"Ah?" This news was quite unexpected for Yang Hao as he slightly widened his eyes, "You're saying that Qiao Qinghe's wife is Fan De'an's mother?"
"Yes." Yang Ye nodded and began to recount the sequence of events.
"Qiao Qinghe's wife Fang Qin was three years older than Qiao Qinghe. 'A woman three years older, a treasure to hold,' as the saying goes. She had just married and given birth to a healthy son when misfortune struck, as floods ravaged her hometown. That year, she was swept away by the floods while holding her child, but luckily, they were saved, and both mother and child survived."
"The one who saved her was Fan De'an's father, an ordinary Juren, with a modest family fortune, who just happened to have lost his wife."
"One separated from her husband, the other a widower in middle age, so the two of them ended up together."
"And Fan De'an was actually Qiao Qinghe's very son."