Jiang Qianruo didn't react when he heard Mr. Huang's helpless words.
She felt neither hatred nor disgust towards King Ping.
Even though the birth of Prince Ping was evidence that Zhongli Che had been unfaithful to her during her early pregnancy, she held no hatred or resentment.
Ultimately, it's just the man's fault. If it wasn't King Ping's mother, it would have been someone else.
But she really couldn't get close to him.
Zhong Lizhou looked at Jiang Qianruo seriously, his expression a little cold: "In that case, then I won't bother Grandma anymore. I'll ask Aunt Lan to arrange a place for you to stay."
Song Ruqing sat aside and did not object.
She was not the kind of person who liked to try to please others, so since the other party had already said so, she would stop interfering.
After Tielan arranged the tent, Mr. Huang found an excuse to send Tang Qingfeng away, and went to the spacious and comfortable tent with Jiang Qianruo.
"Is everything you wrote to me true? Is she really born with supernatural powers, and so is her daughter?"
Almost as soon as they entered the tent, Jiang Qianruo eagerly pulled Mr. Huang aside to ask him something.
Old Huang sighed and told the Ji family in detail about everything that had happened since he met them.
He told everything, including how he had doubts at first but didn't think about it, and then he started to doubt it after seeing Zhou's appearance.
After listening to this, Jiang Qianruo sat in the chair in a daze for a long time without saying a word.
Thirty years! A full thirty years.
Their family bloodline is special. Girls in each generation inherit supernatural powers from their mother, and these powers are passed down from generation to generation, only from girls to boys.
It is completely invisible during infancy, but once the child starts to run and jump, it may suddenly awaken one day.
She watched her eldest daughter grow up day by day. Not only did she not look like her, but her personality was also completely different from hers. She could not find any trace of Zhong Li Che or her in her daughter.
When she told Zhong Li Che about her suspicions, he comforted her and said she was overthinking it.
Later, she became pregnant with a son, and her relationship with Zhong Li Che also had problems. She no longer had time to care about anything else.
Occasionally, when she watched her daughter grow up day by day, she would often feel a sense of strangeness and always felt in her heart that this was not her child.
But every time she saw her daughter calling her "Mom" sweetly, she always felt that she deserved to die. How could she doubt her own child?
So she was doubting herself while hoping that her daughter's divine power would awaken soon, so as to prove that she was overthinking it.
The days passed one by one, and she waited until her daughter was ten, twenty, thirty... until the news of Zhongli Xingyue's death came, but her divine power still did not awaken.
She thought, perhaps this was the retribution for killing too many people on the battlefield.
I can’t keep either my son or my daughter.
As a result, this letter from her senior brother suddenly told her what happened that year. Could there be something wrong?
"During the war, I had just given birth to Yue'er outside. She was weak when she was stolen. When Zhong Liche returned, he immediately led his men to search everywhere. Finally, they found the wet nurse and the baby in a cradle in a dilapidated temple, who was about to strangle Yue'er to death."
"When you brought the child home, you clearly tested her blood with Zhong Liche's. He also investigated and confirmed that she was my Yue'er. Inside the swaddling clothes was a jade pendant that Zhong Liche had prepared before she was born. Now, so many years have passed, and she's gone. You tell me she's not Yue'er?"
"Then what have I been doing all these years?! My own child is stranded outside! I raised a child who came from nowhere. When he was alive, he enjoyed the love and care of Zhong Liche and me, and died in glory! If... what you said is true, how can I face my own child?"
Jiang Qianruo didn't even say this in a shout, but rather very calmly, with a barely perceptible smile on the corner of his mouth.
Huang Lao felt very uncomfortable watching this: "Junior sister...if you want to blame someone, blame me!"
"Blame you? What right do I have to blame you? Hahaha... I can't even figure out my own child, and I blame others, hahaha..."
Jiang Qianruo kept sneering, with hatred flashing in his eyes.
Back then, she was unrestrained, free and uninhibited. When she fell in love with someone, she always felt that anything could be overcome and any difficulty was nothing.
In the end, she paid the price for her naive ideas.
Zhongli Che's enemies actually arranged for someone to steal the child away when she was pregnant and weak, leading to the situation today.
Mr. Huang felt sad and uncomfortable when he saw this, as if there was a stone blocking his chest.
Jiang Qianruo's expression dropped, and a sudden feeling of exhaustion welled up in her heart. "Let Zhong Liche investigate what happened first. We can't make any mistakes this time."
Although she had a hunch the moment she saw Zhou, she felt that there was probably a mistake.
But what stands between them now is the truth and decades of distance.
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After Xie Siheng settled Jiang Qianruo, he talked to his mother for a while, explained the situation, and then took people to Ji's house to see the potato harvest.
His expression along the way was really not good.
He didn't expect that the Empress who was far away in Kyoto would come here and embarrass his mother again and again.
Regardless of whether she did it on purpose or not, Zhonglizhou found it hard to bear seeing his mother being treated like this.
He led his men to the Ji family with a gloomy face. Many people in Xiaotian Village saw him along the way.
"Isn't this the prince? What happened? Are you going to settle the score with the Ji family?"
"No way? I remember that the prince had a good relationship with the Ji family!"
"Look at the prince's face. Is it possible that the Ji family is going to be in big trouble?"
The group of people had some speculations in their minds, but looking at the guards with solemn expressions following behind Zhongli Zhou, they did not dare to move forward.
"Stay here!"
Zhongli Zhou gave an order and went forward to knock on the door.
Mrs. Hu opened the door and saw a look of surprise on his face: "You're here?! Please come in!"
Zhong Lizhou also put on a smile: "Is Ying at home? I came to ask her about potatoes."
"Yes, yes, yes! She's fiddling with those things over there!"
Mrs. Hu was now filled with gratitude towards Zhonglizhou. If it weren't for him, Ji Fengyi and Ji Fengshou would still be suffering in the barracks! How could they go to the kitchen to help?
She enthusiastically brought the person in front of Ji Changying: "I know you are talking about serious matters, and I can't interrupt you. I will go get some food!"
Seeing him coming, Ji Changying clapped her hands and stood up: "You came much faster than I expected."
Zhong Lizhou looked in astonishment at the potatoes piled up in the room, almost reaching the ceiling, with nowhere to stand on the ground. "These, all of them?"
Ji Changying nodded: "That's right, apart from the some I gave to others, the remaining three thousand pounds are almost all here. They were grown with my one hundred pounds. How about it?"
The numbers on paper are far less shocking than what we see in front of us.
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