Chapter 22: Fake Heiress, Real Yandere (VI)
"My lady, how did you become so ill?"
"Where are the people? Why is there only one third-class maid? Where is Peilan? Where did she go?
"You went to ask the lady out? How long have you been gone? Why hasn't she come back yet?"
In a daze, Gu Qingcheng vaguely heard a woman crying.
Her voice sounded very familiar. Gu Qingcheng had all the memories of the original owner. After a little thought, she guessed who that person was.
It was not someone else but the wet nurse of the original owner "Zhou Qingcheng".
However, a few days ago, the matter of the real and fake daughter came to light.
The child in the Gu family looks very similar to the eldest aunt in the Marquis's Mansion.
Everyone is talking about my niece Xiao Gu, so it can be basically concluded that the child named Gu Erya is the real daughter who was taken away by mistake.
The Marquis's wife, Mrs. Li, gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was the crown prince. Although he was not very outstanding, he was not a playboy or a prodigal.
The Madam Dowager and the Marquis both treat her as the apple of their eye and the lifeblood of their being.
He shouldn't be fake.
Then the only person who can be sure that it is a Xibei product is Zhou Qingcheng.
Most of the servants in the Marquis' Mansion were family-born children. They were well-informed and best at guessing their master's intentions.
Although the Marquis and Madam Li did not deny Zhou Qingcheng's identity as the eldest daughter of the Marquis' Mansion, the couple was obviously very cold towards Zhou Qingcheng.
Mrs. Li was better off. After all, she raised her own child. When she was busy sending people to pick up her biological daughter, she would occasionally ask a question or two about Zhou Qingcheng.
The Marquis is a man who does not have the sentimentality of raising a child himself, and deep down he places great importance on bloodline, so he is particularly cold to Zhou Qingcheng, a daughter who was suspected to have been taken away by mistake.
The maidservant beside the Madam even heard the Marquis secretly discussing with the Madam whether to change the family tree.
In the family tree, Zhou Qingcheng is the eldest daughter.
The Jingning Marquis's Mansion was wealthy and had no shortage of money to support a girl, but the status of the eldest legitimate daughter could not be given to a wild girl from a farmer's family.
If the Marquis' Mansion were to give Zhou Qingcheng the status of an adopted daughter, people would praise them for being kind if they told others about it.
It is understandable that the Marquis said he wanted to change the family tree.
This news soon spread among the slaves and maids in the marquis's mansion.
Everyone in Weiruiyuan was in a panic.
You know, Madam Li values her daughter Zhou Qingcheng, and she has selected excellent family-born sons for Weiruiyuan - capable and reliable.
For several generations before them, they were all slaves in the marquis's mansion.
Most of the parents and elders of these slaves with "good family background" were managers in some places in the marquis's mansion.
Things go particularly smoothly.
However, such slaves have both advantages and disadvantages.
When their master Zhou Qingcheng is in glory, they can add icing on the cake.
But once they fall into the dust, they run faster than anyone else.
They are all house-born children, and their family members all work in the Marquis' Mansion. It is very easy to change their masters.
However, within just a few days, Zhou Qingcheng went from being surrounded by many people to having only two or three kittens.
Even her most trusted and relied-upon wet nurse, Nanny Yun, resigned from her job at the Marquis' Mansion on the grounds of "old age" and was taken away by her son to live in her old age.
At this moment, the old woman lying in front of the bed wiping her tears was Nanny Yun.
Gu Qingcheng: ...
People are so contradictory.
It’s not that Nanny Yun is not loyal, it’s just that people are close to you and they are distant from you.
Zhou Qingcheng was indeed a child raised by Nanny Yun, but Nanny Yun was not a lonely person.
She also has a large family.
She couldn't ruin the future of her children and grandchildren for a fake daughter.
However, Nanny Yun was still worried about Zhou Qingcheng. Before being sent back to her hometown by her son, she found an opportunity and quietly ran back to take another look at Zhou Qingcheng.
He happened to witness the miserable scene of "Zhou Qingcheng" lying pitifully sick in bed.
Nanny Yun felt distressed for a moment and said a lot of things.
At the end, she muttered in confusion: "...Alas, the Madam too, she clearly loved you the most in the past, and loved you more than the Crown Prince, why did she suddenly change?"
Gu Qingcheng, who was half awake and half unconscious, couldn't help but ask in her heart when she heard this: Yes, why did Madam Li change so suddenly?
Gu Qingcheng clearly saw in the original owner's memory that Madam Li had always been very kind to Zhou Qingcheng since she was a child.
