Chapter 704: Alive but Dead
Mrs. Yao stood quietly in front of the door.
During the Lantern Festival that year, she got separated from her maid and was sold to a small mountain village.
The endless mountains made her fail to escape several times, and she drowned countless times after giving birth. She lives like a zombie...
She was whipped, kicked and punched by the man, leaving her with a bruised face and nose, and she couldn't get up for three days and three nights.
Never as desperate as now.
For so many years, the belief that has kept me going is to go home.
Return to the home I long for day and night.
Standing in front of the door at this moment, tears welled up in my eyes. She had imagined countless times reuniting with her family, but she had never thought of being turned away.
Her face was pale and her body was shaky. She felt extremely bitter when she saw the words "Yao Mansion".
"Mom, let's go back." Yuzhu gently supported her mother.
"Zhu'er is growing up, Zhu'er is working hard, and she can also become a support for her mother."
Mrs. Yao's eyes were filled with tears, and suddenly the small door next to her opened.
A nanny came out with her hair combed neatly and dressed very neatly. Yao Jingyi raised her head and tears fell.
This is the nanny who lives beside her mother and has watched her grow up since she was a child.
Yao Jingyi was about to speak when she heard the nanny say, "Madam, my eldest daughter accidentally fell into the water and died during a lantern festival a few years ago. She died before she even got married. If you have any difficulties, the Yao family is willing to help you. But please do not pretend to be my daughter, so as not to make the old people in the mansion sad."
"The old lady just woke up from her nap, and she specially asked me to invite you in."
Yao Jingyi opened her mouth, trembled twice, and then closed it tightly.
She lowered her head and clutched the corner of her clothes tightly.
The clothes were washed white, but the material was not as good as the one worn by the nanny. She was no longer the glamorous girl she used to be.
The people passing by praised the Yao family: "As expected of a noble family, such character is rare."
"The ancestors of the Yao family were students of the saints..." Everyone nodded to the Yao family.
The look he gave Yao Jingyi couldn't help but be filled with a bit of contempt.
"It's okay to extort money, but you can't be so conscienceless. You're taking care of two little girls, aren't you afraid of corrupting the children?" A woman shook her head disdainfully, making Yao Jingyi pale.
"Madam, please come in." The nanny nodded.
Yao Jingyi pursed her lips and brought Lu Chaochao and Yuzhu into the house.
The moment the small door is closed, it blocks out the outside world’s probing and contemptuous gazes.
The nanny then sighed softly, no longer as cold as before. She walked forward with a friendly and caring look and held Yao Jingyi's calloused hands.
"Miss, you have suffered!" The nanny burst into tears before she could speak, and her heart ached as she looked at her.
"I am sorry for offending you outside the door just now. I hope you will forgive me, young lady."
"You should go and see the old lady soon. She has been waiting in the courtyard since she heard you were coming. She has been waiting and looking forward to seeing you..."
"When you were in trouble, the old lady almost cried until her eyes went blind. Now she can only vaguely see people..."
Yao Jingyi's heart, which had originally sunk to the bottom of the valley, was suddenly tinged with pain.
As soon as I walked out of the courtyard gate, I heard heart-wrenching cries.
"My Jingyi..." When she looked up, she saw the old lady sitting in the hall with tears in her eyes.
Yao Jingyi was hurt again, but when she saw the mother she missed day and night, she couldn't help but rush forward.
"mother!"
"My daughter is finally home!" Yao Jingyi and the old lady hugged each other and cried bitterly. This was the scene she had been thinking about day and night during the countless nights when she couldn't hold on any longer.
She finally came home.
No one understands, she has been abducted for many years, this is her obsession.
Even if I die, I still want to get rid of this obsession.
Everyone in the room was wiping tears, and the nanny's face was covered with tears: "Back then, you accidentally got lost, and the outside world spread that you were kidnapped by thieves and taken to the mountains. I cried so much that I almost went blind..."
"My dear girl, you have suffered..."
The old lady hugged her and cried until she fainted several times. The daughter she had raised so carefully at home now had white hair on her temples, and the old lady felt very distressed.
Holding her daughter's hands, the old lady inadvertently saw the mottled scars on her arms and almost couldn't breathe.
"It's all over, mother, it's all over. My daughter can finally go home alive and see her mother." The person she finds most difficult to give up is her mother.
Everyone cried bitterly, and then the nanny came out to comfort them.
"Madam, it's a good thing that the eldest daughter is coming home, but please don't cry anymore. Otherwise it will hurt your body."
As she spoke, several sisters-in-law came forward to comfort her.
The chaotic scene gradually stopped.
Yao Jingyi saw that her mother's distressed expression did not seem fake, and the grievance she had just felt faded a little.
"Mother, I am unfilial and have made you sad for Jingyi."
The old lady held her hand tightly and said, "It's good to be able to go home, it's good to go home."
Yao Jingyi wiped her tears, raised her hand and called Yuzhu over: "Mom, this is your granddaughter, Jingyi's daughter. Her name is Yuzhu... Yuzhu is smart and clever, and she has always been the one protecting me as a mother. Now even more..." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by her sister-in-law.
"You were born after you were abducted?"
Yao Jingyi's face turned pale, and she tightened her grip on Yuzhu's hand: "Yeah." Her voice was a little low.
"Jingyi had a miserable life. After many twists and turns, she was sold to the mountains and gave birth to several daughters. However, the daughters could not protect them and died young. Now only Yuzhu is left by her side..."
Yao Jingyi was no less than digging out her own scars for everyone to see, and only the old lady shed a few tears.
Several sisters-in-law wiped their eyes with handkerchiefs, with a look of indifference on their faces.
"My dear, we know that you suffered a lot after being kidnapped. But you can't destroy your family."
"During the Lantern Festival, bandits came down the mountain to kidnap people. Unfortunately, you were kidnapped... We did our best to search for you, and even fought with the bandits several times."
"We also gave a lot of silver to the bandits."
"Who knew those bastards would take the silver and not redeem me? Finally, after the government sent people to clear out the bandits, they didn't find you in the mountains." The eldest sister-in-law sighed.
Yao Jingyi lowered her head, and the color drained from her face when she talked about the past.
"Some of the girls captured in the mountains were sold off."
The eldest sister-in-law shook her head helplessly: "No wonder... This is not the fault of others, it's just that the eldest girl has a bad fate."
"Young lady, you also know that besides you, we have several brothers and sisters in our family. Our Yao family has been a clean family for generations, and we value our reputation the most. When the sisters get married in the future, it would be a waste of time to implicate them. After all, the eldest daughter of our family was abducted by bandits. If the news gets out, it will be really..."
"After clearing out the bandits, I couldn't find you. So I spread the word that on the day the eldest girl was abducted, I jumped into the river and died in order to protect my innocence." The Yao family buried an empty coffin with great ceremony.
When this word got out, it actually made the Yao family famous.
The daughter of the Yao family was immediately proposed to by many parties.
Yao Jingyi, who suffered humiliation in the mountains, has been declared dead.
The authorities no longer investigated her whereabouts and the case was closed.
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