mtl008 Chapter 345 The Missing Maid
Chapter 345 The Missing Maid
The old woman slowly told her story.
After her and the child's bodies were thrown into the mountains, she inexplicably came back to life and happened to meet a fleeing businessman who saved her.
The man took her home. She had lost her memory and stayed with the man temporarily. The man thought she was pretty and wanted to marry her. However, the day before the wedding, he died of illness. Before he died, he left all his property and servants to her because he had no children.
Due to the chaotic situation, she gathered all her money and servants and found a remote place to live in seclusion, where she stayed for decades.
The old woman also said that during the years of seclusion, she dreamed of some fragmented images every day, but she had no idea how to retrieve her memory based on those images alone.
It was not until half a year ago that she accidentally hit her head and remembered Yuncheng. Then she came out of her secluded place with her servants and came to Yuncheng to build the Ye Mansion.
Only after finding Shangguan Zhenhua did I remember everything from the past.
The old woman looked at Shangguan Zhenhua's face obsessively: "Husband, it's been more than 30 years. We have been separated for so long, and finally met. You have grown old, and we have all grown old!"
Shangguan Zhenhua looked at her face carefully: "Yes, we are all old."
There was no trace of disguise on the old woman's face.
But he was very sure in his heart that the old woman in front of him was not Ye Qianlan.
Even though she knew about their past, even though she looked very similar to Ye Qianlan, even though the look in her eyes when she looked at him was full of affection.
But Shangguan Zhenhua still felt that the person in front of him was not Ye Qianlan, not his wife.
Who is she?
"Old woman." Shangguan Zhenhua tried his best to suppress the doubt and anger in his heart, and said to the old woman gently: "I am really happy that you are not dead. I have never married in these years, and I have never forgotten you in my heart. Ruolin misses you too, and Qianbai, he misses you too. Oh, by the way, let me introduce three people to you."
He called Ye Tang, Ye Ping'an and Xiao Jingxuan to the old woman.
"This is Tang'er, Ruolin's eldest daughter. This is Jingxuan, Ruolin's son-in-law. This is Ping'an, Ruolin's son. Ruolin is an adult now and a father too."
The old woman looked excited: "I am a grandmother? Good, really good, so good!"
Ye Tang and the other two obediently called out, "Grandma."
The old woman was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
Shangguan Zhenhua looked at her gently: "You just woke up, it's not appropriate to talk too much, have a good rest, we will go out first and prepare something to eat for you."
"Okay." The old woman lay back on the bed.
Shangguan Zhenhua asked the nanny and the maid to stay and take care of the old lady.
The three of them watched Shangguan Zhenhua and his companions leave with a smile.
As soon as they left, the smiles on the three people's faces immediately disappeared, and they went up to close the door.
The old woman got up from the bed, and Mammy whispered, "Madam, have they discovered anything?"
The old woman sneered, "Of course they found out, but so what? The plan must continue. If they don't expose us, we will continue to pretend and wait until the time is right to take them all down."
As she spoke, she changed the subject and said, "The man just now is my younger brother Ye Qianbai, right?"
"Yes."
"After not seeing him for decades, he has changed a lot!"
"As a Penglai warrior, how did he come to the Yuan Dynasty and meet Shangguan Zhenhua?"
Ye Tang and his family returned to the flower hall.
"Dad, those people know too much!" Ye Tang asked, "Besides Ye Qianrou, were there other people who fled with you back then? What about the servants?"
Ye Peng suddenly realized and said, "Do you suspect that the old woman is someone who is familiar with us in disguise?"
Ye Tang nodded: "She must be someone familiar. How could someone who is not familiar with you describe your past in such detail? She even knows the tiger head pattern on you and your uncle."
Ye Peng thought for a moment: "Let me think about it..."
Shangguan Zhenhua and Ye Qianbai also thought about it carefully. There were more than fifty guards and servants who escaped with Ye Qianlan and others. Almost all of them died, and only two people disappeared.
Shangguan Zhenhua also said: "The two people who disappeared are Zou Caigui and Zhixin. Zou Caigui is one of the guards protecting Qianlan, and Zhixin is her personal maid."
Ye Tang asked: "Zhi Xin is Grandmother's personal maid. She grew up with Grandmother and must know Grandmother very well."
Ye Qianbai nodded: "Yes, she knows my elder sister very well, but she and my elder sister are like sisters, so she will not betray my elder sister."
Ye Peng snorted, "That's not necessarily true. My mother was so good to Ye Qianrou, but Ye Qianrou also harmed my mother. You can only know a person's face but not his heart."
His expression turned cold: "That old woman is definitely not my mother. I don't feel any maternal love from her. She is fake. A fake can understand us so well. I'm afraid she has someone who knows us very well. That person is probably a close friend, or Zou Caigui!"
Shangguan Zhenhua said: "It is more likely that she is a close friend. She even knows your mother better than I do."
Zhixin has been serving Ye Qianlan since she was a child, and she knows all the characteristics of Ye Qianlan.
If she really wasn't dead, if she was really caught, then...
"Grandfather, father, great uncle, there is one more thing I don't understand. If Zhixin was really captured, why did this old woman only appear as my grandmother today? Why didn't she show up decades ago?" Ye Tang asked, "Also, we don't see any trace of disguise on her face. Could it be that she really looks like this?"
Shangguan Zhenhua said: "When I carried her into the house, I saw the moles on her wrist. Those brown moles are the same as your grandmother's. In addition, the scar behind her ear is also the same as your grandmother's. If it is really a disguise, it is too magical!"
Xiao Jingxuan narrowed his eyes and said, "I have never seen such a superb disguise."
Ye Tang continued to analyze: "There is another possibility, she is really the grandmother, but she is controlled by someone, or what she said is true..."
Ye Qianbai shook his head: "Her words are full of loopholes, and the process of recognizing us was also very perfunctory. It must not be true. Let's observe and see what her purpose is in approaching us."
Ye Tang and the others hummed.
Back in the room, Tan Yun had just coaxed little Yun Ting to sleep. Ye Tang leaned over to look at the little guy's sleeping face, her eyes filled with maternal love: "My son's sleeping face is so cute."
She pecked Xiao Yunting lightly on the forehead.
Jamel Xiao quickly moved his face closer.
Ye Tang frowned: "What?"
Xiao Jingxuan's eyes were dim: "You treat your own son differently than me, you are treating him differently, you are fickle and unfaithful, you are unfaithful..."
Ye Tang slapped him and said, "Don't use random words."