Chapter 3 Return Home
Chapter 3 Return Home
"Did you find it?"
When Liu Chunxia saw her son coming back, she stood up and went to greet him, but her son still kept his head down and said nothing, so she realized that the person had not been found yet.
Thinking of her daughter's beautiful face and the series of rape cases that had occurred in other neighborhoods during this period, Liu Chunxia felt a chill in her chest, her eyes went dark, and she fell down.
"Second sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
"Mom, Mom, how are you? Wake up, Mom!"
The younger sister-in-law Fang Cuiying helped her sister-in-law to lie on the kang and immediately pinched her Ren Zhong. After a few seconds, Liu Chunxia took a long breath and woke up slowly.
"Second sister-in-law, are you feeling better? Don't worry, I've asked Qiangzi to mobilize his friends to go out and look for Qingqing. I guarantee that Qingqing will be brought back safe and sound. And Qingqing is still young. Maybe she was having fun at her classmate's house and forgot about time..."
Liu Chunxia shook her head. She knew her daughter best. Before she was seven years old, she looked like a crazy girl, running around every day. But after she fell down the stairs that year, this girl suddenly changed her personality.
She stayed at home every day and didn't go out to play. When she was bored, she would read books or draw to pass the time, or run around the yard, and even learned boxing from her uncle.
At such a young age, he doesn't like to interact with people of the same age, and he talks less and less, not like a child at all.
At first she thought the child was sick, but after a long examination, the doctor said that she was healthy and it might be a psychological problem. But at that time, there were no doctors who could treat psychological problems, so she had to bite the bullet and talk to her daughter.
Maybe because she was annoyed by her, the girl finally had a long talk with her. The girl said that she had a dream in which she was bullied badly. She was scared, so she didn't want to run around anymore.
She just thought it was funny at the time and wanted to say that these were just children's imaginations, but the panic on her daughter's face made her swallow her words back.
Perhaps to feel at ease, she secretly asked someone to go to the temple to get a talisman to hang on her daughter's bedside. Ten years passed in a flash.
During these ten years, this girl didn't make any friends and her temperament became colder and colder. Except for the teachers who praised her for being smart, studious and motivated, her classmates thought she was an outlier.
Thinking of this, tears welled up in Liu Chunxia's eyes again.
Something must have happened to this poor girl! She would never stay out so late just to play around!
Fang Ming's face was full of self-blame. If he hadn't delayed the time, his sister wouldn't have been missing until now!
"Don't worry, Mom. My sister will be fine. I'll go look for her now. I will definitely bring her back!" After saying that, she opened the curtain and quickly disappeared into the night.
The Fang family was in a gloomy mood at this time, and there was chaos outside as well.
Fang Qing's uncle Zhao Qiang found all his co-workers and good friends and mobilized them to check along each street bit by bit.
But after most of the night had passed and the entire small county had been searched thoroughly, Qingqing was still not found.
The men of the Fang family felt heavy in their hearts, not knowing how to face their heartbroken families when they returned. They huddled against the wall, and cigarette butts soon covered the ground under their feet.
Zhao Qiang took the last puff of his cigarette, stood up abruptly, stepped on the cigarette butt angrily, looked at his brother-in-law and two nephews squatting beside him, and sighed.
"Brother, take the child back to rest first. I will go and look for him farther away with my brothers. I don't believe that a living person could be gone."
Zhao Qiang hugged his hat tightly, stamped his numb feet, and strode into the night.
The entire Jingtan County was busy for most of the night, and finally even the police were mobilized to check every suspicious location, but still nothing was found.
After assigning tasks to his subordinates, the police station chief Wen Youliang finally returned home with stiff feet. He knocked on the door for a long time before his son Wen Ning came out.
Wen Ning opened the door, but before he could explain to his father the fact that there was a new person in the house, his sister Wen Ling ran out and grabbed their father to talk to him about everything.
"You mean, the child is in our house now?" Father Wen was a little confused. They searched the entire county, and the child was right under their noses?
Seeing Fang Qing awkwardly lifting a corner of the curtain and slowly walking out, Father Wen was stunned. He pointed at the two children for a long time, and finally had to sit on the chair angrily, holding his knees in anger.
"You two saved someone, why didn't you tell me earlier? There was a commotion outside last night, but you three didn't hear anything in the house?"
Wen Ling pouted and explained, "Last night she was blocked in the alley by a group of hooligans. We were afraid that they would come back, so we didn't dare to open the door when someone knocked. Who knows if the people outside are good or bad guys..."
After hearing this, Father Wen sighed helplessly. No matter what, at least the child was fine, and their work was not in vain. He stood up resignedly and pushed his bicycle out the door.
"Well, I don't need to rest anymore. I'll take her home right now so that her family won't be worried all the time..."
Fang Qing turned around and looked at the brother and sister, bowed deeply to them, and wanted to say something but was pulled out of the door by Wen Ling again, "Okay, okay, let's go home first. Anyway, we are in the same school, and we will have plenty of time to chat later."
Fang Qing sat in the back of the car, carefully holding the armrest under the seat, then turned around to look at the entrance of the courtyard.
The brother and sister were standing in front of the door. When they saw her turn around, they smiled and waved.
In the morning light, the boy and girl stood there quietly. The golden sunlight cast a layer of light over them, making them look like fairies in the sky, instantly dispelling the demon in Fang Qing's heart.
Fang Qing watched this scene for a long time, until the car turned a corner, she looked away. However, a hint of vitality finally appeared on her face that had not smiled for many years.
Fang Qing was sent back to the Fang family safely. As soon as she entered the door, Liu Chunxia ran out and hugged her daughter. She looked her up and down several times. Seeing that she was really fine, she cried and pounded the child's shoulder.
"You naughty child, where have you been... wuwuwuwu... Do you know that your family is so worried! You heartless child... Why did you come back just now..."
Seeing his mother almost going crazy, Fang Qing finally went forward and hugged her, venting out all the grievances he had in his previous life that he had no one to cry about.
Although it has been ten years since her rebirth, she has been shrouded in the fear of the past all the time during these ten years.
But it was not until this moment that she finally understood that as long as she did not let go of the past and did not dare to face the new life, her soul would always stagnate at that moment.
Looking at her relatives around her and her still young and healthy mother in front of her, Fang Qing felt truly grateful for the first time to God for giving her the chance to start over.
Leaning on her mother's shoulder, she burst into tears.
"Mom, I'm back."
(End of this chapter)
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