Chapter 126 It was picked up from a garbage dump
Jiang's father looked at Jiang Jiani with a loving gaze: "Silly child, your grandma picked you up from the garbage dump outside."
Jiang Jianni was nearly in despair: "How is this possible??"
Ever since she learned that this was a period novel about a so-called "real and fake heiress," she had many guesses about how she ended up in the Jiang family.
The most likely scenario, and also the most frequently used trope in novels, is that families with average means switch off their children so that their daughters can have a better life, or because their children have health problems but they cannot afford the treatment costs, hoping that someone else will pay for the child's medical care.
Secondly, the items were maliciously switched by outsiders; otherwise, both families would have been unaware of the situation.
Finally, and the least common plot device in novels, is when there are too many children who look too alike, and the two families accidentally switch them at birth.
After all, the original owner of this body was born in the late 1960s.
Back then, there was no surveillance or anything like that. If multiple women were giving birth at the same time, the chances of babies being switched at birth were extremely high.
But this is also the type that appears least often in novels.
There's no other reason; a mistake that's too peaceful is too bland for a novel and can't create more dramatic twists and turns, so it won't be adopted.
But Jiang Jiani never expected that none of the above would apply to her.
It would be another, even more dramatic way: found.
Jiang Jianni could hardly believe her ears: "Really? How is that possible? Isn't that what you've been telling me since I was little?"
Which child hasn't asked themselves where they came from?
How did the parents respond?
Picked up on the street, picked up from the trash can, picked up from the river, picked from the tree, delivered by phone, and nowadays, as the saying goes, mailed from the mailbox.
The original owner of this body had asked, and the answer was that it was picked up from a garbage dump.
Also picked up from different places were Jiang Haibing, Jiang Haiyang, Jiang Yanni, and several cousins from Yang's other aunts' families.
The fact that everyone was adopted means the adults are lying.
Jiang Jiani never expected that she was actually adopted.
I was so excited that my blood rushed to my head.
No wonder the original owner was cannon fodder in the story.
This source has absolutely no prestige.
Yang Yuemei explained, "Really, I'm not lying to you."
“When I gave birth to your sister, I was a little unwell, so your maternal grandmother went home and made me some good food.”
She found you on her way back to the hospital.
"When we found you, you were probably only two or three days old, and your skin was still all red."
"I was so heartbroken at the time that I was almost heartbroken and didn't recognize my own family."
“Your grandma was afraid something would happen to me, so she gave you to me and said that the doctor was lying and that the baby was perfectly fine.”
The child appeared at just the right time. Yang Yuemei immediately stopped being heartbroken and crying all day after having the child, and began to raise the child with care.
Driven by selfish motives, Grandma and Jiang's father discussed it and secretly concealed the fact that the child was adopted.
Anyway, Yang Yuemei gave birth to a daughter, so why not raise this adopted girl as her own?
Then they turned around and made a scene at the hospital, claiming the child wasn't dead, blaming the doctors for being irresponsible, and insisting they were the ones who saved the child, demanding the hospital issue a birth certificate.
The 1960s and 70s were the peak period for births in China.
Although many people choose to give birth at home, those who can afford it still prefer to send their mothers to the hospital.
Several women gave birth at the same hospital on the same day, within the same hour.
They simply can't keep up.
Although the doctors were also a little puzzled by the child's miraculous return from the dead, they were simply too busy.
The Jiang family only requested that the child be officially registered, not that the premature death be ruled out. The hospital, not wanting to cause trouble, agreed to the Jiang family's request.
And so, Jiang Jianni took the place of the real Jiang Jianni and became the daughter of the Jiang family.
The original owner of this body was beautiful from infancy. Gradually, Jiang's father and Grandma Yang also began to treat this little girl they had picked up as their own daughter.
Yang Yuemei was just extremely heartbroken and on the verge of a breakdown. Later, after having a child, she had a proper postpartum period with the help of her maternal grandmother. After the postpartum period, she learned that the child was not her biological child.
After all, the one she gave birth to had truly died.
She watched with her own eyes as the child's small body slowly stiffened, wrapped in a small blanket, and handed over to Jiang's father to be buried outside.
But Jiang Jiani was too cute. The little baby loved to smile, and gradually Yang Yuemei began to treat the baby girl she had found as her own. Besides, she had already invested too much affection in the baby during her postpartum period.
They get disciplined when they need to be disciplined, and go to school when they need to go to school. They are no different from the other children in the family.
Especially after Grandma Yang passed away.
Jiang's parents even forgot that Jiang Jiani was not actually related to the Jiang family by blood.
Fearing Jiang Jiani still wouldn't believe her, Yang Yuemei quickly added, "It's true, it's not made up, it's not nonsense."
“I have evidence.”
"Her dad, where are the things?"
Jiang's father's lips twitched, and he silently handed the small bundle he had been carrying since arriving to Jiang Jiani: "You can take a look for yourself."
"Our family couldn't afford such nice things back then."
Jiang Jianni wanted to untie the burden, but her hands were too weak to do so.
Lu Xiangyang took it and opened it in a few quick movements. Inside was a small blanket specifically for holding a baby. The back of the blanket was satin, and the lining was pure cotton.
In addition, there was a small satin bib.
Jiang Jiani was born in 1967.
The Jiang family was just an ordinary family. Back then, Jiang's parents lived under the same roof as Jiang's grandparents. Jiang's father had just been promoted to a permanent position, and most of his income was given to Jiang's grandmother.
The Yang family was just an ordinary family. Yang Yuemei's four younger sisters were either newly married or still in school.
Obviously, they don't have the means to prepare such nice things for a newborn baby.
Jiang Jianni stared intently at the small bundle, muttering, "So I really was found?!"
Therefore, in the novel, when the original owner of this body was bullied, the Jiang family would step forward to help her.
Because the Jiang family truly treated this adopted daughter as their own, they simply couldn't bear to see their daughter being bullied in someone else's home.
This incident also cleared up some of the doubts that Jiang Jiani had since becoming pregnant.
For example, the Jiang family doesn't have a twin gene, so why is Fang Shuying, the female lead, a twin throughout her life?
Not only the Jiang family, but also the Yang family, and even their relatives, and going back two or three generations, all had only one child.
Fang Shuying gave birth to twins because she wasn't a child of the Jiang family at all!
While judging this solely from a genetic perspective isn't very accurate, in novels, aside from the female protagonist having a special advantage in fertility, those who can give birth to twins generally follow this ironclad rule of genetics.
But why isn't this shown in the novel?
In the novel, Fang Shuying never denied that she was a child of the Jiang family.
Jiang Jianni frowned, deep in thought.
Suddenly, a question came to mind: Fang Shuying never denied that she was a child of the Jiang family, but she also never admitted that she was a child of the Jiang family.
She only admitted that she was not the Fang family's biological child.
Oh, right.
In the novel, it seems that Fang Shuying later has a nanny who treats her like her own daughter?
What's the deal with that nanny?
"hiss--"
Jiang Jianni gasped for breath.
She... she seems to have discovered a hidden plot point in the novel!
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