Chapter 43: The Milk Lady Says

Chapter 43

Therefore, when facing Shi Li, she always couldn't help but feel hostility.

When Shi Li suddenly became possessed and classmates could hear her thoughts, Gu Yuqing approached it with an attitude of watching for entertainment.

The class president knew Gu Yuqing didn't like Shi Li, and specifically sought her out to work on the issue, fearing she might accidentally reveal this to Shi Li.

But how could that be possible? Gu Yuqing couldn't wait for Shi Li to make a fool of herself, so how could she possibly warn Shi Li proactively?

After all, even many people who appear normal on the outside hide quite a few dark thoughts deep inside.

Ridiculous, how could she possibly tell Shi Li about this? This was a great opportunity to watch Shi Li make a fool of herself.

Indeed, through Shi Li's inner thoughts, Gu Yuqing saw many amusing things.

But they weren't about Shi Li herself. Rather, she got to hear all sorts of strange gossip because of Shi Li.

What surprised Gu Yuqing even more was that Shi Li, who appeared noble, cold, and goddess-like on the outside, was actually quite unhinged on the inside.

Gu Yuqing even doubted her own judgment, wondering if she had been blind before to consider Shi Li as her imaginary enemy.

Just thinking about it made her feel like she'd lost face.

After knowing Shi Li's inner thoughts, her hostility towards Shi Li gradually weakened.

But she couldn't say she liked her much. If she had liked Shi Li, she would have shamelessly pestered her for information about her sister long ago. Why wait until now?

When she heard that Shi Li wanted to help her find her sister, Gu Yuqing felt extremely ashamed.

In her heart, Shi Li became a super incredibly good person. From now on, if anyone said anything bad about Shi Li, they shouldn't blame her for turning against them.

Gu Yuqing and Gu's mother followed behind the three people in front, slowly strolling. By this time, Shi Li had long stopped thinking about Gu Yulan's current situation, but Gu Yuqing still didn't want to leave, afraid that Shi Li might reveal more information after she and her mother left.

It wasn't until near noon when Feng's Mother had to return to the villa for lunch.

Gu Yuqing couldn't continue following with her mother, so she had to give up. They returned to the small villa where her mother lived. After watching her mother finish lunch, she also said goodbye.

"Is there something at school? Why are you going back early this time?"

Gu Yuqing usually came to the nursing home every weekend to spend time with her mom.

Today was only Saturday, more than a day earlier than usual to go back, and Gu's mother was a bit reluctant to let her daughter leave.

Gu Yuqing casually made up an excuse, "Yes, it's my homeroom teacher's birthday celebration. Our class is planning to throw him a birthday party."

Gu Yuqing's homeroom teacher, who wasn't even thirty years old but was supposedly celebrating his longevity: Yes, yes, indeed.

"Great-grandmother said that she found my sister. She's in a small fishing village in J Province, and her adoptive parents treat her very badly."

Just finishing this sentence, Gu Yuqing couldn't control her tears.

The missing younger daughter was an unmentionable scar for their family.

Hearing his elder daughter mention it now, Gu's father's hand trembled slightly as he picked up his tea cup.

Since the younger daughter's disappearance, they had used connections all over the country to search for the child, but the results were always disappointing.

Normal people would find the idea of a prophetic dream quite far-fetched.

But Gu's father was so desperate to find his child that he thought, what if it's true?

What if his missing child really was in that small fishing village? If he, as a parent, gave up, who else could find her?

Moreover, his elder daughter had also said that the younger daughter was not living well now, and Gu's father believed this point.

He often dreamed that his thin, small daughter was being abused, and he wanted to protect her but couldn't move.

His younger daughter would cry heart-wrenchingly, calling for her dad to save her. Gu's father would shout, asking where she was now, but the younger daughter wouldn't say. Just as the younger daughter was about to speak—

Gu's father carefully asked, "What else did your great-grandmother tell you in the dream?"

"Great-grandmother said that my sister's stepmother is a pearl diver, her stepfather is a fisherman, and her stepparents had their own child a few years ago."

From his eldest daughter's words, Gu's father realized that his younger daughter's current family situation was likely not a wealthy one. Having grown up as the child of a rich family, he had never experienced such poverty himself.

If he had to say, it wasn't that he had never encountered it at all—he had probably seen it depicted in various works of literature when he was young.

A poor family, and on top of that, a stepfather and stepmother who now had their own biological child—Gu's father could hardly imagine what his child would have to face.

Though his heart felt as if it were being cut by a knife, Gu's father calmly analyzed his younger daughter's current situation.

While J Province was a coastal province, truly coastal areas were not abundant.

Although there were many such villages, finding a thirteen-year-old girl wouldn't be easy. However, compared to searching for a needle in a haystack across the entire country as before, the search area had already narrowed considerably.

Gu Yuqing continued, "That small village has a custom of worshipping the Clam God at the ancestral hall on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, praying for favorable weather in the coming year."

She cleared her throat, "My great-grandmother said we should find experts from the cultural affairs department and ask them which areas might have these customs. That way, we can narrow down the search area even further."

This was originally Shi Li's idea, but now it had become the words of Gu Yuqing's great-grandmother.

So Gu Yuqing's great-grandmother was equivalent to Shi Li.

Shi Li: Thanks for the invisible promotion by three generations.