Chapter 324
Yun Mujin gently hugged her little daughter in her arms, responded softly, and kissed the child's face: "Thank you, Mianmian."
She did have a lot of love.
The love of her parents and her daughter, these strong emotions added together truly make up the person she is who still strives to live after experiencing trauma.
She didn't blame her parents for loving her more than Mianmian. On the contrary, she was very grateful. But she didn't want her daughter to become the victim of a choice between two options just because of this little bit of extra love.
After hugging her mother for comfort, Yunmian jumped over to hug her grandma and grandpa. After giving each family member a super hard hug, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the shed.
The things Yang Bin bought have arrived.
Yunmian followed behind her grandfather, with her grandmother holding her little hand. She carefully held her mother's hand. The family stood aside and watched the staff slowly unload the truck full of things.
Lots and lots of new clothes.
Lots and lots of shoes.
Several new school bags of different sizes.
There were some toys that Yang Qi wanted, so Yang Bin asked the clerk to buy two copies for Yun Mian as well.
Eventually these things filled up the small open space behind the shed.
"Grandma, there is a little duck on this dress~" Yunmian rummaged through the clothes to find her favorite one and put it on. Then, with her bulging belly, she insisted that her grandparents and mother touch the cute little yellow duck embroidered on her belly.
"Mianmian likes the little duck?" Chen Fanghua touched the little duck and asked the happy child with a smile.
Yunmianchao nodded vigorously: "Yes! The teacher said that the clown duck will turn into a white swan. Grandma, what does a white swan look like? Is it really beautiful?"
When Yunmian was listening to the teacher's story, she was already very curious. Later, the system uncle showed her a photo of a white swan, but Yunmian still had never seen one in person...
The most important thing is: "Grandma, I don't like white swans. I like big white geese and big white ducks! They smell so good when cooked~"
Yunmian finished speaking, and as her family laughed, she lowered her head and touched the little yellow duck on her belly. She couldn't help but pat it with her little hands, making her bulging belly slap loudly: "When I grow up and have money, I will buy a lot of little ducks, raise them up, cook them, and put them all in my belly!"
Not only Yun Mujin and the other two, but even the audience in the live broadcast room were laughing so hard at these childish words.
As soon as Cheng Mu got home, he saw the "harsh words" from Yunmian, the kid next door, in the barrage. His hand that was pushing the door paused for a moment, and then he smiled and sighed helplessly.
I don’t know if the big piece of steak just now went into the puppy’s stomach. He hasn’t even digested it yet, but Xiao Yunmian is already thinking about the duck again?
But then again...which one is better, beer duck, crispy roast duck or crispy duck?
I'll have to try them all next time!
Except for the strange and depressing atmosphere in the house when Yunmian just returned home, after she hugged everyone one by one, the anger in everyone's heart quietly dissipated.
Her grandparents still took her to and from school every day, cooked round, easy-to-peel eggs for her every day, and put a huge sum of five dollars in her new schoolbag.
Her mother would still ask her every day whether she was bullied at school and what she had learned in class. She would then teach her how to count and read, teach her to recite many ancient poems, and tell her many fables.
Grandpa and grandma would also hold Yunmian's little hand under the light, hold a pencil and teach her step by step how to write beautiful characters, horizontal strokes, vertical hooks, and guide her to write her own name and the name of everyone in the family on paper stroke by stroke.
When she saw Cheng Mu from the primary school department wearing school uniform and carrying a school bag from afar at the kindergarten gate on Tuesday, the police began to report the news of the last time an entire human trafficking den was busted that afternoon.
Many children with broken limbs and unable to walk appeared on the screen. The police had been looking for their families before, but only two children were adopted and the rest were all unclaimed.
On TV, the police told reporters and viewers in front of the camera that they will properly place these children. The welfare home in Liucheng will provide them with a living and learning environment. They also hope that any parents who see these children will actively contact the police.
Yun Mian and Cheng Mu were sitting in a small restaurant. The two children tilted their heads back and watched the entire local news in Liucheng.
After it was over, other current affairs news began to be broadcast on TV.
The noodles in the small bowl in front of Yunmian were about to fall apart.
"Eat." Cheng Mu tapped the small bowl in front of her with the tip of his chopsticks.
Yun Mian came back to her senses and thought of the children on TV. She couldn't help but frowned: "Will they never find their parents?"
As soon as he said this, he received a strange look from Cheng Mu.
It seems like she is smiling but not smiling, and crying but not crying. If I have to describe it, it would probably be... sarcasm, self-mockery?
Yunmian couldn't tell clearly, she didn't understand why the protagonist had such an expression.
She looked back blankly, wondering if she had said something wrong?
"Xiao Yunmian, do you know why they can't find their parents?" Cheng Mu asked her with a smile.
Yun Mian shook her head and asked curiously, "Why? Don't you remember your home?"
