Chapter 117: She Loves Her Daughter Very Much

Li Xuan knew that she loved her daughter very much.

But she was also truly terrified of setting foot in that place.

For forty years, every one of her nightmares had been related to that place.

Ming Zi:...

"Li Xuan, I really had nothing better to do than to meddle in your affairs! Get lost! I'm done with it."

If she weren't thinking of Shen Yuan—the child she had held since she was little, the child who had been raised under Rongrong's care—she wouldn't have said a single word of nonsense to Li Xuan.

If Si Rong hadn't gone away for a travel wedding, she guessed Si Rong wouldn't have cared either.

Princess Si Rong was more resolute than she had imagined.

Li Xuan was struck with terror and immediately moved to kneel again, "I'll go with you! I'll lead the way! You just promised to help me one last time."

"Just now was just now, now is now; I don't want to go anymore."

Ming Zi now understood why Li Xuan's mother had named her Jianmei; it was likely that one can see a person's future at age three, and Li Xuan was base to the core.

One simply couldn't be too good to a person like this.

Li Xuan hadn't expected Ming Zi to go back on her word.

She really did start handling the work at hand; not only was she wearing the most fashionable clothes of the moment, but this company was even hers.

That a woman who latched onto a wealthy man could live so well made Li Xuan quite resentful.

But even if she felt bitter inside, Li Xuan wasn't stupid enough to say anything at this moment; the top priority now was to get Ming Zi to go with her to save her daughter.

"I beg you," Li Xuan pleaded bitterly, "Ming Zi, just look at the fact that no matter how many wrong things I've done over all these years, I've never harmed you; please help me! Xiao Yuan is truly too pitiful."

All these years, she had deceived Si Rong and harmed Si Rong, but she had never done anything to Ming Zi.

"You're crazy!" Ming Zi felt that her brain's wiring was truly different from a normal person's, "Following your logic, just because you didn't harm me, I have to be grateful and indebted to you?"

However, that girl Shen Yuan was indeed pitiful to have ended up with a mother like that.

After thinking it over repeatedly in her heart, Ming Zi still decided to go with her.

It could be considered satisfying her curiosity of all these years: what kind of soil and what kind of people could actually raise a creature like Li Xuan.

Ming Zi drove the car and also brought along two security guards from the company.

Li Xuan's hometown was closer than she had imagined; it was a place called Kongque Zhen.

It was certainly much better than her own hometown in the mountain gullies.

But Li Xuan seemed very afraid of this place; from the moment they entered Kongque Zhen, she stared out the car window and became jittery.

Especially when they arrived near her home, cold sweat began to bead on Li Xuan's forehead.

The car stopped, immediately attracting a whole street of people to come and watch.

When Li Xuan got out of the car, she hid herself behind Shen Chi.

"Hurry up! If you dawdle any longer, I'm going back to Huaiyang right now!" Ming Zi urged.

The neighbors crowded over and asked tentatively, "Is Jianmei back?"

"It really is Jianmei! Why haven't you come home for so many years? Is it because you think our Kongque Zhen is poor?"

The smile on Li Xuan's face was suddenly uglier than crying, "Auntie, I... I've been working outside, I'm usually quite busy..."

"Busy, so you don't want your home? It wasn't easy for your mother to raise you! She's been looking for you everywhere all these years..."

"Nainai, have you seen this family bring back a young girl?" Shen Chi asked straightforwardly.

He gestured with his hand, "She's about this tall."

The neighbor old woman recalled for a moment, "They seem to have brought a little girl, but they aren't home; they just went out."

"Then Auntie, do you know where they went?"

The neighbor old woman's eyes darted about strangely, "How would we know that? They probably went out to play. By the way, it's time to cook, I'm going home first."

Before long, the neighbors who had gathered around had all dispersed completely.

Hearing that Li Xuan's mother wasn't home, Li Xuan actually felt a sense of relief.

"Xiao Yuan must have been sold by them to that fool's house!" She remembered a fool in town that Li Xuan's mother had once mentioned to her.

"Where is their house?"

This, Li Xuan truly didn't know; having been away from home for many years, she really wasn't clear about the affairs in this town anymore.

She didn't even know when their old house had been rebuilt.

"Ask!"

Shen Chi made a prompt decision.

They asked everyone they saw and soon learned about the town's fools from the children in town.

There were three fools known to everyone.

Ming Zi gave the candy from her bag to one of the children, and only then was the child willing to lead the way for them.

On the way to the second fool's house, they ran into Li Xuan's mother and Li Dabao.

Not expecting to run into them here, Li Xuan's mother came up grinning, "What? Is Jianmei back to her maiden home?"

Li Xuan clutched her son's arm tightly, "Where is Xiao Yuan?"

"Jianmei, what are you talking about?" Li Xuan's mother snorted coldly, "How would I know where your fool daughter is? You dare to talk to your mother like that just after getting back? I think your skin is itching for a beating again! Dabao, teach her a lesson for me!"

Li Dabao raised his hand to strike, but Shen Chi blocked him in front of Li Xuan, "Stop! I'll only give you one chance now: return Xiao Yuan, otherwise, I'm calling the police. This is the crime of human trafficking!"

"I've already called the police," Ming Zi paced up to the old woman, "You don't have much time; if you know your mistakes and correct them, perhaps the police will be more lenient with you later."

She knew that towns like this all had local bullies, so calling the police directly was more effective.

Li Xuan was shocked, "How could you call the police?"

Without even discussing it with her?

If the police were called, Li Xuan's mother would definitely be very angry, and if she were angry, she would make things even harder for her.

"I don't want to talk to you," Ming Zi lowered her head to glance at the watch on her wrist, "the police will be here soon."

Li Mother was so angry her teeth were chattering.

She frantically pinched Li Xuan's arm.

Sure enough, the police arrived very quickly.

Li Mother lay down on the ground and started acting shamelessly.

Whenever the police touched her, she would claim she couldn't catch her breath or something similar, until Ming Zi suggested that everyone in the Li family was an accomplice.

If they couldn't arrest the old woman, then they would arrest her son and grandson; only then did Li Mother finally climb up from the ground.

"What is it? What on earth are you all trying to do? Does me, an old woman, arranging a marriage for my own niece bother you people?"

Ming Zi:...

She probably understood where Li Xuan's train of thought came from now.

Li Dabao was terrified and gave in before his mother, leading everyone all the way to the family that had bought Shen Yuan.

When they arrived, a series of screams like a pig being slaughtered were ringing out in the courtyard.

Seeing the police arrive, the old couple in the courtyard stiffened.

They had been peeking through the window, watching their son and daughter-in-law consummate their marriage.

What did these people want?

The fierce-looking woman glared viciously at Li Mother.

Li Mother immediately lowered her head, feeling guilty.

The police officer asked her, "Did you sell Shen Yuan to this family?"

Li Mother nodded.

"Go! Find the person!" the captain ordered.

The Tong Family parents blocked the entrance to the main room with their arms, "Let's see who dares to delay my son's wedding night!"

The daughter-in-law was someone they had bought for two thousand yuan.