After returning home with the child, her ex-husband knelt down and gently coaxed her.

Jinghai.

"Master, to Jinghai Medical University."

On the way, Li Chunfang hailed a taxi, gave the driver her address, and sat in the back seat listening to him make casual phone calls.

"Sigh, I haven't been back for many years. Who would want to come back if it weren't for making money... Yeah, there's no better way to make money than in Jinghai. Take sports cars, for example. There's a huge demand in Jinghai, so I don't have to worry about not having business..."

"Alright, it's been over ten years since we last saw each other. When are you coming back so we can have a drink and catch up... As for me, I've probably been in Jinghai for the past few years. It's the capital, a place where money falls from the sky... Let me tell you, if you really can't make it, just come back and drive a taxi with me. I bought this taxi a few years ago for 80,000 or 90,000 yuan, and I've already made back my investment. Now I'm just saving up for my retirement..."

"We don't have any children, so if we don't save some money now, we won't even have money for drinking later!"

The driver was chatting excitedly as he drove, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time.

Li Chunfang sat in the back seat, and the name sounded vaguely familiar.

It's like I've heard that voice somewhere before.

She glanced at the other person's back, but couldn't see their face.

She then looked at the driver information board on the car.

The photos in the message were blurry, full of creases, and unclear.

The name on it is Chen Dafu.

Chen Dafu?

Li Chunfang thought for a moment, but she couldn't recall having this name.

Suddenly she looked at the driver's photo again, and heard the driver's laughter as they talked. A scene from her memory suddenly surged into her mind.

She almost blurted out, "Chen Laosi?"

The driver stopped talking, turned around instinctively, and asked, "Did you call me?"

Their eyes met, and Li Chunfang's eyes widened in shock. "Chen Laosi! It really is you!"

The other person was stunned for a few seconds, clearly not recognizing Li Chunfang.

Li Chunfang, hands braced against the back of the seat in front of her, leaned close to the driver's seat and exclaimed excitedly, "Twenty-three years ago! Xiyuan Village! Three thousand yuan!"

Suddenly, the tires screeched against the ground, producing a piercing screech of brakes.

The vehicle stopped, and the driver, horrified, exclaimed, "An Jia?!"

"You really are Chen Laosi!"

Li Chunfang was extremely excited, "We've been looking for you for so many years! Where have you been?! My daughter has been looking everywhere for you, but I've finally found you today!"

Li Chunfang never expected to run into Chen Laosi again in Jinghai, the man who had sold Anning to her and An Tianhua!

"What do you want with me?!" Old Chen panicked. "Didn't we agree to keep what happened back then a secret? I've never told anyone that your daughter was bought. What do you want with me now?!"

"Chen Laosi, when you sold my daughter to us, you said her parents didn't want her anymore, causing her to have a high fever and forget everything. You said her origins were clear, and we took her because we felt sorry for her." Li Chunfang grabbed Chen Laosi's clothes excitedly. "But now my daughter wants to know who her biological parents are. Tell me honestly, where did she come from?"

"It's been over twenty years! Why are you still asking about this!" Old Chen pulled his clothes back. "The deal back then was consensual and should be forgotten. Asking about it now is just sending me to jail!"

"But my daughter just wants to know who her parents are!" Li Chunfang persisted. "If you just tell me where she came from, I'll absolutely keep this child trafficking a secret forever!"

Anning has been searching for her biological parents. Four years ago, she broke up with Xiao Lu because Li Chunfang promised to give her information about her biological parents, but in the past four years, she has found nothing.

Li Chunfang always felt guilty and thought she had let her down.

Although she also had her own selfish desires, wanting Anning to always be her daughter, seeing her scarred wrists and bottles of antidepressants made her realize how much Anning had suffered all these years.

If she could find her biological parents now, maybe that would make her happy.

This can be seen as my way of making amends to her.

"Forget about it!" Old Chen said sternly, his expression particularly serious. "I've long forgotten what happened more than twenty years ago! Who even knows where she came from!"

After saying that, he said sternly, "Get out of the car right now! I'm not taking this fare, let's pretend we never met!"

"I don't care! You have to tell me today!" Li Chunfang sat in the car, determined not to get out, using both soft and hard tactics. "Chen Laosi, I just want to know where my daughter came from. Even if her parents didn't want her back then, I'm going to find out who her parents are! Just tell me clearly, and I promise I won't tell anyone. After all, it won't do either of us any good if this gets out, don't you think?"

Seeing that she was determined not to leave, Chen Laosi simply opened the car door and got out himself. Just as he was about to run away, Li Chunfang suddenly grabbed him tightly.

"Are you out of your mind!" Old Chen roared in a low voice when he saw that she wouldn't let it go. "If you keep doing this, we'll all end up in jail!"

Li Chunfang grabbed his clothes to stop him from running away, and threatened in a low voice, "What are we doing? Child trafficking? That's illegal and a crime! If you don't tell me today, I'll call the police right now, and I guarantee you won't escape Jinghai! We'll both go to jail together, and I don't believe you won't tell the truth in the police station!"

"You old woman, I'm insane!" Chen Laosi hadn't expected her to go to such lengths. He hesitated for a moment, his face grim, and then asked in a low voice, "You promise that as long as I say it, this matter will be completely over?"

"I promise! I only want to find my daughter's biological parents. I promise I won't reveal your identity. I'll pretend I never saw you today." Fearing he wouldn't believe her, Li Chunfang added, "Aren't you called Chen Dafu now? I told you Chen Laosi died a long time ago. No matter how you investigate, you won't be the one to blame."

"I must have been cursed to run into you today!" Old Chen said in a low voice, his face ashen. "Your daughter is someone I brought from Yunnan!"

"Dianhai?" Li Chunfang asked hurriedly, "Who are her parents? Where do they live? Why did they abandon her?"

"I have no idea!"

As soon as Chen Laosi finished speaking, Li Chunfang gripped his clothes even tighter. "What do you mean you don't know! Didn't you say her parents didn't want her?"

"I've never even met her parents!" Having come this far, Chen Laosi simply told the truth, "I picked her up on the street!"

After saying that, he quickly clarified, "I really found her, I didn't steal her! I found her on a rainy day, she had a high fever and collapsed on the road. I saw that she was pretty and took her in, but I couldn't support her, so I thought of a way to make money by selling her to a family that needed a child, and I could make some money that way."

"Jinghai is a big city, there are many people who want children, and the prices are high, so I brought her to Jinghai. I happened to hear from others that your family didn't have any children, so I sold her to you!"

When Chen Laosi recounted what happened 23 years ago, Li Chunfang still remembered it vividly.

When Anning first came to their home, she was about four or five years old. She was fair-skinned and pretty, but her body was filthy, as if she had been pulled out of the mud.

She had a high fever, so Li Chunfang and An Tianhua took her to the hospital to get medicine. They were relieved to find out that it was just a cold and fever and that she had no other illnesses.

Li Chunfang was originally planning how to tell her child that she would live with them from now on after she woke up, but who knew that as soon as the child woke up, she forgot everything and remembered nothing.

This is incredibly lucky for them.

She and An Tianhua even felt that this little girl was a gift from God to their family.

So they named her Anning, meaning that her future life would be peaceful and healthy.

Li Chunfang told her, "Your name is Anning, this is your home, and we are your mom and dad."

This lie was not exposed until seventeen years ago.