Accompanied by the director, the old lady walked past the line of children.

She walked slowly, looking around as she went. As she passed by, she suddenly stopped and scrutinized her closely. Seeing this, the orphanage director explained, "Deputy Director, this child is not the one you are looking for."

The elderly woman, who was the deputy director of the orphanage, ignored the director of the orphanage and instead squatted down in front of Xu Moran, asking her softly, "Child, what's your name?"

"Grandma, my name is Xu Moran."

She had barely finished speaking when she heard the dean scolding her, "You're just a child, you're not allowed to talk so much!"

She flinched, not daring to speak again. As she looked down at her feet, she heard the vice-principal ask the dean, "Is this child also surnamed Xu?"

The dean's voice was filled with laughter, "Yes, because your child's surname is Xu, all the children in that batch also took the surname Xu."

Xu Moran really wanted to say no. Among that group of children, she was the only one with the surname Xu. According to the aunt who had taken care of her before, the reason she had the surname Xu was because there was a note in her swaddling clothes that said her surname was Xu.

Having been reprimanded by the dean, she dared not speak again.

“I feel like I have a special connection with this child,” the elderly lady said to the director.

The dean quickly said, "You feel a connection with this child, perhaps because you miss the child you're looking for so much."

Before the old lady could speak, the director said again, "Please wait a moment, the child you are looking for will be here soon."

When the child the director mentioned appeared in the orphanage lobby, Xu Moran mustered her courage and glanced at the center of the lobby. She saw that the person standing there was actually the director's granddaughter.

It was a girl about the same age as Xu Moran. Although her clothes and appearance were different, Xu Moran recognized her at a glance as the granddaughter of the orphanage director.

How did her granddaughter suddenly become the child that the old lady XX was looking for?

Didn't she always call the orphanage director "Grandma"?

The orphanage director knew that the group of children standing in the hall couldn't cause any trouble, so he lied to the old lady without restraint, "Deputy Director XX, this is the child you are looking for. When I picked her up, I saw a note in the swaddling clothes that contained her birth date. Besides that note, there was also a small gold lock. Look, it's this swaddling clothes and the gold lock."

Xu Moran saw the elderly lady, the deputy XX, in a very high position. When she saw the swaddling clothes and the golden lock, her eyes instantly reddened. A second later, she saw the high-ranking official squat down in front of the dean's granddaughter and reach out to hug her tightly.

The old lady was very excited; her whole body was trembling. She hugged her granddaughter, the director, and kept saying, "Good child, this is wonderful! Grandma has finally found you. You've suffered so much all these years. Don't worry, Grandma will definitely make it up to you!"

The orphanage director's granddaughter glanced at the director, then looked at the elderly woman who was barely able to control her emotions, and asked suspiciously, "Grandma? You're saying you're my grandma?"

The elderly woman, a high-ranking official, couldn't hold back her tears, which streamed down her face. But afraid of frightening the little girl in front of her, she forced a smile and said, "Yes, I am your grandmother."

The orphanage director's granddaughter was about to speak when the director quickly interrupted her, "Yuanyuan, hurry up and call her Grandma! This is the Grandma you've been dreaming of for so long!"

Six- or seven-year-old children don't usually lie, but the orphanage director's granddaughter is an exception. Under the influence of the shrewd director, she is unusually intelligent for her age.

After hearing what the orphanage director said, she reached out and touched the old lady's neck, calling out in a sweet voice, "Grandma."

Just that one word, "Grandma," moved the high-ranking official's elderly lady so much that she nodded repeatedly in agreement and even picked her up.

Her secretary, worried that she would get tired, offered to take the child from her, but she refused. No matter how much she struggled, she gritted her teeth and insisted on holding the child.

Soon the group was about to leave, naturally taking the orphanage director's granddaughter with them.

Xu Moran and the other children were asked to go to the door to see them off. It was at that moment that she heard the old lady, a high-ranking official, ask the orphanage director for a small swaddle and a small gold lock.

She had never seen Jin Suo, but the swaddling clothes were something that had been in her closet since she was old enough to understand things, something that had been with her for six years, so of course she recognized it at a glance.

"Director, that swaddled baby..." She was about to ask the orphanage director when the director slapped her across the face with lightning speed. "You little brat, you talk too much. Just wait and see how I deal with you later!"

When the elderly woman, a high-ranking official, saw the orphanage director beating the children, she immediately criticized her, saying, "They are all children without parents or families. Give them more love and less temper."

The orphanage director repeatedly agreed. The elderly woman, a high-ranking official, carried the orphanage director's granddaughter into the car. Just as the car was about to leave, the orphanage director seemed to remember something and jogged to catch up with the car. "Vice President XX, this is the child's blood report, and the match with the blood you sent last time. The data shows that the child in your arms is your own granddaughter. She came to our orphanage just a few days after she was born. I remember she was so tiny then, only about the size of a kitten. When she first arrived at the orphanage, she was always sick and needed to be held in our arms to sleep at night. Now she's finally better, and she's been waiting for her maternal grandmother to come and pick her up."

The orphanage director broke down in tears as she spoke, wiping away her tears as she said to her granddaughter in the car, "Yuanyuan, from now on you will live with your maternal grandmother. Your grandmother loves you very much and will take good care of you. You must listen to your grandmother and be filial to her when you grow up. If you have time when you grow up, come back to visit often."

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