"I was thinking about this on the way back. I really want to hide everything we saw this morning, but I feel that if I do this, I will look at Mengyao as a fool.
.”
Ling Zhi told Zhao Shiyan what he had just thought about on the road. Zhao Shiyan nodded and agreed with some of Ling Zhi's views:
"Actually, we could have guessed on the way to Yingshan Village that the people in the village would not have a very positive view on this matter. Whether they were criticizing Mengyao or her parents, Mengyao would definitely not be happy.
Get up, so we don’t need to ask the villagers too much about Mengyao’s escape from marriage.”
"But, I think we should tell Mengyao the minimum news. Just like you said, we can't treat Mengyao as a fool. We have to believe in her. She is so strong and will not be knocked down so easily.
"
"Yes, then it's decided, let's go!"
So, Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan walked towards the back mountain again, and arrived at Li Mengyao's secret base in less than half an hour.
At this time, it was already three poles in the sun. Although the two of them were no longer burdened by the specialties when climbing the mountain, their clothes were still relatively heavy, so when they arrived at the destination, their faces were covered with fine beads of sweat.
Li Mengyao was still lying on her hammock, holding the dry food she had brought with her in one hand, and stretching her other hand into the air, constantly turning the palms and backs of her hands. This lazy look matched the surrounding scene.
It forms a beautiful picture.
This scene even gave the two people a little illusion. How they wished that time could freeze at this moment and let Li Mengyao go on like this without any worries.
However, the reality is cruel and they cannot escape forever!
After admiring each other silently for a while, the two of them approached Li Mengyao gently. Just as they were about to say hello, Zhao Shiyan suddenly smiled slyly. She covered Ling Zhi's mouth and signaled Ling Zhi to keep quiet. Then she sneaked behind Li Mengyao's head and gently used her hands to
Covered her eyes.
"ah!"
Li Mengyao was suddenly startled and turned her head back:
"Hey, I was scared to death. It's Shi Yan and you guys are back."
"Hey, how's it going, Mengyao? Did you have a wonderful time alone?"
Li Mengyao nodded shyly:
"Yeah, it feels like I'm back when I was a kid!"
After a short pause, Li Mengyao continued:
"Shi Yan, Ling Zhi, you should have met my parents by now."
Zhao Shiyan nodded, and Ling Zhi corrected:
"Strictly speaking, I met your mother. If your father is in the house, we can't go in and see him."
Ling Zhi's words were very cryptic, but Li Mengyao was smart enough to know what Ling Zhi wanted to express:
"I know, my mother must have made things difficult for you, right."
Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan remained silent, not knowing whether to nod or shake their heads.
Li Mengyao smiled miserably:
"My dad has cold legs all year round and can't get out of bed when winter comes. My mom will definitely not be very enthusiastic about you, I can guess that."
"It's okay, Ling Zhi, Shi Yan, I'm mentally prepared. Just tell me. Don't worry about me."
Ling and Zhao looked at each other, nodded to each other, and then began to recount the events of their meeting.
First, he talked about the situation in the yard, especially the appearance of the two old hens and the group of chicks.
"Really? The two chicks back then have grown so big."
Li Mengyao was a little relieved, maybe this was the only good news she could hear.
Then, Ling Zhi summarized the conversation with Zhang Caiyun. Of course, he did not completely restore it. That would be too shocking, but he still implicitly expressed the fact that Zhang Caiyun did not actively go out to find his daughter.
Li Mengyao smiled bitterly:
"I knew it was like this, letting you see the shameful side of our family."
"That's not the case."
Zhao Shiyan didn't know how to persuade her, and she couldn't tell Zhang Caiyun directly, after all, she was Li Mengyao's mother.
Up to this point, although Li Mengyao's mood was slightly depressed, it was generally stable. It seemed that she was indeed mentally prepared to a certain extent.
But, can she really bear the news that follows?
Seeing that Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan were silent for a long time without continuing, Li Mengyao was a little strange:
"Are you done? Since it's over, let's go down the mountain now? Oh, no, no, you guys haven't eaten yet. Why don't we wait until you finish eating your dry food before we go down together..."
"Meng Yao."
Ling Zhi interrupted her, considered the wording, and decided that it would be better to proceed step by step:
"Well, just in case, let me confirm that you don't have a biological brother, right?"
"Brother? No? What's wrong?"
Li Mengyao had a bad feeling.
"What about my cousin and cousin? Are there any?"
"So, my aunt has a child, but if we calculate the time, he should be 10 years old this year. Our family and my aunt's family rarely interact with each other except during the Chinese New Year. I don't know what he is doing now.
That’s it.”
"That's it."
If he were 10 years old, it would definitely not be that little boy. After all, that little boy looked very young. Although the age is not accurately determined, he was definitely not 10 years old!
"Then, let me ask one last question. Before you leave home, your mother...should not be inconvenienced, right?"
This kind of question made Li Mengyao feel very strange, and she gradually came up with some guesses:
"Lingzhi, could it be possible...could it be..."
Li Mengyao got down from the hammock with an expression of disbelief on her face.
