Chapter 028 Jinjiang First Release

Bai Mian checked the time and said, "She's at a vegetable market about 200 kilometers away from here. It takes about two or three hours to drive there, and it's even faster to take the high-speed train. If we leave now, we can just catch the next high-speed train."

After hearing this, Weng Xuhua immediately stood up, picked up his phone and started booking tickets. The vegetable market that Bai Mian mentioned was located in Gaoyang City, and the next high-speed train to Gaoyang City would depart in half an hour. Weng Xuhua hurriedly entrusted the store to Lame Brother and Little Sister Yang, and Bai Mian took the two elderly people to a taxi to the high-speed rail station.

On the high-speed train, Gao Jin rubbed his hands nervously. Weng Xuhua seemed calm, but his heart was beating very fast. Both of them were looking forward to seeing their daughter whom they had not seen for a long time.

Yinyin went missing thirty years ago, when she was only eighteen. Now she is nearly fifty years old. She has changed from a cute little girl to a middle-aged woman. I wonder what she looks like now.

"Is she married and has children? Is her husband good to her?" Gao Jin asked anxiously. After several years of separation, her daughter might already have children of her own.

Bai Mian shook his head and said tactfully, "She can't use her ID card outside. She has always been an illegal immigrant, hiding from place to place, living a life that is almost homeless. Even making a living has become a problem, let alone getting married and having children."

Although these words were cruel, Bai Mian had to say them so that the two old people would be mentally prepared when they met their daughter later.

Gao Jin cried heartbrokenly after hearing this, cursing Zheng Shuyuan as she cried: "This wicked man has really brought misery to our family. He has ruined the best years of my daughter's life. He has ruined her life!"

Weng Xuhua held back his sadness and helped Gao Jin wipe her tears, comforting her as he wiped them: "Don't cry, don't cry, you'll see Yinyin soon, this is a good thing, we should all be happy."

After the high-speed train arrived at the station, the three of them went straight to the Gaoyang City Vegetable Market. The Gaoyang City Vegetable Market was very large, with vendors setting up their stalls in disorder and the surroundings filled with noisy voices. Gao Jin and Weng Xuhua searched aimlessly in the crowd, their eyes almost dazzled.

Bai Mian took their arms and led them straight through the crowd to a snack cart in the corner.

This food cart sells roujiamo (Chinese steamed buns with meat fillings). Behind the cart stands a sturdy woman with her hair tied messily behind her head. She is concentrating on the chopping board in front of her, paying no attention to the people passing by. Only when someone comes to buy roujiamo (Chinese steamed buns with meat fillings) will she occasionally look up to collect the money.

The skin on the woman's face and hands was very rough, and it was obvious that she had suffered a lot over the years. Whenever someone came to buy a steamed bun with meat, the woman would skillfully take a piece of cooked meat out of the pot, chop it up with a kitchen knife, add green peppers and chili peppers, stuff it into the steamed bun, pack it in a plastic bag, and hand it to the customer swiftly without saying a word during the whole process.

Weng Xuhua stood there for a long time and still couldn't believe that this woman was his daughter Yinyin. Gao Jin's knees felt weak and he almost fainted.

After watching for a while, Weng Xuhua took the lead and walked to the snack cart. He stood in front of the snack cart. The woman did not look up and asked in a tactful manner: "Do you want green pepper?"

Weng Xuhua still didn't say anything. The woman realized something was wrong and looked up at Weng Xuhua. After not seeing him for thirty years, she didn't recognize him and thought he was a strange old man. So she said:

"If you don't want to buy, get out of the way and don't block me here."

Seeing that his daughter could no longer recognize him, Gao Jin broke down and burst into tears. Only then did Weng Xuhua speak with a trembling voice: "Yinyin... I am... Daddy!"

The woman was stunned. No one had called her like that for thirty years. She looked hard at the faces of Weng Xuhua and Gao Jin, and finally saw a hint of familiarity in the faces of the two old men. The kitchen knife in the woman's hand fell to the ground with a "clang". She took a few steps back in fear, turned around and ran away.

The woman's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations. She ran so fast that Weng Xuhua had difficulty catching up with her. Bai Mian was holding Gao Jin and couldn't chase her either. Just as the woman was about to run away, a man riding an electric bike appeared beside her. The woman was knocked down by the bike and fell on her butt. Only then did Weng Xuhua catch up with her.

Weng Xuhua grabbed the woman's wrist tightly and asked her anxiously: "Are you Yin Yin? Speak!"

"No... I'm not, go away!" The woman instinctively turned her face away, not daring to look at Weng Xuhua.

"How could my Yin Yin become like this..." Weng Xuhua couldn't hold back any longer, and a tear rolled down from the corner of his eye.

After seeing her father's tears, the woman finally softened her heart. She covered her face and cried, admitting that she was Weng Yinyin: "Dad, I... I killed someone. How can I face you? Just treat me as dead!"