Gu Qingcheng has been a mother herself, and she knows very well the effort and emotion a mother puts in when raising her children.
She felt that the mother-daughter relationship of more than ten years would not be severed by blood.
Men definitely value bloodline more, while mothers will value every bit of their contribution more.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that mothers will ignore their own children. They will more likely be in a dilemma and want to have the best of both worlds.
That is, he wants both his biological daughter and his adopted daughter, and then compensates his biological daughter well.
Li's attitude towards Zhou Qingcheng was a little strange.
A small part of Gu Qingcheng's intelligence was used by her to exchange for her appearance.
But she still has an ordinary person's brain.
Silently, she hid this question in her heart.
"Miss, I'm sorry that I can't serve you anymore. Please take good care of yourself in the future!"
After saying this, Nanny Yun quietly left again while no one noticed.
As soon as she left, Li came over with a group of people in a grand manner.
"Qingcheng! My son, what's wrong with you?"
Before anyone even entered the yard, Li started calling out anxiously.
Her face was full of worry, just like a loving mother who was worried about her daughter.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But there was hesitation in her eyes.
People who know the inside story can understand after seeing her appearance: the child she has loved for more than ten years is not her own.
Her own daughter suffered for more than ten years instead of Zhou Qingcheng.
Mrs. Li, facing Zhou Qingcheng again, felt neither pain nor indifference.
In addition to her own feelings and the need to consider the feelings of her own daughter, Li also had another concern - the crown prince Zhou Yi .
Of the three children involved in the mistaken embrace, only Gu Erya, also known as Gu Baozhu, can be identified.
It is hard to tell which one of Zhou Qingcheng and Prince Zhou Yi is real and which one is fake.
It would have been fine if Li had no other biological sons besides Zhou Yi, but five years after giving birth to the twins, Li gave birth to another son.
Her second legitimate son and the Marquis' fourth son, Zhou Ren.
Zhou Ren is already eleven years old this year. He is in good health, smart and studious, and is deeply loved by the Marquis and his wife.
Even the old lady who raised her eldest grandson Zhou Yi and then favored this grandson, was very fond of this ambitious and motivated little grandson.
Yes, Zhou Yi was taken away by the lady to be raised just after he was one month old.
Li, as a mother, was not very close to Zhou Yi.
Therefore, Li became "suspicious" - she hated her eldest son who was raised by her mother-in-law, and only liked her second son whom she raised herself.
She is very likely to use the matter of the real and fake daughter to deny Zhou Yi's identity.
No one doubted that Zhou Yi was not Li's biological son, but Li had a motive for doing so.
Throughout history, there have been too many biased mothers.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be the story of "Duke Zheng defeats Duke Duan in Yan".
Li probably knew this too, so she had to avoid suspicion.
She couldn't act too close to Zhou Qingcheng.
But Li couldn't be completely indifferent. After all, she was a well-known, well-educated, gentle and kind lady among the noble ladies in the capital.
Li could even treat her old servant well, let alone her daughter whom she raised?! Li was in a dilemma, and she had to be in a dilemma.
It's really hard to strike the right balance.
Li tightly grasped the handkerchief, with a flash of determination in her eyes - things have come to this point, no matter how difficult it is, she has to go on!
"Ah, you are such a sensitive and thoughtful child!"
"It's not that mother doesn't want you, it's just that what happened back then was a mess, and I'm still confused."
As she walked into the inner room, Li kept muttering helplessly.
However, when she walked closer to the bed and saw the pale and unconscious "Zhou Qingcheng", her expression changed involuntarily.
This girl's condition seems to be really bad! Also, how come she looks so good after not seeing her for a few days?
Li knew that Zhou Qingcheng was beautiful, and looked neither like her nor like the Marquis.
Ahem, both she and the Marquis can only be considered good-looking, not as good as that elder sister-in-law whom she hates.
Zhou Qingcheng is a rare beauty, and her frail body makes her look timid and fragile.
Women can't help but feel pity when they see this, let alone those grown men.
Zhou Qingcheng was already very beautiful in the past, and now she is more beautiful than an ordinary person.
Even though she was extremely sick and haggard, even with her eyes closed, she was still breathtakingly beautiful.
What does it mean to be stunningly beautiful?
What does it mean to bring disaster to the country and the people?
All the words that describe a peerless beauty are perfectly interpreted in Zhou Qingcheng.
Suddenly, Li smiled. She finally found a way to take the most difficult step!
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