Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 141 - : Princess Consort Ling is the General’s Biological Daughter

Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Princess Consort Ling is the General’s Biological Daughter

“General! I didn’t want to,” the woman exclaimed. “Initially, your wife was very kind to me and was generous with rewards. However, Lady Wang threatened me with my son’s life to make me work for her. I had no choice but to comply! She is the Marchioness, while I am just a commoner. How could I dare to defy her?”

“But when she ordered me to sabotage your wife’s childbirth, I truly couldn’t bring myself to do it. I only helped Nanny Fan switch the swaddling clothes of the two young misses. It was Nanny Fan who personally fed your wife the Blood-Loss Pill!”

Although the elderly woman’s words were illogical and disjointed, by speaking at length, people quickly grasped the gist of her words.

Everyone’s face showed a shocked expression.

The General’s wife had died from hemorrhaging during childbirth—a fact many were aware of.

However, it was previously thought that the General’s wife had encountered mountain bandits causing her to go into premature labor and hemorrhage due to the shock, making it seem like an unfortunate twist of fate.

But now, there was a hidden story uncovered.

The supposed hemorrhage was actually induced by a Blood-Loss Pill?

As the name implies, doesn’t a Blood-Loss Pill cause unstoppable bleeding?

And the Lady Wang spoken of by the old woman turned out to be the Marchioness; in the Capital City, there are only two marquisates: Yongning Marquis Manor and Marquis of Wuan’s Mansion.

Yet among the Marchionesses named Wang, it was only the Marchioness of Yongning whose surname was Wang.

Lady Wang was so vicious?

“Blood-Loss Pill?”

General Fu stared intently at the old woman, his voice raspy with undertones of anger.

The old woman’s face was filled with tension and fear, and she subconsciously looked towards Jun Yuyan and Murong Jiu.

Jun Yuyan said, “Just tell the truth. You were coerced back then. The real perpetrator is not you; you shouldn’t be afraid.”

The old woman, unaccustomed to such a grand scene, finally felt relief after harboring these words in her heart for sixteen years. Speaking them aloud, she was at peace, even if it meant facing death without regrets.

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With that, she turned to General Fu and said, “Yes, it was the Blood-Loss Pill. I heard Lady Wang and Nanny Fan say so. They forced me to feed it to her. At that time, your wife was unconscious, and I dared not do it. Your wife had always been so kind to me; how could I dare to harm her? I even tried to persuade them to show mercy. But Lady Wang was too cruel; she had Nanny Fan feed the Blood-Loss Pill to her. Your wife just happened to wake up, and they deceived her, claiming it was the lifesaving Ginseng Pill… Little could she imagine, someone who had always referred to her as a sister would want her life…”

Tears swelled in the old woman’s cloudy eyes.

“Your wife even voiced her gratitude at the time. Then the mountain bandits appeared again, and Lady Wang, fearing your wife would not die, ordered the bandits to kick her ruthlessly in the stomach! Your wife fainted again, and the blood… it soaked the ground red…”

Upon hearing this, the surrounding commoners and guards all displayed expressions of unbearable sorrow.

It was too tragic.

Someone in the crowd then asked, “Does this mean that the mountain bandits who attacked the General’s wife were also arranged by Lady Wang?”

The old woman nodded. “Exactly so. Lady Wang was targeting your wife’s life. She gave birth before your wife, yet deceived your wife that the premature child was born after she had fainted. Your wife believed it to be true. By the time the General arrived to rescue her, the child handed over to the General was Lady Wang’s daughter. The real prematurely born child of the General’s Mansion was with Lady Wang!”

Instantly, the whole room erupted into uproar.

Fu Baozhu’s face lost all color, and Kesi, who had been holding her, suddenly let go and even took a few steps back, his face fluctuating between expressions.

Fu Baozhu shouted, “No! She is lying! I am the real daughter of the General’s Mansion! It was my mother who struggled to birth me and personally handed me over to my father! You were brought here by Prince Ling and Princess Consort Ling to drive a wedge between me and my father, what are your true intentions?”

She glared at Murong Jiu and spat out hatefully, “Murong Jiu, is it because you are jealous of me for having loving parents, that you found this person to fabricate these lies? How can you be so cruel!”

“Slap!”

A resounding slap landed harshly on Fu Baozhu’s face.

From the moment Fu Baozhu and Na Kesi were found disheveled, General Fu had wanted to act, and this belated slap still found its mark.

Fu Baozhu, in disbelief, covered her face, “Father, how could you hit me just based on someone else’s words? I am your daughter, do you really think Murong Jiu is your daughter?”

General Fu remained unmoved, clearly having believed the old woman’s words.

He felt a great deal of pain and anger as he remembered the pale face of the woman he loved, lying in his arms as her life slowly slipped away.

He also recalled the lingering, strong smell of blood, which came from his wife as she bled out.

With her last breath, his wife had personally handed their child to him, pleading with him to take good care of their daughter and not to vent his anger on her because of her own death.

For many years, he had heeded her words, caring for Fu Baozhu and loving her deeply.

It was unthinkable that his wife’s kindness had been so thoroughly exploited, and in the end, he had been raising the daughter of his enemy for sixteen years.

Yet their own biological daughter had been living a subhuman life.

General Fu kept looking at Murong Jiu, but now he was overcome with shame and dared not look any longer.

He was utterly despicable for not being able to recognize his own daughter!

Meanwhile, Fu Baozhu continued to loudly clamor, insisting that she was the true daughter of the General’s Mansion, born through the life-risking efforts of her mother.

She refused to believe the old woman’s fabrications.

She looked utterly innocent, as if she knew nothing at all.

The old woman continued, “I have not lied today, my lord. If I have spoken a single untruth, may heaven strike me with lightning and grant me a dire death! Initially, Lady Wang forced me to give false testimony. I really had no choice, and afterwards, she even sought to exterminate my entire family. Had it not been for our luck, my family would have perished in Float and Swim, having died on the road away from the Capital City. I could not rest easy without revealing the truth, thankfully, it’s not too late!”

General Fu understood.

Indeed, he had not been without suspicion towards Lady Wang in those days and had once sought out the midwife for questioning. At that time, he was too heartbroken, and with Yongning Marquis scheming behind Lady Wang in such a flawless manner, he had detected no issues.

Only later, when he tried to find the midwife again, did he hear that her family had perished in a boating accident on the canal after leaving the Capital City.

“General, Fu Baozhu is not your daughter. I personally delivered the child back then. Your wife gave birth prematurely to a little baby girl with a birthmark. I do not even know if she is still alive, given Lady Wang’s nature, she wouldn’t have let her live…”

The old woman said, crying, her aged face filled with regret.

She had only been brought to the Capital City by Jun Yuyan recently and did not know about events in Capital City, naturally unaware that Princess Consort Ling was the little baby with the birthmark.

But her words turned everyone’s attention to Murong Jiu.

“It’s Princess Consort Ling!”

Someone in the crowd exclaimed loudly.

“Princess Consort Ling used to have a birthmark on her face!”

“I heard it was ‘birth poisoning,’ maybe inflicted while in her mother’s womb. Could it also be Lady Wang’s doing? So malevolent!”

“So Princess Consort Ling is actually General Fu’s biological daughter!”