Gu'er listened in silence. She didn't say a word. All this time, she had thought her parents had abandoned her, that they hadn't wanted her. She never imagined this was how she'd gotten lost. The village her biological parents mentioned was quite far from the one where her grandmother had found her. How did she end up over there?
Her grandmother said she had been standing pitiably at an intersection, all alone. She had waited for a long time, but no one came for her, so she took her home.
Later, her grandmother even went to that village to ask around, but she never heard of any family who had lost a child.
Her grandmother had assumed she was from that village, never knowing she was actually from another one.
