Chapter 5: Who is the Child’s Mother

The railway police officer asked, “Are you transferring trains in the provincial capital? Have you bought your tickets?”

Zhuo Le shook her head, “We left in a hurry and haven’t bought them yet.”

The railway police officer quickly said, “Then follow me first, it will be more convenient for me to help you buy them.”

Zhuo Le didn’t refuse, she was happy to have someone help.

After getting off the train, the railway police officer helped to buy the tickets, Mountain King carried Wei Xiaojia to the toilet, and Zhuo Le guarded the luggage in the waiting hall.

“Comrade, hello, can you help me watch my child? I’m traveling alone with my child, and I need to go to the toilet urgently, it’s really inconvenient.” A thin woman, with a worried look on her face, full of pleading and embarrassment.

Zhuo Le raised her eyes, glanced at her, and smiled, “Sure.”

She took the little dumpling, about half a year old, into her arms. The little guy was fair and chubby, and felt a little heavy in her arms. It was obvious that he was well taken care of.

He didn’t cry or fuss in her arms, but opened his watery eyes and looked at her curiously.

The woman thanked her and ran towards the toilet.

“Umm…” The milk dumpling smacked his lips, making a sound. Zhuo Le withdrew her gaze from the woman and looked at him.

“What a little cutie.”

“Child, my child, my child is gone, please help me find my child, please.” A disheveled woman, with tears and snot on her face, ran around the waiting hall like crazy, grabbing passers-by and asking if they had seen her child, asking them to help her find her child.

Anyone with a little sympathy was anxious for her and helped her find her child.

“Don’t worry, first tell us when your child was lost, where he was lost, how old the child is, and what are his characteristics.”

The woman wiped her tears and choked, “At the exit, I just turned around to sort out the luggage, and the child was gone. The child is only half a year old and is the lifeblood of our family.

The child is sick and came to the provincial capital to see a doctor. The old are old and the sick are sick at home, and only I came with the child. I didn’t expect such a thing to happen.

What should I do? How can I explain to my family? Please everyone, help me, help me.”

The woman cried sadly, her body swaying.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, we’ll help you find him. Everyone, take a look, a half-year-old child, just lost, he definitely hasn’t gone out yet, help look around.”

Kind people responded to the call and searched for suspicious objects in the crowd.

Zhuo Le was wearing new clothes, and the half-year-old child in her arms was only wearing dusty, semi-new clothes. Judging from their clothes, the two didn’t look like a biological mother and son at all, and became the primary suspect.

“Is that your child?” A kind person asked the woman.

The woman followed the line of sight, and the moment she saw the child, she rushed over like crazy, “Child, my child.”

Just as she was about to touch the child, Zhuo Le calmly stretched out her leg and pressed it against the woman’s stomach, preventing her from getting closer, and raised her eyes faintly, “You’re shouting too loudly, you’re scaring the child. Calm down, the child is here, he can’t run away.”

The woman paused for a moment and cried, “I’m just too worried about the child, give me the child, please, give me back the child.”

Zhuo Le looked at her curiously, “Who are you? Why should I give you the child?”

Before the woman could speak, a young man with a strong sense of justice couldn’t wait to say, “She’s the child’s mother, the child you’re holding is someone else’s child, why don’t you hurry up and give it back to her?”

Zhuo Le chuckled, “How do you know?”

The young man took it for granted, “She said so.”

Zhuo Le laughed, “She said so? I also said no, do you believe it?”

The young man frowned, “Why not? Could it be that the child is yours?”

Zhuo Le shook her head, “Not mine, I picked it up.”

The young man laughed angrily, “Then that’s it, hurry up and give the child back to her.”

Zhuo Le looked at him with a smile that was not a smile, “Does this child only have to choose a mother between me and her, can’t there be other people?”

“This…” The young man was a little dazed.

The woman frowned almost imperceptibly, pleading urgently, “Please, give me back the child, I’ll agree to anything you want.”

As she spoke, she took out the few dozen yuan she had on her and handed it haphazardly to Zhuo Le.

“I’ll give you money, all the money I have on me, please give me back the child. If it’s not enough, I’ll call home right away and have my family put it together. I’ll put together as much as you want.”

Her humble appearance moved many people to pity.

“Hurry up and give the child back to her. You don’t look like you’re short of money, why do such a wicked thing?”

“We’re all watching, if you don’t hand over the child, you definitely won’t be able to run away. If you give the child back, we’ll pretend we don’t know anything and let you leave.”

“If you don’t listen to reason, we’ll have to call the police. Then you’ll have to go to jail and be reformed.”

“Oh, don’t waste your breath on her. These human traffickers have no conscience, just do it directly, quick, quick, snatch the child back.”

It was unknown how the dormant passion was activated, and the crowd instantly became indignant.

“Yes, snatch him back, everyone attack together.”

Zhuo Le glanced at the luggage, which had been kicked all over the place.

Holding the child, she got up and twisted to avoid them, “Shh…”

She looked towards the toilet and whistled, Wei Xiaojia had been gone for quite a while.

“Woof woof woof…” Mountain King responded.

“Mommy, a human trafficker is trying to catch me.” Wei Xiaojia’s angry voice came.

The sound of Mountain King’s thick paw pads stepping on the floor was like an earth-shattering tremor.

The crowd turned their heads, and Mountain King’s huge body crushed over like a mountain, its bared fangs flashing with a cold light, scaring everyone to retreat in terror.

Zhuo Le took the opportunity to step forward, pinched Wei Xiaojia’s flushed little face, and asked with a smile, “Son, what’s wrong?”

Wei Xiaojia stuck out his butt and came down from Mountain King’s back, rushed over and hugged Zhuo Le’s leg, and raised his little head, “Mommy, a bad guy said I was his son and wanted to take me home. I didn’t want to, so he covered my mouth with a handkerchief.

Luckily, I dodged it, and Mountain King helped me knock the bad guy down, so I escaped.

Mommy, who are you holding?”

Zhuo Le bent down and put the little milk dumpling in Wei Xiaojia’s arms, “My son is great, he wasn’t caught by the bad guy.

This is a little brother we found, you hold him, Mommy’s arms are sore.”

Wei Xiaojia quickly took the little milk dumpling, looking at Zhuo Le with concern, “I’ll blow on Mommy’s arms and they’ll be better.”

He puffed out his cheeks and blew out a large patch of saliva.

Zhuo Le’s mouth twitched, and she pinched the little guy’s mouth, “Mommy’s arms don’t hurt anymore, son is really amazing.”

Wei Xiaojia grinned.

“Ah?” The little dumpling twisted uncomfortably, making a sound of confusion.

Wei Xiaojia, with no experience, hugged the little dumpling tightly, “Don’t move, little brother, you’ll get hurt if you fall.”

The little dumpling seemed to understand and really didn’t move, nestled in Wei Xiaojia’s arms in an extremely awkward posture.

With Mountain King guarding them, others didn’t dare to act rashly and looked at each other in the current situation.

In the crowd, some people exchanged glances.

The woman who handed the child to Zhuo Le squeezed out of the crowd, “Comrade, thank you, give me back the child.”

She wanted to hug the child, but because of Mountain King, she didn’t dare to approach, placing her hopes on Zhuo Le.

Zhuo Le looked at her, with a indifferent expression, “Who are you again?”

The woman was stunned, “Me? The child’s mother, I needed to go to the toilet urgently, so I asked you to help take care of the child.”

Zhuo Le smiled, “You say you’re the child’s mother, and she also says she’s the child’s mother.” Then she looked at the righteous youth, “Who do you say is the child’s mother?”