Chapter 477: A Peasant Woman Who Resembles Her Brother
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$ Chen Zhao asked Zhou An and others under the Ninth Prince to go to Yangcheng first, while she led a small group of people to the Jokhang Temple a hundred miles outside the city.
Chen Zhao looked at the solemn and majestic Jokhang Temple and felt a little touched.
At this moment, a woman who came to burn incense instantly caught Shen Zhao's attention.
The woman was wearing coarse clothes and her hair was wrapped in gray cloth.
He was carrying a fruit basket in his hand, which contained not things for burning incense, but some coarse cloth clothes and coarse cloth shoes.
When she saw Shen Zhao and his group, she quickly retreated to the side with her head lowered, waiting for Shen Zhao and others to pass.
Shen Zhao stopped his horse in front of the peasant woman, and her voice was filled with tension that even she could hear.
"Look up."
Just now, she accidentally glanced and saw the face of the peasant woman. Although it was quick, the face that was 70% similar to her brother made her notice this person instantly.
The peasant woman raised her head timidly.
A hint of fear flashed in her eyes.
My hands folded together involuntarily.
"Peasant woman Pei greets the distinguished one."
Looks like, really looks like!
Looking closely, Pei's face is 80% similar to my brother's, and her clear eyes are exactly the same as Mother Shen's.
Unexpectedly, when she came to the Jokhang Temple to visit Princess Zhongyi, she accidentally ran into the real Shen Zhao.
Shen Zhao suppressed his excitement.
"What's your name? Where do you live? Where are you from? Are your parents still alive?"
Pei's face suddenly showed a look of fear.
[Why did he ask me who I was and where I lived, even though I had just offended this noble man?]
[What should I do? How can I get your forgiveness? Xiaodouzi is still waiting for me at home to get the medicine from Master Wuyou.]
Pei's eyes were filled with mist, the corners of her eyes were red, and she suddenly knelt down towards Shen Zhao.
"I don't know how I have offended you, sir. Please forgive me."
"The peasant woman's surname is Pei, with the single character Miao. Her husband's family lives in Xishui Village on the outskirts of the city. She is an orphan and was taken in by the Jokhang Temple's Wuyou nun since she was young."
"There is a child at home waiting for her to get medicine from Nun Wuyou and go back to save his life."
"I hope you will show me mercy."
Nun Wuyou is none other than the Princess of Loyalty.
Shen Zhao never expected that Pei Miao did not die that year, but was taken in by Princess Zhongyi.
Does his father know about this?
If he knew, why didn't he look for Pei Niao in all these years?
Judging from Pei Niao's appearance, she is not living well.
If he didn't know, then what happened that year that made his father mistakenly believe that Pei Niao was dead?
Shen Zhao got off his horse.
She is a man now, and Pei Niao is already married, so Chen Zhao resisted the urge to help her.
Try to make your voice sound calmer.
"Pei, don't be afraid. Stand up now."
Pei Miao stood up from the ground tremblingly.
She still lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Shen Zhao.
He just stared at his pair of coarse cloth shoes that were about to wear out his toes.
"You said you were an orphan, but do you remember where you came from?"
Chen Zhao wanted to test when Pei Miao was taken in by Princess Zhongyi.
Pei Miao quickly replied:
"In reply to your Excellency, Nun Wuyou told the peasant woman that she had found the baby while it was still in swaddling clothes."
"So the peasant woman doesn't know where she comes from."
There was a hint of bitterness in Pei Miao's tone.
She was a child abandoned by her biological parents, so how could she know where she came from?
If she had relatives, she wouldn't have fallen into such poverty.
Fortunately, Nun Wuyou has been supporting her all these years, otherwise she, a widow with a child, would have been eaten by the jackals and tigers in her husband's family until not even a bone was left.
Chen Zhao felt very upset when he heard Pei Miao's thoughts, especially when he saw her face that was almost exactly the same as her brother's.
It made her feel even more distressed.
She should have been the daughter of the Shen family, held in the palm of her father's and brother's hands.
But now life is so miserable.
"Ms. Pei, have you ever looked for your biological parents over the years? Have you ever considered that you were not abandoned by them?"
After Shen Zhao said this, Pei Miao finally mustered up the courage to look up at Shen Zhao.
"Your Excellency asked this question to the peasant woman, but does she look familiar to you? Does she look like someone you know?"
Shen Zhao discovered a subtle glimmer of light and hope in Pei's eyes.
When she was young, she secretly went down the mountain to look for her parents, but the world was so big, where could an orphan like her go to find them?
She once bravely went to the yamen, but the official kicked her out without even seeing her.
She once went into the city and looked around to see if there were any families with lost children, but in the end, the ages of the children did not match hers.
She was nearly taken away by kidnappers several times.
Later, when she came of age, she finally gave up the idea of looking for her biological parents.
Maybe she was abandoned by her parents, so how could they want her to be found?
But now this nobleman asked her this, wondering if he knew her parents and knew that she was not abandoned by her parents, and that when she was looking for her parents all these years, her parents were also looking for her.
Shen Zhao's eyes were sore. Is this his fate?
When she was three years old, she went to the northwest with her parents and brother, until her father was recalled to Beijing when she came of age.
Pei Miao said that when she was young, she went down the mountain to look for her parents. How could she find them at that time?
Her whole family went to the northwest.
The year Pei Miao gave up the search was the year her family moved to Kyoto.
If Pei Miao had continued searching, based on her face which was almost identical to her brother's, she might have recognized her father and brother long ago.
Seeing that the nobleman in front of her didn't say anything, Pei Miao tugged at the hem of her clothes nervously.
She had overstepped her bounds, being so focused on asking about her own life experience that she completely forgot that the person in front of her was her unattainable benefactor.
Perhaps you are just asking casually.
If her parents were acquaintances of the noble man in front of her, they must be either rich or noble.
How could he not know that his daughter was missing? How could he never look for her all these years?
"If you have nothing to do, could you please let me go? My child is waiting for me to come back and ask for medicine." Pei Miao said bravely.
Her intuition told her that the noble person in front of her had no ill will towards her.
"Pei Miao, you look 70% like my wife's brother, and you have the same eyes as my mother-in-law, so that's why I noticed you just now."
Pei Miao raised her stunned face and looked at Chen Zhao excitedly, tears flashing in her eyes.
"Your Excellency means..." Pei Miao's voice trembled a little.
"You mean I'm very likely from the noble Yue family, is that right?"
Pei Miao was shaking all over. When she was about to give up and when she was about to commit suicide.
Suddenly someone stood in front of her and told her that she was not alone, she had parents, brothers and even an older sister.
The noble person in front of her is most likely her brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Pei Miao quickly wiped the tears from her face and stood straight and proper. She couldn't lose her composure in front of the noble and bring shame to her sisters.
Just when Shen Zhao was about to tell Pei Miao about her life experience.
An extremely unpleasant voice came from the mountain gate.
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