jdhmnovel Chapter 151 Recognition
Chapter 151 Recognition
In Shen's room, after listening to Zhou's story, Shen was more certain of what she was thinking and asked, "Do you still have the swaddling clothes that Li'er was wrapped in when you picked her up?"
"Yes." When she moved to the border town, Zhou brought the cloth bag with her. It was the cloth bag she was wearing when she picked up the pear, and Zhou was reluctant to throw it away.
"Can you bring it over for me to see?" Shen was very excited and tried to slow down her tone as much as possible. "I suspect that Li'er is my poor daughter..."
"What? This..." Old Lady Ye and Zhou looked at each other in bewilderment. Li'er was Madam Mu's daughter? How was this possible? Wasn't Madam Mu's daughter drowned at birth?
Only Chen was the first to react, "That's right! I was wondering why Li'er looked so much like Madam Mu. It turns out they are mother and daughter!"
Zhao Li: “…”
Zhou also reacted and said, "I'll go get it right away." Then she hurried out of the room.
Before long, Zhou came back trotting with the cloth bag in her arms.
There was no swaddling clothes, only a small dress whose original color could not be seen. Zhao Li was born in the summer, and she was still asleep in Shen's arms when she was taken away. Because it was too hot, Shen replaced her small quilt with clothes, but the clothes were a little too big for the child.
Although the small dress was so dirty that the color could not be seen, Shen could still recognize that it was her needlework by carefully observing the stitches.
Shen looked at Zhao Li with eyes full of pity. Now she was completely sure that Zhao Li was her daughter!
"Li'er," Shen held her cheek as if she was caressing her most precious treasure, tears already blurred her eyes, "I am your biological mother, and I sewed this dress myself, there is absolutely no mistake..."
"You are my biological mother?" Zhao Li's tears fell unconsciously. She originally thought that she would never meet her biological mother in this life, and perhaps she would never find her other family members in this life. She didn't expect that her biological mother was actually Madam Mu?
"It was mother who failed to protect you. Mother is useless. Whether you blame me or hate me, I admit it, I admit it..." Shen hugged Zhao Li tightly in her arms, crying inconsolably.
Several women in the room were infected by her emotions and began to wipe their tears one by one. The most sorrowful thing in the world is the separation of flesh and blood. Shen and Zhao Li, mother and daughter, have been separated for more than ten years. Who can understand this kind of pain?
"Let the mother and daughter talk alone, we'll go out first." Old Mrs. Ye wiped her eyes and said.
"Okay," Zhou's eyes were filled with tears, but she couldn't stop them from flowing out.
Only Shen's mother and daughter were left in the room, hugging each other and crying. Especially Shen, she had been living in self-blame and guilt towards her daughter all these years. Now that mother and daughter met, her heart knot was finally untied, and she cried out all the grievances she had suffered for more than ten years.
After they calmed down, the mother and daughter wiped each other's tears and smiled at each other. They both cried like harlequin cats. Fortunately, neither of them wore makeup.
Then, Shen seemed to have thought of something and stood up and walked towards the desk. Zhao Li hurried forward to support Shen's arm, "Mom, what do you want to do?"
Shen smiled gently, patted Zhao Li's hand and said, "There is one more thing I need your adoptive father to confirm for me. Don't worry, mother is fine."
"Yes." Zhao Li helped Shen sit behind the desk, and then helped her grind ink. Shen picked up the pen, and her hand was shaking. She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down, and then began to paint. She was painting a young woman...
After all, so many years have passed, and the daughter they want to recognize is someone they have always thought to be dead. Of course, Shen wants to find out who rescued her daughter.
After Old Lady Ye and the others came out of the room, they were invited by Chu to talk in the side room next door.
Mu Qianning told Old Madam Mu what had just happened. Old Madam Mu was so surprised that she came to Shen's place in person to entertain the guests.
The brothers Mu Jinyang and Mu Yunche did not dare to leave, so they stood outside under the shade of the trees waiting, so that they could be there at any time if anything happened.
Around noon, Mu Xingchen and Zhao Youliang also arrived.
When Zhao Youliang heard that Li'er had found her mother, he was stunned and blurted out, "Didn't Li'er's mother die? How come there is another mother?"
"Pooh, pooh, pooh! Listen to what you are saying? Li'er has only one mother, Madam Mu! Madam Mu is alive and well!" Zhou reminded.
It’s no wonder that Zhao Youliang was slow to react. For so many years, he had always regarded the dead woman as Zhao Li’s biological mother. Suddenly, he was told that Zhao Li’s biological mother was actually someone else. How could he easily come to terms with it?
"I said the wrong thing, don't be angry. Then, who was the woman I buried?" Zhao Youliang frowned.
Zhou: "......" How could she know! She still finds it a little unbelievable.
As they were talking, Shen and Zhao Li came over. After Shen greeted everyone, she took out the painting she had just finished and showed it to Zhao Youliang. Zhao Youliang stared at the woman in the painting with his eyes getting wider and wider. The woman in the painting was the one he buried with his own hands, so of course he remembered this face!
Now the truth is revealed. It was Hongluan, the maid who was good at martial arts and followed Shen, who rescued Zhao Li.
That night, Hongluan followed the people who took the child away, trying to find a chance to save the child. However, she didn't find any chance until the child was thrown into the moat. Hongluan was worried that something might happen to the child if she stayed away for too long, so as soon as the eunuch who was ordered to do the task took people away, she hurried into the water to save them. However, even though she tried to move as lightly as possible, the eunuch still heard it, realized something was wrong and came back. The eunuch didn't dare tell the emperor about this, so he could only send people to hunt him down privately.
Hongluan fled north with the child in her arms and was finally forced to the edge of a cliff. She used her body to protect the child in her arms. If she hadn't mastered some martial arts, they would probably have been two corpses by the time Zhao Youliang found them.
This result is really sad. After the incident at home, Shen locked herself in her room every day and cried all day long. She had no appetite and did not notice who was missing from her side. A few days later, Mu Heng was demoted and the Mu family had to move out of the general's mansion. Madam Mu decided to dismiss all the servants in the house.
Hongluan is Zhao Li's savior, and naturally also the benefactor of the entire Mu family. Old Madam Mu decided to set up a tablet for Hongluan and enshrine it in the Mu family's ancestral hall so that she can be worshipped by the Mu family's descendants. This is the only thing the Mu family can do for her.
In the evening, the Mu family held a simple family reunion banquet, and the Ye family and the Zhao family were invited to the Mu family as witnesses.
Mu Heng, who had fought bravely and with extraordinary wisdom on the battlefield, cried like a baby when he saw his daughter who had been lost and found again.
Old Madam Mu cried so hard that her eyes could hardly open. She put the jade bracelet that she had treasured for many years on Zhao Li's wrist.
The three brothers stood in front of Zhao Li and vowed to protect her forever and not let anyone bully her again!
At the same time, Mu Xingchen felt a little regretful. When he went to Willow Village before, he felt that Zhao Li looked familiar, but he never thought that she would be his biological sister! If he had noticed it earlier, wouldn't they have recognized each other earlier?
The eldest sister-in-law and Mu Qianning were also genuinely happy for Shen and gave her gifts. Although the gifts were prepared at the last minute, they were their most treasured.
Zhao Li was so overwhelmed by her family's enthusiasm that she was speechless, so Ye Ze had to thank them on her behalf.
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