“Only the missing Wang Zhaodi and her daughter look somewhat like the child we’re looking for.” Mr. Gu pointed to the name of the woman who had given birth at Yangshugou, about 20 miles outside the city: “I heard from the village that she came back the day after giving birth.”
"She gave birth to a girl. Her family favored boys over girls, and they were very disgusted when they found out it was a daughter."
"Later, when that daughter was three years old, everyone said that the child was not her biological child, that she didn't look like her or her husband, and that her husband suspected her of cheating on him and that the child was an illegitimate child. He would beat and scold them."
Mrs. Gu exclaimed excitedly, "That's my daughter!"
Ruan Yunxi sounds somewhat like it, but if it's not her child, it definitely doesn't look like her.
Mr. Gu continued, "That year, during a heavy rain, that woman and her child went out to dig for wild vegetables and were swept away by the flood."
Mrs. Gu blinked: "What?"
Mother Gu couldn't bear to see her child get back what she had lost, and give up hope again. She comforted her, saying, "Forget it, don't look for it anymore. That child is not meant to be with us."
"Is that child gone?" Mrs. Gu asked.
Mr. Gu nodded: "The bodies were never found. The mother and daughter never came back. It is said that the flood that year swept away many people. Besides the mother and daughter, there was another person whose body was never found. Everyone said that they were gone."
"That man later married another woman, had a son and two daughters, and started a new life."
Mr. Gu comforted Mrs. Gu: "Let bygones be bygones. Let her be our daughter again in the next life. Then, we will protect her well."
Gu's mother never expected that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Mrs. Gu couldn't accept it and fainted.
Upon seeing the unconscious person, Mr. Gu immediately carried him downstairs, intending to take him to the hospital.
As soon as she came downstairs, Gu's mother slowly woke up: "I'm not going to the hospital, I'm fine. I just can't accept what happened to that child. My little daughter, how could her life be so miserable!"
Ruan Yunxi didn't know how to comfort them, so she could only silently go back and open the door, letting Gu's mother and father hug and cry downstairs, giving them a space to heal themselves.
For the next two days, Mr. Gu went to work, and Ruan Yunxi stayed home with Mrs. Gu, except for going out for a walk and buying groceries. Mr. Gu was afraid that Mrs. Gu might do something rash.
When Ruan Yunxi went to buy groceries, she also stocked up on a lot of meat, including beef, mutton, and pork.
We also stocked up on some chickens, ducks, and eggs.
Watermelons were in season then, and Ruan Yunxi bought a lot of them and stored them in her space. She planned to cut them up and eat them secretly in the winter if she wanted to, as long as she didn't share them, no one would know she had a space.
There are also a lot of watermelons stored in the space.
Passing by the Daoxiangcun shop, Ruan Yunxi stocked up on a lot of her favorite pastries. The mung bean cake tasted good, so she chose the sweet but not greasy kind. There was also an overly sweet one, which she didn't like because it was too sweet, but Sister-in-law Sheng liked it.
Ruan Yunxi bought several boxes and stored them in her spatial storage, intending to give them away as souvenirs when she returned to Lian City.
On Saturday, Sister-in-law Gu came to our house, saying she was taking Ruan Yunxi out to play.
Ruan Yunxi nodded and went to a nearby department store with Sister-in-law Gu, her nephew and niece. Beijing was not as bustling as Shanghai, and many things in the department store were rather simple.
Ruan Yunxi still prefers to shop at Friendship Store, where there are many imported goods and a wide variety of products.
Ruan Yunxi didn't like many of the things in the department store.
She bought soda and snacks for her nephew and niece.
Seeing that Ruan Yunxi wasn't very interested in buying anything, Sister-in-law Gu didn't want to continue shopping with her. It was noon, so she said, "Since you've come all this way, let me treat you to some noodles with soybean paste. You won't be eating at home."
Ruan Yunxi glanced at the stingy Sister-in-law Gu and laughed: "No need for me to treat you to noodles with soybean paste. If you really want to treat me, treat me to Peking duck!"
My little nephew's eyes lit up: "Mom, let's eat roast duck!"
My little niece swallowed hard: "Mom, I want to eat roast duck too!"
Sister-in-law Gu's lips twitched. All they know is eating. Do they even know how much a roast duck costs?
You think you can get a Peking duck meal for just two bottles of soda? What are you thinking?!
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