The sky gradually brightened, accompanied by the early chirping of a bird from an unknown family. Bai Yunqing, who got up early to go to the bathroom, passed by her daughter's room and took a look inside. She found Jiang Baige sitting in the quilt, quietly in a daze.

"What, are you having a nightmare?"

She asked casually.

"No, it was a beautiful dream... but I don't know if it can come true." After saying that, he didn't intend to continue explaining. Bai Yunqing felt like peeing, so he didn't ask any more questions and went into the bathroom.

Bai Yun woke up, and Jiang Huatao got up too. After tidying up briefly, he went downstairs to buy breakfast - it was already the eighth day of the first lunar month, and breakfast shops were opening one after another.

It seemed as if those things happening outside had nothing to do with Jiang Baige. She silently calculated the time in another dimension in her mind:

At seven o'clock, has Meizhi arrived in Xuyang? Will she contact Aunt An again after she gets off the plane?

At eight o'clock, has Aunt An woken up? Will she check Meizhi's information with Shuxiu to confirm that this is her daughter?

At nine o'clock, Meizhi should have boarded the bus to Fengshui, right? Has she contacted Aunt An?

Jiang Baige's cell phone had been silent like a small coffin, with no sign of waking up in accordance with its owner's wishes.

There was a sound of turning the lock at the door, and Jiang Huatao came back with breakfast, calling his wife and daughter to come eat. Jiang Baige heard the call, got out of bed woodenly, washed up, and sat at the dining table, still looking like a man without seven spirits.

Bai Yunqing stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Jiang Baige: "What are you thinking about? Did you not sleep well last night? How about taking a nap after dinner?"

"fine."

After saying that, Jiang Baige ate her breakfast without any appetite, but one could tell at a glance that she was absent-minded: she didn’t even break the fried golden and crispy dough sticks into small pieces, and put them in the marinade of the braised rice noodles to absorb the sauce before eating... This was really not her style!

Bai Yunqing couldn't bear it anymore.

"you……"

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Baige's cell phone rang happily.

Bai Yunqing Blackberry reacted when she saw a black figure whizzing past her. The speed of his reaction was completely different from that of the person who was so absent-minded even when facing his most beloved food.

Could it be...waiting for a call from her boyfriend? Bai Yunqing followed with some curiosity.

——In a boring life, you must always find some fun for yourself.

But Jiang Baige didn't know what her mother was thinking. She was almost certain that the call was from Shu Xiu. Her heart was beating violently, as if it was equipped with an automatic spring.

Jiang Baige pressed the answer button: "How is it?" she asked anxiously.

"We've already met."

Shu Xiu said these words very calmly, but in Jiang Baige's heart, they caused a huge ripple.

"Is it her?"

"Ah."

Shu Xiu only finished sending this one ambiguous syllable before the phone was passed to another person.

Aunt An said in a tearful voice: "Thank you, Bai Ge."

Jiang Baige hadn't contacted her or heard her voice for some time. This morning, she heard Shu Xiu talk about her situation. Now, she heard the words "thank you". Two completely opposite emotions emerged in a short period of time, creating a huge impact.

Jiang Baige was speechless for a moment.

Fortunately, Aunt An didn't care. She was wrapped in great ecstasy, as if the past twenty-five years of life as a walking corpse were just for this moment of resurrection.

"My daughter has grown up a lot...but as soon as she opened her mouth, I knew she was the apple of my eye."

Her voice became excited and she was almost breathless.

Jiang Baige heard the voice that woke her up this morning, whispering something to comfort her. The phone was back in Shu Xiu's hands again.

"Auntie An was so excited..." Shu Xiu explained with a smile, "She could hardly speak properly and kept hugging Meizhi and crying. Meizhi did the same. The two of them hugged each other in the lobby of the police station. They looked a little funny... but no one came to disturb them."

"Then I have to thank you for remembering me."

"Aunt An brought it up. She asked me to tell you about the mother-daughter meeting because she was afraid you would worry."

Her guess was correct. Jiang Baige finally felt relieved after receiving this call.

But what made everyone even more gratified, and even more unexpected, was that Aunt An's daughter, Meizhi, had been looking for her mother ever since she was old enough to understand.

In the fifth or sixth year after Auntie An was abducted, her then-husband reported her death and remarried a year later. Her ex-husband even told his heartbroken daughter that perhaps her mother was not missing but had run away, and ran away with a wealthy businessman in the south because she disliked him for not having money.

"This person has gone too far."

Shu Xiu also thought so: "Yes. Fortunately, Meizhi is a sensible child. She believes in her mother's love for her."

And that day was Meizhi’s birthday.

The day before, her mother said she wanted to celebrate her birthday with her. Later, the police found the shop where An Zhen ordered the cake, and there was indeed a record of An Zhen ordering a cake...

How could a mother who was about to celebrate her daughter's birthday suddenly elope with someone?

Meizhi didn't believe her father's words, but she didn't argue with him because she was still young at that time. But things were different when she grew up.

She had good grades and left her hometown after the college entrance examination. She received scholarships every year in college and worked part-time. When she graduated, she received a full scholarship to a foreign university to continue her studies and gradually became financially independent.

After graduating from graduate school abroad, she returned to China and found a well-paid job to make it easier to find her mother.

But there were too few clues related to the mother.

Firstly, she was only five years old when her mother disappeared and had no idea what happened at the time. The archival records at that time were not as comprehensive as they are now, so it is almost impossible to go back and find information.

Secondly, after my father remarried, he seemed to want to escape the "shadow" of his previous marriage and left almost nothing of my mother's. Later, he moved again and those things were almost completely gone.

The only two old photos of her mother that Meizhi had were also photos of her and her. But those were taken almost 20 years ago... It was normal for her mother's appearance to change after she had been missing for so long.

This is still under the premise that "she is still alive".

Therefore, although she contacted many organizations that searched for trafficked women, she still had no information about her mother's whereabouts. Later, when the Internet became more developed, she also began to use it.

But how could Aunt An, who was trapped in Wangnan Village, see all this?

"So..." Shu Xiu finally said, "If you hadn't come to Wangnan Village this time, they wouldn't know how long it would take for them to meet again."

Jiang Baige disagreed with this statement because Shu Xiu contributed more. It can be said that Shu Xiu was the first person to lend a helping hand to Aunt An.

But now is not the time to say that.

Jiang Baige was more concerned about something else: "Since Aunt An and her daughter have already recognized each other, what are they going to do with the three burdens in Wangnan Village?"

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