Chapter 79: Reclaiming the Child

Lan Mo shared her speculation with Doctor Zhu and Doctor Xiao, who looked at her with disbelief.

“Doctor Lan, are you serious about this?”

“Dan Dan knows that Tian Xiuxiu. You can take her to Zhujiawan to find out if it’s true. But first, let’s go to this auntie’s house and see what’s really going on with her son’s leg!”

“Alright!”

Lan Mo turned to the old woman and said, “Auntie, please wait a moment. After we finish the physical examinations for everyone, we’ll go to your house to check on your son.”

“Okay, thank you!”

Several doctors conducted the examinations for the villagers simultaneously. An hour later, after finishing their work, they followed the old woman to her home.

The family was truly poor. They had four sons, and only the eldest had married, but his wife had run away.

Six people crowded into three dilapidated mud-brick houses. Strings of salted fish hung under the eaves, and the smell carried by the wind was overwhelming.

Entering the room, they saw a gaunt, bearded young man lying stiffly on the bed.

His cheeks were sunken, his hair sparse and yellowish, and his eyes were hollow, looking utterly dispirited and defeated.

The old woman walked over and called out, “Son, the doctors are here to check your leg!”

The man lifted his gaze slightly and said flatly, “Mom, we have no money left. How can we afford to treat my leg? To treat these legs, we already owe the production team dozens of yuan, right? Forget it, let’s not treat it. I’m just wasting food anyway.”

“Xiao Li, why does your father take your younger brothers out to sea fishing every day? Isn’t it to cure your leg? That Zhu Tianxiu left, so let her go. Mom will find you another wife later.”

“Mom, don’t bother finding me another wife! Save any money we have for my younger brothers to marry. Someone like me would just waste money on a wife.”

Doctor Xiao suddenly spoke up, “Young man, how can you say that? You just broke your leg; it’s not an incurable disease. You should cheer up, get your leg treated, and not worry your parents.”

Doctor Zhu chimed in, “That’s right, young man, don’t be so pessimistic.”

Lan Mo didn’t offer any words of comfort. Instead, she directly said to Doctor Xiao, “Doctor Xiao, please help me roll up his pant legs. I’ll examine him to see what’s going on.”

“Alright!”

Only then did the man notice that there was a beautiful female doctor standing in his room, leaving him momentarily flustered.

Lan Mo carefully unwrapped the makeshift bark bandages around his calves and found that it was just a comminuted fracture. It wasn’t a spinal injury that would leave him bedridden for life, so she didn’t understand why they were so pessimistic.

Sigh, it seems poverty is the root of all this trouble!

“Auntie, has your son’s leg been treated with herbal medicine frequently?”

“Yes, we asked a barefoot doctor from the neighboring village to check on him twice.”

“Then let him rest and recover properly. Once the bones heal, he’ll be fine naturally. During this time, avoid giving him stimulating foods like shrimp or crab. Instead, make him more bone broth! His leg is already slowly healing, so you don’t need to worry too much.”

Lan Mo continued speaking as she re-bandaged him, “When you have time, take a stool outside and hold him in the sun. Oh, Auntie, does your daughter-in-law’s mother have a large pink fleshy mole on her left eyebrow?”

“Doctor, do you know her?”

The three doctors exchanged glances. It seemed Lan Mo’s guess was correct—that Zhu Tianxiu was indeed Tian Xiuxiu.

“She took her daughter to our town hospital for an abortion.”

“That damned Old Yu Po, how dare she abort my Old Sun family’s child!”

“Auntie, don’t worry yet. That Zhu Xiutian fell and gave birth to the child that same night. The mother and daughter abandoned the baby at the hospital and secretly ran away. The police are searching everywhere for them.”

Hearing that the child had been born, the young man finally showed some vitality. He said excitedly, “Doctor, is the child okay now? Is it a boy or a girl?”

“A girl!”

Lan Mo thought they would be unhappy upon hearing it was a girl, but unexpectedly, the old woman laughed first. “A granddaughter is good! My Old Sun family finally has a baby girl.”

Sun Xiaoli also laughed. “Mom, I have a daughter.”

“Yes, you have a daughter. You need to pull yourself together quickly! Doctor, can I go with you to the hospital to see the child? She’s our Old Sun family’s child. I must bring her back to raise.”

