Raising My Children With My Personal Spatial Ability Chapter 2 - The Abandoned Wife Who Was Kicked Out
Previously on Raising My Children With My Personal Spatial Ability...
The man followed the timeless proverb of 'devote yourself to the one who has saved your life' and approached the county magistrate to marry An Jiuyue.
Yet, mere moments after their wedding, the man got an imperial decree and headed to the battlefield without even removing her red veil. The newlywed wife was deserted.
Some time passed before she learned of her husband's death on the front lines, and his family promptly expelled her from their home.
'Haa.'
An Jiuyue exhaled deeply and gazed at the two children beside her bed.
It was even more aggravating when it came to them!
The original owner, after being thrown out by her husband's family, roamed around outside for quite a while. Reflecting on her plight, her fury intensified. She believed she'd endured a massive injustice and couldn't just let it slide.
Spotting a chance, she slipped back into her in-laws' residence via the rear entrance. Even if she didn't grab their possessions, she ought to at least reclaim her dowry.
But before she could get inside, she noticed a servant slipping away with two big bamboo baskets. The original owner assumed the servant had pilfered something precious from the household and was seeking a spot to stash them.
Like the bird eyeing the mantis that chases the cicada, the original owner
She trailed the servant in secret, planning to snatch the baskets once the servant concealed them.
She tracked the servant up to a mountain and saw the servant abandon the bamboo baskets there. Yet, as she approached to inspect them…
Oh my, inside lay a pair of young boys slumbering peacefully!
In truth, she recognized the two lads. They were the mysterious twin sons her ill-fated husband had somehow acquired!
The original owner thought to herself, 'If my mother-in-law can forsake her own grandsons, then she can certainly forsake her daughter-in-law. I realize it's hopeless for me to go back and claim anything from the house.'
It was also out of the question for her to wed another man, as she had turned into an abandoned wife.
Thus, clenching her teeth, she picked up the two infants and carried them off. She resolved to bring them up as her own boys and have them support her in her old age.
The original owner sold her garments for several dozen taels of silver. Then she journeyed to her parents' place, begging along the roads and resting in the wilds during the trip.
She hoped to find shelter with her father, but to her shock, he drove her away upon her arrival. He refused to let her remain with the family since she was a married daughter.
Fine. If she couldn't live there, surely they could spare her a few taels of silver?
However, she didn't receive even a single copper coin, much less a tael. Her father even declared that she could wander off wherever with her two bastard kids. In any event, he washed his hands of this daughter.
Luckily, she encountered a hunter en route. The man was in his sixties, childless, solitary, and with scant possessions.
The elderly hunter adopted her as his goddaughter and took the two boys as his god-grandchildren.
He added her and the two boys to his family register in the village below the mountain. From that point, she ceased being the county magistrate's daughter. She became just a woman who had lost her mother and spouse and turned to the old hunter for protection.
Two months prior, the old hunter suffered wounds from a savage tiger while hunting. Though he fled to safety, his injuries proved too grave, and he died shortly after.