Seeing that something was wrong with her breathing, Su Qiao hurried over and helped her sit down in a chair.
"Auntie, you've only just recovered. You can't get worked up. Come, sit down and take a few breaths."
"Mom, drink some water."
Xiao Jingsheng knew his mother's illness best, so he hurried to the table and poured her a cup of water.
Lin Bingkun panicked too. "That's right, Sis, don't get worked up. Don't worry, I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere."
After drinking some water to calm herself, Lin Xiuying finally began to recover.
Her eyes red, she looked at her younger brother and choked out, "Bingkun, where... where did you move to? I looked for you for so long, but I just couldn't find you."
Lin Bingkun explained while patting her back to comfort her.
"Sis, our old house was gone long ago. The government built new apartment buildings, so we had no choice but to move somewhere else.
"I've been looking for you all these years too. I went to the little village where you were sent down back then and searched even the several villages nearby, but I couldn't find you. I thought you had already..."
Lin Xiuying was finally comforted by the realization that her family had been looking for her all along too.
"After I was sent down, I really couldn't endure it anymore, so I got married. He was an orphan, but he treated me very well.
"Later, during the Great Famine, there simply wasn't any food, so we could only follow the fleeing refugees from place to place. After wandering around for a long time, we eventually ended up in the current Xiaohe Village."
Lin Bingkun had long since guessed that this was what had happened, so he wasn't surprised that his