in2ebook Chapter 448: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (198)
Chapter 448: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (198)
Chapter 448: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (One Hundred and Ninety-Eight)
He Xiangxiang naturally denied it, but under torture, she confessed. Her words were full of accusations of her mother's misdeeds. She was unconscious during childbirth and knew nothing about it.
Later she found out and was thinking of finding an opportunity to switch the baby back.
No one believed this. After all, if He Xiangxiang really wanted to exchange the Duke's daughter back, would she have to wait until Gao sued her?
He Xiangxiang was then sentenced to ten years in prison as a warning to others.
Knowing that she will spend thirteen years in prison, the cell is gloomy and terrifying, and the winter is freezing cold, can she survive until the day she is released?
He Xiangxiang vomited blood and fainted. Before she fell into unconsciousness, she screamed, "Mother, you have hurt me so much!" As for Nanny He, she did not wait for the execution in the autumn. She died from the 100 lashes carried out a month later.
He Xiangxiang's husband, Mr. Lin, was exhausted during the imperial examination and fainted in the examination room. He ranked low and stayed in the capital in the hope of using his connections to get a government position.
Just when he was about to be appointed as the county magistrate of his hometown, he found out that his wife was a fake. She was not the cousin of the second young master's wife of the Duke's Mansion at all, but just the daughter of a slave. Moreover, she participated in murder at a young age and even exchanged the daughter of the Duke's Mansion, which led to the loss of his official position.
Mr. Lin immediately wrote a letter of divorce and turned his back on her.
As for the daughter born to He Xiangxiang, Mr. Lin hated her and treated her particularly badly. However, scholars are very careful about their reputation. Mr. Lin prided himself on his noble character and his lack of recognition for his talent, so he had no choice but to accept his daughter and give her to maids to raise. She had no worries about food and clothing, but he seldom visited her.
In this life, Yang Zhenzhen was merely the daughter of a successful candidate, named "Lin Dingjing." After the Lin family left the capital, he tried hard to suppress the news. Few people back home knew about his first wife, believing she had died in childbirth, leaving behind only a daughter.
As the girl grew up, she always felt that her life should be about stepping on thousands of people and reaching the top. She intuitively felt that her life should not be like this, and she did not think she should be called "Lin Dingjing".
One year during the Lantern Festival, Lin Dingjing left her maid behind and walked alone on the road, but unexpectedly saw a noble lady. Although she had never seen her before, she felt very familiar with her. Her intuition told her that this lady would be her benefactor.
But when the woman next to Madam Gui turned around, Lin Dingjing saw the face that looked similar to Madam Gui, and her heart began to beat like thunder. A feeling of guilt and uneasiness surged in her heart and could not be shaken off.
By the time Lin Dingjing reacted, the lady had already disappeared.
Lin Dingjing returned to the Lin Mansion feeling lost, only to overhear her father and mother talking. Their conversation widened her eyes. Back then, she had nearly become the daughter of a Duke of Guo! But her biological mother and grandmother's affair was exposed, and the baby swap attempt failed, leaving her with the fate of a seventh-rank official.
Lin Dingjing learned about her biological mother for the first time, but she didn't want to admit that such a terrible woman was her mother. She lightened her footsteps, quietly left the front yard, and returned to the house. That night, she seemed to dream that she became the daughter of a duke, the prince's consort, and the queen. Such a beautiful dream made Lin Dingjing wake up with a smile during the day.
After waking up from the dream, she was in great pain because she was not the daughter of a duke, could not meet the prince, could not become the queen, and at most could marry the son of a minor official. This huge gap made Lin Dingjing burst into tears.
Seeing her stepdaughter's indecisiveness, the Lin family's mistress assumed she had a lover. She tried to find him, but failed to reveal his identity. She tried to arrange marriages for her, but Lin Dingjing refused any of them, and as she grew older, outsiders began to accuse her of mistreating her stepdaughter's daughter, deliberately preventing her from marrying. This angered her, and she stopped asking about her stepdaughter's marriage.
Lin Dingjing's ears were quiet, but he gradually became lost in his own fantasy, unable to escape. The rest of his life was lonely and lonely, indulging in fantasy.