothing, it allowed Hai Baozhu and his mother to live a worry-free life in Yongping Prefecture and study smoothly. The Jiang family was very wary of Fang Shi, but they did not discover what she had done. This is not something that an ordinary woman can do.

Now Ma admired and pitied Fang, and could not help but said to her husband: "It is not easy to be a niece's wife, so don't complain about her. From now on, don't treat her as your niece's wife, just as your own niece. Hai Dingkun is not a good guy. It's a pity for your niece to marry him. She is a widow at such a young age. It is normal for her to remarry. It's just that she is unlucky and met a scum. Now she can divorce early and save herself from suffering. Let's take your niece and the child to the capital. If she is willing to remarry, let's carefully find a reliable man for her. He must be considerate, kind and considerate, and will not let her get angry. She must also like him. If she doesn't want to remarry, she has a daughter by her side, so she doesn't have to worry about no one to take care of her in her old age. At worst, your children can take good care of her. Don't let her go back to her hometown. Although gossip is nothing, it's annoying to hear too much. Why make the child feel uncomfortable?"

Hai Xiya sighed, "It's up to you. Ask your niece if she wants to live with us, so that we can live happily together and take care of each other, or does she want to set up her own household, with Baozhu and her daughter? As for Baozhu, I'm afraid he will have to stay in Yongping Prefecture to study, so it's not convenient for him to go to the capital. He has his mother to take care of him, and his teachers and elders to take care of him. In a few years, he will get married and have children, and he will have a good reputation, so he won't have to worry about anything. If your niece can't let go, she can live with him, otherwise they can live separately and let the children come to pay their respects during the New Year. As a legitimate mother, she has done her duty well enough, and Baozhu should obey her no matter what she plans. His mother has no reason to find fault with her."

Now Hai Xiya and his wife have regarded Fang as their niece rather than their nephew's wife, so they naturally have to consider her interests. Although she loves Hai Baozhu very much and has done him great favors, Hai Baozhu was raised by his biological mother after all, and he probably respects his stepmother more than his biological mother. If they live together, once there is a conflict between his stepmother and his biological mother, Hai Baozhu will probably side with his biological mother, and Fang will be sad.

Now that the Jiang family has fallen on hard times and is no longer able to threaten Hai Baozhu, it doesn't matter if he stays in Yongping City. Only Fang wants to leave her original living environment and live in a place where no one knows her. This mother and son can be separated, which is beneficial to both parties. Hai Baozhu will return to his hometown to inherit his ancestral property, so there is no need for Fang to get involved in that mess.

She should have a life that truly belongs to her, instead of continuing to devote herself to the Hai family until her death.

(End of this chapter)