Time for desserts lasted until the school was dismissed.

After all the children in the class were picked up by their parents, Miss Lee looked at Katherine and smiled gently without realizing it. There, Katherine was playing her mobile phone quietly on a chair.

Katherine was said to be back in the country two days ago. And she was a well-behaved child who did not cause trouble or have conflicts with other kids.

"Kathy, do you get impatient about the waiting?" Miss Lee crouched down in front of Katherine with a warm smile, "I have given your mommy a phone call, but her phone was off. And I am afraid her phone was out of juice. Let us wait for her together and give her more time, okay?"

Hearing what Miss Lee said, the little girl retreated her eyes from the phone and raised her head, while a surge of powerlessness appeared in her eyes, "She must have forgotten to get her phone recharged."

As Katherine said so, she stuffed the phone into her bag beside and lifted the bag. Then she returned to her normal look, "Miss Lee, we'd better wait for her at the gate of the kindergarten because she has no sense of direction. Or she may waste over half an hour to walk from the gate to our classroom."

"...Okay." Miss Lee walked towards the outside together with the little girl, while there was excitement in her eyes.

Miss Lee found Katherine more adorable when the little girl was complaining about her mother.

Outside the gate was a boulevard with sycamores standing on both sides. Miss Lee and Katherine waiting under one sycamore nearby quietly.

Two minutes later, Miss Lee remembered that she had left her phone on the office desk.

"Kathy, I forgot to bring my phone with me," Miss Lee said so with regret.

"Then you can go and fetch it. I will wait for Taylor here." Katherine pulled the strap and said without showing any other emotion.

"But--"

"Don't worry about me. I won't go away alone." Katherine turned back and looked at the gatekeeper nearby, "If anything happens, I will shout and called the gatekeeper."

"All right. Then you must stay there and don't leave. If your mother comes, don't go home directly before I am back." Miss Lee added to further remind Katherine.

"I know." The little girl nodded.

Katherine raised her eyebrows slightly when she saw Miss Lee wearing high heels.

And it seemed that Miss Lee almost fell with her staggering steps when she was wearing shoes with 3 cm heels.

Katherine thought Taylor was better because she could walk fast as if she was walking in a smooth place when she worn shoes with 8 cm heels.

"Little girl." An old and weak voice sounded from behind.

Katherine removed the expression on her face and looked back. A middle-aged man, with gray hair and a white mustache, stood there. Katherine blinked.

"What a cute kid! Hello, is there any restaurant?" That man looked at Katherine with a smile and said so with a gentle voice.

"Yes, there, two hundred meters away." Katherine extended her hand and pointed at the right.

"Thank you." The smile on that man's face became even brighter. And he suddenly coughed violently when he was about to say something.

He did not stop coughing until his face turned red because of the fierce movement. Then he gasped and said intermittently, "I am not feeling well. Can you please take my arm and send me there?"

Although his voice was weak, his beady eyes were fixed on Katherine's face. And there was satisfaction in his eyes.

As an attractive face equaled to a better price.

Katherine stepped backward for several steps without being noticed when the man was coughing.

And she did not show her willingness or reluctance after hearing what the man said. She just gazed at him with a shallow smile.

"Didn't your teacher tell you that a good kid should help others? Do me a favor, okay?" The man licked the corner of his mouth and added.

He could not tell the reason. But he was somehow anxious and guilty as the little girl gazed at him for a long period.

Then he thought he might be too nervous.

He could not think of any reason to be so nervous as it was not his first time doing such a thing. After all, Katherine was just five or six years old and knew nothing about the world.

"Kid--"

"Sir." Katherine suddenly interrupted.

She put her hands on both straps of the bag and tilted her head to one side. And there were lights in her round eyes, which was as beautiful as crystal beads. "Are you a trafficker?"

Her voice was as pleasing as a jingle bell.

Yet what she said made the smile on the man's face frozen.

"Are you trying to take me there, knock me out, put me in a bag, sell me to an unknown village in a mountain, and make me call strangers 'mom' and 'dad'?"

"Kid, you misunderstand me." That man stiffed for a moment and then put on a forced smile, "I am just asking for your help. I am not a trafficker."

"But mom told me that no adult would ask a kid for help. So, it must be your excuse." Katherine blinked.

"You--" That man gnashed and wondered what he should do next. Should he continue to cheat the girl or should he act directly--

"Sir, your expression is horrible!" Katherine held her straps tightly and drew back several steps.

While she said "horrible", she was smiling brightly, "Do you want to resort to violence when you failed to deceive me?"

Her eyes were looking around and then lit up when she saw a man and a woman walking outside of the kindergarten.

Katherine ran to them without any hesitation, hugged that man at his legs, and raised her head to give him a sweet smile, "Uncle, why are you walking out of the kindergarten? I have been here waiting for you for so long."

Daniel looked at the little girl who held his trousers tightly. And then he thought of something and frowned.

"What is going on?" Emma was confused.

Uncle?

Her dad had an illegitimate daughter?!

That could not be possible!

Her dad was a total wife-oriented man. It could be more believable if her mother had an affair.

Was the little girl in front of them the one with beautiful eyes?

"What is going on?" Emma looked at her expressionless brother and then turned to the smiling little girl.

"Aunt, this man was trying to cheat me and sell me to strangers." Katherine turned to Emma and said so with anger.

"That is not true--" The face of that middle-aged man turned pale. And he hurried to shake his hands and head as a denying, "I just have a stomachache. I--"

"Then why were you coughing when you have a stomachache? When you have a bad cough, you may have pneumonia. You do not forget to eat when you are dying. How weird!"

She reached out and held the corner of Daniel's clothes.

When she looked into his emotionless eyes, she frowned her face and the corner of her mouth turned down while her eyes were watering, "Uncle, he wanted to beat me. I was scared!"