Chapter 94: True and False Daughter (Part 2)

When Madam Zou heard this, she was furious. "She is innocent?! If she is innocent, then my real granddaughter is not innocent too?! Take her away and interrogate her thoroughly. Explain everything to me."

After two days of interrogation, Nanny Xu finally confessed everything that happened that year.

"Go to the Qin family and call the girl and son-in-law over. They should all know about this."

On the night that Nanny Xu was brought to the Zou family, Qin Ruyue discovered that Nanny was missing. She asked her maid to ask, and was told that Nanny Xu was at her maternal grandparents' home, so she didn't take it too seriously.

On the third day, in the afternoon, when she was about to go to pay her respects to her mother, she was stopped before she even left her yard.

Two maids stood outside the door and said expressionlessly, "Young lady, please go back. You cannot come out until the lady comes back."

Qin Ruyue had no idea what was going on and was confined to her own yard.

When Lady Jingguo received the news from her mother asking her and her husband to go back, she knew that the result of the trial must have been announced. However, Duke Jingguo was still confused at this time.

When the couple arrived at the Zou family, they were directly invited into the courtyard of Old Madam Zou. As soon as they entered the main hall, they saw Aunt Xu kneeling on the ground.

Before Duke Jing could even greet them, Old Madam Zou had someone hand over the confession signed by Nanny Xu to the two of them so that they could take a good look at it.

"You two decide what to do with this stubborn slave."

The words on the paper were densely packed, but Lady Jingguo couldn't read a single word.

She broke down and burst into tears in the house, grabbing Madam Zou’s hand and crying, “Mother, did mother tell me where my Ruyue is? Where is my real daughter?!!!”

“——Snap!”

Old Madam Zou slapped her daughter in the face and asked her angrily, "Do you still remember your daughter? How could I have a daughter as stupid as you? Can't you recognize your own child?"

Duke Jing also read the contents of the paper with trembling hands, his eyes turned red with anger.

He kicked Madam Xu in the chest, "You bitch!"

Duke Jing, who was born a military general, was extremely strong. In anger, he used all his strength and kicked Madam Xu so hard that she vomited blood.

"You two don't have to do this to me. Killing her now won't help. The most urgent thing is to think about how to find my real granddaughter."

Madam Xu confessed that the real girl was lost by accident, not on her own initiative. But later, when she was looking for the girl, she found that her granddaughter was somewhat similar to the real girl, so she had an evil idea and brought her granddaughter back as the girl, falsely claiming that the girl had been found, and even made a birthmark identical to hers.

But this was not her most hateful side. The most hateful side was that a month later, she knew clearly that the real girl was in the hands of human traffickers and was about to be sold, but she chose to turn a blind eye.

Old Madam Zou was really impatient with her daughter and son-in-law, one was crying and the other was going crazy, so she just drove them both out.

The couple returned home and immediately began to blame each other endlessly.

For so many years, outsiders saw that Duke Jing only had children with his wife, and they thought that they had a good relationship. But in fact, it was not the case. Duke Jing had concubines on the left and maids on the right for so many years, but they just didn't have children, and outsiders just pretended not to see it.

"I said I should have gone with you to take care of our daughter, but you refused to let me go. If I had gone, would all this have happened?"

"What's the point of you saying all this now? That nanny is yours, and now you're blaming me! Besides, don't you visit your daughter every year? Didn't you find any problems when you visited her?!"

"Don't say anymore! Don't say anymore..." Lady Jingguo's spirit was on the verge of collapse. She now began to think that all of this was her fault. She was too stupid and was played around by Nanny Xu.

Duke Jing was still blaming his wife, and he felt a little sad seeing her like this.

He had three sons and was very happy when his daughter was born. When his wife was pregnant again, he was looking forward to it being a daughter.

His three sons were all named after stars, so when it came to his daughter, he named her Ru Yue. The brothers always stayed by their side.

Qin Yi, the second young master of the Qin family, had just returned home when he heard the servants say that the lady and the Duke had quarreled, and asked him to go and take a look.

When Qin Yi heard this, he quickly went to his parents' yard. The door of the house was closed. When Qin Yi walked to the door, he only heard faint crying sounds from inside, so he pushed the door open and went in.

"Father, mother, what happened to you?" As soon as Qin Yi entered the room, he saw his mother crying on the table and his father sitting beside him with his head down, so he quickly closed the door again.

He asked three times, but no one answered his question.

"Tell me what happened! Did something happen to the eldest brother and the third brother?!"

The only thing he could think of that could make his parents behave like this was his eldest brother and his youngest brother. His eldest brother and third brother were both in the army, but he was the only one who did not like martial arts since childhood and instead liked reading. So when he grew up, he became a civil servant and stayed in the capital.

"Look for yourself." Duke Jing put the paper he had been holding in his hand on the table.

The paper had been held for too long, so the writing had become blurred in many places, but one could still make out what was written on it.

"How could this happen?!"

Qin Yi also found this incredible. When his sister was born, the three brothers were very happy. However, before they had the chance to see her more or play with her, her sister was sent away because of her poor health.

So last year, when his "sister" was brought back, he was very happy, thinking that after so many years, he could finally see his sister again. However, perhaps because they had not seen each other for many years, the two of them were never able to get close...

Among the three, Qin Yi was the first to calm down.

"We should find our sister back... And, father, mother, have you ever thought about what we should do now?"

This girl is both innocent and not innocent. She is innocent because she does not know the truth of the matter, and she is not innocent because she occupies a position that does not belong to her.

Lady Jingguo finally raised her head and said to her son, "Send her back to Mingzhou. I don't want to see her again."

Qin Yi looked at his father again, and Duke Jing just nodded, agreeing with his wife's approach.

Qin Yi actually wanted to send him to Mingzhou, but Mingzhou is so big, where exactly should he send him to? He couldn't just abandon him once he arrived in Mingzhou.

But seeing his father and mother like this, he couldn't bear to say anything more, so he just walked out, intending to go back to his yard to discuss it with his wife.

Qin Ruyue was locked up in the yard without knowing what was going on. At night, she did not wait for her mother but for Qin Yi and his wife.

"Brother, what happened outside? Why didn't mother let me go out?"

Qin Yi couldn't say anything, so he gave her the paper his father had shown him and let her read it herself.

"How is this possible?! Brother, are you kidding me? This is fake, right? Sister-in-law, are you guys lying to me?!!!"

Qin Ruyue was stunned. She didn't know what had happened. How come overnight, she was no longer a daughter of the Qin family, but became the granddaughter of Nanny Xu.

"It's true, you are not my sister, so you can't stay here."

"Where's my mother? I want to see her."

"Mother is too sad to see anyone now. This is what she wanted."

After saying that, Qin Yi motioned for his wife to take out the things.

"Here are some small change. Madam Xu's hometown is in Sanshui County, Mingzhou. I will have someone take you there tomorrow. Take care of yourself in the future."

After saying that, Qin Yi and his wife left, leaving Qin Ruyue sitting there blankly until dawn...