The middle-aged man had the surname Shang, known as Scholar Shang.
Scholar Shang glanced over the people in the courtyard for a moment, then approached Gu Jinli accompanied by a servant, and after observing her, he asked, "If a three-year-old child were choking on a piece of candy, about to suffocate, how would you go about saving the child?"
Gu Jinli initially felt that this Scholar looked familiar, but when he asked this question, she suddenly remembered that this was the father of the little girl she had saved on the night of the Lantern Festival.
"It's quite simple, just hug the child from behind and use the overlapped hands to thrust against her abdomen. By using the pressure in the abdomen, you can force the piece of candy out that's stuck in her throat."
Upon hearing this, Scholar Shang's servant joyfully said, "Master, I told you it was their family, look, it really is."