How can someone travel through time and space and become a beggar?

After watching Jia Sansi leave, the food had gone cold. Xia Chu put aside her chaotic thoughts and said, "I'll go heat it up."

However, after this incident, no one had much appetite, and the food was left over. Wang Qiuyu, perhaps frightened or something, kept clinging to Xia Chu, not even paying attention to the friends he had invited with great difficulty.

Xia Chu cleaned the dishes while he wiped the table, washed the dishes while he sat on the side and watched, and cleaned the kitchen while he followed behind. Xia Chu almost stepped on his foot when he turned back several times, and couldn't help but sighed helplessly, "Go and entertain your friends, why are you following me?"

"Sister, will you leave? Don't leave." Wang Qiuyu grabbed her sleeve. "Huizhou is not good, or Lin'an is better..." He racked his brains to find fault. "That uncle is not good-looking, but everyone in my family is good-looking. You said it's pleasing to the eyes. Well... and... and..."

"A gentleman doesn't judge others. You've forgotten what the teacher taught you, right?" Xia Chu wiped her hands clean and gently hugged him to comfort him. "Don't leave, don't worry."

"I can't bear to leave my sister. If I didn't have my sister, I...I..." The little guy said, his eyes were red, his mouth turned down, and he was about to cry.

Wang Qiuyu hadn't cried in a long time. Xia Chu felt so distressed that she patted his back and coaxed him, "I can't bear to leave you either. I won't leave. I still have to wait for our Qiuyu to take the top spot in the imperial examination."

After what happened to the Wang family, Zhao Huazhang was about to say goodbye and take Zhao Fengling back home. Unexpectedly, he saw two pairs of red eyes, as if they had been crying in the kitchen.

Xia Chu hadn't wanted to cry, but it was all Wang Qiuyu's fault. She couldn't help crying. Although she had made up her mind not to leave, she couldn't help but picture leaving Wang's house and going to a strange place where she was unfamiliar with everyone. She felt uncomfortable.

Zhao Huazhang's romantic thoughts faded, and his mind cleared up. "I don't know what's going on in Huizhou, but looking at Madam Wang and Jia Sansi's appearance, and the birthmark as evidence, I think what they said is true. Madam Wang, don't worry. I'll have Xia Tian go to Huizhou to find out about the Jia and Sun families. We'll discuss whether to go then."

Xia Chu listened and gave Zhao Huazhang a grateful smile, "Thank you so much, I'll come to thank you another day."

Zhao Huazhang couldn't help but laugh along, revealing a bit of silliness. "When the time comes, Madam Wang will cook a few delicious dishes. Then we'll go back first. I'll arrange for Xia Tian to leave today."

After seeing the Zhao uncle and nephew off, Xia Chu tried to recall the scene from her first arrival. However, she was already a beggar when she arrived, and without the original owner's memories, she could only wait for Zhang Zhou to return and ask him. Or Guan Xu, after Xia Tian brought the original owner back, he and Zhang Zhou went out to find food, while Guan Xu stayed in the shack. He should have been more familiar with the original owner, but after so much time had passed, it was unknown how much he remembered.

"When we first picked you up?" Zhang Zhou frowned in thought. "You were only wearing your shirt, your hair was a mess, and you wouldn't let anyone touch you. You cried and screamed when anyone approached you, and you wouldn't answer when we asked you questions. We initially thought you might be mentally ill and that's why you were abandoned."

"Undergarments?" There are three possibilities: one is that they were stripped by human traffickers, and the other is that they were stripped by street beggars. If it was a human trafficker, they wouldn't kidnap someone just for the clothes. Even if it was a beggar, they might have stripped the little girl and sold her to a brothel. Xia Chu was very cute when she was little, so she might be sold for a good price.

That leaves only the third possibility: he was taken away and thrown away by someone he knew, perhaps because he had a grudge against the Sun family's parents. He stripped off his clothes because he was afraid of being found, or perhaps because the clothes were valuable. After all, judging by Jia Sansi's appearance, he didn't seem to come from a poor family.

But Jia Sansi said that the original owner's father was a teacher in the academy. Who could a teacher make an enemy of?

"Xiaochu was beaten when she came here. There were bruises on her arms, which hurt when touched. She was also scared." Guan Xu tried to recall, "She spoke and called for her mother when she was asleep. I thought I had misheard. We all thought she couldn't speak and her brain was not good."

"After a few days, he fell ill and had a fever for a long time," Zhang Zhou continued.

"Is there any injury on your face?" Xia Chu asked.

Guan Xu thought carefully, "Yes, there is a lump on the corner of my forehead."

Zhang Zhou looked at Xia Chu, "Don't you remember anything?"

Xia Chu shook her head a little guiltily, "I don't remember."

"There's a head injury. Is it possible that he damaged his brain, so he doesn't remember anything?" Dong Xiaohuan listened for a while. "Xiaochu was so young at the time. Even if he hadn't been injured, he might have forgotten it."

"I don't remember anything before I was five years old," Wang Yong agreed.

Dong Xiaohuan sighed, thinking about the fact that her family had come looking for her daughter, whom she had raised so well. She felt an indescribable feeling. She was happy that her parents were still alive, but she was also worried that her daughter had been snatched away. Just thinking about it made her feel like a piece of her heart had been ripped out. "Xiaochu..."

"Mom, my last name is Wang." Xia Chu squatted in front of Dong Xiaohuan, hugged her waist, and buried his face in her legs. "I once heard a saying, 'If you don't raise a child, you can repay it by cutting off a finger. If you raise a child, you can repay it by cutting off your head. But if you don't raise a child, you will never repay it."

"Puh, quick! What about broken fingers? It's so scary." Dong Xiaohuan frowned, and after she spat a few times, she said, "Children should not be blamed, children should not be blamed, don't be blamed."

Wang Yong thought for a moment and said, "I've seen parents whose children were abducted. Most of them forget about it after having another child. But some can't get over it and go crazy."

Hearing this, Dong Xiaohuan's heart ached. Thinking of all the children at home, she would go crazy if she lost any one of them. She couldn't help but sympathize with Xia Chu's biological mother, but she was unwilling to push Xia Chu over. She could only look embarrassed, feeling guilty and uncomfortable. She murmured softly: "But, daughter, I have raised you for ten years."

Wang Yong was reluctant to let her go, but as a parent, he could empathize with her. "Then let's go to Huizhou and meet the mother. If seeing the child can make her better, let Xia Chu stay with her until she recovers and come back after she recovers."

Found it, and then left again, I'm afraid it would be more painful than not finding it at all. Zhang Zhou thought to himself, no, maybe it would still be better, at least I know that it is alive and well, and I can go and see it when I have time.

"That method works..." Dong Xiaohuan wasn't such a heartless person, otherwise she wouldn't have picked up four at once. "Let's talk about it after we meet that person tomorrow. You're home, right?"

Wang Yong nodded. He would definitely stay at home for this matter. "I'll go and tell them early in the morning. No problem. There's nothing going on in the government office recently."

"Let me put it this way first." Dong Xiaohuan touched his daughter's smooth hair absent-mindedly, feeling as if his baby was about to be snatched away by someone else.

"By the way, Zhao Huazhang asked my eldest brother to go to Huizhou to check and see if what Jia Sansi...Mr. Jia said is credible." Xia Chu looked up and said.

This coincided with Wang Yong's thoughts. He had thought of going there himself, but it was difficult to ask for a long vacation, so he didn't say it out loud. "He's thoughtful. He really should go and ask himself. Don't just believe one side of the story."

"Then you must thank him properly next time." Dong Xiaohuan said gratefully.