No one expected that controlling the epidemic throughout Yan Country would actually take two to three years. After those years, when they went out to work and make money, renting boats to search, hope had already diminished to almost nothing.
Moreover, there were so many islands at sea, and they searched several familiar ones but couldn't find their child. Ironically, the original villagers found quite a few.
After trying five or six, even seven or eight islands and coming up empty, the couple gave up.
Years later, when Xiao Yu's parents met him and confirmed their initial exact location, the couple hugged each other and cried in regret.
"We saw that island, we really did, but it was too far. I was the first to give up because I didn't think it possible for you to row that far. Why did this happen? If we had persisted back then, could we have reunited with you earlier? Only heaven knows how much pain your father and I have carried in our hearts all these years."
