"Who are you looking for?" The old dean who was selling spiked potatoes at the nearby stall came over and asked with a kind smile.

The plainly dressed middle-aged couple looked at each other and carefully took out a photo from their breast pocket: "We are looking for this child. He is our son, named Meng Yangyang. Our hometown is Songjiang. Two years ago My daughter-in-law took the child back to her hometown. When I got off the train, there were too many people and it was very crowded. My son was taken away in the chaos at that time. My wife called the police at that time. Unfortunately, the kidnappers who robbed him were not found. Beat the child After being abducted by kidnappers, our couple searched for people everywhere. A few days ago, I heard someone say that a website for the rescue of lost persons was set up on the Internet, and there were a lot of news about lost children. We asked a college student to help us look it up. Just a moment. I happened to see Yang Yang's photo. The two of us immediately bought tickets and rushed over."

"Meng Yangyang?" Everyone couldn't help repeating after hearing the words.Then they looked at the disabled children who were sitting next to the jelly stand and listening to all the sounds around them.

"So your name is Meng Yangyang." Huo Baichuan knelt down and rubbed one of the children's head with his big hands.

The child was slender and thin, and looked only five or six years old.Small arms and legs, curled up like a kitten.When the police rescued the person, they asked the child for his identity information, but the child could not remember anything.So when Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan posted missing person information online, they only posted a photo.In order to protect the privacy of the child, there was no mention of the fact that the child became disabled after being abducted.Basically, I didn't report much hope.Unexpectedly, Meng Yangyang's family members were the first to find him.

Hearing Huo Baichuan's words, the child was also stunned.He raised his head and stared blankly in the direction of the couple.Look at a loss.

The middle-aged man also noticed Meng Yangyang's gaze, and looked over excitedly: "Yangyang! Yangyang! My Yangyang, you have suffered. I am Dad!"

"Yangyang." The woman also ran over excitedly, hugged the child without explanation, touched the head and kissed the cheek: "Mom finally found you. That's great, don't be afraid. Mom is here."

While talking, the excited woman suddenly felt something was wrong, and asked in surprise: "Yangyang, why don't you speak? I'm a mother? What's wrong with your arm and your leg? And what's wrong with your eyes? You Can't you see it?"

The woman shook the child in her arms vigorously, the child frowned uncomfortably and struggled weakly.Seeing this, Huo Baichuan quickly pulled the man out of the woman's arms: "...don't get too excited, he's even uncomfortable."

Tao Yan glanced at the dark astonished couple: "These children were blinded with quicklime water by human traffickers, and poisoned to make them dumb. They were afraid that they would run away, so they broke their limbs and threw them on the street. Go up and beg."

"Impossible!" The woman couldn't accept this reality at all, and yelled, "No way. My son was still healthy and able to run and jump when he was abducted. It's impossible."

"This is not our child." The woman said, looking at her husband.His eyes were flustered and he couldn't choose a word: "This can't be our child. Our child is not disabled."

As soon as these words came out, the surroundings suddenly fell silent.

The man glanced at the faces of the people around him, stretched out his hand to grab the excited woman, and persuaded in a low voice, "Calm down."

The old dean silently glanced at the bewildered child, then gave the volunteer aunt a look and motioned for the aunt to take the child away first.

"Let's find a convenient place to talk." The old dean said in a deep voice.

So amid the whispering discussions among neighbors in the surrounding neighborhood, a group of people left People's Square and returned to the orphanage.In the dean's office, the old dean poured two cups of iced sour plum soup for the guests who came from afar.

"Xinbao...oh, it's the Yangyang you mentioned. He was a victim rescued by the police when they cracked down on the human trafficking gang. Because his relatives and family members could not be found, he stayed in the same place as the other five victims for the time being. Our welfare home."

Except for Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan who could tell their names and ages accurately, the other four children could not speak.The old dean gave them names and nicknames, namely Huanbao, Yingbao, Xinbao and Laibao.It means that the Red Heart Orphanage welcomes new babies.

The couple obviously still couldn't accept the fact, the woman kept saying, "How could he be disabled? Why are those kidnappers so cruel and disabled the child. He is only seven years old this year. How to live?"

Hearing the woman's repeated chatter, the old dean sighed slightly, and then smiled and said, "Since you are here to find relatives. As the dean of the orphanage, I am of course willing to cooperate with you in finding the children. It's just the experiences of these children. It's rough... I'm not saying that I don't trust you two. It's just that I don't want the children to have fun until things are completely cleared up. If you are not the child's biological parents, or if you don't intend to recognize the child— —”

"How could you deny it?" The woman immediately interrupted the old dean's words, and explained with excitement: "I didn't say I didn't recognize the child. It's our own flesh and blood, even if he is blind and is poisoned and dumb. He has become disabled, and that is our own child. We will not deny him."

"I understand." The old dean nodded at the couple, smiled and comforted: "I mean, of course, you must make sure that this child is your own, so that you can take him away. I believe you are too This means. I have come here from all over the world, and I have to find out everything. This is responsible for you and the children."

