Chapter 89 Jinjiang Exclusive Poisoning
"What did you say!"
Old Li and Grandma Sun stood up from the sofa in shock.
Having already experienced this once before, Old Li was shocked and quickly took out the medicine, his hands trembling as he took out a pill and put it in his mouth.
Grandma Su instinctively gripped Su Ruyi's hand tightly, completely unaware of how much force she was using.
After Li Niannian was found, the family's life got better and better. The two elders kept comforting themselves that it was a blessing to find their child, but their longing for their daughter grew stronger and stronger.
At night, I always think that if my daughter were still here, how happy and harmonious their family life would be.
Finding people was extremely difficult. The two elders knew very well that Su Ruyi and Lu Ting had been helping them all along. They dared not reveal too much emotion for fear of putting pressure on others. In addition to ensuring their basic living needs, they would donate money to the anti-trafficking organization that Lu Ting had established every month, wanting to do their part.
The two of them usually avoided this matter, afraid that thinking about it too much would make their bodies unable to withstand it.
Li Xiaobao and Li Niannian are still too young; they must persevere and raise them to adulthood.
Su Ruyi quickly reassured them, "Grandpa Li, Grandma Sun, please don't get agitated. Take a deep breath. Sister Yunyao is on her way back on the train now. Please take care of yourselves."
"It's good that he's back, it's good that he's back."
Having had experience before, Old Li was the first to regain his senses, and murmured in a trembling voice.
He didn't have the courage to ask Li Yunyao what she had gone through. After learning that Li Yunyao had been abducted, he had already made the worst-case scenario plan.
"Just being alive is enough, just being alive is enough." Grandma Sun also hypnotized herself in the same way.
After a while, Grandma Sun realized that she had left handprints on Su Ruyi's hands and apologized repeatedly.
Su Ruyi didn't care about these things. Seeing that the two elders had recovered a little, she nodded to Lu Ting.
Lu Ting then told her about Li Yunyao's situation. Li Yunyao was indeed found by the anti-trafficking team, but the person who saved her was herself.
The anti-trafficking team had actually tracked down Li Yunyao a long time ago, but she had been sold to a remote mountain area in the south.
The people in the mountains do not interact closely with outsiders and are very xenophobic, so they only know a general direction and do not know which village is in the vast mountains.
Even the people in the local town don't know much about the mountain people. They rarely leave the mountains, and the people in town can hardly understand what they say, making it very difficult to get to know them.
As for the rescue, it was even more difficult. The people in the mountains were fierce and brave, and many of them had hunting rifles. Outsiders were not familiar with the mountain roads, so even if they were rescued, it would be difficult for them to escape.
This was much more difficult than rescuing Li Niannian. The village where Li Niannian was trafficked was still accessible by car, but many roads there were only wide enough for one person to pass. If you weren't familiar with the terrain, you might fall off a cliff. You can imagine how dangerous those roads were.
Let alone rescuing people, it's very difficult for outsiders to even enter and exit the area properly.
Therefore, even though it was determined roughly where Li Yunyao had been sold, it was difficult to make progress.
Just when the anti-trafficking team was at a loss, Li Yunyao actually came to the town on her own.
The reason was that the family to which Li Yunyao was sold suffered from food poisoning and were sent to the town's hospital for treatment, and she was also brought out to take care of them.
Upon hearing that someone had come from the mountains, the anti-trafficking team immediately went to the health center to check and saw Li Yunyao.
Upon hearing this, Grandma Sun clasped her hands together and murmured "Amitabha."
"Our Yun Yao is so lucky!"
Old Li felt something was off; how could things be so coincidental?
However, he didn't say anything, as long as the child could come back!
Lu Ting didn't go into details, only saying that after Li Yunyao was discovered, she was brought back, and the actual process was very difficult, requiring a battle of wits and courage to escape.
If half of the anti-trafficking team members weren't veterans, Li Yunyao wouldn't have been able to return so easily, even if she were in town.
People in the mountains have little contact with the outside world. The reason they can buy wives must be with the help of people in the town. The anti-trafficking team discovered during their investigation that the town was not clean either, so they never dared to be too reckless.
Two days later, Li Yunyao finally arrived in the provincial capital amidst everyone's anticipation.
In order to see Li Yunyao as soon as possible, he even bought a standing ticket and waited on the platform.
When the familiar figure appeared before them, the two elderly people and their two children finally lost control of their emotions and burst into tears.
Having endured the pain all the way, Li Yunyao could no longer hold back and knelt down in front of the two elders, crying.
"Dad, Mom, it's my fault for being so willful and making you worry about me."
Looking at her parents, who had aged considerably, Li Yunyao felt an unbearable heartache.
Ignoring her parents' advice, she decided to go to the south to work alone in order to prove herself. However, she was targeted by human traffickers and abducted from the train.
She tried to escape along the way, but was beaten and bruised all over. She also witnessed a girl who had been abducted with her being caught and subjected to inhumane treatment for trying to escape. She dared not resist anymore and chose to endure it for the time being.
When she was sold to the mountains, she was filled with despair. In the vast mountains, with no one to take her away, she had no way to escape.
But she didn't want to accept her fate. She had elderly parents, a lovely child, and a nephew who needed care. She missed them every moment.
Therefore, she appeared to cooperate fully, as if she had resigned herself to her fate, obediently becoming a wife and working hard every day to integrate herself into the life in the mountains.
In fact, she had been planning how to escape, even if it took a long time, she couldn't just die silently in this strange place.
