On the other hand, after Gu Tingyuan said a few words to Li, he was ready to turn around and enter the palace.
But he was nailed to the spot by Li's words.
"If you enter the palace now, you will never get your daughter back in this lifetime!"
Gu Tingyuan stopped in his tracks, suspecting that he had heard it wrongly.
"What did you say?"
What do you mean by recognizing your daughter?
Didn’t their daughter Yanran go missing?
Only then did Gu Tingyuan notice that Li had been staring in Zhixia's direction with red eyes.
He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
The next second, Li took out a yellowed letter from her bosom and said, "I went back to Longxi and spent three days researching. This is the confession written by the midwife before she died. Take a look!"
Gu Tingyuan unfolded the envelope with shaking hands. The ink on it was indeed very old, but the letter paper was well preserved.
He quickly read the contents of the letter, and after a moment, he felt as if struck by lightning and almost couldn't stand!
This is because it was explained here that the daughter born to Li was actually switched by someone!
Gu Yanran, whom they had raised over the years, turned out to be the daughter of a lowly servant! And this servant had been hanging around under their noses for more than a decade.
It was none other than Gu Yanran’s wet nurse, Madam Ge!
With a loud bang, Gu Tingyuan learned the truth. He felt his head buzzing for a moment, as if a bolt from the blue struck him on the head.
"Madam, this..."
His voice was shaking, and he couldn't believe his eyes.
At this time, Li no longer cared about Gu Tingyuan. She took difficult steps and walked towards Zhixia step by step, and finally stood in front of her.
"Miss Zhixia, can you let me take a look at your arm?" Li's eyes were complicated and her voice was trembling slightly.
She had a very strong feeling that Zhixia must be the baby girl who was swapped that year.
Because she had specifically investigated and found out that Nanny Ge, who had swapped the baby, was from Longxi, and that there had been a war there in the past, and it was the former queen who led the troops to quell the rebellion.
Later, she heard that the late queen had picked up a baby girl on the battlefield, who was about the same age as the princess. She brought the baby girl back to the palace and raised her from a young age, and she became a maid beside the princess.
It's all quite coincidental, isn't it?
Zhixia was a little wary of Li because of Gu Tingyuan's previous attitude. "Madam Gu, what you said is so unreasonable. Are you going to insult the innocence of a maid like me in public?"
When Li heard this, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. She patiently explained, "Don't be afraid. I, I just want to confirm one thing. May I ask, young lady, is there a red birthmark in the shape of an iris on the inside of your arm?"
Zhixia’s eyes suddenly widened and she looked at Li in disbelief.
"How do you know?"
The late queen and the princess knew about her birthmark, and the rest of the people were the only ones who knew about it, herself.
How did Li know that she had a birthmark?
Is that possible?
Thinking of something, Zhixia's expression changed in an instant, showing shock, sadness, disappointment, anger, and resistance.
She grew up in the palace and has no family left.
Even if there are, they can only be the princess and the former queen. Why should they come to claim their relatives and pick peaches now?
Seeing this, Li could no longer suppress her emotions and tears welled up in her eyes.
With trembling hands, she took out a faded silk handkerchief from her bosom and choked up, saying, "I embroidered this myself when I was pregnant.
Before I gave birth, I dreamed of an iris blossoming in the snow, and when I woke up I embroidered this handkerchief. "
She gently unfolded a corner of the embroidered handkerchief, revealing a strand of fetal hair hidden inside. "This is what the midwife left to her son and daughter-in-law before she died. She said that my daughter was born with an iris birthmark..."
After saying this, Zhixia felt like she was struck by lightning!
So, she is really the daughter of the Gu family?
Is this woman in front of me really my biological mother?
Zhixia stood there in a daze, her fingers unconsciously touching the birthmark on the inside of her left arm.
Even through the fabric, I could seem to feel the birthmark getting hot.
She looked at Li's tearful eyes, and a strange ripple arose in her heart, but it quickly calmed down.
Seeing her reaction like this, Li cried even harder: "My child, I'm sorry for you... It's all my fault..."
Zhixia subconsciously took a half step back and stood beside Chu Qingluan inconspicuously.
The name "mother" was too unfamiliar to her, and even more difficult to pronounce than the late emperor's posthumous title.
"Madam Gu!" Chu Qingluan spoke calmly, with her fingertips on Zhixia's shoulders. "Today's events were too sudden. Zhixia needs time to digest them."
She glanced at the people whispering around her and said, "What's more, the truth behind the baby swap eighteen years ago has not yet been uncovered. If there is a misunderstanding, wouldn't it be a false alarm?"
"No, Your Highness." Li shook her head firmly and said, "I have already found out that the one who swapped the children was none other than our former wet nurse, Mother Ge. It's a pity that the evil woman is dead, otherwise I would have skinned her alive and torn her into pieces!"
When Li thought about the fact that Gu Yanran had occupied her home for so many years while her own child had become a slave, she wanted to drink Madam Ge's blood and eat her flesh.
On the other side, Gu Tingyuan, who learned the truth, opened his eyes wide and his mouth so wide that an egg could fit in.
He stared at Zhixia's face intently. He didn't notice anything at first, but the more he looked at it, the more he found that Zhixia's eyebrows and eyes were 70% similar to Li's when she was young.
He staggered a step and asked in a trembling voice, "Madam, are you really sure that this girl is the biological daughter of my Gu family?"
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