Chapter 136: Debt of Rebirth

  Ying'er hugged the doll and smiled, "Auntie doesn't recognize you anymore, she's been separated from you for so long, it's no wonder she doesn't recognize you." Ying'er handed the doll to Qindai and said, "Auntie, this is your little master! You hold him, he's so cute."

  Qin Dai Xin took over the doll and carefully hugged it, imitating Ying Er's gentle manner.

  In her eyes, he was a young master, not a stuffed doll.

  Miss, what's wrong with you?

  Ying'er saw Qin Dai hugging the doll, looking at it as if it were a treasure, and smiled happily, "Hehe, the young master is so well-behaved! He never cries, look how soundly he sleeps." Her eyes stared unblinkingly, as if the doll were a real living child.

  Qin Dai Xin's hand gently stroked the doll's face, and then picked up a black-and-white pendant hanging from the doll's neck to take a look.

  It's definitely the same as the one hanging around her neck.

  Su said this is a family heirloom, how can it be in the hands of someone who is mentally unstable?

  Wait!

  This woman kept muttering words like "aunt" and "young master", and also said something about "don't send the young master away", could it be...

  Qin Dai'er suddenly remembered the conversation between Su Shi and the wet nurse that night.

  To save the life of the crown prince, the child was sent away.

  Qin Dai's heart was racing with shock, how could such a coincidence happen in the world? A crazy person, so coincidentally took out the certificate from back then and appeared in front of her, whose idea was this?

  Qin Dai'er took a glance around, people's expressions were normal, some walking, some calling out for sales, not one person had a suspicious look. She didn't see any suspicious individuals around her, so she thought of asking the woman again.

  "Where do you live? Let's go back, okay. It's windy here, don't get blown away, young master." Qin Dai tried to make her voice sound calmer, people in an abnormal state of mind are very sensitive, she didn't want to scare him.

  The young boy nodded and said okay, took the doll and led the way forward.

  Qin Daihurriedly followed him, completely forgetting that Ruyi was still there. When she saw her, she knew something was fishy and couldn't make a sound, so she had to follow him quietly.

  Three people walked into the alley. When they arrived in front of a civilian house, Ying'er familiarly pushed open the courtyard door and carried the doll upstairs.

  Qin Dai's eyes scanned the small courtyard. It was a very ordinary household, tidy and clean, but she had no idea what relationship this family had with that madwoman.

  Ying'er hugged the doll and pushed open the door, shouting: "Don't let Young Master catch a cold." She was only concerned with her own thoughts, and wouldn't greet guests like normal people. Probably because of this, after Ying'er entered the room, she didn't show up again.

  As agreed, she quietly pulled Qin Dai's sleeve and asked in a low voice: "Miss, don't you want to go take a look?"

  "There must be someone who brought me here, and they will naturally show up on their own initiative, what's the panic." Her intuition told her. A mentally abnormal person would not appear at the right time and coincidentally meet the right person, all of this must have been arranged by someone. And the person who can arrange all of this must be someone close to them.

  "What?" Ruyi didn't understand and couldn't make out what Qindai was saying.

  At this moment, the door was pushed open again, and a young man with an elegant demeanor stood at the entrance.

  Qin Dai's heart lifted her head and looked over, only feeling that this person was somewhat familiar. After careful consideration, a picture suddenly flashed in her mind.

  "Is it him?" This person was clearly the man who had stopped the red-clothed woman from committing a crime during the Shangyuan Festival.

  Ru Yi felt surprised and asked: "Miss, do you know this person?"

  She was an illiterate little maid, how could her memory be comparable to Qin Daihe who had received professional training.

  Qin Dai's heart had not yet had time to say anything, when the man came forward with a stride, holding up the jade pendant in his hand and asking: "Miss, do you recognize this ornament?"

  How can't you recognize it? It's exactly the same as the one hanging around her neck.

  "As you said, he hurriedly asked: 'Miss, when did your pendant get lost and how was it picked up by this young man?'"

  Qin Dai Xin pulled out the pendant hanging from her neck from inside her clothes, took it off and put it together with the jade pendant in the man's hand, and they were exactly the same.

  Qin Dai'er thought to herself: "This pendant is a family heirloom of mine, I don't know where the young master got this one from."

  Tie Wenyang's face flushed with heat as he listened to these words, and he said in a low voice: "I was abandoned since childhood, this pendant is the only proof left on me."

  He was completely bewildered and didn't understand what was going on.

  Qin Dai's heart clearly heard it, and she became excited at once. Could it be really him? The child that the Su family was forced to give away more than 20 years ago?

  "May I ask what year of your birth is, sir?" Qin Dai's heart was eager to know his identity, but she wasn't so blind as to believe him just because of a jade pendant.

  "Wasted twenty-two springs." Tie Wenyang said: "My foster parents told me that I was born on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month."

  The seventh day of the twelfth lunar month?

  Qin Dai's heart skipped a beat. Every year on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Shi would go to Pu Fa Temple to burn incense regardless of wind or rain. Last year, because Su Shi was pregnant and couldn't move around easily, Qin Dai went in her place and ended up being mistakenly tied up by Hei Da Ge and others.

  She had always thought it was just a habit of Su's, but now it seems that is not the case.

  "The young master has brought me here, so he must have already known some things very clearly." If he is still unclear about his own life, how can he find himself?

  "There is some gain, but there is still confusion that has not been resolved." Tie Wenyang knew that the person in front of him was his own sister. From her attitude, it seemed that she also knew something. Thinking that a family member was by his side, Tie Wenyang's heart felt warm and fuzzy, after all, she was a relative connected to him by blood.

  Qin Dai's heart warmed with a gentle smile, "I wonder if there is any light tea here?"

