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Chapter 447: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (197)

Chapter 447: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (One Hundred and Ninety-Seven)

It turned out that Gao's aunt eloped with her husband and died unexpectedly, leaving behind only a daughter. Before her death, she wrote a letter to Gao's mother, Mrs. Gao, asking her sister to take in her niece.

Nanny He was Gao's wet nurse. She lost her husband at an early age, and her mother-in-law refused to let her granddaughter go to Gao's house to be a slave, so the mother-in-law raised her granddaughter herself.

Several years passed like this. Although Nanny He no longer had to work as a wet nurse, she stayed in the Gao Mansion.

One day, Nanny He received a letter from a neighbor in her hometown. Her mother-in-law had fallen down a hillside and died while going to market in town. Now her daughter was being fostered by a neighbor, and Nanny He was urged to return home immediately. Nanny He became worried about how to care for her daughter. Should she send her to the Gao family as a slave? However, Nanny He refused to allow her granddaughter to be enslaved, saying that she was being unfair to her deceased son.

But Nanny He was reluctant to spend money to let someone else foster her daughter, nor was she comfortable letting her daughter stay in someone else's home.

Nanny He went to ask the mistress for leave, and Mrs. Gao happened to ask Nanny He to pick up her niece on the way.

Before returning to the Gao residence with her found cousin, Matron He made a quick trip back to her husband's family. She gave some money and gifts to her neighbors as a thank you, then returned home with her daughter. She was surprised to discover that her daughter, while two years older than her cousin, was small and slow-growing, appearing to be about the same age as her real cousin.

The most important thing is that the daughter looks 30% like her cousin, but not like Nanny He herself.

Is it better to be the daughter of a servant or the niece of Mrs. Gao? The mother and daughter made the decision that night.

This small village is extremely remote and desolate. Nanny He's daughter seldom goes out. Not many people have seen this little girl. Besides, girls change a lot when they grow up. If she doesn't come back in the future, who will recognize them?

The next day, all the villagers knew that Nanny He's daughter had fallen into a well and died. Nanny He cried herself to death, looking pitiful.

After the funeral, Nanny He took her daughter to Gao's house and introduced her as her cousin.

Yang Gao sent her confidant to He Ma's hometown to investigate.

The confidant discovered that Nanny He's daughter died on the night she brought her cousin back home. She also discovered that before leaving, the so-called "cousin" was wearing a hood, and no one could see her appearance clearly.

The secret investigators showed the portrait of Guo Hui when she first entered the mansion to the villagers, especially the He family's neighbor He Daya, who had raised He Lao's granddaughter for two months and said that this was He's deceased daughter Daya.

Aunt Gao's old house has long been deserted, but it still retains traces from more than ten years ago. Among them is a portrait that Mr. Guo painted for his wife and daughter. The little girl in the painting looks very similar to her mother. When she smiles, her almond-shaped eyes turn upwards, giving her a sense of innocent charm.

But now Guo Hui has a pair of almond eyes!

Yang Gao held the portrait of her cousin and aunt. Her cousin was only five years old when she died. How could they be so cruel? She was so angry that her heart ached. After finding out the truth about Nanny He's murder of her cousin, she immediately reported it to the authorities.

The police sealed off the yard of Madam He's hometown and investigated the scene. The coroner opened the coffin and performed an autopsy to confirm the bone age and cause of death of the little girl in the coffin. It was confirmed that the girl in the coffin was suffocated to death and then thrown into the well. This was a murder case.

Because Nanny He blamed herself for the murder, she was sentenced to death.

The fake Guo Hui was actually named He Daya, also known as He Xiangxiang. She was only seven years old at the time and unlikely to have personally killed the real Guo Hui. She was convicted of being an accomplice and failing to report the murder, and was sentenced to three years in prison. He Xiangxiang initially harbored hope that her daughter could be raised in the Duke's mansion, and upon her release from prison, she could secretly reunite with her daughter and still count on her daughter to support her.

When my daughter finds a good husband in the future, shouldn't she be grateful to her mother and grandmother? If it weren't for them, she would be the daughter of a juren, how could she compare to the status of a legitimate granddaughter of a duke?

Moreover, Gao's daughter would definitely be implicated by Lin and her mother if she was raised in the Lin family. If Mr. Lin remarried in the future, Gao's daughter would surely have a miserable life. This could be considered as revenge against Gao.

But what shocked He Xiangxiang was that Gao actually sued her for child swapping!

Gao sued He Xiangxiang and Nanny He for baby swapping, replacing He Xiangxiang's daughter with her own daughter.