After having a good cry, Zhou Huiyu's spirits miraculously improved.
Of course, this is inevitable. Having a good cry releases all the sadness and heartache that has accumulated in one's heart, and with hope restored, it's impossible for a person's spirits not to improve.
However, her improved mental state did not mean that Zhou Huiyu's body could support her to fly to Xichuan, and then take a car from Xichuan to Qingping County, to Changle Town, to her daughter whom she had lost for eight years.
Seeing Zhou Huiyu, who had just returned from a sanatorium and was eagerly packing her luggage, Gu Shaoyong earnestly advised, "Huiyu, I'm just as anxious as you. Look, how about this? You should stay home and wait patiently. Take advantage of these days to eat well and get some rest. That way, when your daughter comes back, you'll feel better and you can spend more time with her."
"No, I can't wait, I can't wait even a moment longer. I wish I could sprout wings and fly to my precious daughter right now. Gu Shaoyong, do you know how much it hurts me to think about how our daughter has lived in a peasant family for eight years...?"
“I’m not saying that farming families are bad. I’m very grateful to them because, perhaps without them, my daughter might not have lived to see me find her.”
"But Gu Shaoyong, you need to know that even in a big city like Kyoto, there are still many families that favor sons over daughters. You were once a county magistrate. Tell me yourself, when you were the county magistrate of Qingping County, how many baby girls died each year for various reasons? And how miserable were the lives of most of the girls who were lucky enough to survive?"
"I don't dare to think about it. All I want right now is to get to my daughter's side as soon as possible, bring her back, love and pamper her, and let her live like a little princess from now on..."
"She is my daughter, my only one!"
Gu Shaoyong looked at Zhou Huiyu and said sincerely, "Huiyu, she is also my only daughter. I feel the same way as you. I can't wait to bring her back, so... let me go, okay? I'll take a plane, and I can bring her back in three or four days at most."
"Your health isn't good; the doctor said you can't fly."
“Our daughter has been missing for eight years. Do you really want her to worry about your health as soon as you find her?”
"Huiyu, just listen to me, stay home and wait. Don't make me and the baby worry about your health. I will bring our baby back safely and soundly. Okay?"
“No.” Zhou Huiyu said without hesitation. After a pause, she added, “Gu Shaoyong, how stupid do you think our daughter is? Do you really think that as long as you stand in front of her and tell her that you are her biological father, she will believe it and obediently follow you?”
Gu Shaoyong pursed his lips and said, "I believe Kemin and Ying's investigation results; they can't be wrong."
Zhou Huiyu said, "I believe it too, which is why I went to pick her up. But is it enough that you believe it and I believe it? Isn't the important thing to make the child believe it?"
"Isn't it more important that we not only make the child believe us, but also make her willingly come home with us, and make her adoptive parents willingly let her come home with us?"
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