Chapter 281 - 273: Old White Lotus
Before Auntie could finish her words, Guiyuan, like a madwoman, rushed home, followed closely by Niu Sanxian, who was extremely anxious. He asked the Auntie to watch the restaurant and hurried after his daughter.
Sisi learned of the events from Niu Sanxian; that day, Guiyuan’s mother-in-law went out to pick Qingming grass, leaving her grandson who was napping at home alone. She just locked the door and left. When she returned after picking the Qingming grass, she discovered Junjun was missing. She was terrified and searched everywhere to no avail. According to people on the street, it seemed that a man and a woman were seen carrying a child towards the bus station.
The Niu family and Guiyuan’s husband’s Wang Family mobilized all their relatives and friends to search for Junjun, but there was no news. The last update was that a middle-aged couple with a foreign accent was seen boarding a bus to Sui City with a sleeping little boy, and after that, they were never seen again.
Sisi only knew about this a week after Junjun had gone missing. An aging Niu Sanxian came to the He family’s home to drink and brood, giving her a huge shock; could she really not believe that the little one who tenderly used to call her "big sister" was just gone?
The next day when she rushed to Guiyuan’s house, Guiyuan’s husband, Wang Quanzhong was also there, his face filled with sorrow, incessantly smoking while sitting in a chair. The room was filled with smoke, making Sisi’s throat itch. After comforting Wang Quanzhong briefly, she entered the inner room.
Guiyuan sat in the inner room like a puppet. According to Wang Quanzhong, she had been sitting like that for a week, only leaving her spot to drink some rice soup and use the restroom, ignoring everyone else.
"Junjun, please come back. Mama will never leave you behind again."
It had only been a week, but Guiyuan had lost so much weight that she was unrecognizable, her lips cracked and eyes lifeless, she kept repeating that sentence, a sight so heart-wrenching to witness.
Tears uncontrollably rolled down Sisi’s cheeks. She still preferred the chubby and loud Guiyuan of the past. Even though she was a bit brash, she was happy then, not like now, looking like a walking corpse!
"Sister Guiyuan, please don’t be sad anymore. If Uncle Niu saw you like this, he would be heartbroken!"