Chapter 8

The Ling family’s ancestral home is a very neat two-courtyard courtyard. According to my grandmother, this house was originally the residence of a minister in the Qing Dynasty.

When Sheng Kangning was five years old, his mother Ling Qing suddenly passed away.

Grandma felt sorry for Sheng Kangning because he had lost his mother, so she took Sheng Kangning to live with her. Sheng Kangning lived with her for ten years.

The Ling family is a family of traditional Chinese medicine. Mother Ling Qing is the only daughter of the family. She has been learning medicine since she was a child and is particularly good at acupuncture. Even though her family background is not good, Ling Qing still entered the hospital and became a doctor because of her skills.

Mother Ling Qing has a formal job.

If a person is beautiful, it means that he or she has bad character.

My grandfather died early and my grandmother was not in good health, so he married my mother Ling Qing to my father Sheng Hongqi, who seemed honest and simple at the time.

My grandmother told me that my mother married into the Sheng family with only 6,000 yuan as a nest egg.

In those days, six thousand yuan was considered a huge sum of money.

My mother is gentle, well-educated and sensible. If my father is content, he should live in harmony with her.

But my father didn’t, he had a childhood sweetheart outside who he grew up with.

She is Sheng Kangning’s current stepmother Yang Chunling.

The two had lived together long before he married his mother Ling Qing.

And have a child.

This is also the reason why Sheng Fengjiao is a few years older than Sheng Kangning.

At that time, Yang Chunling did not have a formal job, and her grandmother Wang Cuilian looked down on her.

I didn’t agree with my father’s marriage to Yang Chunling at all.

My father married my mother not because he loved her, but because the Ling family was rich.

The money that the mother brought was taken away by the father, and most of it was spent on Yang Chunling and her three children.

Sheng Kangning didn’t know the cause of her mother’s death. She was only five years old at that time, too young.

I only remember that one month after my mother passed away, Yang Chunling brought her three children into the Sheng family.

Sheng Weidong looks exactly like Sheng Hongqi.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that Sheng Weidong is Sheng Hongqi’s biological son.

This matter caused a lot of uproar at the time.

The neighbor ate a big melon.

Grandmother was worried about Sheng Kangning, so she took him to live with her and raised him, teaching him medicine, which lasted for ten years.

Sheng Kangning returned to the Sheng family only after his grandmother passed away.

Sheng Kangning was fifteen years old that year.

When Sheng Kangning returned to the Sheng family, the eldest sister Sheng Fengjiao was already eighteen years old and took over her mother Ling Qing’s job in the hospital. Sheng Fengjiao had never studied medicine, so the hospital arranged for her to study in a nursing class for half a year.

Half a year later, I became a nurse in the hospital.

Immediately afterwards, Sheng Kangning and Sheng Fengxiang went to the countryside together.

In the second year of going to the countryside, Sheng Fengxiang fell ill and Yang Chunling found a way to bring her back to the city.

Liu Shengkangning himself stayed in the Great Northern Wilderness.

Sheng Kangning was also stupid at that time, and she believed whatever Yang Chunling said in the letter.

During the years she spent in the countryside, Yang Chunling wrote to Sheng Kangning every month.

The content of the letter began with deep concern for Sheng Kangning and asking about his well-being.

Then came the various difficulties at home.

In the letter, Yang Chunling said that Sheng Kangning’s father, Sheng Hongqi, had lung disease and had been spending money. He had borrowed all the money he could from his hometown and owed a lot of money outside.

They said Sheng Fengxiang was also sick and the family had a lot of expenses. They also said that Sheng Weidong once got into a fight with someone and his leg was broken. If he didn’t get treatment in time, he would have problems walking in the future.

Anyway, she just cried poor in front of Sheng Kangning and complained about how difficult it was for her to be a stepmother.

At that time, Sheng Kangning had no suspicion of Yang Chunling at all. He was deceived by Yang Chunling and believed the lies she told.

