Chapter 83 High 2 Girl

Chapter 83 High 2 Girl

Looking at Lin Mu's reaction, Qiu Bi couldn't help but guess.

"Are Lord Lin and my parents old acquaintances?"

Lin Mu's brows raised with joy and he smiled happily.

"Yeah, we're old acquaintances."

"After years of searching, I finally found you."

Feng Wendan looked helpless beneath his smile.

"Master Lin, you may not know that my husband and I were exiled because of an old case, and we just returned to Beijing not long ago."

"Master Lin is in his prime. Logically, when we were stranded in a foreign land, you should have been still an infant. How could you have known us in the past?"

"As a humble person, I would never dare to cling to the noble body of Lord Lin."

"Could it be that my husband and I have the same name as someone else?"

Lin Mu disagreed.

"it's not true."

"Not only do they have the same name, they also have experienced the same things. How can there be such a coincidence in the world?"

"The people I'm looking for are you."

Qiu Bi was completely confused. Considering Lin Mu's position and status, she started to have wild thoughts.

"Why did Lord Lin look for them?"

"You are the imperial physician and you are not involved in government affairs. Could it be that... they have some serious illness that requires us to find them and isolate them?"

"You must have found the wrong person. Prince Dijin and my daughter treated them together. Even if my parents were sick, they have recovered."

"If you don't believe it, you can ask the prince to verify it."

Feng Yan and Feng Wendan became more and more flustered as they listened to their daughter's guess, and then nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, yes... yes, yes, yes... we are all cured..."

Shengjing is bustling and the streets are noisy.

There are some things that Lin Mu is not comfortable saying.

"That's not what I meant."

"My search for them has nothing to do with my identity as an imperial physician."

"Excuse me, Uncle Feng, Aunt Feng, have you registered your citizenship at the governor's office since returning to Beijing?"

Feng Yan was slightly surprised when he realized it belatedly.

"By the way, when we were exiled, our citizenship was removed."

"We have been back in Beijing for too short a time and have not yet needed anything, so we have not registered yet."

Lin Mu understood and nodded.

"That's no wonder."

As he spoke, he looked around and gestured to the pavilion in the center of the lake not far away.

"The pavilion is elegant and quiet. Uncle and aunt, please go and sit down and chat for a while."

They walked into the pavilion together.

Lin Mu then made it clear.

"At the end of the early years of the Shengping era, after you were implicated and exiled, the Gao family asked the governor's office to pass on the news in a timely manner if they saw your names reappear on the civilian register and your addresses in the suburbs of Beijing matched."

"This arrangement is due to an old incident."

"I wonder if you remember that year, uncle and aunt, there was a woman with a baby girl in her arms who was being chased by bandits and took refuge in the suburbs of Beijing? You helped her out of righteousness, took out your own clothes, and let the woman wear them so that she could pretend to be one of your family members."

Feng Yan remembered this first.

"I remember."

"She said she was a servant of the Shengjing government."

"That day, as soon as she left, we were convicted. That was also the day we had no choice but to give Bi'er up for adoption."

Feng Wendan was careful and remembered all kinds of details.

"I remember the baby girl in her arms, wrapped in a brocade quilt with patterns embroidered on it that were only used by officials."

"Brocade quilts and cloth were not good for hiding, so I resolutely threw them away and took Bi'er's cotton-padded clothes and quilt, changed them on the baby girl, pretended to be Bi'er's sister, and lay in the cradle with her."

"Afterwards, we were arrested and questioned. When we came back, the woman had already left with the baby girl in her arms."

Lin Mu couldn't help but ask.

"Didn't you take a look at your daughter when you gave her up for adoption?"

Speaking of this, Feng Yan sighed: "Alas, no."

Feng Wendan began to wipe away tears: "At that time, exile was imminent, so we hurriedly sent her to be adopted. We were afraid that the severe winter would freeze Bi'er, and we were even more afraid that she would be reluctant to leave after taking a look at her, so we didn't even lift the quilt."

Lin Mu nodded, feeling helpless.

