Chapter 207 - Chapter 207: Chapter Two-Hundred and Seven: Search (2/2)

Firstly, because your father took good care of your mother, she’d filled out and grown taller and had become quite different from the poor, abused child in the village—they didn’t recognize her. Secondly, that family has a bad reputation, and those who visited the town from that village were good people. They saw how well she was doing and didn’t want to ruin her life, so they kept quiet about it. That’s how your family managed to stay safe and unbothered for many years.”

‘I see, so that’s howit was,’ Yun Nan thought.

Chen Yao held Gu Bei’s hand tightly and said, “You can’t let go of those who hurt our daughter!” Her eyes reddened as she spoke.

Gu Bei patted the back of her hand reassuringly. “Don’t worry, I won’t let them off. I just came in to see how you guys are doing. I’ll go over to that village with Shi Nian and Ye Kun in a short while. You two stay here and rest up. Wait for us to come back—I‘

“I want to go, too!” Yun Nan interrupted Gu Bei and looked at him firmly.

“Grandpa, let me go with you. I’m fine now. I want to find Mom’s jade pendant. It belongs to my mother; we must retrieve it.”

“Then, I’m going, too!” Chen Yao spoke up.

I’ll get it back even if they’d already sold it!”

However, Chen Yao uttered, “1 know you’re afraid that my body won’t be able to take it, but I can! I must go and see where my daughter lived, see what her living conditions were like back then. I won’t be at ease otherwise.”

Gu Bei inaudibly muttered to himself. Looking at Yun Nan and his wife’s expectant faces, he finally decided and nodded. “Alright! Let’s go together!”

Yun Nan immediately jumped out of bed and packed her things. Shi Nian was shocked when he heard Yun Nan wanted to go but didn’t object. He silently took a thermos cup and made a cup of chrysanthemum tea for Yun Nan.

Zhang Tao sat in the courtyard basking in the sun, supervising her daughter-in-law as she washed the bedding. Her husband, son, and grandson had drunk too much yesterday and vomited everywhere. She had beaten her daughter-in-law out of bed before dawn and told her to dismantle everything that needed dismantling and wash everything that needed washing.

Her daughter-in-law wasn’t even fifty years old but looked older than her mother-in-law, Zhang Tao. Zhang Tao didn’t have a trace of pity in her heart as she looked at her.

Her grandson, Zhang Xian, finally woke up, came out of the house, and stretched his back. A smile immediately appeared on Zhang Tao’s face when she saw him, and she got up to say, “Oh, sweetums, why don’t you sleep a little longer? What are you doing up so early?”

She then turned around and scolded her daughter-in-law, “Are you blind? Can’t you see that your son is already awake? Why aren’t you making him something to eat? Are you trying to starve him to death? You black-hearted hag! “