Compared to Zhou Wen's fury, Gao was much calmer. Smiling, she asked Ren Yaoying, "Auntie Ren, are you going back to Yunyang City? Are you from Yunyang City?"
Ren Yaoying looked at Gao with disdain: "I am naturally from Yunyang City. My father, Ren Shimin, is a teacher at Yunyang Academy. My two sisters are the young lady of the Yanbei Palace and the head lady of the Lei family."
Zhou Wen's face changed when he heard this.
Gao patted Zhou Wen's hand gently and said to Ren Yaoying calmly, "Now that you mention it, I know which Ren family it is. However, as far as I know, the Ren family doesn't have a daughter like you."
Ren Yaoying thought Gao was referring to Ren Shimin's severance of their father-daughter relationship with her, so she immediately shouted, "My father is just mad at me for a while. If I'm willing to go back, he'll definitely recognize me!"
Gao shook her head and said, "I heard that Mr. Ren had three daughters. One is the young lady of the Yanbei Palace, one is the head lady of the Lei family, and there was also a concubine's daughter, but she died last year. Apart from them, there are no other daughters."
Ren Yaoying was stunned when she heard this, and then she screamed, "You're talking nonsense! I'm standing here perfectly fine, how could I be dead!"
Gao looked at Ren Yaoying with pity: "Why would I lie to you? You followed my husband back then. I wanted to give you an identity and then let my husband take you as his concubine, but you didn't want to. However, if my husband keeps a woman of unknown origin around him, it will affect his future career. So I thought since you are a girl from the Ren family, I went to the Ren family and asked the head of the Ren family so that you can enter the Zhou family with the identity of a girl from the Ren family. I didn't expect that after I asked around, I found out that the ninth lady of the Ren family was dead. I didn't believe it at the time, so I asked my brothers from my natal family to go to the government office to check the household registration. They found out that it was Mr. Ren who went to the government office in person to cancel your household registration. The official documents clearly stated that the ninth lady of the Ren family committed suicide after encountering bandits."
Ren Yaoying felt dizzy when she heard this and almost fainted. Her face turned pale and she shook her head, "No, how could it be possible? I'm clearly still alive and well, how could I die?"
Gao sighed, "Even if you really are the Ninth Miss of the Ren family, if we let you return to Yunyang City now, how will you explain to the Ren family where you've been for over a year? To be frank, the Ren family would probably rather you died out there."
Ren Yaoying really couldn't stand steadily this time, and she staggered and fell to the ground.
Gao said quickly, "Come quickly, call the doctor."
After the maids hurriedly carried Ren Yaoying away, Zhou Wen said to Gao with a face full of guilt: "I... I really shouldn't have..."
Gao comforted Zhou Wen and said, "Now that things have come to this, why are you saying all this? I trust your character. Aunt Ren must have said that she couldn't stay in the Ren family, so you took the risk of taking her away."
Zhou Wen nodded. Ren Yaoying wrote her many letters, saying that the Ren family forced her to marry an old man who was old enough to be her grandfather, and begged him to take her away. She also said that she had rejected him not out of her own will, but because she was coerced by her grandmother.
Gao sighed, but said to Zhou Wen sternly, "My husband, what has happened cannot be changed, but you are now an official. For the sake of your future, you still need to think twice before doing anything in the future."
Zhou Wen nodded quickly. "Madam, you're right. I will be careful from now on. But what about Ren? Should we really send her back to Yunyang City?"
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