"Picked it up." Baiban said.
It's almost as good as Mrs. Bai's guess.
As soon as she took a look at it, she found that the child was not one month old, and Zhen didn't look like a person in confinement. Besides, at Zhen's age, she could hold her pearls in her eyes, unless the smoke coming out of the Bai family's ancestral graves was as thick as a thigh.
Old Mrs. Bai looked carefully at the baby's blanket, which was embroidered with a vivid picture of a hundred pomegranate seeds. The more she looked at the embroidery, the more familiar the embroidery became.
Yes, it is very similar to Zhen's embroidery work.
Although Mrs. Bai is a village woman, she has a lot of experience.
She could tell from the baby's blanket that this was no ordinary child. Whose child can use such fine water-slippery silk? Since it is a wealthy family, how can it throw away the child for no reason? It’s not like I can’t afford it.
Even if there is strife in the back of a wealthy family, they rarely attack a little girl. It doesn't take much to raise a girl. When she grows up, she can marry and help her mother's family.
unless--
"Will this child bring any disaster to the family?" Old Mrs. Bai's mind changed and she asked Bai Banban in one sentence.
"What kind of disaster can that bring?" Bai Banban was asked by his mother, feeling a little unsure.
"I didn't ask you, I asked your wife." Mrs. Bai took a look at the white wooden board.
"Tell me the truth, you know how powerful it is. The Bai family has been dragged down once, and we don't want to take any risks again. You have five sons." Mrs. Bai stared at Zhen with her sharp eyes, and she thought She discovered the possible reason why a wealthy family abandoned their daughter, a reason that made her frightened whenever she thought about it.
"Mom, it's not what you think." Madam Zhen calmed down. She knew what her mother-in-law was afraid of, and she was equally afraid of it.
"This child is not a child of an official family, and there is no case of beheading in the family." Zhen made it clear.
The female doll was indeed picked up by Bai Banzhi and Zhen in the snow.
We have to start from the beginning.
When Bai Banban was young, he sent fresh vegetables to the Shen family, a wealthy businessman in Huaicheng, and met a housekeeper.
A year ago, the family's livelihood was really difficult, so Bai Banban took Zhen to work in Huaicheng. Through the relationship with the housekeeper, he joined the Shen Mansion as a helper. He took care of the flowers and plants in the yard, and Zhen's good embroidery skills found their way into the needlework.
The eldest lady of the Shen family admired Zhen's craftsmanship very much. Since Zhen entered the needlework department, all the clothes and handkerchiefs in the eldest lady's house were embroidered by Zhen.
The eldest lady has a gentle and kind temperament, and is generous and generous to the servants in the family. Every time Zhen took over a job in the eldest lady's house, the eldest lady would give her a generous reward. Not only that, she would also allocate an empty house for Zhen and his wife to live in.
Mrs. Zhen was very grateful to the eldest lady for her kindness, so she embroidered a quilt with a picture of pomegranates and a hundred seeds and gave it to the eldest lady.
Shen Junshan's wives and concubines had no children, and the eldest wife prayed to Buddha every day to ask for a son. Zhen gave her a picture of a pomegranate and a hundred seeds, and two months later, she was diagnosed with pregnancy. The happy eldest lady told Zhen that after the child was born, she would marry her and treat her as a family. Zhen declined because she was a peasant woman and did not dare to approach.
The eldest lady had failed to survive her previous pregnancies, so she kept this pregnancy a secret and planned to announce it after the birth. All trivial matters at home were left to Madam Ru to handle.
When she was five months pregnant, Shen Junshan went to Sichuan to collect silk. When he encountered a heavy rain in the Jialing River, his boat capsized and no bones were found.
When news of Shen Junshan's death came, the head of the Shen family came to visit with his descendants and wanted to divide the Wan Guan family property on the grounds that Shen Junshan had no heirs.
The Shen family members had been quarreling around the Shen Mansion for several days. The eldest lady was helped out by Mrs. Ru with her belly full, confirming that Shen Junshan had an heir. But the clan members refused, saying that if the child in her belly was a girl, she would not be qualified to inherit Shen Junshan's family property.
Finally, the government intervened and negotiated a charter. If the child is a boy, the clan will disperse; if the child is a daughter, more than half of the property will be distributed to the clan.
Bai Banban and Zhen didn't want to be implicated in the Shen family's messy affairs, so they quit their jobs last fall.
The couple did not sign a contract with the Shen Mansion and were free persons. After moving out of the Shen Mansion, they rented a house outside and continued to work odd jobs. Zhen did embroidery for the embroidery shop, and the white wooden boards were used to resist sandbags at the dock.
After winter, the couple saved some money and planned to resign and return to their hometown.
