The lady charioteer collapsed to the ground as if her bones had been sucked out.
Master Yu rushed over to help her up, and Madam Yu climbed up tremblingly and sat on the chair brought by the servants.
Tears began to flow. "It's been less than seven days since our Feng'er passed away, and the seventh day hasn't even passed yet. And those old foxes are coming to divide up my Yu family's assets and wait to inherit the estate. What sins did I commit in my past life?"
She beat her chest and stamped her feet, wishing that the person lying in the coffin was her and not Yu Jingfeng.
At least this way there won't be such a mess.
"Feng'er was so young. How painful it must have been for him when he died. My son... God, please take me away too!" Madam Yu slid down from the chair, tears streaming down her face.
Master Yu felt distressed when he saw this. How could he not be sad too?
"Master, someone outside wants to pay his respects!" A servant came in to report.
Master Yu waved his hand and said, "Didn't we agree that no one is allowed to come to pay their respects? Today, the Yu Mansion will not see any guests. No!"
The servant hesitated and said uncertainly, "The guest claims to be your son."
"What did you say?" Master Yu turned around abruptly, with a strange expression on his face. "Where did my son come from?"
Madam Yu also looked up when she heard this. She knew that Master Yu had never taken a concubine or had other women in these years. "Did you hear wrongly?"
"This..." The servant scratched his head, "I heard it absolutely correctly. It couldn't be wrong. And..."
"And what?" Mr. Yu said with a stern face.
"He still has the token that the master gave to his mother." The servant seemed to be recalling the scene just now and answered seriously.
Master Yu searched his mind for a while, and suddenly remembered something. He asked, "Where is the token? Where is it?"
"The young master only gave me a glance." The servant replied.
"What is that?" Mr. Yu asked anxiously.
The servant thought for a moment and said, "Oh! It's a pure jade pendant!"
Master Yu became more and more excited. "How old is that guy outside?"
The servant's memory was a little off. "From my perspective, the young man looked about seventeen or eighteen years old."
When Madam Yu heard this, her face turned ugly. She called Master Yu's name softly, "Erlang."
Master Yu turned a blind eye and seemed very excited. "It's him, it's him. It must be him!"
"Take me to him quickly."
Master Yu followed the servants and walked quickly to the door, where a well-dressed young man stood.
He turned around and it was clearly Zhan Shaoang who had been missing for more than two months!
He met Master Yu's cloudy eyes and nodded imperceptibly.
But Master Yu's eyes were already filled with tears, "Resemble! Really resemble!"
Before the servant knew what was happening, Master Yu had already walked up to Zhan Shaoang and said, "Good boy, I finally found you!"
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Imperial Palace reception room.
Master Yu, Madam Yu, and Zhan Shaoang sat together.
Madam Yu looked pale and ugly, while Zhan Shaoang sat there expressionlessly and indifferently.
Only Master Yu had his mouth grinning from ear to ear, and kept talking and laughing.
"Child, where have you and your mother been all these years? I've been looking for you for over ten years, but there's no news!"
Zhan Shaoang frowned, "My mother passed away when I was six years old. I was taken in by a kind family and that's how I survived."
In just a few words, Master Yu could hear infinite sadness. How could one live a good life without his parents around?
"Child, you have suffered a lot. Now that you have returned to the Yu family, I will definitely give you a clear name. From now on, you are the eldest master of the Yu family!" Master Yu said in a loud voice. Madam Yu suddenly coughed violently and stood up. Her chest heaved violently due to unstable breathing.
"I don't agree!"
"This child is my biological son, why don't you agree?" Master Yu stared at her.
"I can't possibly agree to this!" Madam Yu started to get unreasonable. "Just now we were talking about those two old foxes, and now Feng'er's body is still warm, and you're the first to acknowledge him as your son? You don't even know where this bastard came from, and you're pretending to be a father and son? You're dreaming!"
Master Yu slammed the table and stood up, "Wake up! He is Xian'er and I's child, our only child! He is the true eldest young master of the Yu Mansion, it is not your turn to criticize him!"
"Feng'er is also my only child!" Madam Yu collapsed and shouted, "Don't you feel sorry for him? Even if he's dead, don't you care about Feng'er's feelings? Are you still a human being? Are you worthy of being a father? Zhan Xianxian is already dead, and her son won't let go of the Yu Mansion?"
"Shut up! If it weren't for you, Xian'er wouldn't have died!" Master Yu's eyes turned red and he roared angrily.
Madam Yu's tears suddenly fell, and her face was full of miserable smiles, "Hehehe...you have been thinking this way all these years, right? You finally said it today. You have been holding it in for a long time, right?"
Master Yu regretted his harsh words and softened his tone: "You are sick, go back and rest."
"I'm not sick!" Madam Yu opened her scarlet eyes, "It's you who is sick! It's Zhan Xianxian! And the group of unforgivable people who killed my Feng'er! It's you who ruined me! It's you who ruined me!"
She cried and shouted, wanting to beat Master Yu to vent her dissatisfaction, unwillingness and reluctance.
"Take the lady back!" said Master Yu in a deep voice.
After Madam Yu was taken away, he and Zhan Shaoang sat down and talked quietly.
"Child, can I take a look at the jade pendant your mother left you?"
Zhan Shaoang took out a pure green jade pendant from his arms. The quality of the jade pendant was not very good. It was a token of love that Master Yu gave to Zhan Shaoang's biological mother Zhan Xianxian when he was still a young boy.
Master Yu wiped the jade pendant back and forth, and when he brought it close to his eyes, he saw the delicate words "Shao Ang" engraved on the back, which were exactly what Zhan Xianxian had done.
"Shaoang, Shaoang." Master Yu repeated these two words back and forth, "Zhan Shaoang?"
He guessed that Zhan Xianxian would not give him a name without a formal status, so he just used the surname Zhan.
Zhan Shaoang nodded slightly, "It's me."
"Does your mother blame me?" Mr. Yu asked the question out loud, but he already had the answer in his heart: she must blame me.
The pure love between the teenage boy and girl was as clear as a stream. He promised to take her away on the seventh day of the seventh month, but he broke his promise in the end.
He married another family's daughter and left her alone in the countryside. A pregnant unmarried woman would be rejected by others after all.
She fled her hometown and died of depression after giving birth to Zhan Shaoang.
During this time, Master Yu had looked for them countless times, but Zhan Xianxian always hid. After she was finally found, she was not allowed to enter the Yu Mansion. She was destined to be a concubine. What was the point?
So no matter how difficult it was, she handled it alone and never asked anyone from the Imperial Palace for help.
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