The ugly girl's nirvana, the disabled prince's love

Chapter 243 Disregarding human life

At this time, Yu Gongyu also had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He thought of his mother's longing for his brother over the years, and he always burst into tears whenever he mentioned it.

If Brother Ren was really his brother, how happy his mother would be. But it all happened too suddenly, and he really couldn't accept it all at once.

Shen Yiran looked at the two of them and knew that they needed time to digest all of this.

She said softly, "My husband, Sixth Prince, I know this news is too shocking for you. Don't worry, I still have something to tell you. After listening to it, you may be able to understand the whole story more clearly."

Upon hearing this, Ren Jingzhi and Yu Gongyu nodded slowly. They were both trying to calm themselves down and prepare to continue listening to the story that Shen Yiran was going to tell next.

Shen Yiran frowned slightly and continued to tell Ren Jingzhi and Yu Gongyu about Li Yue's tragic experience:

"Li Yue said she vaguely remembered waking up by the river, and she had no idea who she was at the time. Since then, she has had frequent attacks every day, and she can only stay awake for one or two hours a day.

The pain was unbearable when the disease broke out. She happened to find a kind of grass at the door. Eating it provided some relief at first, but later on, even the grass had no effect.

Seeing her in so much pain, the aunt who took her in felt pity for her and secretly went to the pharmacy to get her medicine. However, she was beaten by her son Wang Dali, who was lazy and had a gambling habit.

Later, the couple who adopted Li Yue passed away, and Wang Dali forcibly took her away. Since then, Li Yue's life has become increasingly difficult, and her physical condition has deteriorated. She has to endure Wang Dali's beatings every day. Later, her wakefulness time was shortened to a cup of tea.

After many years of hardship, Li Yue finally had pigeons. Li Yue relied on the pigeons to pick wild flowers and sell them for money to buy medicine to make a living.

In fact, Li Yue fell ill because there was poison in her body, and she happened to eat poisonous grass. The two poisons intertwined and almost took her life.

Fortunately, by chance, she was rescued and taken in by us, and she and Ge'er, the poor mother and daughter, now live a relatively stable life."

After Shen Yiran finished speaking, a trace of pity flashed in her eyes. She knew very well how miserable this experience was for Li Yue.

Yu Gongyu, who was standing by, was furious after hearing this and said angrily, "Zhang Damei and the other two are taking human life lightly!"

On the contrary, Ren Jingzhi was relatively calm. He asked in a low voice, "Ran Ran, do you know the details of the child exchange?"

Shen Yiran nodded slightly, then walked towards the door and ordered: "Lin Bei, ask the guard to call Wang Lei over."

Ren Jingzhi and Yu Gongyu were somewhat confused by her actions. Shen Yiran looked at them seeking answers and said, "You will know why I asked Wang Lei to come here later."

Then, Shen Yiran returned to the table and continued:

"When I heard this from Li Yue, I was really surprised. My husband was about to go to the border at that time, so I didn't tell you about this.

Later, after some investigation, I found Zhang Damei and her husband and managed to take them away. I also found two similar and disfigured corpses in a mass grave and replaced Zhang Damei's and her husband's clothes on them to create the illusion that they had died accidentally.

Shortly after I took them away, a group of men in black came to Bazi Village to inquire about their situation. They left only after learning that Zhang Damei and his wife were dead.

After I learned about this, I sent people to take away Zhang Damei's grandson Wang Lei that night, and used a similar method to create the illusion of Wang Lei's death.

Not long after Wang Lei was taken away, another group of men in black arrived at Bazi Village. After learning that three people in Wang Damei's family had died at once, they left in a hurry.

At this moment, Wang Lei hurried in, bowed to the three of them and said, "Greetings to the Sixth Prince, the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince's Consort."

The three of them said in unison: "No need to be polite."

Shen Yiran said to Wang Lei gently, "Brother Wang, please sit down."

Wang Lei seemed a little reserved and uneasy. He looked at the three people in the tent carefully.

Then, Shen Yiran looked at Ren Jingzhi and Yu Gongyu and said, "Brother Wang also needs to know what I am going to say next, so I asked him to come over."

The two of them responded. Although they were full of questions in their minds, they did not ask. They just waited quietly for Shen Yiran to continue.

At this moment, Yu Gongyu understood in his heart that Shen Yiran was able to investigate the matter so smoothly because she must have obtained the badge that he entrusted his mother to pass on to her, and she must have received the help of Qin Rufeng.

Shen Yiran seemed to see what Yu Gongyu was thinking and nodded slightly at him.

After Shen Yiran calmed down, he took another sip of tea and continued:

"At first, Zhang Damei and her husband denied the child swap. I was angry and tortured her. Later, I mentioned Li Yue. In front of the witness, Zhang Damei knew she could no longer hide it, so she told the story of the child swap that had been hidden for 24 years.

That year, Zhang Damei heard what the monk said, so she took her daughter-in-law to Yinling Temple to pray for the safety of the fetus in her daughter-in-law's belly.

Unexpectedly, not long after eating the vegetarian food in the temple, her daughter-in-law went into premature labor. At that time, there were two other ladies in the temple who also went into premature labor.

The incident happened suddenly, and no midwife could be found for a while, and everyone was extremely anxious. The people brought by the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Imperial Concubine saw Zhang Damei preparing to deliver her daughter-in-law, so they asked her if she was a midwife, and she lied that she was.

Immediately afterwards, the guard in charge ordered Zhang Damei to help the prime minister's wife and the imperial concubine deliver their babies.

At that time, three women were giving birth in the same room. Because they were premature, the delivery process was extremely difficult.

Zhang Damei said that the first to give birth was the lady with the most gorgeous clothes, who should be the imperial concubine, and the last to give birth was her daughter-in-law. They all gave birth to sons.

Because there were no clothes for newborns at that time, the newborns were swaddled using the inner clothes of the monks in the temple.

There were six people in the room at the time, including three women in labor and Zhang Damei, as well as the prime minister's wife and the imperial concubine's personal maid. Due to premature birth, the women in labor were all very weak.

Zhang Damei looked at their weak appearance and suddenly became greedy. She thought that they were dressed gorgeously and must be the ladies of wealthy families, so she came up with the idea of exchanging the children.

She used the excuse of asking the maids to go see their master and took the opportunity to mark them. She put a drop of blood on the collar of her grandson and another drop of blood on the sleeve of the child born to the imperial concubine. She did not make any mark on the other child.

After Zhang Damei finished marking the child, she moved the unmarked child inside. At this moment, the child cried faintly, and the people outside heard the crying and urged to see the child.

Zhang Damei said to the two maids, "Take your children and go out." The two maids hurried over. The imperial concubine's maid asked, "Who is our young master?" Zhang Damei pointed to her grandson.

Then, she pointed out the child with the mark on his cuff to the maid of the prime minister's wife. Soon, they got up and left Yinling Temple. Zhang Damei took the child born by the prime minister's wife home.

After hearing this, the three parties present understood everything. Their emotions at this moment were extremely complicated, like surging waves.

After a moment, Yu Gongyu said excitedly: "Little sister-in-law, according to what you said, the deceased eldest prince, that is, my 'brother', is actually Zhang Damei's grandson, right? Brother Ren is my brother, right!"