"The Zhou family, the Zhou family... Dad, now you know how to look at the faces of the Zhou family and speak! It doesn't matter how I am, but what about sister Shangxiang?"
Xiao Qiao cried so hard that he stepped forward and beat Mr. Qiao with his fists while stamping his little feet on the ground anxiously.
Hearing his daughter suddenly mention such a thing, Qiao Guolao's heart skipped a beat and his eyes became complicated.
He looked at his daughter melancholy, thinking of the days many years ago when the Sun family's youngest daughter, Sun Shangxiang, was always stuck with his two daughters... In the blink of an eye, nearly ten years have passed, and things have changed and people have changed.
Said, now... now Sun Shangxiang's situation has been spread among the upper class in Jiangdong...
I asked, everyone is avoiding me - Shang Xiang is also missing, what the hell...Dad! Do you know something? You must know something, right?"
"The street...it has spread on the street, everyone is spreading the rumor, saying that Junhou and Gongjin are determined to betroth Shangxiang's sister to Liu Bei from Jingnan...Now that Liu Bei has arrived in Danyang, he is waiting for Shangxiang——
"
"This...how could Gong Jin and Junhou do such unreasonable things? Shang Xiang is their sister!"
Just by listening to Xiao Qiao's breathless tone, you can feel the despair in her heart.
Sun Shangxiang and her were almost a few years apart in age, but she regarded Sun Shangxiang as her own sister.
But now... Now Da Qiao is far away from the Sun family and cannot be contacted easily. Xiao Qiao originally thought that he could get some useful information through the Zhou family. Who would have thought that after hearing the news from the street, he would return to
No matter who they asked at home, they always avoided asking questions - even the father-in-law... Zhou Yu's father, Zhou Yi, heard that Xiao Qiao was asking around about Sun Shangxiang's whereabouts, so he scolded her.
I can only say...Xiao Qian is more passionate than her sister who is good at tolerating and relatively silent.
Xiao Qiao was so angry that she left the Zhou family alone, regardless of their obstruction.
Even though...even if her husband, whom she has reunited with after a long absence, will return soon, Xiao Qiao really only cares about the safety of her sister now.
"Nan'er... the matter of the Sun family's little girl... well, it's not that I don't want to tell you... it's this matter... there is really no room for negotiation - "
Qiao Guolao knows everything.
Of course he knew that he was a member of the upper class in Soochow. According to several rumors, Zhou Yu and Sun Quan intended to marry Liu Bei, and Sun Shangxiang would be betrothed to Liu Bei. In the end, Sun Shangxiang fled overnight, and his whereabouts are still unknown - even
There are rumors that Sun Shangxiang is hiding in the Wuhui area, and he is fully aware of this information.
But...but even if he knew, what could he do?
After Sun Ce's death, the relationship between the Sun Qiao family and the Sun Qiao family basically relied on the old friendship between Qiao Guolao and Wu Guotai - Sun Shangxiang's escape was a big deal at the time, and Qiao Guolao went to inquire about the news very early.
The result was that... because Wu Guotai assisted Sun Shangxiang to escape, even though she was Sun Quan's concubine and the apparent owner of the Sun family, she was still strictly guarded by a large number of soldiers and horses.
At that time, Qiao Guolao knew that this matter... I'm afraid Sun Quan and Zhou Yu had already made up their minds.
And all he can do is try his best to conceal it, so as not to hinder his two daughters and suffer disaster together.
Qiao Guolao can see it very clearly - people who have lived to his age, especially those who have survived the troubled times of the Yellow Turban, are already accustomed to all kinds of unfair phenomena in troubled times.
A woman was born into poverty and her life experience was like duckweed. He had tried his best to save his two daughters. Apart from these, how could he have the heart to care about other families' affairs?
"Dad! You...you really know that you have been hiding it from me all this time!"
"I...I...Sister Shangxiang's life is miserable...As a sister, I don't know about her situation until now...wuwuwu..."
"Seriously, if it was Gong Jin who made the decision... Then it would be fine if I didn't go back to the Zhou family! After so many years, Gong Jin has always been like this. You never believe it... In his eyes, flesh and blood relations are just his plan for the world.
It’s just a tool, even I... am just a chess piece that can be discarded at will.”
"This time...this time it's Shang Xiang...next time...it's my sister. In the end, if I lose or die, Gong Jin may even abandon me -"
"Dad... do you really think that Gong Jin will always be filial to you until you grow old?"
"You! You kid, what nonsense are you talking about!"
No matter where they are, a woman is not allowed to speak ill of her husband's family. This is always the ethical code. In the eyes of an old-fashioned person like Qiao Guolao, what Xiao Qiao said frankly just now is really against the rules of women——
The angry Qiao Guolao raised his hand and was about to hit Xiao Qiao.
However... Xiao Qiao just stared at Qiao Guolao with resentful eyes. The tears in her eyes had not yet flowed out. Her eyes were red. She looked extremely haggard at this moment. This was the first time Qiao Guolao had seen her.
He saw his daughter looking at him like this.
The resentment in her eyes could not have been formed in a year and a half? It was obviously a long-standing resentment - but he had just noticed it now.
Qiao Guolao was always hesitant and hesitant, so the Qiao family failed to escape early before the disaster in Wancheng that year.
Because of their hesitation, the Qiao family was unable to save the large number of people who regarded death as home.
At this moment, countless thoughts came to his mind, and his hand raised in the air finally hesitated.
"Dad...are you so willing to watch Sister Shangxiang make the same mistakes as our Qiao family?"
"Haha...I know, dad...you may think that you made the right decision back then. Your two daughters married two rising stars in Jiangdong. In the future, the Qiao family can rely on these two
Man’s remaining power will survive for a long time.”
"But you don't know... how hard my sister has been in these years... and how much anger my daughter has suffered from the Zhou family in these years -"
"You never care or ask, you just indulge in those compliments. Do you know how glamorous Gong Jin is in front of outsiders, and how he ignores Nuer when he returns home?"
"Dad... you are right... you have always taught us that if a woman wants to survive in this world, she must find someone to rely on - that is true, but have you ever thought... that men are so important to women, but
How much do women care about men?"
"Today... there is a Xiao Qiao in the Zhou family. As long as Gong Jin is willing, tomorrow, the Zhou family can have ten or a hundred Xiao Qiao."
At the end of the story, Xiao Qiao smiled, but that was right. The tears in her eyes had dried up, so naturally she could only smile bitterly.
