In my dream.

Yun Mingyue returned to the day she gave birth in the hospital.

The first thing I saw was a blinding white, and my whole body ached as if my bones had been torn apart.

"Congratulations, Ms. Yun, it's a son, weighing six pounds and eight ounces," a muffled voice announced.

Yun Mingyue was in a daze. She struggled to turn her head and saw the nurse bringing the swaddled baby closer.

A tiny little thing, with a wrinkled face, crying with its eyes closed, kicking its legs, and a small red birthmark on its ankle.

Yun Mingyue's heart softened terribly. Just as she was about to raise her hand to touch the child's face, the nurse suddenly turned to the side, and then a man appeared beside her.

It's Lu Peng.

Lu Peng took the baby and turned to leave.

"Wait..." Yun Mingyue's voice was hoarse and her body was as soft as cotton after giving birth. She didn't even have the strength to lift her wrist.

She watched helplessly as Lu Peng took her child away. "No, don't take my child away..."

"Don't take my child away!"

She made a desperate sound, using all her strength to try to get off the hospital bed.

After finally managing to get down, my feet touched the ground, but it felt like stepping into water. Then I plummeted endlessly, as if falling into hell.

"My child...give me back my child!"

Yun Mingyue suddenly woke up with a start, and four lines of clear tears instantly fell down her cheeks.

Before she could recover from the nightmare, a somewhat ugly cloth tiger appeared before her.

The cloth tiger bumped against the tip of her nose; it felt soft and squishy.

"Little tiger, eat your nightmare!" a childish voice rang out.

Yun Mingyue was stunned for a moment, then slowly turned her head to look at the side of the bed, only to be met with a delicately beautiful face.

Seeing that Yun Mingyue had woken up, Xiao Jin put the cloth tiger away and earnestly explained, "This is a little tiger that my master made for me. It can eat away my nightmares!"

She held the slightly ugly little tiger cub tenderly, smiling adorably, "The little tiger keeps Xiaojin company while she sleeps, and Xiaojin has sweet dreams every day!"

This little tiger contains a calming and tranquilizing talisman; it's very effective!

Looking at Xiao Jin, Yun Mingyue had completely lost the hostility and malice she had shown just a few hours earlier. Tears streamed down her face, her lips trembled, and she whispered, "I...I'm sorry..."

"sorry."

Upon hearing Yun Mingyue's apology, Xiao Jin pursed her lips and slowly tightened her grip on the cloth tiger.

Yun Mingyue truly hadn't expected that a four-year-old child could be so amazing.

The truth of a matter can be discerned simply by looking at someone's face.

If it weren't for Xiao Jin's appearance, she wouldn't know how much longer she would have been deceived, or how much more suffering her own child would have had to endure outside!

Yun Mingyue choked back tears, "Who...who are you?"

It seemed to have fallen from the sky into her home, and within just a few hours, it resolved two matters.

Xiao Jin blinked, made a fist the size of a small steamed bun, tapped Yun Mingyue on the head, and laughed, "I'm your aunt!"

Yun Mingyue's tears flowed like a burst dam. She raised her hand and bit it to stifle her pathetic sobs.

Seeing this, Xiao Jin ran to the bedside table, picked up a big, fragrant apple, and ran to Yun Mingyue, "You silly little thing, bite the apple! Apples are sweet and crisp, and Xiao Jin loves them!"

Yun Mingyue stared blankly and sadly at the apple in Xiao Jin's hand, murmuring, "Why...why did he do this to me?"

Why?

Even if they were enemies, this wouldn't be any worse. They've known each other for ten years, and she's never wronged him. Why treat her like this?

Xiao Jin stared wide-eyed at Yun Mingyue as if she were an idiot. "You bad guy, there's no reason for doing bad things!"

As she spoke, she shook her head, looking rather disappointed in her.

Yun Mingyue was very sad, but looking at Xiao Jin's slightly comical expression, she actually felt an urge to laugh.

She's over thirty years old, yet she's not as insightful as a child.

She looked at Xiao Jin with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, and couldn't help but prop herself up and sit up.

Xiao Jin sighed, "I was originally angry with you..."

She stretched out her chubby little hand and counted on her fingers, saying, "But you apologized, you're so sad, and you're so silly, and you're still my only niece..."

After counting, Xiao Jin clenched her fist and stated her conclusion, "Therefore, Xiao Jin has decided to take you to find my dear grand-nephew!"

Yun Mingyue stared at Xiao Jin in shock, "You can figure out where my biological child is?!"

Xiao Jin nodded vigorously, "Yes."

She gave herself a thumbs-up, "Xiao Jin is really amazing!"

