Chapter 208
"Uncle, would you like to go in and see Aunt?" Jingwu asked, her eyes crinkling with a smile.
"Yes, yes, I'll go see your aunt." Shao Che reached out and picked up his daughter, then went into the house.
Jingwu watched his uncle go inside, then reached out and pulled the trapped Shao Wanyan out, before considerately closing the door behind him.
She looked coldly at the woman in front of her, the smile on her face long gone.
Seeing this, Yue Huai didn't approach, but instead gave the ginseng to the maid and asked her to make soup first.
Then he sat back down on the stone bench.
Jingwu looked at the woman in front of him and was furious.
“I told you the day you moved in that if you dare to harm any member of the Shao family, I will kill you with my own hands.”
Hearing this, Shao Wanyan looked at her in disbelief, trying to reach out and grab her, but she was trapped and unable to move.
"Awu, I am your own mother. I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. How could you kill me for a stranger? How could you be so heartless?"
"The outsider you're talking about is the one who took me in during that cold winter, and over the years, she's been the one who has cared for me more than you, my own mother. In my heart, she is my own mother."
Jingwu looked at the woman in front of her, her eyes devoid of any affection: "I used to have illusions about you, thinking that we were at least mother and daughter. But later, I discovered that you only had Jing Shu in your heart. So I gave up on you, Shao Wanyan. You are not worthy of being a mother. No, you are not worthy of being my mother."
Hearing what the person in front of her said, Shao Wanyan's eyes widened slightly as she looked at her in disbelief.
She never expected the person in front of her to say such things, which chilled her heart as a mother!
“Awu, I know you resent me for sending you to the Taoist temple when you were young, and that's been going on for fifteen years. But it was your father's decision, not mine... You can't say these things and break my heart.”
Hearing her words, Jingwu scoffed, "You don't need to say any more nonsense. I won't kill you myself and bear the stigma of matricide. I will personally take you to see the authorities. You attempted murder, and I believe the government will provide a reasonable punishment."
As soon as he finished speaking, the woman in front of him jumped up, her expression almost manic.
"Jingwu! You are simply, you are simply a beast! You actually want to send your own mother to see the officials, you have no conscience at all!"
Shao Wanyan was completely enraged. Looking at her daughter in front of her, she wished she could devour her alive.
"Go ahead and send me there. I'll have your sister pick me up right away! You think Shao Chengrui is the only one who's become an official? Your sister married a prince who will trample you and the Shao family underfoot."
“Yes, you’ve reminded me.” Jing Wu raised his eyes and looked at her disdainfully: “Jing Shu has married into the royal family and become a concubine.”
“That’s right, so you can’t do anything to me. You send me in, and your sister will pick me up the next day. A-Shu is much more filial than you, you ungrateful wretch!” Shao Wanyan said fiercely, looking at the person in front of her.
Jingwu curled his lips and chuckled as he looked at the person in front of him.
"Yes, but if she knew that she wasn't your biological daughter, would she still be so filial to you?"
"What are you talking about?" Shao Wanyan looked at the person in front of her, her brows furrowed. "How could she not be my daughter? Jingwu, what nonsense are you spouting?"
Jingwu looked at her and smiled: "I said, you didn't give birth to twins, but only me. Jing Shu was born to Aunt Qiu, and was brought to your room by Master Jing to make it look like you gave birth to twins."
Looking at the woman's stunned expression, she smiled and asked again, "Do you still remember Aunt Qiu? The woman you caused to die in childbirth. You never imagined that you hated a courtesan like her, who shared a husband with you and became pregnant around the same time. So, you bribed her maid to poison her during childbirth, intending to kill both her and her unborn child. But you never expected that your husband would find out about this and fake her daughter as yours, making you love her for over a decade."
Upon hearing this, Shao Wanyan's mind conjured up images of Aunt Qiu's face, followed by Jing Shu's.
The two faces overlapped and were remarkably similar.
She couldn't accept it and glared fiercely at her daughter: "You're lying! You're just jealous that I've doted on A-Shu for over ten years, so you made up this lie to deceive me!"
Looking at her like this, Jingwu snorted coldly: "Think what you want. Anyway, I've already told you what happened. Whether you believe me or not is none of my business."
As soon as she finished speaking, she wanted to turn around and find the steward to take her to the government office.
Seeing that she was about to leave, Shao Wanyan immediately broke down and shouted, "Stop! Stop! Jingwu, tell me this isn't true, right?"
She really couldn't believe it, but as Aunt Qiu's face flashed through her mind, her doubts grew stronger.
She used to wonder why Ah Shu looked nothing like her, but rather more like her husband.
But now it seems that Ah Shu is indeed more like that vile woman, Aunt Qiu.
How could this be? How could this happen?
The daughter he had doted on for over a decade turned out not to be his biological child?
Impossible, absolutely impossible, Jingwu must be lying to her, she absolutely doesn't believe it!
Shao Wanyan's shout startled Shao Che and Ruan Chongyue inside the house.
Shao Che hurriedly came out, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that his niece was alright.
"What's wrong, A-Wu?"
Before Jingwu could speak, he heard Shao Wanyan ask frantically.
“Brother, brother, you know that I gave birth to two daughters that year, right? Jingwu and Ashu, right?”
Hearing this, Shao Che looked at her with great confusion.
I wasn't there when she gave birth that year.
The very next day, maids and servants came to announce the good news that she had given birth to twins, named Jingwu and Jingshu.
When he and his wife visited the Jing family, she ordered someone to send Jingwu to a Taoist temple, saying that her fate was bad.
Shao Che and Ruan Chongyue didn't even get to see Jing Wu; they only saw Jing Shu in her swaddling clothes.
Why are you asking this now?
Seeing his silence, Shao Wanyan became increasingly anxious: "Brother, please tell me! I did indeed give birth to twins, didn't I? Jingwu insists that A-Shu wasn't my child, how could she not be mine? I carried her for ten months and endured the pain of giving birth to both of them."
Shao Che listened to her words and remained silent for a long time.
If Awu says Jing Shu isn't her child, then she definitely isn't. After all, Awu doesn't lie.
He sighed deeply and said, "Wanyan, if Awu says it's not, then it's not. You have to..."
You lied to me too!
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