"I see. No wonder you didn't notice that the child was taken away by the wrong person."

Feng Yan, Feng Wendan and Qiu Bi were all shocked at the same time: "What?"

Lin Mu explained in detail.

"At the time, both children were wrapped in the same quilt, in the dead of winter, with only a small gap left for breathing."

"The woman was so anxious that she picked one up based on her memory and ran away in a hurry."

"When we were safe, we realized we had the wrong child."

"She returned to the outskirts of Beijing and wanted to change it back, but she heard that you were all exiled and your citizenship was revoked."

"Even if I find out your names, it will be useless. Because before, the court was dominated by Zhong Jian, and Lord Qin had not yet entered the government. Therefore, we can't find the place of exile, and it is difficult to redress your injustice."

"After so many years, I still can't get my two children back."

Qiu Bi raised a question.

"Why did that woman flee to the outskirts of Beijing?"

"What happened then?"

Lin Mu told the story slowly and leisurely.

"I guess you may have heard of the name Fang Renshu. She was originally the chancellor of Beizhao, and later, she saved the emperor during the battle of Yueshengxingliang, and was promoted to the position of Taiqing."

"That year, Lord Fang took the initiative to find the head of the second branch of the Gao family and discussed the emperor and Zhong Jian's rebellion in detail, intending to subdue the Supervisory Office under the command of Prince Dijin."

"The head of the second branch of the Gao family is named Gao Nan. He is the second brother of the Minister of Guards, Mr. Gao. He is in the Guards' Office and serves as the Minister of Guards."

"The emperor got wind of the news in time, and in order to prevent the Supervisory Office from mutinying, he wanted to use Miss Gao Er as a hostage to force the Supervisory Office Minister to submit."

"In a desperate situation, the Minister of the Guards handed Miss Gao Er over to a trusted servant and asked her to leave the mansion to avoid disaster."

"That woman is the trusted servant of the Minister of the Guards."

"Miss Gao Er, it's you, Qiu Bi."

Qiu Bi couldn't accept it for a while.

"No...no...Isn't it possible?"

Feng Yan glanced at Qiu Bi with reluctance.

"How do you know you took the wrong child?"

Feng Wendan was also reluctant to let go, and subconsciously took Qiu Bi's hand and held it tightly in his palm.

"Bi'er was a year old at that time, and Miss Gao Er should be less than half a year old."

"I think it's because of the difference in body shape, so I knew I took the wrong one."

Lin Mu greeted him respectfully and nodded in agreement.

"Aunt Feng is absolutely right."

Feng Wendan smiled bitterly.

"No wonder the people from the Ning Mansion asked when they took Bi'er away, why she didn't look like a one-year-old child?"

"Bi'er was much thinner than other children of the same age, so I didn't think much about it. I just told her the truth. Our family was poor and we didn't have enough food, so it was inevitable that the child would be thinner."

"I never expected that they had picked up the wrong child and mistakenly gave Miss Gao up for adoption, and she has to become a maid in the Ning Mansion."

"Bi'er, mother is sorry for you!"

Qiu Bi shook her head.

"Master Lin must be joking. My daughter's past life... She has carefully checked and you are my biological parents."

"How could I be some sophomore girl?"

As she spoke, she suddenly remembered what Ning Yunxi had said before leaving Yuxi's house.

"Wait a minute, sophomore girl?"

"I am, a sophomore girl?"

Amidst her doubts, she gradually began to smile.

"The second-year high school girl is actually me?"

Lin Mu looked directly at Qiu Bi, with a faint blush appearing on his cheeks.

"How did Miss Ning conduct a thorough investigation?"

"Maybe there's something missing?"

"How about you go back and ask?"

Qiu Bi turned her head and gazed at her parents.

Feng Yan signaled Feng Wendan to let go: "Bi'er, your life experience is important, go back and ask, do you need us to accompany you?"

Lin Mu added carefully, "I'll ask the governor for you. I'll come to let you know when I get the result."

Qiu Bi hesitated for a moment and nodded in response.

"Okay, thank you."

"Dad and Mom, please go back with me."