Chapter 2 Abandoned Babies
"Picked it up." White plank said.
and Mrs. Bai's guess is not far from ten.
As soon as she took a look, she found that the child was less than a month old, and the Zhen family was not like a person in the confinement period, and besides, the Zhen family could be old at this age, unless the green smoke from the ancestral tomb of the Bai family was as thick as a thigh.
The old lady Bai looked carefully at the baby's quilt, and there was a lifelike picture of pomegranates embroidered on it, and the more she looked at the embroidery, the more familiar she became.
Yes, it's very similar to Zhen's embroidery.
Although Mrs. Bai is a village woman, she has a lot of knowledge.
From the baby's wrapping, she could deduce that this was not an ordinary child. Who can use such a good slippery silk, since it is a big family, how can they throw children for no reason? It's not that I can't afford it.
Even if it is the back house of a large family, it is rare to attack a little girl. What does it cost to raise a girl, and when you grow up, you can get married and help your mother's family.
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"Will this child bring any disaster to the family?" The old lady Bai turned her mind and asked Bai Muban in one sentence.
"What disaster can that bring?" Bai Muban was asked by his mother, and he was a little bottomless.
"I didn't ask you, I asked your daughter-in-law." The old lady glanced at the white plank.
"Tell me the truth, you know how powerful it is. The old Bai family has been dragged down once, but you don't want to take any more risks, you are a person with five sons. Old Lady Bai stared at Zhen with sharp eyes, and she thought of the possible reason for the abandonment of the daughter of a large family, a reason that made her worry when she thought about it.
"Mother, it's not what you think." Zhen stabilized her emotions, she knew what her mother-in-law was afraid of, and she was equally afraid of her mother-in-law.
"This child is not a child of the eunuch's family, and the head of the family has not committed murder." Zhen said clearly.
The female doll was indeed picked up by Bai Muban and Zhen in the snow.
We have to start from the beginning.
When Bai Muban was young, he sent fresh vegetables to the Shen family, a wealthy merchant in Huaicheng, and met a housekeeper.
A year ago, the family's livelihood was really difficult, so Bai Muban took Zhen to Huaicheng to work. Through the relationship of the housekeeper, he entered the Shen Mansion as a helper, he served the flowers and plants in the yard, and Zhen's embroidery was good at the needlework.
The eldest lady of the Shen family appreciated Zhen's craftsmanship very much, and since Zhen entered the needlework, all the clothes in the eldest lady's house were embroidered by Zhen.
The eldest lady has a gentle and kind temperament, and treats her family members generously. Every time Zhen took over the work in the eldest lady's house, the eldest lady would give her a generous reward, and not only that, but also allocated an empty house for the Zhen couple to live in.
Zhen was very grateful for the kindness of the eldest lady, so he embroidered a quilt with a picture of a pomegranate and gave it to the eldest lady.
Shen Junshan's wives and concubines have no children, and the eldest lady worships Buddha every day to ask for children. Two months after Zhen gave her a pomegranate Baizi quilt, she was diagnosed as pregnant. Mrs. Xi said to Zhen that after the child was born, she would marry her as a family, but Zhen refused because she was a peasant woman who did not dare to cling.
The eldest lady did not keep the first few children, so this baby has been hidden, and she plans to announce it after she is born, and all the trivial matters in the family will be handed over to Mrs. Ru to deal with.
When she was five months pregnant, Shen Junshan went to Shu to collect silk, but the boat capsized in a torrential rain on the Jialing River, and the bones were not found.
When the news of Shen Junshan's death came, the patriarch of the Shen clan brought the children of the clan to the door and wanted to divide the Wanguan family property on the grounds that Shen Junshan had no heirs.
The Shen family made trouble around the Shen Mansion for a few days, and the eldest lady was helped out by Mrs. Ru with her stomach to confirm that Shen Junshan had an heir. But the clansmen didn't do it, saying that if the child in the womb was a girl, she was not qualified to inherit Shen Junshan's family property.
In the end, the government intervened and negotiated a charter. If a boy is born, the people are scattered; If a daughter is born, more than half of the property is divided among the clansmen.
Bai Muban and Zhen didn't want to be implicated in these messy things of the Shen family, so they quit their jobs last fall.
After moving out of the Shen Mansion, they rented a house outside to continue doing odd jobs.
After the winter, the couple saved a little silver and planned to quit their jobs and return to their hometowns.
On a snowy night not long before returning home, the couple was awakened by the movement outside the door, thinking that they had been robbed. Bai Muban boldly opened the door, and found a big red quilt lying in the snow, and he saw that it was a baby by the light of the snow.
