kingnovel Chapter 1026 The General Recognizes Me as His Daughter
Chapter 1026 The General Recognizes Me as His Daughter
Li was speechless.
This child is very strong. If he is wronged, he will beat his mother-in-law or husband to death with one punch. That would really make them enemies.
"Even if you don't want to get married, why don't your uncle and your brothers get married? In recent years, there have been many wealthy families who have come to propose marriage, but the two of them turned them down on the grounds that your uncle hasn't gotten married yet. We also know these families.
"The girl is literate, well-educated, and proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She is also pretty. The two of them are not even worthy of her, so why do they look down on her?"
This has been a knot in her heart for many years.
Except Zhou Gu, all the other members of the family are bachelors.
Xiao Guanghun, an old bachelor who can't find a wife, is the most amazing and the most handsome one, but he can't seem to get married. Many people say that it's because of bad feng shui in their family. Maybe the ancestral graves are not buried well. Otherwise, they are all good kids, so why can't they get married?
Some even said that they must have done something immoral and sinful in private, otherwise how could the retribution befall the whole family?
The eldest has been married for many years and only has one daughter, Xiaohua. The Zhou family seemed to be prosperous, but they never expected that they would be wiped out! !
She said all kinds of nasty things. In recent years, she has gradually moved less and less to the village, and only visits the families close to her.
Zhou Guo comforted him, "Don't worry about that. My brothers are not going to stay married for the rest of their lives. When the world is stable in two years, the threshold of our house will be broken. You will have to worry about it by then. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it."
Li looked at her, pondered for a long time, and finally did not ask anything. She stood up and said, "Let's go and see what you brought back."
How could she not know that the flesh was falling from her body? Since the child said so, it meant it would be soon.
She felt it would be better if she didn't ask, as a woman at home didn't need to know so much.
The room was filled with local specialties.
Ham, smoked meat, cured fish, dried shrimp, sea cucumber, bird's nest, various dried vegetables, and even several black jars of pickled vegetables.
The whole family gathers around these jars of pickled vegetables.
"It smells so good, oh, that's the taste. I haven't tasted it for years. The ones my mom makes don't have that taste."
"Such a large jar was transported from such a far place, but it didn't break. This jar is really solid."
Li was intrigued by the jars and stepped forward to ask, "Let me see what's inside them?"
Zhou Guo smiled. These jars were given to her by her neighbors when she left. She ate some on the way and found them delicious, so she couldn't bear to eat any more.
My family really likes these things.
The old man came in, stood beside her, looked at Li, who was already smiling, and asked, "What did you say?"
Zhou Guo shook his head, "I didn't say anything."
The old man didn't believe it, "You didn't tell her that General Xu accepted you as his goddaughter?"
Zhou Guo was startled, turned to look at him, eyes slightly widened, "No."
The old man was speechless, pointing at her and said, "You, you didn't tell her such an important thing, you are going to be scolded again. You didn't get her consent to become her godchild, so you acted on your own initiative. Now you don't tell her, doesn't she think you don't treat her as your mother? You can handle it yourself."
As he spoke, he squatted forward to look at the specialties and see what to eat in the evening.
Zhou Guo was left standing there in a daze, looking at her mother's back with melancholy. If anyone should be blamed, it should be her uncle, for not informing her before such a big thing happened.
At night, when it was time to go to bed, Zhou Guo sneaked into Li's room and sat on the edge of her kang without saying a word.
Li was making the bed. She turned around and was shocked. She scolded him with a smile, "What are you doing at this late hour? You are walking without making any noise."
Zhou Guo hesitated and said, "Mom, I want to tell you something."
"What's the matter?" Li asked nonchalantly. She firmly believed that nothing could scare her anymore.
Zhou Guo pondered for a while and said, "This time when I went to the front line, in addition to meeting my uncle, I also met General Xu."
Li paused while making the bed, turned around immediately, and asked, "Did you see the general? What did the general say? Do you know the rumors that others say you are his daughter who has been away from home?"
Zhou Guo's eyes widened, "...How did you know this?"
She remembered that she hadn’t told anyone in her family?
Li said, "It's all over the place, how come I didn't know? Those people have been asking about me, saying openly and secretly how General Xu put you in our house. I didn't understand what was going on at first, I was confused.
Later, after many times, I understood what was going on. You said these people were also strange. How could they bring us together with General Xu, who had nothing in common with us?
How did they come up with this? They actually said that you are General Xu's daughter. Where did this rumor come from?"
Zhou Guo shook his head, "I forgot."
She had even forgotten how the rumor started. By the time she found out, almost all the wealthy families in the North knew about it.
Li patted her hands and asked, "Does the general know about this? Is it your fault that he didn't?"
Zhou Guo shook his head, took out the jade pendant from his neck, took it off and handed it to her, "This is what the general gave me."
Li took it, touched it, glanced at it over and over, and nodded, "Yes, it's a good thing. Although I have poor eyesight, I can at least tell whether it is good or bad over the years. He gave you such a valuable thing? It must be worth a lot of money, right?"
Zhou Guo reminded: "Please take a closer look."
Li looked at her suspiciously, and took a closer look. The jade pendant was carved with an ordinary deer in the forest, but there seemed to be words on it. She squinted under the lamp and took a closer look, her eyes getting wider and wider.
I have learned a lot of words from the children over the years. Isn’t this the word “Xu”?
These are the Xu family’s things.
She immediately looked up at Zhou Guo, "Why did the general give you this thing? So that you can go to the barracks anytime?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mother, the general adopted me as his goddaughter. He said that each of his children would have a jade pendant. This is the last one, and he gave it to me. He also gave me a name, Xu Anbei. My brothers are Xu Xiaobei, Xu Yubei, and Xu Sibei. My name is Xu Anbei."
Li almost fainted. She stared at her and then at the jade pendant in her hand, but she couldn't say a word.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Zhou Guo leaned forward and said, "Mom, please speak up. I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just forgot to tell you. Besides, this is a serious matter, so it's better not to make it known to everyone. It's fine as it is now."
Li looked at her daughter's little face. Although everyone in her family was born good, this child really combined the best qualities of her and her father.
He has become more and more handsome over the years. He has been going out more often, and the people he interacts with are either rich or noble. This also builds one's courage. When this child goes out wearing men's clothes, he really looks like a young master, even more like a nobleman than the ordinary young masters.
I wonder how good it would look if I wore women's clothes.