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Sixteen years ago, at Yao Xi.

The green mountain was spread out in the distance, and the tiled roof of the house was hidden by the smoke of the peach blossoms.

A woman wearing a blue and white flowery short pants and holding a long bamboo pole followed behind a group of shrieking ducks. The girl was even more beautiful than a peach blossom. Her skin was snow-white and delicate, not like a farm girl. However, she was carrying a basket full of pigweed on her back.

The weight of the pigweed caused her slender back to bend slightly. Her cheeks were scorching hot from the sun and sweat was flowing down her body.

The woman had been used to doing this since she was young. Every morning, after feeding the sows in the pigsty, she would drive the ducks to the stream to swim while carrying a basket on her back to pull some pigweed. After the pigweed had filled a basket, he had to carry the basket and rush the ducks home. The cycle repeated, and the rain could not be delayed.

Her eyes narrowed as she wiped them away with her sleeve. She lowered her head and continued walking.

As he was walking closer to the house, he heard a man's hoarse voice coming from the noisy yard.

The woman was called Ma Xianglan, the fifth child of the Yao Xi Ma family, and the first four were all her older brothers. Normally, the whole family would be very precious to girls, but the Ma family was the opposite, Ma Xianglan had been bullied by the four older brothers since she was young, so she was responsible for all the chores in the family.

Ma Xianglan saw that the other girls had all been reading since young, or learning embroidery, and only she could do so much. She only hated herself for being Ma's daughter, and hated herself for giving birth to the wrong baby!

"No!" I don't agree! Xiang Lan has left, who can help us wash and cook? "

Just as Ma Xianglan walked to the door, she heard second brother's voice coming from the courtyard. She stopped pushing the door and immediately chased the ducks under the locust tree to the side, listening attentively to what was being said in the courtyard.

Go? Where to go?

Could it be that her parents were going to sell her to the crippled girl from the neighboring village to be his wife?

The Cripple from the neighboring village had come to visit early to kiss Xiang Lan. He had already killed three of his wives and came to the Ma family to promise three bags of rice and two pigs to marry Xiang Lan.

At that time, Father readily agreed, saying that the village head third sister was only worth a pig. Xiang Lan had made a huge profit, but the Mother had been worried about this all along, and after hesitating for a while, said that she would think about it, and sent the Cripple away first.

Xiang Lan was panicking in her heart, she did not want to marry Cripple, and did not want to be killed so easily.

She had never stepped out of the Yao Xi, nor had she gone into the town. She wanted to go take a look …

"What a fool!" "I will pay you fifty silver taels!" Third Brother's voice rang out, "A full fifty liang!" It is enough for you to find three to five maids to wait upon you from white to black, and you still fear that no one will be able to wash and cook for you? "

Fifty silver taels? Ma Xianglan was so scared that her heart started to palpitate. She had heard so much money in her life, this was the first time she had ever heard of it.

Not that cripple, definitely not that cripple, where did he get so much silver?

Then who was it … Would he spend so much money for her?

Ma Xianglan knew that she looked good, but in this Yao Xi, even the prettiest woman was not lacking, and she had never heard of any other girl who was so valuable.

Ma Xianglan couldn't think of anyone in the world who would be so rich, and even fall for her. But a voice in her heart was telling her that she was going!

No matter who that person was, since he was able to take out so much silver, he must have a good family background. No matter what, it was better than staying in the Ma family.

If she missed this opportunity, she, Ma Xianglan, might really marry the Cripple from the village next door!

"In my opinion, we should still ask Xiang Lan's opinion." "There's an eighty to ninety percent chance that people who have authority have power. Although Xiang Lan normally doesn't seem to be much of a talker, she still has a heart of her own. If she is not willing, then send it over and do something out of line. If she angers him, then she will carefully vent her anger and come to our Ma family! "

"Big Bro has thought it through!"

Just as Ol 'Four was about to chime in, the courtyard door was pushed open. Ma Xianglan did not even bother asking, and immediately said: "I'll go!"

