The mute gestured: Seven or eight years ago, Ah Fu was only six or seven years old. She moved to Huairou with her parents in the early years of Mingzheng, rented a small courtyard in Nanxiang, and lived next door to me. Later, her family moved away. After more than half a year, I came to Tianxiang Pavilion to deliver firewood, and saw Ah Fu following a handsome man, calling him Master. The man called Ah Fu another name, which was Yu Jiao mentioned by the girl.
I found out from people that the man was a noble from the palace, a big shot whom even the prefect couldn't afford to offend.
I thought Ah Fu was sold to a eunuch by her parents and was going to be taken to the palace to work, so I followed him quietly and was caught. Ah Fu knelt in front of the chief eunuch and begged for mercy, and that person spared my life. Later, Ah Fu told me that the man was the chief eunuch in the palace, with enormous power and a murderous mind, and told me not to look for her again.
The mute continued to gesture. Yu Jiao listened to Bai Lu's whispered translation and felt a chill run down her spine. If the person the mute was talking about was really Cheng Ying, then what was going on?
Assuming that she is the Ah Fu mentioned by the mute, where does the name Yu Jiao come from? Is it not a coincidence that they have the same name? Who is the master who taught the original body medical skills as mentioned by Liu Sanniang? Could it be Cheng Ying?
Full of doubts, Yu Jiao felt as if she was in a maze.
"Ahfu called that man his master, but did he ever learn medical skills from him?" Yu Jiao asked, clenching her fingers slightly.
The mute shook his head and gestured, "I don't know. I remember that Ah Fu had injuries on all ten of her fingers. She said she got them while playing the pipa."
Yu Jiao thought of the pipa that Cheng Ying gave her. She loved listening to pipa music. When Yu Jiao saw the portrait of Liang Wushuang playing the pipa in the study in Chiyuan Hutong, she thought that it was because of Liang Wushuang that Cheng Ying loved him and liked listening to pipa music.
If the eunuch mentioned by the mute is really Cheng Ying, then the original body must have known Cheng Ying since childhood, but after she returned to Beijing, Cheng Ying never revealed anything.
Yu Jiao felt flustered and indescribably uneasy. She had a sharp intuition that if she found out what her original body had experienced in Huairou, it would very likely cause immeasurable changes to her current life.
"Do you remember what Ah Fu's parents were called?" Yu Jiao asked in order to confirm that Ah Fu was her.
The mute gestured: Her father's name is Qingyun and her mother's name is Runiang.
Although she had prepared herself mentally, Yu Jiao still couldn't control her palpitations when she heard these two names. Liu Sanniang's past words kept surfacing in her mind. Her mother's words were half true and half false, mixing truth and lies together, which made it difficult for her.
Yu Jiao felt a chill in her heart, but she became calmer and clearer. She asked, "Did Ru Niang work as a cook in Tianxiang Pavilion?"
After hearing this, the mute suddenly stopped gesturing and stared at Yu Jiao with some suspicion.
The room suddenly fell silent. After a long pause, the mute asked, "Are you deliberately asking me about Ah Fu?"
Yu Jiao raised the corners of her lips slightly, revealing a somewhat bitter smile, "The Ah Fu you are looking for should be me."
As soon as these words were spoken, the mute's eyes suddenly widened, and for a moment he didn't know how to react.
After being frightened by Jianjia before, the mute and Feng Guihua both thought that Yu Jiao could not be Ah Fu, but who knew that there would be a sudden turn of events and it turned out that he did not recognize the wrong person!
After a while, he excitedly reached out to Yu Jiao and gestured: Are you really Ah Fu?
Yu Jiao nodded. "I don't remember, but my mother told me that our family lived in Huairou for a period of time when we were young. But I got sick and forgot everything from my childhood. If the person you are looking for is Yu Jiao, then I am that person. My father's name is indeed Meng Qingyun."
The mute looked at Yu Jiao and felt that her eyes and eyebrows resembled Ah Fu more and more. It turned out that Ah Fu had grown up to be such a beautiful girl and had good medical skills. He felt a sense of pride as an elder seeing his younger generation. The little girl who once called him Uncle Mute had grown up and was living a good life. He could see her with his own eyes in his lifetime. He had no regrets in this life.
"Runiang has never been to Tianxiang Pavilion, but the owner of Tianxiang Pavilion told the people in the restaurant some time ago that if anyone comes to Tianxiang Pavilion to inquire about Ru Niang, they should say that Ru Niang worked as a cook in Tianxiang Pavilion." The mute no longer concealed anything and answered Yu Jiao's question with gestures.
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