Chapter 83 - 0083: Choosing a Homestead 3_1
Speaking of the past, Lu’s father found himself hard to stop.
"Your eldest brother tried to stop people from disturbing your grandparents. He was beaten badly, damaging bones and muscles. He could not receive proper medical treatment afterward, which left chronic health problems. Later, your eldest sister-in-law’s family suffered. Her father was a scholar and had been a private school teacher before. He was declared a class enemy and her brother, who had studied abroad, was considered a spy and killed on the spot. These events have implicated her, the married daughter. She had just given birth to Tianzhi and hadn’t even finished her postnatal month yet. She suffered a lot of torment. Consequently, both your eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law passed away one after the other."
Feng Qingxue was deeply moved by this point.
Apparently, Lu Jiang’s elder brother and sister-in-law did not merely die because they were pampered before their home got ransacked and couldn’t bear the hardships afterward. Rather, they didn’t survive the relatively minor torments in the midst of such turmoil.
It turned out that Lu Jiang’s grandparents and mother all died suddenly after Lu Jiang’s elder siblings, not the other way around.
With misty eyes, Lu’s father spoke about the passing of the elder family members, "If the Lu family had been unkind and wealthy, it might not be too far stretched to call this a retribution. But since my birth till now, we’ve never done anything immoral, and we’ve even financially supported the anti-Japan revolutionary efforts. Why have we fallen to such a state? Losing family members and affecting Ajiang’s future prospects."
If it was not because of family background issues, Lu Jiang, who had a prestigious origin, was good at both literature and martial arts, and had made countless contributions in several battles, would not have been only a mere school-level deputy regimental commander.
What could Feng Qingxue say to this? She could only comfort Lu’s father as before.