A lucky little peasant girl is reborn and brings prosperity to her entire family.

When the mother and daughter met again, they embraced and wept bitterly.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Tian Denghua cried and then fainted.

It almost scared Song Yanyan to death.

Fortunately, the doctor came to see her and said that Tian Denghua was fine. She had just fainted due to the emotional ups and downs of extreme joy and sorrow, coupled with not having rested for several days.

Song Yanyan wiped away her tears and sat by Tian Denghua's bedside, keeping watch over him.

Even though the Li family secretly sent someone to deliver a thank-you gift, Song Yanyan still didn't want to leave.

The person who came to deliver the gift was Li Qiyi. He heard that Song Yanyan's mother had come looking for him, and he fainted due to emotional distress and physical exhaustion. Song Yanyan stayed by her mother's bedside and was unwilling to leave. He felt that Miss Song was very filial.

Li Qiyi was very understanding and not angry at all. He just told people not to disturb Song Yanyan and sat on the bench in the corridor to wait.

Tian Denghua slept for two hours, half-asleep, murmuring "Yan Yan".

Song Yanyan's shoulders trembled as she cried: "Mother, Yanyan is here."

She didn't cry when she was arrested, nor when she was tortured, but now, seeing Tian Denghua still calling her name in her dreams, she couldn't suppress her grievances any longer, and Song Yanyan started sobbing.

……

Xin Yi came to the government office on business. The prefect of Dianzhou respectfully told him that all the girls had woken up. If His Highness had any questions, apart from Li's eldest daughter who had been taken away by her family, the rest were still there.

Xin Yibei remained silent, but Cheng Qian already scolded her with displeasure: "What could our Highness possibly need to ask a few young girls?"

The prefect of Dianzhou repeatedly said he dared not.

However, when Xin Yibei and Cheng Qian left, they passed by the small courtyard where the abducted girl was being housed. He was very skilled in martial arts and heard the faint crying sound. He felt that the sound was somewhat familiar.

Xin Yibei paused for a moment, and Cheng Qian also stopped, listening carefully. He couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, it sounds like the little girl we rescued yesterday, the one with the cut hand, is crying."

Xin Yibei glanced at Cheng Qian: "You could tell that from that?"

Cheng Qian chuckled: "I have good hearing." He couldn't help but say, "Speaking of which, yesterday the female physician examined those girls. She told me that those girls had been tortured with needles in their private parts, a total of over a hundred needles... Those human traffickers are really inhuman."

Xin Yibei frowned.

Cheng Qian was also puzzled: "It's strange, Your Highness. Yesterday, the little girl was in such a situation, her hands were all cut up, and she was tortured, but when we rescued her, she didn't cry. Today, however, she started crying, and her crying was quite heartbreaking..."

As Cheng Qian spoke, he couldn't help but peek into the courtyard, and then heard Song Yanyan sobbing and calling for her mother. He said, "Oh," and then added, "So it's the little girl's mother who's come looking for her. That's understandable, she's just a little girl after all..."

Xin Yibei frowned and glanced at Cheng Qian again: "Why are you so gossipy?"

Cheng Qian chuckled and pleaded for forgiveness, "I'm not always a gossip. It's just that that little girl left a very deep impression on me..."

Cheng Qian's words reminded Xin Yibei of the little girl from back then, her hair disheveled, her left hand a bloody mess, as she managed to say "thank you" before collapsing.

He was silent.

"Let's go."

"Yes."

……

After Tian Denghua woke up, she hugged Song Yanyan tightly and wouldn't let go. The two of them hugged each other and cried.

Song Yanyan then brought up Song Pan'er's matter, which made Tian Denghua tremble with anger: "I'll go kill her—"

What kind of person is that! Instead of trying to escape after being caught, they betrayed Yan Yan, harming others without benefiting themselves!

Song Yanyan quickly hugged Tian Denghua's waist: "Mother, calm down, calm down!"

"Just let her go like that? I'm not willing to accept it!" Tian Denghua said bitterly, wanting to scold her daughter for being so kind, but her daughter had just suffered such a terrible ordeal, and Tian Denghua couldn't bear to scold her. She could only sulk, her expression becoming somewhat distorted with anger.

"Let her go like that? No way!" Song Yanyan said righteously. "But we're still in the government office, aren't we? If we beat her up, the government might punish us. When we get back to the village, I'm going to give her a good beating!"

Song Yanyan's face contorted with rage as she recalled this undeserved disaster.

Tian Denghua finally felt a little better: "That's more like it!"

The old woman knocked on the door and cautiously reminded her, "Miss, have you two finished talking?... The young master from the Li family outside has been waiting for a long time with a thank-you gift."

Song Yanyan was taken aback. She hadn't expected Li Qiyi to bring a thank-you gift, nor had she expected him to be so patient, waiting for them all along.

"The young master of the Li family?" Tian Denghua asked. "Who is he?"

Song Yanyan said "Oh," and briefly explained the situation: "It's about the boy with the leg injury that I rescued before the New Year... This time, his sister was also kidnapped, and I..."

Song Yanyan got stuck.

She subconsciously looked at her left hand, which was bandaged tightly.

How could she tell her mother that she had slid her left hand so badly that there wasn't a single good piece of flesh left on the back of her hand in an attempt to save herself?

Tian Denghua knew her daughter very well. When she saw her daughter hesitate and then look furtively in a certain direction, Tian Denghua followed her gaze and saw that her daughter's left hand was wrapped up tightly. Tian Denghua's heart clenched immediately.

"What happened to your hand?" Tian Denghua asked in a trembling voice.

Song Yanyan gave an awkward laugh, downplaying the seriousness of the matter, "It's...it's nothing, Mother. I just accidentally cut my hand, and blood leaked out of the box. People saw the blood and came looking for me...It's nothing, really nothing..."

Tian Denghua's hands were trembling. She wanted to touch her daughter's tightly wrapped left hand, but she didn't dare to actually touch it.

"It's alright, Mother..."

Tian Denghua couldn't help but cry again: "You brat, you still won't tell the truth! You're wrapped up like a dumpling! You must be badly injured!"

She raised her hand as if to hit her daughter, but couldn't bring herself to do it. In the end, she hugged her daughter tightly with heartache and cried again.

Song Yanyan's nose was also a little red from crying.

The old woman, who had been waiting outside for a while, heard the crying starting again inside and had no choice but to go and report to Li Qiyi: "Young Master Li, I reckon you'll have to wait a while longer."

Li Qiyi was very understanding and nodded: "It's alright."

His mother and sister cried almost all night when they returned home yesterday.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Song Yanyan, with red and swollen eyes and a red nose, opened the door and said, "Young Master Li."

Li Qiyi, who was standing in the corridor, quickly stood up: "Miss Song."

His servants picked up two boxes and followed closely behind him.

Song Yanyan had cried quite a bit, and since her tongue was still sore, her voice was hoarse as she said, "Thank you for waiting."

Li Qiyi bowed and said, "Miss Song, you are too kind."

He stepped aside, gesturing for the servants behind him to bring the wooden box forward. "This is a small token of my mother's appreciation. However, because it concerns my younger sister's reputation, I can only express my gratitude in a low-key manner. I hope Miss Song will not take offense."