"Where...where are you?!" Yun Mingyue excitedly grabbed Xiao Jin, feeling both guilty and moved, and stammered, "I don't know how to thank you enough, I...I'd give you anything."

She truly... has no way to repay such a great kindness.

"Hehe, you have to treat Xiao Jin to something delicious!" Xiao Jin grinned mischievously.

"Definitely, definitely!" Yun Mingyue nodded repeatedly, then hugged Xiao Jin tightly, choking back tears, "Thank you!"

Xiao Jin was hugged tightly, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons as she smiled, "Okay, okay!"

"I have important business to attend to. After I finish yours, I also need to keep an eye on my nephew and make sure he doesn't make any mistakes."

Yun Mingyue released Xiao Jin, her expression surprised. "Nephew? Is that my brother? What happened to my brother?"

Xiao Jin frowned slightly, looking troubled. "My nephew is like a chili pepper, very fiery."

Yun Mingyue immediately understood the whole story. Knowing her brother's personality, he would definitely tear Lu Peng and his wife to pieces.

"So we need to hurry up," Xiao Jin said, taking out three shiny copper coins from her pocket. She put the coins in her palm, closed her eyes and prayed for a moment, then shook her wrist and they fell onto the table with a "clatter".

Her master taught her the art of finding people, and she remembers it very clearly.

She performed the same action six times, and each time she landed, she obtained six hexagrams.

Yun Mingyue stared nervously at Xiao Jin. If it were before, she would have scoffed at the actions of these charlatans, but now, she had placed all her hopes on them.

Xiao Jin lightly traced the copper coin with her short fingers, her expression exceptionally serious: "Kan water is the direction, Kun and Gen are the nourishment."

"The hexagram obtained is Water over Earth (Bi), with the first line moving, which changes to Mountain over Earth (Bo)."

First, determine the direction and distance.

"The body trigram Kan represents due north, and both the mutual trigram and the changing trigram contain Gen earth. Gen represents the northeastern, slightly east of due north."

"According to the innate trigram numbers, Kan is six, Kun is eight, add the moving number of the first line, one, the three numbers add up..." Xiao Jin couldn't help but count on her fingers, "Ah, fifteen!"

"That's between 1,400 and 1,500 li!"

Yun Mingyue realized what was happening and quickly picked up her phone to write it down.

Xiao Jin continued to mutter to herself, "Kan represents water, harbors, rivers and seas; Gen represents shores, mountains, and stone embankments; Kun represents flat land, mudflats, and countryside."

"The three shapes combined form a crescent-shaped harbor encircling the mountains!"

"What is a crescent-shaped harbor encircling the mountains?" Yun Mingyue couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Jin explained, "The village is nestled against a gentle hillside and faces an open tidal flat. It's a crescent-shaped bay, with the hillside curving in the middle."

"The inner trigram Kun represents an old woman, and the changing line Gen represents an old man. It was an elderly couple who adopted him," Xiao Jin explained layer by layer, as if deciphering a mystery. "Hmm... They lived on the south side of the village, in a low-lying area near the water's edge, where they could see the fishing port as soon as they opened their door."

"Gen represents the earth god and a small temple, while Kun represents the village entrance and flat land. Therefore, there is a small stone-built earth god temple at the south entrance of the village."

"A dirt road runs diagonally next to the temple, leading directly to the dock, with mudflats on both sides of the road."

Xiao Jin pondered for a moment, "They live in courtyards with earthen walls."

Yun Mingyue was surprised that Xiao Jin could calculate so many things, and throughout the whole process, Xiao Jin only relied on three copper coins.

Xiao Jin looked up at Yun Mingyue's face. Her master had said that one must combine divination and physiognomy to make sure one's interpretation is correct.

Her gaze swept lightly over the woman's lower right eye, and everything matched!

"Xiao Jin's calculations were correct, these are all!"

Yun Mingyue was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. "Who taught you all this?"

"My master," Xiao Jin put the copper coins away, "Alright, Xiao Jin has told you everything she knows."

"Tomorrow, once I've got my snacks, let's go see my great-nephew!"

The snacks Xiao Jin mentioned were the bones of dead people buried under the Yun family villa.

After Xiao Jin finished speaking, she put the copper coins away. "Alright, alright, I'm going to find Zheng Bang now."

"Okay, okay," Yun Mingyue replied subconsciously, only realizing her mistake after she finished speaking.

Hey, Zheng Bang?

Isn't that her father's name?

Yun Mingyue stared at Xiao Jin in astonishment. Xiao Jin was already carrying the cloth tiger and walking towards the door, taking a big apple from the fruit basket as she left.

Xiao Jin swayed slightly, holding an apple in her right hand and a cloth tiger in her left, and tiptoed out of the room.

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