"Qin Jiaoxi, Jiaoyue is your biological sister! You actually pushed her down from the attic of the study room. What are you worried about?"
"Mother, I didn't. It was Jiaoyue who fell from the attic!"
"Snapped!"
A slap hit Qin Jiaoxi hard on the face.
"Are you still making excuses? The attic in the study room is usually filled with all those Jianghu novels that your father doesn't like to read. You only like to read them. If you hadn't been the one to confuse them, how would your sister have climbed up to the attic with you?"
Nine-year-old Qin Jiaoxi covered her swollen face and trembled all over. Her pale little face was confused and mixed with deep confusion and pain.
"Mom, it was Jiaoyue who wanted to run up to me, and she accidentally stepped on the corner of her skirt and fell down. Xi'er really didn't touch her!"
Why?
Why don't you believe what she said?
The old lady sitting next to her frowned: "Jiaoyue, come here and tell us in front of everyone, was it your sister who pushed you down from the attic?"
Under the gaze of everyone, Qin Haoyue, who was only eight years old, had a pale and bloodless face the size of a palm, and her almond-shaped eyes were filled with tears. She reached out to touch the injury on her forehead, and then fell precariously into the arms of the maid.
"Mother, has Yue'er lost her appearance? Is Yue'er's life over?"
"Grandma, please stop questioning my sister. This is all Yue'er's fault. It's Yue'er's fault. Yue'er shouldn't have gone to the study to disturb my sister. Yue'er regrets it so much!"
Qin Jiaoxi roared at her angrily: "Qin Jiaoyue, tell me clearly. Did you fall down by yourself or did I push you down?"
Hearing this, Qin Jiaoyue's whole body trembled and she fainted, exhaling too much and inhaling too little.
At that moment, Mrs. Qin was so hurt that she wanted to cut out her heart with a knife: "Yue'er! My Yue'er, it's my mother who didn't take good care of you. It's all my fault. It's my mother who made you suffer!"
Those loud cries seemed to stab Qin Jiaoxi in the heart.
Born to the same parents, why is she so ignored by her own mother?
Not only that, but his father, Prime Minister Qin, who came later, saw Qin Jiaoyue unconscious and with a broken forehead, so he couldn't help but slap Qin Jiaoxi with a big ear scraper, sending Qin Jiaoxi flying backwards and falling into the flower bed.
"You evil girl, even five years of confinement can't stop your ambition to become a demon!"
Qin Jiaoxi got up and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Seeing the old lady eating fast and chanting Buddha's name, her heart trembled.
"That's all, let her kneel outside the corridor. When she thinks clearly about her willingness to apologize to Qin Jiaoyue and admit her mistake, she will get up!"
So Qin Jiaoxi knelt at the end of the corridor despite the first spring rain, hunched up her small body, and stubbornly held on for two days, not even apologizing until she fainted.
When he woke up, he was picked up by the nun in the courtyard and soaked in a wooden barrel to keep away the cold.
Qin Jiaoxi looked down at the small bulge that had gradually grown on her chest, feeling as sad as if she had eaten coptis soaked in vinegar.
Her mother had already made a close-fitting undergarment for Qin Jiaoyue, who was about to turn eight years old, and she was still wearing the undergarment that the old lady asked Grandma Li to make when she was five years old, and it could only cover her upper abdomen.
Qin Jiaoxi curled her lips, bit the flesh of her arm, and silently swallowed her tears.
The two women threw her into the hot water and ignored her. Qin Jiaoxi was greedy for the warmth brought by the hot water. As she soaked in it, her head gradually felt heavy. Unconsciously, her body went limp and her whole body was immersed in the water.
It wasn't until Mrs. Qin's maid Qiu'er led the doctor into this remote courtyard that the two women remembered to take a look at the little human soaking in the big bucket.
I almost peeed when I saw it.
I saw Qin Jiaoxi's entire body sinking into the water at some point, without even taking a dip.