Chapter 547: Chapter 549: The Past 2
She also didn’t have much affection for the old lady who adopted her.
She simply didn’t rember her at all; these were things she learned when she grew up and others told her.
She had no impression whatsoever of the old lady.
However, once she found out where the old lady was buried, she visited her every year during Qingming.
She even paid to rebuild a proper tomb for her, perhaps as a way to repay her for raising her.
“At that ti, the place I lived was a small town that wasn’t very wealthy, plus people all wanted to have sons.
So many who had daughters just abandoned them.
I guess that was probably my case too.
As a result, the governnt didn’t only adopt ; there were several other little girls.
We lived in a nursing ho in the town, together with the elderly—oh, a nursing ho is specifically for caring for elderly people who don’t have children.
The governnt also looked for people who wanted to adopt children, and the other girls were gradually adopted, but no one adopted .
Those adults who ca to adopt would have fortunetellers predict the children’s futures to see if they were good or not. If not, they didn’t want them.
And, ironically, every fortune teller said they couldn’t see my destiny; I had no destiny, so no one wanted to adopt .”
At this point, Su Yan paused, picked up her teacup, took a sip to moisten her throat, and continued.
“When I was five years old, my master ca to our town wanting to fund a school, and then I t him.
That day was a welcoming ceremony organized by the governnt, and my master attended, dressed in traditional long robes, with a white beard and white hair, just like the ancients described in books.
As a child raised by the governnt, I was representing them to offer him flowers.
Strangely, he just looked at once and decided to adopt .
With the governnt’s agreent, my master took away to another city.
It was only there I found out that my master didn’t just adopt ; there were four other boys before .
Their ages weren’t much different, at most four years older than .
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