Chapter 41 The Lost Daughter
The same account replied with: "Can I send this privately?"
Yu Hui was extremely annoyed, his brows furrowed so deeply they could trap a mosquito. This was a perfect opportunity to prove himself, and if he acted behind closed doors, people would think it was fake: "You're suddenly concerned about privacy now? I see other people searching for their children posting their photos everywhere. Contact me if you want, I have plenty of people begging me!" He spoke with a hint of arrogance.
Zhang Mo clicked into the account and took a look. It was a new account registered yesterday, with a name that was randomly generated gibberish and an IP address that showed it was in a coastal city.
Zhang Mo isn't someone who likes to make regional stereotypes, but people associated with this IP... often treat their daughters with special "preferential treatment"...
After thinking for a moment, she used her super administrator privileges to proactively invite that account to connect.
After hesitating for half a minute, they finally decided to connect.
Just then, Yu Hui took a moment to distract himself and fed Xiao Tao fruit. When he turned around, he found that another person was already online.
The person on the other end of the line was a woman who looked to be in her fifties, with dark and thin skin. The background environment appeared to be the living room of a self-built house in the countryside, with faded New Year pictures hanging on the wall and a dilapidated wooden table full of medicine boxes, indicating that someone in the family was indeed sick.
This was probably her first time doing a live broadcast, so she seemed a little nervous. Her two withered hands kept rubbing together, her knuckles turning pale from the effort. In not-so-standard Mandarin, she stammered as she greeted the host: "Master...Hello. My surname is Chen. My name is Chen Jinhua."
"Alright, enough nonsense, where are the photos?" Yu Hui asked in an arrogant tone, as if he was about to hang up the phone at any moment.
"Here, here." Chen Jinhua hurriedly pulled a coffee-colored, old-fashioned wallet from her pocket, and then took out a two-inch color photograph from the inner pocket of the wallet. The edges of the photograph were yellowed, but the image was still clear.
She looked at the photo with deep affection, as if she had returned to the past: "This photo was taken when my daughter was one year old. She went missing not long after this photo was taken."
We've done everything we can think of—reported to the police, inquired, posted missing person notices—but we still haven't found her.
For all these years, I've carried this photo with me everywhere. I thought that maybe one day I'd run into my daughter on the street and find her through this photo.
In the photo, against a festive bright red background, a chubby, beautiful baby girl sits on a sofa, wearing a vintage-style floral cotton-padded jacket, smiling happily at the camera. She is completely unaware of the dramatic changes that are about to occur in her life.
Yu Hui glanced at the photo briefly and commented, "Judging from his appearance, he is a blessed person and should be doing quite well now."
"Really?!" Chen Jinhua exclaimed in surprise, tears streaming down her face. "It's all our fault for not taking good care of her back then. We lost our daughter. I don't know how much she's suffered all these years, or whether she's doing well..."
I often dream of her; she's still so small and adorable, standing not far away waving at me. But when I run towards her, I wake up...
If I could turn back time, I would give anything, even my own life, just to bring my daughter back to me...
I know this idea is ridiculous, but even if he doesn't come back to me, I'd be content if he could just come and visit me occasionally, see my brother, or call me "Mom" during holidays...
Yu Hui started to purse his lips after listening for a couple of sentences. After listening for a while longer, he realized that the person on the other end didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, and he couldn't stand it anymore: "Stop saying such useless things. Can't you say something useful? Your birth date and time, hurry up."
Chen Jinhua, who was still crying, was stunned for a moment. She probably didn't expect that someone could be so indifferent during such an emotional family reunion, disrupting the whole rhythm. But since she was asking for a favor, she couldn't say anything and could only obey Yu Hui's orders, quickly reciting her daughter's birth date and time.
Just as Yu Hui was calculating with his fingers, the comments section was also filled with calculations—
[By that calculation, her daughter should be 22 years old now. She might even have children by then, and she'd definitely understand this mother's feelings.]
Wait a minute, what kind of decent person has a baby at 22?
[If you didn't go to university, isn't it reasonable to have a child at 22? I already had two children when I was 20.]
Seeing the comments on the screen, Chen Jinhua was clearly very concerned, but she pretended to be indifferent and asked, "Master, I saw in the comments that my daughter might already be married, is that true?"
Yu Hui's hands flew across the table, so fast they were almost blurry, and he said impatiently, "Tsk, stop bothering me, I'm still calculating."
Chen Jinhua: "Oh, okay, okay, Master, please take your time calculating."
Zhang Mo, who had been watching the whole thing unfold, suddenly interjected, "Is it really that important whether your daughter is married or not?"
Chen Jinhua said awkwardly, "I was just curious... As the comments said, maybe she'll understand me better after she becomes a mother herself..."
"So, would you prefer her to be unmarried or married?" Zhang Mo asked.
Chen Jinhua subconsciously licked her dry lips: "Although everyone says it's better for girls to get married early, in this day and age, of course I still hope she can study more, get a master's degree or something, and not get married so early. Her father and I suffered from a lack of education back then, and I don't want her to suffer the same way in her life."
The comments section was filled with praise, calling her a wise and farsighted mother.
At that moment, Yu Hui confidently snapped his fingers: "I've figured it out, it's right here—"
Before the rest of the words could be spoken, all sound abruptly ceased.
The entire audience in the live stream was surprised to find that the streamer had been banned.
Yu Hui's own phone also displayed a large notification: [Your sound has been temporarily muted by the super administrator.]
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