"Parents who love their children will of course make plans for them. We took great pains to raise you under the name of the eldest lady and took the trouble to cover it up. It was not for any other reason, but to give you the status of a legitimate daughter and help you have a good future."

Shen Zhinian had the look of a kind father.

"Now you are the wife of a great general, and your father is really happy for you. But think about it, if you were just a concubine of low status, you might not be able to make it this far... In short, we took the trouble to plan for you, all for your own good..."

Shen Zhinian's words made Shen Qingyin silent.

Seeing this, the old lady quickly took over the conversation:

"Yes, your father is right. You are not Du's biological daughter, but your father and I said something, so she had to raise you as her own daughter. Naturally, she felt unfair, and some things were not done properly. You can't care about it. Just imagine, if she had insisted on not giving in, you would have been just a lowly concubine's daughter. How could you have the glory you have today?"

Seeing that Shen Qingyin remained silent, the old lady felt that if she tried harder, she would be able to convince her.

"Yin'er, even if Madam Du is not your biological mother, she has always been kind to you. You should repay the kindness. No matter what, you should save her from the dire situation!"

As the old lady spoke, she looked at Shen Qingyin's face.

But Shen Qingyin lowered his head and smiled faintly.

He smiled for a while and raised his face: "In this case, I really have to thank my grandmother, my father, and my wife! However, I think I need to thank another person more."

The old lady and Shen Zhinian looked at Shen Qingyin in confusion: "Who?"

Shen Qingyin shouted to the sky: "Thanks to Bodhisattva for rescuing me time and time again, I have survived the persecutions of the villains again and again. Someone secretly pushed me into the lake before, and then someone tried to smash me to pieces with a boulder. After that, someone else planned to push me off a cliff and leave no trace... One by one, thanks to Bodhisattva, I am still alive today."

Shen Qingyin bowed three times towards the sky.

He turned around and looked at Shen Zhinian and the old lady again: "Grandmother and father care about me so much and love me so much, do you know who is the villain behind this?"

The old lady's face turned pale.

Especially when he heard about Baochan Temple and Bodhisattva, he lowered his head and broke out in a cold sweat.

"This, this we really don't know..." Shen Zhinian hesitated.

The old lady was flustered by Shen Qingyin's stare, and evaded the question by saying, "Grandma, I don't know anything about what happened before... Baochan Temple, we were robbed. If we have to talk about the bad guys, it's naturally that robber Red Beard..."

Shen Qingyin did not continue to ask, but said: "Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't know. Then my grandmother and father must know who my biological mother is, right? Isn't it time to tell me?"

Shen Zhinian looked embarrassed: "You are now of noble status, and your biological mother is of low status and has passed away for many years, so it is better not to mention it..."

Shen Qingyin disagreed with this statement.

"Father, what are you talking about? A son should not dislike his mother. No matter how low her status was, she gave birth to me. I should know her name so that I can offer incense and candles to her in the future. Also, father, can you tell me why my biological mother passed away?"

Shen Qingyin looked at Shen Zhinian steadily.

However, Shen Zhinian kept waving his hands and continued to use the excuse of doing good for Shen Qingyin, refusing to say a word.

When asked urgently, he only said that Shen Qingyin's biological mother died of illness.

When asked what illness he had, he remained silent.

Seeing that Shen Zhinian refused to speak, Shen Qingyin turned his gaze to the old lady again.

"Grandma, are you unwilling to tell your granddaughter?"

The old lady's eyes were evasive, and she only said, "She is just a concubine. Where have I seen her? Naturally, I don't know her name."

Shen Qingyin had no choice but to give up.

At this point, the two of them were still lying that they were born out of wedlock.

Even if they really named someone today, it would definitely not be the truth.

She has to investigate this matter herself.

"Whether you are willing to tell me or not, I will find out everything."

Shen Qingyin left this sentence and left with his servants.

When he reached the door, he turned back and said, "I forgot to tell my grandmother and father that I was the one who first reported Mrs. Du to Jingzhao Prefecture. You can ask me to plead for her, but only if Miaomiao is cured."

The second half of the sentence is very meaningful.

The old lady turned pale immediately.

Shen Zhinian's expression was also terribly ugly.

Shen Qingyin stared at the two of them for a while before turning around and leaving again.

The carriage left the Shen family and headed straight for Bixiyuan.

But when he was approaching Bixiyuan, he was stopped by someone.

It wasn’t someone else, it was Mother Zhang and Yang Laoliu.

"Second Miss, you have to take care of us!" Mother Zhang limped and pulled Yang Laoliu to kneel down.

There were bloodstains on their clothes.

Although the two of them were involved in the case of Du poisoning Miaomiao.

But because they were just servants and obeyed their master's orders in everything, and because the two of them volunteered to testify, the prefect only ordered that they be beaten with twenty boards each, and did not imprison them.

But how could they dare to go back to the Shen family now?

They are still servants of the Shen family, and their indentures are still in the hands of the Shen family.

After thinking it over, there was no one I could turn to for help, so I could only come to Shen Qingyin.

Shen Qingyin glanced at the two of them; everything was as expected.

She asked her maid to help them both up.

"You are smart. The Shen family has sent people to look for you everywhere! In fact, it is not difficult to save you, but——"

"But what?" They both looked nervous.

"But I don't like to save useless people."

Mother Zhang and Yang Laoliu looked at each other and then said:

"Whatever the Second Miss wants to know, I will tell you the truth as long as I know it."

I can't go back to the Shen family after all.

They came to find Shen Qingyin, and they were naturally prepared.

"Okay, then let me tell you about my biological mother first. Tell me as much as you know." Shen Qingyin said calmly.

Mother Zhang was stunned at first.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qingyin already knew that Du was not her biological mother.

Then he became embarrassed: "It's not that I don't want to tell the second young lady, it's because I have never seen your biological mother, and I don't know who she is... I only know that she was raised outside by the master. The eldest lady sent me to find out, but the master kept it secret, and I didn't find out any news..."

"Later, she fell ill and died. The lady didn't pursue the matter any more, and there is no way of knowing anything about it..."

Shen Qingyin frowned slightly.

It seems that what Mother Zhang knows is what Shen Zhinian and the old lady can let her know.

"Then why did the lady agree to let me pretend to be her biological daughter?" Shen Qingyin asked the question that she had never figured out.

Upon hearing this, Madam Zhang stood up straight: "Second Miss, if you ask this, this old servant knows."

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