Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Shi Yanchun didn't say anything else. After a long while, she calmed down a little before she spoke again. She looked at Yun Jixing and said seriously: "Xiao Yuan, you promise me that you will be good to Xiao Ru, okay? Although she is sensitive and suspicious, she is a very good person and very loyal. Anyone who is with her will be happy. Because she is a person who is willing to give her all to be good to others, her love must be unreserved. If you are good to her, she will be good to you. She is not stupid, she knows who is good to her, and she also knows how to be good to others. You two must be good, ah. If one day you two have no feelings for each other, you must also part ways in peace, okay? If that day really comes, you tell me and your grandfather Wen first, and we will take her away. Okay?"

"Don't worry, Grandma Shi, I understand. I feel her kindness." Yun Jixing nodded solemnly. "I feel very happy to be with her. As long as she is around, I will be very happy. So, I will treat her well without reservation. I have made up my mind to spend my whole life with her. I am afraid that you and Grandpa Wen will not have the opportunity to come and pick her up. But every year in the future, I will follow her and carry gold to visit you."

Hearing this, Yun Zhonghe and Situ Ningzhai looked at each other with relief. Neither said anything, but their eyes told it all.

"That's fine, that's fine... OK, I feel relieved now." Shi Yanchun smiled with satisfaction, then lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then looked up at Yun Zhonghe and Situ Ningzhai and said, "There's one more thing I must tell you. Every time I think of this, Brother Mo and I feel very upset and panic."

"What's the matter?" Situ Ningzhai asked while wiping his face with a handkerchief.

"Three years ago, didn't Brother Mo go on a business trip to the United States? He ended up being kidnapped by someone he had offended before. Do you still remember this? That person was very powerful both at home and abroad. We couldn't deal with him. It was very difficult. I came to you at that time and wanted you to help rescue Brother Mo." Shi Yanchun asked back.

Situ Ningzhai nodded, "Remember this. Someone rescued Zhuo Mo faster than us. We were still wondering who was so fast. As soon as the news came out, the person was rescued."

"Xiao Ru saved him."

"Xiaoru?" Situ Ningzhai was very surprised, "How was she rescued? What method was used to rescue her?" Yun Zhonghe was also a little bit unbelievable.

"We don't know how she rescued him, but it was definitely her. When I first received her message, I couldn't believe it was true. We were all prepared for Mo Ge to sacrifice himself, and then we asked the country to issue a global red warrant to kill the culprit and help us get revenge. I felt there was no hope at the time, but I didn't expect Xiaoru to bring Mo Ge back. She found someone to transfer Mo Ge to Wo Country, and worried that someone was following him, so she moved Mo Ge from Wo Country to a small mountain village in our country to hide his whereabouts. Finally, she brought Mo Ge back from that small mountain village."

"She brought him back personally. The small mountain village has inconvenient transportation, with only one bus passing by every day, so it was not easy to wait. In addition, the terrain there is dangerous, and one could fall off the cliff if one is not careful. Mo Ge was injured at the time, and Xiaoru was afraid of delaying the treatment time and someone causing a man-made car accident, so she carried Mo Ge on her back through the shortcut in the mountains. She set out with Mo Ge on her back before dawn. Really, she carried Mo Ge out of the mountains by herself. I dare not imagine how she did it. She was so thin and often sick, how could she carry Mo Ge? And she carried him on her back for two hours on the mountain road, from dusk to dawn."

"The situation was very urgent and critical at the time. We were not sure whether the area was safe or whether anyone was following us. I wanted her to give up, go back first, find someone to help and then come and rescue me. Anyway, I'm so old and I won't live for many more years. It's not worth it to take risks for me." Wen Zhuomo suddenly interrupted.

"The child refused to let go and walked forward without saying a word. Later I asked her the same question again. She replied that the value of a person is not measured by the length of his life, because everyone is unique in the world and everyone is a priceless treasure. So when you ask me if it is worth it, my answer is yes. Even if you are so old that you only have one breath left, I will bring you back. Even if you are already dead, I will still bring you back. A righteous soul should not die in a foreign land."

"This child can't speak, but he can talk better than anyone else, and everything he says touches the heart," Shi Yanchun said with emotion.

"Yes, this child is very good at talking." Yun Zhonghe nodded in agreement. "The first time he came to see me and Ning'er, he brought a gift with auspicious words written on it very beautifully."

"Yanchun, please continue. What happened later? Where did Xiaoru go after carrying Zhuomo out of the mountains? Could her small body handle it?" Situ Ningzhai asked.

"She carried Brother Mo to the town, called a helicopter to pick her up, and then flew to the city. She took a bus back to Shuicheng before she asked us to pick her up. When I got there, I saw that the soles of her shoes were all worn out. I asked her to take off her shoes for me to see, and I saw that the soles of her feet were covered in blood, with new and old wounds all cracking, and the inside of her shoes were all red. I asked her... asked her why she didn't say a word when she was so badly injured? She just smiled at me, as if nothing had happened."

"It would have been fine if she didn't smile. But once she smiled, I felt that this child had such a hard life. Why did she always have to sacrifice for others? At that time... my tears came out all of a sudden." Shi Yanchun was also sobbing like rain, and tears flowed out again. It was probably because Yu Ru's smile left a deep impression on her.

"The day she brought Brother Mo back, she left after making sure that Brother Mo was fine. I asked her to stay for a few days, but she refused. I begged her, but she refused. I asked...Xiaoru, are you still thinking about your childhood? She told me that yes, she remembered everything about her childhood, but she didn't blame anyone. Because her last name is Yu, not Wen or Shi, our family took her in out of humanistic care, and it was reasonable for us not to keep her. The only place in the world that can fully accept her is the place she has arranged with her own hands. She accepts this fact, so she will not live in our house anymore."

"She wrote a message on her phone at the time, telling me: Grandma Shi, don't blame me for being cruel, stubborn, or narrow-minded. I don't blame or hate anyone, and I have no reason to hate anything, but I mind that incident. I grew up on my knees, and I don't want to grow old on my knees again."

Shi Yanchun beat his chest with one hand, looking heartbroken, "When I finished, she was gone. I was so heartbroken at the time, I felt like my heart was broken. Brother Mo and I took the initiative to bring her to our home, but we didn't let her stay with us. How could we let such a good child down and hurt her self-esteem?"