Lu Wenxing's flight is in the afternoon.
Before leaving, Yan Xinyu called him and said that her family would take her to the airport and asked Lu Wenxing if he wanted to go with her.
Lu Wenxing politely declined. He planned to take a taxi to the airport by himself so as not to disturb Yan Xinyu, the last time the family spent together before going abroad.
As soon as he hung up the phone, Lu Wenxing received several WeChat messages from several friends, as well as several artists from the variety show and "Hundred Ghosts" crew.
[Song Jianjian] Little star, have a good trip! I’ll be waiting for you to come back.
【ET】Okay, I'll come back and treat Sister Jia to a meal.
【.】t_tThere is a notice, I can't make it to see you off
【ET】It doesn't matter, Country Y is not far away
【ET】Cat poking his head.jpg
[Wei Lai Ding Liu] Xingxing, have a smooth journey, wait for you to come back and gather together
【ET】Waiting for your concert
After replying to the message, a voice call popped up on WeChat, and it was from Wen Zheng.
They added each other on WeChat at the dinner table yesterday.
"Xingxing, are you ready?"
"Ah... yeah, okay."
"I don't have anything to do this afternoon. Can I take you to the airport?"
Lu Wenxing just thought that Wen Zheng was calling to say goodbye, but he didn't expect that he would send him off in person?
"Will it be too much trouble?"
"No, I was doing some work near your school this morning. I stopped by on the way. I'm at the school gate. You can come out if you're ready."
Lu Wenxing was still a little confused until he hung up the phone. The Wen family was different from the richest family he had imagined. They were particularly approachable.
So much so that Lu Wenxing wondered if he was too nervous about Wen Yu. Maybe he didn't mean anything else? The Wen family was just more enthusiastic?
Unable to come up with an answer to this question, Lu Wenxing gave up thinking and dragged his suitcase straight to the school gate.
Wen Zheng drove a black SUV today and parked it not far away. When Lu Wenxing walked over, he found that Ji Yuan was also in the car.
"Hello, Auntie."
"You only have two suitcases?" Ji Yuan got out of the car and wanted to help Lu Wenxing, but was stopped by Wen Zheng, "I'll do it."
He helped Lu Wenxing put the suitcase into the trunk, "Let's go?"
"Okay, thank you for your help... Big brother and aunt have gone all the way."
"No. Didn't we agree yesterday that you shouldn't be so polite? Wen Zheng is a few years older than you, so just think of him as your elder brother sending his younger brother off."
Yesterday Ji Yuan asked Lu Wenxing about his flight time, and today she and Wen Zheng were waiting here on purpose.
"I'm also going to Country Y in a while. I haven't been back to my alma mater for more than ten years. I guess I'll have to trouble you to take me around later."
"No problem, then I will definitely familiarize myself with the environment in advance and wait for Auntie to come."
—On the way, Ji Yuan was looking for various topics to chat with Lu Wenxing.
Since yesterday, Lu Wenxing felt that Ji Yuan was getting close to him. The strange thing was that Lu Wenxing himself was a cautious person. When Wen Yu showed his affection to him before, his first reaction was to avoid her as much as possible.
But Ji Yuan and Wen Zheng are also members of the Wen family, so why wouldn't he have this feeling?
Even in the process of getting along, apart from the initial strangeness, the relationship became much closer after a meal.
Lu Wenxing did not reject Ji Yuan's closeness, because he also unconsciously wanted to have more contact with Ji Yuan. Maybe it was because Ji Yuan was really gentle, or maybe there was some other reason, but Lu Wenxing himself couldn't tell.
After sending Lu Wenxing to the airport, Ji Yuan and Wen Zheng did not leave immediately. They accompanied Lu Wenxing to pick up the plane ticket and waited for Lu Wenxing to pass the security check before they left reluctantly.
As soon as Lu Wenxing arrived at Y University, he informed all his relatives and friends in China that he was safe. He didn't even have time to adjust to the jet lag before he got busy.
