Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

When she heard the word "jump off the building", Amei sobered up a little. She turned her head and looked towards the window, and saw that half of Yu Ru's body was hanging outside, and the other half was hanging on the windowsill, teetering. Her heart skipped a beat, and her heart jumped off the building before Yu Ru did. Yu Ru herself was not afraid at all, and she struggled hard to climb out.

This scene woke her up immediately. Without saying a word, she ran towards Yu Ru as fast as she could and carried her down from the building.

She carried Yu Ru back to her bed and turned on the light in the room.

As soon as the light was turned on, the "ladder to heaven" on the window disappeared, and Yin Shiji's face also disappeared. Yu Ru cried anxiously, and her tears poured down like the rain in June. She couldn't sit up or turn around, and could only lie straight on the bed like a piece of sugar cane and cry helplessly. Her sad voice made people's hearts clench.

Amei looked at her, feeling a little overwhelmed. If she got close to her, she was afraid that something might happen to Yu Ru, which would then be blamed on her. If she didn't go over, she would feel very uncomfortable hearing Yu Ru crying like that.

"Mei, Mei, go and take a look at that child."

Amei's mother winked at Amei, indicating that she should go and check on Yu Ru's condition.

"See if she's in pain somewhere. Why is she crying like this?"

Amei looked at her mother, and after some hesitation, she went forward to check on Yu Ru. She dragged the chair in front of her mother's bed to Yu Ru's bed, sat down in front of her, and asked with concern: "Little boy, what were you doing just now? How did you climb the window?"

Yu Ru did not respond. She closed her eyes, her body was shaking, her face was red from crying, and she was almost dying.

Amei's mother couldn't see Yu Ru's face, but she could see that she was shaking. She said anxiously, "Mei, call the nurse over. Call the nurse. She is shaking all over. Is she having an attack of some disease?"

The nurse in charge of their room was a person who was afraid of trouble, loved to complain, and didn't care about the patients' feelings. Perhaps she was tortured by some weird patients and her mental state was not very good. No matter what the reason was, she always rolled her eyes at the patients. Amei didn't want to call her over. Every time she saw her, she would have a bad communication experience, even if she was polite.

She looked at Yu Ru and continued to call her softly, trying to get her response.

"Little boy, little boy, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Yu Ru still didn't respond, her body was shaking even more violently, and white foam was flowing from the corners of her mouth. This sudden change scared A Mei, she didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately got up to press the emergency button on the bedside to call the nurses and doctors over.

……

It was the next day when Yu Ru regained consciousness. She was rushed to the emergency room again last night due to an emotional outburst. Now she is out of danger, and the hospital has moved her to a new ward, a ward where she lives alone and has extra beds for her family members.

The first general ward they stayed in didn't have extra beds, and Yu Ru's family didn't have a folding bed ready for her to sleep in, so the whole family stayed in a hotel near the hospital. After receiving a call from the hospital in the middle of the night, Yu Yousheng and Gu Yulan rushed to take care of Yu Ru. Since they had no place to sleep, they sat on a chair all night.

Now, they don’t have to spend extra money to live outside, and they can always be by Yu Ru’s side.

As soon as Yu Ruyi opened her eyes, she saw her mother Gu Yulan sitting beside her bed, looking at her. The rest of the family members were also gathered around her bed. Everyone looked very tired, especially Gu Yulan and Yu Yousheng, who looked several decades older, like two failed wax figures, with stiff bodies, loose skin, wrinkles, eye bags and dark circles, dull eyes, and gray hair.

Yu Ru almost didn't recognize that the people in front of her were her parents. They looked too old. It was as if she had traveled to the future and saw her parents who were already in their twilight years. She couldn't believe that they were her parents. Her parents were only in their thirties, how could they look like they were in their fifties?

What is this called? Is it what they say on TV, that one's hair turns white overnight because of being too sad? She once thought that such a thing was too fake, only monsters' hair could change. Humans are human, without magic power, how could their hair change?

It turns out that people can be like this, as long as they are sad enough and under enough pressure. Did her parents feel sad because of her departure and death? Or did they feel sad because of the burden she brought? Anyway, no matter which one it was, she felt sad about it.

Gu Yulan happened to meet the eyes of Yu Ru who had just opened her eyes. She stared at her and suddenly burst into tears. She was surprised, painful, but more of a numb tiredness, rather than tears of joy at being reunited with her own flesh and blood.

"Yu Ru, you finally woke up. Do you know how hard your father and I worked to find you? We called the police but they didn't care, and we didn't have any connections to find you, so we had to look for you ourselves. When we thought about you being taken away by someone, we cried our eyes out."

During the year that Yu Ru disappeared, the couple first searched for her near their home for a few days, but to no avail, they went to the local police station to report the matter. The police only helped them by registering their information and verbally promising to keep an eye on her, but nothing else.

The couple thought that they could check the surveillance to find out who kidnapped Yu Ru, but the local government was corrupt and most of the civil servants were hired through connections. They were all just sitting there doing nothing but taking money and not doing anything. Some people who went to seek help were even scolded. The police station thought it was troublesome and refused to help. They kept asking, and finally a young man helped them check the surveillance.

Unfortunately, the local development is not good. In addition to the three private villas, there are few surveillance cameras in the town. In addition, no one in the family knows what Yu Ru was wearing on the day she went missing, and they can't provide any effective features, so it is almost impossible to find the path of Yu Ru's kidnapping. After the police checked the only three surveillance cameras in the town, the matter was left unresolved, and they could only look for Yu Ru on their own.

They work in the county, and their work location is not fixed. Every time they arrive at a new place, they ask the locals if they have seen a little girl like Yu Ru. They asked hundreds of people, but there was no clue. During this period, a kind-hearted person suggested that they could publish Yu Ru's photo in the newspaper, and maybe they could find the child.

They searched through all the boxes and cabinets in the house, trying to find a photo of Yu Ru, but couldn't find any. However, they did find three photos of Yu Lai. The brother and sister looked very similar, like twins, so they took Yu Lai's photo and put it in the newspaper.

This method worked a little. In the six months since the advertisement was published, more than 20 people called them to provide clues. However, those clues were useless. The children provided did not match Yu Ru at all. They only had similar facial features.

Every hope was followed by disappointment, and over time, the couple was tortured beyond words.

Upon hearing that Yu Ru had woken up, Xu Shenwei and Yu Cunpu walked a few steps towards the head of the bed and got closer to observe Yu Ru.

Yu Yousheng followed up Gu Yulan's words and said, "Yu Ru, the hospital called me in the middle of the night yesterday and said that you were about to jump off the building as soon as you woke up, and you were so emotional that you were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Why did you jump off the building as soon as you woke up?"

"Yeah, why are you jumping off the building when you're fine? You finally came back, are you worthy of us? We raised you up..."

Xu Shenwei asked anxiously: "Yu Ru, was there a ghost at the window that led you there? Yes, yes, it must have been a ghost that took you away. The place where we live is very evil!"

The family members in front of her kept asking questions one by one. Yu Ru's throat was sore and her mouth was as if it was sewn shut. She closed her eyes again in silence and prayed that she would never wake up. Her family members kept telling her about the hardships and pains they had endured in the search for her over the years. She could feel their pain, but she didn't want to feel it. She just felt like her ears were going to explode. She wanted to rest. She wanted to die now.

When Yu Ru was about to collapse and cry like crazy, new people came into the ward and stopped everything. They were two very young policemen, a man and a woman. They entered the ward and chatted briefly with Yu Ru's parents, and then sent everyone out of the ward.