Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Yu Ru lay motionless on the hospital bed. She was sure that the people around her were her family. Her original strong desire to see her family suddenly faded at this moment. She cut off all the words that were stuck in her chest.

Her heartbeat suddenly slowed down, replaced by a tearing, pulling movement that made her chest feel like it was sinking and suffocating.

She lay there carefully, making sure she didn't make any noises that an awake person would make. Tears silently flowed from her eyes. She didn't suck the mucus that came out of her nose, but let it flow. No one saw her tears and mucus, because she was so badly injured that her entire body was almost covered in gauze, and her original appearance could no longer be seen. The tears and mucus that flowed down were also absorbed by the gauze, making them even less visible.

The ward was not very big, and everyone could hear anything that happened. The woman with her leg in a sling next to her could hear everything that Yu Ru's family said clearly.

Out of curiosity, she observed for a while and asked Yu Ru's family: "Hey, what happened to your child? Why is she so seriously injured? Did she just get out of the intensive care unit?"

Xu Shenwei (Grandma Yu Ru) was a nosy person. She would talk to everyone she saw. When the woman asked a question, she immediately started talking back nonstop.

"That's right. My granddaughter was playing in front of our house and was kidnapped to another place. Now she can't speak. Those people were good or bad. They probably beat her every day. There is not a single piece of healthy skin on her body." Xu Shenwei pointed at his arm and spoke with great excitement.

"It was so tragic. You have no idea. We couldn't help crying when we saw her like that. There was blood all over her, and her clothes and shoes were torn. It took several days to rescue her. Fortunately, she survived..."

Yu Yousheng, who was standing by, frowned unhappily and patted her arm. "Don't talk about these things. The doctor said not to talk about those things. It will wake Yu Ru up and irritate her."

Xu Shenwei continued to speak excitedly, as if he had not heard what he said. However, the woman on the bed looked embarrassed because of Yu Yousheng's words, and just nodded slowly, as if she didn't want to listen anymore. She was taken care of by her husband and daughter during her hospitalization. Now, her daughter was by her side.

Seeing that Yu Yousheng looked unhappy, her daughter pulled her clothes and whispered: "Mom, why are you asking others these questions? What's there to ask? If you are sick, just go to the hospital. Asking these questions is like checking your household registration. Don't ask anymore."

The woman smiled awkwardly, looked at Xu Shenwei, and said, "Auntie, I understand. Don't say anything more. Go take care of your granddaughter first. I think she is seriously injured. You must take good care of her."

But Xu Shenwei didn't listen at all. She became more and more excited as she spoke. At the end, she even used her hands and feet to speak. She stamped her feet, exaggeratedly gestured with her hands, and said excitedly, "When my granddaughter came back, she was very small. She was so thin from hunger that her bones were exposed. There was blood everywhere. Those three or four-year-old children looked bigger than her..."

Gu Yulan also went to pull Xu Shenwei and hurriedly stopped her behavior. She warned in a low voice: "Don't say anything. This is a hospital. If you make so much noise, people will complain to us later. Why are you talking so much? Don't say it. Why tell others about this kind of thing?"

Xu Shenwei didn't listen and continued talking to himself.

Finally, the doctor came to check on Yu Ru's condition and put an end to her words. However, the old lady hadn't spoken like this for a long time. After saying so much, she was still mumbling under her breath. At least it wasn't as scary as before, so everyone ignored her and let her talk as long as she didn't make too much noise.

into the night,

Yu Ru lay in bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep. The pain inside and outside her body made her unable to sleep. On the other hand, the words of her family members during the day kept lingering in her ears. The more she thought about it, the sadder she felt. Today she was awake all day, but she was pretending to sleep and didn't say a word to her family.

The family she had always wanted to return to was both happy and worried about her return. Her family was happy that she had managed to return home, but the cruel reality made this already poor family even worse off. Yu Ru stared at the ceiling with lifeless eyes, tears streaming down her eyes again.

There was a small light on in the ward, which was enough to allow people to see what was going on in the room, but it was a little dim and required effort to identify.

This vague environment suddenly reminded Yu Ru of Yin Shiji, whose body was bent by hard work and was very thin because he had not eaten nutritious food for a long time. He was always hunched over, working with a humble look, busy in such a dim kitchen, preparing meals for more than a dozen people, and would be beaten if he did a good job or not.

All of this was even clearer in the darkness, and the trembling she would have when she was looking forward to something was so intense that it was like the sky was falling and the earth was cracking. Even after being beaten, Yin Shiji still thought about her, secretly saving food for her and giving it to her to eat. He was risking half his life to cook for her.

If a person has no hope, his legs will be broken and he will not be able to move forward. In the twists and turns of the joys and sorrows, Yu Ru woke up leisurely. She suddenly felt a little regretful. Why did she come back? Coming back seemed to bring her into another kind of pain. Why didn't she just stay in the black factory and die with Yin Shiji?

At least, this second father was really good to her. He gambled his life every day to keep her alive and treated her as the only one in his life. But her biological parents did not treat her as the only one. They still had Yu Lai to rely on. Although the bond between her and Yin Shiji was formed by the death of Gou Wa, at the last moment, Yin Shiji also told her that she was not Gou Wa, and he knew it. Gou Wa was Gou Wa, and she was her. Gou Wa had died a long time ago, but she was not dead yet.

From this perspective, a bond of kinship has already been established between them, right? Not because of Gou Wa who had died long ago, not because she bore the shadow of Gou Wa, but simply because of this unexpected encounter.

Yu Ru stared at the ceiling and cried silently for a long time. Cold tears flowed down her nose, the corners of her eyes, and silently flowed to her lips, ears, neck, and gauze. After crying for a while, her eyes were stinging and dry, and she couldn't cry anymore. She closed her eyes and rested for a while, then slowly turned her head to look in the direction of the window.

The window curtains were drawn, so I couldn't see outside. The curtains were very thin, and the moonlight shone through them, forming a light blue beam on the ground, like a crystal column, with wet and soft edges.

Her eyes followed the bright light on the ground upwards, and for a moment, she felt that the beam of light was a ladder to heaven, which could take her back to Yin Shiji across thousands of miles. Her eyes lingered on the "ladder to heaven", and she was determined to find a flaw on it so that she could climb up.

After a moment, she seemed to have really found a hole to get in, and her eyes climbed up along the "ladder to heaven" to the window.

There, she saw a pair of hands making the gesture of a little rabbit. The hands were extremely rough and covered with old wounds. Yu Ru was delighted and struggled to get up from the bed. She couldn't stand up, and she knelt down as soon as her feet touched the ground. She tried several times but couldn't get up, so she chose to crawl over.

The woman sleeping in the bed next to her had not been sleeping well since she was hospitalized. One of her legs was hanging so that she could not turn over. She was really uncomfortable sleeping, which made her feel uncomfortable and had a very shallow sleep. At this moment, she woke up immediately when she heard a rustling noise next to her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Yu Ru kneeling on the table and pulling at the window. She looked like she was going to jump off the building.

They were on the 30th floor. If the child fell down, they would not be able to find the body. The woman panicked and hurried to call her daughter who was sleeping on the folding bed nearby, "Amei, Mei, wake up quickly, the child is about to jump off the building! Hurry and bring her down."

Her daughter, Amei, had worked so hard for her these days that she slept very soundly. When she woke her up, she was still half asleep and had no idea what was going on. She looked sleepy and asked, "Mom, what are you doing?"

The woman waved her arms exaggeratedly and pointed at the window, "Mei, look over there, is that child about to jump off the building? Hurry and get him down!"