He was afraid that the baby would freeze to death, so he hurriedly carried it back to the house.
Zhen found at a glance that the pomegranate picture on the quilt was from his own handwriting.
The next day, it was rumored throughout the city that Shen Junshan's wife, Mrs. Shen, died of hemorrhage after giving birth to a son.
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"Evildoers, that people are so hard-hitting. I don't think Mrs. Ru is a good thing, maybe the son has already bought it in advance outside, and it's hard to say why this child's mother died. After listening to Zhen's story, Mrs. Bai snorted, and quickly figured out the trick inside.
"Mother, this child has no mother." Zhen patted the quilt lightly, and his face was sad, "I have a relationship with the child." β
"If you have a fate, you will raise it, the whole family knows that you gave birth to a daughter, and eighty percent of the people in the village also know, is it possible to throw her into the snow again? Your mother-in-law and I weren't that vicious. Besides, when you two were working in the Shen Mansion, other people's mothers treated you well, we can't be the white-eyed wolves, let's take care of other people's daughters and repay them. β
"Knowing my mother, I will raise me as a daughter." Zhen burst into tears.
"Mother, that child will be my white plank girl from now on, hehe, look at this face with me." Seeing that the old lady promised to raise the white plank, hehe Zhile.
The corners of Mrs. Bai's mouth twitched, she was embarrassed to poke her own son, just like his cropper, can he give birth to such a girl like a doll?
is similar to Zhen's, Zhen's body is white, and this baby is also white.
"However, you two bit me to death, this child belongs to our Lao Bai family, and no one can let go of their mouths if they ask." Old Lady Bai instructed.
Bai Muban and Zhen glanced at each other, and they had already discussed it like this.
Suddenly, the baby in the blanket moved.
Zhen picked up the child, the milk doll twisted, and stuck tighter into Zhen's arms. The plush little head melon seeds, the pink and tender little round face, and the white little hands in the mouth...... Zhen looked at the child in his arms, his heart was soft as if it was about to melt, and he hugged her tighter.
The old lady Bai watched from the side, and unconsciously spun a chrysanthemum on her face.
This little girl is really handsome, and she is a blessed look.
"How can you feed a child who is so small?" Mrs. Bai frowned, the rice noodles at home have not been eaten, can the child only eat rice noodle soup?
"There is also a bottle of goat's milk bought in Huaicheng in the baggage." Zhen said.
"That's not enough." Old lady Bai was worried.
"That, mother, there is something I forgot to tell you, I and Da Zhuang Niang have spent all the money we earned. The child froze half to death in the snow, and spent more than half of the silver to hire a doctor; In the past few days, it has cost her a lot of money to buy goat milk and milk, and this time she went home to hire a car because of the heavy snow, which cost three times more...... "Bai Muban carefully gave his mother a pen.
I went out to do odd jobs for a year, and my mother ran the home at home, and I didn't bring some silver home for my mother, and I felt guilty.
"Okay, you're such a handsome girl, and the money will be spent." Old Lady Bai stood up.
"I went to the village to see who I asked for a lamb with a cub, and I didn't worry about it anymore, and I had to give up an old face in person. You two haven't eaten yet, you go to the kitchen to serve your daughter-in-law a meal, and the rice soup boiled by your daughter-in-law in the morning is still in the pot. β
The old lady complained in her mouth, and walked out like a hot wheel.
Since then, she also has a granddaughter, looking forward to it, finally there is a female doll in the family, although it is not a kiss, but it is said that raising grace is greater than giving birth, since it is related to their old Bai family, then she is the granddaughter of the old Bai family.
There were only two husbands and wives left in the house, and they were not hungry at all.
The fire in the stove grew brighter and brighter, and the room became warmer.
The little baby in the quilt slept beautifully with his eyes closed. Falling asleep, the corners of his mouth curled up, and a sweet smile whirled.
"Oh, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law smiled." The heart of the white wooden plank is about to melt, and one girl shouts at a time.
From the first time he saw the child that day, he brought into the role of an old father.
I can't get enough of it every day.
Don't say it, the little girl is better looking than those stinky boys, and even the air around the girl is fragrant.
"The girl must have had a beautiful dream, look at her beauty."
Zhen's eyes are glued to the child's body, and a soft heart can wring out water.
The husband and wife stared at the little girl together, and the more they looked, the happier they became.
What kind of food to eat, look at the little girl, it is more filling than eating a bowl of rice.