Chapter 266: Exchanging Lives
There were many names written on the note in his hand. Lu Xinran looked at them one by one and found that many of them were trivial.
For her, this kind of melon is a pity to throw away, but it is too tiring to eat. After looking at a few in a row, she didn't want to look at any more.
[Forget it, I'll eat the last one. If it's still so boring, I won't watch it anymore. ]
Everyone: “?!!”
No, you may think it's boring, but we think it's just right!
Everyone held their breath for fear of missing the last melon. Even the emperor put down his wine glass, took the handkerchief from Eunuch Fu, and wiped his hands carefully again and again.
[Hey, this is quite interesting! ]
Some surprising voices emerged in everyone's ears, and just when everyone was looking forward to her subsequent words, the voice in her heart suddenly stopped.
After a long while, a sigh was heard by everyone.
[It turns out there is such a bloody thing as exchanging lives! 】
Lu Xinran flipped through the booklet and sighed several times. After arousing everyone's curiosity, his inner voice finally emerged like a natural sound.
[Ah, I really don't know whether the concubine is too courageous or the mistress is too naive. She never thought that the concubine would dare to plot against her. ]
[The eldest son of Wen Shilang, the Minister of Personnel, his favorite concubine gave birth on the same day as his wife. She gave birth to a daughter, and his wife gave birth to a son.]
[She didn't want her daughter to be a concubine and suffer with her, and she was also afraid that without a son to protect her, she would be left alone in the future. So she secretly bribed the nanny and midwife who worked with the mistress, and swapped the two children on the night of the birth.]
[But after all, he was not her biological son. She would beat and scold her legitimate son, and then force him to be filial to her when he grows up.]
[She kept whispering in Wen Qijun's ear, worried that he was too outstanding and would be discovered by the mistress, and also worried that he was too poor and would not be able to support herself in her old age.]
[She was inconsistent and scolded him every day, which made Wen Qijun timid and cowardly. No matter who he saw, he dared not even breathe.]
[And the daughter she gave birth to was raised by the mistress, eating the best food every day, and was also arranged to marry in October.]
The more Lu Xinran watched, the more she sighed. She always felt that this scene was inexplicably similar to her and Lu Xinlan.
Not far away, behind Minister Wen, the eldest daughter-in-law clenched her hands into fists, never expecting that the daughter she had raised with all her heart was actually the bastard's bastard's child.
She even put half of her dowry into the dowry list of this bastard, for fear that she would be looked down upon in her husband's family after she got married.
Wen Tianren beside her was completely stunned. She had never known that she was not her mother's daughter.
Every time her father's concubine saw her, her expression was very strange, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, so weird that she didn't dare to look at her for more than a second.
How come...she became the biological daughter of that concubine?
She came back to her senses from the shock and turned to see her mother who used to love her so much, now with a look of pain and struggle on her face. Her heart suddenly cooled.
She robbed her mother of more than ten years of her own life. Her mother... must hate her to death.
The Lu family had not expected this outcome. Pei turned around to look at her two granddaughters.
Having their identities swapped should be the biggest concern in both of their hearts.
Even though the two sisters acted particularly close, after this incident... she was afraid that the hidden dangers caused by this incident would explode sooner or later.
Lu Xinran was still flipping through the booklet, [Really, hey, in fact, if the eldest lady of the Wen family pays attention, she will find that the girl she keeps by her side is not similar to her at all. ]
[Wen Tian's hooked eyes are almost identical to that concubine's. Even the curve of her lips when she smiles, as well as her figure and stature, are not the same as hers at all.]
[And the son who was raised as an outcast by the concubine was almost the exact same image as her brother from her mother's side.]
[How could she never have doubted such direct details? Wouldn't her own blood really give her a subconscious sense of closeness?]
Her doubts instantly became the doubts of everyone in the courtyard.
The eldest lady of the Wen family clenched her hands tightly. She... of course she had doubts.
But that damn nanny would always say that the bitch was lucky because she was able to give birth to a child who looked like the master, and she would not make things too difficult for her for the sake of that bastard.
How could she have imagined that the bastard would dare to deceive the truth and replace her precious son!
Her body was shaking constantly. Years of nurturing made it impossible for her to immediately turn against her daughter.
But when she thought about how her own son was raised by that bastard and became like that, she hated him so much that she wanted to eat his flesh and blood alive.
[She is getting married in October, and she is marrying the grandson of Minister Cao... As expected, different backgrounds lead to completely different families.]
If Wen Tian had not taken over someone else's identity, she would have been able to marry into the Shangshu Mansion, and the person she would have married would probably have been a bastard like her.
The faces of the Cao family members who were mentioned by her were not very good at this time, especially Jin, who was going to marry her son in two months.
This marriage matter...what should I do?
If it weren't for this incident, she would have been extremely satisfied with her daughter-in-law both in appearance and character.
But even though she was born out of wedlock, her aunt still used such means to turn her into a legitimate daughter, and everyone heard it under such circumstances. It was not appropriate to cancel this marriage, but it was also very annoying to continue it.
The Queen Mother stroked the Bodhi seed on her wrist with her fingers, and suddenly she remembered that when the old man was still in power, there was a similar incident in the harem where a cat replaced a prince.
However, the concubine's actions were not very efficient and her mortal enemy discovered it and reported it to the old man.
The old woman was disgusted and suffocated the concubine, her newborn baby, and the child who was sent to the palace to death.
If it weren't for what happened today, she would have forgotten all these years.
And if those two concubines had not killed each other, she would not have been able to reap the benefits and let her son receive more attention from the old man.
Change the child... She gently twisted the beads with her fingertips and silently recited Amitabha in her heart.