There was silence in the room.
Fu Jiao and Aunt Lu were both shocked.
Aunt Lu believed in Aunt Rong so much that although she had a bad background, she was by no means a morally corrupt person.
But now what Aunt Rong meant in her words, Fu Zhenqing was still misunderstood by them?
"Sister Rong, what do you mean by this?"
Aunt Rong didn't want to hide it anymore.
"Death is like a lamp going out. Since Jiao'er gave me a chance to speak again, I will tell this secret." She was fully prepared mentally and mustered up the courage to tell the story of that year, "Jiao'er, I I don’t like Fu Zhenqing much, but at that time, I had to find a way out for myself..."
More than ten years ago, Aunt Rong was the number one in the Jade Tea House in the capital. She is talented, beautiful, gentle as water and can play the pipa well, attracting countless celebrities in the capital to fight over her. At that time, she was of high worth and had many guests, but Fu Zhenqing was just a meager one. However, the madam of Yuming House wanted to marry her off to an old Jiangnan wealthy businessman as a concubine for the sake of money.
Aunt Rong is a native of the capital. She doesn't want to leave her hometown and marry a bad old man. It happened that Fu Zhenqing was relatively close to her at that time. After asking around, among the dignitaries, Fu Zhenqing was the only one who didn't mind that she came from the fireworks alley and was willing to carry her into the backyard to serve her well.
After careful consideration, Aunt Rong told Fu Zhenqing that she was pregnant with his flesh and blood and hoped to marry into the Fu family as soon as possible.
Fu Zhenqing did not disappoint Aunt Rong.
When Aunt Rong lied that she was three months pregnant, she was sent to the Fu family in a pink sedan chair and became Fu Zhenqing's aunt.
Recalling this, Aunt Rong felt a little guilty towards Fu Zhenqing. Therefore, when Fu Zhenqing wanted to kill the child because the child was not his own, Aunt Rong understood.
There is no shortage of unlucky people in the world. Under the circumstances at that time, Fu Zhenqing was willing to marry her, and Aunt Rong was already very grateful.
"Are you falsely pregnant?"
Aunt Lu was extremely shocked, "I couldn't tell it at all at the time."
Aunt Rong lamented: "How dare I be discovered by others despite such a huge risk? In order to prevent Fu Zhenqing from becoming suspicious, I stopped dressing up and stopped discussing poems and songs with him, which made him gradually ignore me..."
"So that's it."
Aunt Lu fell into memories.
She came in after Aunt Rong. No wonder Aunt Rong didn't compete for her favor at that time. She thought Aunt Rong was in a bad mood because she was pregnant, but now it seems that everything is for a reason.
"Although it is a false pregnancy...then what happened to Jiao'er?"
Aunt Lu asked the most critical question.
Before, she thought it was Aunt Rong who was restless and put a hat on Fu Zhenqing, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Aunt Rong looked at Fu Jiao tenderly with deep eyes.
Fu Jiao didn't avoid it at all, and looked at her steadily, hoping that Aunt Rong would give her a clear explanation.
Aunt Rong's voice was low, and she was obviously blaming herself, "Ever since I pretended to be pregnant to marry Fu Zhenqing, I have been asking my friends from back then to help me find abandoned babies of the right age. My friend will not betray me, she does her best, Finally, in the winter of sixteen years ago, she found me a newborn baby girl."
"That baby girl...is me?" Fu Jiao pointed to her nose.
Aunt Rong nodded slightly.
That winter was very cold. Aunt Rong's friends went around and learned from a woodcutter that a baby had been abandoned at Baqiao Ferry. She immediately took the baby home and paid everyone who knew about it hush money.
Aunt Rong’s month is also suitable.
He found an excuse to go out and brought Fu Jiao back in the evening. Faced with the questioning of Fu Zhenqing, Xie and others, she lied that she had suddenly given birth to a child in the afternoon.
"You must have been a few days old at that time. Unlike other children, you have dirty fetal mud." Aunt Rong told about the young Fu Jiao, her eyebrows were gentle, "You are white and tender, and you don't cry. Anyone who makes you laugh makes you laugh. The swaddling clothes on your body are also made of very precious Sichuan brocade, embroidered with exquisite orchids. The thin golden thread on the orchids, I have never seen such good embroidery in my life... At that time, I I just thought, who could be so cruel as to abandon Jiaoer by the cold ferry?"
When Aunt Lu heard this, she frowned and said, "In this way, Fu Jiao is not Fu Zhenqing's biological child, nor is she her sister's. The baby clothes on her body are so precious. She must have been born in a wealthy family in the capital."
"It's definitely not an ordinary wealthy family."
Aunt Rong sighed, "There is still half a jade pendant in Jiao'er's swaddling clothes."
Fu Jiao didn't expect the original owner's life experience to be so tortuous.
She was a little confused for a while and didn't know whether she should find a family of origin for her original owner.
Thinking of this, she asked casually: "What does that half jade pendant look like?"
Aunt Rong gestured and said: "I'm not proficient in jewelry and jade, but the texture of the jade pendant on your body is extremely moist. The red is orange, and the orange looks like it has been soaked in blood. It is as transparent as ice in the sun. The pattern on it is natural. The formation is unique, like a phoenix spreading its wings.”
When Fu Jiao heard this, she became interested and asked, "Mother, where is that jade pendant now?"
Aunt Rong looked embarrassed and said with great shame: "Although you were abandoned, you still left such a jade pendant in your infancy. Obviously, your original family hopes to find you through this jade pendant. It can also be regarded as your original family's concern for you. But At that time... the secret of my false pregnancy could not be discovered, so the jade pendant and swaddling clothes that proved your identity were wrapped in rocks and sank into Cuiwei Lake."
At this point, Aunt Rong almost knelt down in front of Fu Jiao, "Jiao'er, I'm sorry for you. I shouldn't have done that."
From Aunt Rong's point of view, Fu Jiao has nothing to blame.
Today she found out that she was not the biological daughter of Fu Zhenqing and Aunt Rong, but she was relieved. In this way, she no longer has to be timid about punishing Fu Zhenqing.
"You have done it or not, there is no use in talking about it."
After all, there was a nurturing grace, so there was no need for Fu Jiao to have a tense relationship with Aunt Rong.
She thought that if the original owner was still alive, she would not blame Aunt Rong. After all, if Aunt Rong had not come to pick her up, the young baby might have froze to death at Baqiao Ferry.
"Mother, do you still remember where the baby jade pendant was thrown?"
"There is an arch bridge on Cuiwei Lake. I threw it while standing on the arch bridge." Aunt Rong frowned and recalled for a long time. She really couldn't remember clearly. "But I, I really can't remember the specific location where I threw it."
"Just have a rough location."
Cuiwei Lake is only that big.
The time was still long. Even if Fu Jiao drained the lake and dug three feet into the ground, she still had to dig out the jade pendant to see what was going on.
She has taken over the body of the original owner and naturally wants to do everything she can for her.
The original owner didn't deserve to have to suffer for so many years.
Regardless of her life experience, the evil Fu Zhenqing has done, and anyone who wants to harm her, Fu Jiao will make them receive the punishment they deserve.
