"You said I am your daughter?" A Luo asked this sentence with difficulty. Until now, she is not sure whether this person is her mother. The memory of six years old is too vague to remember clearly.
A person's appearance.
The woman did not answer her words, but said: "I am the Wang family of Qimen. Seventeen years ago, there was a drought in my hometown. Our family of three escaped. As a result, your father died of illness on the way, leaving only our mother and daughter.
, I finally arrived in the capital, but I was sold into a brothel and separated from you. I don’t even know where you were sold.”
Tears fell silently from A Luo's eyes, the same...exactly the same, it was her mother, she really was her mother, she had really found her mother.
"Mother!" A'luo threw himself into the woman's arms, calling the name over and over again that had been suppressed for seventeen years.
Mrs. Wang hugged her tightly and cried: "My daughter, my poor daughter, my mother dreams about you every day. If I didn't want to see you again, I would no longer want to live in this world. What a pity.
, finally reunited mother and daughter. Now, even if I die immediately, I have no regrets."
A Luo shook his head vigorously and cried: "My mother will not die, my mother will live a long life."
Wang stopped crying, caressed A Luo's moist cheek and said, "Stop crying and tell mother where you have been these past few years and how have you been?"
A Luo said quickly: "Okay, everything is fine with my daughter. Although she was sold into a wealthy family as a maid, the master treats her very well, like a relative, and never treats her harshly."
Mrs. Wang nodded happily and said, "That's good. Come, let mother take a good look at you. Mother still remembers the way you combed your hair. In a blink of an eye, you have grown so big that mother can't even recognize you."
A Luo wiped her tears and choked up: "Me too, I can't recognize my mother either." She stroked Wang's old-looking face and said distressedly: "Mother, you have had a hard time these years, haven't you?
"
Wang held her hand and said, "I'm so happy today. Let's not talk about this. The most important thing is that you are well. By the way, where do you live now? My mother can visit you in the future."
"This..." A Luo hesitated for a moment and said, "To be honest with my mother, my daughter's mistress is Concubine Xian in the palace. My daughter lives with her mistress in the Forbidden City. Today, she can only leave the palace after begging her mistress."
"It turns out to be the empress of the palace." Wang was surprised and said sadly: "Isn't it difficult to see you?"
"Don't worry, mother, my daughter will come to see you often." With that said, she held Wang's hand and said, "Uncle Jiang is outside, can I help you out to see him?"
Mrs. Wang nodded. After meeting Uncle Jiang, she knelt down and was about to kneel down. Uncle Jiang quickly supported her and said, "What are you doing? Get up quickly."
Mrs. Wang said gratefully: "If it weren't for Mr. Jiang, how could I have been able to get together with my daughter this time? Mr. Jiang is really a great benefactor to me and my daughter. You can bear this courtesy."
"It turns out that you are really mother and daughter." Uncle Jiang said with emotion: "I am happy for you that you can reunite. I will skip this bow, otherwise it will be a loss of my blessing." After that, he continued
Said: "By the way, what are your plans now."
A Luo said first: "Uncle Jiang, I want to take my mother out and temporarily rent a small house for her to settle down."
"It's good that you have this idea, but your mother..." Uncle Jiang hesitated, and Wang said: "Mr. Jiang, I will tell her myself."
After Uncle Jiang nodded, Mrs. Wang sighed and said: "Back then, I was sold to a brothel. From the initial resistance to the numbness later, seventeen years passed in the blink of an eye. Now I am old and frail.
I was driven here by the old boss, but I am still not free. I have a bond of sale in the hands of the old boss, so I can't leave here at all."
A Luo asked suspiciously: "My mother was abducted and trafficked here. Where is the sale contract?"
Wang smiled bitterly and said: "They forced me to take the fingerprints, but even so, as long as the boss has the deed of prostitution in his hand, he will definitely win when he goes to the government."
A Luo thought for a moment and said, "If I want to redeem myself, how much will it cost?"
Uncle Jiang said at the side: "I can't say for sure, it could be a few hundred taels at least, or a few thousand taels at most." Seeing that A Luo didn't say anything, he said, "How about I go find the boss and ask?"
Naturally, A Luo couldn't get what he wanted, so he immediately said: "Okay, then I'll trouble Uncle Jiang."
Wang glanced across Uncle Jiang's face and said to A Luo: "The old man has a dark heart. How can he let him go so easily? Let's forget it. I'm used to it, so why waste that money."
A Luo said resolutely: "No, it's okay if my daughter didn't know before. Now that she knows, how can she make her mother suffer anymore? My daughter has made up her mind. There is no need for the mother to say more, unless the mother wants her daughter to be an unfilial person."
Seeing what she said, Mrs. Wang had no choice but to let her go. After Uncle Jiang went to make an appointment to touch a cup of tea, he came back and said, "I talked to my boss, and she said I need at least this amount." After that,
He opened his hand and Wang asked tentatively: "Fifty taels?"
"Five hundred taels." Hearing Uncle Jiang say this word, Mrs. Wang exclaimed: "She only spent dozens of taels when she bought me, and I have made a lot for her in the past ten years."
, five hundred taels...it’s like a lion’s mouth.”
Uncle Jiang sighed and said, "I helped you say a lot of nice things, but she just won't let go, and there's nothing I can do about it."
Although A'luo has been with Xianyue for many years and received many rewards, she does not have five hundred taels of silver on hand. She took a deep breath and said: "I know, I will find a way to collect the money, mother, you
Wait for me for a few days, and I will definitely take you out of here."
Mrs. Wang patted her hand and said, "Mother said, it doesn't matter what happens to you, as long as you do well. Five hundred taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Where can you get it together?"
"Don't worry about this mother, the daughter will find a way." After saying a few more words like this, A Luo reluctantly said goodbye to Wang, whom he had just met. When he walked out with Uncle Jiang, Uncle Jiang said softly.
: "Cai Ling told me that Aunt Aluo is a popular person in front of Concubine Xian. You might as well tell Concubine Xian that five hundred taels of silver should be nothing to Concubine Xian."
A Luo didn't speak, just nodded. After returning to Yanxi Palace, Xianyue asked with concern: "What, is that person really your mother?"
A Luo lowered his head and said, "Yes, it's my long-lost mother. I finally found her."
Xianyue took a look at her, beckoned her to come closer, and said softly: "It should be a happy event to find your mother. Why do I see you with a worried look on your brows, but what's the matter?"