allendalepharm Chapter 885 I Don’t Know Chen Xudao
Chapter 885 I Don’t Know Chen Xudao
"Where are the mother and son? I want to see them." Jiang Youzhen said.
"It's in the next room. I asked Jiang Li and the others to watch it!"
"The inn is full of mixed people, it's still not very safe. Find them a new yard to stay tomorrow, and don't let them see Chen Xudao and the others yet."
"Okay!" Li Dongsheng nodded.
But when Jiang Youzhen saw the mother and son, he discovered a clue.
She leaned in to look at the sleeping child and found that he had no resemblance to Chen Xudao at all. She stroked the child's closed eyes with her right hand and turned to look at the very nervous woman beside her.
"Are you the child's biological mother?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
The woman knelt and saluted, "Yes! I am the child's biological mother!"
"You're lying!" Jiang Youzhen said coldly.
Li Dongsheng, Jiang Li and others were stunned and didn't understand why Jiang Youzhen said that.
"I dare not lie, he is really my son." The woman was obviously panicked and began to tremble.
"You said you were Chen Xudao's mistress, so where is the crescent-shaped birthmark on Chen Xudao's body?"
"In... I am just a concubine, I dare not look at the master too much, so I don't know. I don't know his identity, and he never told me... I know nothing."
The woman was frightened and began to speak incoherently.
"You are his bedmate, but you don't even know that he has a crescent-shaped birthmark on his chest?" Jiang Youzhen sneered.
"Yes...I forgot! It seems that there is, but I may not have noticed it!"
Jiang Youzhen walked in front of her and suddenly lifted her hand, saying, "You have calluses on your hands. Do you think this is what a pampered person should have?"
The woman was shocked and began to struggle.
"And where is there any crescent-shaped birthmark on his body? You are just the child's wet nurse, right?" Jiang Youzhen put down her hand and returned to the table.
"If you tell the truth, you will live, otherwise you will die!" Jiang Youzhen drew the soft sword from his waist and pointed it at the woman's neck.
The cold air frightened the woman, "Don't kill me, don't kill us, I confess! I confess everything!"
Li Dongsheng couldn't help but admire her. He brought the child back and never thought that the child was not the woman's, because the child was very close to the woman and kept calling her mother.
It turned out that Jiang Youzhen's guess was correct. This woman was the child's wet nurse. She had taken care of the child since he was born, and she had been doing so for five years.
"What about your wife?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
"Missing! Just two months ago!" the nanny replied palely.
"What is the relationship between Chen Xudao and you?"
Jiang Youzhen suddenly remembered something as she spoke, so she took out a portrait from her arms. This was the portrait she had drawn when she was about to find Chen Xudao. Fortunately, she had copied a few more pictures at that time.
"This is the person!" She held the portrait in front of the woman.
Unexpectedly, the lady shook her head, her eyes confused, "I don't know him!"
"How could he not recognize her? Isn't this child Chen Xudao's?" Li Dongsheng was puzzled. Even if this woman was just the child's wet nurse, Chen Xudao must have seen this woman when he went there, right?
"I really don't know him!" The woman still shook her head affirmatively.
"Then describe the child's father's appearance orally." Jiang Youzhen's heart moved, and then he picked up the pen and paper.
Following the nurse's instructions, Jiang Youzhen drew a portrait of the child's father. When she finished drawing, Li Dongsheng took a closer look and found him very familiar.
"What is this?" Li Dongsheng always felt that he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't quite remember where.
"What's the child's name?" Jiang Youzhen suddenly asked.
"His name is Muren, but I don't know his last name."
"Tell me about your wife!" Jiang Youzhen suddenly said.
The nurse was stunned for a moment, then said: "I don't know much about our Madam, she should be a local, she looks a bit like someone from outside the Great Wall, I heard from the master that her ancestors should have blood from outside the Great Wall.
Madam is beautiful, with deep and gorgeous features, but she doesn't like to talk and doesn't speak Mandarin very well. I used to work for a merchant family in the capital, but later I made a mistake and was sold to the border. The master saw this and bought me to teach Madam to speak Mandarin.
"Is there anything unusual about your wife? For example, her living habits."
"Yes!" The nanny nodded without hesitation.
"She loves to drink boiled milk tea and eat beef and mutton. But the master said that her ancestors had foreign blood, and the people here sometimes have this habit. After a long time, I don't think it's strange!
But she doesn't like to eat vegetables and rice, but likes to chop vegetables into small pieces, dry them and keep them, and often use them to cook soup. This is not good for health, and after persuading her, she gradually changed a little. Madam is very good at riding and shooting, and she is very heroic. She has gone hunting with the master before."
Li Dongsheng was shocked when he heard the nurse's words. Even among the local people, some people still maintained the customs outside the Great Wall, but they were a minority after all. Moreover, they had been gradually assimilated over time, so how could they still have such habits?
It's like it was forced upon me, but it's hard to change back.
Don't all these signs indicate that this lady is from outside the Great Wall? Women from outside the Great Wall live under everyone's noses, and no one here at the border has noticed it. Moreover, this woman may have become the concubine of a powerful official. This is simply absurd.
"Who else will serve your wife? Is it just you?" Jiang Youzhen continued to ask.
"Yes! No one else. The master and his wife like quietness and don't like too many servants in the house. They also don't allow the lady to go out casually."
"So what does your wife do on a daily basis? Has she had repeated contact with anyone?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
"On weekdays, my wife stays at home to take care of the children. My wife said that my master is a businessman and does business in several nearby states. He comes back once every month."
"As for who I have had multiple contacts with, this servant does have some impression of him." The nurse recalled carefully.
"He is one of Madam's cousins. He has come to see Madam several times. He is the only one of Madam's family members that I have ever met. Apart from him, no one else from her family has ever come. But every time he comes, Madam has to argue with him before he leaves."
"Arguing? Arguing about what?" Jiang Youzhen immediately became interested.
The nurse shook her head. "I couldn't hear clearly. They always kept their voices low when they quarreled. Once I leaned over to listen, but they were talking so much that I couldn't understand anything."
At first I thought it was a local dialect, but later I realized it was not a dialect at all. Because I have lived here for more than five years, I already have a certain understanding of the local dialect. "
"Which dialect do you think it is from?" Li Dongsheng asked impatiently.
The nurse took a deep breath, looked at the two of them but didn't dare to say much.
"It's okay! Just tell us what you know and we won't make things difficult for you. You're just a wet nurse, what happens to them has nothing to do with you." Jiang Youzhen said.