The two elders quickly went over and helped Li Yunyao up, repeatedly saying:
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
Li Yunyao looked around, her gaze filled with a mixture of anticipation and worry: "Where's Xiaobao?"
She left secretly. I don't know how heartbroken Xiao Bao will be when he finds out. He has a heart condition, and I don't know if he can bear the thought of his mother disappearing.
Li Yunyao constantly regretted her stubbornness. If she had been willing to humble herself and ask Zhou Xinyuan for medical expenses, she wouldn't have left her elderly parents and children behind to travel far away.
She was too confident in herself, and as a result, she suffered a major setback.
If anything were to happen to her elderly relatives or children, she would never have peace in her life. It is this sense of pride that has allowed her to endure inhuman torture until now.
Grandma Sun wiped away her tears and said, "He was waiting for you at home. It was too crowded here, so I didn't bring him along."
After receiving the news, the two elderly people decided not to mention it to their children for the time being, and to wait until the children returned before discussing it.
Seeing that it was almost time, Su Ruyi stepped forward and said:
"Grandma Sun, Grandpa Li, let's talk about it when we get home."
Li Yunyao knew who Su Ruyi was as soon as she saw her.
Along the way, the person responsible for taking her back had already told her the whole story.
Li Yunyao wanted to kneel down in front of Su Ruyi to express her gratitude, but Su Ruyi quickly pulled her up.
"Sister Yunyao, let's go home first. Xiaobao is still waiting for you."
The train station was very crowded, with people walking shoulder to shoulder. If it weren't for Lu Ting and several burly men from the anti-trafficking team holding people back, Li Yunyao would have been swallowed up by the crowd if she had knelt down earlier.
Li Yunyao knew there was no rush, so she didn't insist any further.
Upon returning home and seeing Li Xiaobao, Li Yunyao, who had managed to calm down a bit on the way, was once again overwhelmed with tears.
Having learned ten minutes earlier that his mother was coming back, Li Xiaobao could no longer hold back his tears and rushed into Li Yunyao's arms.
"Mom, I miss you so much!"
"It's Mom's fault for making Xiaobao sad."
Li Niannian quickly ran over, threw herself onto Li Yunyao's back, and cried out, "Auntie, I missed you so much too!"
Seeing this scene, the two elders could no longer hold back, and the whole family burst into tears again.
After confirming that Li Xiaobao's heart was fine, the group left the family alone and departed.
After the family calmed down, he brought generous gifts to their door to express his sincere gratitude.
Originally, Su Ruyi was afraid of touching on Li Yunyao's painful memories and did not intend to ask her how she escaped.
The fact that the buyer's entire family suffered from food poisoning sounds like a more complicated matter.
Especially since she was the only one in her family who wasn't poisoned, the villagers would definitely be suspicious. Even if they didn't kill her on the spot, they wouldn't just take her out of the mountains like that.
According to Wang Jun, the head of the anti-trafficking team, although the group kept an eye on Li Yunyao, they still trusted her quite a bit and did not suspect that she was poisoned, only thinking that she had eaten something wrong.
But Li Yunyao herself brought it up, "They were poisoned because they ate chicken soup made with Gelsemium elegans."
Li Yunyao trusted Su Ruyi and Lu Ting very much. She knew more about the two of them from her parents, and she also knew that Li Niannian had been abducted before and that they were the ones who found her. Therefore, she did not hide the fact that all of this was her scheme.
The damage has already been done, and it is an indelible pain for Li Yunyao. But compared to these pains, being able to return to her parents and children is what she cares about most now.
She knew that if she didn't speak up, her parents and others wouldn't dare to bring it up either, for fear of reopening her wounds. But she couldn't help but worry about it, so she opened up.
After being sold, Li Yunyao worked hard to gain the buyer's trust, trying every means to please him and even actively learning the local dialect.
Presumably because they assumed Li Yunyao would never be able to escape the mountains, the family wasn't very wary of her.
Li Yunyao is also a hard worker. She can only eat half full every day, and it is mostly coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, but she does a lot of work.
Whether it's in the fields or at home, she manages everything perfectly. She is gentle and considerate to her husband, and when she is beaten or scolded, she just cries silently without any complaints, as if she has already resigned herself to her fate.
She also actively interacted with the villagers, putting on an act as if she had already given herself to a man and was going to live a good life from now on, and that once she had children, this place would be her home even more.
At this point, Li Yunyao curled her lips into a sneer: "When I showed signs of pregnancy, they felt even more at ease with me."
Because of the one-child policy, she had an IUD inserted after giving birth to Li Xiaobao. Therefore, Li Yunyao's pregnancy was fake. Li Yunyao had given birth before and was very experienced. There were no proper doctors in the mountains, so people were fooled.
As for her menstrual cycle, Li Yunyao's cycle was never very regular to begin with. She was also physically and mentally exhausted and malnourished, so she often didn't have her period for two or three months, and when she did, the flow was very light.
After gaining their trust, especially after becoming "pregnant," Li Yunyao basically integrated into the family, and the villagers were less wary of her.
Even so, when Li Yunyao was cooking, someone would still be watching her.
The devil is always one step ahead.
“I saw five-finger peach in the mountains, so I dug up a root to make chicken soup, which they really liked. This time they were poisoned by Gelsemium elegans, also known as Gelsemium elegans. If five-finger peach and Gelsemium elegans grow nearby, their roots will become intertwined and very difficult to distinguish. If they are cooked together in soup, it will cause food poisoning.”
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