Under Wen Yan's eager and expectant gaze, Wang Jian did not immediately give an answer.
Instead, he said, "I just saw that young woman there too. You two seemed to be together at the supermarket that day. What exactly is your relationship?"
"…………" I thought I was going to hear an answer, but he asked a question first.
Wen Yan frowned slightly: "Uncle Wang, didn't you already say downstairs that you didn't want to get involved in this matter? Why are you now inquiring about our relationship?"
Wang Jian scratched his head: "Do you think I really want to get involved? You don't have to tell me, but can you tell me what the relationship is between that young woman and the woman lying in the hospital bed?"
Wen Yan shook her head: "I would prefer you to answer this question for me."
"Alright, alright. I don't want to waste any more time on this. Let me put it this way: if they are mother and daughter, then I can be sure that the clothing factory owner I met in my hometown six or seven years ago is the woman in this hospital bed."
"Actually, I'm still a little unsure if you just ask me to recognize this woman in the hospital bed, because she looks too thin, her face is all bones, and she looks a bit unrecognizable."
"If you ask me for a yes or no answer, I really can't be 100% sure. But there's no doubt that these two women are together. What I saw back then was definitely them, mother and daughter."
"Just tell me, are those two related?"
“Okay,” Wen Yan nodded. “I understand now, Uncle Wang. Thank you for today. Let’s leave this matter here for now.”
“Sure,” Wang Jian laughed and waved his phone. “If there are any more lucrative jobs like this in the future, remember to contact me!”
Wen Yan smiled politely: "Okay, as long as you don't lose contact again, Uncle Wang."
The two parted ways and left the safety passage one after the other.
Soon, Wen Yan returned to her hospital room.
Su Yang asked her softly, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Why did you take so long?"
Wen Yan told a little lie: "No! I was a little thirsty after using the restroom, so I went to buy a bottle of mineral water and then came back late."
Su Yang nodded and said, "The doctor came by earlier and said that your Aunt Zhao needs to rest, so we should go now."
Wen Yan said "Oh" and immediately got up to greet the woman on the hospital bed.
"Aunt Zhao, we've bothered you a lot today. We'll head back now. Please get some rest and we wish you a speedy recovery."
Zhao Jing smiled from her hospital bed, looking exceptionally gentle and approachable.
"Thank you, my child. You've gone to so much trouble. Let Zhirou see you off."
“No need,” Su Yang said. “Zhi Rou has been away on a business trip abroad for a long time and you haven’t seen each other for a while. Let this child keep you company.”
After declining a few times, Shen Zhirou escorted Su Yang and Wen Yan to the door of the ward.
From the time she returned to the ward until she left, Wen Yan noticed that Shen Zhirou's adoptive father, Zhao Peng, never appeared again.
The mother and daughter quickly took the elevator downstairs.
Just as she reached her car, Su Yang suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
"Look at my terrible memory! I left my phone in the hospital room and forgot to take it. Sigh, I'm so forgetful. I'm not that old yet!"
“Not at all, my mom looks so young. This kind of thing happens often even to young people.” Wen Yan said as she opened the car door for Su Yang. “I’ll go back and get it. Mom, you rest in the car for a while. I’ll be right back.”
Wen Yan quickly returned to the door of Zhao Jing's ward.
Because a seed of doubt had already been planted in her mind, she did not knock on the door and go in directly.
Instead, he quietly stood in front of the ward door and eavesdropped.
This time, Shen Zhirou's adoptive father, Wu Peng, returned.
There were only three of them in the ward.
Zhao Jing looked listless in the hospital bed, a stark contrast to her previous smiling demeanor.
Shen Zhirou frowned, her face stern, looking very serious.
Wu Peng reacted the most strongly.
At first, he said a few words, but Wen Yan couldn't hear them clearly through the door.
But he seemed to get more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice gradually grew louder.
This way, Wen Yan could hear it clearly.
She heard Wu Peng say, "She's clearly starting to have doubts; we have to leave immediately. We can't delay leaving the country any longer!"
Who is doubting this?
Why must we leave immediately?
Unfortunately, that was the end of it.
After a few whispered words, Wu Peng fell completely silent.
Wen Yan waited outside the door for a while longer, and seeing that she hadn't made any new discoveries, she quietly left the ward.
Then she took out her phone and dialed Su Yang's number, as a reminder to the people in the ward that she would be coming over to pick up her phone soon.
The three people in the ward were all startled when they heard Su Yang's phone ring.
Shen Zhirou glanced at it and said, "It's Wen Yan calling. I guess Su Yang left her phone here and asked her to come and get it. You two can't say the wrong thing later."
So when Wen Yan knocked on the door and went in, she was greeted by smiling faces as always.
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After taking the phone back, the mother and daughter did not go straight home.
Instead, I went for a full-body spa treatment.
Su Yang felt sorry for Wen Yan, who had been stuck in the remote mountain village for two months, so she specially brought her here for some pampering.
While getting a massage, Su Yang took the opportunity to call Shen Jingxiu and tell him to come home for dinner after work that evening.
Shen Jingxiu is the most obedient of Su Yang's four sons. Su Yang specifically called him to come home, and he usually wouldn't refuse if he didn't have any social engagements.
After returning home, Wen Yan went straight to her room.
She opened her laptop, which she hadn't used in a long time, and started searching online for missing persons cases in the Baishan area of H province.
But in the end, nothing was gained.
She then searched online for information about Wu Peng, Zhao Jing, and their clothing factory.
The legal representative of the garment factory is Zhao Jing, which is consistent with the information Su Yang had shown her before.
However, while searching for Wu Peng, Wen Yan discovered a person named Wu Xiaopeng.
Wen Yan couldn't be sure if this Wu Xiaopeng and Wu Peng were the same person.
Coincidentally, in the same year that Zhao Jing registered his garment factory, he also registered a leather factory and a food factory.
And four years ago, after Shen Zhirou returned to the Shen family, both factories declared bankruptcy.
Of course, it could just be a coincidence, but Wen Yan still felt something was off.
At the same time, she was also aware that it would be difficult to make progress by searching online like a headless fly on her own.
But who can help her?
It's not appropriate for Shen Yuan and Su Yang to get involved right now; it would only cause more trouble if they were to get involved before things were sorted out.
Just as I was thinking about these things, Aunt Zhang suddenly knocked on the door.
"Second Miss, Madam requests your presence."
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