What he didn't know was that the day after he left, Ji Yuan and Wen Zheng had already discussed visiting his adoptive parents.
The three of them drove to City B. The car drove straight into the small county town, attracting the attention of people on the road.
Ji Yuan and Wen Zheng went shopping at the mall at noon and prepared a lot of gifts for Xie Chengfei's biological parents. Wen Huaihe volunteered to drive them there.
When coming out of the mall and seeing the car driven by Wen Huaihe, Ji Yuan was so angry that she almost wanted to take a taxi.
—On the way, Ji Yuan was arguing with Wen Huaihe about the car.
"Didn't I tell you that Chengfei's parents are from an ordinary family? It would be fine if you didn't drive a low-key car, but you drove over there in a car worth 30 million. Are you going there to visit or to show off your wealth?"
Wen Huaihe felt a little aggrieved by what Ji Yuan said, "Didn't I prepare well according to your instructions? I was thinking about meeting Xingxing's adoptive parents for the first time, and I wanted to leave a good impression on them."
"Will this leave a good impression?"
"Mom, we're almost there, so don't talk about Dad. It would be a joke if someone saw us."
"That's right. That's right."
Wen Huaihe agreed without any temper. He was serious in the company and many employees were afraid of him, but he never put on airs in front of his family. Ji Yuan had the final say on all matters big or small at home.
Wen Zheng was also helpless. If he had known that his father was so unreliable in such an important matter, he would never have agreed to his father's request to drive over to pick him up.
After passing through two closed courtyards, the car stopped in front of a small two-story self-built house.
"That's it."
After Wen Huaihe got out of the car, the first thing he did was to open the door for Ji Yuan. Wen Zheng went around to the trunk and took out all the gifts he had bought in the afternoon. If he hadn't persuaded her, Ji Yuan would have wanted to buy a dozen more.
The three of them stood outside the yard. There was no doorbell on the iron gate, so Wen Zheng could only shout directly inside, "Hello, is anyone home?"
Ms. Lu came out with a broom in her hand. Seeing three decent-looking strangers, she asked cautiously, "Who are you looking for?"
"Sorry to bother you. We are looking for Ms. Lu Xiaofei and Mr. Xie Nian." Ji Yuan pulled Wen Zheng away and took a step forward.
"It's me. What's the matter?" Lu Xiaofei did not open the door directly, but communicated with them through the iron gate.
Neighbors in small towns live very close to each other, and even the slightest noise can attract people to watch.
"Wow, this car looks really expensive."
“Although I don’t recognize this model, this is definitely a luxury car.”
"Are you here to see Lu Xiaofei?"
"It can't be a distant relative, right? Does Lu Xiaofei's mother's family have such rich relatives?"
Ji Yuan was not used to being stared at like this by others, and they even didn't shy away from gossiping about the person involved.
"Sorry to bother you! I'm here about Xing... Lu Wenxing's matter. Can we go in and talk?"
Lu Xiaofei carefully looked at the three people in front of him. Even if he didn't look at the luxury cars, he could tell from their temperament and conversation that they came from wealthy families.
"Come in."
Lu Xiaofei unbolted the door and opened the big iron gate. "No cars are allowed to come in."
"If you don't drive in, just park outside."
Lu Xiaofei actually had a hunch. When the woman in front of her said she came for Xingxing, she had already guessed it. So, when Ji Yuan said, "Xingxing is her biological child," she was not too surprised.
Not being surprised is one thing, but after the last visit of that middle-aged couple, Lu Xiaofei would not believe it easily.
"Any evidence?"
"have."
Wen Zheng took out five thick photo albums from one of the bags. "These are all the photos of Xingxing from the time he was born to the time he went missing."
Lu Xiaofei opened the photo album and the first photo was of Xingxing lying on the scale when he was just born. He was a tiny ball with his eyes not yet open.
Then there are photos of the child at one month, two months, three months, and up to one year old. It can be seen that the family loves the child very much.
But Lu Xiaofei couldn't be sure that the child in the photo was Xingxing.