  Tie Wenyang smiled similarly, "Miss, follow me to the hall for a chat, and I hope you won't mind having a cup of clear tea."

  "Alright." Qin Dai turned around and said to Ruyi: "You wait outside."

  "Yes." Ruyi still didn't know what was going on, but she didn't dare disobey the young lady's orders. Since the young lady told her to wait, she waited. But judging from the situation, it seemed that this young man wanted to have a long conversation with the young lady, and it was inevitable that they would lose their composure as a lone man and woman in the same room.

  Rú yì bǎ tóu dī de dī dī de, zhí dīng zhe zì jǐ de xié jiān kàn, kāi shǐ zì wǒ cuī mián qǐ lái: Wǒ shén me dōu bù zhī dào, wǒ shén me dōu méi jiàn.

  Qin Dai Xin followed Tie Wei Yang into the hall, and at a glance, she saw the mentally unstable woman who had brought her there. She was hugging a doll and sitting in a chair, humming an unknown tune softly, with a peaceful expression.

  "She's called Ying Er." Ti Wei Yang's eyes stared unblinkingly at the woman called Ying Er, yet he asked Qin Dai Xin in a soft voice, "Do you know who she is?"

  Qin Daiyun shook her head, how would she know?

  "She's my lifesaver, a servant of the Qin Manor, and Su's personal maid, Ying'er."

  Qin Dai's heart had already made some calculations, but when she really heard the answer, she couldn't help but be surprised for a moment.

  Has this woman served the Su family? No one in the Qin Manor has ever mentioned it, including Su herself.

  Another person sealed in dust?

  "I've known since I was a child that I'm not the biological child of my parents, although they treated me as if I were. They gave me everything they could, but I still have a strong desire to find my biological parents." Tie Wenyang sighed, "I owe my adoptive parents over 20 years of nurturing, all I can do is try my best to do what I should and not disappoint them. Only then can the guilt in my heart be slightly alleviated."

  Qin Dai Xin must have gone through a very intense ideological struggle, on the one hand he hoped to find his biological parents, on the other hand he felt guilty towards his adoptive parents. At that time, he was torn and his heart was in turmoil.

  "When I was young, I often kept these thoughts hidden in my heart. In front of my foster parents, I didn't mention a word. It wasn't until I grew up that I realized how ridiculous I was. How could such a trivial matter be hidden from them? They didn't say anything, probably just to satisfy my private desire not to be disturbed." His wish to find his relatives had always been strong and never faded.

  "I'm not trying to leave them, I just want to ask my biological parents why they didn't want me in the first place." Tie Wenyang's tone was very calm, but Qin Dai felt that this calmness was formed after thousands of times of tempering.

  He must have been in so much pain back then. He was such an excellent person, yet there were people who didn't want him. No wonder he had always been searching for his biological parents; perhaps he no longer cared about who they were, all he wanted was just an answer.

  An answer that can convince oneself.

  "My adoptive father knew my heart knot, and he had been investigating for a long time but found no clues. The only thing he could give me was this pendant." Tie Wenyang gently placed the pendant on the table and said: "I was sent to the capital by a monk who wandered around the world and spoke authentic Mandarin. He couldn't be traced back to his hometown or the temple where he became a monk. However, if my adoptive mother hadn't taken pity on me and adopted me at that time, I might have become a monk by now."

  Qin Dai Xin heard the self-deprecating tone in his words and asked: "Then why did you come to Taizhou again?"

  Tie Wenyang said: "After all, it was just a coincidence. I had already given up on the idea of finding my relatives and thought that we were destined to be strangers. Unexpectedly, one day I met a wandering monk who gave me four sentences."

  Twenty years of longing for a loved one's voice

  Wangtai outside Sifang Mountain.

  The candle's shadow shines on the cloud swallow.

  A little sister from someone's family brings a lantern here.

  Tie Yun then told Qin Dai Xin about his two years as a garrison commander in Jinan Prefecture.

  "I'm guessing that 'Tai' refers to Taizhou City. It's so coincidental that you and Hanyi had a dispute over that lamp, and later I heard her say that there was a small cloud swallow inside the lamp. Suddenly, I remembered those four sentences." Tie Wenyang gazed at her and said: "Who brought the lantern to the young lady? When I thought of your appearance back then, it felt so familiar, and I felt that the monk's words were somewhat believable. So, I had the idea of searching for my relatives again. After returning to Beijing, I immediately sent people to investigate in all directions."

  Qin Dai quietly listened to him recounting the past, and was slightly surprised when she heard that he had once been a garrison commander, but didn't show it.

  The capital city is vast and there are many powerful people, so it's inevitable that someone who raises another person will have to take on some official or semi-official role.

  Tie Wenyang let out a soft sigh: "I've been searching for so long, but I haven't found any leads, it's almost to the point where I want to give up."

  Qin Dai Xin could hear the helplessness and desolation in his faint sigh, who can say that being adopted is not a kind of dependence on others?

  "I thought about it many times, and I think the only person who knows is that monk, the one who sent me to my adoptive parents twenty years ago, and the one who gave me four sentences twenty years later. Could he be the same person?"

  Qin Dai raised an eyebrow and looked at him, was he asking himself?

  "I brought people to Taizhou, and searched for temples of all sizes. Fortunately, the heavens did not disappoint those with kind intentions, and I finally found the monk who gave me four sentences. He personally admitted that it was he who sent me to my adoptive parents more than 20 years ago." Tie Wenyang's face had a look of celebration, "Thanks to Master Wuben, he has a debt of gratitude towards me, like a second father."

  Qin Dai's heart had a look of certainty, thinking: It was indeed him.

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