Mu Lianrong, who had just returned home, pulled Xiao Shanhai into the house.
No one knows what the old couple said inside. When the door was opened again, Xiao Shanhai had a complicated expression, while Mu Lianrong went to the backyard with red eyes to kill a chicken and stew it.
She ate something casually, and when the chicken soup was ready, she personally brought it over in an earthenware pot.
When she arrived, Xiao Yunying was still asleep. Seeing Luo Sheng sleeping beside her, she didn't go in to disturb him. Instead, she went to the living room and chatted casually with Zheng Yunwan.
I would come over to check on her every now and then. This time, I heard voices before I even opened the door, and I knew that Xiao Yunying had woken up. Just as I was about to push the door open, I heard what Luo Sheng said.
Mu Lianrong stopped pushing the door open immediately, standing in front of the door somewhat at a loss.
She clenched her hands nervously, afraid of hearing Xiao Yunying say the last thing she wanted to hear.
Luo Sheng twitched his ears and heard footsteps stop in front of the door, but he didn't say anything.
Xiao Yunying kept her head down and didn't say anything, no one knew what she was thinking.
Luo Sheng tentatively asked, "Do you want to acknowledge her?"
"I don't acknowledge it."
She answered very quickly and firmly, as if she had already thought it through.
"May I ask why? Is it because of Zuo Lanzhi?"
Xiao Yunying nodded: "If she could raise a daughter with Zuo Lanzhi's temperament, she probably can't be a very good person either. She tolerated Zuo Lanzhi bullying me like this. If I didn't have you and Chen Yuancheng backing me up, and if I didn't have the gold medal personally bestowed by the Emperor, and I was just an ordinary peasant girl, I'm afraid I would have been beaten to death by her good daughter."
But she turned a blind eye, ignored it, and didn't care about other people's lives. I would never acknowledge someone like that as my mother. In this world, I only recognize my current mother.
If the Minister's wife were reasonable, he would be willing to give her a kind look, even just for the sake of the original owner of this body.
Now, the mother-daughter bond that could only be stirred by a trace of blood ties has been completely severed by Zuo Lanzhi.
Hearing Xiao Yunying's words, Mu Lianrong, who was outside the door, felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from her heart, and her eyes welled up with tears.
Zheng Yunwan, who had just come out of the waiting room, saw Mu Lianrong standing at the door and called out softly, "Godmother."
Mu Lianrong quickly lowered her head to wipe away her tears and quietly walked over.
"Godmother, what's wrong with you?"
"It's alright, Yunyun is awake. I'll go heat up some chicken soup for her."
Zheng Yunwan assumed that Mu Lianrong was happy that Xiao Yunying had woken up: "Sister Yunying is awake? I'll go see her."
"Don't go yet," Mu Lianrong called out to her. "Yunyun is talking to Luo Sheng. Let's go in later."
"Okay, then I'll go with my godmother to prepare some food for Sister Yunying."
Xiao Yunying, who was inside the room, did not notice that someone had come and gone outside the door. She was wondering how the Minister's wife had lost her daughter.
"How did she lose her daughter in the first place?"
"It's a long story..."
"It's okay, just tell me a story."
“Alright.” Luo Sheng said helplessly, “The Minister’s wife’s father is the Jianwei General of the current dynasty. He and my grandfather are both military officers. He is currently a first-rank official and holds a very high position and great power.”
At that time, Minister Zuo was not yet a minister. His wife, being the youngest and most beloved daughter in her family, was marrying him, which was considered a step down for her. However, the old general, doting on his daughter, couldn't bear to refuse and thus agreed.
Xiao Yunying said with dissatisfaction, "Where are you going? Why don't you start from the day she was born? I'm not interested in her affairs. Just tell me how she lost her daughter."
Luo Sheng originally wanted her to learn more about her biological mother, with whom she was nominally related by blood, but she didn't want to hear it, so he stopped talking about it.
"To make a long story short, when she was more than nine months pregnant, she was kidnapped by spies sent by a small border country while she was out shopping for the baby. They wanted to use her to threaten the old general into withdrawing his troops."
She was forced to travel back and forth when she gave birth to you... that child. At that time, her father's men and the foreigners were fighting fiercely outside, and a guard took the opportunity to find her and her daughter.
However, the Minister's wife had just given birth and was weak. It was difficult for one guard to help the mother and daughter escape from the group of foreigners. In desperation, the Minister's wife could only carve the character "Yun" on the child as a mark and let the guard take the child away first.
The guard was discovered as soon as he stepped out of the house. He fought desperately to escape, but unfortunately, he did not survive.
When the old general's men found him in the mountains, he had already died, and the child they had taken out was nowhere to be found. At the time, the old general and his men were in a hurry to return to the capital to deliver the message, so they did not have time to search carefully. Judging from the situation, they all thought that the child had been taken away by a wild animal.
The Minister's wife was devastated by the loss of her daughter. The Minister, feeling sorry for his wife, discussed with her the possibility of adopting a suitable child from among their relatives to alleviate her grief.
Luo Sheng paused for a moment: "The Minister's wife has already sent someone back to ask the old general. If nothing unexpected happens, they found the guard's body on the mountain near this village."
Xiao Yunying listened silently for a while before saying, "I didn't expect it to be for this reason."
But how did the original owner end up here, transformed into Xiao Yunying of Xiaqu Village?
Moreover, everyone in the village knew that her mother was pregnant; this couldn't be faked.
Was she switched? Where did the original daughter of the Xiao family go?
The door was pushed open, and Mu Lianrong came in carrying chicken soup and rice porridge: "Yunyun, you're awake. Have something to eat."
Zheng Yunwan placed a small kang table in front of her, and Mu Lianrong brought the food to the kang table: "Yunwan cooked you some sticky rice porridge, as well as your favorite pickled vegetables. Mother also stewed chicken soup for you. I skimmed off the oil on top, so it's not greasy."
Xiao Yunying swallowed back the words she was about to say, "I don't want to eat, I have no appetite," and said, "Thank you, Mother."
Mu Lianrong said to Luo Sheng, "You should go eat something, then get some sleep and rest well. You've been exhausted these past few days."
Xiao Yunying looked at his bloodshot eyes and said, "I'm fine now. You don't need anyone to stay with you. Go and rest."
Luo Sheng realized he hadn't had a proper rest for about ten days, and he was indeed very tired: "Then I'll go take a nap."
Mu Lianrong said, "Yunwan, quickly bring him the food that's still warm in the pot."
The two of them went out of the room. Xiao Yunying picked up a spoon and drank her porridge. Mu Lianrong pushed the soup bowl in front of her: "Try the chicken soup. Mother simmered it for several hours. She added red dates and goji berries. It's good for your health."
Xiao Yunying took a sip: "Thank you, Mother, it's delicious."
Mu Lianrong had a lot to say, but she didn't want to spoil Xiao Yunying's appetite by saying it now: "Drink more. This side dish is freshly pickled and quite refreshing. Eat it with the porridge so your mouth won't feel bland."
Xiao Yunying sensed that Mu Lianrong had something to say to her, so she ate her meal seriously, intending to talk to her about it later.
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