He was reluctant to eat or wear anything in the Great Northern Wilderness, and he mailed all the money, food coupons and even grain he saved back home.

Later, he ruined his health.

He returned to the city seven years later.

When she returned to the city, she found out that her stepmother was in a hurry to bring her back to the city because Sheng Fengxiang was pregnant.

The problem is that the man who got Sheng Fengxiang pregnant was not Sheng Fengxiang’s then fiancé Zhang Jianmin.

I heard that the Sheng family also accepted a betrothal gift of 300 yuan from the Zhang family, and Yang Chunling didn’t want to return the money.

There’s a lot of trouble going on over at the Zhang family!

Yang Chunling thought of asking Sheng Kangning to marry in her place.

Sheng Kangning was unwilling, so her stepmother Yang Chunling drugged her. Before she fell asleep, she heard her stepmother and father arguing.

During the argument, their mother Ling Qing was mentioned.

It was also at that time that Sheng Kangning learned the truth about his mother Ling Qing’s death.

The truth is that when Sheng Kangning was five years old, Yang Chunling, who was raised outside, clamored to marry her father.

She threatened her father that if he did not agree, she would write a letter of denunciation to his workplace, reporting that he had forced her, and then jump into the river with her children.

Yang Chunling forced her like this.

Father Sheng Hongqi made up his mind and went home to cook a large table of food on the night of mother Ling Qing’s birthday. He was very attentive to his mother and even coaxed her to drink some wine.

My father put enough sleeping pills in the food.

Such a good mother passed away that night.

When Sheng Kangning woke up, she found herself lying on the bed. There were only her and Zhang Jianmin in the room. For some reason, Zhang Jianmin rushed over to her when he saw Sheng Kangning wake up.

Of course Sheng Kangning refused, she didn’t even know this man named Zhang.

Sheng Kangning struggled hard, and Zhang Jianmin, in a rage, grabbed Sheng Kangning’s neck.

In his previous life, Sheng Kangning was strangled to death by Zhang Jianmin.

Thinking of this, Sheng Kangning stood in front of the Ling family’s ancestral home, tears streaming down his face.

She really had no brains at all in that life.

She is so stupid!

Just as Sheng Kangning raised his hand to wipe away his tears, there was a loud ‘bang!’

A little kid was kicked in front of Sheng Kangning. The little person struggled to get up from the ground. His face was bruised and dirty. Only his eyes, with distinct black and white, were clear and transparent.

Sheng Kangning was still wondering who this child was.

“You little bastard, you are the reincarnation of a hungry ghost! You steal everything! These are the meatballs I made for my Jin Baoer, how dare you eat them!”

A middle-aged woman rushed out from inside, with a mean look on her face.

Especially those triangular eyes that were filled with ferocity, which was terrifying to look at.

The middle-aged woman ran over and raised her hand to twist the little kid’s ears, but the little kid turned around swiftly and was behind Sheng Kangning.

Sheng Kangning also reached out to stop the middle-aged woman and said with a smile:

“Auntie! The child is ignorant, don’t be angry!”

The middle-aged woman glanced at Sheng Kangning and said impatiently:

“Who are you? I’m teaching my own child a lesson, why do you mind my business? Get out of the way! You’re still young and you’ve learned to steal food! I’ve spoiled you! Get out here now, or you won’t have any food tonight!”

At this time, the little kid hiding behind Sheng Kangning pulled Sheng Kangning’s pants tightly and whispered, “Mom!”

The child is only about two years old and can’t even pronounce words clearly.

But Sheng Kangning could feel the child’s fear, and his little hands were tightly grasping Sheng Kangning’s pants.

After hearing this, the middle-aged woman laughed:

“What the hell! Your parents are dead! Where is your mother? Get over here right now!”

Sheng Kangning frowns:

“Aunt, he’s still young. He won’t understand what you’re saying! Are you his…grandmother?”

“Who the hell do you care who I am? Get out of the way!”