The man supported Sun Huiniang's arm; she was already covered in sweat.
"Let's go home quickly, I feel like I'm going into labor."
The man carried the basket on his back, helped Sun Huiniang, and told the boy to follow. The three of them slowly disappeared at the foot of the mountain.
Lady Hou's carriage also arrived at the foot of Jiashan Mountain.
Granny Zhang helped her down from the carriage. The winding path led all the way up the mountain. The Lady Hou, holding her pregnant belly, was a little troubled. She couldn't bear to walk all the way to the top of the mountain.
"Madam, I have had a sedan chair prepared. Just hang in there a little longer, and you will be able to rest."
Lady Hou patted Zhang Mama's hand; it was still the wet nurse who cared for her the most.
Four men carried a sedan chair over, and Lady Hou carefully stepped inside, preparing to sit down.
Suddenly, her expression changed. She had just experienced a sharp pain in her stomach. She touched it and sat down, enduring the pain.
Looking at the pale-faced Lady Hou, Zhang Mama's heart tightened. Was she about to give birth?
"Madam, let's go back quickly. The young master is in a hurry to come out, and it's not easy to find a midwife on the mountain."
Lady Hou bit her lip. "I can still hold on. Let's hurry up the mountain."
As she was speaking, her stomach tightened again, and she panicked.
"Granny, I think I'm about to give birth."
Looking at the path leading up the mountain and then at the nearby villages, Granny Zhang decided to go to the nearby area.
As she had the sedan chair moved, she instructed others to find a midwife.
"Madam, please bear with it a little longer, we'll go find a midwife."
They finally found a midwife's house, only to be told that she had already gone to the Liu family to deliver the baby.
Waiting like this wasn't a solution, so Granny Zhang had no choice but to have the Lady Hou carried to the Liu family.
The Liu family was poor and only had one house that could be lived in, so the two pregnant women had to be carried onto one bed to give birth.
In the chaos, the two children were switched at birth, and one of them was given a life of luxury and ease.
The other became a farm girl and lived an ordinary life.
Liu Yiyi was only recognized by the Lady of the Marquis when she was twenty years old, and she was taken back home.
She was already married at that time, so she was not recognized and returned to her family. The Lady of the Marquis compensated her with a large dowry.
She lived a life of wealth and comfort, with the Marquis's mansion as her backing, and her husband dared not mistreat her.
However, every time she heard news about that fake heiress, she felt a deep sense of injustice.
She's the real heiress, so why isn't she living as well as the fake heiress?
Why couldn't Lady Hou have found her a few years earlier? Then she wouldn't have married a peasant and spent her life in the countryside.
She was truly unwilling to accept it.
And so, Liu Yiyi was reborn, reborn when she was ten years old.
She was filled with joy and excitement; this time, she was determined to live a life that belonged to her.
But how to reunite with the Marquis's family? She needed to think about it carefully.
She wandered around the foot of Hanshan Temple every day, knowing that wealthy families often came to worship Buddha on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month, so she paid special attention to it.
The opportunity came soon.
Today is the first day of the lunar calendar, and there are an unusually large number of people, not only those worshipping Buddha, but also many street vendors.
Liu Yiyi followed her parents, but her eyes were always on the carriages, trying to figure out which one belonged to the Marquis's mansion.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up; she had finally found it.
"Zhang Mama, the plums over there seem quite clean. I'll go buy some for Madam to try."
Granny Zhang glanced over there and nodded in agreement.
Liu Yiyi quickly grabbed the peanuts she was selling and headed over there.
"Yiyi, where are you going?"
Liu Yiyi impatiently brushed Sun Huiniang's hand away.
"Mother, I'm going to sell peanuts over there. Maybe some important person will take a liking to me."
Sun Huiniang was a little worried, but seeing that there were still plenty of peanuts on the stall, she nodded in agreement.
"Be careful not to offend someone important."
"knew."
Liu Yiyi took off her headscarf. When she came back, her face had been tanned, so she had to wrap her headscarf around herself to take care of it.
She approached cautiously, and Zhang Mama looked at her. Just as she was about to scold her, she froze on the spot.
"It's so similar, it's really too similar."
Lady Hou looked over in surprise, "What do you mean, 'like'?"
She was stunned after just one glance. How could this girl look so much like herself when she was young?
She frowned and ordered the guards to investigate.
"Madam, would you like to buy some peanuts? They were just dug up yesterday, and they smell wonderful."
Looking at the young face before her, Lady Hou suddenly felt a deep sense of kinship.
She wasn't afraid of getting dirty; she took the girl's hand and bought all the peanuts.
"What's your name? How old are you?"
Liu Yiyi was excited; they had arrived.
"My name is Liu Yiyi, I am ten years old, and I live in that village over there. There is a big elm tree in the yard, that is my home."
Lady Hou listened to the girl's answer with a smile in her eyes.
Granny Zhang was indeed terrified. She remembered that ten years ago, the family that gave birth to the madam had the surname Liu, and there was a large elm tree in the courtyard.
She looked at the Lady Hou, whose face resembled the girl's, which already said it all; her guess was true.
The more Lady Hou looked at Liu Yiyi, the more she liked her. Apart from her slightly dark skin, the girl looked exactly like herself.
Knowing where Liu Yiyi's family lived, Mrs. Hou let Liu Yiyi go back.
She didn't go to the temple anymore, and stopped at the foot of the mountain. Lady Hou and Granny Zhang were very excited in the carriage.
"Granny, she is my daughter, I would not mistake her for someone else."
No wonder I've never been close to Yun Li; she's just a wild country bumpkin.
Zhang Mama's eyelids twitched; she knew she couldn't just say things like that.
"Madam, what do you plan to do? Why don't we go back and discuss it with the Marquis first?"
Lady Hou hesitated, "I want to take her back to the manor."
Granny Zhang was taken aback. "Madam, no! We must at least inform the Marquis. This is no child's play."
Lady Hou burst into tears, saying, "The thought of my daughter suffering breaks my heart. How can I wait?"
Zhang Mama had no choice but to give up. In the end, the two decided to secretly bring the person back to the mansion without alerting anyone.
When Lady Hou arrived at the Liu family with Zhang Mama, the Liu family members were terrified by the powerful noblewoman from the Hou family.
Their own daughter wasn't their biological child; she was the daughter of a noblewoman from the Marquis's mansion. The eldest legitimate daughter of the Marquis's mansion was their biological child.
How could this be so unbelievable? But looking at the two identical faces in front of them, the Liu family couldn't utter a single word of objection.
The Liu family could only watch helplessly as Liu Yiyi happily boarded the Marquis's carriage and left.
Seeing that the daughter he had raised for ten years had left without saying a word, he happily followed the Lady of the Marquis away.
The Liu family was heartbroken and even more disheartened.
The Liu family was in dire straits and didn't know what to do.
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Upon entering the Marquis's mansion, Liu Yiyi was immediately dazzled by the wealth before her. In her previous life, she had never had the opportunity to enter the Marquis's mansion; the Marquis's wife had only given her compensation and had not actually invited her into the mansion.
"What? You're telling the truth?"
Lady Hou wept and wiped her face with a handkerchief.
"My lord, our poor daughter has suffered a lot in the countryside. Look at her face, what else do you not understand?"
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