Chapter 16: Mom, I'm Scared
"Yanlin, let them go back first, and we will continue looking for them." Qin Xiuwen advised.
"Yes," Tan Yanlin agreed, and then said to the three people: "You go back first, I will look for it again, thank you."
"Then we'll go back first. We're so sorry." The three of them said, got in the car and left.
Tan Yanlin originally wanted to ask Tan Xiuwen to go back with him, but thinking that more people would bring more hope, he held back and didn't say anything. The three of them discussed briefly and decided to go to Puzhong. They had already searched the streets, and this time they planned to go to the residential areas and ask one household at a time.
There is a restaurant right next to the station on this side of the station, next to the restaurant is a unit, above that are some residential houses, and across the road is Pu Zhong.
Tan Yanlin went to restaurants and residents' houses to ask, Deng Xiuzhen went to the residential area where the unit was located to look for him, and Tan Xiuwen went to Puzhong.
The more Qin Yanlin searched, the more worried he became because no one said they had seen it.
Deng Xiuzhen started crying while asking questions, because no one had seen such a child coming.
"Found it! Found it! Yanlin, Yanlin! Found it!" Qin Xiuwen stood at the gate of Puzhong and shouted at the opposite side at the top of his voice. His voice was so loud that it echoed in the whole area.
"Where? Where?" Qin Yanlin ran out of a house. He ran so fast that he accidentally fell down. He immediately got up and ran towards Qin Xiuwen.
"Inside, in someone else's house." Qin Xiuwen answered, his voice a little hoarse from shouting so loudly.
"How is Wen Yu? Is he okay? Take me to see him quickly!" Tan Yanlin said anxiously.
"Yanlin, Wenyu is fine. Let's go call Xiuzhen first so she doesn't have to keep looking."
The two of them hurried to the unit and shouted Xiuzhen's name loudly. Soon Deng Xiuzhen came out, and the three of them went to the family that took in Qin Wenyu.
The family had already met Qin Xiuwen and knew that the child's parents would be here soon, so they left the door open.
When the three of them arrive, they can go in directly.
They saw Qin Wenyu eating at a glance, but he had changed his clothes.
"Yu Yu!" Deng Xiuzhen rushed over and hugged the child.
"Mom, Mom!" Qin Wenyu turned around and saw that it was Deng Xiuzhen. He shouted and cried out.
After Song Qinghua asked them to sit down, he told them that he was selling snacks at a stall opposite Pu Zhong. At about two o'clock, he saw a child staggering towards them. The child stood in front of the stall, looked at it again and again, and swallowed his saliva.
He asked the child if he was hungry.
The child nodded.
When asked where his parents were, the child replied that they had gone to the city.
He thought the child must have been lost, so he served the child a bowl of wontons and asked him to sit down and eat slowly.
After eating, the child said he wanted to find his parents.
He was afraid that the child would run away and it would be bad if he met a bad guy and was taken away.
I thought the child’s parents would definitely come back to look for him.
Who knew that when he was about to close the stall, no one came to look for the child, so he took the child home. He thought that even if the parents couldn't find the child, they would definitely call the police, and the police station would be able to find him, so he took the child home.
Song Qinghua kept praising Xiao Wenyu: The child is very well behaved. He stopped making noise when he told him that as long as he waited here, his parents would come to pick him up.
Liu Xiaozhen next to her also praised: The child is really obedient. He eats obediently, takes a bath obediently, and even reads books after meals.
There were so many words of gratitude, all of which were sincere. If they hadn't taken the child in, who knows what would have been waiting for him?
When they left, they gave Song Qinghua 300 yuan, but Song Qinghua refused to accept it.
The two of them pushed the offer back and forth until Tan Yanlin said, "If you don't accept it, we will feel uncomfortable. How can you make us feel uncomfortable all the time?" Only then did Song Qinghua accept it.
There were no more buses back home, so Song Qinghua asked them to stay overnight, but they were in a hurry to go back and did not agree.
Finally, Song Qinghua helped them contact a driver, who drove them home and paid for their taxi fare.
"Yuyu, how can you run around? You might get lost, don't you know?" Deng Xiuzhen has been holding Qin Wenyu since she found him. She has been blaming herself and regretting since Qin Wenyu disappeared.
"Mom, don't you like Yu Yu anymore?" Qin Wenyu looked at Deng Xiuzhen steadily, with a nervous expression, and his little hands crossed and twisted.
"When did mom not like you? Mom has always liked you!"
"But, but you haven't hugged me or talked to me properly for many days." Qin Wenyu pouted.
"Mom, you're busy. There are a lot of things going on at home lately."
"But, Mom, you will sneak away and leave me alone!"
"Yuyu, why do you think so? Why would mom not want you?"
"I heard you guys say yesterday that you were going to move to the city, and then you left early in the morning with your bags and money. Mom, I'm scared. Mom, Yuyu will be very good, please don't leave Yuyu, okay?"
Deng Xiuzhen hummed heavily, her nose and eyes felt sore. She lowered her head, wrapped the child in clothes, and coaxed him to sleep.
Maybe he was tired, or maybe it was almost time to go to bed, Qin Wenyu fell asleep quickly.
He had a sweet smile on his face in his sleep, but his hands were tightly grasping Deng Xiuzhen's clothes.
When getting off the car, Qin Yanlin wanted to take the child, but Qin Wenyu woke up immediately and held Deng Xiuzhen even tighter.
Then he hugged Deng Xiuzhen's neck and refused to let go.
It was not until they returned to their familiar home that Deng Xiuzhen repeatedly assured him that she would not leave. She put him on her bed and promised to sleep with him today that he let go of her hand and lay down on the bed obediently.
Deng Xiuzhen came out and found Wen Jing and Wen Xin standing at the door waiting for her.
The two children looked at her eagerly, and Wen Jing said carefully: "Mom, it's not that we don't want to go find Yuyu, it's that Auntie won't let us. She said we can't help, and if we get lost, it will be even more chaotic."
"Aunt told us to stay at home and not go anywhere. She also didn't let us come back after dinner. Uncle just came home and sent us here." Wen Xin said while pursing her lips.
Deng Xiuzhen sensed that they were very nervous and was about to say something to comfort them, but was interrupted.
"Xiuzhen, have you found Wenyu?" Xiumei hurried in, followed by Chunsheng and Xiumei's husband Li Shihua.
"I found it. Why are you here at this time?" Deng Xiuzhen asked. Then she said to Wen Jing and Wen Xin, "Go to bed quickly. You have to go to school tomorrow."
After greeting their uncle and aunt, the two children looked at Deng Xiuzhen, hesitated for a moment, and went back to their room without saying anything.
"In the evening, your brother-in-law came home and said that Wenyu was missing, so I immediately called Chunsheng to come over to see if he could help. As for you, you can't do anything at all. It would be fine if you can't do good things, but how come you also lost the child?" Xiumei started to criticize Xiuzhen.
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