ATBWSTBP Chapter 97
by VolareChapter 97: Jin Mother Encounters Li Shan
Jin Mother walked out of Slow Residence and stood at the entrance, raising her head to look at the rising sun just emerging from behind the mountains, and let out a long sigh.
Only after casting off the shackles did she realize what she had missed!
She had played the role of a fake person for most of her life, and she was tired!
Returning to this forgotten hometown and staying in the place where she spent her childhood, the deepest and most primitive emotions buried in her heart were gradually released.
The past could no longer be changed.
She decided that from now on, she would be a free and authentic version of herself.
This place had changed beyond recognition!
She walked around the perimeter of Slow Residence, trying to find a familiar object.
In the end, apart from the mottled old walls in front of her, she couldn’t find any old memories.
She reached out and stroked the mottled old wall.
Fortunately, Jin Baiyan had preserved some of the old house’s structure, otherwise, even this old wall wouldn’t be visible!
Leaning against the old wall, she took a selfie and sent it to Jin Huaiyang.
Jin Huaiyang had just finished a meeting and walked out of the conference room when he received the photo sent by Jin Mother.
“Where is this?”
He asked casually.
Jin Mother’s lips moved, and she raised her hand to reply.
“My home!”
“Your home?”
“Yes, my home before I was eighteen!”
Jin Huaiyang was stunned and took a long time to reply.
“You went to your old home? Didn’t you say you were coming straight back?”
Jin Mother laughed twice.
“Do you know that Baiyan changed his name to Bai Xian, and he also bought my father’s old house and turned it into a guesthouse! I’m right outside this guesthouse now.”
Jin Huaiyang sat down in his chair, staring at Jin Mother’s message, not reacting for a long time.
He and Jin Mother had met in college.
It was love at first sight.
But as the eldest son of Jin Corporation, how could he marry a village girl?
Even though Jin Mother was very outstanding and beautiful, she couldn’t meet the standards of the Jin family’s patriarch.
The family had already found him the best marriage partner.
He had considered giving up, but he couldn’t pull himself away.
In order to be with Jin Mother, he had racked his brains.
He used the life-saving favor he had done for Pei Yuanqing when he was a child to make him recognize Jin Mother as his adopted daughter, erasing all of Jin Mother’s past.
From then on, Jin Mother broke off contact with her small mountain village, and she didn’t even show her face when she sent little Bai Xian to his grandfather’s place.
“Wife, I’m sorry!”
Jin Mother received the message and smiled.
“Sorry for what? You were doing it all for me! Besides, you’re not the only one who was wrong! Forget it, let’s not talk about it. Anyway, I’ve thought it through now. I’ve been pretending for decades. Now I’m going to be myself!”
Jin Huaiyang smiled when he saw Jin Mother’s message.
“Okay, whatever you want!”
Jin Mother put away her phone and began to stroll along the ancient village path!
In the past, this place was just a mountain hollow, with high and low areas, and the villagers lived relatively scattered.
In order to create a new, emerging mountain village that maintained the natural scenery and was suitable for tourism, those high and low hills were leveled.
Some of the villagers’ houses with better foundations were preserved a little, and renovated on the basis of the original buildings.
Some were built into guesthouses, some into farmhouses, some into libraries, teahouses, small jewelry stores…
Every time Jin Mother passed a shop, she would look around, hoping to meet an old friend.
She was like someone who had lost something, searching along the way little by little…
Uncle Li, carrying freshly picked vegetables, passed in front of Jin Mother, glanced at her casually, and continued towards his home.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at Jin Mother again.
Jin Mother also noticed Uncle Li.
The two looked at each other for a while, and then raised their hands in unison.
“Xiao Shanzi!”
“Xia Jie!” (Sister Xia)
Jin Mother excitedly walked up to Uncle Li, and the load on Uncle Li’s shoulder slipped off.
“Oh, really, Xiao Shanzi! You didn’t leave?” Jin Mother was so excited that she lost all her composure.
Uncle Li pointed to his house.
“My house has been converted into a farmhouse!”
Jin Mother looked in the direction Uncle Li was pointing.
Memories also revived.
Originally, there was a small slope between her house and Li Shan’s house. The two houses, which were only fifty meters apart in a straight line, actually took ten minutes to walk to.
When they were young, the nearby residents were scattered, and there were not many people to play with.
She and Li Shan were two years apart, so they played together a lot.
The two, who had not seen each other for forty years, were very excited.
“Xia Jie, Uncle Bai’s house has been converted into a guesthouse!”
Li Shan smiled, his face full of wrinkles, making him look a round older than Jin Mother.
Jin Mother smiled, “Yes, I just came from there!”
“You recognized it?” Uncle Li seemed very surprised, “This area has changed too much. If it were me, after so many years, I wouldn’t recognize it at all!”
Jin Mother’s face flushed slightly.
“Bai Xian bought his grandfather’s old house and converted it into a guesthouse!”
“Bai Xian?” Uncle Li was completely shocked this time, “He’s back? How come I didn’t see him?”
Thinking of the aloof young man he had seen a few days ago, he suddenly slapped his thigh.
“No wonder he looked a bit familiar. So that’s little Xian! He’s still the same as when he was a kid, doesn’t like to talk!”
Jin Mother nodded.
“Yes, but he’s much better now, thanks to Jin Mo!”
“Jin Mo?” Another soft, cute little baby appeared in Uncle Li’s mind, and the shocked expression on his face never faded.
“Are you talking about the Jin Mo that Uncle Bai picked up? Wasn’t he taken away by the people from the orphanage after Uncle Bai left? Did you find him again later?”
Jin Mother sat down on the stone bench next to her, smiling as she said, “It wasn’t me who found him, it was Bai Xian who found him himself!”
Uncle Li simply put down his load and sat down as well.
“When Bai Xian was five years old, he couldn’t speak yet. A master fortune teller said that he needed to find a child with strong earth energy, so I took him to the orphanage. In the end, he found Jin Mo!”
“Really? Didn’t you go to Kun City?”
“Yes!”
“But Jin Mo was taken away in Yucheng, how did he end up in the orphanage in Kun City?”
Jin Mother shook her head, “Who knows!”
Uncle Li opened his mouth, “Fate!”
“Yes, fate!”
Jin Mother echoed with a smile, “Oh, by the way, my father passed away suddenly back then, and he didn’t tell me what exactly happened to Jin Mo? Was he abandoned by someone?”
Uncle Li touched his forehead.
“I don’t know! Uncle Bai said that he took little Bai Xian to the fields to pull weeds, and when they came back, there was a little baby in the cart.”
“The two children were as dirty as if they had been rolling in the mud. He wanted to hold the baby, but little Xian stubbornly refused to let go.”
“He walked around nearby, but there wasn’t even a ghost shadow, so he brought the person back!”
“He’s definitely not from our area!”
“We all guessed that maybe people from outside didn’t want him anymore, so they threw him in our mountain hollow.”
“I was there when Jin Mo first came. After he was washed clean, he was fair, chubby, and soft and cute. If it were me, I definitely wouldn’t be willing to throw him away.”
“The clothes he was wearing were also very nice, very comfortable to touch!”
“Oh, that’s right, about a year or so after Uncle Bai left, someone came to ask if they had seen a child. When I saw the photo at the time, it seemed to be Jin Mo!”
When Jin Mother heard this, she was so shocked that she almost jumped up.
“What happened later?”
“Later, the person who was asking heard that Jin Mo had been taken away by the people from the orphanage, so they never came back!”
Jin Mother’s heart instantly fell back.
It seemed that Jin Mo was not an abandoned child, but why he appeared out of thin air in her father’s tricycle became a mystery!
The two chatted for a while, exchanged contact information, and then parted ways.