When Liu Sanniang heard about Princess Yang's Mansion, her heart trembled. She held Fei Ge'er's hand tighter, "I really don't understand what you said, how could a treasure be lost in a place like the Princess' Mansion? We are all honest people. You are slandering people without any reason. I am really scared. You should leave quickly."
Liu Ziqi wanted to say more, but Gu Yun had heard enough of Liu Sanniang's cover-ups. Meng Qingyun had indeed worked as a groom in the princess's mansion. In his opinion, if there was really nothing between them, why would Liu Sanniang refuse to admit it?
He said, "Since we can come to your house, we must have investigated it. Let's not beat around the bush. You should know the identity of your eldest daughter. We are here to look for your relatives."
"Looking for relatives?" Liu Sanniang said in surprise, "You two gentlemen must have made a mistake. My eldest daughter was born after ten months of pregnancy. How can she be related to you two gentlemen?"
Liu Sanniang's reaction was too real. Liu Ziqi felt nervous and asked, "Can we meet your eldest daughter?"
"I told you, she's already married." Liu Sanniang said, "You two young masters are so young, if you come to her house, it's inevitable that her husband's family will think too much."
Seeing her making excuses, Gu Yun patiently said, "Aunt, just tell us the truth. When Meng Qingyun left Beijing, did he take a little girl away from Princess Yang's mansion?"
Liu Sanniang sighed softly, "You two gentlemen are talking nonsense. My husband and I have never been to the capital, and we are not human traffickers. With our family's current situation, we can't even support our own children, so why would we travel thousands of miles to the princess's mansion in the capital to take care of a little girl? To be honest, it was because our family was too poor. After my husband passed away, I couldn't support two children, so I sold the eldest girl to someone for good luck."
"A wedding to bring good luck?" Gu Yun was very sensitive when he heard these two words. He glanced at Liu Ziqi and asked in a tone that he himself could not believe, "What's your eldest daughter's name? It can't be Yu Jiao, right?"
Now it was Liu Sanniang's turn to be surprised. With a complicated expression on her face, she asked, "How could the young master recognize my eldest girl?"
"How could it be such a coincidence!" Gu Yun exclaimed.
Even Liu Ziqi was dumbfounded. At the same time, he felt a pang in his heart. Could Miss Yu be Su Jian? Thinking of Yu Jiao's eyes that were very similar to Su Jian's when she was young, Liu Ziqi felt a glimmer of hope.
Liu Sanniang couldn't figure out what was going on and didn't dare say anything.
It was Gu Yun who took the initiative to say, "We met Yu Jiao in Qingzhou. I didn't expect that she was your daughter."
"Why would she go to Qingzhou?" asked Liu Sanniang.
Gu Yun looked at Liu Sanniang without saying a word. He was originally wondering what kind of woman could be so cruel as to sell Yu Jiao for the purpose of getting married, but he didn't expect that she would happen right before his eyes.
"Go to Qingzhou with the brothers from my family to take the exam." Liu Ziqi said.
Liu Sanniang nodded, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Since the two gentlemen recognized my eldest girl, they should know that they have recognized the wrong person."
Liu Ziqi said in a gentle voice, "Aunt, can you tell me Miss Yu's birth date?"
Liu Sanniang hesitated for a moment, then reported Yu Jiao's birthday and said, "A girl's birth date should not be passed on to others. Now I have told you, please leave quickly."
Yu Jiao's birth date is different from Su Jian's. Although they were born in the same year, they were born in different months.
Liu Sanniang couldn't get anything out of her anymore, so Liu Ziqi bowed and said, "Sorry for disturbing you today."
He thought for a moment, then took out a silver note of 100 taels from his sleeve and placed it on the table. "This is a small gift from me. I'm sorry to have frightened you, aunt."
Liu Sanniang did not dare to take the banknote, and directly took it and returned it to Liu Ziqi, urging him, "You should leave my house quickly, and don't let anyone see and gossip about you."
Liu Ziqi and Gu Yun stopped complaining and walked outside. Meng Dafu saw them coming out and said, "Aunt San, I'm going home too."
After Liu Sanniang sent the three people out of the courtyard, she closed the wooden door and pushed the bolt. She leaned against the gate and took a deep breath. Only when Liu Ziqi and the other man entered did her tense body relax. The inner clothes on her back were already wet.
Fei Ge'er didn't know what was going on. He walked up to Liu Sanniang, held her hand, and asked sensibly, "Mom, are those two big brothers here to look for my sister?"
Liu Sanniang held his hand and regained some strength. She showed a forced smile, "Fei Ge'er, be good and go to the room to practice calligraphy."
Fei Ge nodded obediently and went back into the house.
Liu Sanniang stuck to the crack of the door, listening to the sound of the carriage going away outside, then turned around and went back to the main room.
She went to the west room, looked at Meng Qingyun's seat on the table, walked forward, picked up a handkerchief to wipe the dust off it, lit a stick of incense with trembling fingers, and inserted it into the incense burner.
Liu Sanniang said softly to the ranking, "Qingyun, those people finally found us. I have done everything you told me to do before you left. I didn't tell anyone anything. What happens to that girl's life now depends on herself."
Liu Sanniang's eyes turned red and she started to cry, "I know you must blame me for letting the eldest brother and his wife sell that girl to someone else for a wedding, but...when I saw her, I thought...we don't owe her anything, she is the one who ruined our family..."
Liu Sanniang hugged her seat and cried bitterly. Fei Ge'er, who was practicing calligraphy in the east room, heard it. He quietly ran to the door of the west room and took a look, but did not dare to go in. He went back to the room sensibly.
He decided to study hard, and when he grew up, he would bring his elder sister back home so that no one would dare to bully his mother and elder sister again.
In the carriage, Gu Yun said carefully, "Do you think Yu Jiao is Su Jian? If she is Su Jian... she should recognize me."
Liu Ziqi's appearance has changed, but Gu Yun has not changed much since he was a child. His facial features have just grown bigger. Moreover, Yu Jiao knows his identity. If she were Su Jian, even if she could not recognize his appearance, she should recognize them after knowing that he is Gu Yun.
"How old was Su Jian at that time? It's possible that she forgot about you." Liu Ziqi was silent for a moment and then spoke quickly.
"Then why don't we go to Qingyu Village and ask her in person." Gu Yun changed his sitting position and said.
Liu Ziqi nodded, lifted the curtain of the carriage, looked at the fields and mountains outside, and felt heavy in his heart.
Gu Yun told Liuzi, who was driving, to go to Qingyu Village. Liuzi got out of the car and asked for directions, then drove towards Qingyu Village.
"It turns out that we are destined to be with her. I never thought... that the person we have been looking for all along is actually her." Gu Yun said with emotion.
Liu Ziqi retracted his gaze, rubbed the jade button in his sleeve, and nodded, "It is indeed unexpected."
It seemed that everything was arranged by fate, and this world was really full of coincidences. Now he only hoped that Yu Jiao was Su Jian.
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