"Come on, Yinyin, go home with Daddy!"

Weng Xuhua took Yin Yin's arm and tried to take her away, but Yin Yin resisted and pushed him away:

"You guys go back and pretend you didn't see me today. I don't want anyone to find out, wuwu... I don't want to go to jail..."

Bai Mian supported Gao Jin and followed slowly. Bai Mian explained, "You didn't kill anyone. This is all a misunderstanding."

"A misunderstanding?" Weng Yinyin's eyes widened in surprise. "I pushed her into the water myself. I saw with my own eyes that she lay motionless in the water. How could this be a misunderstanding?"

Bai Mian told Yin Yin the whole story again. Yin Yin was shocked and said, "I didn't kill anyone? So...all the suffering I've endured over the years has been in vain? My first half of my life has been wasted!"

"But you still have the rest of your life." Bai Mian patted Yin Yin's shoulder gently. Gao Jin and Weng Xuhua hugged her tightly. The whole family burst into tears. After thirty years, they finally recognized each other.

After they got to know each other, Yin Yin rode a snack cart and took the three of them back to where she lived. Since she had no ID card, she could only rent a simple bungalow. Looking at the environment inside the house, Gao Jin couldn't help but cry again.

The three of them sat down in the house, and Yin Yin talked about her life over the years. After she left the village, she worked several jobs, but she couldn't keep any of them for long. Finally, she thought it would be better to learn a skill, so she learned to make meat-filled steamed buns. Relying on this skill, she has been able to support herself over the years. Although she didn't go into details, the old couple could imagine her hard work over the years.

"Don't be afraid, it's all in the past," Weng Xuhua said, touching Yin Yin's head. "Now that your parents are here, go home with them. As long as we are together as a family, our future will definitely get better and better!"

"But, can we just let Zheng Shuyuan go? That damn bastard, he made me wander around for so many years!" Yin Yin said indignantly, burying her head in Weng Xuhua's arms, "Dad, it's all my fault. I was too willful at the beginning, I didn't listen to you, and ran away from home at a disagreement. I should have listened to you earlier. Zheng is not a good person!"

Weng Xuhua smiled bitterly: "What else can we do to him? We didn't report your disappearance to the police that year, and we buried the body ourselves. Now this matter is an unsolved case. The body in the coffin has long turned into bones. What can we find out?"

"That may not be the case," Bai Mian's eyes lit up, "Fortunately you didn't cremate the body back then, so the bones are well preserved. We can still open the coffin and examine the body now."

"Open the coffin and examine the body?" Weng Xuhua was stunned.

Bai Mian: "That's right, we will go back to Qingshui Town now, contact the police, and open the coffin for an autopsy. Even if it's just bones, we can still detect DNA."

Hearing this, the eyes of the family of three were all filled with hope, and Weng Xuhua nodded heavily:

"Okay, I'll listen to you and open the coffin for an autopsy!"

After returning to Qingshui Town, Bai Mian took Weng Xuhua's family to the police station and told the police about the incident. After the police conducted a paternity test on Weng Xuhua and Weng Yinyin, they confirmed that the woman was their biological daughter, Weng Yinyin, who was presumed dead thirty years ago.

The police reissued an ID card for Yin Yin and officially began an investigation into the unidentified female corpse in Huaihua Village thirty years ago.

After the case was filed, the police asked them to go back and wait for news. Bai Mian and his family of three returned to Ci Xin Tang. The nosy Lame Brother was the first to greet them. Looking at the rough-looking woman in front of him, Lame Brother exclaimed: "So this is Yin Yin, little God of Wealth, you are amazing. You can find someone who was lost thirty years ago. I didn't believe in fortune-telling at first, but after meeting you, I believe it a little bit."

Bai Mian smiled slightly. Weng Xuhua and Gao Jin had no time to deal with Que Ge's grudges. They asked Xiao Yang and Que Ge to go home early from get off work. Bai Mian also tactfully returned to his bedroom, leaving time for the family of three.

At dinner time, Bai Mian went downstairs again. The family of three had already gotten over their grief. Although they hadn't seen each other for many years, Yin Yin was still the apple of the old couple's eyes. The old couple were busy in the kitchen and would not let her step in.

"Come, come, it's time to eat!" Gao Jin happily brought a big pot of delicious duck soup to the dining table and called Yin Yin and Bai Mian to eat.

After putting the pot down, Gao Jin served soup to each person in turn. Bai Mian wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by Gao Jin:

"No, no, no, please don't, little disciple, please sit down quickly. You are the benefactor of our whole family today. After we finish our meal, we have something important to tell you!"

Bai Mian had no choice but to sit down obediently. Gao Jin and Weng Xuhua brought dishes one after another. It seemed that the old couple had prepared an extra-rich meal to celebrate their daughter's return home.

