When Jiang Baozong’s uncle learned the news, he brought the male members of the family to the door on the same day. A group of people snatched his daughter’s body and forced Jiang Baozong to write a letter of divorce. From then on, the two families severed all ties.
Jiang Baozong’s widowed mother lost her family because of this incident. Thinking about her niece who died innocently and tragically, her granddaughter who was as thin as a cat due to premature birth, and her son who was decadent after this incident, her life was barely supported for half a year and finally died of illness.
The death of his widowed mother stimulated the decadent Jiang Baozong. Faced with the collapse of most of his family and his sickly daughter, he finally stopped indulging in alcohol all day long and learned to take care of his daughter. He poured all his debts to his deceased wife into his only daughter Jiang Wu.
Because she was born prematurely, Jiang Wu was sick eight or nine out of ten days when she was a child. She stepped into the Palace of Hell several times, and her life was saved by ginseng, cinnamon, and other precious medicinal materials.
Jiang Baozong could not bear to part with his daughter, so in order to provide medical treatment for his daughter, the two hundred acres of farmland in the family have been sold out one after another over the years. Now, he only has no more than thirty acres of land left in his hands.
Relying on these piles of money, Jiang Wu was able to survive the fetal illness caused by her premature birth. But, the stupid illness caused by long-term suffocation due to difficult labor could not be cured, no matter how much money he had.
Because of his daughter’s stupid illness, Jiang Baozong also gave up the scientific examination completely. With his reputation as a scholar, he became a teacher in the village school. He refused to marry again for more than ten years, giving up having a son to inherit the incense.
Many people in the village murmured privately. They are afraid that after Jiang Baozong dies, no one in this area will be able to remember the once-prosperous Jiang family.
“If I remembered correctly, Teacher Jiang had a good relationship with the head of the Lin family who died early, and the wives of both families were pregnant at the same time. There was a rumor at that time that the two families had agreed that if they gave birth to both sons or daughters, then they would recognize their relatives. If they have a son and a daughter, then they will be married from babies. If not for this incident, Jiang Baozong would not have taken such good care of Widow Xu and her son over the years. Now, if the Diao family comes to propose marriage, where will they put the Lin family?”
Speaking of the Jiang family, people have to mention the Lin family. At that time, the head of the Lin family was a scholar of the same generation as Jiang Baozong, and he was also a young talent with high hopes in the village. However, both of them had the same bad luck.
Jiang Baozong lost his heart to seek fame and fortune because he was plotted. But, the head of the Lin family was purely because of poor health. Not long after he passed the exam to become a scholar, he left his wife and posthumous son to die due to a cold.
The Lin family’s financial situation is not as rich as that of the Jiang family. Even though Jiang Baozong has lost a lot of family property over the years to treat his daughter, he still has dozens of acres of land around him.
In the past, the Lin family sold a lot of land to support Lin’s education, and after finally came hard, the man who headed the family passed away again. If Jiang Baozong hadn’t always helped his family out of old friendship and the marriage of their children, the youngest son of the Lin family would never have had the chance to study and become the youngest scholar in the history of Ping Village.
Over the years, the Lin family has also silently accepted the help of the Jiang family. The people in the village have seen this and have long recognized the marriage between the Jiang and Lin families.
Some people feel sorry for the little boy from the Lin family. After all, he has already achieved fame at a young age. It is said that he is very likely to obtain the title of scholar in this college examination. By then, he will be the youngest scholar in Ping Village, and he will be much more outstanding than Jiang Baozong back then. For such a character, but because of a joke from his parents to marry a fool, is being wronged.
Of course, some people don’t think so. Lin Pingchun’s education was all due to the support of the Jiang family. The Lin family had already fallen into decline when the head of Lin’s family died. If it weren’t for the Jiang family, there would be no Lin Pingchun with outstanding talent and literary stars in the world.
Seeing that the daughter of the Jiang family is approaching the age of proposing marriage, there has been no movement from the Lin family. Could it be that Widow Xu wants to wait until Lin Pingchun passes the examination to become a scholar and has the ability to stand on his own before leaving the Jiang family behind? This dragging behavior is inevitably a little unkind.
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Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 66.1