Lan Mo looked at Doctor Xiao and said, “Do you think we should take Dan Dan to Zhujiawan first to confirm?”

Doctor Xiao thought for a moment and said, “It’s better to confirm once more!”

After discussing, they decided that the old woman would take the nurse named Dan Dan to Zhujiawan first to confirm whether Zhu Xiutian was indeed Tian Xiuxiu. Meanwhile, Lan Mo and the others would ride their bicycles back to the hospital first.

Upon returning to the hospital, Doctor Xiao immediately reported the matter to the Hospital Director. Overjoyed, the director went straight to the Police Station.

As soon as Li Jing received the news, she rushed over, grabbed Lan Mo’s hand, and asked, “Doctor Lan, have you found the child’s family?”

“We can’t be 100% sure yet. Wait patiently—we should know by tonight.”

Li Jing was almost certain the child’s family had been found. Smiling, she began to complain, “Doctor Lan, you have no idea—this little girl is very quiet during the day, but she cries nonstop at night.

I couldn’t sleep well all night! Look at my eyes—don’t they look like a panda’s? This little rascal is really hard to handle!”

Lan Mo felt relieved inside. Thankfully, she hadn’t agreed to Li Jing’s request yesterday, or she would have suffered too.

By evening, the police officers brought the old woman and her second son, Sun Xiaoming, to take the baby girl home.

As for Zhu Tianxiu’s family, they were in a sorry state. Since Zhu Tianxiu had just given birth and was still in her postpartum confinement period, the police officers didn’t take any severe action against her—they only gave her a verbal criticism and education.

Old Yu Po, however, was arrested and detained for several days, forced to attend political education classes every day.

The mother and daughter’s act of abandoning the child at the hospital and running away eventually became widely known. They probably wouldn’t be able to hold their heads up in public anymore, right?

Sun Xiaoli decided to forgo the money and formally filed for divorce from Zhu Xiutian. If he didn’t divorce her, who knew if she might go crazy again someday and sell their daughter without anyone knowing?

Learning from this incident, the Hospital Director immediately ordered two large iron gates to be installed at the hospital’s main entrance.

By seven o’clock in the evening, the hospital gates were locked. If anything came up, just shake the big iron chain!

Everything returned to peace once more. Lan Mo quietly went about her shift, happily raising her silkworm babies in the evenings, and gleefully stealing “vegetables” from her friends.

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something. Now that her soul power had grown stronger, could she go see her birth parents one more time and perhaps send them something?

【Flower Fairy, are you there?】

【Little pitiful one, what is it?】

【Now that my space is soul-bound, can I take another piece of Dream Return Millennium? Can I take two pieces within a month?】

【As long as your soul power is strong, taking two pieces shouldn’t be a problem. Tell me honestly, how many Dream Return Millennium flowers do you have left?】

How many could there be? She returned four, sold one, and gave three to “Little Useless in the Cultivation World.”

She only had two left herself, and she had already consumed one petal.

【This Dream Return Millennium flower—the space buys it back for 200,000 Gold Coins each. I only have five petals left now. Flower Fairy, why do you need so many Dream Return Millennium flowers?】

【You mortals selling such precious immortal flowers for just 200,000 Gold Coins each is truly a waste of heavenly treasures! Just hearing this makes my blood boil, and I feel like exploding. Next time, please go easy—don’t steal so much. It’s not easy for me to grow immortal plants either.】

Hehe, this little fairy is so amusing, but she seems quite easy to talk to.

【Flower Fairy, I’ll send you a few Heavenly Silkworms as compensation. In the future, if you have any good things, please save some for me. Have pity on this little pitiful one!】

【Heavenly Silkworms?】

Lan Mo didn’t say another word. She went straight to the winnowing basket, picked out two silkworms, plucked two large baskets of Seven-Colored Mulberry Leaves, and sent them over.

Ding-dong!

“Flower Fairy of the Immortal Realm” opened the Gift Box and saw that they were indeed Heavenly Silkworms, which only existed in their Immortal Realm.

Aren’t these Heavenly Silkworms supposed to be raised exclusively by the Weaver Girl? How could mortals have Heavenly Silkworms?