Bai Sheng smiled and said, "I think Third Uncle is very handsome. If his face is healed and we find a Third Aunt for him, it would be perfect."
"You little rascal!" Uncle Que's old face immediately turned red with embarrassment. "What woman would fancy a cripple like me?"
Bai Sheng chuckled slyly, "There definitely will be, and a great beauty at that! Maybe Third Uncle can even have a few more little cousins for us! Heh heh..."
Uncle Ding let out a snicker.
Lu Ye also began to laugh.
"You, you—you impish girl! Xiao Ye! Control your wife, she says such vulgar things!" Uncle Que's neck was crimson with shame.
Lu Ye picked up a grape, peeled it, and placed it in Bai Sheng's mouth. He smiled and said, "Third Uncle, whatever my precious one wants to say, she can say. Whatever she says is always right."
Uncle Que's eyes widened. "You... you're even more afraid of your wife than my father is!"
The eldest nephew called his wife "Precious One," and his father, a burly man, called his wife "Little Baby." He had been disgusted by their affection since childhood and now he had to endure his own nephew's sickening words. This... this... he couldn't live a normal life!
"Grandpa is very—afraid of Grandma?" Bai Sheng needed to reconfirm the explosive information she had just heard.
"Afraid of Grandma, very afraid of Grandma!" Uncle Que and Uncle Ding said in unison.
The few of them burst into laughter.
After laughing for a while, Bai Sheng wiped away tears of laughter and asked, "Third Uncle, how did you get the scar on your face?"
"I did it," Uncle Ding said again, his face full of guilt.
"Uncle Ding, I'm sorry," Bai Sheng covered her mouth, looking at Uncle Ding apologetically. Why was she always hitting Uncle Ding's sore spots today?
However, there was no other way. She needed to understand the situation to treat it effectively.
"It's nothing," Uncle Ding smiled kindly. "Third Young Master was exceptionally brave from a young age. He went to war at thirteen and had his legs severed by the enemy. He became famous in the capital, and all the noble young masters in the capital knew him. To conceal Third Young Master's identity, I disfigured him when I fled with him."
"It's fine if it's disfigured, it's just a face," Uncle Que said dismissively.
Bai Sheng also gently comforted Uncle Ding, "Uncle Ding, don't be sad. You were saving Third Uncle at the time. Don't worry, I will definitely cure Third Uncle's face. From now on, if Third Uncle goes out, he can wear a mask. That way, no one will recognize him."
Uncle Que smiled, "It's been twenty years. I doubt many people remember what Baili Rong Mo looks like."
Uncle Ding quickly warned, "We still need to be careful. If those villains in court aren't rooted out, I won't be able to sleep soundly. Young Master, you must wear a mask when you go out in the future!"
"Alright, I'll wear one," Uncle Que suddenly looked at Uncle Ding, his eyes full of gratitude. "Old Ding, thank you for saving me. At that time, when I learned that the entire family had committed suicide, I didn't want to live anymore. For so many years... I didn't want to live. If it weren't for Fourth Brother, I might have already... But now, I am very grateful that I am still alive, that I can reunite with my sister's children, and that I can see my grandnephew..."
Uncle Ding's eyes were red. "Third Young Master, to think like this, this old servant is truly... very relieved. You don't know how worried I was about you every day all these years, afraid you... would take your own life."
"Don't worry, I won't try to die again," Uncle Que burst into laughter.
Uncle Ding nodded in relief. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he excitedly said to them, "Since the eldest young lady was alive at the time, it means the master must have arranged a 'shadow' for her. If that's the case, then the second young lady must also have one. Is it possible that the second young lady is also still alive?!"
"Second young lady?" Bai Sheng and Lu Ye said in unison.
"Yes, when the Baili family had their accident, the eldest young lady was thirteen, and the second young lady, Baili Shushu, was only five," Uncle Ding nodded.
Uncle Que suddenly realized this too and exclaimed in surprise, "My little sister is definitely still alive! Old Ding, haven't you noticed? That... that child named Tianya looks very much like my little sister! I saved him back then because he resembled my little sister!"
Bai Sheng and Lu Ye froze on the spot.
Things were such a coincidence! It was truly, truly bizarre! So bizarre!
When Bai Sheng and Lu Ye had treated Tianya with the living corpse worm, they had already suspected that Tianya had a blood relationship with their mother.
Later, when they arrived in the capital, Lu Ye spent a long time searching but couldn't find any information about the two of them. Unexpectedly, today, the mystery was solved!
It was truly a cascade of coincidences!
Lu Ye was also very excited. "Third Uncle, Uncle Ding, if Tianya looks very much like Aunt, then he must be Aunt's son!"
Uncle Que looked at Lu Ye, "Why are you so sure, Xiao Ye?"
Lu Ye said, "When I found Tianya and brought him home, I discovered that... his little brother had been cut off. My wife used living corpse worms to treat him and discovered that he might have a blood relationship with my mother, because those living corpse worms were taken from my mother's corpse."
"What? What did you say?" Lu Ye's words were too informative. Uncle Que needed to sort them out one by one. "Tianya had his little brother cut off? And he was healed with living corpse worms? I heard that living corpse worms can only breed on fresh corpses, which means my elder sister's body is still there?"
Lu Ye glanced at Bai Sheng and nodded. "When my parents passed away, our family was too poor, and Huangsha Village did not allow my parents to be buried. Therefore, my wife and I decided to preserve our parents' bodies and plan to build a proper tomb for them when we earned enough money."
"Then where is her body? I want to see her!" Uncle Que wished he could grow two legs immediately.
Bai Sheng rolled her bright eyes and immediately began to "weave a tale." "Third Uncle, don't worry. To preserve Mother's body, I used some special drugs and placed it in a special location. In a few days, I will definitely bring Mother to let you see her."
"Good, good, good," Uncle Que nodded repeatedly. He was too happy today; good news was pouring in.
Uncle Ding gasped and frowned. "So, Tianya must be the second young lady's child?"
"Definitely!" Bai Sheng and Lu Ye nodded together.
Outside the window, Lu Hua and Lu Yun were both overjoyed. So Tianya was their own cousin!
"But such a young child, how could he have been..." Uncle Ding felt distressed. "Could it be that the second young lady's situation was very bad?"
Lu Ye's gaze deepened. "Only by finding Aunt can we figure out what happened."
Bai Sheng squinted and calculated, "When Grandpa's family had their accident was twenty years ago. At that time, Aunt was five years old, which means Aunt should be twenty-five now. This narrows down the search range considerably."
Uncle Ding tilted his head and looked at the sky, blocked by the roof, and said with a sigh, "Perhaps, clues about the second young lady will also appear automatically in the future, with heaven's help."
At this moment, Uncle Ding firmly believed in the existence of ghosts and gods. Otherwise, how could the entire Baili family, including the master, madam, third young master, and fourth young master, have miraculously reunited?