"Thank you, Uncle Yan." Le Yao thanked him sincerely, then hesitated for a moment: "Could you tell me about my mother and my grandmother? I always feel that there was something fishy about their deaths." She also had a feeling that Yan Cheng should know something.

"You're having doubts?"

Le Yao nodded: "After I came back, I overheard Han Guosheng and Zhou Yunmeng mention that my maternal grandparents' family didn't seem to treat me very well either... Also, you know about what happened at Xici Hospital a few days ago, right? That was because my aunt helped me get my kidney removed to facilitate this for her son..."

"What?" Yan Cheng exclaimed in surprise, "Such a thing actually happened?"

Le Yao nodded: "I almost died."

"Sigh!" Yan Cheng sighed deeply. "I don't know much about what happened back then. The Yan family and the Cui family were neighbors. I was an only child, but the Cui family had three children. Your mother was the eldest sister..."

Fifty years ago, Cui Zhanyi and Gu Meizhi got married, but they had no children after two years. Later, they left the compound to visit relatives in the west. They returned after about a year, bringing back a girl, Cui Na.

After that, the Cui family started doing business, supposedly with money provided by relatives.

Cui Zhanyi was also a smart man. He contracted coal mines and opened textile factories, and gradually developed his business.

Two years later, Gu Meizhi gave birth to twins, Cui Li and Cui Peng.

However, Cui Zhanyi and Gu Meizhi's attitude towards their eldest daughter was somewhat strange. Although they didn't beat or scold her, they also never disciplined her, as if... they let her be, leaving everything to her to decide.

Therefore, when Cui Na later fell in love with a poor boy, the Cui family did not object and simply gave her a dowry to get rid of her.

“I’m three years older than your mother, so you could say I watched her grow up. I like her, but she doesn’t seem to feel the same way about me. But seeing her with a poor guy, I’m not happy about it, so I started investigating Han Guosheng and that’s when I discovered some things…”

“Uncle Yan, there’s nothing I can’t tell you.” Le Yao’s eyes were earnest. “Otherwise, if I were to investigate on my own, I might take a lot of detours.”

"Then I can only tell you what I've found out. As for whether it's true or false, you can judge for yourself."

Le Yao nodded.

"First, Han Guosheng and Zhou Yunmeng are from the same village. In fact, they've been having an affair for a long time. Han Xueqian isn't Zhou Yunmeng's child with her ex-husband at all, but..."

“I know that. I overheard them talking about it by chance, and that’s why I suspect my mother’s death.”

"Secondly, the place your mother went to for research wasn't Hanjia Village. It was your aunt who persuaded her to go there. As for why, I didn't investigate further..."

After Yan Cheng left, Le Yao sighed in disbelief. Life is truly full of drama. It seems she needs to find an opportunity to go to Beichuan. She has a feeling that Cui Na might not be a child of the Cui family. Otherwise, her maternal grandparents would not have ignored her, and Cui Li would not have schemed against her.

Of course, this is just her speculation, and whether it's correct or not needs to be verified.

Just then, the door to the private room was suddenly pushed open.

"I don't need the service for now," Le Yao said, leaning back in her chair with her eyes closed. "If I need it, I'll ring the bell..."

But his footsteps moved straight toward her, and he suddenly opened his eyes, grabbing the teapot on the table and smashing it over her shoulder.