Quickly wear a child: a beautiful woman with many children brings happiness

My name is Ji Zhang. I have lived in Taoshan Village with my mother since I was a child. I have a younger brother named Ji Huai.

My mother told me since I was young that we are the only real mother and son, and Ji Huai is just a guest, not our real relative.

When I was little, I didn’t understand: “Why should Ji Huai just go find his biological parents? Why should we raise him?”

"Silly child, Ji Huai is born with a strong physique. If you keep him by your side, you can use him as a servant and earn money for your studies in the future."

I was unhappy: "Do I have to study? I don't like studying."

"You must study." The mother said with a fierce face, "Only by studying can you become a superior person. You must stand higher than everyone else, so that they will envy you and rely on you."

I asked my mother, "Why do you want to do this? Isn't it better to stay in Taoshan Village?"

"No." Mother said, "Your biological father raised us outside because he despised your mother's low status. Later, he died, and his family bullied us orphans and widows because we had little influence and kicked us out without any explanation. They believed that you would not have a future, so I must train you well and go back to slap them in the face."

My biological father, who made my mother so angry, was just a minor official of the seventh rank. In order to make my mother happy, I vowed to become an official in the future.

My mother was depressed and passed away when I was seven years old. Before she left, she held Ji Huai's hand and asked him to take good care of me.

At that time, I was hiding outside the window and listening to my mother's instructions to Ji Huai.

"Ji Zhang's father has been kind to us, and he himself has an extraordinary family background. Since our benefactor has handed him over to us, we must take good care of him. You have to support his education, even if you have to sell everything you have and suffer yourself, but don't make our benefactor's child suffer. Remember, we owe him this!"

Ji Huai responded sullenly, "I know, mother."

A smile appeared on my mother's face, and after Ji Huai left, she called me in again.

"I've already told Ji Huai that he will support your studies. You just need to ask him for money. I know him and he won't refuse to give. My body won't last much longer. You must take good care of the things I give you and never let Ji Huai know about it. It may be of great use in the future."

After my mother passed away, I was depressed for a few days, but I soon recovered. It was too passive to rely on others to find things. I determined to study hard, make a name for myself, and become a superior person in the future.

Ji Huai did not use the money from his family. He went out to work as an apprentice. He only returned home once in a long time. Later, he only came back once every few months, and finally once every half a year, and then a year.

I didn't know what he was doing and I never cared. I just knew that if I ran out of money, I would ask him for it, and if I couldn't find any ancient books, I would ask him for help. He always found a way.

In this way, the days passed one by one, my family built a big house, I passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, but no one came to see me.

Ji Shen lived next door to me. One day I saw a beautiful girl knocking on his door and asking him if he would like to marry her.

I fell in love with her at first sight, and later I learned her name - Yun Yuan.

Just when I thought I had no chance, to my surprise, Ji Shen rejected Yun Yuan and instead married a beautiful woman. I even attended his wedding banquet and gave him a penny of silver.

Ji Shen’s wife is Yan Xiaoman. I know Yan Xiaoman because the Yan family’s tofu is very famous. I heard that it is made of beans. It is white and tender and melts in the mouth without any bean smell. It is very suitable for the elderly. It tastes good whether it is stewed, fried, or cooked into soup.

I heard that the method of making tofu was first invented by Yan Xiaoman. Many chefs bought beans but could not figure out how she made the soy milk into blocks.

It is said that some people used the wrong method and poisoned themselves, causing vomiting and diarrhea. After this incident, fewer people studied tofu.

After Yan Xiaoman married into Ji Shen's family, she came up with another kind of food - braised pork. I could smell the fragrance coming from her house every day. I don't know what spices she put in it, but the taste was indeed overbearing.

Ever since I met Yun Yuan that time, I have been paying attention to her. Her parents have both passed away and she is having a hard time at home. Just when I was planning to ask a matchmaker to go to her house to propose marriage, she found me first and asked me if I was willing to marry her.

Of course I would.

The Ji family insisted on paying twenty taels of silver, so I wrote a letter to Ji Huai and successfully married Yun Yuan.

Yun Yuan has a deep hatred for Yan Xiaoman and often has unpleasant arguments with Yan Xiaoman. She intends to compete with Yan Xiaoman, and I will try my best to meet any requests she makes.

I wrote many letters to Ji Huai, and sometimes I would mention Yun Yuan in them, and my love for her was revealed between the lines.

Ji Huai would send me money every time, sometimes dozens of taels and sometimes hundreds of taels. I would buy clothes, pearl hairpins and everything Yun Yuan liked.

She can be willful sometimes, but she is very easy to coax, like a cat. I like her very much.

I thought I would live with her forever, until one day I put on the jade pendant my mother gave me and went to the back mountain, and then I met Uncle Wu.

Between power and Yun Yuan, I chose power.

I told myself that the separation was only temporary and that I would definitely come back and take Yun Yuan away, making her a distinguished lady, wearing gold and silver and having a host of servants.

In order to prevent Ji Huai from coming back to find me, I pretended to be dead so that they would not come to find me. I knew the safest way was to kill them, but I couldn't do it.