Chapter 76.1

Chapter 76.1

This time he read the memory, he felt as if he was full of indignation and despair. However, this anger wasnt for the original owner himself.

Sure enough, after reading this time, it was clear that the original owner was indignant for the others.

The world overhead was another novel. The background setting depended on the original author, which was similar to the Republic of China. However, there were also some places that were quite different from the real world. For instance, the male lead was neither the original owner nor the people close to him. He, the person who loved the female lead, and the person who hated the male lead to the point of breaking, was only a passerby, mentioned in a couple of sentences.

Lin Shiheng stopped looking at the original story and accepted the memory carefully.

The original owner, nicknamed Jiuer, was born in the most difficult situation. Despite how poor the family was, they had children after children, and by the time he, the ninth child, was born, the eldest had just started working while the second youngest was still a baby who needed care.

(TNote: Jiuer = Little Ninth.)

Jiuer was born weak. Upon birth, he laid quietly in the tiny bundle, cowering in a worn swaddling blanket that had been washed too many times, unmoving. At most, he cried like a kitten, almost inaudible.

The family felt that he wasnt easy to raise and was afraid that he would die prematurely within a few days of being raised. Furthermore, they couldnt spare anyone to take care of him because a breastfeeding baby needed to be watched at all times. After much thinking, they endured the pain and asked a calligrapher to write the nickname on the baby and threw him to the streets.

At that time, the country was in turmoil, and people couldnt even take care of themselves. Many officials who wore boots and rode horses rushed past the street every day. They wouldnt care if there was something left on the ground. In the freezing weather, the fragile baby was put on the cold ground. Babies that were thrown to the streets either froze to death or were trampled by passing horses. This was the same as letting him die.

It was just a coincidence that the first miss of the Fang family accompanied her mother to go out to a banquet early that morning, and their carriage wheel broke down on the road nearby. When they came down and waited for repairs, Miss Fang saw a baby on the ground in the distance.

She was only 5 years old. Because she was the only daughter in the family, and she was well-raised by her parents since childhood, she was also sensible. When she saw that a baby was thrown on the ground in the cold weather, she was immediately alarmed and called her mother.

Mother Fang, who was also raised to be kind-hearted, picked the baby up and saw the words Lin Jiuer. She knew that someone had deliberately left him here. The coachman often ran around here, and this kind of thing was common. She guessed that the childs family couldnt feed him, so they deliberately put him here and wrote his name in the hopes that a kind-hearted person would raise him.

Only, in this weather, people were either working or at home, and the soldiers who rode horses came and went one by one. How could someone be so good as to take in a child from the side of the road?

This was also Jiuer fate. Madam Fang had been married for 8 years, and only had a daughter, Miss Fang. She finally got pregnant a while ago, and waited carefully, but she still miscarried the baby boy. Looking at this crying child at the moment, it was hard to avoid thinking of her son that didnt get a chance in life. In addition, Miss Fang had a good heart and asked carefully if she could take the baby home. After careful thought, she nodded and agreed.

It was just that, when he grew up, Father Fang sent Miss Fang to marry his best friends son.

That friend also had a good family background, and had a very good relationship with Father Fang. In addition, his son was taught by Father Fang before studying abroad, which could be regarded as a teacher-disciple relationship. For a masters daughter to marry a disciple, it could be considered a good marriage.

Father Fang didnt just marry off his daughter based on the friendship between the two families. She was his only child. Although there were some constraints on his daughter because of his feudal thoughts, how could he not love her in his heart?

Toward the future son-in-law, he did a good job of finding out the other partys reputation among gifted scholars, and specially asked the nephews who are said to be close friends with the son-in-law. Mother Fangs family had three nephews, all of whom have studied since childhood, and now were all big talents. Hearing the cousins marriage, they all congratulated her, saying that the cousins future husband was a very good talent. After marriage, they would certainly be a harmonious couple.

Father Fang put down his worried heart, agreed to the marriage proposal from his best friend, and made the engagement. When the time came, he married his daughter off.

Nowadays, most people marry early, and Miss Fang was only 15 years old when she got married. She was taken out of the door wearing a bright red wedding dress, while the 10-year-old Lin Jiuer was still living as a guest in the Fang family. Although he regarded her as a sister in his heart, he couldnt really stand up and carry his sister out of the door as a younger brother should. He could only mingle with a group of guests and watch the bride be taken to someone elses home.

After Father Fang married off his daughter, he spent the rest of his thoughts on teaching Lin Jiuer. However, although he was sensible and obedient, his literary talent turned out to be quite bad. He could only learn by memorizing with diligence superior to those real talents.

When his daughter got married, Father Fang thought of accepting him as his adopted son. But it was so unfortunate that before he mentioned it, he had a serious illness and could only lay in bed, unable to speak.

Soon, the Fang family was in chaos. Mother Fang was too worried that her husband was ill, and Lin Jiuer had to take care of this and that. He was still too young and had been detained in his studies before and had never learned anything else. In haste, she could only rush to Miss Fangs in-laws house and beg for her help in looking after things.

When going through the city to sign up for a number, because things were urgent, Lin Jiuer reported that he was a distant relative of Madam Fangs. After which Miss Fang rushed to bring someone over to take care of the family, and her parents finally got better. However, Lin Jiuers name as Madam Fangs relative was set. Since they were relatives now, he could no longer be accepted as an adoptive son.

(TNote: there was a time in the old days when going through city/province check points, one must declare their ID. It would be considered as an official thing/ recognized by the government.)

Although Father Fang and Mother Fang felt helpless, they also knew that he was young and had been raised to study, and he didnt know much about these common things. They also recognize him as a relative and continue to support Lin Jiuers studies.

Unexpectedly, after everything, the serious illness still brought down Father Fang. Within 2 years, the country was in turmoil. After another serious illness, Father Fang passed away. Mother Fang received a shock, and her body wasnt as good as before.

The Fang family only has one relative, Lin Jiuer, who serves as an adoptive son. However, he wasnt outstanding in literary grace. Some shopkeepers bullied Mother Fang as a woman and bullied Lin Jiuer for being too young, falsifying accounts to make deficits. The large Fang family started to go into decline.