The Minister's wife carefully examined Mu Lianrong and Xiao Shanhai's appearances, and asked uncertainly, "Are you Yunying's parents?"
Mu Lianrong ignored her and asked Xiao Yunying, "Girl, what happened to you? How come you're injured like this again after just one day?"
She noticed that Xiao Yunying's face was abnormally flushed, but her lips were pale and dry with peeling skin, so she touched her forehead.
"Oh dear, it's so hot! Honey, hurry up and hitch up the oxcart, Yunyun has a fever."
"Yunyun?" When the Minister's wife heard Mu Lianrong address Xiao Yunying in that way, she asked excitedly, "You call her Yunyun, which Yun?"
Mu Lianrong said irritably, "Which cloud has nothing to do with you. Go to the side and don't block the way."
The Minister's wife, however, was not giving up. Grabbing Xiao Yunying's arm, she continued to press, "I'm asking you, is there a red crescent-shaped birthmark on your left shoulder, with the character 'Yun' engraved on it?"
Upon hearing this, those who knew that Xiao Yunying possessed this characteristic changed their expressions.
Mu Lianrong opened her mouth, unsure how to deny it.
Xiao Shan Hai walked over and said, "No, my Yunyun doesn't have any birthmarks or markings like you're talking about. Don't insult her!"
Mu Lianrong then realized what was happening and pushed away the Minister's wife: "That's right, stop talking nonsense. My Yunyun is not a slave, how could she have words carved on her body?"
Xiao Yunying's slow-witted mind finally grasped the meaning behind the Minister's wife's questions, and she suddenly remembered something.
When I first met Chen Yuancheng's father, he asked me a similar question.
When Mu Lianrong was pregnant with the original owner, everyone in the village knew. The third grandmother who delivered the baby and Aunt Yang, who was close to Mu Lianrong, had both seen her premature birth. The original owner must have been her biological child.
But she did have that birthmark and some scars on her body, which she herself didn't know. It was when she bumped her shoulder after encountering the tiger that her second sister-in-law told her about it while applying medicine to her.
It's normal that my second sister-in-law is illiterate and can't recognize that the scars could form words.
As if possessed, the Minister's wife suddenly stepped forward and began to grab Xiao Yunying's collar: "I don't believe it, let me see, take off your clothes and let me see."
Mu Lianrong tried her best to block Xiao Yunying: "What are you doing? Get out of my way right now."
Zheng Yunwan and Xiao Yuntao stepped forward to try to pull the Minister's wife away, and the scene became chaotic for a while.
The women were making a ruckus, and Luo Sheng and Xiao Shanhai couldn't intervene. They could only angrily tell the guards of the Zuo residence to turn their backs and not look in their direction.
Xiao Yunying was squeezed in the middle by several people and was pulled and swayed back and forth by Madam Luo. Her mind, which was already somewhat confused due to the fever, became even more dizzy.
"No...don't touch me..."
Her voice was weak, and no one could hear her in the chaotic environment. In the end, she couldn't hold on any longer and fainted among the group.
It was Luo Sheng, who was outside the crowd, who first noticed something was wrong and shouted, "Make way!"
He squeezed through the crowd, caught Xiao Yunying around the waist before she slipped to the ground, and, not forgetting her injured buttocks, gently lifted her up and carried her back to her room.
Mu Lianrong felt sorry for her and wanted to follow, but out of the corner of her eye she saw that the Minister's wife also wanted to enter, so she pushed her out.
"Get out of here! Who let you in?!"
The Minister's wife stammered, "I...I just wanted to go in and see her..."
“I will take care of my daughter, you don’t need to worry about her, just go.”
The Minister's wife shifted her gaze to Mu Lianrong's face: "Is Yunying really your daughter?"
Mu Lianrong put her hands on her hips, ready to curse, but Xiao Shanhai patted her back reassuringly and said, "What are you saying, Madam? If Yunying isn't my daughter, whose daughter is she?"
The Minister's wife didn't say it directly, but instead looked at Xiao Yuntao and asked, "Is this young lady also your daughter?"
Mu Lianrong said impatiently, "What exactly do you want to ask?"
"This young lady does resemble you two somewhat, but Yun Ying doesn't resemble you at all. Is she really your biological daughter?"
Mu Lianrong glared at her and said, "If my daughter doesn't look like me, does she look like you?"
“She doesn’t look like me, but she looks just like my mother.”
Mu Lianrong grabbed a broom from behind the door and shooed the people in front of it away: "Get out, get out! Have you lost your mind? Coming to my house and spouting nonsense. The whole village saw me when I was pregnant with Yunying. If she wasn't my child, who else could she be? Get out of here now, or I'll hit you!"
The Minister's wife took a few steps back to avoid the broom, and said firmly, "Let me see her back. If there's no birthmark or the 'Yun' character scar..."
Mu Lianrong threw the broom in her hand at her, interrupting her: "Bullshit! You think you can see my daughter's body after just a few words? If you're crazy, go away and don't come here to annoy us."
After saying that, he closed the door directly.
The Minister's wife wanted to knock on the door, but was stopped by the nanny beside her.
“Madam, Miss Yunying is seriously ill right now, and her family is very worried. They are not in the mood to entertain you. In any case, they are all staying here and can't run away. Why don't we come back in a while, when Miss Yunying has recovered and her family has calmed down, so we can talk things over properly.”
The Minister's wife looked at the tightly closed door: "Yesterday she was wearing a veil so I couldn't see her face clearly. Although she still had some red rashes on her face, her eyebrows and eyes really looked exactly like hers..."
The old woman advised, "I saw it. This girl looks exactly like the old lady when she was young. But we can't rush this. The woman said that the whole village knew when she was pregnant with Yunying. It can't be faked. Besides, there are all sorts of strange things in this world. It's possible for people to look alike."
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