"..." Cheng Mu felt that the noodles in his mouth had lost all their flavor. They became bland and tasteless, and extremely unpalatable.
He swallowed the noodles in his mouth with difficulty, and simply put down his chopsticks. While urging Yunmian to eat quickly, he sneered: "Of course not. Believe it or not, many of these children actually remember some of the situations in their families. The police can easily find their homes based on these clues."
Yun Mian's facial features wrinkled unconsciously, and she looked even more confused. She couldn't connect Cheng Mu's words with the news she had just seen.
Seeing her confused expression, Cheng Mu, who was originally disgusted, suddenly felt better.
"Look at these children carefully." He seemed much more mature than Yunmian, and guided the child to think: "Some of them are blind, some are deaf and dumb, and many have broken arms or legs, and can only crawl on the ground like worms... Little Yunmian, do you think their parents are willing to take children like this home after they were lost for so long?"
"Some have already given birth to other children, and some have formed other families. These unclaimed children have long been abandoned by their parents. If you claim them back now, it will be like adding a lot of burden and trouble to your originally stable life."
People hate trouble and want to get rid of the burden as soon as possible.
Cheng Mu went to the police station many times in the past few days. He saw with his own eyes a couple of parents coming with tears on their faces. After seeing their son's legs dragging on the ground, even their crying stopped. Then, they cried and hesitated to tell the police that they might have seen it wrong.
The child was clearly calling them mom and dad with expectant eyes, but after a brief hesitation and reluctance, they turned around and left resolutely.
He looked as if he was in a hurry, afraid that if he walked too slowly he would be relied upon.
Cheng Mu felt sick as he watched from the side.
He also saw the envious and sad looks on the faces of those children when they saw the only two children being embraced and taken home like treasures by their parents. That look was far more glaring than the jealousy they had shown him before.
But Cheng Mu didn't feel too sorry for them.
After all, these children and he don’t have a dependent relationship with each other, Cheng Mu just... thought of himself.
The police asked him if he wanted to help find his parents. Logically, he already remembered his parents and it should be easy to find them.
But Cheng Mu refused without hesitation.
He had secretly gone back to see his parents when he was six years old.
His parents were pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. The family walked together in harmony, each holding one, their eyes filled with tenderness and love.
Cheng Mu was caught and taken back. That was the worst beating he had ever received. He was in so much pain that he curled up in a corner, holding his wounds all over his body, crying until he was hoarse. His tears could not stop flowing, and he even maliciously hoped in his heart that those people would beat him to death.
If you are beaten to death, you won’t have to worry about anything. After death, all the suffering and unwillingness will be over.
But Cheng Mu did not die. He lived on in a daze, but he lived without spirit and dignity. He truly became a dog at the feet of those people.
"It was obviously their own fault for not protecting the child... How could they let it go so quickly? They lost one child, so they hurriedly gave birth to another one to comfort themselves?" Cheng Mu lowered his eyes and smiled mockingly, saying sarcastically, "The adults are really open-minded, but when they gave birth to us, they didn't even ask us if we were willing."
Yun Mian had already noticed that Cheng Mu was in a bad mood, but she was also frightened by what he said.
Yun Mian picked up the noodles and put them into her mouth intermittently, chewing mechanically, her head full of Cheng Mu's previous words.
"Uncle, is what he said true? Do the parents of those children who were kidnapped by the bad guys really abandon them?" Yun Mian's eyes were a little red. She rarely felt happy or sad because of other people's affairs, but so many children on TV just now... were they really abandoned?
The system didn't know how to answer her question.
After a moment of silence, he chose to tell the truth: "Mianmian, he is right, those children... were indeed abandoned, but the welfare home in Liucheng will accept them and place them, and some people will donate to the welfare home after seeing the news, so that they can live a slightly better life."
There was still a little bit of noodles left in Yunmian's bowl.
She lowered her head and shoveled the noodles into her mouth, but when she blinked, tears fell straight into the bowl.
"Uncle, those kids will be so sad..." Yunmian whispered, "If grandpa, grandma and mom don't want me either, I don't know what to do."
The system flew up in panic and touched the child's wet eyes, and quickly comforted him: "Don't think too much, Mianmian, they will be properly placed, even without a father and a mother, they will be able to live a good life in the future."
Uncle System is lying.
Yun Mian wiped away her tears and retorted in her heart: They will not have a good life in the future. All the children are disabled and have no parents to take care of them. They even eat their meals in a mess.
Even Cheng Mu, the only healthy one, will become a villain in the future and cause many people to die to fulfill his own interests.
"Uncle, you clearly said that the world has been bad once before."
In other words, these children have been abandoned once and have never lived to adulthood and lived a good life.
"Uncle, in the past two weeks, they have been abandoned by their parents four times..."
There are very few healthy children in welfare homes, and even if there are, they will be adopted quickly.
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