Chapter 383
Mrs. Cen saw that the woman didn't even look at her, so she turned her gaze back and became furious.
I was even more certain in my heart that this woman was guilty and must be lying!
This kind of woman, this kind of woman is no wonder my daughter can’t beat her.
The Sixth Prince happened to see the sweet interaction between Madam Cen and Ji Yunqing. He looked at Prince Zhao meaningfully and sat down in the chair relaxedly.
After a while, Eunuch Shi came to report: "Your Majesty, I have checked the entire mansion and found that there are only a few wet nurses who have just given birth. I ordered someone to bring the children here."
King Zhao nodded and said, "Present it."
Soon, each of the five maids held a swaddling cloth in their hands.
"Why so many?"
"Replying to King Lie, according to the wet nurses, the children were all born recently, no older than ten days. I am short-sighted and cannot tell the size of the children, so I can only bring all of them with me."
King Lie nodded in understanding: "That makes sense. It's really hard to tell when the time is too close."
King Zhao took a look at the swaddling clothes and did not go forward himself. Instead, he signaled to the princesses and others: "Go and identify them and see which one you have seen before."
The princess looked at them once and couldn't tell them apart, so she pointed at the largest one and said, "I remember that child wasn't this big."
Eunuch Shi stepped forward to take a look and said: "According to one of the wet nurses, this child was born nine days ago."
Madam Cen had already made up her mind. She just glanced at them hastily and said unhappily, "These are not the child. I have held that child before. It is the one next to my daughter. There is no mistake!"
Ji Yunqing also came over to check. She had just observed that none of the baby's swaddling clothes were the same as the ones she had seen before. It was very likely that they had been replaced.
Then we can only look at the appearance.
Seeing Ji Yunqing pretending to look so carefully, Madam Cen sneered: "Can't Concubine Ji tell them apart? Or has she not yet decided which one she likes more?"
This statement directly stated that she thought Ji Yunqing was deliberately causing trouble.
Ji Yunqing ignored her and looked at the third one carefully again.
Finally, he took another look at the pointed head and said with certainty, "It should be this one!"
Eunuch Shi immediately said: "According to the nurse, this child was born last night and is the youngest among them."
Master Cen's eyes flashed: "Concubine Ji really has a keen eye for talent. She picked the one who was born last night at first sight. He looks the most like a newborn baby."
Next, several maids went up to identify the child. Some said the one born three days ago looked more like it, while others pointed to the one born two days ago and concluded that this was the one.
Unable to make a decision, she finally went to find the midwife who had just delivered her baby.
Although the midwife couldn't tell the difference between so many babies put together, she was very experienced and quickly ruled out those born a few days ago.
The only ones left were the child who was born last night and the one next to Concubine Cen. They were only a few hours apart and there was not much difference between them.
One of the midwives was puzzled: "Weren't there three boys and two girls born a few days ago?"
Do we have to distinguish between boys and girls?
Everyone: "..."
You should have told me earlier!
I have forgotten about gender.
After eliminating the two girls and the two older children, there were only two left that no one dared to identify.
Although Ji Yunqing firmly chose the child with the pointed head, others did not believe him.
If you say this child has a pointy head, then the other child’s head isn’t much better; if you say this child is black, then the other one isn’t white either.
"Let the King come and see it too."
King Lie walked forward to take a look with great interest, and finally pointed at one of them at random: "Let's take this one, this one looks smarter."
"Brother, which one do you think is more pleasing to the eye?"
The Sixth Prince came over at some point and said, "I think the other one is better. At least he doesn't look so weird.
It's impossible that after he grows up, everyone will despise him and he won't even be able to find a wife, right?"
After hearing this, King Lie looked down on his sixth brother: "What do you know? The child is like this when he is just born. If you raise him, he will not be so ugly anymore."
He seemed to have been opened up to the topic: "You have no idea how ugly younger children can be. They all look like little black mice. At that time, I even suspected that I was a mouse that had turned into a spirit."
The Sixth Prince had never had a child, so he was skeptical when he heard this: "Is the child that small?"
"How could there be none? Eight children are this small when they are born. Just imagine, eight children are squeezed into a place that was originally meant for one child."
The Sixth Prince thought about it and felt that this made sense.
King Zhao ignored his two younger brothers' irrelevant topics and began to ask: "Have you found out the situation of those two men and the two maids?"
Eunuch Shi glanced at Master Cen obscurely and said, "I have checked it out."
"The two men were servants of the Cen Mansion. One of them was the nephew of Lord Cen, Ayong, who had been with Lord Cen for a long time. He came to live with his uncle Lai Sheng five years ago and has stayed in the Cen Mansion ever since.
The other is Ajie, the son of Lord Cen's wet nurse. He is idle in the mansion and often teases the maids."
These two people are related to Master Cen!
Mr. Cen broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.
Little did he know that something else was going to happen next that would make him break into a cold sweat.
"After investigation, it was found that Ayong had a house outside the mansion, where a woman lived. She came to the Cen mansion to be a wet nurse two months ago."
"The woman claimed that the baby in her belly was Ayong's, and the two of them often hung out together."
Mr. Cen gradually relaxed. Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance and was able to find out that the child was Ayong's, but he could not find out that the child was actually his.
The wet nurse was also smart.
Eunuch Shi continued, "But Lord Cen often stays overnight in that house, or for a day or half a day."
Ok?
Mr. Cen was shocked. How did they find out this?
In order to reassure Master Cen, Eunuch Shi quickened his pace: "But please rest assured, Master Cen,
According to the woman’s neighbor, the old man didn’t live as long as the young man, and he’s not as strong as the young man, so the child is most likely not yours.”
Mr. Cen's lips trembled slightly. If what the neighbor said was true, he would not feel at ease at all!
Fortunately, he has two other sons, two in total.
It was in vain that he thought that Ayong and his cousin would easily develop feelings for each other if they were together for a long time, so he specially replaced them with a woman he was not familiar with to keep an eye on him!
Eunuch Shi continued: "It's almost the same with Ajie. The baby of the wet nurse is most likely Ajie's."
Mr. Cen quickly calculated and determined that it was a girl, which was not a bad thing.
"There is also a wet nurse. The baby in her belly is actually her brother's. The prince has known this for a long time, so there is no need to explain it."
Master Cen felt as if he had been hit by a stick. He already knew what the prince meant. Please explain it clearly!
King Zhao didn't care about these trivial matters at all, and said directly: "Don't talk nonsense, tell me about the wet nurse who gave birth last night, does she have only a little relationship with Lord Cen?"