Chapter 1631 — A Helpless Outcome: Apart from Tang Yu, Bing Tang Did Not Find a Single One of the Tang Family Pleasing
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"Uncle Da, why have you come?" Tang Lingtou looked at Uncle Da entering the conference room and was at once puzzled. Uncle Da might be Old Master Tang's trusted aide, but a family council like this was not something he would attend; he was a servant, and he knew his place well enough.
"This old servant deserves ten thousand deaths! Whatever went wrong, the fault was all this old servant's!" Uncle Da said, going down on his knees before Old Master Tang the moment he entered the conference room.
"Ah?" Uncle Da's sudden move startled Old Master Tang into stillness. They were in the middle of discussing Xiao Ming's affair—what did Uncle Da mean by butting in? Could Bing Tang be Uncle Da's child? Impossible. Uncle Da was only a servant, with not a drop of Tang blood in him. Not now, and not tracing back several generations. The odds of such a thing were all but zero. What wrong could he have committed at a time like this?
So Old Master Tang frowned and said, "Old Da, what play are you putting on? What do you mean, you were wrong? What exactly did you do wrong? We are discussing serious business here. If you have made some mistake, can it not wait until afterward?"
"Old Master, please hear this old servant out!" Uncle Da said. "What this old servant has to speak of concerns precisely the matter of the Third Young Madam's daughter, back then..."
"What? You know? Speak, and be quick about it!" The instant Old Master Tang heard what Uncle Da had come for, he pressed him.
"Yes!" Uncle Da said. "Back then, the First Young Madam sent word for a servant to abandon Tangtang. This old servant could not bear it. I thought, no matter what, the child was still the eldest young master's own flesh and blood—left out in the snow like that, how could she live? So this old servant thought of a way to save the child..."
"What do you mean? Explain yourself clearly!" Old Master Tang frowned, sensing that something was not quite right.
"Yes! At the time, it happened that a daughter had just been born to a member of a collateral branch of the Tang family as well. They brought the girl to the Hidden Tang family to be registered and entered into the genealogy, and this old servant seized that chance to switch Tangtang with their child. The child that was abandoned was that collateral descendant's daughter, not the eldest young master's daughter Tangtang..." Uncle Da said. "And the real Tangtang must have been taken back and raised by that member of the Tang family... Newborn infants all look much alike, so they surely never noticed the switch, and so..."
"What!" Old Master Tang nearly swooned on hearing it. By that account, Bing Tang must be that collateral Tang descendant's daughter—not of Tang Lingtou's blood at all! And that, in turn, explained why Bing Tang's DNA matched a portion of most of the Tang family: because she was related to them by blood as well.
But if so, the Tang family had been sorely wronged. They had been overjoyed at the thought of claiming Bing Tang back, for then the Hidden Tang family would have had a powerful patron. Yet now it seemed it had all come to nothing—how pitiable it was for Old Master Tang!
"Ah! Then Bing Tang is not my daughter... Then my daughter..." When Xiao Ming heard Uncle Da's words, she too turned pale with shock.