No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

Niu Hulu's family?

Oh, it's her.

Lin Mingyan was completely confused. If Linglan hadn't added this prefix, she would have completely forgotten about this person.

Especially this year, Geng came into the mansion early, but it was Liu who came in with her, which she found strange.

After some inquiries, they learned that there was indeed a person named Niuhulu Lingzhu, but he did not have any children.

Ling Zhu was very unlucky. He married three wives in succession, and all of them died in childbirth, resulting in two deaths.

The famous Niuhuru clan in history was wiped out by the butterfly without leaving any trace.

Seeing that she was silent, Du Juan thought she didn't want to see her, so she quickly said, "Master, if you don't want to see her, then don't see her. She said she was from the Niuhulu family, but she is just an orphan."

How could she come to find him?

Lin Mingyan didn't quite understand, but considering the little help Wang Jingcheng had given her at the time, she would not leave his wife out in the cold.

"Pass it along quickly," she asked someone to take the pomegranate away.

The place under the shade of the tree was not very formal, so she asked the wet nurse to take the children back to sleep and moved to the main room.

When Niuhulu followed Linglan into the house, she looked at her nose and her heart, without looking around at all.

Lin Mingyan looked at her as she came in, gave her a kind smile, and asked her to sit down.

After chatting for a while, Niuhulu finally got to the point: "Master Lin, a few days ago, the Lin family came to my house again and caused a scene."

"Oh? They went to Wang's house again?" Lin Mingyan frowned.

You have to know that Mrs. Lin is the old aunt of the Wang family after all. If Wang Jingcheng is still soft-hearted, he might send someone to her to plead for mercy.

Lin Mingyan turned her back on this little favor and disowned it.

After all, I had given them enough face when they got married.

Wang's business partners, seeing that his cousin was actually the Fourth Master's daughter, thought their business would go much smoother.

Niuhulu nodded, but with a smile on her face: "But my wife has figured it out. It has always been the Lin family that owes the Wang family. The Wang family has never wronged them."

"Now that they've received retribution for their own actions, we can't help others change their fate, right?"

“So they were all kicked out.”

"Oh? Wang Jingcheng can still be so tough?" Lin Mingyan did not call him cousin.

She had long ago severed ties with the Lin family, so naturally she had no connection with the Wang family either.

Niuhulu didn't care about this. She nodded and said, "Yes, he scolded that old lady."

"Last I heard, the family was begging on the street, but they managed to collect some money to pay for Lin Bo and his son's medical treatment."

Lin Mingyan knew that Linglan was a gossipy person after all, and there were no restrictions for them living on the farm.

She had already asked people to find out almost everything, and was thinking of adding insult to injury.

But no one expected that the Lin family was in such a miserable state that no one was willing to help them.

Lin Bo suffered a stroke and became paralyzed on one side, and Lin Mingbao barely managed to survive with a broken hand, leaving the family without any income.

Later I heard that there was no other way, so Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Hu actually started a prostitution business to earn a little living to support the father and son.

Lin Mingyan no longer cared about these things, but she just didn't know what exactly Niuhulu came for today.

Niuhulu talked for a while, and seeing that she was not interested, she finally made up her mind and turned to the main topic: "Master Lin, have you ever thought that your father might not be Old Lady Lin's biological son?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Lin Mingyan suddenly looked up and asked with a frown.

After she came through, she thought about this question more than once.

But she had experienced parental partiality before, and it was possible for it to be this biased.

Besides, the Lin family was not a wealthy family, so they didn’t think about it in this regard.

Could it be that there really is a hidden story?

Niuhulu didn't keep the secret and spilled the beans.

It turned out that Wang Jingcheng had asked the elderly people in his family these days, and some people still remembered what happened back then.

After Old Lady Lin married into the Lin family, she failed to give birth to a child for three consecutive years. Gradually, the elders of the Lin family began to dislike her.

She had no way of going home to ask Old Master Wang for advice, so the old man found a fortune teller to do it for her.

It was said that she was destined to be childless and needed to adopt a son who was destined to be a brother, so that she would have a chance to give birth to her own child.

Moreover, after giving birth to a biological child, one cannot treat the adopted child harshly, otherwise the biological child will also die.

Old Mrs. Lin was so worried.

It is easy to adopt a child, but where can you adopt a child who is destined to have a brother?

"Then where did she find such a child?" Lin Mingyan felt mixed emotions.

She never expected that her father, whom she had never met, would have such a rough life.

Niu Hulu said, "At that time, Mrs. Lin's sister-in-law, Lin Qiaolan, was working as a maid outside. When she failed to climb into someone's bed, she was beaten and sent home."

"She was resentful, and seeing that her sister-in-law needed a child, she unscrupulously bribed the midwife in the mansion."

"When the mistress of that house gave birth to twins, I stole one of the children."

Lin Mingyan: "Ah? You can't find it?"

At least they are a wealthy family, how could they be so stupid?

"It was a bad time. It was the critical moment to get rid of Oboi, and everyone in the Niuhuru clan was in danger..." Niuhuru said with a dark look in his eyes.

When she was a child, she heard her father say that her family fell into decline at that time. Although thirty years have passed, one can still imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time.

Lin Mingyan was surprised and asked, "Is it Niuhulu who lost the child?"

"That's right. If the old lady knew that the child was found, she would be very happy." Niuhulu wiped away her tears.

She is not from the Ling Zhu family, but when she was a child she also relied on the old lady to give her food so that she could grow up safely.

This kind old lady blamed herself for losing her child all her life.

Now that we finally have news, we find that he has passed away again, which is really sad.

Fortunately, he left behind two sons and a daughter, which made up for Ling Zhu's embarrassment of having no children.

"This... let me think about it carefully," Lin Mingyan felt a little dizzy.

Ok!

After all this time, she is actually the Niuhulu clan!

Niohuru just came to give her a hint so that she would not be kept in the dark.

Whether she wants to acknowledge her relationship or not depends on herself.

Lin Mingyan invited her to dinner but she refused, so she was rewarded with some cloth, hairpins and rings to thank her for her trip.

In the evening, when the Fourth Master came back, he saw that she had only taken two bites of her meal.

I thought maybe I missed Chef Yin’s cooking skills, so I took some time out to make a bowl of shrimp noodles.

Lin Mingyan was thinking with her hands on her head. When she smelled a familiar fragrance, she smiled: "What a nice smell~"

Seeing his expression of wanting to take credit, she finished her meal in one breath before telling him about what happened today: "...Yinzhen, do you think we should go and recognize our ancestors?"