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Chapter 16 Mom, I'm scared
"Yanlin, let them go back first, let's continue searching," Qin Xiuwen advised.
"Okay," Qin Yanlin agreed, then said to the three people, "You guys go back first, I'll look for it some more, thank you."
"Then we'll head back now, I'm so sorry," the three said, getting into the car and leaving.
Qin Yanlin originally wanted Qin Xiuwen to go back with him, but thinking that more people meant more hope, he refrained from saying so. The three of them briefly discussed it and decided to head towards Puzhong, searching the streets, this time planning to ask house by house.
Right next to the station is a restaurant, next to which is an office, and further up are some residential buildings. Across the street is Puzhong.
Qin Yanlin went to restaurants and residential buildings to inquire, Deng Xiuzhen went to her workplace and residential area to look for information, and Qin Xiuwen went to Puzhong.
Qin Yanlin became increasingly anxious as he searched, because everyone said they hadn't seen it.
As Deng Xiuzhen asked the questions, she burst into tears because no one had seen such a child come.
"Found him! Found him! Yanlin, Yanlin! Found him!" Qin Xiuwen stood at the entrance of Puzhong and shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice echoing throughout the area.
"Where? Where is it?" Qin Yanlin ran out of a house, but he tripped and fell while running. He immediately got up and ran towards Qin Xiuwen.
“Inside, in someone else’s house,” Qin Xiuwen replied, his voice hoarse from shouting.
"How is Wenyu? Is he alright? Take me to see him quickly!" Qin Yanlin asked anxiously.
"Yanlin, Wenyu is fine. Let's go call Xiuzhen first, so she won't keep looking."
The two hurried to the workplace and called out Xiuzhen's name loudly. Soon, Deng Xiuzhen also came out, and the three of them went together to the family that had taken in Qin Wenyu.
The family had already met Qin Xiuwen and knew that the child's parents were coming soon, so they left the door open.
Once the three of them arrive, they can go straight in.
They spotted Qin Wenyu eating right away, but he had already changed his clothes.
"Yuyu!" Deng Xiuzhen rushed over and hugged the child tightly.
"Mom, Mom!" Qin Wenyu turned around and saw Deng Xiuzhen. He shouted loudly and burst into tears.
After inviting them to sit down, Song Qinghua told them that he had set up a snack stall opposite Puzhong. Around 2 o'clock, he saw a child walking over alone. The child stood in front of the stall, looking at it again and again, swallowing hard.
He then asked the child if he was hungry.
The child nodded repeatedly.
When asked where his parents were, the child replied that they had gone to the city.
He figured the child must be lost. So he made the child a bowl of wontons and told him to sit down and eat slowly.
After the child finished eating, he said he wanted to find his mom and dad.
He was afraid that if the child ran away, he might encounter bad people and be taken away by them.
They thought the child's parents would definitely come back looking for him.
But when he was about to close up shop, no one came looking for him, so he took the child home. He figured that even if his parents couldn't find him, they would definitely call the police, and the police station would be able to find him, so he took the child home.
Song Qinghua praised Xiao Wenyu, saying that the child was very well-behaved. She told him that as long as he waited here, his parents would come to pick him up, and he stopped making a fuss.
Liu Xiaozhen, who was standing next to her, also praised the child: "The child is really obedient. He eats obediently, takes a bath obediently, and even wants to read a book after eating."
He was overflowing with gratitude, and it was all from the bottom of his heart. If they hadn't taken the child in, who knows what would have happened to him?
When they left, they gave Song Qinghua 300 yuan, but Song Qinghua refused to accept it.
The two kept pushing and shoving each other until Qin Yanlin said, "If you don't accept it, we won't feel right. How can you keep making us feel uncomfortable?" Only then did Song Qinghua accept it.
There were no more buses going back, so Song Qinghua asked them to stay the night, but they were in a hurry to get back and declined.
Finally, Song Qinghua helped them contact a driver who drove them home, and they paid for the taxi fare.
"Yuyu, how could you run around like that? You know you'll get lost!" Ever since they found Qin Wenyu, Deng Xiuzhen had been holding him tightly. From the moment Qin Wenyu disappeared, she had been blaming herself and filled with regret.
"Mom, do you not like Yuyu anymore?" Qin Wenyu stared at Deng Xiuzhen, looking uneasy, his little hands twisting and turning.
"When has Mommy ever stopped loving you? Mommy has always loved you!"
"But, but you haven't hugged me or spoken to me properly for many days." Qin Wenyu pouted.
"Mom's been busy lately, there's been a lot going on at home."
"But Mom, you'll sneak away and leave me behind!"
"Yuyu, why would you think that? How could Mommy not want you?"
"I heard you say yesterday that you were moving to the city, and then you left early this morning with your bags and money. Mom, I'm scared. Mom, Yuyu will be a good boy, please don't abandon Yuyu, okay?"
Deng Xiuzhen gave a heavy "hmm," her nose and eyes stinging with tears. She lowered her head, wrapped the child in her clothes, and coaxed the child to sleep.
Perhaps he was tired, or perhaps it was almost bedtime, but Qin Wenyu fell asleep quickly.
She had a sweet smile on her face in her sleep, but her hands were tightly gripping Deng Xiuzhen's clothes.
When they got off the bus, Qin Yanlin tried to take the child from him, but Qin Wenyu immediately snapped out of his daze and grabbed Deng Xiuzhen even tighter.
Then he grabbed Deng Xiuzhen's neck and wouldn't let go.
Once they were back in their familiar home, Deng Xiuzhen repeatedly assured him that she wouldn't leave. She then placed him on her bed and promised to sleep with him that night. Only then did he let go of her hand and obediently lie down on the bed.
When Deng Xiuzhen came out, she found Wenjing and Wenxin standing at the door waiting for her.
The two children looked at her expectantly, and Wenjing said cautiously, "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, things will get even more chaotic."
“My aunt told us to stay at home and not go anywhere. She wouldn’t let us come back after dinner either. My uncle just came home and brought us here,” Wenxin said, pursing her lips.
Deng Xiuzhen sensed their nervousness and was about to say a few words of comfort when she was interrupted.
"Xiuzhen, has Wenyu been found?" Xiumei rushed in, followed by Chunping and Xiumei's husband, Li Shihua.
"Found it. Why are you here at this hour?" Deng Xiuzhen asked. Then she said to Wenjing and Wenxin, "Go to sleep quickly. You have school tomorrow."
After greeting their uncle, aunt, and uncle, the two children looked at Deng Xiuzhen, hesitated for a moment, and then went back to their rooms without saying anything.
“When your brother-in-law came home last night, he said Wenyu was missing, so I quickly went to call Chunping to come over and see if we could help. You, you can’t do anything right, and not only can you not do things right, but you also lost the child!” Xiumei said, and began to criticize Xiuzhen.