Chapter 927 Twin Sisters
Lian Yi entered a body again smoothly. After taking control of the body, she heard a low voice in her ears:
"Miss, you will be able to live a good life after returning to the mansion this time. I said that the Marquis has been thinking about you all these years."
Looking at the little girl opposite her who was wearing ordinary cotton clothes, Lianyi frowned. She really didn't like the calculating look in the other person's eyes.
Perhaps it was because the girl was too thin, her cheekbones were a little protruding, and her dark skin gave her a mean vibe, but because she was young, she was ignored.
"Don't say anything for now, don't let anyone hear it."
Lianyi spoke softly, and gave the little girl a wink, then looked at the closed door. She had just felt a series of bumps, and she and the little girl were sitting in a speeding carriage.
The little girl seemed to realize something and immediately covered her mouth and kept silent.
Lianyi pretended to close her eyes and rest, and began to receive the memories of her original body.
The original body was the daughter of Xue, Marquis of Anding. She had a twin sister born at the same time as her. The two looked exactly the same, but in the Dahuan Dynasty, twins were considered a bad omen, so after the two were born, Madam Xue sent the original body away privately in order to avoid the Marquis's anger.
Originally, the Marquis's wife had decided to make her original body "disappear", but on the second day after she gave birth, a Taoist priest came to her house to ask for water, and then said that the Marquis's little girl would have a disaster when she was eighteen years old, and only relatives could prevent the disaster. After leaving this sentence, the Taoist priest left, which could be regarded as repaying the favor of the bowl of water.
The people of the Dahuan Dynasty still believed in Taoism, so these words were passed on to the ears of the marquis' wife by the housekeeper. Looking at her daughter in the cradle, the marquis' wife immediately thought of her original self, so she decided to keep the eldest daughter. After all, she needed her to ward off disaster for her younger daughter.
In this way, when the original body was still in her infancy, she was sent far away to the farm and was given a wet nurse and servants. In order to ensure that the eldest daughter could protect the younger daughter from disaster when she was eighteen years old, the eldest daughter had to be alive, so the marquis's wife would send people to check on the original body from time to time. It was also because of this that the eldest daughter could grow up without illness or disaster.
After the original body grew up to be six years old and had established himself, the marquis's wife seldom sent people to visit him, which made the servants in the farm gradually relax their vigilance. The seven-year-old original body lived a life of hunger and satiety. In the middle of winter, the servants snatched his cotton-padded clothes and quilts, and he caught a cold.
The original person had a high fever for three days in a row and fell into a coma. The servants in the manor realized that something was wrong and immediately returned to the city to call a doctor overnight.
Unfortunately, the servant who invited the doctor was seen by the housekeeper of the marquis's mansion, so he asked his wife to report to the marquis's wife.
Butler Yao's wife was the manager of the marquis's wife's small kitchen. She was worried about having no excuse to climb up the career ladder, so when she got the news, she immediately went to tell the marquis.
Although she didn't know who lived on the farm, the marquis's wife seemed to attach great importance to him. After all, she always sent people to check on him in the past few years. However, she didn't care much about the affairs there in the past two years, but she still withdrew money from the account office on time.
Mrs. Yao didn't know the inside story, but Butler Yao knew, so he asked Mrs. Yao to report the news immediately.
When the Marquis's wife heard what Mrs. Yao said, her eyelids twitched. She immediately arranged for a capable nanny to go to the farm to check the situation and also brought the court doctor over.
The palace doctor was a tight-lipped person who only treated patients and did not get involved in anything else. So when he arrived at the farm, he saw the original body, which was emaciated and barely hanging on to its last breath. He immediately used all his skills to snatch the original body back from the hands of the King of Hell.
When the wife of the marquis found out what had happened, she was so angry that she smashed a set of tea sets on the spot. In her eyes, her eldest daughter was the one raised to protect her younger daughter from disasters, and no matter how badly she treated her, she was still her daughter. How could a group of servants dare to treat her own daughter badly? That was unacceptable.
The marquis' wife was so angry that she beat those bad servants to death with sticks, and all the maids who served Yuansheng were sold off to vile places.
Mrs. Hou's actions made everyone in the manor deeply realize that no matter how unwelcome they were, they were still members of the Marquis's mansion, and those who had bad intentions were just a lesson for them.
After the original body woke up, the marquis's wife still did not show up, but she replaced the original body with another group of servants. However, the original body's external identity became the posthumous son of the marquis's distant cousin.
Because both of her parents had passed away, she had to be raised on the farm to avoid suspicion, and then be promised to someone else when she reached a certain age. Lady Marquis had done her utmost to be kind.
In this way, the original body lived smoothly until she was eighteen years old. After that high fever, she could not remember much about things before the age of seven. At the age of eighteen, she was taken back to the Anding Marquis Mansion and met her biological mother and sister.
Seeing her sister's face which was exactly the same as hers, the original body realized that she was also a lady of the Marquis' Mansion. However, when she looked at the gap between the two of them, she felt a little ashamed for a moment. Even though her sister was sick, she was still so beautiful that people could not take their eyes off her.
Yes, the original body’s sister was ill, and her condition was getting worse. She couldn’t even marry the legitimate son of the Minister of War. At this time, the Marquis’s wife thought of her other daughter who was not raised by her side. Isn’t there a ready-made substitute?
The original body's younger sister was seriously ill. She knew that if she didn't let her sister marry for her, she would lose this marriage. If the news of her being bedridden spread, she would have even less chance of finding a good marriage. As a lady of a marquis's mansion, she naturally didn't want to marry down.
The time had come for the original body, who looked exactly like her, to play a role, so the original body's sister burst into tears and said that she was willing to give this good marriage to the original body as compensation to her. However, because the name Xue Lianyi was used when the engagement was made, the original body could only marry under this identity.
The original body was only eighteen years old and had been raised in Zhuangzi. Although she could read and write, all she read were things about the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. She had no mother's guidance. She had never even left Zhuangzi at this age, so naturally she had no experience and felt a little inferior. When she was offered such a good marriage opportunity, she gladly accepted it.
The original body was raised in the Marquis' Mansion for half a year before marrying Lin Yaozu under the name of Xue Lianyi.
After marriage, she and Lin Yaozu got along well. Although she was a little cautious, she didn't make any mistakes. Moreover, she had no intention of competing with the Shangshu's wife for the right to be the housekeeper, which made the Shangshu's wife treat her relatively peacefully.
In fact, the original body didn't understand these things at all, and no one taught her how to manage the household. She herself didn't have this awareness, but just wanted to follow Lin Yaozu and his wife wholeheartedly.
Unfortunately, two years later, the original body's belly was still flat, which made the Shangshu's wife look even worse. Fortunately, Xue Lianyi's status was there, so she couldn't put a woman in her son's room. After all, a concubine could not get pregnant before the wife gave birth to a legitimate son.
(End of this chapter)
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