novelraw Chapter 163 I broke up with her a long time ago
Chapter 163 I broke up with her a long time ago
After Tong Anfu and his group returned from the Public Security Bureau, he secretly went to the cowshed through the tunnel at night. He stayed in Li Guanglin and his wife's small house for a while.
He told them about his family's situation, explaining that he was trying to minimize contact with them for the time being because of the potential danger they might be implicated. He put some supplies in a storage room near the entrance to the cowshed's tunnel, telling them to be careful and retrieve them themselves.
The two families were relieved to see that he was safe and sound. They decided to stay in the cowshed obediently during this period of time, except when they were at work, and would not say a word more than necessary!
"Xiao Ding, you don't look well. Come here and let me take your pulse," the old man said, looking at the thin and sallow-faced Ding Hongyan.
"Okay, I've been feeling a bit dizzy lately, but I don't have any other discomfort."
Grandpa Tong quietly took Ding's pulse without making a sound, which made everyone feel heavy-hearted, fearing that Xiao Ding had contracted some serious illness.
"Uncle Tong, is Hongyan alright?" Li Guanglin was terrified, his face pale. He and his wife had been each other's only support for nearly twenty years. If anything happened to her, he didn't want to live anymore!
"Why that expression? Can't we have some good news?" Grandpa Tong said with a smile.
"Good news? What good news?" The group was still confused, they couldn't believe it!
"Don't get too excited yet. Xiao Ding is pregnant, less than two months along. Luckily, she's hibernating now, so she needs to take good care of herself!"
"What?! I...I'm pregnant! Guanglin, do you think I'm dreaming? I must be dreaming!" She reached up and pinched her thigh hard. "Ouch, that hurts!"
"Are you stupid? If you want to pinch someone, pinch me! Be careful not to hurt the child!" Li Guanglin realized what was happening and was overjoyed! His mouth stretched to his ears!
"Don't pinch me, I can vouch for it! Xiao Ding, your Uncle Tong has really taken good care of your health! You really are pregnant!" Zhang Yanan was also very happy.
"Brother Tong, thank you so much! If it weren't for your medical skills and that girl Yuheng finding the medicinal herbs, we wouldn't be where we are today!"
Zhang Yanan's eyes reddened. When her granddaughter nearly died, she was prepared to go with her. It was Brother Tong who saved Yan Yan's life through acupuncture and physical cooling methods—he saved two lives!
"Yes, Uncle Tong, thanks to you! From now on, you are my father!" Li Guanglin didn't know how to express himself, so he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to him three times.
"Alright, alright, take good care of your wife during this time. I'll make her some special pills to help with the pregnancy, and she can take them for a few days."
"Uncle Tong, thank you. Please be careful during this time and don't let the bad guys get away with it." Ding Hongyan said with tears in her eyes, tears of joy.
"Brother Tong, have you noticed that we keep running into that mute old woman? I've seen her follow you into the woods several times. Even if she's just gathering firewood, you shouldn't see her so often, right?"
Zhang Yanan raised a question, knowing that Tong Anfu's value had already attracted the attention of all sorts of shady characters, and who knew who was around him—a man or a ghost!
"I'll be careful, thanks, Zhang!" Tong Anfu and Zhang Yanan are five or six years apart, but now they have a brother-sister relationship.
Tong Anfu was Old Madam Tong's only son. If his mother had a daughter like him, she would be very happy. His younger brother, who was favored by their father and had a wicked heart, was no longer family to him.
After the old man returned home, he told his daughter and eldest niece what Zhang Yanan had said, and asked them to keep an eye on the mute old woman.
The mute old woman came here ten years ago, during a period of severe famine. People from the south often came here, all trying to beg for food to survive.
The mute old woman was only in her thirties at the time. She was ugly, couldn't speak, and had a girl of about ten years old with her. An honest and kind man in the village took them in, and that's how they settled down in Chenjiatun.
Perhaps it was bad luck for her, but the man died less than two years later, leaving her and her child to live a difficult life in the village, which was very pitiful.
The mute old woman was ugly and poor, unlike Tong Jia Hui who was surrounded by a group of pretty girls and was constantly targeted. Her life was relatively peaceful. Because the village cared for them, the village let her raise pigs. The work wasn't too hard, and more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Her daughter, Juying, grew more and more beautiful. After graduating from junior high school, she stayed by her mother's side to farm, and married before she was eighteen. Juying married into a well-off family in the county, who often sent her food, clothing, and other necessities, making her life much better than before.
Tong Yuheng had seen her during his morning exercise but had never suspected anything. But considering Zhang Yanan's suspicions, she had to take notice.
Sometimes, a woman's intuition is very sharp. Grandma Zhang is a knowledgeable and thoughtful person. If she feels something is wrong, she will really investigate it carefully!
On Fan Yaqing's side, there had been no progress from the Tong family regarding the treasure for several months, and Zhang Shaojie was also getting impatient. Before the Lunar New Year, he sent her 100 yuan and a few tickets, saying that his side was under strict supervision and he wouldn't write to her or send money before May Day, adding that he would notify him if there was any news.
Fan Yaqing realized she had been tricked by the old fox and turned to Wang Li to complain, expressing her longing for him. However, due to family pressures, Wang Li couldn't resolve the issue quickly and could only send her fifty yuan and write her a letter of comfort.
He borrowed the fifty yuan from his colleagues. Everyone advised him not to date this cunning girl whose family was full of troubles, and he hesitated.
Fan Yaqing described her ex-boyfriend as an irresponsible scumbag, a belief Wang Li readily accepted at the time. However, her ex-ex-boyfriend was a hoodlum whose death was somewhat suspicious, causing his resolute resolve to waver.
He suddenly had a whim to go find Zhang Minghai and ask him what kind of person Fan Yaqing was in his heart, and why he had distanced himself from her without any warning.
While others might not be able to find Zhang Minghai, he, as a police officer, was certain he could. So he took a day off, took a bus, and went to the county town fifty kilometers away, where he found Zhang Minghai's workplace.
When Zhang Minghai heard that someone was looking for him, he was so frightened that he thought it was Fan Yaqing. But when he heard that it was a young man, he came out to see him.
"Hello, I'm Wang Li, Fan Yaqing's current boyfriend," Wang Li said, getting straight to the point.
"What do you want with me? I broke up with her a long time ago!" Zhang Minghai didn't expect Fan Yaqing's current boyfriend to come looking for him. Did she want this man to take revenge on him?
"But you left without saying goodbye and abandoned her! That's really not very manly of you. I want to know why, what did she do to make you treat her like this?"
Wang Li's words instantly reminded Zhang Minghai of the狰狞 (zhengning, meaning ferocious or hideous) face of Fan Yaqing, the image of her using her crutch to push Wu Zhigang into the water until he drowned flashed before his eyes. His face turned pale, fear surged within him, and his whole body trembled!