Hearing this question, Jiang Zhen's heart, which had been simmering with heat, felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured on it, instantly freezing. "Yes, I see. I've seen photos of her as a teenager, and she does look a lot like me, but she's more gentle than me. Her facial features are rounder, unlike mine. My cheeks are more three-dimensional."
This is the difference between men and women.
Han Wangwang heard something else and couldn't help asking, "Didn't you and Jiang Bi live together during those years you were missing?"
Jiang Zhen remained silent and did not answer.
Han Wangwang saw Jiang Zhen's expression suddenly become sad, and she realized that in the more than ten years after they went missing, they must have experienced a lot of pain that others could not imagine.
"Jiang Zhen."
Han Wangwang silently hugged Jiang Bi. She rested her cheek against Jiang Zhen's chest. Hearing the man's pounding heartbeat, she whispered, "Can you tell me about your past?"
"I want to know you, all of you."
Han Wangwang waited for two minutes, and seeing that Jiang Zhen didn't answer, she guessed that the past might be too painful, and Jiang Zhen didn't want to expose the scars.
Han Wangwang also felt that her request was a bit excessive. She said sympathetically, "Forget it, it's getting late, and I want to go to bed too. Go to sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow morning!"
Just when Han Wangwang gave up on his questioning, Jiang Zhen began to recount the past: "We were only four years old when we got lost. I don't remember much about that time. I only vaguely remember that it seemed to be our birthday, because I always remember my mother's singing..."
...
"Happy birthday to you."
"Happy birthday to you."
"Happy birthday, baby, may you be happy, healthy and joyful!"
The beautiful woman stood at the other end of the table, clapping her hands to a cheerful beat and singing a birthday song. Jiang Zhen, wearing a Little Prince suit, and Jiang Bi, wearing a princess dress, sat on high chairs, both wearing birthday hats on their heads.
The brother and sister stared at the cake on the table and the burning candlelight, and sang along with Lan Ruoyun.
After singing the song, Lan Ruoyun pushed the cake in front of the brother and sister. She bent down and said to them, "Okay, brother and sister, let's blow out the candles together!"
Jiang Zhen was naughty and domineering. When he heard his mother's words, he puffed up his cheeks and blew hard at the candles. In one breath, he blew out all the candles on the birthday cake.
Jiang Bi was pouting her lips and preparing to blow out the candles when she realized her brother had blown out all the candles. She was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears, "Mom! My brother blew out all the candles!"
As she spoke, Jiang Bi picked up the cake with both hands and covered Jiang Zhen's face with the whole cake.
Jiang Zhen's smug little face was instantly engulfed in the cake. He froze for a moment, then came to his senses, snatched the cake off his face, stood up, and pulled Jiang Bi off the chair.
The brother and sister started fighting right next to the table.
Lan Ruoyun exclaimed, "Stop it! Stop fighting! Brother, don't grab my hair! Sister, you can't grab my face!"
The two children were wrestling with each other, and Lan Ruoyun had to work very hard to separate them.
When they separated, both the brother and sister were covered in bruises. Lan Ruoyun was so angry that she almost died. She stared at the cakes on the floor and the children's dirty clothes and hair mixed with cream. Thinking that the children's father had not returned yet, she suddenly collapsed.
"Stand in the corner as punishment! You are not allowed to take a shower if you don't stand for half an hour!" The children were still quite afraid of Lan Ruoyun. Seeing that Lan Ruoyun was angry, they didn't dare to move.
Lan Ruoyun felt aggrieved. She swept the floor while crying.
Lan Ruoyun's father was the owner of a chain of gold jewelry brands. After Mr. Lan passed away, he handed over the gold shop to Lan Ruoyun.
Their gold shop was in decline due to poor management, so Lan Ruoyun decided to sell the entire shop to cut her losses. She used the proceeds from the sale to help Jiang Weimin start a company.
The company had just been established and funds were tight, so Lan Ruoyun and her family bought a wedding house and moved back to Grandpa Lan's former residence. To save money, Lan Ruoyun didn't hire a nanny and raised the child alone.
Now that the child is four years old, Jiang Weimin has not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father for a single day.
In fact, tonight is not only the children’s birthday, but also their wedding anniversary.
Lan Ruoyun stared at the mess on the ground, then glanced at the two dirty children in the corner, feeling really aggrieved.
After wiping the floor, Lan Ruoyun ran upstairs crying.
She locked herself in the room and broke down crying. She cried for more than ten minutes. After she had vented enough, Lan Ruoyun went downstairs to ask the children to take a bath.
As a mother, she cannot ignore her children.
Lan Ruoyun went to the first floor and found that the children were missing.
Lan Ruoyun frowned and searched the house, but couldn't find the child. She turned on the door light and looked in the garden. "Jiang Zhen! Jiang Bi! Where are you? Mommy's not angry anymore. Can you please come out?"
But no matter how Lan Ruoyun called, the two children had no teacher.
This old house was a self-built, old-fashioned villa near the outskirts of the city, and the nearest neighbor was over 200 meters away. There was no place suitable for children to play nearby, and it was nighttime, so the children shouldn't have run out.
Lan Ruoyun felt a vague sense of unease, suspecting the children had been kidnapped. She was so frightened that her legs went limp. She stumbled home, picked up the landline on the table, and called Jiang Weimin's company.
The person who answered the phone was Jiang Weimin's male secretary. When he heard that the children were missing, the secretary was also terrified.
When Jiang Weimin rushed home, he saw a police car parked outside. He realized the children were in grave danger and his expression changed. He ran home anxiously and saw Lan Ruoyun crying and answering the police.
"Ruoyun!" Jiang Weimin hurried over and hugged Lan Ruoyun.
Lan Ruoyun leaned in his arms and cried, "Hubby, it's all my fault. I lost them! I shouldn't have punished them by making them stand up. I shouldn't have run upstairs alone. If I had been watching over them, they wouldn't have disappeared..."
At this moment, Lan Ruoyun regretted it so much that her intestines turned green.
While comforting Lan Ruoyun, Jiang Weimin called more people to help find the children.
That night, the police, Jiang Weimin and his wife, and the company employees who rushed to the scene after hearing the news drained the pond near Jiang's home, but still could not find the children.
The police searched for the children for a week but could not find them. If the children had met with misfortune, there would have been bodies, but with neither the children alive nor the bodies found, the police ultimately concluded that the two children were missing.
That was in 1999, when surveillance was scarce even in urban areas, let alone in the suburbs. Without surveillance and witnesses, the missing children seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, impossible to find.
Lan Ruoyun began to cry all day long, crying to everyone she met. Her crazy appearance was heartbreaking.
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