It wasn't until the night before Ma Xianglan left the Ma family that she found out from her mother that she wasn't the Ma family's biological daughter.

Not long after Ma Xianglan's mother, the Deng family, gave birth to their fourth son, Ol 'Four became ill. The Ma family's couple had taken their youngest son to see a doctor, but they were unable to cure him.

The couple felt their hearts ache. Just when they were worrying about not being able to do anything, they heard that there was a Temple of Beneficence in the capital. The Bodhisattva in the temple was very intelligent.

The couple immediately handed their three sons to their neighbors to look after. They carried their younger son across the mountains and rivers as they headed towards the capital.

After kneeling in front of the Bodhisattva of the Tzu En Temple for three days, they asked for censer ashes to flush the water and feed their younger son. The couple did their best and had no choice but to bring their son home to heaven.

It was the worst rain in the capital in decades.

The rain had piled up to their knees, so the two of them couldn't get out of the way. They had to temporarily live in the back hall of Tzu En Temple. On the third day where they were staying, there was a little Shamei who came to deliver the fast food and seemingly asked them three questions.

First, he wanted to know if they were people from the capital, where they lived, second, he wanted to know their purpose in coming to the capital, and when they would return. Third, he wanted to know when they would return to the capital again.

After asking all three questions, he just happened to have finished arranging the dishes.

In the blink of an eye, the second day, a baby girl was delivered into their hands. With the baby, and all the money for the return trip.

The Ma couple took the baby girl after a moment of hesitation. They assumed that the aunt of some rich family had a girl that she didn't want, so they gave her away.

Since he had some money to use, he might as well just throw the child away on the road.

Along the way, they tried several times to throw away their children. They already had four children at home, so wouldn't it be a burden to have a girl who was too weak to plow the fields?

The couple thought that perhaps this was the decree of the Buddha. When they saved a child, the Buddha saved their child, but after thinking about it, in the end, they still brought the girl back to Shuzhou, and named her Ma Xianglan.

Now, it was precisely the people from the capital who came to search, and the Ma couple saw that they could not hide it, thus revealing Ma Xianglan's background to them.

Ma Xianglan felt the world spinning around him when she heard this, he couldn't even stand straight.

She had never imagined that she would come from such a remote and unreachable capital. She might even be the daughter of a rich family. Ma Xianglan was more elated than she ever had been. She wished she could grow wings and fly to the capital immediately. At that time, not to mention cooking for others, there might even be a personal maid serving him.

All the suffering she had endured for the past ten odd years had vanished like smoke in thin air. Ma Xianglan was so happy that she was about to jump. The person from the capital specially used three carriages to pick her up. She was even afraid that Ma Xianglan would miss her home, so she found a lady from the Yao Xi who was always on good terms with him.

When she arrived at the courtyard in the capital, she was extremely happy. She felt that the timing was right, and she wanted to grab onto this life that was completely different from before. Therefore, Ma Xianglan was extremely obedient and obedient. She would never ask who the person who picked her up or what they wanted her to do, she would do whatever they wanted her to do.

He lived in a large house with no end in sight. He lived in luxury for nearly a year, learning to read, play chess, draw paintings, learn etiquette, even learning to love to eat, do what he liked, laugh when he heard something, and frown when he heard something.

Even Qi Nian learned all sorts of things. The two of them were confused and confused, but they were afraid that they would no longer live a luxurious life. Gritting their teeth, they trained until the middle of the night every day just for the sake of doing everything right.

In the end, Ma Xianglan felt that her fingers had become crystal clear, and the air she exhaled carried a faint fragrance of flowers. From that day onwards, the people in the house told her that she was no longer Ma Xianglan, but Gao Jia instead.

She even took out a few portraits to tell her everyone's name, what they liked to eat, what their personalities were, and how they were related to Gao Jia.

Until this day, Ma Xianglan finally understood that she had always been learning to be the shadow of others.