On a snowy night not long before returning home, the couple were awakened by movement outside the door and thought they had been robbed. The white wooden board opened the door boldly, and I was surprised to find a big red quilt lying on the snow. I saw it was a baby in the snow light.
He was afraid that the baby would freeze to death, so he quickly took it back to the house.
Zhen immediately discovered that the picture of the pomegranate and the hundred seeds on the quilt was her own handiwork.
The next day, rumors spread throughout the city that Shen Junshan's first wife, Mrs. Shen, died of heavy bleeding after giving birth to her son.
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"What a sin! That clansman is so stubborn. I don't think Mrs. Naru is a good person. Maybe the son was bought outside in advance. It's hard to say how the child died." Mrs. Bai listened to Zhen I sighed at Shi's narration and quickly figured out the key point behind it.
"Mom, this child has lost his biological mother." Mrs. Zhen patted the quilt gently, with a sad look on her face, "The child and I are destined."
"If you are destined, just keep it. The whole family knows that you have given birth to a daughter, and 80% of the whole village also knows. Is it possible to throw her into the snow again? Your mother-in-law and I are not that vicious. Besides, When you two were working in the Shen Mansion, my mother treated you very well. We can't be that white-eyed wolf, so I'll take it as repayment for raising my daughter well."
"I know mother, I will raise her as my own daughter." Mrs. Zhen burst into tears.
"Mom, that child will be my Bai Banban's daughter from now on. Hehe, you see, the face looks like mine." Bai Banban was delighted when he saw that my mother agreed to raise her.
The corner of Mrs. Bai's mouth twitched. She was too embarrassed to expose her own son. He looked like a farmer, how could he give birth to a girl who looked like a doll in a New Year's painting?
Just like the Zhen family, the Zhen family is completely white, and this baby is also white.
"However, you two will bite me to death. This child belongs to our old Bai family. No one can let go." Old Mrs. Bai ordered.
Bai Banban and Mrs. Zhen looked at each other. They had already discussed this.
Suddenly, the baby in the quilt moved.
Mrs. Zhen picked up the baby. The baby twisted and pressed closer to Mrs. Zhen's arms. The fluffy little head, the pink round face, the little white hands in the mouth... Zhen looked at the child in her arms, her heart felt so soft that it seemed to melt away, and she hugged her tighter.
Old Mrs. Bai was watching from the side, and a chrysanthemum appeared on her face unconsciously.
This little girl is indeed handsome and blessed.
"How can we feed a child so young?" Mrs. Bai frowned. She couldn't finish the rice and noodles at home. Can the child only eat rice and noodle soup?
"There is also a bottle of goat milk bought in Huaicheng in the bag," said Zhen.
"That's not enough." Old Mrs. Bai was worried.
"Well, mother, there is something I forgot to tell you. The money earned by the strong mother and I has been spent. The child was half frozen to death in the snow, and we spent more than half of the money to ask a doctor; I bought her goat milk in the past few days. I spent a lot of money, and this time I spent three times more to hire a car when I went home because of the heavy snow..." Bai Banpan carefully calculated everything for his mother.
I went out to do odd jobs for a year, and my mother took care of the family at home. She didn't bring any money home for me, and I felt guilty.
"Okay, you got such a handsome daughter for nothing, spend the money as you go." Old Mrs. Bai stood up.
"I went to the village to see who I could ask for a lambed sheep. I didn't worry about anyone. I had to give up an old face myself for heaven's sake. You two haven't eaten yet. Go to the kitchen by yourself. Serve food to your wife, the rice soup that the strong wife made in the morning is still in the pot."
The old lady Bai complained and walked out as if she was stepping on a hot wheel.
From then on, she also had a granddaughter. After longing and looking forward to it, she finally had a baby girl in the family. Although she was not a relative, they said that nurturing kindness is better than making kindness. Since she was destined to the Lao Bai family, she belonged to the Lao Bai family. 's granddaughter.
The couple were the only ones left in the house, and they were not hungry at all.
The fire in the stove grew stronger and stronger, and the room became warmer.
The little baby in the quilt slept beautifully with his eyes closed. As he fell asleep, the corners of his mouth curled up into a sweet smile.
"Oh, my wife, my daughter is smiling." The white wooden board's heart almost melted, and each daughter kept shouting.
From the first moment he saw the child that day, he assumed the role of an old father.
I can’t get enough of it every day.
Don't tell me, the little girl is just prettier than those brats, and even the air around her is fragrant.
"My daughter must have had a sweet dream, look how beautiful she is."
Zhen's eyes were glued to the child, and her heart was so tender that it could squeeze out water.
The couple stared at the little girl together, and the more they looked at her, the happier they felt.
What kind of food are you going to eat? If you look at the little girl, you will feel fuller than eating a bowl of rice.
