Adopting A Stray Cat Chapter 400 Dying with Grievance1

Chapter 400: Chapter 400 Dying with Grievance_1

Qin Sisi didn’t speak anymore, she was confident this mother and son pair were not malevolent spirits. She believed that she could persuade them, so there was no need to rush.

After a while, the woman gave Qin Sisi a once-over, and in a gentler tone, she said, "My maiden na is Lu, and people call

Qiao Niang. How should I address you?"

Qin Sisi slightly smiled and replied, "My last na is Qin, Qin Sisi."

"Ms. Qin, nice to et you." Qiao Niang slightly nodded her head as a way of greeting Qin Sisi.

After a mont of hesitation, Qiao Niang finally asked, "Ms. Qin, can you really help

fulfill my wish?"

Qin Sisi nodded her head and said, "As long as I can, it won’t be a problem. However, there’s one thing - I do not kill."

Qiao Niang gave a bitter smile and said, "The people who wronged us, forced us to our deaths, have been dead for many years now. There is no one left for

to kill."

Qin Sisi looked at Qiao Niang, filled with sympathy, and softly asked, "Who could be so cruel? The child is still so young."

Qiao Niang’s face showed a hint of grief and anger, as she replied with trembling lips, "It was my husband and his family."

"What?" Qin Sisi was taken aback. The husband, wasn’t he the child’s father? How could he be so heartless to force his wife and child to their deaths?

It seed as though Qiao Niang had anticipated Qin Sisi’s reaction. Sighing deeply, she started to share her tragic story while staring at the snowy sky.

The story was straightforward, but the unraveling was tragic.

Born into an average farming family, known for her attractive face and skillful hands, she was called Qiao Niang by the folks.

At eighteen, she was married into the local Han family per her parent’s arrangent and the matchmaker’s word.

The Han family made a modest living, a comfortable household.

Qiao Niang was gentle and sensible, loved by her husband and in-laws, and her married life was harmonious.

A year later, she gave birth to a son, nad Kang Kang, aning health and peaceful life.

Everything was going well until Kang’s second year, when suddenly, rumors circulated that Kang was not the biological child of Qiao Niang’s husband.

Rumor has it that a repeated lie becos the truth; Qiao Niang’s life had imdiately been thrown into turmoil.

Unable to bear the lies, her husband requested a blood test in front of the family.

Perhaps in his heart, he didn’t believe the rumors and hoped to prove Qiao Niang’s innocence and silence these hurtful tongues.

Qiao Niang, confident of her virtue, readily agreed to the blood test.

However, what unfolded was beyond her imagination.

In front of all the family elders, the blood of Qiao Niang’s husband and Kang Kang was dripped into a bowl of water. After a short while, the two drops of blood stayed distinct and did not rge.

This revelation struck Qiao Niang like a bolt from the blue, and she stumbled in disbelief before the striking scene.

Qiao Niang’s husband, stupefied, slowly filled with rage and feelings of humiliation.

Soone suggested the possibility of the child being swapped at birth, thereby aning Kang Kang was not the biological child of Qiao Niang and her husband.

Clinging to a shred of hope, a fresh bowl of water was brought. A new blood test was carried out between Qiao Niang and Kang Kang.

The result was, Qiao Niang and Kang Kang’s blood rged.

Her husband, in a fit of rage, slapped Qiao Niang and stord off.

Qiao Niang, covering half her face, teared up, but had no words to defend herself.

What was supposed to be a testimony of her innocence had turned into a conviction of her unfaithfulness.

Qiao Niang could not understand why - she had never been unfaithful, and Kang Kang was definitely her husband’s flesh and blood. Why couldn’t their blood mix together?

However, back then, nobody could give her an answer, and no one would sympathize with an unfaithful woman.

As the year-end approached, Qiao Niang was locked in a shed for three days. On New Year’s Eve, her husband’s household issued a divorce decree, driving her and Kang Kang out of their ho.

The sky was overcast, and soon a heavy snow started to fall.

Qiao Niang took slight pride in her virtue and felt no need to return to her parent’s ho. Unwilling to be wronged, she knelt with her son in the wind and snow outside her husband’s house, loudly voicing her grievances, swearing an oath of innocence by blood.

She thought her husband would, considering their years of affection, believe her for once and help her bring the truth to light.

But the young Qiao Niang could not truly understand a man’s heart - the sha of supposed betrayal had cast an irreparable shadow over her husband’s heart, and any feelings towards his wife had been severed by his rage.

So there was no one to open the door for her or to persuade her to leave.

Thus, Qiao Niang and Kang Kang knelt in front of the door, refusing to leave.

"Mommy, I’m hungry." Kang’s innocent voice tugged at Qiao Niang’s heartstrings.

"Kang Kang, be good, wait for a bit longer. Your daddy will co pick us up soon and we’ll have good food." Qiao Niang gently comforted her son, still harboring hope for her husband.

The evening grew darker, the snowstorm worsened, and the temperature dropped lower and lower.

On the morning of the New Year’s Day, what knelt in front of the door of Qiao Niang’s husband’s house were two frozen bodies.

Having divorced her the previous day, the husband’s family naturally refused to acknowledge Qiao Niang and Kang Kang.

Qiao Niang’s own family too, believed she went against the marital virtue and decency, thus leaving them to their fate and refused to claim their bodies.

In the end, the mother and son duo’s bodies were dumped in the mass graves.

Qiao Niang passed away bearing her grievances, resentful and indignant. She refused to follow the ssenger of Death to the underworld to reincarnate, and had since been wandering around this area with Kang Kang for hundreds of years.

The mother and son kept each other company, which was a consolation amidst the loneliness.

Qiao Niang was wary knowing the underworld was a place where survival of the fittest reigned, hence she was very cautious and rarely showed herself.

This night, coincidentally New Year’s Eve, had a heavy snowfall and was also the death anniversary of Qiao Niang and Kang Kang. Unfortunately, no one would burn paper or light an incense for them.

The mother and son pair, lonely and unable to voice their grievances, were overwheld with grief on this snowy night, and hence appeared to cry.

Unbeknownst to them, Qin Sisi and Ye You who were passing by heard their cries and ca looking.

After listening to Qiao Niang’s story, Qin Sisi was overwheld with mixed emotions. She felt sympathy for Qiao Niang’s plight, angered by the ignorance of people from a bygone era, and chilled by the heartlessness of Qiao Niang’s husband.

Having read about blood tests on the internet, Qin Sisi knew that the ancient thod of verifying kinship through blood mix test was not reliable at all.

However, the unreliable blood test had beco the shackles that Qiao Niang could not break in her life or death.

Qiao Niang could not comprehend why Kang Kang, who was certainly her husband’s flesh and blood, couldn’t have his blood rge with his father’s.

Despite her confident innocence, the failure of their blood to rge was undeniable evidence of her supposed unfaithfulness. No amount of eloquence could overturn this evidence. She was forever branded with the mark of unfaithfulness.

Unless the reason for the lack of blood lding was found and her innocence proven, she was not willing to reincarnate and start a new life, forgetting her past life.