Gu Qingcheng had guessed this possibility a long time ago, but there was still a question she couldn't figure out.
"Do you think it's too unreasonable that Zhou Baozhu was taken away by mistake?"
Han Ding is so smart, and Gu Qingcheng is as innocent as a blank sheet of paper.
All her worries were written on her face.
"Yes, Madam Li had everything prepared and even spread the word that she was pregnant with twins."
"When the baby is born and it's indeed a girl, we can just have a son."
As for the woman whose child was taken away, Mrs. Li should also have a way to deal with it.
For example, you can get a dead fetus or a skinned cat or dog to fool them.
Li started planning this matter several months ago, and she must have found a way to solve these details long ago.
Why did Zhou Baozhu switch places with Zhou Qingcheng?
"Haha, speaking of which, the person I admire most is your biological mother, a woman with a tragic fate but also smart and ruthless."
Han Ding really admired this woman.
It turned out that in Mrs. Li's plan, she deliberately found a midwife to coax some pregnant women to go to Baiyun Temple.
When she was in labor, she secretly gave labor-inducing drugs to those who were more than seven months pregnant.
All pregnant women went into labor.
This not only created confusion, but also provided Mrs. Li with a source of "son".
Aunt Feng's eyesight was indeed not bad. Among the seven or eight pregnant women, four gave birth to sons.
Mrs. Li chose the child of the Gu family for a simple reason: the Gu family had a clean background, with no criminals or scoundrels, and both Gu's father and mother were of decent appearance.
But, just as Gu Qingcheng couldn't understand, Madam Li stole someone else's son and had to return one to him.
Mrs. Li was reluctant to part with her own flesh and blood, so she asked someone to find a woman who had fallen on hard times and had no one to rely on.
That is Zhou Qingcheng's biological mother, Cheng, the daughter-in-law of the late Prince's Tutor.
Sixteen years ago, Cheng's natal family and her husband's family were both convicted, some were killed, and some were exiled.
Of the two illustrious families, only a pregnant woman, Cheng, was left.
The sage showed mercy and gave Cheng a chance to live.
However, without her natal family and her husband's family, Cheng was still more than eight months pregnant. Even if the government did not pursue the matter, she would not be able to survive alone.
Mrs. Li then set her sights on Cheng.
Originally, Madam Li thought that if Cheng could give birth to a boy, that would be the best. She would just take the child away and let Cheng die in childbirth so that there would be no evidence.
Unfortunately, Cheng took a labor-inducing drug that was said to be a medicine to preserve the fetus. After struggling in pain for more than an hour, she gave birth to a baby girl.
Mrs. Li just felt unlucky.
However, she did not let Cheng go either. She planned to exchange this child for her son.
"Mrs. Li was too 'confident'. She never imagined that she would be tricked by the Cheng family."
"I guess after Cheng drank the 'pregnancy-preserving medicine', she realized something was wrong. After giving birth, she dragged her weak body to Madam Li's room—"
Gu Qingcheng: ...Zhou Qingcheng's mother is indeed smart! And ruthless enough!
You fed me labor-inducing drugs and tried to take my child away, so I decided to switch the baby and let you, Li, suffer the consequences!
"After Cheng exchanged the child, she wrote a letter and hid it under the lotus seat of the Bodhisattva in the main hall of Baiyun Temple."
Han Ding found the pregnant women in Baiyun Temple at that time, compared them one by one, and then discovered that there was a single woman whose whereabouts were unknown.
He then sent people to Baiyun Temple to dig deep underground and search, and only then did they find this important physical evidence, which further proved Li's crime of confusing the bloodline of the Marquis' Mansion and deceiving the emperor.
"What about her?"
Gu Qingcheng asked in a murmur.
"He's missing! Maybe he's dead, or maybe he's changed his name and started a new life."
"However, I think that with Cheng's intelligence and decisiveness, if she could survive, she would definitely live a very good life!"
Han Ding's tone was full of praise for Cheng: This is a truly smart woman.
And Li is nothing but a fool who is too clever for his own good and suffers the consequences!
PS: Today is the winter solstice. Friends in the north will eat dumplings, right? What will those in the south eat? My condition is very strange now. I don’t have a fever or cough, but I have a sore throat and feel a little dizzy. I won’t add more updates today, (#^.^#)
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