After hearing what Zhao Laoqi said, my heart began to pound with alarm.
When the Su Family went to the Taoist temple to find that priest, Du Yuwei and her older sister had only been about a year old.
Yet that priest had already foretold the sisters' entire lives.
That sense of inescapable fate felt stifling.
If a person's entire life had already been determined, wouldn't that mean they could escape neither fortune nor disaster?
"So back then... the Su Family decided to send Du Yuwei's older sister away?" Song Xiaotian asked.
Zhao Laoqi nodded. "I went to Du Yuwei's hometown to investigate and asked the Su Family's relatives. Neither of her parents could bear to send either child away, but they had no choice. One thing after another went wrong at home. They had to believe it, whether they wanted to or not."
"But as parents, they certainly couldn't bring themselves to send both away. So which one would they send away in the end? They agonized over that for a long time too."
"In the end, they decided to send away the best-behaved one-Du Yuwei's older sister."
"Because that child rarely cried or fussed, and people liked her. Du Yuwei cried and fussed a lot when she was little. If they sent her away and people found her annoying, her parents would naturally worry that strangers wouldn't treat her well."
We all sighed.
It really was the crying child who got the milk, while the well-behaved one went unloved.
She had been sent away precisely because she was well-behaved.
"Then where did Du Yuwei's older sister end up?" I asked.
Zhao Laoqi said, "They sent her to an orphanage. After all, that priest had said the sisters had been evil people in their previous lives and had committed