At the dinner table, the old couple kept picking up food for their daughter, as if they wanted to make up for the love and care she had been missing for the past thirty years. Food was piled up in Yinyin's bowl. At first, she tried hard to stuff it into her mouth, but later, as the bowl got fuller and fuller, she put down her chopsticks, held the bowl, and silently shed tears.

After finishing their meal, they sat at the table and chatted for a while. Bai Mian asked, "Master, do you plan to let Sister Yinyin study medicine with you in the future?"

Weng Xuhua waved his hands and said, "Learning medicine is a slow process. She is just starting to learn at this age. How long will it take for her to succeed? Your wife and I have already made plans. Since Yinyin has a ready-made skill, let her work in her old profession. We both think that the current Cixintang store is too big. As a doctor, I don't need such a big store. I want to give a small half to Yinyin so that she can open her own store."

Yin Yin said, "Dad, I will listen to you."

After enduring hardships outside for many years, Yinyin feels that home is still the best place. As long as she can stay with her parents, she has no complaints whether she opens a shop or runs a street stall.

"It's settled then!" Gao Jin looked at his daughter with a smile.

"My little disciple," Weng Xuhua suddenly stood up from his seat, walked to Bai Mian and bowed respectfully, "I haven't formally thanked you yet. Thanks to you, we were able to find our daughter. I am already seventy years old, and I never thought I would be reunited with my daughter in my life."

Gao Jin pulled Yin Yin over and bowed to Bai Mian. Bai Mian was frightened and quickly helped them up one by one.

"Master, Master's wife, I just did a simple favor. You don't have to be so polite. I can't bear it."

"No, we old couple want to thank you, not just for saying it," Weng Xuhua took Bai Mian to the computer in the store and opened the financial system. "This system manages the store's outgoing and incoming accounts, and the store's profits are also in it. You need a password to withdraw money. This password was only known to me and your master's wife before. Now I will tell you the password of the system, and you can use the money in the store as you like in the future."

Gao Jin added: "This is a gift from your master and I. You must accept it."

Bai Mian tried to decline hastily, but after much refusing he still couldn't convince the old couple, so he had to agree.

After a busy day, Bai Mian returned to his bedroom to rest, and the system sound rang again.

"Reporting to the host, you have gained 40 points of good karma today. The current good karma value is: 100."

"It has been detected that the host has accumulated 100 good karma points. Now this system is about to bring you the first breakthrough--"

When the system sound rang, Bai Mian felt a burning sensation on her forehead. She looked in the mirror and found a scarlet lotus pattern on her forehead. When the burning sensation faded away, the lotus pattern turned sky blue.

Bai Mian touched the lotus on his forehead and asked, "What is this?"

"Congratulations to the host for awakening the ability: the Heavenly Eye. This eye can connect the Yin and Yang, can see ghosts and gods, and can detect anything within the six realms." After saying this, the system's voice disappeared.

Bai Mian closed his eyes and tried to move all the energy in his body to his forehead. The lotus on his forehead became slightly hot, and Bai Mian noticed that the lotus had changed.

She opened her eyes, and the lotus in the mirror turned red again. The whole lotus slowly opened up, revealing the center of the flower. The center of the flower turned out to be a tiny eye.

Bai Mian closed her eyes and tried to use this third eye to look around. The scene she saw was no different from usual. She gathered her strength again and closed her third eye. The lotus slowly closed and turned back to sky blue.

Bai Mian sighed slightly. Perhaps there was no supernatural aura in his room. Only when he actually encountered a supernatural case, he would be able to see the usefulness of the Heavenly Eye.

Bai Mian slept well that night. The next morning, she walked down the stairs. Everyone was surprised to see the green lotus on her forehead. Lame Brother came forward and asked:

"You got a tattoo? Who did it with? His skills are pretty good!"

Bai Mian smiled softly: "I won't tell you."

Lame brother curled his lips: "Tsk, I mean well, okay! I know all the tattoo artists in town, tell me before you get the tattoo, I'll go say hello, and I can give you a 20% discount!"

Several workers came into the store and were decorating the store according to Weng Xuhua's requirements. Just like what he said last night, Weng Xuhua divided a small half of the store for Yin Yin to use as a shop. They planned to do some simple decoration in the morning before opening for business. Yin Yin named her shop "RiRiHong RouJiaMo".

The workers were hanging the sign at the door of the store when Weng Xuhua's cell phone suddenly rang. The store was being renovated and the noise was very loud. He picked up the phone, but couldn't hear the voice on the other end clearly, so he had to walk a few steps outside.

"Hello, hello, who is that? Speak louder!"

Not knowing what was said on the other end of the phone, Weng Xuhua suddenly stopped and shouted at the other end:

"What did you say?"

Cripple Brother came over curiously: "Boss, what happened?"

Weng Xuhua held his phone excitedly: "There is progress in the corpse case!"