Chapter 361 It’s so similar!

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It’s so similar!

General Zheng was so excited that he stood up from his stool and stared at Chen Huiniang's face.

This face looks so much like my mother’s when she was young!

General Zheng was not aware of his impoliteness at all. It was the general's wife beside him who gently pulled down his sleeves, which made him realize the impoliteness and quickly looked away.

The general's wife also stood up, took two steps forward, and said warmly:

"Is this the eldest lady of the Qiao family? She is indeed a tiger mother without a dog. The lady looks dignified and virtuous at first glance. No wonder she could give birth to a daughter as smart and kind as Miss Qiao."

It was the first time that Chen Huiniang met the female family member of a high-ranking official in the capital. She was already a little reserved. But when she heard her praising herself like this, she became even more uncomfortable. She put on a smile and replied humbly:

"The general's wife is very commendable! A peasant woman is just a country woman, so she shouldn't be praised like this. Ran Ran saved people with a little effort. Anyone who saw the situation at that time and could help would step forward to help."

Seeing that she was so humble, the general's wife stepped forward and took her hand, and said warmly: "Sister Qiao, there is no need to be so polite when talking to each other. From now on, I will call you sister, and you can call me brother and sister!" Come on, my husband also has a sister who is about the same age as you, but later..., if you don't mind, let's call you sister!"

When Chen Huiniang heard this, she subconsciously refused.

How could she dare to have a relationship with a country's general when she was just a peasant woman?

"No...this is impossible! Let the general's wife call the civilian woman Qiao Chen! The civilian woman..."

General Zheng looked at this person who looked exactly like his own mother and was probably his sister. He felt sad in his heart when he saw that she was so nervous and did not dare to have a relationship with them.

If this was really his biological sister, he couldn't stand it even thinking about the suffering she had suffered over the years, let alone his parents who had always cared about his sister?

He lowered his head sadly, hating himself for not being able to find his sister for so many years and letting her suffer outside for so many years.

The general's wife turned back and glanced at her husband. She had always known her husband very well and could guess how he was feeling now.

"Sister, please don't refuse. To tell you the truth, I felt very friendly as soon as I saw you. I am very happy to recognize you as my sister. From now on, Miss Qiao will be my eldest niece, and I will not be like Miss Qiao or Qiao." The girl’s name is so unfamiliar, let’s just call her Ran Ran from now on!”

Her smile did not diminish, she smiled at Qiao Ran, then took Chen Huiniang's hand and walked to the charcoal basin, saying that she wanted to have a good chat with her.

Lin Guizhen saw that she had nothing to do here, so she came up to say hello and went out to the tent to start preparing lunch.

The general's wife pulled her to sit by the charcoal basin, and then invited Qiao Ran to sit down with her. She held Chen Huiniang's hand but never let go, as if she was afraid that she would find an excuse to escape.

Chen Huiniang had no choice but to be pulled to sit down. Although she was not like ordinary peasant women who got weak and speechless when meeting a high official, she was still a little restrained and didn't know what she could talk to the general's wife.

Mrs. Qiao had already met the General and his wife twice, and they had just chatted for a long time. She was no longer as reserved as she was at the beginning.

She gently patted the bewildered eldest daughter-in-law's arm, and said to the general's wife: "Don't be offended, Wenjuan. My eldest daughter-in-law is a hard-working person. She had a hard life in the past. She has suffered a lot and has a weak temperament. But She has never been weak when she should be tough. She just hasn't dealt with people of your status before, so she is too reserved."

Qiao Ran couldn't help but raise her eyebrows after hearing what her grandma said.

Wenjuan? Is it the general’s wife’s maiden name? The old lady has been chatting so intimately with others?

The general's wife smiled and said: "I understand, old lady. It doesn't matter. I will come here more often in the future, come more often, and have more contact with you. My sister will not be so unfamiliar with me."

She immediately continued what the old lady had just said: "Did my sister have a hard time before? Did you mean when she was in her parents' family? Her parents' family was not good to her?"

Chen Huiniang felt sad when she thought of everything the Chen family had done to her.

Mrs. Qiao answered on her behalf: "Yes, Hui Niang is a hard-working woman. Her father has not loved her since she was a child. The whole family treats her like a slave and orders her to do all the dirty and tiring work. When she first married into my family, she was so skinny that she looked like she would fall over if the wind blew. We all just thought that the Chen family favored boys over girls and didn’t treat our daughters as human beings. But we didn’t want to, alas!”

The general's wife was listening attentively. Seeing that the old lady seemed to want to stop talking, she quickly asked: "What don't you want?"

This question is actually a bit rude. Most people don't want to talk about it in depth. Asking like this seems gossipy, like asking for someone's privacy.

But the general's wife didn't care about anything else for the sake of her husband.

The general, who was drinking tea with his head down, also raised his head and looked at Mrs. Qiao expectantly, hoping that she would continue talking.

Just now he heard the old lady say that the sister of the Qiao family had suffered a lot in the past and was so thin that she was just a skeleton. His heart clenched for no reason, and for some reason, he felt sorry for what this sister had experienced in the past.

If she really is my sister...

He didn't dare to think about it, but he desperately wanted to know if it was true.

Mrs. Qiao looked at her eldest daughter-in-law who was silent. She didn't want to continue talking, but she thought that after all, those in the Chen family were not Huiniang's biological parents and brothers, so she didn't have to worry about people knowing about the "family scandal".

Seeing the urgent look on the general's wife's face, she hesitated for a moment and continued: "I didn't expect that the Chen family couple were not Hui Niang's biological parents, but they were kidnapped from Fucheng."

"what?"

When the general's wife heard this, she had the same reaction as the general just now. She stood up from the stool, causing everyone in the Qiao family to look at her.

The general couldn't hide his excitement. The tea cup he was holding was tightly clenched in his hand, getting tighter and tighter, and his breathing became a little faster.

It's just that he can control his emotions now without being too rude.

Qiao Ran looked at the general's wife who was standing up, then at General Zheng who couldn't hide his excitement, and then at his mother's face with an incomprehensible look on her face.

Suddenly, she thought of what her grandma said last time about the general being very kind. It seemed that she had now found the answer to the mystery!

The general's wife realized that she had lost her composure, coughed quickly, sat down again, and made up for it with an indignant look on her face:

"It's so abominable! It's so evil to kidnap children and cause them to be separated from their flesh and blood! This kind of scum should be caught and tortured in the yamen, and then exiled for three thousand miles to go to that bitter and cold place to fight for himself. The evil deeds you have committed will atone for your lifetime!”