Gu Yundai lay on a pile of hay, soaking wet.
Her little face was as pale as a sheet, and it was slightly swollen after having been in the water for a long time.
She slowly opened her eyes and immediately felt a chill in her bones that seemed to have entered through every pore in her body and cut through her like a knife.
She instinctively curled herself up immediately.
The door of the rundown room was pushed open from the outside at this time, and a middle-aged woman around 40 years old with a round face entered carrying some clothes and a blanket. She rushed into the room and started crying uncontrollably when she saw how Gu Yundai looked.
"Third Young Mistress, quickly cover yourself with this blanket." She ran over to Gu Yundai and handed her the blanket and clothes.
Gu Yundai had felt as if she was going to freeze to death, so she didn't put up an argument or ask any questions. She just quickly pulled off her soaking wet clothes and changed into the coarse linen top and pants that the woman had brought to her. Then she wrapped herself up with the blanket as she continued to shiver.
"Third Young Mistress, what are we going to do?" The middle-aged lady wiped at her tears as she cried, "Little Young Master has been taken away, and Master says that he's going to kill Little Young Master. You really need to think of a way to save him."
"What?" Gu Yundai's brain wasn't working too well because she was freezing cold. It took her a while to understand who this Little Young Master was.
The middle-aged lady pulled some hay together and used it to light a fire so that Gu Yundai could warm up. Then she quickly recounted what had happened earlier.
As Gu Yundai's body started to slowly warm up and her brain began to work again, she began to recall what had happened before her transmigration.
Ten months ago, the original owner of this body had discovered that she was pregnant. However, this turned out to be an enormous problem because she was a young 16-year-old lady of a respectable family who wasn't married yet.
The personality of the original owner of the body had been weak and timid, but in this instance, she had finally done something extremely bold.
She had hidden at her nanny's place and secretly given birth to a boy about a month ago. But before she could complete her one month of confinement, her family had found out about it.
The family had tried to force her to tell them who the father of the child was, but she wouldn't divulge the secret.
Master Gu had flown into a rage. He felt that she was an immoral woman and had disgraced the family. Then, in accordance with the family's rules, she had been stuffed into a cage and thrown into a lake.
The nanny and her son had rescued the body from the lake.
However, the original owner of the body had drowned, so the transmigrated body had ended up here with the nanny.
"My child…isn't he still at your house?" asked Gu Yundai in a hoarse voice, after having had time to think about all these things.
"Master sent someone to snatch the child away earlier." Auntie Pan started crying from her fear and anxiety. "Third Young Mistress, you have to think of something quickly. If you take too long, we won't be in time to save him…"
The child of the original owner of this body was only a month old after all.
Gu Yundai couldn't bear to let this little baby die.
"Where has the child been carried to?"
"They were headed for the ancestral hall." Auntie Pan started bawling now. "Master said that he wanted to kill the child in front of the entire family to make an example out of him…"
Gu Yundai stood up and said, "I'm going to get the child back!"
She flung the blanket away and ran out of the rundown room. It was snowing heavily as she used her memories from her previous life to guide her to the ancestral hall.
There was a huge crowd of people standing outside the hall.
She could make out the heart-wrenching cries of the child.
For some reason, when she heard the child cry, Gu Yundai felt a sharp pain in her heart.
She squeezed through the crowd. Then she saw Master Gu's furious face as he
stood, holding a male baby who was practically naked. The little baby's fingers were curled into fists, and his face was turning blue from the cold and his incessant crying.
"I'm going to throw this little b*stard to his death today!" Master Gu raised the little baby boy immediately after making that declaration.
"Stop!" Gu Yundai rushed over.
The entire crowd went into an uproar.
All those who recognized her looked as if they had seen a ghost.
Master Gu stood frozen on the spot when he saw her. "You…you despicable girl. Why aren't you dead?"
Gu Yundai ignored him completely and grabbed the child, wrapping him tightly in a linen cloth.
Master Gu was furious and roared, "Men! Tie these two disgraceful beings together and throw them into the well. We'll see if she can climb out of there."