Xiao Xiao remembered what the neighborhood security guard had said.
So he repeated it word for word.
Sure enough.
The words worked immediately.
The woman fell silent.
As if someone had pressed pause.
"Xiao Feng."
An old woman's voice called out.
It belonged to an elderly woman.
The elderly woman glanced at Xiao Xiao with some wariness.
Then she went over and took the woman by the arm.
The woman didn't react.
She seemed to still be confused by what Xiao Xiao had just said.
Niu Niu...
"Xiao Feng."
The elderly woman tugged at the woman's arm.
"Let's go."
"Let's go home."
"Niu Niu's at home looking for her mom."
"Niu Niu!"
The confusion vanished from the woman's eyes.
"She's waiting for me at home?"
"Then let's go home. Hurry, let's go home."
"Niu Niu's waiting for me..."
The woman took the lead and strode off.
The elderly woman stumbled slightly.
She hurried a few steps to catch up with the woman.
The woman and the elderly woman soon disappeared into the distance.
The woman's voice drifted faintly through the air, murmuring over and over.
"Niu Niu..."
"Niu Niu's waiting for me."
"Mommy will be right home."
"Wait for Mommy a little longer, Niu Niu..."
Xiao Xiao shook his head slightly.
He wasn't puzzled by the elderly woman's explanation.
It was probably a desperate ploy to get the woman to go home obediently.
The woman had lost herself in confusion because of her child.
Only news about her child could make her act according to someone else's wishes.
Who knew when the woman would wake from the world she had woven for herself...
He hoped that day would come soon.
If the child knew that her mother had become