Ling Zhi struggled for a moment, but did not answer Li Mengyao's question directly. He took out his mobile phone, pulled out the photos he took, and handed them to Li Mengyao.
Looking at the familiar and stooped back and the little boy's face in the photo, Li Mengyao covered her mouth hard, and tears couldn't help but burst out of her eyes!
Zhao Shiyan silently stepped forward and hugged Li Mengyao. She could understand that this feeling of being abandoned was very uncomfortable.
Ling Zhi also felt that his mood was complicated, but he was not overly immersed in this sad atmosphere. Instead, he thought of more things in his mind.
Now, it is basically certain that what Zhang Caiyun said is correct. The child should indeed be adopted by them, but where did they adopt it?
Ling Zhi took out his mobile phone and asked Qin Fei if there was an orphanage in Yingshan Town.
Soon, Qin Fei replied to him saying no.
In this case, she was adopted from an orphanage in Xiangcheng City? It seems unlikely. Zhang Caiyun and her husband don't seem to be people who travel far away.
Even if they really went to Xiangcheng to adopt a child, it would be very difficult to trace it.
Xiangcheng City is so big and it is the provincial capital, so there must be more than one orphanage, so there is no way to investigate.
Then ask the people in the village? It's an idea, but is it really necessary to ask to this extent? Ling Zhi suddenly realized that knowing more might just increase worries and not be of much use.
In this case, forget it. And looking at Li Mengyao's current state, she probably has no intention of looking at her parents, and besides, she may not be able to find a chance to take a sneak peek.
So, he and Zhao Shiyan looked at each other and immediately decided to take Li Mengyao back to Xiangcheng.
...
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the three of them got on the bus back to Xiangcheng.
Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan ate the dry food they brought silently, while Li Mengyao leaned on Zhao Shiyan's shoulder, her eyes dull, and she stared blankly at the back of the chair in front of her.
The whole journey was silent.
When they arrived in Xiangcheng, the three of them had no intention of sightseeing and hid in the hotel, hoping to leave Xiangcheng at dawn tomorrow.
Li Mengyao was lying on the bed, not feeling energetic.
Zhao Shiyan was fiddling with her cell phone, confirming the train tickets to leave here tomorrow. Because train tickets were tight during the Spring Festival, she bought them a month in advance.
Today is already the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Although it will be New Year's Eve when my family goes to the market, I can still catch up with the Spring Festival Gala.
However, at this moment, Li Mengyao suddenly sat up and stammered out his first words since leaving Yingshan Village. This sentence completely disrupted Zhao Shiyan's plan:
"Shi Yan, I, I think that little boy looks familiar to me."
...
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day before New Year's Eve, at 7 o'clock in the morning, Yingshan Village.
The sun was just shining into the yard. Zhang Caiyun took her children for a walk in the yard and added some chicken feed to the chickens they raised.
Not long after, there was a knock on the door of his house. Zhang Caiyun was very surprised. Why did someone come to visit him in the past two days? What a trouble!
She didn't rush to open the door, but took the child into the house first, and then came to the door, thinking that it was probably those high school classmates who came yesterday.
"Didn't I tell you not to come again? Why are you here again today?"
Zhang Caiyun opened the door with a curse and took a closer look. Isn't this his daughter?
However, the imagined scene of mother and daughter hugging each other and crying did not appear. Zhang Caiyun was stunned for a moment, then snorted coldly and said mockingly:
"What? You can't stay outside any longer? Do you want to go home? You're too embarrassed to go home directly, and why do you find two high school classmates to explore the way? How old are you? Damn girl!"
Li Mengyao didn't want to argue with her, and didn't have the time or energy to argue with her. She went straight to the point and got to the most critical topic of the trip:
"Where did you adopt that little boy?"
Zhang Caiyun didn't expect that the first thing Li Mengyao said to her when she got home would be this! Where did Li Mengyao, who always spoke tremblingly in front of her, go?
Zhang Caiyun looked at Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan behind Li Mengyao, and snorted unkindly:
"It was you who taught her bad things? When you came here yesterday, you didn't look like good people. You..."
"Zhang Caiyun, that's enough!"
Li Mengyao interrupted Zhang Caiyun's words sharply, and tears began to fall down.
"I didn't expect that you would do such a heartless thing! From now on, you are no longer my mother! I am no longer your daughter!"
Although Zhang Caiyun was a little confused, this did not prevent her from fulfilling her "authority" as a "mother":
"You crazy girl! Why are you talking to me? Let's see if I can't kill you!"
With that said, he was about to step forward and pull Li Mengyao's hair.
At this moment, Zhao Shiyan stepped forward, pushed Zhang Caiyun, opened his arms, and protected Li Mengyao behind him!
"You want to hit her? Get through me first!"
Zhang Caiyun stumbled, but after regaining his footing, he showed no sign of weakness:
"Someone is helping you, right? It's useless to have someone helping you! Old man! Come out quickly! Your prodigal daughter is back!"
After saying that, Zhang Caiyun stepped forward to take action again!
At this moment, a group of people came around the corner and shouted at Zhang Caiyun: