Chapter 6: Lost daughter

No mother could not feel for her child.

Seeing that Tang Tang was so happy,

as her mother, she naturally rejoiced as well.

However, she did not know whether Gu Chen's change of heart was a passing whim or if he had truly reformed.

She did not know if she would wake up and everything would be the same as before.

With everything unknown, she could only beg him,

'You can do whatever you want to me, but the child is innocent, don't hurt the child's heart.'

Ji Pianran pinched the corner of her shirt, looking a little awkward.

Gu Chen's heart trembled.

His daughter likes him?

This sentence really sounds both ridiculous and sad.

In the past two years, he has basically never returned home, so how could the child have any feelings for him, and still like him so much?

He knows in his heart.

It was the woman in front of him.

She had always silently helped him maintain the image of a father.

It had really not been easy.

It was only a few days until she left, and this time, he said he would do anything to keep her!

Gu Chen took a deep breath and silently placed the bowl and chopsticks in his hands on the table.

A pair of deep, serious eyes looked over at Ji Pianran's face.

'Can you give me five days? I promise I won't let you down. I know I've done a lot of wrong, but I still want to be brave and give it a chance.'

'I will definitely try my best to be a good father and a good husband.'

Gu Chen was a little nervous when he spoke.

After all, he really had done a lot of wrong.

And there were only five days left before the New Year.

He thought that she should already be prepared to leave.

It was probably useless to say all this now.

He lowered his head after he finished speaking, as if he were a criminal awaiting sentencing, extremely anxious.

Unaware of this, when these words fell into Ji Pianran's ears, a trace of surprise actually appeared on her face.

Especially the sentence, 'good husband.'

Her slender eyelashes trembled, and she didn't know what to say.

She immediately lowered her head and continued eating.

Neither of them spoke.

After dinner, Ji Pianran got up to clear the table, but Gu Chen stopped her.

'Let me do it, you go play with Tangtang.'

Ji Pianran nodded.

It was completely dark by now, and Tangtang should be coming back to bed.

Thinking about this, Ji Pianran went out the door and went next door to Auntie Zhang's house.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw that Auntie Zhang's rabbit cage was open, and none of the rabbits inside were there.

Ji Bianran couldn't say why, but seeing this scene always made her feel extremely panicked.

She hurriedly pulled the door and entered the house.

'Auntie Zhang, where's Tangtang?'

Auntie Zhang was washing the dishes in the house at the moment, and when she heard the sound, she hurriedly came out and wiped her hands with her apron.

She looked at Ji Bianran with a puzzled expression.

'Tangtang is here?'

Seeing Auntie Zhang's confused look, Ji Bianran's heart tightened.

It's over!

The child has run away!

She spoke in a panic, 'Yes, just now, Tangtang said she wanted to come and see the rabbits, so I didn't think much of it and let her come alone. When she just came in, she saw that all the rabbits were gone.'

Hearing that the rabbits and Tangtang were both gone,

Auntie Zhang hurried outside without saying a word.

She opened the door and looked out, and sure enough, the rabbit hutch in the yard was open.

There was originally a baby rabbit in there, and she had been thinking that after the New Year, it would grow up and she could catch it, so that next year she could hold a litter of baby rabbits.

Now the rabbit had disappeared along with Tangtang.

She thought, 'Did Tangtang take the rabbit out to play with?'

'Who knows?'

Ji Pianran was beside herself with worry.

The two of them walked out of the house, ready to look for Tangtang.

At this moment, Gu Chen had just finished washing the dishes and was in the courtyard about to have a smoke when he heard the voices and footsteps of the two of them.

He immediately put the cigarette out and ran out.

When she saw Ji Pianran, her eyes were red and she was about to burst into tears.

He hurriedly reassured her, 'Don't worry, our village isn't big, we'll definitely find her. Let's split up and look for her!'

Ji Pianran knew that this was the only way to go about it.

She wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes.

'Yes, let's split up and look for her, we'll definitely find her,'

Auntie Zhang couldn't help but persuade her, seeing how pitiful Ji Pianran looked.

The three of them then split up to look for her.

Gu Chen had not walked for a few steps when she saw Tang Tang walking back, hugging the rabbit.

She hurried up to the child and picked her up, along with the rabbit in her arms.

'Where have you been?'

The little girl was beaming with happiness.

'Grandma Zhang's rabbit ran away, so I helped her catch it.'

Gu Chen: '...'

Luckily, the rabbit was young and couldn't run fast, otherwise a two-year-old child really wouldn't know when they would catch up.

It's not even certain that she would have caught it if it had been lost.

Gu He secretly held his breath, 'Next time, don't run around, understand?'

Tang Tang smiled at Gu Chen and held out her right hand for him to see.

It was a small piece of wilted broccoli, the edges of which had already turned yellow.

'Dad, look at how pretty this flower is,'

Gu He hugged Tang Tang with his left arm and took the broccoli with his right.

When he moved his hand, a few seeds actually fell off.

Gu Chen was afraid that the seeds would fall, so he slightly tightened his hand to hold them all.

Then he looked at them more closely.

It was estimated that someone had picked the vegetables and broken off this bad part, throwing it on the ground.

Tang Tang thought it was a flower and picked it up.

It was winter, the time when fresh vegetables were most lacking, and the New Year was approaching.

Every family celebrates the New Year and has to buy some vegetables for the New Year.

Gu Chen immediately thought of the sacred field.

I wonder, what will happen if this cauliflower is planted in the sacred field.

Gu Chen's house is close to the intersection, and Ji Pianran looked for a while but found nothing, so he turned back immediately.

He was walking towards the east end when, after not walking for long, he saw Gu Chen holding a child.

His heart relaxed, and he hurried over and took the child in his arms.

'You child, it's dark, where have you been?'

After saying this, the corners of her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

Tangtang is, after all, a child, and very young.

At this moment, she didn't feel that she was in the wrong at all, and she was still pointing at the bag in Gu Chen's hand and smiling.

'Mommy, look, I just picked a very pretty flower and gave it to Daddy.'

Upon hearing this, Ji Pianran glanced at Gu Chen's hand.

'Tangtang, you're a good boy, but you can't run around in the future, or it'll be bad if you meet a bad person.'

At this moment, Ji Pianran was walking in front, holding Tang Tang in her arms, while Gu Chen was walking behind alone.

Ji Pianran took a few steps and looked at Gu Chen again.

'You go back first, I'll go and get Auntie Zhang to go back with me.'

Seeing that Gu Chen nodded, she then walked forward with Tang Tang in her arms.

Gu Chen returned home and, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, entered the space.

There was no sun here, and what was strange was that the weather seemed fine, with a temperature that was neither hot nor cold.

Beneath his feet was a field of more than one mu in size, and the dark brown soil looked no different from the land outside.

Not far away was a pool of spring water, bubbling up towards the surface.

It looked crystal clear.

Gu Chen bent down, dug a few times with his hands in the spiritual field, and then buried the little vegetable flower and some of the seeds that had fallen out in the soil. Worried that they might not survive, he scooped up some water from the spiritual spring and poured it on top.