The old lady is reborn

Lu Xiaolan said: "Then...then I will accompany you to rent a house and move. I will leave after you have settled down."

The old lady smiled comfortingly and said, "Stay with me in this old house for a few more days."

"But you can't bear to leave this house? That's right. I don't know what it will look like when I move back."

The old lady nodded first, then shook her head and said, "Not entirely, I have a daughter, the daughter of my old man and I.

At that time, everyone in the village laughed at us. I was embarrassed, but my old man protected me and didn't get angry when people laughed at him. He just thought it was a happy thing.

He only responded when others teased me too much. We had this daughter and cherished her very much.

But she has a red birthmark on the back of her neck, which is still visible unless she wears high-necked clothes or lets her hair down.

When she was five years old, her friends in the village saw the birthmark on the back of her neck, laughed at her, and she came home crying.

My husband and I had originally planned to take her to Yancheng to see a doctor. After all, she is a girl, and it would be great if the red spot could be removed.

We set off the next day. By then, my son had already found a job in Yancheng. But unexpectedly, due to a moment of negligence, the three of us thought that our little daughter was with each other, and just like that, she was lost.

I cried every day at that time. In less than half a month, I was so thin that my clothes were completely empty.

My old man took me to visit the six surrounding counties to look for our daughter. We searched for five years. Fortunately, we met a girl about ten years old in Huyang County. My old man said that her eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as mine when I was young.

But her nose, mouth and chin all looked like my old man. I was standing there and saw that she couldn't walk for some reason. Her legs were weak and she couldn't lift them.

The sun was shining brightly, but at that moment I felt that the world was dark. It was a warm day, but my hands and feet were cold. Apart from watching her cry, I couldn't even make a sound when I opened my mouth to shout.

I was so anxious at that time, but I couldn't move. Fortunately, my old man's legs were as fast as a young man at that time, and he caught up with him.

And I, the useless one, slowly sat down on the ground. They said that the howl coming out of my mouth didn't sound like a human voice, but like a lone wolf about to jump off a cliff - Huanxi, that's my daughter's name.

It was also strange. Many people around me couldn't understand what I was shouting. The accent of the people in Huyang County is different from ours, and the sound I made was also strange.

But the girl seemed to understand, turned around and walked towards me step by step. "The old lady burst into tears again.

"Since then, I have believed that there are gods, Buddhas and Guanyin Bodhisattva in this world.

No matter how the people around her didn't understand what I said, she knew as soon as she heard it that I was calling Huanxi, her name that was unknown to others.

She remembered that when she was a child, someone always called her like this.

She still had a red birthmark on the back of her neck, but it was much lighter.

I originally thought that the birthmark would fade as my daughter grew older, but it wasn't the case.

My daughter Huanxi turned out to be a blessing in disguise. She was kidnapped by a trafficker and sold to a big medicinal herb merchant in Huyang County.

The family's surname is Yan, and one of them is a doctor in the capital. My little daughter grew up with the legitimate daughter of this family, and she also studied a little, learned to read, and could write.

Moreover, the family took great pains to treat this little girl, giving her medicine to drink and medicinal baths. Fortunately, the birthmark became lighter and lighter.

When the lady saw me later, she said, "No need to thank me. We have herbs and medicine shop at home, and we can make soup and medicine. It's not a big deal." I thought, how can it really be a big deal? She was just kind-hearted.

The lady also said that since the child was abducted, the indenture should be returned to us directly, and whether to take the child away or keep him as a servant was to be decided between Huanxi and us.

I am truly grateful from the bottom of my heart.

My daughter doesn't want to leave because she can't bear to leave the young lady she grew up with.

I am a little worried. A child's future can be determined by his appearance at the age of three. My daughter is not a very smart person. Coming from such a wealthy family, I am worried that something might go wrong for her in the future.

An older maid who accompanied us said that the maids who took care of the young lady came in groups. When Huanxi was five or six years old, she could not do anything and was just the young lady's little playmate.

Waiting to be led and taught by the older maid, she is ten years old now and is almost able to become a younger maid. In another two or three years, she will be the older maid beside the young lady.

A maid who was born in the house or a maid who grew up with the young lady in the mansion since childhood will marry with the young lady in the future.

She comforted me, saying that the lady and the young lady both liked my daughter's honesty and loyalty. A maid with special abilities was raised separately, and it was not the same thing.

After hearing that, I happily let them stay. They took great care of my daughter, raising her, educating her, and treating her illnesses. She was finally able to work, but I took her away. How could that be?

Since I found her, we have been in contact all these years. Although the things in our farmhouse are not worth much, I have never stopped sending them to Mrs. Yan, Miss Yan and my daughter.

I asked someone to write a letter to my daughter. My son can't be relied upon anymore, so I'm waiting for my daughter's reply. If she doesn't care about this matter, I'll accept it. I'm old anyway, so we can just live together.

If there was someone to back me up, I would also want to say no.

I heard that half of the money was used to buy a large house in that village. I think my in-laws should go back to their village and live with their son."