“This is the second one.”
Wen Zheng handed Lu Xiaofei another photo album. It contained photos of her when she was one to two years old. Some were candid shots, while others were taken by specially hired photographers. The styles of the photos were very different. The only thing in common was that beautiful handwriting could be seen under the photos every few pages.
Lu Xiaofei saw a familiar figure in the fifth photo album. It was Lu Wenxing who had grown up a little. He looked exactly the same as when he first came home. And that... the clothes Lu Wenxing was wearing when he was rescued.
Ji Yuan pointed to the photo and said, "This is the dress Xingxing was wearing on the day she went missing."
Seeing this, Lu Xiaofei already believed it - mostly, but still had no intention of giving in.
"You just said you came from City C. City B is neither far nor close to City C. It takes more than two hours to drive there. He was so young at the time, how did he get to City B?"
"In fact, we suspect that the child was secretly taken away by human traffickers, but we have no evidence." Wen Huaihe took a deep breath.
"I checked at the time and found that there was a group of human traffickers staying near where Xingxing went missing. Later, we assisted the police in catching the traffickers in G City and rescued many abducted children, but Xingxing was not among them."
"The police questioned the traffickers many times, but they denied everything. There is no other evidence to prove that the traffickers abducted Xingxing. The police found the place where they traded and hid, but there was no trace of Xingxing."
Wen Huaihe was dedicated to investigating this group of human traffickers back then. He was sure that the traffickers were related to Xingxing's disappearance, but the traffickers were already in prison and refused to admit it.
To this day, Wen Huaihe's doubts have not diminished in the slightest.
"Ms. Lu, I have actually seen the stars. On the day he left the country, his brother and I went to see him off."
"When I first saw him, I knew for sure he was my child."
It's not just that Lu Wenxing looks like her grandmother, but more importantly, it's her intuition as a mother.
The world is so big, there will always be people who look similar. Ji Yuan would not make such a conclusion based on appearance, but the appearance made Ji Yuan more certain that her intuition was correct.
Maybe it's telepathy, maybe it's blood connection.
No matter what the reason was, she would never make a mistake in recognizing the child she had carried for ten months.
Lu Xiaofei sat on the sofa, looking at Ji Yuan in silence.
"I haven't told Xingxing the truth yet. The purpose of my coming here today is, first, to express my gratitude, and second, I want to ask, does Xingxing know that he is not your biological parent?"
Lu Xiaofei, who is also a mother, was touched when she heard this. There are many parents who come to recognize their children, and each of them is eager to see their children. Lu Xiaofei can understand how difficult it is for a mother who has lost her child.
But it was the first time she met a mother like Ji Yuan. No matter how anxious she was, the first thing she thought of was her children.
Ji Yuan was worried that the child might be hurt invisibly without knowing anything, so after seeing Xingxing, she did not rush to recognize her, but came over to confirm the situation with her first.
"Do you know how Xingxing came to my house?" Lu Xiaofei could feel from the family's behavior and narration that they were really kind to Xingxing, but because of this, some things had to be made clear.
"The weather was quite cool at the time, so few people went to the river to wash clothes. My husband didn't dare tell me because he lost his job, so he just wandered by the river alone."
Just at this point, Ji Yuan seemed to have anticipated what she was going to say. Her originally gentle expression suddenly became ugly, and her voice trembled a little. "Yes, was it by the river?"
"To be precise, he was in the river. He traveled from City C to City B. He couldn't have come here alone. A five-year-old child couldn't have gone to play in the water in a strange place..."
Wen Huaihe's face became more and more ugly. The human trafficker was caught a month after Xingxing went missing, but the trafficker's purpose was greed for money, and he was not willing to take Cansha into the river.
Wen Zheng's expression didn't look much better either.
Ji Yuan's throat choked and she felt her whole heart tighten, as if she saw Xingxing struggling helplessly in the river with her own eyes.
The first person to calm down was Wen Huaihe. He stood up and bowed deeply to Lu Xiaofei with a sincere tone.
