Chapter 2 — A Nhuoc's New Parents

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Early the next morning, I came from the street to visit my father. He knelt on the cushion, his back straight. Seeing me coming, not only did he not feel guilty, but on the contrary he sighed.

“A Nhuoc, yesterday you disappointed father too much.”

"My younger brother Nguyen Bao's life is pitiful. I'm an older sister, I can't even bear to give up a lamp, how will I become a noble lady in the future?"

It's not the first time he said these words. Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, he said he would take me to the street to buy gourd candy. As a result, Aunt Lieu came to find him and said Nguyen Bao had a fever. He directly left me behind, told me to go home on my own, then turned around and hugged Nguyen Bao to the medical clinic. That day I was pushed down on the street and my knee was broken. After returning, he didn't ask a single question, just blamed me for not running around. This spring, my grandfather sent someone to bring me the most popular fabric in Jiangnan, saying it was to make spring clothes for me. His father secretly cut off half of it and asked someone to give it to Concubine Lieu, saying that Nguyen Bao did not have nice clothes to wear, and people would laugh at him when he went out. Every time. As long as there is something related to Nguyen Bao, our belongings must be divided. Because Nguyen Bao did not have a father, my father had to become his father. I looked into my father's eyes and asked word by word:

“Poor Nguyen Bao, so you want to be his father?”

My parents frowned.

"What nonsense? Father only helped the orphan mother and daughter a little. You have to understand things, don't keep comparing yourself with your aunt Lieu."

“I don't need to understand.”

I took a step back, my voice echoed clearly.

"If you like Nguyen Bao so much, go ahead and become his father. Anyway, mother is very powerful, I will tell her to find me a new father."

The father was stunned, then his face turned pale.

"Does To Thanh Lam normally teach his child like that? Teaching him to be disrespectful to his biological father and to speak nonsense?"

He stood up to teach me a lesson. The door from the street was pushed open. Mother walked in with a few maids.

“Where is it confused?”

The mother looked straight at the father.

"Tham Minh Tu, if you want to be a rotten good person, don't use my daughter's resentment to cover up your kindness. Last night I wrote a letter to my father. My Su family's daughter cannot stand this useless frustration."

My father was so angry that he lost his temper.

"You are crazy! Just because of a flower lantern, you startled your father-in-law?"

“More than just a lamp.”

His mother threw a bunch of books in his face.

"For the past two years, you have used the proceeds from the shop in my Su family's dowry to secretly subsidize your mother and child Liu Suong, a total of three thousand taels of silver."

"And in the name of A Nhuoc, he bought a school admission for Nguyen Bao. He pretended to be a Bodhisattva, and forced my mother and I to spend money on incense and fire. There is no such morality in this world."

The father was speechless and could not say anything. I held my mother's hand and went out.

“Mother, do you agree to give me a new father?”

The mother laughed.

“As long as A Nhuoc likes it, don't say exchange for one person, exchange for ten people is fine.”

In the afternoon, my mother took me out to patrol the shop. The carriage stopped in front of the largest restaurant in the southern city. As soon as I got out of the car, I saw Nguyen Bao and Concubine Lieu standing on the side of the road. Nguyen Bao held a stick of gourd candy in his hand and was crying loudly. Concubine Willow admitting fault to a man. The man was very tall and had a long sword on his waist. Nguyen Bao's gourd candy fell to the ground, covered in mud. It pointed at that man and cried loudly:

"You give me gourd candy! My father is Master Tham of the Minister's Palace, I will tell him to arrest you!"

“Master Shen of the Minister's Palace?”

Lazy male voice.

"Why do I remember that old man Tham Minh Tu only has one daughter? Do you dare to pretend to be young master of the Tham family here?"

Nieu Concubine Liu's face was pale, she didn't dare say a word. I recognized that man as General Dinh Vien Bui Kieu Nhien. Before that, the border was victorious and he had just led the army back to the capital. Patriarch said he was an evil star that could not be touched. I pulled away from the maid's hand and ran straight past.

"Uncle Bui is right, he is not my father's son. You are the Tham family's daughter."

Bui Kieu Nhien bowed his head and looked at me. He raised his eyebrows.

“To Thanh Lam's daughter?”

I nodded. He took out a silver bar from his chest and threw it to the seller of gourds next to him.

“Pull out all the remaining gourd candy on that straw stake and give it to this little girl.”

The seller quickly followed suit, stuffing me with a large bunch of red gourd candy. I can't even hug you. Nguyen Bao stood next to him, watching, salivating. Bui Kieu Nhien patted my head.

“Remember, don't learn from your father's resentful appearance in the future.”

I looked at Bui Kieu Nhien, quietly thinking, the person chosen to be the new father seems to already have a clue.