"What, what, what... what in the world is going on? If something happened, just say it, why behave ?" This manner really was frightening.
And in this moment, Mrs. He’s tears suddenly couldn’t be held back, "Old man, something terrible has happened..."
"What exactly happened? Just spit it out!" Old Man Ye was so anxious he couldn’t stand it.
"My daughter is gone, my daughter is gone..." Mrs. He sobbed uncontrollably, appearing utterly pitiable.
Old Man Ye’s heart suddenly felt a sigh of relief, "Don’t talk nonsense, you must be confused from a dream, woman; Xiaojiu is fine, I just ran into her when I came back!"
Mrs. He wiped away her tears and forced herself to calm down, "Old man, think back, when we had Xiaojiu, did you not notice anything unusual?"
"Woman, what on earth are you trying to say?" Even the normally good-natured Old Man Ye was getting impatient with Mrs. He.
"Back when I gave birth, I passed out for a long time afterward. You, a bunch of grown men, how could you not watch over the child properly? Someone quietly switched the child, and you didn’t even realize it!" Mrs. He accused.
Together with their eldest and second sons, their entire large family lived in a small, dilapidated courtyard with cracked walls—to think that the child had been switched, and not a single person noticed.
"I think you’ve really gone senile!" Old Man Ye looked at Mrs. He helplessly, "You clearly fell asleep from exhaustion before giving birth, and after waking up, you then delivered the child. After the midwife left, didn’t I go in?"
"You know nothing, I was in so much pain I could have died, I wasn’t asleep first. Clearly, it was after giving birth that I passed out for a long time. I never slept before giving birth, you senile old man. It was those two midwives who tampered with things, we didn’t have a daughter at all, we had a son, and those two swapped the child." Mrs. He wept and complained.
In her heart, a sudden sense of desolation rose again, "In my life, I’ve had four little brats, and it was not easy to finally have a daughter. I cared for her and raised her with so much attention; we got through the toughest times. Just as she became capable and promising, now she is about to be taken away by others, why is my life so bitter..."
Old Man Ye was startled by Mrs. He’s words and hastily asked, "Old woman, you can’t just blabber nonsense. Where did you hear such absurd stories? Our child, personally raised by us, how could there be a mistake?"
Old Man Ye really didn’t know, but the matter truly was mistaken.
"Where did I hear it from? I overheard it when Xiaojiu and Princess Consort Jing were talking, and they didn’t notice me. The Princess Consort Jing wanted a son back then but gave birth to a daughter instead, so she had someone swap our son secretly. Xiaojiu couldn’t speak or walk all these years not because of poor health, but because she was taken out of the Royal Residence just after birth and someone fed her poison, that dose in her previous life was what harmed her!" Mrs. He simply vented everything out at once.
"Stop talking nonsense here, so according to you, Xiaojiu is a Commandery Princess then?" Old Man Ye didn’t believe a word, "Besides, even if what you’re saying is true, Xiaojiu was just a newborn at that time; how could she possibly know about this?"
"Xiaojiu said..." Mrs. He suddenly stopped herself.
Xiaojiu said she knew it from birth, and at first Mrs. He didn’t understand the meaning of this phrase. But after hearing their conversation, she realized her daughter actually was born with memories.