He Xiwu stopped looking at her husband and raised her head to ask:
"My lord, if I confess everything, could you show me leniency?"
Lord Yang nodded.
"I will consider it."
"Thank you, my lord.
By the time I learned about this, Yun Zhiyou was already in our Yun Family.
I wondered why there was suddenly another child in the family. My husband said his elder brother and sister-in-law had found her while they were away.
My husband said the family had decided to send Yun Zhizhi away, and his elder brother and sister-in-law were heartbroken over it. To ease their minds, the family had decided to adopt this child they had found!
At the time, I suspected nothing.
A year passed like that.
Once, I happened to overhear my husband telling his elder brother that bringing Yun Zhiyou into the Yun Family had been the right move.
Look at our Yun Family, he said. Everyone's health had improved, and our business was flourishing more and more.
Yun Zhiyou truly was a lucky star!
My husband said they absolutely had to keep the truth from Yun Zhiyou's birth parents. They could never let them find out.
They belonged to an official's family. If this came to light, the Yun Family would be plunged into eternal ruin!
The more I heard, the more puzzled I became. Didn't that clearly mean the Yun Family knew who Yun Zhiyou's birth parents were?
If they knew, why hadn't they returned the child they had found?
They might even have used the opportunity to forge ties with an official's family.
I wanted to understand what had really happened. I listened for a long time before finally learning that the old master had sent people to steal Yun Zhiyou.
I was horrified. We were merely an