Initially, Ji Ying and Xu Qinghe brought the child home and were afraid that the child's biological parents would come looking for them. Xu Qinghe even went to the county to inquire but heard no reports of a missing child.
Day after day, year after year, as they watched the child grow up slowly under their care in Shuangzhu Village, Xu Nianhua gradually grew up.
Ji Ying never imagined that, now that her daughter was twenty-two years old, Nianhua's biological parents would actually come looking for her.
"Twenty-two years ago, on September 23, when I was returning to my parents' home, I went into labor and gave birth at the hospital in Gaoliang County. The hospital still has the records of my childbirth," Fang Yue had done her homework thoroughly and even photocopied the records from back then, handing them to Ji Ying.
"I don't know who was so wicked to have stolen my child, causing my daughter and me to be separated for twenty-two years."
