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Chapter 180: The Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables That You Will Never Eat Again

"Great!"

Chu Xiyan said excitedly: "Mom has not been home for the past three years. Seeing Daddy's health recovering day by day and Xiaobao growing up so big, she must be very happy!"

"Finally, our family can have a reunion during the Spring Festival! Dad, I have already steamed the pork with preserved vegetables, and will cook a table of delicious dishes later, so that we can enjoy them when Mom comes back!"

Father Chu's honest face was full of love, mixed with a hint of guilt: "Daya, you have been taking care of Dad and Xiaobao for the past three years. You have worked hard. In the end, it's all because of Dad's incompetence..."

Chu Xiyan corrected him: "Dad, I've said it many times, I'm not calling you Daya anymore."

"We are a family. Isn't it my responsibility to take care of you when mom is away?"

At this point, Chu Xiyan caressed her father's big hands distressedly: "Besides, Dad has never been a burden to us. You only have a pair of hands that can move, but you still get up early and go to bed late every day, weaving bamboo baskets and asking people to take them out to sell. Your hands are full of wounds from being cut by bamboo splinters..."

Seeing the tears in Chu Xiyan's eyes, Chu's father wanted to wipe her tears distressedly, but he couldn't get up. He was so anxious that he didn't know what to do: "Daya, don't cry. Daddy is useless. I will lighten your burden a little. When your mother comes back, our life will be better."

Chu Xiyan wiped away her tears and sniffed: "I've already told you that I won't call you Daya anymore..."

Father Chu smiled naively: "Daya is the most sensible. As long as our family works together, our lives will definitely get better and better."

"Your mother likes to grow vegetables. When she comes back, we will use the money we have saved in the past few years to rebuild a yard. We will grow vegetables on the east side of the yard and raise chickens, ducks and geese on the west side."

Chu Xiyan said with a smile: "We also need to plant a pomegranate tree in the yard! Mom loves pomegranates the most, but she couldn't afford them before... After planting the pomegranate tree, Mom can eat fresh pomegranates every year!"

Xiaobao clapped his hands and said in a baby voice, "Mom! Mom is back... Xiaobao is no longer a bastard who was born by a mother but not raised by one..."

Hearing this, Father Chu's eyes became sore and he quickly turned his head away so that the children would not see him crying.

The lives of the poor are the cheapest. In order to survive, the child's mother had to abandon her newborn baby and go to the palace to serve the nobles. In recent years, the children in the alley always laughed at Daya and Xiaobao, saying that they had a mother who gave birth to them but did not raise them...

Their mother will be back today, and these two children will have their mother to take care of them from now on!

At this time, a neighbor suddenly ran over and said, "Daya, there are several nobles in gorgeous clothes at the entrance of the alley, asking about your home location. Are they here to send your mother back?"

"Oh my, it must be because of my aunt's service to the princess that she received the praise from the imperial concubine. Your family is very lucky this time, don't forget your neighbors!"

Chu Xiyan quickly took Xiaobao's hand and ran out happily: "Mom! Mom is back! Dad, Xiaobao and I will go to greet Mom!"

Father Chu lay in bed unable to move, his eyes filled with tears of excitement: "Happy New Year! May our family be reunited in the New Year!"

"Before the child's mother entered the palace, she kept saying that she wanted to eat pork with preserved vegetables. It was my fault that I didn't let you eat it. Now that life is better, the pork with preserved vegetables is already steamed in the pot. You can have a big bowl of it to your heart's content..."

Seeing Chu Xiyan's body frozen at the door, Chu's father asked with a smile: "Daya, what's wrong? Is it because you can't recognize your mother after not seeing her for three years, or are you too happy to see her?"

"Has your mother gained weight or lost weight?"

This time, Chu Xiyan did not correct him. She stopped calling him Daya and just stared blankly at the straw mat carried over by the guards.

The face that was revealed from the straw mat was her mother whom she had not seen for three years...

Chu Xiyan had her back to the house. Her father did not notice her stunned look. A grown man, his tone was actually a bit nagging and shy: "My child's mother saw my messy beard and started to nag me again. I should have washed my face carefully... I don't know if she would dislike it if she saw it..."

Before Chu's father could finish his words, the guards carried the wet nurse's body to the door, pushed Chu Xiyan and Xiaobao aside and walked in.

"Is this Chu Zhang's home? Are you her family?"

The smile on Chu's father's face suddenly stopped, and he looked at the rolled straw mat on the ground in disbelief.

The child's mother's eyes were wide open, and her eyes, which were open even in death, were filled with fear and attachment.

"Yun Niang?!"

Mr. Chu's hands were shaking. He wanted to move but his body was unable to do so and he fell off the bed.

He could only grab the ground with his hands and drag his body forward with difficulty, but his fingernails were soon blown off by the great force.

Although his ten fingers were covered in blood, Father Chu seemed to feel no pain. He just wanted to go to his wife and hug her cold body.

"Why... Yunniang said that her period of selling herself has expired today, and she can take the reward from the Imperial Concubine and leave the palace to celebrate the New Year with us in the afternoon at the latest. Why..."

Why was it that after three years of separation, the body they saw again was the child’s mother’s?

Chu Xiyan finally came to her senses, rushed into the house, hugged the straw mat and cried hoarsely: "Mom!!!"

"The pork with preserved vegetables in the pot was bought by Dad with the money he earned from making bamboo baskets. He said that although he has no talent, he will try his best to give you the best. Mom! Smell, the pork with preserved vegetables is ready, why don't you get up and have a taste..."

The three-year-old Xiaobao didn’t understand what was going on. Seeing his father and sister crying, he also sat on the ground and started crying.

Father Chu raised his head with difficulty, his eyes were extremely red: "Who... who killed Yunniang?!"

The guard threw the purse in his hand to the ground and said impatiently: "Chu Zhang and the wet nurses failed to take good care of the princess, causing her to catch a cold. The imperial concubine ordered them to be beaten to death."

"The Imperial Concubine is kind and considerate of their hard work despite their lack of merit in the past, so she awarded each of them 100 taels of silver as a compensation."

"The money here is enough for you to spend for a lifetime. You exchanged the life of a lowly woman for this wealth, so you should just be happy about it. Why don't you thank me quickly!"

Chu Xiyan only felt a "boom" in her mind!

She had heard from the female teacher that the caning method used by wealthy families was to beat people to death with a thick wooden board...

Chu Xiyan opened the straw mat with trembling hands and saw that her mother's waist and buttocks had been beaten into a pool of rotten flesh...

She couldn't imagine how painful it must be!!!

“Ah!!! Ah!!! Ah——!!!”

Chu's father's eyes were full of bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. This honest man was roaring in pain like a wild animal.