bookrandom Chapter 131: A life of loneliness and misery, so pitiful
Chapter 131: A life of loneliness and misery, so pitiful
After Shen Qi heard what Shen Ruolan said, he was so angry that he was shaking all over and his face turned blue. He never thought that the daughter he had been looking for for many years was actually kept in captivity in the mansion by someone else. No wonder he searched the whole world but couldn't find any trace of his daughter.
More importantly, his daughter died tragically, stillborn. Could he imagine how helpless and desperate his daughter was at that time?
If he were still around, how could his daughter become someone else's concubine? Even that prime minister was not even worthy of carrying his daughter's shoes.
Also, that Madam So-and-so, how cruel could her heart be to be able to do such a heartless thing?
Shen Qi wiped away his tears fiercely and swore secretly in his heart that his daughter must not die in vain like this. He would make those who killed her pay a heavy price.
Thinking of what his granddaughter had told him, he sniffed and asked Shen Ruolan in a hoarse voice, "What about you? What kind of person did you offend that you dare not let the world know that you are still alive?"
Now that everything had been said, Shen Ruolan no longer concealed anything. She told Shen Qi the truth: "I was brought into the palace by King Bei Ming Han, Jiang Dichen, to be a concubine. I didn't want to be trapped for the rest of my life, so I escaped. He probably doesn't know that I'm still alive, let alone that I just gave birth to two children."
Shen Ruolan stopped talking here, looked at Shen Qi with a serious face and said, "Grandpa, I finally escaped, you must keep it a secret for me, otherwise, I will follow in my mother's footsteps."
Shen Qi nodded to Shen Ruolan, patted her shoulder and comforted her: "Don't worry, as long as Grandpa is here, no one dares to let you be a concubine."
His daughter is gone, and he can't let her children follow in her footsteps.
"Thank you, old man." Shen Ruolan felt relieved when she saw that Shen Qi agreed.
Shen Qi glared at her and yelled, "It would have been fine if you didn't know before, but now that you know, you're still calling me old man."
Shen Ruolan: "Uh..."
Apart from her two children, she had no relatives in this life, so she felt uncomfortable when she was asked to call the old man in front of her.
Seeing Shen Ruolan was silent and didn't know how to call for help, Shen Qi glared at her and said, "Why don't you call grandpa?"
"Grandpa," Shen Ruolan had no choice but to call out reluctantly.
Shen Ruolan's call of "grandfather" instantly made Shen Qi's eyes red. He took out a cowhide bag from his arms and handed it to her, saying, "Here, this is a gift for you."
He was away from home all year round and had the habit of carrying a cowhide bag with him. So, even though his clothes were changed by the maid just now, no one could open the things on his body without his permission.
Shen Ruolan took the cowhide bag and thanked Shen Qi, "Thank you, Grandpa."
After she finished speaking, she stood aside with the cowhide bag, looking at Shen Qi, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
Shen Qi knew what Shen Ruolan was thinking, but he didn't rush to tell her about the Shen family. Instead, he asked her, "Why don't you open it and take a look?"
Shen Ruolan hesitated for a moment, opened the cowhide bag, and took out the contents. Seeing that it was a medical book and medical records, she looked up at Shen Qi and said, "Grandpa, isn't this gift too expensive?"
You know, these things have never been passed on to outsiders. Now that the old man suddenly gave them to her, she was worried that the descendants of the Shen family would cause trouble for her in the future.
Shen Qi said to Shen Ruolan: "Here you go, just keep it. This is the dowry I prepared for your mother, but it's a pity that she..."
Every time she talked about her daughter, Shen Qi would take a deep breath to ease the pain of losing her daughter. After she recovered, she looked at Shen Ruolan and asked, "Who did you learn your medical skills from? Who taught you the Shen family's three soul-stabilizing needles?"
When Shen Ruolan heard Shen Qi asking about studying medicine, she took a few steps forward and pretended to be calm and said, "I am dissatisfied with Grandpa. Since my mother passed away, I have been tortured by the eldest lady all day long and have been covered with wounds. When I fall asleep late at night, someone will teach me to study medicine in my dreams and teach me how to treat wounds.
When I woke up, I did what I was told in the dream. After doing this several times, I discovered that if I treated the wound according to the dream, it would heal much faster and would not leave scars.
When Shen Ruolan said this, she turned to Shen Qi and smiled, "So, during these years in Prime Minister Lan's mansion, although I suffered a lot of abuse and grievances, I also learned a lot from my dreams."
After Shen Ruolan finished speaking, she paused and continued, "Grandpa, I don't know what you just said about the Three Soul-Fixing Needles. What I know is called the Three Soul-Clearing Needles, which uses three needles to seal the main lifeline of the human body, and then make the person unable to move."
Shen Ruolan didn't care whether Shen Qi believed it or not. She could only stick to the dream and explain it to him. Otherwise, other explanations would not make sense and the truth would be exposed once others investigated.
Shen Qi was relieved and distressed after hearing what Shen Ruolan said. He nodded to her and said with tears in his old eyes: "It must be your mother and the ancestors of the Shen family who are blessing you in heaven, so they passed on the Shen family's unique medical skills to you."
Shen Ruolan: “…”
She was originally a descendant of the Shen family, but in this life she was a granddaughter. However, no matter what kind of granddaughter she was, she had the blood of the Shen family in her body. Thinking of this, she smiled at Shen Qi and said, "Well, what grandpa said is right."
Shen Qi nodded to Shen Ruolan and told her truthfully, "Our Shen family has been studying medicine for generations. It has been passed down to your eldest cousin's generation, which is already the ninth generation. Your mother is my youngest daughter and my only daughter. When I was traveling around as a doctor, I loved your mother very much and could not resist her coquetry, so I took her wherever I went."
When Shen Qi got to this point, he sighed and said with a face full of self-blame: "When she was six years old, there was a sudden flood in Yan State. I was out helping someone with a disease at the time, and your mother was washed away by the flood. Our father-daughter relationship was severed from then on."
Shen Qi couldn't help wiping away tears at the end of his speech, "Your grandmother wanted to see your mother even until she died."
After listening to what Old Man Shen said, Shen Ruolan felt very sympathetic towards their experience, especially the mother. She could have been pampered all her life, but fate played a trick on her and made her life miserable. In a word, she had a bad life.
Seeing the old man wiping tears again, Shen Ruolan didn't know how to comfort him. She lowered her head and was silent for a while, then said to him: "Grandpa, this may be mother's fate. You should mourn for her. If mother knew that you have been looking for her, I believe she would be very happy."
The original body's mother was both fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunately, she had a pair of parents who loved her deeply. Unfortunately, she was not blessed with the joy of being in their care, and lived a lonely and miserable life, so pitiful.