After I traveled through the book, I was spoiled by five little villains

"She had just given birth to a posthumous child and there was a fire outside."

Madam Hu said, "At that time, I was wiping the child's body, and when I looked up, I saw the window paper was burning."

She recalled the situation with lingering fear.

Fire is no joke.

She just came here to be a midwife and earn money by delivering babies. She never thought about living and dying together with her master.

The fire started in a strange way. The maid of the woman in labor went out to check what was going on and never came back.

She hurriedly wrapped the child in a swaddling cloth and stuffed the child into the woman's arms. She didn't even bother to take the money and turned around to run.

As for other things, she really couldn't care less.

But the woman in labor grabbed her wrist and forced a seal and a gold ingot into her hand.

Her eyes were red, her face was pale due to exhaustion, and her long black hair was soaked with sweat and stuck to her forehead in clumps.

Looks like a ghost.

She said in a shrill voice: "Take this, and if you see it again one day in the future, you can return it to me."

"Also, remember, my son has a red birthmark on the back of his right foot!"

As he spoke, he opened the swaddling clothes that had not yet been wrapped tightly, revealing the newborn baby.

The newborn baby cried loudly and kicked his legs hard. On the back of his right foot, there was indeed a bright red birthmark that was larger than an adult's fingernail.

Aunt Hu didn't know why she said all this and she was just anxious to escape.

After getting her gold, she held him down and asked, "Did you see it clearly? Did you remember it?!"

Madam Hu nodded repeatedly and looked outside.

"I see it clearly. I see it clearly."

The woman in labor then let go, and Madam Hu ran out in a hurry, putting the seal and gold in her arms as she ran.

As soon as I went out, I staggered because of the smoke that covered my head.

Fortunately, the house had not yet been completely burned down, and she found a gap and ran out.

When I looked back, I saw a raging fire lighting up half the sky in the darkness.

There was a fire here, and immediately there was the sound of gongs and drums, and villagers came rushing over carrying buckets of water.

Aunt Hu stood outside, just feeling lucky that she was still alive, and hurried home.

On the way, she met her husband who came to pick her up after hearing the news. She had something on her mind, so she told her husband about the strange things that happened that day when she got home.

The husband then told her not to tell anyone a word and let him find out secretly.

The fire in the neighboring village was such a big thing that everyone in the village and the fields were talking about it, and he heard it all.

When he came back, he told Aunt Hu that the fire was very big that night and they collected several charred corpses, but there was no baby's.

Mammy Hu secretly calculated that the number of people burned to death did not match the number of that family.

Later, some people said they saw some suspicious strangers that night, but there was no evidence.

She discussed the matter with her husband behind closed doors, and they both thought that the woman's husband's family must have some enemy who had come to their house like this.

Thinking of this, the two men became frightened and dug a hole in the wall of the woodshed and buried the seal and gold.

She no longer worked as a midwife and lived on the farm at home.

After several years, seeing that no one was interested in the burned house, they took out the gold to spend, cutting off a corner at a time and letting her husband exchange it for silver in the next town.

Being so cautious, he lived a comfortable life for several years relying on that ingot of gold.

She sometimes thinks of the woman who had given birth.

It is not known whether she escaped or not, nor what became of the baby.

The other party never showed up to ask her for the seal.

Aunt Hu originally thought that although this incident was bizarre, it would just pass like this over the years.

Unexpectedly, her husband died early, and a hailstorm killed her son and daughter-in-law, leaving only this only grandson.

The wheat that had been growing in the fields over the winter was killed by hail. Although they received relief grain from the imperial court, they had no labor force at home and could only live off the land.

As a last resort, she dug out the seal from the hole in the wall of the woodshed and took her grandson to Beijing to live with her husband's aunt.

But they hadn't seen each other for many years, and when she found the place, her aunt's family had already moved away.

She failed to find a relative to seek help, and in Beijing she had to spend money as soon as she opened her eyes. She didn't even have enough money to go back home.

He had no choice but to break his promise and pawn the seal at a pawn shop.

She couldn't read and didn't know whether the seal was worth anything.

Mammy Hu just thought that since it was something that the woman took out, it must be good.

Unexpectedly, first the clerk took the seal, and then the shopkeeper came to ask.

Finally, she was sent to a beautiful mansion by a servant, where a noble lady questioned her, returned the seal to her, and let her leave with Nanny Deng the next day.

What happened next was that Nanny Deng took them to the street and they were knocked unconscious.

When she woke up, it was just her and her grandson.

A man with an extremely sinister look came up to her and asked her who she was and why she entered the Duke's Mansion.

How would she know about the Duke's Mansion?

Frightened, he was cautious and pretended to know nothing about the whole story. He just said that he had come to Beijing to look for his relatives and had no idea what kind of house that was.

The man then asked her what she did after entering.

She said that she met a steward and touched his grandson's bones.

The man didn't believe it, and asked the question over and over again, and then went to ask her grandson.

Fortunately, although the child is young and looks dull, he listens to Madam Hu in everything and does the same as she says.

Later, seeing that the two of them really knew nothing, she locked them up for a few days and suddenly wanted to send them away yesterday.

Nanny Hu was feeling anxious, not knowing what would happen in the future.

Could it be that he met a kidnapper?

But it's understandable to kidnap her grandson, but what's the use for her, an old woman half buried in the earth?

At night, a few more people came and started fighting with the people in the yard, and asked them to follow him.

"Your Highness," Madam Hu said with trembling lips, "If I had known they were your men, I would have gone with them without saying a word."

Although she was old, her mind was clear and she explained the whole story in one breath.

During the days of being locked up in that yard, Matron Hu had already figured it out clearly. It must have been the seal that caused the sudden disaster.

So, when she saw the eldest princess, she poured out all the beans like beans from a bamboo tube.

In her heart, if even the eldest princess couldn't protect her, then no one else would.

Maternity, fire, red birthmark on baby's right foot.

Qin Yaoguang went over all the key information in his mind and asked, "Is the seal still there?"

Madam Hu reached out and took her grandson's hand, unplugged his belt and opened it layer by layer, revealing a small jade seal lying inside.

She hid the seal in a very clever way, putting it inside a coarse cloth belt and rolling it up in several layers.

Because the seal is only the size of a thumb, it cannot be seen at all when tied around the waist.

Even if you are searched, you would never think that there is something secret inside the belt.

The boy held up his pants with his hands, looking helpless.