Lunar New Year's eve.
The family compound was filled with joy, while the Gu family was shrouded in gloom, and even the Qin family not far away was shrouded in the same mist.
The baby turned one month old on New Year's Eve, but the Gu family did not hold a full-moon banquet.
Su Ying sat on the sofa, holding her child, lost in thought. Gu Sinian brought her the chicken soup that Yan Yan and Gu Huadong had been making in the kitchen.
"Have some chicken soup first."
Su Ying nodded and placed the child in Gu Sinian's arms. "Then you hold the child for a while."
"good."
A month ago, he led a team to search for three days at the bottom of the cliff, but there was still no trace of the child...
For the past month, he has been secretly convincing himself that the child is gone.
But then Su Ying told a white lie, saying that the child was missing...
Su Ying accepted reality without making a scene, crying, or heartbroken. She focused on postpartum recovery, ate well, and occasionally spaced out.
Gu Sinian knew that his wife missed their daughter, but the child had been gone for such a short time. What else could they have besides the wild game at the bottom of the mountain?
He dared not think about it.
He had accepted the loss of his only daughter, but every day he would tirelessly think of their daughter with Su Ying.
Su Ying picked up the bowl of chicken soup, which was still a little warm, and put it into her mouth one spoonful at a time, occasionally feeding Gu Sinian a spoonful as well.
“I won’t eat it. This is black chicken soup. Black chickens are hard to find on the black market. You’re lucky if you find a few. You should eat it all.”
"Grandma said that having twins is very harmful to your body, so she insists that you have to have a double postpartum period no matter what, and she will help you take good care of your body. Drink more black chicken soup to nourish your blood and qi."
"I won't drink it, you can drink it."
Su Ying nodded and obediently finished the bowl of chicken soup. She knew that the chicken soup was a concentrated essence, and her grandparents had been cooking it all morning. She couldn't let their efforts go to waste.
"good."
He picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
I remembered how Grandpa and Grandma Gu rushed from Beijing to see her on the day she gave birth.
Upon hearing at the hospital that their granddaughter had been taken away, the two elderly people nearly had a stroke from anger.
The next day, Gu Huadong kicked Gu Sinian several times, saying, "You useless thing, you couldn't even save your daughter when you were there. She was just taken away like that. You call that a group? You're not even as good as a lowly soldier. You bastard."
After her persuasion, Grandpa and Grandma Gu finally calmed down a bit.
Grandma Gu cried her eyes out; her long-awaited granddaughter had been taken away just like that.
During this period, Qin Tianxiong and Miao Ruxiu also stayed at the station for a while.
The fourth generation finally had a great-granddaughter, but before they could even see her, she disappeared. Everyone was heartbroken.
Ever since Gu Sinian failed to bring her daughter back that day, she often spaced out, praying in her heart that the family who found her daughter was a good one.
She could have been pampered and raised by her side, but instead she had to suffer outside. It would be a lie to say she wasn't heartbroken.
"Gu Sinian, what kind of family do you think our daughter will grow up in?"
This question stumped Gu Sinian. He hadn't expected the little girl to ask such a question, catching him completely off guard.
He couldn't even be sure if his child was still alive; he simply had no answer to that question.
"She will definitely be raised in a loving family."
Su Ying's eyes were red. "That's good. Now I'm not worried anymore. If we're meant to be, we'll meet again someday."
The man held the child in one arm and pulled Su Ying into his embrace with the other.
"That day will come."
A lively party was held at the residence, and the Gu and Qin families sat down together for dinner that evening.
After discussing it, Su Ying and Gu Sinian took out a lot of useful items from their spatial storage, and the two families sat down together for a reunion dinner.
Gu Sinian has been a very responsible stay-at-home dad lately. He first lets Su Ying sit down to eat, then goes into the room to coax his son to sleep, and only after the son falls asleep does he tiptoe out of the room.
Pulling out a chair and sitting next to Su Ying, Gu Huadong picked up a glass of wine and began to speak.
"Today should have been my great-grandson's one-month celebration, but one child is missing. The military wives in the family compound are also very understanding and didn't mention the one-month celebration."
"Our Gu family isn't in the mood for all this, after all, our great-granddaughter hasn't been found yet, and we..."
As Gu Huadong spoke, his voice choked with emotion, "It was supposed to be the perfect pair of dragon and phoenix, but now that one of the phoenixes is missing, my heart aches with every twist and turn."
"But today happens to be Lunar New Year's Eve, so we just cooked one meal as a family reunion dinner."
Gu Sinian spoke up to stop him, "Grandpa, let's skip this topic and talk about something lighter, not such depressing things."
His new wife is still in her postpartum period and shouldn't have any negative emotions, so let's not talk about these sensitive topics anymore.
He really didn't want to hear it.
If he had been a little faster, just a little faster, he might have been able to save his daughter.
"Grandpa... We've been so busy looking for the child lately that no one has had the time to think about naming him. My son doesn't have a name yet, so please take care of this."
"You can't keep calling a child 'baby' all the time."
Gu Huadong nodded, "Since you trust me so much, go back and look through the dictionary. I'm sure I can come up with a great name for my grandson."
"Grandpa can decide."
Su Ying was originally very interested in naming her children. She had discussed names for her two children with Gu Sinian before they were born.
Since one of the children went missing, this matter has been temporarily put on hold.
She didn't have that intention.
A remote mountain village.
Qingshui River.
One month ago.
A villager named Liu Dashan went into the mountains to hunt and accidentally saw a child hanging in a tree.
I thought it was a case of a family that favored sons over daughters, and that they didn't want their baby girl and threw her to her death.
Liu Dashan didn't think much of it and assumed that was the case, since that's how Qingshuihe is.
Those families that favor sons over daughters would abandon their daughters after they were born; some would drown them, and others would throw them off a mountain.
He saw that the little girl had beautiful and pleasing features, so he took her back to his home.
The burly man held a little girl in his arms, afraid she would get cold because of the cold weather.
They took off their thick clothes and wrapped the child in layer after layer.
The man entered the mud-brick house mysteriously, saying, "Wife, come quick, I brought you a treasure."
The woman's name was Liu Qinghe. She was the man's wife, and they had been married for ten years without having children.
Upon seeing a delicate baby doll on the bed, Liu Qinghe scolded.
"Are you so desperate for a child that you've stolen one from somewhere?"
"What kind of person do you take me for? Although I've wanted a child for many years, I wouldn't be so heartless as to steal someone else's child."
Liu Qinghe pointed to the crying baby on the bed, "Then how did this baby come to be?"
"I found it."
"Keep bragging. There are kids picked up all over the street."
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