Mu Shan acted quickly, and with the intervention of a large number of security personnel, the unrest at the city gate finally subsided for a while.

The conflict arose because everyone wanted to enter the city. Guangming County promised that everyone could enter the city, and used force to suppress the conflict, so the refugees did not dare to disobey.

Li Zimu soon brought some administrative staff to the city gate and expanded the number of registration openings for refugees to ten. Immediately, the refugees entered the city much faster, and the gate was not as congested as before.

Shi Anan was also at one of the registration points, helping the refugees entering the city register: "Next!"

Another group of ragged people came up, led by a white-haired old man, which was not common among the refugees. The elderly, children and women were all vulnerable groups. Most of those who could walk here alive from so far away in the south of the Yangtze River were young and middle-aged men. Even women were rare, let alone elderly people of such an old age.

Shi Ananduo took a closer look and saw two middle-aged men supporting the old man on his left and right. He must have been taken care of by the old man's son all the way, which allowed him to walk here safely.

He was a filial son. Thinking of this, her voice softened and she asked in a routine manner, "Old man, what is your name? How old are you? How many people are there in your family? Where did you come from?"

"My name is Bai Youcai, I am sixty-five years old, I came from Jiangnan, and my family..." the old man answered carefully.

But the name Bai Youcai seemed to have been heard somewhere. Shi Anan paused for a while while registering. But after thinking for a long time, she couldn't figure out where she had heard this name from. She didn't think too much about it and let the old man go through first after registering.

The next one was the old man’s eldest son, who also introduced himself: “My name is Bai Mingtang…”

"Wait!" Shi Anan suddenly had an idea and stopped registering. She looked at Bai Mingtang in surprise and asked, "Are you from the Bai family, the richest family in Jiangnan? Do you know Bai Mingzhu?"

That's right, Shi Anan suddenly remembered the history of the rise of the Bai family, the richest family in Jiangnan, when Fu Xin was telling her how rich Aunt Bai's family was in the Shi Mansion.

She said that the name Bai Youcai sounded familiar. If it was just this one name, she might have thought it was a coincidence. However, his eldest son was named Bai Mingtang, and Aunt Bai's original name was Bai Mingzhu, and her eldest brother was also named Bai Mingtang. Plus, they also came from Jiangnan, so it couldn't be such a coincidence!

After Shi Anan mentioned Aunt Bai's name, the old man who had been sitting quietly beside her suddenly became emotional. He rushed up and grabbed Shi Anan's arm and asked, "How do you know Bai Mingzhu? Have you seen our Mingzhu?"

Xiao Yi, who had just heard about the situation at the city gate and was walking over, saw Shi Anan who was captured at a glance. Although he didn't know what had happened, he immediately used his lightness skills to flash in front of Shi Anan, subdued Bai Youcai and dragged him away.

Bai Mingtang, who was standing by, just reacted to the series of changes and hurried forward to hold the emotional Bai Youcai: "Father, don't worry."

Then he looked at Shi Anan and Xiao Yi and apologized, "My lord, I'm sorry. My father was a little emotional and didn't mean to hurt you. Bai Mingzhu is my sister. She has been missing since the disaster that happened a year ago. So my father got worried when he heard about my sister."

Bai Mingjie, who was waiting to register with other members of the Bai family on the other side, didn't hear the noise here clearly, but when he saw his father's movement, he anxiously wanted to go over, but was stopped by the security team.

Shi Anan saw their reactions and knew that she had not recognized the wrong person. She pulled Xiao Yi who was blocking the way in front of her, indicating that she was fine, and then said to Bai Mingtang: "I do know Bai Mingzhu, and I know her situation, but there are too many people here now. I see that your family members haven't come yet. I will explain to you after I finish counting, okay?"

Bai Mingtang nodded repeatedly: "Of course, of course, you go ahead and do your work, we can wait."

At this time, Bai Youcai had calmed down from his previous extreme behavior and stood quietly aside without disturbing Shi Anan anymore.

The team returned to order, and Shi Anan kept registering, but she was not as calm as she seemed. First, she did not expect to see the Bai family here, and second, she did not know how to tell the Bai family that Aunt Bai had passed away.

Seeing how much Bai Youcai missed Aunt Bai, she really couldn't bear to tell him the cruel truth, and was afraid that the old woman wouldn't be able to bear it.

After registering all the members of the Bai family, Shi Anan whispered to Xiao Yi for a while. Only then did Xiao Yi know the relationship between this group of people and Shi Anan. He looked at Bai Youcai in surprise and left to inform him.

Shi Anan called another staff member to continue counting the remaining refugees, and she walked up to the Bai family and said, "Come on, follow me, we'll talk in detail when we get there."

Bai Mingtang and Bai Mingjie looked at each other and hesitated for a moment, but they still helped Bai Youcai up and decided to go with Shi Anan. They were sure that they didn't know Shi Anan, and they didn't know if Shi Anan had any other purposes, but they finally had the chance to get news about their sister, and they didn't want to miss it, not to mention that they had nothing to lose now.

There was no conversation along the way. Everyone in the Bai family followed Shi Anan silently to where she worked in Guangming County.

Shi Chengze had already received Xiao Yi's message and rushed over first, looking anxiously at the door.

Seeing Shi Anan coming with a group of people, Shi Chengze excitedly came out to greet them, but stopped the moment he saw Bai Youcai.

The Bai family also saw the young man coming out to greet them. Bai Youcai stared at Shi Chengze with his cloudy eyes and asked uncertainly, "Brother Ze?"

Shi Chengze's tears flowed down in an instant. This time he did not hesitate and walked directly to Bai Youcai, supported him, and shouted, "Grandfather!"

Bai Youcai didn't expect that the person he missed would appear before him like this. He grabbed Shi Chengze's hand and said repeatedly, "Okay, okay, Brother Ze has grown up so much!"

Bai Mingtang and Bai Mingjie were also very happy. Although this nephew had been rather naughty and misbehaving in the past, he was his sister's only child after all and was very close to them. They were naturally happy to see that he was safe and sound.

Shi Chengze also saw his two uncles beside him and called them affectionately.

Bai Mingtang responded, saying happily: "I'm glad you're all safe, Ze'er. Why didn't I see your mother? Didn't your mother come to your house?"

When Bai Mingzhu was mentioned, Bai Youcai also glanced at Shi Chengze with a little expectation.

But when Shi Chengze heard them mention Aunt Bai, the sadness that he had suppressed before suddenly came out again, and he choked up and said, "Mother, mother...she's dead..."

"What!" Bai Youcai fainted when he heard the bad news.

"father!"

"Grandpa!"

Because of Bai Youcai's fainting, the Bai family was in a state of confusion for a moment. Shi Chengze was also very worried and felt guilty. Seeing this, Shi Anan hurriedly said to Xiao Yi, "Quick, call Doctor Li to take a look!"

Xiao Yi left quickly, and Shi Anan asked the Bai family to carry Bai Youcai into the lounge in her office. After Xiao Yi dragged Doctor Li over and worked hard to make sure that Bai Youcai had just fainted from the shock and was not in danger of life, they calmed down.

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