Upon hearing this, Mao Yuling remained silent for a moment, then said, "I will go find him, that man surnamed Chen..."
"There's no need to waste time dealing with him. The Xiang family has no intention of keeping him around. He can't cause any trouble."
"I'm worried that your dad might run into something."
“Even if we run into them, we might not recognize them. Besides, he’s about to leave the ancient city completely. As long as that woman keeps going crazy and he can leave the ancient city completely, we’ll let them go.”
That's all we can do.
"I will contact the doctor to get things done."
"Killing is unacceptable, but failing to cure an illness is not the doctor's fault."
Mao Yuling chuckled, “I have my own way of doing things. You should control your temper. No matter how much your father and I quarrel, we are still husband and wife. He wouldn’t dare to do anything to me, but you should always leave room for maneuver.”
At night, after dinner, Xiang Nanzhi played with Tangyuan in the bedroom. Tangyuan would fall asleep and then start to laugh.
When Xiang Nan saw him, she wanted to tease him more, but she found that no matter how she tried to make Tangyuan laugh, he wouldn't.
The nanny said that Tangyuan's laughter was unconscious; it wasn't that he wanted to laugh or that he felt happy. It was just a subconscious reaction, meaning that Tangyuan himself didn't know he was laughing.
Xiang Nanzhi felt it was pointless and asked the nanny to take the baby out again.
The entire Xiang family home had fallen completely silent. Xiang Nanzhi, unable to sleep, put on his coat and sat outside. He walked through the corridor and saw a room with its door closed.
Xiang Nanzhi had been at home for so long and didn't even know such a place existed. She pushed the door open, and inside was a photograph of a woman.
The person in the photo looks a lot like her. The room is filled with photos of her when she was a child, her older brother when he was a child, and her father when he was young.
My father looked much more handsome when he was young than he is now. Now he is more mature and composed, but when he was young, he had a refined look in his eyes. Standing next to my mother, they were a perfect couple.
It's a very old photo, a bit blurry.
Xiang Nanzhi closed the door, looked at the photos inside, and then looked up at the enlarged one in the middle.
Because she didn't know she didn't have a mother when she was little, Xiang Zhengyi dragged her around to find mothers, and she called all the nannies who took care of her when she was little "Mom".
When she grew up and found out it was fake, she was very angry. Knowing that her mother was gone, she stopped bothering her father to ask.
Upon suddenly seeing her mother's photo, Xiang Nanzhi felt a special sense of warmth and familiarity.
There happened to be a mirror in the room, and the light was on, illuminating the entire area within sight.
The room felt particularly warm and cozy. The deceased did not frighten her; instead, it gave her a feeling that was both strange and familiar.
This must be my mother. It turns out there's a place in the house dedicated to her. My mother was never a part of my life, yet she lost her life because of it.
Xiang Nanzhi experienced the hardships of childbirth in order to give birth to Xiang Yun, and her eyes welled up with tears when she saw her mother's photo again.
"Mother……"
The woman in the mirror was actually quite different from her mother in the photograph.
Lin Chunxia is gentle and elegant, with a scholarly air about her in every gesture. Her smile is like a gentle breeze, and her sweet smile is like cherry blossoms clustered together, their petals fluttering in the sunlight.
Xiang Nanzhi picked up one of the photos. The people in the photo were her eldest and second eldest brothers, and her mother was holding their two little hands, her belly slightly protruding.
The father was probably handling some work; although he was holding the phone, he smiled slightly at the camera.
This is the most complete family photo ever taken. The baby in her belly is definitely her; there won't be any more outside.
The eldest and second eldest brothers haven't changed much, so they're easy to recognize.
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On the third day of Rooney's care for Shen's mother, she suddenly disappeared when Rooney woke up that morning.
Rooney panicked and frantically searched everywhere for someone. After looking around the hospital, he realized the seriousness of the situation and called Shim Sehun.
"Sehun, Mom, Mom's gone..."
"I was gone as soon as I woke up. The hospital staff helped look for me, but they couldn't find me."
The disappearance of a woman with some mental issues who had never left the grasslands speaks volumes.
Shen Shixun jumped into the newly bought second-hand pickup truck and drove at high speed from the main road below the grassland towards Latu.
"What's going on?"
"What's wrong with the boss?"
When Benhao called, Shen Shixun was driving. The sun was slowly rising ahead, turning half the sky red, and even the grass on the ground and the clouds in the sky were illuminated.
"Boss, what's wrong?"
“I have to go to Latour. Do what you did yesterday and deliver it to the guesthouse next door.”
The guesthouse agreed to help recommend them to customers, and they could help with beef and mutton products, but they would have to take a cut.
Shen Shixun didn't say anything. He had no sales channels right now, so he would sell whatever he could, because everything was difficult at the beginning.
"Has everything been agreed upon?"
"It's settled. The farm is now yours. You can help milk the milk whenever you have time. I've already taught you how to process it."
"Okay, okay..."
After hanging up the phone, Benhao was still a little dazed. Such a big farm was being handed over to a few newcomers?
This boss is really careless. Isn't he afraid they'll just run off with a few cattle and sheep?
When Shen Shixun arrived at Latour, Rooney had not yet found Shen's mother. Being unfamiliar with the place, Rooney asked around, but the Han Chinese could not understand his language, and the Gong people said they had not seen her either.
Rooney was frantic, asking around everywhere.
Upon seeing Shim Sehun, Rooney almost cried, "It's over, Gila will definitely kill me."
“Gira…”
"Find someone first, have you called the police?"
"I asked the nurse to call the police, but now I don't know what to do."
"Get in the car."
"Did you bring this car?"
It has been almost three hours since Shen Shixun arrived here from the farm, which means that Shen's mother has been missing for at least three hours.
He didn't drive at the hospital, but drove near it. Rooney kept muttering to himself the whole way, "If I can't find my mother, I'll just shoot myself. I'm too ashamed to go back and see Gila."
"Stop talking nonsense and find someone first."
"It's all my fault. If I hadn't said I'd stay here to take care of Mom, you wouldn't have gone back. I should have stayed on the farm."
Rooney hasn't been doing well in the hospital these past few days. He just can't adapt to life outside, and he can't adapt to living in a cramped, four-cornered room.
After listening to Rooney's complaints the whole way, Shen Shixun parked the pickup truck at a general market closest to the hospital. Just as he jumped out of the car, his pants were snagged by something on the ground.
It hung down to his calf, tearing a hole in his pants. "Where did these things come from on the ground?"
Shen Shixun kicked the iron ring on the ground away, and Rooney said, "Your pants are torn, and your clothes are torn too."
Shen Shixun paused for a moment, recalling what his mother had told him, "A-Yuan took me to buy fabric, saying that I could buy it so I could make my own clothes..."
These days, it's rare to find places that sell fabric, but Latour does.
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