Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 52 The past is too painful to look back on

"Third brother, do you know? If it weren't for the reputation of my eldest brother that intimidated my aunt and cousins, Yi'er would have been sold by them long ago!"

When Xiao Litao heard his sister's sad voice, it was like a gust of wind blowing through huge waves, hitting his heart hard.

He raised his eyes and looked across. Yier's frowning eyebrows formed a bright arc under the light.

The long feathery eyelashes were slightly raised, and a pair of bright and colorful eyes glanced at him gently.

It was so soul-stirring that before I knew it, my sister had grown into a gorgeous and charming young lady.

His sister has been living under the care of others since she was a child, and her beauty has been envied by her relatives, but he, her brother, has been complaining all day long and immersed in calculating gains and losses.

When he was five years old and just began to remember things, his mother died of overwork for the Marquis's Mansion, and he hated his father ever since.

Especially since his father went on to marry a beautiful bride, and that beautiful bride openly tortured him.

He could read and write at the age of three and compose poems at the age of five, but he was bullied by his stepmother after the age of six, so his hatred for his father deepened.

In fact, he knew that his biological mother had bullied his elder brother when she was alive, and he had resisted his mother at that time, but his mother was possessed by a demon!

Later, when he was bullied by his stepmother, he felt it was retribution, but his biological mother was already dead, so he could only hate his father more.

As a young boy, he was often deceived by people with ulterior motives, and he had nothing but hatred for his father.

His father had many children and ignored his sons. The father, sons and brothers lived under the same roof but were like strangers.

When he was eight years old and was almost dying from being tortured by his stepmother, it was his eldest brother who saved him. His eldest brother was eleven years old that year.

He had never seen his eldest brother so energetic. Ever since he could remember, his eldest brother's gloomy face always showed deep pain and hatred.

For the first time, he carefully asked his eldest brother, "Brother, my mother tortured you so much before, why did you save me?"

"Brother saved you because you are my brother. Your mother is dead. Death is like the extinguishing of a light. Brother will not bother with them. Besides, this woman will die soon too."

Although he refused to believe that the vicious stepmother would die, he did not dare to refute his eldest brother.

In the past, even though he had his mother protecting him, he never got any benefits from his eldest brother. Now that his mother is gone, how can he have the confidence to go against his eldest brother!
From then on, he and his elder brother became brothers in distress. In the past, he was very well protected by his mother. He turned a deaf ear to the outside world and focused on reading books of sages.

Ever since he reconciled with his eldest brother, he learned a lot about things in the mansion from him. It turned out that his eldest brother loved life so much!

The eldest brother told him that the person who made their lives so difficult was never their stepmother.

It’s just that the Marquis’s Mansion has no assets and is too poor.

If it weren't for the mansion left by the Xiao family's ancestors and the tiles to shelter them from the rain, they would be no different from beggars on the streets!
Just because they have the ancestral mansion of the Xiao family and a father who is as handsome as Pan An, they are much better than others!
At least they were the sons of a marquisate. Only then did he realize that there really were people in the world who were extremely poor.

He gradually understood some things. Their father was incompetent and married women for their dowries.

Those women, including their own mother, used their dowries to support servants in the mansion, working hard from dawn to dusk.

Every stepmother only wants to kill the legitimate sons and daughters to pave the way for their own children, but they treat those stepchildren very well to please their fathers.

The concubines in the mansion don't have to do housework, and they can flirt with my father and live a carefree life.

No wonder his mother regretted not becoming a concubine before she died!

Sure enough, the stepmother died the following year. His eldest brother was neither happy nor sad, and he had no sympathy, after all, that woman had tried to kill them many times. Not long after, their father remarried, but he could no longer hate her, anyway, each stepmother only lived a few years at most.

His elder brother went to the battlefield at a young age, so he also calmed down and studied hard.

God helps those who work hard. He passed the examination for a scholar at the age of twelve and a juren at the age of sixteen.

He thought he could continue to win the top spot in the imperial examination and become an official in the court to change his fate, but he didn't expect that his eldest brother was injured and became lame.

The Marquis's Mansion suddenly lost its backbone, the reputation of Marquis Cheng'en plummeted, and my father's title was on the verge of crumbling.

His eldest brother became more sinister than when he was young and refused to speak to them anymore. His grandmother hid in the Buddhist temple all day and did not come out.

That injury changed my eldest brother's temperament drastically. The smart, martial arts-skilled, brave and resourceful eldest brother is now a thing of the past.

Their eldest brother had become a crippled disabled person with a bad reputation. He knew very well that the Xiao family would fall into decline sooner or later.

By then, the brothers will be worse than dogs. In such a family environment and atmosphere, who can stay rational? !

At the time when they were heartbroken, their good father took several beautiful concubines.

He finally had a mental breakdown, and the energy he had accumulated before was affected, and he couldn't concentrate on reading.

Everyone started to act badly, and from then on he became a hateful waste just like his stepbrothers.

Being despised, mocked, and abused by the noble young men and young ladies in the capital...

He knelt down in front of the Xiao family's ancestors and swore that he would no longer study hard.

Even if he passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar, he would still be held back by his incompetent stepbrothers.

From that moment on, his heart completely lost its vitality as his elder brother became disabled.

He was full of doubts about his life, and even became more and more resentful of his father's inaction!
He had no energy to notice that his sister had grown into a big girl. No wonder both of his aunts dared to set their sights on Yier!
"Third brother, don't you believe what I say?" Xiao Yi's uneasy voice interrupted Xiao Litao's thoughts.

Xiao Yi was afraid of the third brother in front of her, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Anyway, the third brother at this moment doesn’t look as elegant and gentle as usual?
She could see that he was filled with rage and hatred!
I just don’t know who he hates!
She also had a strong hatred in her heart. She hated her two aunts in the Yin Mansion. They were extremely vicious, even more vicious than her stepmother in the Marquis Mansion.

Her cousins ​​are all hypocritical hypocrites, who appear to be righteous on the surface but are actually scum, even worse than her stepbrothers.

At least the Xiao family didn't go out to harm others!

"Yier, Third Brother is sorry for you. You should live at home from now on. We will never go to the Yin family again!"

"Third brother, we all have to rely on big brother. Without big brother, we will be even more miserable. Don't be afraid of big brother, okay?"

"Yier, Third Brother didn't blame his eldest brother in the first place. It's thanks to the presence of his eldest brother and his wife today, otherwise who knows what kind of fuss that fat woman would make."

Xiao Litao said with a guilty conscience. In fact, he blamed his father for provoking others first and then abandoning them, which resulted in the death of an innocent person.

But his sister hates people who force others the most, so he also hates the innocent person!
The brother and sister finally untied their knots and looked forward to the future happily.

Xiao Jin asked Wen Qingwan, who was in a trance, in a low voice, "Madam, were you frightened by your husband just now?"

(End of this chapter)