Li Haitang listened to the general idea, and even guessed and guessed, he was able to understand a little bit.

She didn't know how to comfort her good sister. She had been the daughter of the Zhang family for nearly twenty years, and she was full of pride, but now she had the reputation of having many adulterous children for nothing. No one could bear it.

In particular, Zhang Ruyi had just suffered a blow from Lu Yuanqing. She was entrusted with inhumanity, had a miscarriage, and her body had not fully recovered, which made things worse.

"Is there any misunderstanding?"

Rape? Li Haitang couldn't believe it. Through Zhang Ruyi's mouth, she had also heard something about the Xia family. The Xia family is a well-known family in Kyoto, and it is the same as the Zhang family.

Back then when the Xia family married Zhang Zheng, Zhang Zheng was still a young man, not outstanding at all among the high-ranking young masters. It was the Xia family who insisted and confirmed the marriage.

Zhang Ruyi's mother obviously had a better choice, but she ended up marrying Zhang Zheng. It can be seen that there are feelings as the maintenance.

Madam Gaomen, how could it be possible to have a concubine behind her husband's back? Not everyone is like Xia Zhifu's first wife, and has a male servant girl by his side.

Therefore, it is a bit of a saying to have a child by adultery.

"It's not a misunderstanding."

Zhang Ruyi shook her head, her mouth full of bitterness, if possible, she wanted to refute more than anyone else, but the fact gave her a slap in the face.

"what is the problem?"

Li Haitang was even more confused now, she listened, there was still room for turning around this matter.

"Begonia is not an outsider."

Ruan Pingzhi followed with a sigh, they are married, husband and wife are one body, one prospers and both prospers, one loses both.

I wanted to delay discussing this matter until a year later, but Zhang Zheng came to the door. It seems that someone from the Zhang family got the news.

Zhang Ruyi felt sour, no matter what, her mother had a disgraceful past, but she didn't want it to be revealed to the world after her death, causing a scandal and being talked about by others.

"The Zhang family wanted Ruyi to confess their relatives on the day the ancestral hall was opened."

The whole Zhang family was there that day, so it was impossible to tamper with it. Therefore, no matter what the specific result was, they had to admit it.

Once you bear the title of adulterer, not to mention everyone shouting and beating, you will also be looked down upon. Then in the capital, it is even more lively than Yang Xu's case. The common people are very keen on the grievances and hatred between the noble families, and they just like to listen to gossip. .

"Here, can you think of a way to prove that Ruyi is a child of the Zhang family?"

Ruan Pingzhi also had no choice, for the sake of the dead Xia family, they must try to avoid it, but the depressing thing is that they didn't have a chance to do anything that day.

He had heard in a daze that in the ancestral hall of Lijia Village, blood was also used to recognize relatives, and he still remembered his cousin saying that blood recognition was unreliable.

At this time, they are in a passive position and have no other choice.

"This is difficult."

Li Haitang shook his head. It is unscientific to recognize relatives by dropping blood, which involves hemolysis and coagulation. In Daqi, the common people believe that if two drops of blood fuse together, they are relatives. On the contrary, they are not relatives.

This method is ignorant and has no scientific basis. In fact, the correct rate is only about one-half.

But how could she talk about science with these Daqi natives? He will definitely be regarded as an evildoer and thrown into the Jingzhaoyi Yamen.

"Haitang, the old woman next to my mother said..."

Zhang Ruyi choked up, the mother in my impression was gentle and always had a faint smile. But Zhang Ruyi knew that her mother was not happy.

Her mother's smile was very weak, with slight sorrow, her mother wanted to see her father very much, but she always avoided it.

At that time, she was still young and didn't understand at all. She heard people in the house gossip about her mother, Xia Shi, who was a lady of the family after all, so she was different from Hualou's sister and son, and loved to carry it.

Zhang Ruyi now finally understands that mother is not willing to get close to father, she clearly feels that she is dirty, guilty, tormented, entangled, her body is getting weaker and weaker, she loses energy and blood, and finally dies of depression.

And that father, Zhang Zheng, didn't know why.

"After my mother married my father, she didn't get pregnant for a year. Because of Xia's family, the Zhang family was polite on the surface, but there was a lot of sarcasm behind their backs."

Zhang Ruyi knew this, and when she was born, the ancestors of the Zhang family also couldn't like her.

Xia Shi could not bear children for Zhang Zheng, and Zhang Zheng was indifferent to female sex, so he did not find a concubine, Xia Shi was very grateful.

She heard that there was a descendant hall in the temple on the mountain, and the prayer for a child was successful, so she took the maid and the old mother to the mountain to pray for a child. On the way back, the carriage overturned due to the heavy rain.

A group of people hid at the entrance of the cave to avoid the rain. At this juncture, the coachman and the servant girl went out to find firewood, and the Xia family was accompanied by the old mother to avoid the rain.

Suddenly, two rascals rushed in, one was guarding the wind, and the other raped Mrs. Xia.

The two felt guilty, and when they heard someone's footsteps, they pulled up their trousers and ran away. Before they ran, they snatched Xia Shi's apron, hairpin and other things from his head.

His body was not innocent, Xia Shi immediately wanted to commit suicide, it was the old lady begging hard.

Just this once, the coachman and the servant girl didn't know it, so they treated it as being bitten by a dog, and the scoundrel was a random target, and he didn't know anyone, so nothing happened.

In order to cover it up, the two pretended that Mrs. Xia had fallen, her clothes were disheveled, and there were a few scars on her body. That's it, the coachman and the servant girl didn't think much of it from the beginning, just dodged like this.

After more than a month, Xia's little day has not come yet, so she became anxious, and found out that she was pregnant after looking for the doctor's pulse.

This time, Zhang Zheng was even more considerate to her. Xia clutched her belly, feeling even more bitter. She was very scared and gave birth to a bastard, especially after being raped.

He couldn't die, he could only stand upright, Xia Shi didn't know what mood he was in.

She was terrified all day long, for fear of giving birth to that rogue child. Xia family planned to drink the medicine to take it away, but she still couldn't bear it, anyway, it was still a little life.

Being a child is a matter of fate, and being raped is only once, and the child of her husband Zhang Zheng has more hope.

But after Zhang Ruyi was born, all illusions were shattered.

Zhang Zheng didn't know what happened at all, he thought that the Xia family didn't give birth to a son and lost face in front of the Zhang family, that's why he was depressed.

Later, Zhang Ruyi was not very clear about what happened.

However, that poppi ran into his own mother-in-law when he was out on a trip, and when he learned of Xia's identity, he wanted to come to recognize his relatives, and even went to Xia's family brazenly.

The Xia family sent someone to hunt down Popi, but he survived, and then he disappeared.

This matter is a thorn in the Xia family's heart, a thorn in the flesh, and it will be removed sooner or later.

No, after so many years, the person who was about to disappear suddenly appeared. I don't know if there is someone behind him. That person found Xia Zhifu, and Xia Jixiang accidentally heard the secret, so he used the gift as an excuse to stimulate Zhang Ruyi. Originally, Xia Jixiang wanted to mix things up so that the two could not get married, but she came a step too late, and the two of them had already worshiped heaven and earth.