Chapter 83 Proving that Yaoyao is Baoqi
Shen Baoqing was shocked.
"What...what happened?" She stammered, "Yaoyao's mother is not her biological mother. Didn't she mention this just now?"
Old Madam Qiao, an elderly woman in her sixties, had a slightly trembling voice.
"Then do you know how old she was when her mother picked her up?"
“I didn’t ask that.” Seeing that her grandmother’s eyes were red, Shen Baoqing was a little panicked, “Why are you crying?”
Mrs. Qiao hugged her in her arms and choked with sobs.
"Baoqing, she looks so much like your mother, she might be your sister Baoqi who has been missing for fourteen years..."
Shen Baoqing was stunned.
It can be said that everyone was dumbfounded.
"Bao...Bao Qi?"
"Sister...Baoqi?"
She murmured it several times, her eyes blank, as if she had no idea she had a sister.
"Qingqing, do you still remember that you had a younger sister?" Mrs. Qiao asked softly, "You were five years old, and she was three. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, your mother took you to see the lanterns, and she got lost. We searched for her for a long time but couldn't find her..."
Shen Baoqi's eyes were still blank.
She doesn't remember it at all.
Until my second uncle Bai Jinguang brought up something.
"Do you remember when you were little, I bought you a little rabbit?"
When he mentioned 'little rabbit', a strange memory suddenly flooded into Shen Baoqing's mind.
In that memory, there was a little girl named "Baoqi" who insisted on snatching her little rabbit, but that little rabbit was her favorite pet. One was unwilling to give it, and the other insisted on snatching it.
The last one let go, and the other one also let go, and the one-month-old rabbit was dropped to death.
This was the deepest pain in Shen Baoqing's childhood.
She also dug a hole for the little rabbit, buried it in it, and put up a sign.
He asked his brother to write on it, and it read "Tomb of Shen Baoqing's Beloved".
Because of this sign, she was beaten by her mother again.
The blow was so severe, the hurt so deep, that over the years, whenever the little rabbit was mentioned, Shen Baoqing would remember what happened back then...
Her eyes lit up and she shouted, "You said she is Baoqi?"
Twenty years ago, Bai Jinyu, the daughter of the Grand Tutor, married Shen Huaishan, the heir apparent of the Marquis of Wujing. A year after their marriage, she gave birth to their eldest son, Shen Linchuan. Two years later, she gave birth to their legitimate daughter, Shen Baoqing.
When Bai Jinyu gave birth to Shen Baoqing, her body was a little weak. Her husband Shen Huaishan loved her and didn't want to have another child.
But the accident still happened, and when the child was discovered, he was already five months old.
At that time, the fetus had already moved. Bai Jinyu was reluctant to abort the baby and insisted on giving birth to the baby.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly during the delivery. The third daughter of the Shen family weighed 7.2 jin when she was born. She was fair and tender, with delicate features. The midwife in charge of the delivery couldn't help but praise her, saying that she had delivered so many babies, and the third daughter of the Shen family was the most beautiful she had ever seen.
As she grew up, Shen Baoqi also proved the midwife's words, becoming more and more delicate.
Every time she was taken out, the ladies of various families would rush to hold her. When she was two years old, several families wanted to arrange marriages with her. But they were all rejected by Shen Huaishan.
Just kidding, his precious daughter will naturally marry the best man in the capital in the future.
He doesn't look down on ordinary people.
It was thought that the little girl would grow up safely and smoothly, but who would have thought that when she was three years old, at the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival, she took the maidservant beside Bai to buy lanterns, and then disappeared.
The Shen family and the Bai family mobilized all their people and turned the entire capital upside down. Finally, they found the drowned maid and a pair of small embroidered shoes that Shen Baoqi was wearing when she went missing at the bottom of the moat.
Everyone said that the child must have died. The reason why the body was not found was probably that the little corpse had long been washed away by the river.
Upon hearing the bad news, Bai Jinyu went crazy.
It's really crazy.
He was mentally disturbed, holding a pillow in his arms all day, humming a lullaby and calling out over and over again.
"Baoqi, damn Baoqi..."
The originally happy family was overwhelmed by the sudden change.
Looking at his insane wife and two young children, Shen Huaishan suppressed the grief in his heart. He sent people to find famous doctors while playing the role of both father and mother. The handsome and unrestrained commander of the Jinwu Guard, his black hair turned white overnight, and he looked several years older.
After three difficult years, Bai Jinyu's illness finally got better under the careful treatment of a famous doctor.
But she completely forgot the existence of her little daughter.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the time, thinking that this might be a good thing.
But in these three years, Shen Huaishan never gave up looking for his little daughter, but wave after wave of people were sent out, and the news they sent back was more disappointing than the last.
When Shen Baoqing was ten years old, the Turks invaded, and Shen Huaishan was appointed General Pingxi and led 200,000 troops to Mobei.
He was worried about Bai Jinyu and his two children, so he took them along.
He was away for eight years. Except for returning to Beijing to report on his work every two years, he never set foot in the capital during these eight years.
Every time I return to Beijing, I have to pass through the moat.
Every time he passed by, he felt heartbroken.
His Baoqi, the three-year-old Baoqi, the soft and delicate Baoqi...
Because Bai Jinyu lost her memory, Shen Huaishan gave a death order to everyone around him, no matter who they were, not to mention his youngest daughter's name again.
He was worried about upsetting his wife.
He never wanted to go back to those three crazy years. It was too painful.
The year Baoqi went missing, her sister Baoqing was only five years old and had a very short memory. In addition, after the accident, she was sent to the Bai family. She was so young that she had no idea what had happened.
All I knew was that I had a younger sister, and she suddenly disappeared.
She also cried several times, missing her mother and her sister.
Every time this happened, her grandmother would hold her tightly in her arms and cry with her.
Later, as I grew older, I followed my father to the northern desert. As time went by, my memory faded...
When his second uncle suddenly mentioned it, Shen Baoqing finally remembered Shen Baoqi.
The little sister who went missing at the age of three and never came back.
She was very excited.
Get up and leave.
He kept muttering, "I want to go find Yaoyao..."
Her uncle Bai Jinyan stood up and stopped her, "Qingqing, don't be impulsive. Everything is just our speculation now. Miss Jiang may not be Baoqi."
"No, she is Baoqi, she must be Baoqi." Shen Baoqing grabbed his uncle's sleeve and said, "Uncle, hurry up and write a letter to father and tell him the good news."
My second uncle Bai Jinguang also came over.
"What's the point of writing to your father if you haven't figured anything out yet?" He frowned slightly. "You're already eighteen, and you're still so impulsive. You haven't made any progress at all."
After being scolded by him, Shen Baoqing calmed down instantly.
"What should we do then?"
"Of course, we need to prove that Yaoyao is Baoqi." Bai Jinguang turned to Old Madam Qiao, "Does mother have any good ideas?"
Qiao thought about it.
"When Baoqi was born, the midwife told me she had a thumb-sized red birthmark on her left buttock. I later saw it, and it was shaped like a petal, a very dark, bright red, and very eye-catching."
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