Chapter 873 Wrong, wrong
ngyu was stunned: "Too much?"
She looked into his eyes: "Do you know what kind of life I had as a child? I started working at three years old, and if I didn’t do well, I wouldn’t get to eat. At five, I took care of all the household chores for the entire Jiang Family, who would sit in the main room and wait for , a five-year-old child, to cook and bring the food out for them.
As for myself, I never had the right to eat in the main room. I could only eat so leftovers after they finished eating. If there wasn’t any left, I’d have to go hungry.
I wanted to cook more rice so I could have so to eat, but every ti it was Li Chunhua who asured out the rice. The rice cooked with normal water was just enough for them. I didn’t have any food to eat. If I added more water and the rice got too soft, I would get beaten.
In any case, I either went hungry or got beaten. This is how I grew up, starving and beaten.
When I was seven, children my age began to go to school. I told Madam Jiang I wanted to study, and she said, "If you go to school, who will do the housework?" Father Jiang beat and said, "A servant girl like you wants to study?" I wanted to study, so I secretly learned words from Jiang Huaiyu’s books, but when they found out, I got beaten again.
When I was ten, the team leader ca to our house and said we couldn’t create new illiterates and I must go to school. Madam Jiang said I could study, but couldn’t skip any chores. Father Jiang said I could study but must earn my own tuition fees.
To study, I got up before daylight every day to cook, feed the pigs and chickens, and clean the ground before going to school.
To study, I wouldn’t go ho at noon but instead picked up scraps to sell for tuition. Naturally, I had no place for lunch.
To study, I went to collect pigweed after school, and if I ca ho too late and didn’t cook dinner in ti, Madam Jiang would beat .
To reduce tuition fees and skip grades, I studied until late at night. Madam Jiang wouldn’t let light the kerosene lamp, so I went up the mountains to find oily pine roots to light.
To escape the Jiang Family sooner, I took the college entrance exam after only one year of high school and got into Kyoto Normal University, but right before going to university, the Jiang Family sold into the mountains as a shared wife for the Zhou Brothers, while Jiang Huaiyu took my university admission letter to attend university.
I risked my life jumping off a cliff to escape the human traffickers, and almost got caught by buyers. Fortunately, Commander Gu saved , granting a second chance at life.
Having returned to Beijing to reclaim my identity, I only wanted to study hard and get into a good university. Under Jiang Huaiyu’s various traps, I got into Chinese dicine College again, yet faced nurous obstacles just to prevent from reaching the Capital City.
All my sufferings were granted by you, Nan Ming. So now, tell , am I too much?"
Nan Cheng previously didn’t know that ngyu lived such a life as a child. His heart ached: faced with such hardships, a weaker person might have died long ago.
The fact that she managed to survive is indeed a miracle.
He looked at Nan Ming: If soone else had taken on the identity of the Eldest Miss Nan, it would have been fine, but why let the Jiang Family abuse a young girl like her?
Hearing ngyu’s recount, Nan Ming was also very angry. He gave money to the Jiang Family to suppress Jiang ngyu’s growth, but he never instructed them to abuse her!
Nan Xiao’s daughter had too strong a will. If the Jiang Family raised her like livestock, she might not have achieved what she has today; however, the Jiang Family’s parents just kept grinding her down.
Her father Nan Xiao was obstinate and thrived in adversity. As Xiao’s daughter, her character was likely similar. The more the Jiang Family’s parents grinded, the more she shone, developing into a diamond emitting an attractive brilliance.
Wrong, wrong, he was wrong!
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