Liu Dahua's words made Shen Li's eyes red again: "Mom, I'm so sad. It turns out that love is so hurtful. I don't want to touch it anymore."

"No, I'd better go and ask him why he could do this to you. Ali, don't be sad, mother will help you vent your anger." Liu Dahua said, and was about to get up to find Qin Yu.

Shen Li hurriedly held her back. They had already made it clear to each other that if Liu Dahua came again, it would make her even more embarrassed and show how much she couldn't let go and would keep pestering her.

"Mom, don't go. We have made it clear. If you go, Aunt Qin will be in trouble."

Liu Dahua sighed and said distressedly: "Ali, it's already this time, and you're still thinking about someone else."

"Mom, love is not a one-person thing. Now that the outcome has been decided, let's part ways in peace."

Liu Dahua leaned towards Shen Li and hugged her in her arms: "Cry if you want to. You still have your mother. Don't bear it all by yourself."

Feeling cared for by his family, Shen Li lay in Liu Dahua's arms and cried heartily again.

Liu Dahua said nothing, but just hugged Shen Li tightly and let her cry her heart out.

Tired of crying, Shen Li withdrew from Liu Dahua's arms. She felt that today, she had shed all the tears that she had never shed before, and felt that her tears were almost dry.

"Mom, will you sleep with me tonight?"

"Okay, then you didn't eat anything at noon, do you want to eat something before going to bed?"

"No, I really can't eat."

"Then I won't eat." Liu Dahua took off her shoes and coat, then got on the bed and lay on the outside of the bed.

Shen Li moved to the inside and lay down as well: "Mom, did you and Dad get married because you loved each other?"

"Most women are arranged to marry by their parents or matchmakers. If they are lucky, they will meet a good husband. If not, they will just have to live with him day by day."

"Is it the same with you and Dad?"

"Do you know why my mother has no family?"

Shen Li had been curious before, but she didn't know what was going on. "Is it because they are far away that they don't interact with each other?"

"No, distance can't stop family love. Mom's home is in Qingshui Village, which is also under the jurisdiction of Jia County. Hepingjia Village is in two different directions. If you walk, it may take two or three days, and it will take more than a day to take a bullock cart. In fact, before your father, Mom had a man she loved."

Shen Li was shocked. She had never thought of this possibility before: "Why did mother break up with him?"

Liu Dahua lay, seemingly looking at the ceiling, but her thoughts began to sink into memories: "Back then, I was a little girl the same age as you. When I went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms, I saved a man. He was seriously injured at the time. I was afraid that he would be in danger in the mountains, so I dragged him into a cave, then found some herbs and applied them to his wounds. I thought he might not be able to be saved, but he survived."

All Shen Li could imagine what would happen next was that the two of them would gradually become familiar with each other and then fall in love with each other.

"After a while, we developed feelings for each other, but he was a man of the underworld and couldn't stay in the village. After his injury healed, he told me to wait for him and that he would come back to marry me. Unfortunately, he never came back. I am getting older, but I still haven't gotten married."

Shen Li was attracted by what Liu Dahua said and temporarily forgot the pain: "Is it because you are waiting for that person?"

"No, mother is not that infatuated. If that man wanted to marry me, he should have taken me away after marrying me instead of asking me to wait for him. So there is no need for me to wait for him. The reason why I can't get married is that the news that I secretly got married to someone has spread. With this reputation, naturally no one dares to marry me."

"Then how did you meet Dad?"

"You have a bad reputation. Not only outsiders point fingers at you, but even your relatives do the same. I couldn't stay at home any longer, so I thought about going to the county and finding a wealthy family to sell myself to, as a maid or something. But before I found a family, I fainted from hunger. It was your father who gave me something to eat, and then I asked him if he had a wife. If not, would he be willing to marry me? I don't want any betrothal gift." At this point, Liu Dahua laughed.

"Then Dad agreed?"

"Yes, your father was already twenty years old at that time. The reason why he didn't get married was because he was delayed by studying. So he took me back to the Shen family."

"Dad is a scholar, so grandma probably won't agree to marry you, right?"

"That's right. No one in the Shen family agreed. They paid for your father's education, so how could he easily marry a woman of unknown origin? If he achieved fame in the future, his worth would naturally rise. I can't say about the daughter of a noble family, but the daughter of a wealthy family would definitely be okay. But your father insisted on marrying me. That was the first time he contradicted your grandmother. Everyone really couldn't do anything about him, so they acquiesced. That's how we have been together for so many years."

"Didn't grandpa and his family look for you? Didn't you ever go back home?"

"I don't know whether they have looked for me or not. Maybe they have, maybe not. If I stay at home all the time, they will feel ashamed, so I left, which can be regarded as a relief for them, right? In the first few years, I wanted to go back and see you. Later, after I gave birth to your eldest brother, I don't know who your grandmother asked to find out about Qingshui Village. She finally knew about my affair with that man, so she forced your father to divorce me. But your father and I already had a child, so he naturally refused and contradicted your grandmother for the second time. Later, the days passed one by one, and I gave birth to your second brother, third brother, and you. Unfortunately, your father couldn't accompany us all the way."

Shen Li finally understood why Old Lady Shen had always looked down on Liu Dahua. It turned out that she thought she had a bad reputation and her family background was not worthy of her father, a scholar. As a result, she also disliked the four brothers and sisters.

"Mom, do you regret marrying Dad?"

"No, marrying your father is the best thing I have ever done in my life. Although we are not together because we love each other, after being together, we fell in love with each other. She respects my ideas, doesn't care about my reputation, and knows how hard I have worked. So mother is lucky to meet a man like your father."

After Liu Dahua finished talking about her past, she finally turned to look at Shen Li: "Ali, life is still long, and you will meet many people. It is not necessarily that the first time you like someone will have a result. You should treat it as an experience. If it is an experience, it will always pass. So don't think that all relationships are bitter. If you and Qin Yu really break up, then he may not be the right person, but you will always meet the right person in the future."

Shen Li felt that Liu Dahua was right, but there was still a contradictory voice in her heart, as if saying that she might not fall in love with anyone else in the future.

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