FSC [QT] Chapter 91.2

“Brother, hiccup– I, hiccup— I miss, miss Brother.”

Ah Wu’s voice was very soft, full of sadness and grievance. They had clearly made a promise that they would never separate.

“Here, there is, hiccup— the smell of Brother.”

She hugged the old clothes at her feet. Her fingers clenched tightly. She was unwilling to let go.

“Hey—”

Li Xu hugged Ah Wu tightly, tears streaming down her face.

When Li Shanchun and Li Daqiang looked for her outside and couldn’t find her, they came to Yu’s house to reunite with Li Xu. This was the scene they saw.

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Since that day, Li Xu moved to Yu’s house and lived in the room where the two elders of the Yu family used to live, while Yu Wu continued to live in her and her brother Yu Yan’s room.

In the days that followed, Li Xu moved the things that were important to Yu Wu to Li’s house one by one. She also often took Yu Wu to Li’s house to play during the day so that she could get familiar with the environment.

More than a month passed like this, and all the old things left by Yu Yan were moved to Li’s house, and Yu Wu no longer objected to sleeping in Li’s house.

Half a year later, Yu Wu rarely mentioned her brother again.

Li Xu didn’t know whether it was because the child was forgetful or because the child learned to bury her longing for her brother in her heart, but this was a good start.

Li Xu felt that Yu Wu would start a new life sooner or later. She couldn’t be bound by Yu Yan for a lifetime.

So, from that day on, even the Li family rarely mentioned Yu Wu’s past.

Human nature was forgetful.

In the first year after Yu Yan left, the villagers often talked about the story of the Yu family. While scolding Mrs. Yu, they also felt sorry for Yu Yan.

A year later, there was other news in the village, such as someone’s daughter got married, but she was unlucky and met a mean old woman, and her family came to support her, or someone’s child was unfilial, and the brothers pushed their parents’ responsibility for the elderly care…

Occasionally, when passing by the Yu family’s house, which had been uninhabited for many years and was overgrown with weeds, or when seeing Yu Wu, who was getting more and more beautiful as she got older, they would suddenly remember the boy who protected his sister like a wolf cub, the boy who sold himself to protect his sister, and then sighed.

The children in the village were much more forgetful than adults. Except for a few precocious children, others didn’t even know the series of things that happened in the Yu family.

For many children, Yu Wu was the child of the Li family, but they were very curious why Yu Wu’s surname was Yu, but not Li like the Li family.

Whenever a naughty child asked Yu Wu this question and was heard by an adult, he would be beaten by the adult and told not to talk about it in front of Yu Wu or bully Yu Wu.

Over time, the children were no longer curious about this question.

Yu Yan and the Yu family seemed to have become a taboo in Xiaoxi Village.

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Eight years later—

A low-key and luxurious carriage slowly drove into Xiaoxi Village. With a coachman and five mounted guards, such a team aroused the curiosity and vigilance of the villagers.

“Is this Xiaoxi Village? Did the Young Lady live here?”

A graceful and wealthy woman poked her head out of the carriage and frowned slightly when she saw the muddy paths and low and dilapidated houses around her.

What kind of girl could be raised in such a poor place?

If she really took her back, she was afraid it would be a disgrace to the Marquis’ Mansion.

What a pity. The young lady in the Marquis’ Mansion was excellent in every way except her background. It was all the fault of that evil-minded maid. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a troublesome thing today.

The woman frowned. Looking at her exquisite embroidered shoes and the country road that had just rained and still had a lot of puddles, she got out of the carriage very reluctantly.

There were two little maids following her. Obviously, the two little maids’ facial skills were not good enough. Their expressions of disgust were beyond words.

One of the little girls with round double buns and goose yellow silk tied on her head even pinched her nose, just because she saw the chickens and ducks grazing in the fields, and the piles of feces left by the chickens and ducks when they walked by.

How could the real young lady of the Marquis’s mansion live in such a place?

Poverty, dirtiness… Even the living environment of these maids who were born in the Marquis’s mansion was better than hers.

If such a girl was taken aback, could she really be a good young lady?

Not only the nanny doubted, but the two little maids also doubted.

It was a pity for the young lady at home. She was such an excellent girl, but she was destined to be overshadowed by this girl in the future. Who could blame her for being legitimate?

A wealthy family valued ​​blood more than feelings. Otherwise, the Eldest Madam would not have sent people to look for her immediately after knowing the truth.

“Who are you looking for?”

Li Xu had been staring at the group of people for a long time. Seeing that they did not move after getting off the carriage, she thought that they were lost and kindly came up to ask them.

“Excuse me, is there a student surnamed Yu here? The wife of that student gave birth to a daughter in Wenquxing Temple in Tongyang County eleven years ago.”

Nanny Liu took a step forward. The edge of her skirt was splashed with mud and water. She looked at her out of the corner of her eye, and her mood became worse.

“Yu Tongsheng?”

Li Xu had not heard this title for many years.

Thinking about the words of the woman in front of her, Li Xu immediately showed a vigilant expression.

What were the origins of these people?

 

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Translator’s Comment:

Yes, this is a cliche story of a child swapping during the birth.

The title of this arc is ‘Swapping Lives’, but I think it can refer for both Yu Yan and Yu Wu, or Yu Wu and the other girl.

 

 

 

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