Although Li Yuzhu didn't know what had happened to Ding Haowen, she was very clear about the nature of Ding Haowen's work and understood that something serious must have happened to him!

She carried the child on her back to collect valuables, since there weren't many valuables in the house to begin with.

Li Yuzhu loaded all the clothes, bedding, pots and pans into Ding Haowen's car.

I originally wanted to take other things with me, but the car couldn't fit them all.

The two spent about 40 minutes tidying up. For some reason, Ding Haowen felt increasingly flustered and blurted out.

"Li Yuzhu, stop packing. Come with me to the house and take Mom with you. We'll leave together."

Li Yuzhu nodded, but a hint of disgust flashed in her eyes.

She desperately wanted to ask if she could leave without Li Sumei. She felt that Li Sumei was just a burden.

But she is Ding Haowen's biological mother. No matter what Li Sumei did, she is still Ding Haowen's biological mother.

Men always value their mothers more than their wives and children. If Li Yuzhu really said she wouldn't take Li Sumei with her when she left, Ding Haowen would probably curse her to death.

Rather than asking Ding Haowen to scold you, you might as well just endure it a little longer.

The group got into the car together, but Ding Haowen felt like he had forgotten something.

He sat in the driver's seat with a frown on his face.

"Have I forgotten something?"

Li Yuzhu looked around, "Have you forgotten about your secret stash of money?"

Ding Haowen rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"I could forget you, but I could never forget my secret stash of money."

Li Yuzhu held the baby and heard the baby's soft, whimpering sounds. Ding Haowen suddenly remembered something he had forgotten.

Where's the lilac?

Li Yuzhu was also dumbfounded.

Where did that brat run off to?

Li Yuzhu and Ding Haowen searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Ding Haowen was worried that Lin Yuyao's people would come looking for them, so he didn't dare to stay any longer.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go first, and come back to pick up Dingxiang after we've settled in."

Li Yuzhu nodded. "That works too."

Li Sumei naturally didn't care whether Dingxiang lived or died. Now she dared not utter a word, fearing that her son and daughter-in-law would think she was a burden and abandon her as well.

To put it nicely, they'll come back to pick up the child in a couple of days; to put it bluntly, isn't that abandonment?

Ding Haowen drove away, and Li Yuzhu looked at Ding Haowen's house with lingering reluctance.

There's a dressing table in this house; she couldn't take it with her, so she had to leave it behind.

Fortunately, Ding Haowen has made a lot of money now and is considered a wealthy man.

Ding Haowen was clever; he changed the license plate number when he left.

He had been preparing to flee all along, so he had prepared this license plate number well in advance.

Dingxiang carried water home and found the house empty.

She looked around in surprise, a huge sense of panic rising in her heart.

After searching everywhere and still not finding anyone, Dingxiang couldn't help but burst into tears.

Not only is Mom missing, but my younger brother is missing too. Even my grandmother, who is paralyzed from the waist down, is missing!

Dingxiang ran to search all the places in the house where they hid money. Apart from the little bit of money she had hidden herself, there was no money left in the places where her parents had hidden the money.

Moreover, many things are missing from the house.

Although Dingxiang is young, she is already old enough to understand things.

She stepped out the door, intending to ask the aunt next door.

The aunt next door was just getting ready to go out. She was wearing floral pants, carrying a sickle in her hand, and had a backpack on her back.

It looks like they're going out to mow the lawn.

"Auntie, have you seen my mom?"

The neighbors next door naturally heard everything that the Ding family had just made.

She went outside to take a look and found that people were moving.

Seeing Dingxiang appear with red eyes, the aunt immediately understood.

Is this a case of abandoning lilacs?

These days, daughters are worthless. Even if you kidnap them and sell them, they won't fetch as much as boys.

The older woman's eyes showed pity. "Your parents moved away, didn't you know?"

"Moved? Left?"

Dingxiang repeated the two words, trying to digest their meaning.

The pitiful look in the aunt's eyes became more and more obvious. She pointed her finger in the direction where Ding Haowen and the others had left.

“Your parents just left in this direction. If you run up now, you should be able to catch up if you run fast enough.”

Back when Chen Jiayi was around, Dingxiang could learn something from her.

Later, Li Yuzhu married into the family, and her biological mother was not as good as her stepmother.

Although Li Yuzhu was a doctor, she didn't care about her own daughter.

She only thinks about her son all day long, and her favoritism is obvious to everyone in the town.

Now that they've moved, their daughter doesn't want them anymore.

This lilac is almost six years old, but she still can't read a single word.

Tsk, poor thing.

Dingxiang was late in developing her intelligence and did not go to school.

Children in the village start school relatively late, but children in the town are usually sent to preschool at the age of six or seven.

Li Yuzhu felt that if Dingxiang went to preschool, there would be one less person to do chores at home, so she thought it would be better for Dingxiang to go later.

Dingxiang ran after her parents, following the direction they had gone.

However, with her short legs, how could she possibly keep up with the car?

Dingxiang didn't eat well at home, and long-term malnutrition made her very thin.

Seeing that she had been running for what seemed like a long time without seeing her parents, Dingxiang sat by the roadside and burst into tears.

She cried all the way back, and almost everyone in town saw it.

Everyone quickly learned that Ding Haowen had driven back and then immediately moved away.

Upon learning that Dingxiang had been left in Lotus Town, some people said that she might have been forgotten to take her with her and that they would come back to pick her up in a couple of days.

Some people say it was intentionally omitted because of the cloves...

Dingxiang looked at the empty stove and was extremely hungry.

But all the pots and pans in the house were taken away, and Dingxiang didn't even have a pot to cook rice.

She was starving, and most of the food in her house had been taken away, so Dingxiang could only drink the well water she had carried back herself.

She was so hungry that she ate until she was stuffed...

That night, Dingxiang locked the front door alone.

The front door of the house is a wooden door. To lock it, a wooden stick is wedged between the two doorknobs.

Dingxiang used to sleep in the kitchen, but even though her family wasn't home tonight, she didn't dare go to her parents' room to sleep.

She was curled up in the kitchen, clutching her small blanket...

At night, two cars drove into Lianhua Town.

They found Ding Haowen's house, but the master bedroom was empty; the man had already left.

Dingxiang is a light sleeper because her mother often wakes her up at night to help take care of her younger brother. She was very happy when she heard someone open the door and come in.

She thought her parents had returned, but upon hearing the strange man's voice, Dingxiang couldn't help but recall the time when she was abducted.

Fear made her instinctively want to hide, so Dingxiang hid behind the firewood in the kitchen.

Soon, the group finished searching Ding Haowen's house.

"Damn it, there's nothing there. This kid definitely ran off with the money!"