When a nun cuts off her hair and shaves her head, it signifies that she has renounced worldly life and severed ties with the mortal world. After becoming a nun, she has no more attachments to worldly relationships and is free from worldly desires.

Therefore, whether one is a monk or a nun, after marriage, one's parents are considered one's maternal home, while the Buddhist community is one's true home.

On the evening of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Yuzhu said, "Yuhan, your situation doesn't meet the requirements for adoption. Tomorrow, your Aunt Su Wei and I will go with you to your father's house. If your father can guarantee your future life, you should stay with him, because your father is your legal and sole guardian. If he can't accept you as his daughter, you can sever your father-daughter relationship. Only after severing the father-daughter relationship will I have the right to adopt you."

To take in an adult girl, certain conditions must be met. She is now practically fatherless, and while she is a helpless girl, she has a biological father and does not meet the requirements to become a child in a new family.

Dong Yuhan is now an adult, and she has the right to choose her father or a new family, provided that her father completely abandons her and she can still choose another family.

Actually, her father had already abandoned her when she was sixteen. Isn't selling her considered abandonment?

However, only she and her father knew that her father had broken the law. Before Li Yuzhu could take her in, she had to get a written certificate from her father proving that they were severing their father-daughter relationship. Only then would Li Yuzhu have the right to take her in as her daughter.

After hearing this, Dong Yuhan nodded and agreed to take Li Yuzhu and Su Wei to her father's house the next day, so that even if her father didn't want her, she would still give him an explanation.

The next evening, after a long day's journey, the three drove to Dong Yuhan's father's house.

My father's family lived in a mountainous area where there were many coal mines.

Guided by Dong Yuhan, the car stopped in front of her stepmother's house.

Dong Yuhan's family was of modest means. They had four single-story houses facing south, three outbuildings, and the main gate was always open.

After parking, a woman in her thirties came out of the yard. She wasn't particularly beautiful, but she was still quite attractive.

She was none other than Dong Yuhan's stepmother.

When she saw Dong Yuhan, Li Yuzhu and the other two women get out of the car, her expression clearly showed surprise. In her mind, Xiaohan would never be able to come back, and no matter who bought her back, they would not let her run away so easily.

With tears in her eyes, Dong Yuhan said, "Mom, are you very surprised to see me? You thought I would never be able to escape back, right?"

After hearing this, the stepmother did not respond to Dong Yuhan's words. Instead, she looked at Li Yuzhu and Su Wei. These two women had extraordinary bearing, and in her opinion, they must not be ordinary women to drive such a luxurious car.

After all, she had done something unethical for Dong Yuhan a few years ago. Before finding out the origins of the two women, she really didn't dare to act rashly. She was afraid that the two women were plainclothes police officers brought back by Dong Yuhan. People with guilty consciences are afraid of seeing ghosts, and those with demons in their hearts are even more afraid of seeing ghosts.

Li Yuzhu knew what the woman was thinking. She said, "Don't worry, we're not police. If we were, we would have come straight to your house in a police car to arrest you. It's so cold outside, won't you invite us in?"

Dong Yuhan's stepmother stammered, "Quick, please come in!"

Li Yuzhu and the other two followed the woman into the house and sat down on the sofa in the main room.

Li Yuzhu asked, "Why are you all alone at home? Where are your husband and children?"

Dong Yuhan's stepmother said, "My children went to their maternal grandparents' house. My husband died in a mining accident six months ago."

Upon hearing this, Dong Yuhan's tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes. No matter how much she hated her father, he was still her biological father. Her grandparents had passed away before she was sixteen, and after her father's death, she truly became an orphan in this world.

She cried and asked, "Where did you bury my father?"

The stepmother said, "Your father died after being taken to the hospital. According to his will, he was buried with your mother."

Dong Yuhan cried and said, "At least you did one decent thing."

Li Yuzhu said, "You're not bad-looking, but I never imagined you were such a vicious woman. You've ruined Xiaohan's life, do you know that? Don't you know that human trafficking is illegal? Tell me, what should we do with you?"

After hearing this, the woman knelt on the ground and said, "This has nothing to do with me. It was Xiaohan's father who sold her back then."

Dong Yuhan slapped her stepmother several times, crying, "Don't pin all the blame on my dead father. You're no better. Would my father have sold me if you hadn't sabotaged him?"

Li Yuzhu hurriedly pulled the crazed Dong Yuhan away. All the suffering she had endured over the years was caused by this woman; it would be strange if she didn't go crazy at this moment.

Li Yuzhu said, "You're not having an easy time now that your husband is gone, so I won't make things difficult for you. Xiaohan's father died in a work-related accident, so he should be entitled to compensation, right? I'll return her share of the inheritance. That's not a big request of mine, is it?"

The stepmother said, "The total compensation is 500,000. Let her name her price, and I'll give her whatever she wants."

Li Yuzhu looked at Dong Yuhan, as if to say, "You decide your own affairs."

With tears in her eyes, Dong Yuhan said, "I have younger siblings. I don't want this money. Leave it all to my younger siblings."

She knew her stepmother's children were related to her by blood, and her stepmother's family had also had a hard life. She just wanted to leave the money her father had earned with his life to her younger siblings.

Based on the current family members, including the daughter of the stepmother and the ex-husband, and Dong Yuhan's younger brother and sister, there are a total of five people. She is entitled to at least 1/5 of her father's inheritance.

She could get 100,000 yuan for just 1/5 of the money. 100,000 yuan is not a small amount for an orphan, and she gave it away so openly.

Li Yuzhu was overjoyed to hear this. Such a noble girl was worthy of being her and her husband's daughter. Only then did she truly realize that her decision to take in this daughter was the right one.

If Li Yuzhu initially felt pity for Xiaohan, now she recognizes Xiaohan's noble and pure character. Such a virtuous girl deserves to be her and Dongqing's daughter.

Dong Yuhan asked her stepmother for her father's death certificate, as it would be needed when she transferred her household registration in the future.

Now that the matter was settled, there was no need for her to stay at home any longer. Li Yuzhu glanced at the woman kneeling on the ground, stood up, and said, "Such a good girl, and you ruined her like that back then. You really don't deserve to be a woman. You're a disgrace to us women. Don't worry, you won't go to jail. I hope that after you remarry, you can treat your husband's children from his previous marriage well. If you keep up your bad behavior, your life is truly over."

After Li Yuzhu finished speaking, she and Su Wei took their daughter out of the house, got into the car, started the engine, and drove down the mountain.

They stayed at the Mountain City Hotel that night. They first had dinner in the restaurant, and then went back to their room to rest.

The next day, after breakfast and checking out of the hotel, Dong Yuhan said in the car, "Mom, I want to go down the cliff to see Mom and Dad."

Her mother has been gone for almost ten years, and she has never burned a single piece of paper for her mother since she was sixteen. Now that her father is also gone, she really wants to go and see her parents.

Li Yuzhu said, "You should go visit your parents' graves."