Chapter 3, Returning the Token

Gu Qingan started packing his luggage after the training. He had already bought a ticket for the evening train. This time he went back to see his family and to break off the engagement with Ling Yao. He didn't like Ling Yao and didn't want to spend his life with someone he didn't like.

Thinking of Ling Yao, he couldn't help but frown. Before he joined the army, he had already told Ling Yao that he didn't like her anymore and asked her not to take the engagement seriously, but Ling Yao didn't listen at all, saying that it was the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. Now is a new era, and what matters is freedom of marriage. This feudal dregs should have been abolished long ago.

"Knock knock knock!" There was a knock on the door.

Gu Qing'an stopped packing his luggage, went forward to open the door, and saw a pretty girl standing outside the door, "Comrade Xu, why are you here?"

Xu Juanjuan smiled shyly and handed a lunch box in her arms to Gu Qing'an, "I heard from my brother that you are going back to your hometown. This is the snack I made for you. You can eat it on the way." She liked Gu Qing'an from the first time she saw him.

"Thank you! I have prepared delicious food." Gu Qing'an refused with a smile. He knew that Xu Juanjuan liked him, and he also had some feelings for her, but he was still engaged.

"Brother Gu, do you dislike me?" Xu Juanjuan's eyes suddenly turned red.

"No...no, how could I dislike you, I'll take it, don't cry." Gu Qing'an reached out to take the lunch box.

Xu Juanjuan raised her hand to wipe her eyes, and showed a bright smile to Gu Qingan, "Brother Gu, I wish you a safe journey, I'm going back first."

"Okay." Gu Qingan watched Xu Juanjuan leave, retracted his gaze, glanced at the lunch box in his hand, shook his head and smiled. This time when he went back, he would cancel the engagement with Ling Yao no matter what, whether she made a fuss or cried, he would not be soft-hearted.

The Gu family was very happy to hear that Gu Qingan was coming back, especially Gu Lili.

She heard that her elder brother was coming back to cancel the engagement with that ugly Ling Yao. She had disliked Ling Yao for a long time. How could someone as ugly and fat as Ling Yao be worthy of her elder brother? Her elder brother was now a company commander. Even if he didn't marry a daughter of an official family, he would at least marry a daughter of a rich family in the city.

Humming a song when she arrived at Ling Yao's house, she saw Ling Yao about to go out with a backpack on her back. Gu Lili stepped forward to stop her and said proudly: "Ling Yao, my elder brother will be back soon. Do you know why he is coming back this time? He wants to break off the engagement with you. I advise you to be sensible and not affect my elder brother's future."

Ling Yao looked at Gu Lili coldly. In her previous life, Gu Lili relied on the fact that she was Gu Qing'an's sister to torture her a lot, and even joined forces with Zhou Yu to secretly plot against her. She also contributed to her miscarriage and imprisonment.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Facing Ling Yao's cold gaze, Gu Lili suddenly felt a breathless feeling, and took two steps back involuntarily.

"Even if all the men in the world died and only your brother was left, I wouldn't even look at him." As she spoke, Ling Yao took out the token of the engagement between the two families from her pocket and threw it to Gu Lili, "Take it, I won't send you off." Before Gu

Lili came to her senses, Ling Yao had already turned around and left. She was going to the mountains. In her previous life, it was on this day that she saved Zhou Yu in the mountains and brought her home, but in this life, she would only watch coldly.

"Ling Yao, don't regret it." Gu Lili reacted, bent down, picked up the silver bracelet on the ground, wiped the dust off it and put it on her wrist. Her elder brother is so outstanding, he is already a company commander at a young age, and his future is definitely limitless. Ling Yao is just being angry now, and she will definitely regret it later. But regret is useless, her elder brother is not soft-hearted.

Glancing at the silver bracelet on her wrist, Gu Lili hummed a song and walked home. When her elder brother comes back, she will tell him the good news, he will definitely be very happy.

Ling Yao walked up the mountain with a backpack on her back, and followed her memory to the place where she met Zhou Yu.

After finding the trap where Zhou Yu fell, Ling Yao put the prepared trap into the trap, and then covered the trap with a layer of weeds. After

doing all this, Ling Yao walked to a big tree not far away and sat down, waiting for the arrival of the prey.

After waiting for a while, a voice shouting for help came from a distance.

Ling Yao looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Zhou Yu with messy hair and mud on his clothes, stumbling towards this direction. Finally here, Zhou Yu, I will never save you again in this life, I will only watch you fall into the abyss.

Not long after, a scream was heard, and Ling Yao curled the corners of her lips. She knew that Zhou Yu had fallen into the trap.

As soon as Zhou Yu fell into the trap, her feet were caught by the beast. She bled profusely, but she didn't dare to scream because the two men would find her. She endured the pain and covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from making any sound.

Ling Yao saw two men running towards this side, pretending to be picking herbs.

"Hey, have you seen a girl?" The two men stopped when they saw Ling Yao.

Ling Yao deliberately glanced at the trap not far away, then shook her head in panic, "I didn't see it, I don't know."

After that, she ran away in a panic. She knew that the two men were human traffickers. In her previous life, Zhou Yu told her that her father was a gambler and sold her to human traffickers when he lost money and couldn't pay it back. In her previous life, she was kind and deliberately led the human traffickers away to save Zhou Yu. In this life, she would only respect the fate of others.

The two men also discovered the trap. When they walked to the trap and looked down, they saw Zhou Yu curled up in the trap.

Zhou Yu knew that she was discovered, so she stopped resisting and let the two human traffickers pull her out of the trap. Now her feet were caught by the beast, and it was useless even if she resisted.

Ling Yao watched from a distance and saw Zhou Yu being taken away by the two human traffickers. A sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth. If murder was not against the law, she would never let Zhou Yu go so easily.

Retracting her gaze, Ling Yao walked towards the mountain. She remembered that the day after she saved Zhou Yu in her previous life, Mr. Liu from the village dug up a hundred-year-old wild ginseng in the mountains and sold it for thousands of yuan.

Now that she was reborn, she would naturally not give up this opportunity to others.

Ling Yao shuttled through the mountains and forests, and her senses became unusually sharp. Suddenly, she smelled a familiar smell, which was the fragrance of ginseng. This smell was very familiar to Ling Yao, as if it was the call of an old friend. She had an extraordinary sensitivity to the smell of herbs since she was a child, and she could accurately identify it with just one sniff.

Following the tempting smell, Ling Yao walked forward quickly. Sure enough, not long after, she saw a wild ginseng behind a big tree.

Ling Yao took down the backpack behind her and took out the ginseng digging tools she had prepared in advance and began to dig carefully. She first used a hoe to dig up the surrounding soil, revealing the main root of the ginseng. Then, she used a small shovel to carefully dig away the soil around the main root little by little until the whole ginseng was exposed. Finally, she tied the main root and fibrous roots of the ginseng together with a thin rope and put it in the backpack.