Chapter 109: Real or Fake Gold?
Chapter 109: Real or Fake Gold?
The round sun sets in the west, the sky is dyed orange-red, and the evening breeze gradually rises.
Mrs. Li took Bai Liangyu to first roughly decide on the gifts according to the booklet, and then went to the warehouse to find the actual gifts, checking whether they were damaged and whether they needed to be replaced.
After being busy for half a day, the gift list was finally finalized.
"Yu'er, your aunt knows that you are always thoughtful. Please check the gift list again to see if there is anything wrong with it?" Mrs. Li said casually.
Bai Liangyu carefully read through the gift list from beginning to end and quickly found something wrong.
"Aunt, jade pendants come in pairs, so why is there three written on this white jade Qilin pendant?"
As soon as the words came out, Bai Liangyu understood.
But she still had a glimmer of hope. Bai Liangyu looked up at Mrs. Li who was leisurely sipping tea, trying to confirm whether she was thinking too much.
The fact that there was an extra jade pendant might just be a typo caused by Mrs. Li’s tiredness.
"Yeah, it wouldn't be beautiful with one more."
Mrs. Li gently put down the teacup in her hand and stared at Bai Liangyu intently. There seemed to be a barely perceptible trace of guilt in her eyes.
Bai Liangyu did not answer but remained silent.
When Mrs. Li saw this, she immediately realized that she understood her hint, but was still stubborn.
"Yu'er, you are not young anymore. Your uncle and I are planning to find someone for you.
What do you think about your future husband's family?
If you have any requests, please tell your aunt. Your aunt and uncle will do their best to meet your needs.
Also, today you have seen the wealth of our Li family.
Your aunt has discussed with your uncle before, and will use half of the family wealth accumulated by the Li family and all the dowry I brought to the Li family to prepare the most generous dowry for you.
You don’t have to worry about being looked down upon.”
Bai Liangyu sneered, crumpled up the gift list in her hand and threw it at her feet without saying a word.
"Yu'er, I know you want to enter the palace, but your cousin has already given birth to a prince in the palace. You can't enter the palace."
Mrs. Li comforted her earnestly.
Bai Liangyu couldn't help but take a deep breath, but she could no longer suppress the grievances that surged in her heart. Her tears were welling up in her red eyes.
"I'm redundant, am I?
If Li Xihua can't give birth to a child, you will support me to enter the palace, right?
Fortunately, she gave birth to the third prince, so there is no need for me to enter the palace and interfere in the name of sisterly support, right?
I know, I have known since I was a child, you two are in love, your family of three is harmonious and happy, and I have always been redundant."
As Bai Liangyu spoke, he casually wiped away the tears that were sliding down his cheeks.
"Yu'er, that's not what your aunt meant. You are too sharp. This palace is very complicated and not as optimistic as you think.
Why do you have to enter the palace?
Like my aunt, marrying a good man to be my wife and mistress, the couple will be together forever, isn't it better than entering the palace and competing with a group of women for the king's favor?"
Mrs. Li's voice gradually became stern.
"Aunt, aunt, aunt! I am obviously your biological daughter, am I not?
The same goes for adults. I am obviously her biological daughter. You two are a loving couple, and the child is an accident, right?
My Lord, he is so unlucky to marry you."
Bai Liangyu paused, shook his head, and continued:
"No, I was wrong, he deserves it, if someone else married a crazy woman like you, they would have divorced her long ago, but he is going crazy with you.
You side with your parents, he side with you, you are crazy, he is confused, you two are made for each other, he deserves to die childless!"
With a crisp sound, Mrs. Li slapped Bai Liangyu on the face, leaving a deep red mark.
Bai Liangyu raised her hand and gently touched her stinging cheek. She asked with a smile, "Did I say anything wrong, Auntie? Besides, who wants to be together for life? You two make me sick!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
The wife of Wannianling Li Ren'an's maiden name was Zhao. In the year when Li Xihua and Bai Liangyu were born, Mrs. Li Zhao's father was thrown into prison for corruption and seizing people's land, and was awaiting sentencing.
The Li Mansion was separated from the Zhao Mansion by only a wall. Before the Zhao Mansion, her mother's home, was surrounded, Mrs. Li Zhao, who was nine months pregnant at the time, acted decisively and sent someone to bring her sister-in-law, who was also pregnant and about to give birth, to the Li Mansion.
My mother's family, the Zhao Mansion, is about to be raided. Whether the whole family is sentenced to execution or exile, except for the married girls, no one in the Zhao Mansion can escape.
She didn't dare to gamble on her mother's family's luck. The child in her sister-in-law's womb, with whom she had a very good relationship, was the only bloodline of the Zhao family that she could keep.
Mrs. Li Zhao, who was in a panic at the time, came up with a stupid idea. She had the crazy idea of exchanging her unborn child for her brother's bloodline to ensure its safety.
But she couldn't make the decision on this matter alone, and as a pregnant woman about to give birth, she couldn't do anything about it.
She could only look for her husband Li Renan who had always doted on her.
It was Li Ren'an who brought the news that Zhao's father was imprisoned, and he helped to perfect the entire plan of Zhao's desire to replace her son.
After taking two doses of oxytocin, both of them gave birth to daughters.
A month later, the entire Zhao family was sentenced to exile.
Bai Liangyu, the daughter of Li Renan and his wife Zhao, was exiled while still in her infancy along with her younger brother and sister-in-law who had just finished her confinement. However, Xihua, her younger brother's bloodline, took over Bai Liangyu's identity and stayed behind to become the eldest daughter of the Li family.
When Bai Liangyu was eight years old, her adoptive parents passed away one after another, leaving her an orphan. As the descendant of a criminal, her future was bleak.
Fortunately, her adoptive mother told her the truth before she died, letting her know her true identity, and wrote a letter entrusting her to the Li family.
After receiving the letter, Li Ren'an immediately applied to be sent to the Zhao family's place of exile to serve, and met Bai Liangyu.
In order to clear Bai Liangyu's identity as a criminal, Li Ren'an and his wife asked Bai Liangyu to recognize Madam Bai Xiao Zhao as his mother.
Madam Bai Xiao Zhao is the younger sister of Madam Li Zhao. Her husband’s family is the Anlu Marquis’s Mansion, and her husband is the second son of Anlu Marquis.
Although Marquis Anlu had the title of a county marquis, it was only the title of a county marquis.
With Li Ren'an's efforts, Bai Liangyu was transformed from a descendant of a criminal into a young lady of the Anlu Marquisate and changed her surname to Bai.
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