A Cai walked out without knowing why, and then closed the door.
Luo Lan put down the spoon in his hand and looked at her in confusion.
"A Hong, what happened? You look nervous."
Ah Hong pursed her lips, pointed at the basket in her hand, and said in a trembling voice:
"Wang...Princess, I...I picked it up..."
Before she finished speaking, Ah Hong swallowed hard and didn't know how to continue.
Luo Lan frowned impatiently and said:
"Can you stop hesitating?"
Ah Hong then put the basket in her hand on the chair, then opened the floral cloth on it and pointed at the basket. Luo Lan looked in the direction of her finger. The child in the basket was staring with a pair of small eyes. Look at her.
Luo Lan was so frightened that he covered his mouth and asked in surprise:
"Where...where does this child come from?"
Ah Hong shook her head vigorously with a pale face, and replied with a pair of blank eyes:
"When I came back just now, he left it at the door. I don't know who put it there. I saw that he was pitiful, so I brought him back."
Hearing Ah Hong say this, Luo Lan took a deep breath. It was so strange to have a child. This... this was too weird.
She got up and came to the basket to look carefully and murmured:
"This child seems to have been born not long ago. Could it be that a poor family gave birth to a child and could not afford to raise it, so it was sent to the palace? But our palace is not a shelter. Later, you can send this child to the government office and let them give it to this child. Let your child find a good family!"
A Hong nodded, but the child suddenly started crying. Seeing this, Luo Lan hurriedly signaled A Hong to pick him up.
Just when Ah Hong was holding the baby, a letter fell out of the baby's quilt. Luo Lan hurriedly squatted down to pick it up.
This letter must have been left by the child's biological parents. Thinking of this, she opened the letter and the words above made her frown.
"Princess Yu, I know you are a kind-hearted person. Please keep this child. She has no father or mother. If she is sent elsewhere, she will be bullied. The only person I can trust in this world is you. She is Girl, I won’t eat much, so I put all the money I have available in the basket. Please keep her by your side and thank you.”
There was no signature on it, nor did it explain the identity or origin of the child, but the letter said that it trusted her, so this must not be a stranger. Who could it be?
Luo Lan rummaged through the basket, and there were indeed a few broken pieces of silver underneath. In addition, there was a Pisces jade pendant. This jade pendant had a strange shape and seemed to be valuable.
There is also a white jade peacock hairpin beside the jade pendant, which was probably left by the child's mother.
Ah Hong said worriedly while coaxing the child to sleep:
"Princess, will this child be starved if she is sent to the government office? Look at how cute she is!"
Luo Lan's eyes were sharp and deep, and she didn't know what to do.
This child suddenly came out and asked her to adopt it. How could she adopt this child without finding out its origin?
Just when she didn't know what to do, Ah Hong pulled off a veil from the child's body and said, "Princess, look, there are words on this veil."
Luo Lan took the handkerchief from her hand and saw a small word "sensitive" on one corner of the handkerchief. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it clearly.
The word "sensitive"?
This word "sensitive" suddenly reminded Luo Lan of a person. She spread her fingers and counted, and it seemed that the days were almost the same.
Thinking of this, she frowned and said to Ah Hong:
"Don't tell anyone about this child yet. Now take this child out and throw her into a mass grave in the west of the city."
"princess……"
Ah Hong looked at her with disbelief and fear in her eyes.
She didn't believe that the princess would be so cruel as to throw away this living child.
Luo Lan said softly with eyes shining like cold stars:
"If I'm not wrong, the mother of this child must be nearby. Only by doing this can we force her to show up. If we don't find out the origin of this child, we can't keep her."
After saying this, she said to Ah Hong with a solemn expression:
"Go ahead, A Cai and I will be there shortly."
"But...but your body..."
"It's okay..."
Luo Lan waved his hand directly, "I want to see if this person is who I thought he was."
She will not accept a child whose origin is unknown. On the contrary, if the child really belongs to that person, she will not accept it. She is already pregnant and will give birth to her own child soon. She does not need to No more adopting other people’s children.
After a while, Ah Hong walked out from the back door of the palace with a basket in hand. She looked around in a panic, then took long strides and walked towards the west of the city.
Ah Hong walked to the nearby graveyard in the west of the city, found an open place, put down the basket with the child, and murmured to himself:
"It's not that I'm cruel. I really can't support you. Our princess is about to give birth, so you can only fend for yourself here."
After saying this, she touched the child's little face, then turned around and left decisively.
She walked down the mountain along the path and came directly behind a big tree to meet Luo Lan and A Cai who were hiding here.
Luo Lan's eyes were fixed on the basket, fearing that the child would make any mistake.
After a while, a woman actually walked quickly towards the basket. A Cai whispered:
"Look, someone is passing by."
Ah Hong also nodded, "It's a woman. If I'm right, she should be this child's mother."
Luo Lan looked at the woman solemnly, and saw her quietly walking to the basket, picking up the child in the basket, and kissing her lovingly.
The moment she turned around, Ah Cai covered her mouth and exclaimed:
"She...is...long Xiaomin?"
Luo Lan frowned and said to Ah Hong:
"Hel me over and take a look."
Ah Hong didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly walked to the left and right of Ah Cai, helping her walk towards Long Xiaomin.
At this time, Long Xiaomin was sitting on the ground breastfeeding her baby. When she noticed someone coming, she was about to get up and leave, but was stopped by Luo Lan.
"Long Xiaomin..."
Long Xiaomin stopped when she was about to leave. She blushed and froze in place, not daring to look back.
Luo Lan came behind her and whispered to her:
"I didn't expect it was really you. Are you okay?"
Are you okay with this sentence? Long Xiaomin burst into tears as she recalled the past.
How could she be okay? She was ten months pregnant and gave birth. During this period, she suffered countless hardships. She once thought about going back to Longwu Villa. She stood blankly at the door of the Villa for a long time, but in the end she didn't have the courage to step in.
She had no face to see them. He knew that he was guilty and the sinner in this family.
So in the past ten months, she went to the mountains to exchange firewood for silver, helped people work for money, washed and mended clothes for money, and used every method she could think of to earn money...
"Xiao Min..."
Luo Lan patted her shoulder and comforted her softly:
"I know you must have suffered a lot, but why did you abandon your child? A child without a mother is very pitiful. Can you bear to let her be without a mother since she was a child?"
