Fang Yumei waited there for a long time.
By noon, the sun had already reached the base of the wall. She stood under the scorching sun, hazily watching the gradually thinning number of pedestrians on the road.
She didn't know why grandma hadn't come back yet.
Did grandma forget about her after going to the toilet?
Fang Yumei felt a little aggrieved. She was eight years old after all. How could her grandmother just forget about her?
So she walked towards the toilet. The lady guarding the toilet saw her and said, "If you want to use the toilet, ask your parents to pay. It's one cent per person."
Fang Yumei asked, "Have you seen my grandma? Is she still in there?"
"Your grandma?" the aunt asked. "When did your grandma come in?"
Fang Yumei said, "Morning."
"The one who came in this morning is still here?" The old lady said impatiently, "Who would spend so much time in the bathroom? Go look somewhere else! What's the point of asking me?"
This attitude was like a sledgehammer, hitting the most sensitive nerve in Fang Yumei's heart, making her feel a little aggrieved.
But her grandmother just came to the bathroom and didn't come out to look for her.
Why couldn't she suspect that grandma was still in the bathroom?
The old lady squinted her eyes and looked at her, as if she was enjoying the fun and said, "It's already noon. You've been waiting for your grandma all morning? She might have abandoned you! Otherwise, why don't you take you home for dinner?"
Fang Yumei wanted to go back to the vegetable market she had been to that morning. Maybe there was a tricycle driver there who knew her and could take her home.
So she turned and walked out, looking at the road but feeling a little confused, as the two directions seemed to be similar.
Where should we go?
She mustered up her courage and asked a passerby, "Uncle, do you know where the vegetable market is?"
"Which market are you talking about?"
Fang Yumei was stunned, her mind was confused. She didn't know how to answer, as she didn't know the name of the vegetable market.
I had no choice but to say, "Just go to the vegetable market in Dafang Village where there are tricycles."
The man laughed and said, "If you want to take a tricycle to Dafang Village, you have to go to the train station entrance. You can't get one anywhere else."
"Where is the train station?"
"No, go there."
He pointed in a direction.
Hua Yumei walked in that direction carefully.
She didn't know how long she had been walking. She saw a lot of people and looked up, and seemed to see the three big words "Train Station".
She felt a little more confident.
The place she could recognize the words was the train station.
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As the summer vacation is coming to an end, it is time for Hua Wanchi and his group to return home from Beijing.
Little Youzi gradually got used to life in Beijing. Although she still couldn't bear to leave Hua Wanchi, she was not as sad as the first time they parted.
The two said goodbye happily, and Xiao Youzi said, "Sister, I will go home to see you during the Chinese New Year! Then we can play together!"
Hua Wanchi smiled and said, "Okay!"
Wan Qingliu, Hua Xuguo and his wife took Hua Wanchi on a train and finally arrived at the station at noon.
A few people were planning to have a meal outside the station and were still discussing what to eat. When they walked out, the sharp-eyed Hua Wanchi saw Fang Yumei wandering at the entrance of the train station with a confused look on her face.
So she turned to Wan Qingliu and said, "Grandma, look, isn't that Yumei? Why is she here?"
Wan Qingliu didn't want to get involved with Wang Dajuan at all, but when she looked around, she saw that Fang Yumei seemed to be lost and there was no adult around her.
So a few people walked towards Fang Yumei.
"Yumei, what are you doing here?"
Wang Dajuan and her family stayed at home obediently and would never go out. At this critical juncture when school is about to start, it is even more impossible for them to take Fang Yumei out.
When Fang Yumei saw the familiar person, she blinked with a bit of bitterness.
Her heart finally calmed down a little.
"Chi Bao, Grandma Wan, I want to go back to Dafang Village."
Zhou Yujiao: "Where are your parents?"
Fang Yumei said: "This morning I came out with my grandma, and she said she needed to go to the bathroom and asked me to wait for her. I waited for a long time but she didn't show up, so I wanted to go back by myself. She might have forgotten me."
Wan Qingliu understood instantly, and then she was a little surprised.
"Even though Wang Dajuan isn't a good person, she wouldn't abandon such a grown-up granddaughter, right? She's the only child of the second eldest son in the family. Is she crazy?"
Hua Xuguo and Fang Jianguo were somewhat familiar with each other. "If Jianguo knew that his mother had abandoned his daughter, wouldn't he fight her to the death?"
Although men nowadays prefer boys to girls, I haven’t given birth to a son yet.
I only have one daughter, who else should I love if not her?
If a daughter like this were lost, it would be strange if he didn't go crazy.
Wan Qingliu shook her head. "Yumei, it's a good thing we met. There are so many people at the train station. You'd be in trouble if you ran into a human trafficker. Can you come back with us?"
Fang Yumei nodded: "Okay."
Zhou Yujiao asked, "You haven't eaten yet?"
Fang Yumei shook her head: "I had a bowl of clear soup this morning and haven't eaten anything yet."
"Let's go eat first."
Wan Qingliu held Fang Yumei's hand.
Fang Yumei immediately felt safe and followed Wan Qingliu all the way to a snack stand. After they had a quick bite to eat, they called three tricycles to go home.
Brothers Fang Jianjun and Fang Jianye were discussing whether they should go to the county town to help look for it.
First of all, they are brothers, so they should help each other. After all, Yumei is also their niece.
Another thing is that this is a good time to take advantage of the opportunity to incite Fang Jianguo to defect!
Their biological mother Wang Dajuan did such a wicked thing, Fang Jianguo would definitely not protect her as he did before.
It would be better for the three brothers to unite and propose division together, so that they can completely break away from Wang Dajuan.
Wang Dajuan may lose Fang Yumei today, but who knows which of their daughters may be lost tomorrow.
They were just reaching the entrance of the village when Wan Qingliu and his group came towards them.
Seeing Fang Jianjun and his brother, Wan Qingliu said, "We've brought Yumei back. You should also persuade your mother. She has raised her granddaughter to this age. She can't be so poor that she can't afford to feed her. What's the point of throwing her away in the county town?"
"Luckily, you ran into us today. If you had run into some bad guys, oh, what would you have done then?"
Come on, the shame has been brought to someone else's house.
The two brothers looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.
"Ah, thank you guys again. Jianguo and the others are going crazy looking for us. They're probably still in the county town."
Fang Jianjun and Fang Jianye took Yumei away.
The two brothers are now very wary of their mother.
It was impossible for the two of them to stay at home all the time, so they said to Fang Yumei: "Yumei, go to the library and sit for the whole afternoon. Come home when your parents come back in the evening."
They were really afraid that once Fang Yumei returned home, Wang Dajuan would find another excuse to take her somewhere else and leave her there. By then, they would be completely helpless.
Fang Yumei was also a little afraid of her grandmother, so she nodded.
At least the library is safe.
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