Bai Mei looked at her. "That's right! At least while I'm alive, will you agree?"
Qiu Mang lowered her eyes, as if weighing her options.
Lin Yuan quickly spoke up, "Mr. Bai Mei, please don't make things difficult for Sister Qiu Mang. Sister Qiu Mang is anxious to save her boyfriend, and naturally hopes that they can be together after he recovers. You are breaking up a loving couple!"
Bai Mei turned to look at Lin Yuan, raising an eyebrow and saying, "Oh? Little girl, it was your sister Qiu Mang who told me to make a request, but after I made it, you guys wouldn't agree. Aren't you just messing with me?"
Lin Yuan said anxiously, "Let Sister Qiu Mang go! I'll stay! Sister Qiu Mang has a lot of things to do and can't stay here. But I'm different. I'm an orphan, so it doesn't matter where I live. Besides, a doctor took me in before, and I know a little about medicine. I'm definitely more suitable to stay than Sister Qiu Mang!"
"Lin Yuan! Don't talk nonsense!" Qiu Mang quickly stopped her.
She looked at Mr. White Eyebrows, gritted her teeth, and said, "I promise you! But you must also promise me one thing: you must save him, okay?"
Mr. White Eyebrows smiled and said, "Little girl, you're quite good at bargaining. I can agree to your terms, but since you've made your conditions, I also have a small request."
Qiu Mang held her breath. "Speak!"
"My request is simply to take off your coats. I want to see your shoulders, is that alright?"
That old lecher!
Qiu Mang gritted her teeth, threw her coat aside, and said, "Fine!"
“Turn around, I want to see your shoulder!” the old man said.
Qiu Mang had no choice but to obey.
Qiu Mang turned around, revealing her fair and rounded shoulders.
Mr. White Eyebrows shook his head, a hint of disappointment in his eyes. "Put them on!"
Lin Yuan also took off her heavy down jacket and turned around consciously.
Mr. Bai Mei had given up hope, but when he saw Lin Yuan's shoulder, his eyes lit up, and then two lines of tears streamed down his face.
Lin Yuan has a very noticeable butterfly-shaped birthmark on her shoulder.
"Lin girl, you just said you're an orphan?" Mr. White Eyebrows' voice trembled slightly.
Lin Yuan didn't notice the old man's mood. She quickly put on her coat and wrapped herself up tightly.
"Yes! I'm an orphan, but let me tell you! Even though I'm an orphan, I have people backing me up. Brother Han Feng, Sister Tao, Sister Qiu Mang, and Sister Han Bing are all very good to me, so don't even think about bullying me!"
Mr. White Eyebrows was already in tears. "Little Lin, can you tell me how you've been all these years?"
Qiu Mang and Lin Yuan then realized that something was wrong with Mr. Bai Mei.
"Mr. White Eyebrows, what's wrong?" Lin Yuan asked.
Qiu Mang seemed to have thought of something, "Lin Yuan, could she be your long-lost relative?"
The old man nodded. “Absolutely right. I have a granddaughter who has a birthmark on her shoulder that is exactly the same as this girl’s. We lost her when we went to the market years ago. My daughter died of depression not long after the child went missing! I never thought that I would see this child again in my lifetime!”
Seeing Mr. Bai Mei's excited expression, Qiu Mang continued to ask, "So, all these years you've only met young girls, and for every girl you visited, you made her wear an off-the-shoulder dress, just to see her shoulders? To determine the birthmark?"
The old man nodded. "That's right! So many years have passed, I never thought I'd see Dou Dou again!"
"DouDou?"
Mr. White Eyebrows looked at Lin Yuan and said, "Yes, Lin girl, your nickname is Dou Dou, and your full name is Zhong Ning!"
"My name is Zhong Ning?" Lin Yuan muttered to herself.
"Yes! Dou Dou! Your name is Zhong Ning!"
Qiu Mang felt this was all too surreal. "Mr. Bai Mei, judging your relationship based on just a birthmark is too arbitrary. Why don't you get another psychiatric evaluation?"
Lin Yuan's eyes darted around, and she quickly gave Qiu Mang a wink. She looked at the old man and said, "Mr. White Eyebrows, since you are my grandfather, can you help us?"
The old man replied without hesitation, "It's just saving people, right? Dou Dou, I'll save whoever you want me to save!"
Lin Yuan nodded in satisfaction, "Great! Grandpa, Brother Yanting is my savior. Without him, I would have died long ago. So, I want to go back to Guangcheng to save him tomorrow, is that alright?"
Mr. White Eyebrows immediately agreed, "Okay! Let's go to bed early tonight! We'll hit the road first thing tomorrow morning!"
That night, Qiu Mang and Lin Yuan stayed in the guest room.
Qiu Mang tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
“Lin Yuan, I know you're doing this for Yan Ting, but if you rashly admit to your relationship now, what if it's not…”
In the darkness, Lin Yuan turned over. "Sister Qiu Mang, our purpose in coming here is to save people. This is the simplest and most direct method. Although it is a bit risky, saving people is the most important thing. We can talk about everything else later!"
And you know what? I have a feeling, I feel, that he really is my family.
I've never felt this strongly before. Actually, Sister Tao has been helping me find my family all these years; we've never given up!
Qiu Mang was still a little worried, "What if you two have no relationship whatsoever?"
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "That's alright. I'm looking for my relatives, and Mr. Bai Mei is also looking for his granddaughter. Isn't that a coincidence? We can make up for each other's regrets about blood relatives. Regardless of whether it's true or not, I've already decided that from now on, I will live with Mr. Bai Mei!"
"Lin Yuan..."
"Don't worry! I didn't act on impulse, I've really thought it through!"
The next morning, Qiu Mang and Lin Yuan smelled the fragrance even before they got out of bed.
"Sisters! Get up and have breakfast! Grandpa got up early this morning to make osmanthus cake. He said it's Sister Lin's favorite food when she was little!"
Lin Yuan and Qiu Mang quickly got up and dressed, only to realize that it was already nine o'clock in the morning.
"Girls, come and eat breakfast! I didn't know what you liked to eat, so I just made a little bit of everything. See what you want to eat?"
The two sat down and saw a large table full of food.
Soy milk and fried dough sticks, jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), steamed buns with various fillings, zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), tangyuan (sweet rice balls), as well as red bean porridge, eight-treasure porridge, millet porridge, seafood porridge, and all kinds of other food.
Of course, the one placed in the very center is the osmanthus cake made by Mr. Bai Mei.
Qiu Mang stared blankly at the huge table full of food. "You made all of this?"
Mr. White Eyebrows waved his hand, "Hey, how could that be? I'm not that amazing!"
Lin Yuan also looked surprised, "Then, you conjured all these things?"
Mr. White Eyebrows chuckled. "What era are we living in? Aren't there food delivery services?"
"takeout?"
"takeout?"
Qiu Mang and Lin Yuan exchanged a glance, even more bewildered.
Can you order takeout from this mountaintop?
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