Child's Mom hurried back to the Police Station soon after receiving the call.
The moment she saw her child, the woman's eyes reddened.
She pulled the child into her arms.
She buried her face in the child's shoulder.
Her body trembled slightly.
The child looked a little lost.
But his eyes quickly reddened too.
"Mom..."
The child's tearful call made the woman's emotions surge even more.
She hugged him tightly.
At last, her unsettled heart came to rest.
Xiao Xiao and the others exchanged smiles.
"These young men brought your child back."
Once mother and child had calmed down a little, the police officer introduced the kind young men to the woman.
The officer was in a good mood.
This was the best possible outcome.
The child really had gotten lost.
It hadn't been a case of someone taking him.
A kind person had brought the lost child back.
In the end, everything had turned out all right.
Mother and child were reunited.
If only every missing child could have such an ending.
The woman immediately smiled gratefully at the young men.
"Thank you."
The woman bent forward.
She rested her hands on the child's shoulders.
"Really..."
For a moment, the woman choked up.
She took a deep breath.
When she spoke again, her words came out much more clearly.
"Thank you so, so much."
While her child had been missing, she had almost imagined she could hear the hands of her wristwatch ticking. The sound had grown louder and louder in her mind.
Reminding her that every second was passing.
And she...
Still hadn't found her child.
And the longer her child was gone, the more it meant...
The more likely it was that something might happen to him.
She couldn't help understanding