Chapter 1311: The Real Jiang Ying Has Returned
After Jiang Ying and Song Yucheng returned to the mansion, she hurried to the ancestral hall.
Because the original owner’s birth dates were pressed there.
The reason it was in the ancestral hall is due to the customs of Great Chu, which requires family girls to place their birth dates under the ancestral tablets before marriage.
If nothing happened within three days of placement, it showed that the ancestors agreed to the marriage.
So now, Jiang Ying wanted to check the exact date.
She happily ran out, ready to enter the palace again when...
She saw Madam Jiang and Master Jiang crying as they led a young woman into the door.
The young woman had a sallow complexion and was small and thin.
She was dressed in coarse cloth and couldn’t stop crying.
"If I had known you were suffering outside like this, why didn’t you contact us earlier, child, you’ve suffered so much." Madam Jiang held Cuicui’s hand and cried incessantly.
Cuicui also cried: "Father, Mother, I didn’t even know I had been ’dead’ for so many years."
"To me, it felt like I just fainted for a moment, and when I opened my eyes, I had become this village girl Cuicui."
She choked with sobs: "I’ve been saying I’m not Cuicui, I’m Jiang Ying."
"But that family didn’t believe me, and often beat and scolded me, locking me in the house."
"If not for tricking him this time to notify you, I fear I wouldn’t know how he might have harmed me!"
Master Jiang said through gritted teeth: "The Li San Family, those vicious villagers, dared to treat you like this."
"Don’t worry, Father has already arranged for acquaintances in the government to go over and make them suffer."
"Don’t be afraid, now that you’re back home, you’re safe. No matter what you’ve become, we will take good care of you."
The family of three spoke as they walked down the long corridor.
Cuicui listened and naturally her eyes were full of tears.
At this time, they looked up and saw Jiang Ying frozen at the end of the corridor.
Cuicui looked at her familiar body, yet it was making a different expression.
She was also somewhat surprised.
After a moment, she said: "Is it you... who took care of my parents while I was gone these years?"
Jiang Ying came to her senses: "You are Jiang Ying?"
The Jiang Family couple exchanged a look: "So, you already knew you weren’t our biological daughter, yet you still chose to stay?"
Master Jiang said: "This is not the place to talk, let’s go to the flower hall and talk."
"Let our daughter clean up and change her clothes too."
So, Madam Jiang’s maid led Cuicui in the direction of the guest room.
After all, the courtyard that originally belonged to her was now inhabited by Jiang Ying.
Jiang Ying watched Cuicui’s figure walk away, as Master Jiang came to her side: "Come with us to the flower hall, there are some things we want to ask you."
Jiang Ying knew it was time to confess everything.
Once inside the flower hall.
The Jiang Family couple unsurprisingly asked: "Who exactly are you? Why did you return to life in our daughter’s body?"
Jiang Ying replied: "I also unexpectedly died, then opened my eyes to find myself becoming Jiang Ying."
Madam Jiang murmured: "No wonder, I was puzzled at how our daughter’s personality changed so quickly..."
Jiang Ying couldn’t help but ask: "Have you found the original Jiang Ying and brought her back?"
Master Jiang nodded solemnly.
With his explanation, Jiang Ying understood what happened.
It turned out a man named Li Zhuangnian came to extort them, mentioning a few issues only Jiang Ying would know.
Li Zhuangnian also said that if the Jiang Family didn’t pay, he wouldn’t tell them where their daughter was.
But Li Zhuangnian, being a short-sighted villager, was no match for a seasoned official like Master Jiang.
Within a few words, Master Jiang tricked him into revealing the truth.
So, the Jiang Family immediately took the Protector, accompanying Li Zhuangnian to his village.
That’s how they found Cuicui!