When Hu Jie entered, Hu Yingying was lying on the hospital bed and did not react when she saw him.
"Yingying?" Hu Jie touched her cheek. "Daddy is back."
Hu Yingying was still in a daze, her eyes not moving at all.
Hu Jie hugged the person in his arms, tears streaming down his face.
His Yingying, his sweet girl, doesn't even recognize her father.
Before he left, Yingying, who had just learned to write, wrote him a small note with the words "Dad, I love you the most" written on it in a crooked hand.
Now, she was lying on the hospital bed, not saying a word, not even recognizing her father. He still had a small bag of hemp candy in his pocket, which he had said he would bring to him. He bought it the moment he got off the bus there.
He had thought that after he came back, his sweet baby would be like a little sparrow, jumping around and saying sweet words that would touch his heart, then happily eating hemp candy and even putting a piece of it in his mouth.
Now, she was in a daze, as if she had locked herself in her small body.
It must be lonely, dear.
Chen Xiangnan knocked on the door and came in. "Why don't you take Yingying home first? She should feel better when she's back to a familiar place. Didn't the doctor say she'll be fine?"
Hu Jie nodded, raised his head and wiped his tears, "You're right, I'll go and get discharged."
Chen Xiangnan: "You stay here, I'll do it."
Hu Jie: "It's troublesome."
He turned back to Hu Yingying and pretended to be happy and said, "Yingying, can we go home now? Grandma Yin has prepared a delicious meal for us."
Hu Yingying: ...
Hu Jie changed her clothes and, holding the child, thanked the police officer who brought him here.
When they arrived at the compound, many people came. Seeing the child in this state, they sighed. Old Mrs. Yin had been discharged from the hospital. She took Hu Yingying and cried for a long time.
"Damn human traffickers, they will definitely get their comeuppance in the future."
"They harmed a good child like this, why don't they just die?"
"Have you found the human traffickers? I'm going to kill them."
"What will Yingying do in the future?"
"What a good child he was, eh!"
"Xiao Hu, your future will be even more difficult."
Old Lady Yin carried the child into the house and called out to Hu Jie outside the door, "Come and eat something too. Don't overwork yourself. Yingying will depend on you in the future."
"It's all my fault. I knew they were bad people, but I didn't take a good look at Yingying. Xiao Hu, if you want to blame someone, blame me. You can scold me and hit me, and let me go to hell in the future."
Old Mrs. Yin felt short of breath again, and Xiao Hu quickly brought her the medicine.
"Aunt Yin, this is not your fault. I should have killed their entire family when I discovered they were abusing Yingying a few years ago."
"At worst, I'll just be caught and eaten with peanuts. That's better than what Yingying is like now."
"If I hadn't informed the village when I moved my household registration, they wouldn't have known I was working here. If I hadn't invited them to my wedding, they might not have known where I lived, and this wouldn't have happened."
"I know what kind of person you are, otherwise I wouldn't be so confident in handing the child over to you. Over the years, your feelings for Yingying are no less than mine. From now on..." Hu Jie seemed to have made up his mind, "If something happens to me, I hope Aunt Yin can help me take care of Yingying."
Old Lady Yin was both sad and frightened. "Xiao Hu, what are you doing? You can't do anything illegal. Yingying is so young. Even if I love her as much as I do, it's not as much as you, her father, do."
Hu Jie: "I won't let them go just like that with Yingying in this state."
Old Mrs. Yin: ...Actually, I am not willing to give up either. I have already asked my sister Xia to go to their village to beat someone up, but her factory did not approve. She scolded the people in the factory yesterday. They are so hard-hearted that they won’t listen to any words or tricks.
Beating him up is fine, but killing him is unacceptable. Xiao Hu is a good young man, how could he send himself to jail because of these bad people?
"No, absolutely not. If you don't think about yourself, you should think about Yingying. Yingying lost her mother when she was young. If you lost your mother too, she would really become an orphan."
Hu Jie: "Aunt Yin, I understand."
His expression was unclear, and I didn't know what he was thinking.
Old Mrs. Yin was very worried. She would ask her sister Xia to persuade him tomorrow. Xiao Hu and Yingying were both good children. They should not do anything irreparable because of impulse.
Chen Xiangnan came back with Hu Jie. As soon as he entered the house, he saw his mother rummaging through the drawers, looking for something. He hadn't seen her for half a month, and she didn't even look at him.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
Old Lady Xia didn't even raise her head. "Second brother, you're back. You did a good job this time. I'll give you a credit. If Yingying can't be found, Xiao Hu will probably be even crazier than Xiao Ma."
She finally found a tattered little quilt, stood up and gave him a thumbs up.
"Why are you turning this quilt over? I remember Baoyuan used it, and my Lingling used it too. We haven't had any children yet, so why did you turn it over? Do you want to take it out to dry in the sun?"
Old Lady Xia: "I just saw Yingying's condition. I'm not afraid to say it's superstitious, but I think she's lost her soul. It's hard to find a fortune teller these days, and even if we find one, they won't want her. I thought this quilt has good meaning and can protect the child. I'll give it to Yingying and cover her with it. Maybe she'll get better soon."
Chen Xiangnan didn't understand. "Mom, that's her own quilt. Why would she take ours?"
Old Lady Xia: "You don't know, Yingying's quilt was sewn together with this one. Your Aunt Yin and I made it together. Her quilt was confiscated by those bitches back then and was never brought back. Yingying was later brought back when she was sick, and it also covered ours. It's the same, it's okay!"
She suddenly stopped, squinted her eyes and asked, "Are you so stingy that you can't even give this to others?"
Chen Xiangnan:...What?
"Second brother, you can't be like this. He's seriously ill now, so you can't keep fussing over trivial matters. Xiao Hu has given you so many good things in the past and has taken good care of us. I'm only saying this because I think you're quite receptive. If it were your eldest brother, I would have slapped him long ago."
Chen Xiangnan: "Mom, I don't mind, I'm just curious... curious!"
Seeing that he was really not dissatisfied, Old Mrs. Xia felt a little satisfied. Even if the second son objected, she would still give it to him. She could give the quilt she made to whoever he wanted.
She hurried to Old Lady Yin's house. As soon as she knocked on the door, it opened. It was Old Lady Yin inside. She was also planning to come and see her.
Xiao Hu is a very stubborn kid, he's really scary.
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