She was robbed by the leader of the family and had three children.

Chapter 250 Where are your children?

After listening to Tong Xiuya's narration, Ye Shu couldn't calm down for a long time.

Tong Xiuya's experience can really be described as ups and downs.

It turns out that she comes from a merchant family and is 36 years old this year.

During the feudal period, the Tong family had some members who served as officials and some who were engaged in business, and the family as a whole was a prosperous one.

But it was precisely this family background that led to a great degree of exploitation by the imperial court in the late Qing Dynasty.

A large part of the family property was confiscated.

I originally thought that I could replace some of my family members with officials, but I didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty would fall.

The country was engulfed in war, the Tong family lost power, and their business was severely hit by the war, and the Tong family began to decline.

But after all, they were once rich. As the saying goes, it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Therefore, the Tong family has always dreamed of working hard to revitalize the family.

Therefore, the person in charge of the Tong family wanted to marry into the Jia family and then use the power of the Jia family to revitalize the Tong family.

The girl chosen from the Tong family at that time was Tong Xiu Ya, who was only 28 years old that year.

Do you think this is just a business marriage?

Not really. At that time, the Jia family did not have any single young men of marriageable age. However, the Tong family wanted to use the power of the Jia family to ask him to marry his legitimate daughter to a branch of the Jia family, which was impossible.

So in the end, Tong Xiu Ya married the first heir of the Jia family as the legitimate daughter. He was already 30 years old at that time and had a wife and two concubines.

After Tong Xiu Ya got married, she became the third concubine.

Of course she fought and tried to escape, but it was useless. She was so young at that time, and she was not the heroine of a happy novel. In such an environment, she had no way to escape.

Later she became pregnant with triplets.

Speaking of this, one of the reasons why the Jia family agreed to marry into the Tong family was because the Tong family had the gene for multiple births.

Tong Xiuya's grandmother and aunt both gave birth to twins, and Tong Xiuya herself is also one of the twins.

So after she became pregnant, everyone thought she was having twins because her belly was so big.

Then, just like what happened in many novels and TV dramas about palace fighting, she was plotted against during her pregnancy, fell down when she was only 8 months pregnant, and gave birth prematurely.

When three children were born, everyone was shocked.

However, due to premature pregnancy, unrest at the time, and insufficient medical care, one of the three children died soon after.

Her health was damaged due to postpartum hemorrhage, and it is likely that she will not be able to have children in the future.

However, of the three children she gave birth to with great effort, one died young, and she could not keep the remaining two, as they were taken away by the wife of the first house.

It turned out that the wife had only given birth to a daughter, and the condition for her husband to take concubines was that all the sons born by those concubines had to be given to her to raise and all of them had to be registered under her name.

The reason why Tong Xiu Ya's two living children, a boy and a girl, were eventually taken away by the main wife was because the Jia family wanted to control the Tong family and did not want to give the Tong family too much power and illusions.

In other words, the Jia family agreed to marry Tong Xiu Ya just because of her pregnant belly, and they didn't really want to help the Tong family get back on their feet.

Because the domestic situation was already very unclear at this time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that everyone was in danger.

Tong Xiuya was unable to fight against the group of enemies alone, and in the end she could only watch the children being taken away.

At that time, she thought about asking the Tong family for help. But when she returned to her parents' home after her confinement, she found that the Tong family had long been deserted and no one had been found.

All of the Tong family's properties were sold.

She went to ask the aristocratic families familiar with the Tong family for news, but no one knew where the Tong family had gone. They could only guess that they must have come out of seclusion.

As to whether he went abroad or to Hong Kong, Taipei or Macau, I am not sure.

Tong Xiu Ya was completely abandoned. She was deeply shocked at that time and fell seriously ill when she returned home. If the maid who took care of her had not told her that the young lady was sick with a fever, she might not have survived.

The daughter she gave birth to had a fever, but the main wife did not pay much attention to it. She even refused to see a doctor on the grounds that there was no doctor available.

He threw her out of the main house and ignored her, saying that he was afraid that her illness would pass on to her brother.

At that time, her brother was the only son of the Jia family's generation, so he naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Tong Xiu Ya was of course reluctant to see her daughter die of exhaustion, so she dragged her sick body to take good care of her daughter, and used her only dowry to hire a doctor and buy medicine, and finally saved her daughter's life.

She thought that she could depend on her daughter from now on, but she didn't expect that after the wife found out that her daughter had recovered from her illness, she would take her away again.

Speaking of this, Tong Xiuya was obviously very sad, choking and crying uncontrollably.

Ye Shu looked at her like this, and lamented that being a woman was not easy, and it was even harder for women in troubled times. She felt bad, and when she opened her mouth, she realized her voice was hoarse:

"What happened next? You were kicked out of their family and married into the Zhu family?"

Tong Xiuya lowered her head and said nothing. After a long while, she slowly shook her head and seemed to smile: "Later, the domestic situation improved. Families like the Jia family..."

At first, the Jia family was optimistic and dismissed all the servants, concubines and other relatives in the house, thinking that everything would be fine.

In order to show that his family wealth had been spent, he gave out a large amount of severance pay, and every person who was laid off received a considerable amount of money.

This incident caused a big stir at the time.

The Jia family did this, of course, to break everyone's impression of their wealth, but it ended up causing great harm to Tong Xiu Ya and other people who were dismissed.

Because they had money and came from capitalist families, they were considered small landlords.

It was impossible for the common people to do anything to the Jia family because they played a very important role in the country at that time, but they could vent their anger by criticizing "small landlords" like Tong Xiuya!

Tong Xiu Ya ran away because of the Tong family. She had no way to return home and nowhere to go. Also, because she was from the Tong family and was a rich concubine released by the Jia family, she was subjected to very harsh criticism and targeting at the time.

She had no place to live and no one was willing to take her in. Those who were willing to take her in were only attracted by her money and beauty.

In the end, she was sleeping on the streets, her money was robbed, and she was raped by Zhu Youbing. She had no choice but to marry him.

The reason why Zhu Youbing took a fancy to her was not only because she was good-looking, but also because she had the gene to give birth to triplets.

That's why he didn't mind that she was married and had children.

But little did she know that her health had been damaged for a long time, so even after being married for almost fifteen years, she still hadn't gotten pregnant!

As early as the second year of her marriage, when she was still pregnant, the Zhu family began to torture her. Because of her background, she dared not resist, because even if she left the Zhu family, she would have nowhere to go.

Ye Shu's heart was filled with complex emotions, and he had so many things to say, but in the end, he only asked, "What about the Jia family? Where are your children?"