Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1116 - 357: Thieves, A Good Turn_3

Chapter 1116: Chapter 357: Thieves, A Good Turn_3

Liyan mentioned that the child was the one Little Black had picked up before New Year, and by now they had been caring for the child for seven or eight days. At first, the child was full of fear towards strangers, and had tried to run away; when Mo Yan stepped forward to stop her, she was bitten.

These past couple of days, the child’s condition had indeed improved. The three meals sent to her were almost entirely eaten, and her appetite was gradually increasing. Mo Yan had not personally visited, but heard from Lixiu, who delivered the meals, that the child’s wounds were slowly healing; however, she had not spoken a word, and even the cries for help, for her mother, and for her big sister that she used to utter had gradually stopped.

"She actually spoke? That’s really good news, let’s go; I’ll take a look too." Upon hearing that the child had started to speak, Mo Yan was also very happy, as this indicated that the child was getting better, and maybe in a few days she would remember her own identity. Then, Mo Yan could help find her family, and perhaps they could all be reunited.

In the past, Mo Yan had considered starting with the textile workshop that abused children to find out the child’s background but Xiao Ruiyuan had sent word saying that all the children in the workshop were bought from traffickers.

There were too many children passed through the hands of the traffickers, who could not remember where each child was from, only that they vaguely recalled buying her from Yongcheng.

Yongcheng was the city where the Mo Family had hoped to seek shelter during the year of the refugee crisis. Later on, after meeting Xiao Ruiyuan and others, and heeding the advice of Xiao Eleven, they had made the right choice and were fortunate to arrive in Jing City.

Upon learning that the Mo Family had rescued a child, Wu’s had not seen her yet, and as she had nothing to do at the moment, she said with a smile, "I’ll go and see her with you. If it turns out to be impossible to find her family, let me raise her. I assure you I will treat her as my own daughter."

Mo Yan heard the seriousness in Wu’s words and knew why she would do so, feeling somewhat distressed yet smiling, "It’s her good fortune that Aunt Wu is willing to take care of her. I was just worrying about how to place her if we couldn’t find her family!"

Wu’s smile turned bitter as she murmured, "I hope my Si Nier can be like this child, to meet kind people like your family, so that she can have a good fate..."

It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought about finding Si Nier, especially after the Wu family’s conditions improved, Wu’s desire to find her daughter grew even stronger. However, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack with so many people around, not knowing where the trafficker had come from or where he went, finding someone was nearly impossible.

Seeing the grief on Wu’s face, Mo Yan felt sorrowful as well but did not know how to comfort her and could only silently pray that Si Nier would encounter a kind family and lead a safe and smooth life.

The three of them quickly arrived at the room where the child was staying, only to see her sitting quietly at the table with Lixiu talking to her and gently combing her hair.

When the child saw the somewhat unfamiliar faces of Mo Yan and the others, as if startled, she yelled out and suddenly stood up wanting to hide in the corner of the table.

Lixiu caught her and patted her back, comforting her in a soft voice, "Don’t be scared, don’t be scared, they are all good people. She’s the one who told me to bring you food every day, and it was her horse that rescued you."

Speaking of which, Lixiu pointed at Mo Yan, momentarily forgetting that the child’s mental state was damaged and could not understand what she was saying.

Although the child did not understand, she trusted Lixiu who brought her food daily. Seeing that Lixiu did not send the three visitors away and that they looked very kind, especially the adult in the middle, who gave her a familiar feeling, her instinct told her this person would not harm her.

For a moment, the child let down her guard but still stayed hidden behind Lixiu, too afraid to come out. She only used her large, protruding eyes to watch the three people.

However, this state was much better than before. If one didn’t look at her emaciated body and sunken cheeks, she was no different from a normal child.

"Tsk tsk, this Lixiu is quite talented, she managed to soothe this little wild cub so quickly." Xue Tuanzi’s voice suddenly piped up, sounding quite surprised.

Mo Yan rolled her eyes in her mind and replied, "It was Aunt Li’s sincerity that won her over, how did it become deceiving Little Red Riding Hood with the big bad wolf when it comes to you?"

"Wrong! It’s the big Red Riding Hood deceiving the little wolf cub." Xue Tuanzi stubbornly insisted she was not wrong and began to argue with Mo Yan.

Mo Yan couldn’t be bothered to bicker with it and decisively blocked the connection in her consciousness, walking towards the anxious child.

Lixiu knew that the first step to allowing the child to live like a normal person was to make her no longer afraid of others. Seeing the child constantly hiding behind her, she soothingly reached out to hold Mo Yan’s hand while comforting the child, "Don’t be afraid, Yanyan is a good person, she won’t hurt you. Look, I’m holding her hand now, I’m not deceiving you, am I...?"

Thanks to Lixiu’s persistent consolation, the child finally relaxed a bit more. She peeked her head out from behind Lixiu’s back, her especially large eyes because of her frailness looking at Mo Yan innocently.

Little did she know, her appearance evoked even more pity from Mo Yan, who tentatively reached out to touch the child’s face. The child unexpectedly did not dodge but instead rubbed against her hand because it was warm and soft, much like Mao Tuan when he was a kitten.

Mo Yan’s heart softened, and she said gently, "You’re younger than me, would you mind calling me ’sister’?"

The child was particularly sensitive to the term "sister." She looked at Mo Yan with a puzzled expression and, encouraged by Mo Yan’s gaze, turned her head and called out "sister" to Lixiu, her voice exceptionally clear.

In the child’s eyes, only Lixiu, who brought her food every day and talked to her, could be her sister. In her few remaining memories, her own elder sister overlapped with Lixiu in some aspects, giving her a natural trust in Lixiu.

"Mhm, sister is here."

Lixiu, looking at the child with compassion, wrapped her in her arms, touching the child’s skinny body, wishing she could fatten her up right away. Originally married into the Zhang Family, she was despised by them for being childless for many years, which led Zhang Ming to hook up with a widow and heartlessly abandon her.

Very few women do not wish to have children, and Lixiu, too, harbored a desire to be a mother. In fact, after taking care of the child for so many days, she had already started treating her like her own. But since the child called her sister, she didn’t mind it in her heart either.

Watching this warm scene, Wu’s, who had been silent from the start, seemed somewhat distracted, as if she saw her own Si Nier clinging to her in the same manner. However, she wasn’t a good mother; she couldn’t even protect her own child...