Chapter 268
Zhao Tianle suddenly realized: "No wonder she looked familiar to me. Turns out she's the hero who appeared in our factory newspaper!"
"Tian Hao, how do you know her?" Zhao Tianle nudged Tian Hao's arm and asked with a gossipy look on his face.
"She and I live in a large compound," Tian Hao said.
"She also lives in the staff quarters of the first factory?" Xia Peng asked.
Tian Hao nodded: "Yes, her husband is in the first factory."
Xia Peng and Zhao Tianle both said "Oh".
Xia Peng asked, "Then why did she come to our factory?"
Tian Hao shook his head, said nothing, and didn't want to explore the matter.
"Who cares why she's here? Let's go to the cafeteria quickly. If we go too late, all the oily dishes will be gone." Zhao Tianle said.
The three of them stopped talking about the previous topic and walked quickly towards the cafeteria.
After Ye Fuyue left the Xiangyang Furniture Factory, she got on her bicycle and rode towards the slum.
Suddenly, Ye Fuyue glanced at a figure on the road and stepped on the brakes.
She jumped off the bicycle and looked closely at the figure.
It’s really Mrs. Duan.
However, it was clearly the end of September, the weather had cooled considerably, and everyone was wearing long sleeves, but Old Lady Duan was still wearing short sleeves. Furthermore, Old Lady Duan walked very slowly, and it was obvious that she was not in her normal state.
This place is quite a distance from the compound. Could it be that Mrs. Duan had a seizure and had walked all the way here?
Thinking of this, Ye Fuyue pushed her bicycle to Old Lady Duan.
When she got closer, Ye Fuyue discovered that there were several bruises on Mrs. Duan's arms, which looked quite shocking.
Ye Fuyue thought of what Aunt Donghong had said before: Old Man Duan was very mean to Old Lady Duan and always beat her. These bruises must have been left by Old Man Duan beating Old Lady Duan.
"Grandma Duan." Ye Fuyue called out.
Old Mrs. Duan looked at her blankly, then looked away and continued to move forward slowly as if she hadn't seen her.
When Ye Fuyue saw her expression, she was sure that Old Mrs. Duan was sick again.
"Grandma Duan, where are you going?" Ye Fuyue asked in a casual tone.
"I went to look for my daughter and granddaughter-in-law, but they were gone." Old Mrs. Duan said vaguely.
"I'll take you to find them." Ye Fuyue coaxed.
Old Lady Duan stopped and looked at her blankly but warily: "Do you know where they are?"
"I don't know either, but I'll take you to look for it first, just in case you find it." Ye Fuyue didn't dare to say it too firmly, so she could only coax her like this.
"Do you know them?" Old Lady Duan asked warily, "Who are you? Why don't I know you?"
"Your granddaughter-in-law and I used to live in a large compound." Ye Fuyue said.
"Is that so?" Old Mrs. Duan said slowly, "Do you know where she went? Why doesn't she come to see me anymore and give me candy?"
"Do you want some candy?" Ye Fuyue asked.
Old Mrs. Duan's face showed a childlike look of longing and she nodded.
Ye Fuyue rummaged in her pocket and took out a piece of fruit candy, which she stuffed into Old Mrs. Duan's pocket. This was the candy that she had forgotten to put in her pocket a few days ago because she hadn't finished eating it.
When Ye Fuyue touched Mrs. Duan's hand, she shivered from the cold. Mrs. Duan's hand was so cold, so icy, she must have been severely frozen.
Seeing the candy in her hand, Mrs. Duan was as happy as a child. She hurriedly tried to peel off the candy coating. After a lot of effort, she finally peeled off the candy and put the candy into her mouth.
Old Mrs. Duan smiled, revealing her few remaining teeth. "How sweet! As sweet as the ones my granddaughter-in-law gives me. You are just like my granddaughter-in-law, a good child."
Ye Fuyue smiled: "I'll take you to find your granddaughter-in-law, okay?"
With this candy, Old Lady Duan let down her guard against Ye Fuyue and nodded with a smile: "Okay."
Ye Fuyue then asked Old Lady Duan to sit on the back seat of her bicycle and took her back to the slum.
As soon as she entered the compound, Ye Fuyue ran into Duan's mother, who was looking around and walking hurriedly.
"Aunt Duan, are you looking for Grandma Duan?" Ye Fuyue stepped on the brakes.
"Yes..." Duan's mother had just uttered half a syllable when she caught a glimpse of Duan's mother sitting on the back seat of Ye Fuyue's bicycle. The anxiety on her face was replaced by joy: "Mom——"
Old Mrs. Duan was sitting on the back of the bicycle, holding a piece of fruit candy in her mouth and swinging her legs. She looked very comfortable and didn't hear at all - or didn't realize that Duan's mother was calling her.
"I met Grandma Duan when I came back from Xiangyang Furniture Factory. She said she was going to look for her daughter and granddaughter-in-law, so I gave her a piece of fruit candy and coaxed her to come back with me." Ye Fuyue explained.
"Thank you, thank you so much." Duan's mother thanked her repeatedly: "I went out to buy groceries, and when I came back, I found that my mother was missing, so I came out to look for her."
"Why is Grandma Duan wearing so little? Her hands look cold." Ye Fuyue asked.
"I don't know either." Duan's mother said, "I clearly made her wear long sleeves this morning. I guess she felt hot after the attack and changed into short sleeves herself."
Ye Fuyue nodded.
"Mom, I'll take you home." Duan's mother said to Old Mrs. Duan.
Old Mrs. Duan was still immersed in the joy of eating candy and had forgotten about looking for her daughter and granddaughter-in-law. She obediently let Duan's mother help her get off the bicycle.
Duan's mother had just returned home with Old Lady Duan, and Old Man Duan also came back.
"What is she eating?" As soon as Old Man Duan came back, he noticed that Old Mrs. Duan was eating something and asked Mrs. Duan sternly.
"The candy was given to her by Chen Guifeng's daughter-in-law Ye Fuyue." Duan's mother said, and also mentioned that Ye Fuyue found Old Lady Duan and brought her back.
"It's delicious." Old Mrs. Duan said with a smile: "She is a good child, just like my granddaughter-in-law, both are good children."
"Giving you candy makes you a good child? Have you never eaten candy? The money your granddaughter-in-law used to buy you candy was stolen by her, and you still think it tastes good?" Old man Duan said gloomily.
Mrs. Duan didn't understand what Old Man Duan said at all. She just kept repeating happily, "It's delicious. I want more. I want more candy."
Old Man Duan felt annoyed when he saw Old Lady Duan like this.
He pinched Mrs. Duan's exposed skin fiercely: "Eat, eat, eat, eat until you die! Useless thing!"
Old Mrs. Duan screamed “Ahhhhh——” in pain.
Mother Duan felt pain watching from the side, but she did not dare to speak out to stop him. She knew that the more she tried to stop him, the more ruthless Old Man Duan would become.
Mrs. Duan cried like a child in pain. Old Man Duan became even more upset. He glared at Mrs. Duan fiercely and said to Mrs. Duan, "It's annoying to see her like this. I'm going out. Call me when dinner is ready."
"Okay." Duan's mother didn't dare to say a word more.
Old Mrs. Duan rubbed the place where Old Man Duan had pinched her just now, crying "wuwuwu" and saying "It hurts, it hurts so much" from time to time.
After Old Man Duan left, Mother Duan looked at the red spot on Old Lady Duan's arm and sighed.
"Mom, I'll put some medicine on you and change your clothes."
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