But Matthew and Debbie didn't find the boys' story funny. Debbie, who felt sorry for what they had gone through, held Colman in her arms and asked Matthew, "Didn't you go to find Rika? Why is she not with you?"

"Give her some time." Matthew wanted Erica to come back to him willingly and never leave him again.

"Why do we have to wait?" Debbie gave him a confused look and added, "Didn't you coax her enough? Didn't she want to come back with you?"

Colman suddenly cut in, "No, Grandma. Mommy can't come back now, maybe because she hasn't finished her task yet."

"Task? What task?" Debbie got more confused.

Colman blinked and hesitated for a moment. "Grandma, I will tell you, but don't tell anyone."

"Okay, go ahead."

"Mom has promised the police to find evidence of the crimes made by Kirk Qin and his men. That's what we only know. Mom didn't tell us the details. And when she sent us back here, she hasn't gotten the most important evidence yet."

Matthew and Debbie looked at each other. Then Matthew turned to Adkins and asked with a frown, "Does your mom do this kind of task often?"

Adkins nodded first but then shook his head afterward. "We don't know. Sometimes Mom doesn't tell us."

"I understand. You can go and play now," he said.

"Okay."

The four boys ran upstairs and went back to the games they were playing before Matthew arrived.

Debbie watched them running upstairs and sighed. "Although these children grew up in such a poor place, they don't have any bad habits. I admire Rika for raising them well. It must have been difficult and tiresome for her to take care of them even though Tessie is there to help her."

Matthew didn't say anything. But deep in his heart, he knew that Debbie was right. So he promised himself that he would never let Erica suffer again.

Before going upstairs, Debbie reminded him, "Get Rika back as soon as possible. Don't let her suffer more outside."

"I will." He would definitely take her back. It was only a matter of time.

As night fell, Matthew stayed in his study, looking at the photos taken by EM. Her first winning entry had photos shot three years ago.

It was a collection of five photos called "Different Childhood." In the first picture was a thin girl who was about six or seven years old. Dressed in patched clothes, she was pulling a rope on her back. The rope was connected to a wooden cart behind her that was full of dried wood. Since the cart

Matthew everything he knew.

"Chantel?" Surprise was written all over his face when he asked the little boy for confirmation.

"Yes. Aunt Chantel is awesome!" As an innocent child, Colman didn't know the matters between adults. In his eyes, his father was a great man, so he told him everything he knew.

Matthew was rendered speechless. He didn't expect that Chantel knew where Erica was all these years.

It was all Gifford's fault. He and Chantel hadn't seen each other for years because they were both busy in their careers. Wesley and Blair were the ones who took care of Hugo. The couple would only go back and accompany their son whenever they were free.

If Gifford had paid even just a little attention to Chantel, he would definitely found out something about Erica.

When Matthew remained quiet, Colman couldn't help saying, "Dad, I have something to ask you."

His voice brought Matthew back to his senses, so he said, "Okay, go ahead."

"Uncle Sheffield said that you are good at network technology. I want to learn from you." Because of the kind of life they had in the village, Colman had never gotten the chance to use a computer. One day, when he saw Carlos playing on the computer, he immediately got fascinated by it.

Coincidentally, Sheffield also came to them at that time. Looking at how the little boy got himself immersed in playing with the computer, he knew that he was interested in network technology. So he told the little boy that Matthew was very good at it, and he could learn from him.

Matthew was amused. His four three-year-old sons were surely interested in learning many things.