"Thank you, thank you for saving Xingxing's life, and thank you for bringing him home."
Lu Xiaofei was frightened by Wen Huaihe's sudden action. "No, you're welcome."
"Xingxing knew he was lost, but he had a high fever and couldn't remember anything. He just said his name was Xingxing, so I gave him this name. He has been looking for you all these years. In fact, you don't have to be so cautious. He is looking forward to meeting you."
This was a huge surprise to the Wen family. When Ji Yuan heard that Xingxing was looking for them, she wanted to fly to Country Y right away and tell them the whole truth.
"Although I am very sure that you are Xingxing's parents, for the sake of the child, we still need to do a paternity test."
"certainly."
Before leaving, Lu Xiaofei was still trying to shirk responsibility with Ji Yuan, "You can take these things back. I don't raise stars for any reward."
"Xiao Fei, don't get me wrong, that's not what I meant. I know you are sincere to Xingxing, I just want to thank you, thank you for taking care of Xingxing on my behalf for so many years, thank you for giving him a home."
After the three returned to City C, Wen Huaihe immediately began to investigate. Because there were no clues, he could only start his investigation from the strange middle-aged couple that Lu Xiaofei mentioned.
After a detailed chat with Lu Xiaofei, it was confirmed that Xingxing was not lost that year, but was planned by someone for a long time.
"Remember the kidnapping case at the welfare home?"
Ji Yuan reminded him, and Wen Huaihe also realized the connection between the two events. "Do you suspect that Xingxing's disappearance and the kidnapping of Wen Yu were done by the same people?"
Ji Yuan nodded, and Wen Zheng suddenly interrupted, "Let's not spread the news of Xingxing's return. Xingxing is still abroad. What if that group of people have other purposes and may endanger Xingxing?"
"I agree with Xiao Zheng. The starry sky watch I designed will be available next week, and the third brother can play it on the LED screen of their building 24 hours a day."
Wen Huaihe: We were having a great time chatting about stars, how come it turned into watches?
"Didn't you say you wouldn't sell it?" Wen Huaihe was a little confused.
“I didn’t say it was for sale. I just wanted to advertise it to let people know about the existence of this watch.”
Since she can't let everyone know about the existence of the star for the time being, then it's not too much for her to hold a watch launch event? After all, it's a gift for the star.
"I have already contacted the president of Y University. After the press conference next week, I will go to Y University to give a lecture. Xingxing has been waiting for us for so long, I will definitely go to meet him."
"Didn't you ask Ms. Lu not to tell Xingxing before you came back?"
"Because I want to tell Xingxing in person that his mother did not let him down."
After fifteen years, I finally found it.
"Mom, are you leaving next week?"
"right."
Ji Yuan did not hold a position in the company, and unlike the father and son, she did not have to make time for long trips. She could go see the stars anytime.
Be patient, you will be able to recognize the stars next week.
"oh."
Wen Zheng responded without any expression, "It just so happens that I'm going on a business trip to Country Y this Friday, and I'll go stargazing on the way.
Ji Yuan: “……?”
Wen Huaihe ruthlessly exposed his eldest son's words.
"Your crappy company is only talking about domestic projects. There's no need to go abroad."
Wen Zheng paused, and explained unyieldingly, "Mr. Wang from the new project is going to Country Y. In order to win him over as soon as possible, I will accompany him to Country Y. The longer it takes, the higher the price will be."
Wen Huaihe snorted coldly to express his disdain. This excuse was too bad.
"I have to go to Country Y tomorrow. Mr. He, the famous CEO, has invited me to attend an exhibition there. As you know, we are old friends, so it's hard to refuse. I have to go. What a coincidence! I can go and see the stars on the way."
Wen Zheng, who had just booked a flight for Friday: "..."
Ji Yuan, who had already bought a plane ticket for next week, said: "..."
The author has something to say: Mom: We can see the stars next week
Brother: We can see the stars on Friday
Dad: We can see the stars tomorrow.
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