The Blessed Beauty Returns with a Dimension

In ten days, Tang Yuan!

Yes, he is now called Gou Dan, Gou Dan has already gotten used to the life here.

He's got no choice but to get used to it, as his foot is tied up with an iron chain, allowing him to move only within its reach.

In this family, there is a father, a mother, and five sisters.

Gou Dan knows his father is very powerful and can hit people.

Being hit really hurts.

Ever since he vomited out that half bowl of sorghum and wild vegetable porridge for the first time, that father took a bamboo stick and beat him harshly.

He lay in bed for three days before recovering, and from then on, he knew that in this family the father is the boss.

The mother and five sisters are all afraid of the father.

Gou Dan has already learned, after being beaten three times, that in this household, he is the least free one.

Because he's too naughty, the father uses this iron chain to tie him within the house.

The farthest place he can go is to sit on a small stool in the yard and cut pig feed there.

Yes, he has already learned how to cut pig feed.

The father said that farmer's children are supposed to learn these things, and when he gets a bit older, he'll have to go out to the fields with his father to work.

Because he is the man of this family, and being a man means being the pillar of support.

Of the five sisters, three go out to the fields with the father and mother to work, and the other two have to handle all the housework.

At home, they are raising one pig and three chickens.

The sisters also have to go up the mountain to cut firewood, gather pig grass, start fires, cook meals, do laundry, clean the house, and fetch water.

Gou Dan always feels out of place with this family, he doesn't know why, or why there are always some special things popping up in his memory.

Although he knows in his heart that this is his family, that they are his parents.

But somehow, he always feels a gentle voice of a father and mother speaking to him in his mind, telling him many things.

Yet, he feels confused.

He knows these are his parents.

Somehow, when he opens his eyes and his parents tell him that they are his parents, he accepts that they are his parents.

Now there are always some inexplicable things popping up.

Gou Dan is very sad.

"Gou Dan, it's time to eat."

The fifth sister asks the younger brother to bring over a bowl for him.

The fifth sister is the one who originally brought him that bowl of dark sorghum wild vegetable porridge.

The sisters don't seem to talk much, and seldom speak or play with him.

Even the mother rarely gets close to him.

Except every time the father comes back home, he will look at him for a bit and say some words to him, just like anyone else in the family.

Gou Dan looks at the increasingly scarce sorghum porridge in his bowl, he knows the family can only eat twice a day, but he can only eat once.

Because the father said, he's too fat, because he eats the family's poor.

At first, he used to go to bed hungry, but now he's reached the point where even a bit of sorghum porridge makes him feel full.

Of course, if there was a mirror in this house for him to look at himself.

He would realize he had turned from a fair and chubby little fat boy into a thin, dark child, who had lost a whole ring of weight.

The time hasn't been long, and although he's dark too, compared to his sisters, he's still fairly white now.

Gou Dan feels that this might be how he lives for his entire life; he hopes that someday, if he behaves well, his parents won't have to lock him with an iron chain.

...

Baozi brought a basin of foot-washing water from outside, carefully carrying it into the room.

"Dad, let me wash your feet."

The man sitting on the kang edge, satisfied, tapped his dry tobacco pipe.

"Zhuzi, remember to be obedient, you are my son, this house will be left for you in the future. If you don't behave. You know how the boy next door was caught when he ran away. They broke his leg; I don't want to break your leg so that you become a cripple and struggle to find a wife."

The 60-year-old man's face was covered in wrinkles, and the way he spoke exuded a chilling menace.

Baozi smiled, "Dad, don't worry! That was my stepmother back then, she didn't treat me well, and my father didn't like me either, always beating me. Don't be fooled by my chubby appearance, it was all from me sneaking pig feed to eat.

Here, I am here to enjoy, you treat me like your own son, and I also treat you like my real dad. I will definitely see you off in your old age. I won't run away, what's the point of running? What can such a small child like me do out there? I'd only starve to death."

What Baozi said made the man even more satisfied that this son he bought for 10,000 yuan was indeed obedient and well-behaved.

Even though he made his wife and two daughters keep a close watch on the boy.

But it can be seen that this boy is quite honest, doing all kinds of work inside and outside the house, and is perceptive, never trying to run out of the village, not even making any inquiries, it seems like he has the genuine intention to stay.

But still, time will tell, who knows.

Without three to five years, such a child doesn't bond.

...

Song Moting and his companions have searched all over Jingbei, but no one has found any trace of the two children.

The two children seemed to have vanished without a trace.

More than a month has passed, and Jiang Xiaoxiao already knows that the children are gone.

She left the hospital after a week without seeing the children, which was understandable.

After all, the children couldn't be kept in the hospital all the time, but when she returned home for confinement, yet still hadn't seen the two children, something was clearly wrong.

Especially now, the atmosphere at home is off.

The elderly parents often talked about something in the living room, but as soon as Jiang Xiaoxiao appeared, they immediately stopped speaking, clearly hiding something from her.

The elderly mother's red eyes never subsided.

Jiang Xiaoxiao called Song Moting over to her and questioned him.

Finally getting to the bottom of it, Song Moting knew he couldn't keep it hidden anymore, no excuse could keep the two children hidden from view.

When Jiang Xiaoxiao learned about the loss of the two children, she almost fainted.

Song Moting supported his wife, "Don't worry, we are looking."

These words were really just for comfort, it has been more than a month, yet they didn't have a single clue.

Song Moting already contacted Jin Dachuan, dispatching everyone he knew before, yet there was still no news.

Because this clue was just too difficult to find.

When they left the hospital, no one had noticed those two children at all.

Someone reported seeing two children on the train during that time period, but there wasn't a single definite piece of information, and the train stopped at so many stations, searching place by place would take a considerable amount of time.

Jiang Xiaoxiao glanced at her twin daughters lying on the small bed.

Tuantuan and Yuanyuan had already turned a month old, looking increasingly like Tang Yuan when they were small, but now Tang Yuan and Baozi were gone.

Even though she didn't want to cry, the tears wouldn't stop falling.

The matter reached a stalemate, while various rumors, suspicion, and speculations arose.

It wasn't a kidnapping, as no ransom was demanded, yet the two children just disappeared.

However, they finally began to hear some scant information about a one-eyed man, reportedly seen with two children on a train, very much resembling their Tang Yuan and Baozi. But every time they tried to follow the lead to find him, they ended up with nothing.

That person is mystifying and very difficult to track down.