The husband and wife looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering what the old dean meant by these words?

"Yangyang is indeed our child. I have proof." The woman hesitated for a moment, but still took out their family portrait, household registration booklet, and ID card from her bag: "Look at the child in this photo, isn't it? Exactly the same as Yangyang? That's right, our child."

The old dean took the photo and looked at it carefully.The baby being held by the man in the photo looks about the same age as it is now, except that there is a little baby fat on the face.The appearance is also seven or eight points alike.

"This photo of yours was taken two years ago? It does look a bit like it. But there is no guarantee that Yang Yang is your child." The old dean looked at the husband and wife who were impatient and wanted to defend themselves, and waved his hands: "You guys Don't worry. Since this child was entrusted to our orphanage by the police, I, as the dean of the orphanage, have to be responsible to him. I can't just hand over the child to you to take away."

"How can this be casual!" The woman immediately became anxious: "We are his biological parents. Isn't it natural for biological parents to come to find their children? Do you suspect something? Do you suspect that we despise children? , suspect that after we take the child back, we will treat him badly because he is disabled?"

"Do you want money?" The man also said: "I understand, this child has stayed in your orphanage for so long, food and drink are all expenses. We want to take him away, so we should really take this child away." The pen expense was reported—”

"You misunderstood." The old dean interrupted the couple's words dumbfounded. She looked at Director Shang, then at Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan who were standing silently at the side, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Do you know about dna paternity testing?"

The couple were taken aback when they heard the words.

The director of the business looked over thoughtfully.

The old dean smiled and said: "It's a medical technology that can identify whether you are biologically related. I suggest you do this paternity test. If it is confirmed that Xinbao is your family's Meng Yangyang, then I will not have it." Any obstruction, I will let you take him away."

"Then do it." The woman blurted out, "We'll do it."

Everyone in the office looked at Director Shang in unison.

Director Shang thought for a while and said, "I'll go to the city bureau tomorrow to ask you about how to do this dna paternity test. It must not affect the family reunion."

The old director suddenly laughed, got up and said to the couple, "You guys should stay in the orphanage tonight. You can take the child away when the results of the paternity test come out."

While the old dean was talking, he went to open the door, and the children who were lying behind the door eavesdropping were caught off guard and fell down one by one.

Under the eyes of everyone, the children lying on the ground smiled innocently, scratched the back of their heads and said, "Good night, Auntie Dean. Good night, Uncle Director. Good night, everyone. We are going to wash up and go to bed too!"

Before he finished speaking, he ran away scrambling.

"These children." The old dean smiled, and said to the couple, "You go and wash up first, and I'll let you make the beds for you."

After a pause, the old dean warned again: "Before the paternity test, I personally suggest that you should not have too much contact with Xinbao. In case the paternity test results come out, he is not your Meng Yangyang. I think You probably wouldn't adopt him either, would you?"

Xinbao's situation is different from other children in the orphanage.Although the child is young, he has suffered a lot.Of course, the old dean hopes that the couple are really Xinbao's biological parents.In any case, at least there is a comfort to the child's spirit.But if the whole thing was a misunderstanding, the two of them had the wrong guy.The old dean didn't want Xinbao to suffer too much.

The cruelest thing in this world is not that there is no hope, but that when you clearly see hope, it disappears in an instant.

The old dean is not sure if Xinbao can bear it if this matter is really a misunderstanding.So she would rather not let them have too much contact until the results of the appraisal came out.

The couple fell silent when they heard the old dean's words.Although the two of them are sure that the new treasure is their family's Meng Yangyang.But there are still things in this world after all.What if it really isn't?The two of them will never pick up other people's children.What's more, the child is still a disabled person who can't see, can't speak, and has incomplete limbs.

The woman held the man's hand and sighed, "How could such a thing happen?"

The man patted the woman on the shoulder and comforted him, "Anyway, it's a good thing to find someone."

The woman said annoyedly: "I don't know how to tell my family. Our parents are over 70 years old, can we accept it?"

The man was silent.

The woman stopped talking.

In fact, both of them understand.What is more serious is what should the child do after the child is recognized.Although the conditions of their home are not bad, they are not too good either.The child was blind and could not speak, and his hands and feet were broken.Surgery is required for treatment.But where did their family get such a large sum of money?

The woman thought about it, and couldn't help wiping her tears: "Why is our Yangyang so miserable?"

Huo Baichuan persuaded: "Don't worry. We have paid for the treatment of these children. If it is confirmed that he is your child, you can take him back. The cost of surgical treatment is covered by us."

When the couple heard this, they were stunned.In the next second, he was grateful for holding Huo Baichuan's hand.He opened his mouth to explain again: "That's not what we meant either. We didn't dislike children, we just felt..."

"Hey!" The more the husband and wife talked, the more embarrassed they became, and they said with a little shame: "We really don't have the money to do surgery for the child. The four elderly people in the family are all old and have to take medicine every day. Now Yang Yang has changed again. It’s like this. We are really worried about the future of the child. But we really don’t mean to dislike the child. Don’t get me wrong!”

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