The front hall of the Governor's Mansion.
Yu Xingyue, his wife Han, and his beloved daughter Yu Xiangwei all knelt before King Wei Song Shiyao.
And invited Song Shiyao to the first place.
Yu Jinshu did not come in.
This was her idea. She felt that if she went in rashly and said that she was the governor's biological daughter, it would be too abrupt. The governor and the governor's wife would definitely not accept it and would think she was lying.
Yu Jinshu was waiting in the carriage.
Fang Hongyu was about to mention the matter of Yu Jinshu when Song Shiyao coughed twice.
Song Shiyao glanced at Yu Xiangwei.
This glance made Yu Xiangwei's heart beat fast, thinking that Prince Wei had taken a fancy to her.
Fang Hongyu understood, so he stood up and pulled Yu Xingyue out of the front hall.
"Master Fang, why are you pulling me here?"
"Governor Yu, I want you to see someone."
“Who is it?”
"You'll know when you get out."
Fang Hongyu pulled Yu Xingyue to the palace carriage outside the door.
Hearing the sound, Yu Jinshu lifted the curtain of the carriage and got out.
Yu Xingyue glanced at the girl in the carriage and was stunned for a moment, thinking he was seeing things.
Isn’t this the lady when she was young?
Fang Hongyu, like an old naughty boy, leaned in front of Yu Xingyue and said, "How is it? Governor Yu, when you saw her, did you feel a sense of déjà vu?"
Yu Xingyue pointed at Yu Jinshu: "She is..."
Fang Hongyu laughed: "Governor Yu, how about I tell you a story."
Yu Xingyue, facing his friend of decades, looked impatient: "Don't keep me in suspense. What kind of story is that? Just tell me who she is."
Fang Hongyu smiled and said, "It must be told. This story must be told."
Yu Xingyue waved his hand and said, "Forget it, then hurry up and talk. Don't waste time."
Fang Hongyu cleared his throat, looked at Yu Jinshu, and started talking seriously, holding a folding fan in his hand, like a storyteller.
"Eighteen years ago, in an official residence, the mistress of the household was about to give birth. The mansion was bustling with activity, and the maids and servants were extremely anxious."
"One of the maids, Cuiping, worked in the laundry room. The maid from the Madam's courtyard came over and urged her to quickly prepare all the small clothes that had been washed and hung out to dry and take them to the Madam's courtyard."
Cuiping hurried to pack her clothes, but she fell off a stool and felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She was bleeding.
"It turns out Cuiping is already nine months pregnant, but because she is so thin and wears loose clothes, no one can tell."
"It just so happened that Cuiping's lover came. He was also a servant in the mansion, named Sansheng. When Sansheng saw Cuiping was about to give birth, he personally delivered the baby."
Cui Ping was terrified of having a child out of wedlock, and also angry at her lowly status. She was also a woman, but the lady was surrounded and cared for by dozens of servants, while she could only give birth to the child on the ground, and even the scissors used to cut the umbilical cord were rusty.
"Sansheng said, 'The lady just gave birth to a daughter, so why not swap their daughter with the lady's woman? Let their daughter be the superior and the lady's daughter the inferior. After all, newborn babies all look the same.'"
"As soon as Cui Ping heard this, she was deeply moved. She endured the pain of childbirth and dressed her daughter in the small clothes prepared for the lady's child. Then she carried a stack of clothes to the lady's room."
"The lady had just given birth and was very weak, so she had fallen asleep. The maids and servants in the house were very busy. Cuiping took the opportunity to help out and switched the two children. She hid the lady's daughter in a pile of dirty clothes and took her to the laundry room."
"After that, Cuiping and Sansheng left the official residence on some pretext. They got married and went to work on the farm. The wife's daughter was also raised on the farm."
"Cui Ping and San Sheng treated Madam's daughter very badly, beating and scolding her every day. She started helping with farm work at the age of two. Later, when Madam's daughter grew up, they sold her to human traffickers."
These stories were told to Fang Hongyu by Yu Jinshu on the way to the Governor's Mansion. They were plots she had read in a book.
Yu Xingyue listened to this story, his face darkened, and he muttered: "Cui Ping, San Sheng, Cui Ping, San Sheng..."
Fang Hongyu asked: "Do the names of these two people sound familiar?"
Yu Xingyue raised his head and looked at Yu Jinshu, "What about you?"
Yu Jinshu said seriously, "I am the daughter of that lady."
Yu Xingyue stared at Yu Jinshu in a daze for a long time. "I don't remember Cuiping, but Sansheng, he used to be my groom. Eighteen years ago, he and a maid from the mansion went to work on the farm. I heard they got married and had a daughter."
Fang Hongyu patted Yu Xingyue's shoulder and said, "Governor Yu! The daughter of your family, Yu Xiangwei, whom you love like the apple of your eye, is the daughter of Cuiping and Sansheng. And this girl is your daughter."
Yu Xingyue shook his head. He looked at the girl in front of him and shook his head desperately: "Impossible, impossible."
Obviously, he could not accept that the daughter he had raised for eighteen years was actually the daughter of a maid and a servant, while his biological daughter was being bullied and abused outside.
Fang Hongyu looked at this scene and sighed, "Governor Yu, Brother Yu! You've been wrong for eighteen years, you can't make the same mistake again! Go back and look at Yu Xiangwei again, and think carefully about whether she looks like your wife."
Yu Xingyue stared at Yu Jinshu. He didn't need to look back to see that Yu Xiangwei did not look like his wife Han Youyi at all. Instead, she and his wife Han Youyi were simply cast from the same mold.
Fang Hongyu couldn't bear it any longer. "Brother Yu, why are you still standing there? Don't you want your own daughter anymore? Do you want her to suffer outside?"
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