Xu Tingyu only felt a buzzing in her ears, but she quickly regained her composure and stepped forward quickly to confirm the identities of those people.
Those people knew Qi Shifeng. They nodded, indicating that this was Youyou.
Xu Tingyu's heart turned even colder, but she still reached out her hand to take the child from the man's arms.
Perhaps because it was too noisy, the child was woken up. He turned his head groggily and mumbled, "Where is this?"
After the child turned his face, Xu Tingyu's heart sank to the bottom completely, and her hand froze in mid - air.
She finally understood why Qi Ye wasn't worried at all when Youyou was rescued.
She also finally understood the meaning of what he said when she was about to return to Kyoto.
Because this child was definitely not Youyou.
Although he looked somewhat similar to Youyou, she could tell at a glance from his figure that it wasn't him.
Sure enough, after seeing Xu Tingyu, the child showed no reaction. He still clung to the man and said, "Uncle, didn't you say you'd take me home?"
Jiang Li caught up at this time. He was greatly shocked and asked, "Who is this child?"
The man holding the child said, "Isn't this the young master? It's impossible. We looked for him according to the photo, and that person also said so."
Qi Shifeng's face was ashen, but he also roughly understood the situation.
Qi Ye, this crazy man, had really made very thorough preparations for this matter.
"This isn't him. When you found the child, were there any other children?"
Jiang Li quickly asked again.
The man shook his head. "No, there was only this one child. All the details matched the information we got before."
He recalled the scene when they found this child.
At that time, they arrived at the place and found the largest local mafia organization. They spent a lot of money and asked them to help.
After taking the money, the other side was quite efficient. They quickly found the place according to the clues.
Before they went to rescue the child, they also checked the information investigated by the mafia.
It was indeed a four - or five - year - old little boy. There was a nanny and two bodyguards always following him.
The child had been to the hospital once because he was unwell before.
Usually, they didn't interact with the local people. Except for the time they went to the hospital, they basically didn't go out.
Although the place they lived in wasn't in a good environment, how could a poor person hire bodyguards and a nanny?
So after they were sure and rushed in, seeing the little boy, they were even more certain.
Although this child looked dirty, a bit thinner, darker, and more haggard than in the photo.
But one could still see the similarities with the photo.
So they thought that the child must have suffered after coming here, which was why he had changed like this.
However, out of caution, they still asked the child his name.
The child said his name was Youyou, his father was Qi Shifeng, his mother was Xu Tingyu, and his home was in Kyoto.
Since the information matched, they didn't doubt anymore and took the child away.
Moreover, on the way from taking the child to the airport, it wasn't peaceful either.
There were always people chasing after them, trying to snatch the child away.
If it weren't for the gang they contacted in advance, this child wouldn't have been taken away so easily.
It could be said that rescuing this child wasn't easy at all.
As a result, when they arrived in the country, they were told that they had rescued the wrong child?
The man naturally couldn't believe it.
"After you saw the child, was the child never out of your sight?"
Qi Shifeng asked in a deep voice.
The man nodded. "No. As soon as we took the child away, we went to the airport as planned, then transferred flights and returned to the country."
"During this whole journey, even when the child went to the toilet, I accompanied him personally. I can say that he was never out of my sight."
They weren't blind. How could the child be switched halfway?
He could guarantee that the child they picked up at the beginning was this one.
Perhaps afraid that Qi Shifeng would blame him for deceiving him, the man seemed to remember something and asked the child in his arms.
"Tell uncle, what's your name?"
The child had already been frightened by the atmosphere among the adults. He nestled tightly in the man's arms and timidly spoke up.
"My name is Youyou. My father is Qi Shifeng, and my mother is Xu Tingyu. My home is in Kyoto."
Even his voice wasn't Youyou's.
Moreover, if you listened carefully to these words, you could tell that they were memorized by rote.
Qi Shifeng couldn't bear it any longer. He stepped forward, stared at the little boy, and said, "What's your real name? Who taught you to say these things?"
The child was immediately frightened and burst into tears.
Not to mention answering useful information, he couldn't even speak properly.
It was Xu Tingyu who pinched her palm at this time to calm herself down quickly. She stepped forward and stroked the child's face.
"Baby, whose baby are you? Auntie is looking for a child about your age. Can you help auntie?"
Although she was trembling with anger, her voice was still so gentle that it seemed to drip water.
After being comforted for a while and bribed with the lollipop Jiang Li gave him, the child finally stopped sobbing and calmed down.
But he was still very scared. He looked at Xu Tingyu and said, "I can't say. If I do, someone will beat me to death."
"No one will beat you to death, baby. You tell auntie. Look, there are policemen over there. The policemen will drive away all the bad guys."
Xu Tingyu continued to comfort him.
Sure enough, there was someone playing tricks behind the scenes. Needless to say, it must have been Qi Ye who arranged all this.
The child looked at the policemen, ate the lollipop, and was silent for a long time before whispering.
"A uncle said that if someone asked me my name, I should say my name was Youyou, my father was Qi Shifeng, and my mother was Xu Tingyu."
"As long as I said so, those people would take me to my real mom and dad."
"If I didn't say so, I would be sent back to the orphanage and then beaten to death."
"Auntie, I don't want to go back to the orphanage. I want to find my mom and dad. I don't want to be beaten to death. Wuwu."
The child burst into tears again.
Xu Tingyu only felt a dizzy spell, but she shook herself and still managed to steady her figure.
"Baby, tell auntie, was there another little boy about your age with you?"
The child nodded and then shook his head.
"There was one originally. He got on the boat and the plane with me, but he cried and made a fuss too much."
"Then he got sick. The bodyguard uncle said he was not obedient, so they sent him away."
"But I don't know his name. I haven't seen him since he got sick."
Sent away?
But she had clearly seen Youyou in the video. Could it be that all those were deliberately shown to her by Qi Ye to mislead her?
Were those videos all fake?
Or perhaps it was really Youyou at that time, but because he was sick, he was actually no longer alive?
Was this child just found to continue to deceive her?
Xu Tingyu could no longer hold on. Her vision went black and she fainted completely.