However, they were not peeping, they were just showing polite concern.

Who knew why Jiang suddenly closed the door, and the loud noise just now was too strange. All of this needed to be analyzed by the three of them.

So once again, this is not peeping!

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After Xiaoguo came out, he looked around but couldn't find Zhao Yuyan. He even looked for her at the place where they lived but still couldn't find her. Just when he was wondering why, he happened to see Yuling.

"Jade Spirit."

"Hey ma'am? How do you know my name?"

When Yuling heard someone calling her, she turned around and saw it was Xiaoguo. She walked over excitedly and confused. She was excited because she saw Xiaoguo, and confused because she had never told her her name before.

"Oh~" Looking at Yu Ling's innocent look, Xiao Guo subconsciously didn't want to tell the truth, "I overheard your mother calling you."

Yu Ling did not doubt it after hearing it, but nodded in sudden enlightenment, "So that's how it is, hehe."

"By the way, Yuling, do you know where your mother is?"

Xiaoguo gently straightened the other person's hair curtains that were messed up by the wind.

Yu Ling was a little shy, and then quickly lowered her head. "Maybe it's in the back mountain. I don't know the exact location."

"Back mountain?"

"Yeah." Yu Ling blushed and didn't want to look up, afraid that Xiao Guo would laugh at her. "My mother always goes to the back mountain, but she never lets me follow her. She didn't go recently, but she went again today."

When Yuling said this, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes. As she was obedient to her mother, she had thought about secretly following and taking a look. But when she thought of her mother's serious expression, her body trembled. She couldn't even stand steadily, let alone follow.

Xiao Guo looked in the direction she pointed, a little hesitant, because he had never been to that road before, and he heard from Jiang Shanhe that there was a mass grave behind the mountain...

Thinking of this, Xiao Guo couldn't help but swallow his saliva. The choice of going or not was fighting in his mind. In the end, reason won out and he decided not to go. It was scary.

"Then I'll wait for her here."

As Xiaoguo was about to find a shady place to sit down, but Yuling's next words stopped her in her tracks.

"Why don't you go back first? My mother probably won't be back until the evening. I'll let her come find you when she comes back."

"It's evening..."

Xiaoguo hesitated a little, turned his head to look at her, and then looked at the path.

Finally, she decided to go and have a look. Besides being eager to tell her the news, curiosity also played a part in the decision.

Yuling said that Zhao Yuyan would always go to the back mountain with a shovel and stay there for half a day at a time. She would never come back until it was dark. So what did she do there?

Although curiosity kills the cat, what humans have the most is curiosity.

Xiaoguo set foot on the path leading to the back mountain. She didn't know if it was because of something in her heart, but the more she walked, the more she felt something was wrong. It was clearly broad daylight, but she felt as if there was fog all around her.

Unable to bear it any longer, Xiaoguo stopped and took a deep breath. After a while, he walked inside as usual.

Putting aside the psychological factors, the surrounding environment is not bad.

Xiaoguo put down the burden in her heart and walked much more briskly, but she was not prepared to keep walking. After walking for a while, if she still couldn't see Zhao Yuyan, she would go home.

Hard work pays off. Xiaoguo walked and stopped along the way, and soon he heard a grunting sound coming from not far ahead.

Xiaoguo stopped and carefully identified the source of the sound. Then he locked onto a place where there was a path in the lush flowers and grass. The surrounding flowers and grass were full of vitality, but the path that was trampled out was the only thing that looked out of place.

Xiaoguo walked along the path for a few meters and then stopped, because there was a slope of earth at his feet, and below the slope was an empty space. Looking further, he found a series of bulging earth mounds, and it was self-evident what they were.

The person she was looking for, Zhao Yuyan, was now standing weakly on the empty ground, digging the soil with a shovel. The surroundings were all dry flowers and grass branches. At her feet was a two-meter-long and one-meter-wide, initially formed earth pit.

"What are you doing?"

An idea came to Xiaoguo's mind, and he couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat.

Zhao Yuyan paused and the shovel stopped in the dirt. He was about to look at the person who came, but at this time he had another violent cough. He didn't care about anything else and covered his mouth with his hands and coughed hard. His face turned several shades paler.

Xiaoguo had good eyesight and noticed the blood on her mouth at a glance. She wanted to get off without thinking, but when she saw her move, she immediately waved her hands vigorously, signaling her not to get off, and started coughing again because of her anxiety.

Seeing this, Xiaoguo quickly stood still and waited for the other party to come up.

Zhao Yuyan was holding a shovel and climbing the slope with great effort. When she saw Xiaoguo extending her hand, she avoided it without thinking. It was not because she disliked her, but...she was too dirty.

Xiao Guo didn't care what she thought. Seeing her hiding, he continued to grab her without thinking, and pulled her up by the arm with a little force.

Zhao Yuyan looked away in surprise, and then explained dryly, "I'm dirty."

“Not dirty.”

Xiaoguo didn't care about the dirt and weeds on her body. It wasn't like she had never done any work before. She was much dirtier when she went to work at home than she was now.

Hearing her say this, Xiao Guo suddenly felt a strong sense of sadness. She had a strong ability to empathize. The woman in front of her was a spoiled young lady since birth, and then she got married and became a noble lady. She had never touched the water of the sun for decades, but now...

Zhao Yuyan lowered her head again after hearing what she said, muttering, isn't it dirty...

"You are here..."

Xiaoguo suddenly stopped asking halfway through.

"It's nice here, with flowers and big trees, and a view of the blue sea and sky. I don't like the hustle and bustle." Zhao Yuyan's eyes were calm, and she forced a smile on her face, "This is it."

Xiaoguo opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Facing a woman who was about the same age as his mother and also a mother like himself, Xiaoguo felt powerless and unfair for the first time.

"I..." Xiao Guo's throat became dry without knowing when, so he cleared it and continued, "I can take your daughter away."

The lifeless woman just now, upon hearing this, a burst of light suddenly burst out in her eyes, and a trembling voice came out, "Thank you!"

Xiaoguo wanted to smile and say "you're welcome", but the corners of her mouth just wouldn't open...

"You're welcome."

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Guo only heard her own dry voice. The woman opposite seemed to have completely let go of her worries, and her voice had a little more strength, just like...

"This is not a good place, leave now."

After Zhao Yuyan finished speaking, she was about to continue digging.

Xiao Guo panicked and subconsciously grabbed her hand, "Go back and have a good talk with Yu Ling. She will definitely miss you when she leaves you."

There was a barely perceptible tremor in the voice.

"……good."

Zhao Yuyan nodded absentmindedly after hearing this, thinking that it was time to explain everything. Then she picked up the shovel and walked outside.

Xiaoguo followed closely behind her, his eyes fixed intently on the figure in front of him, not daring to be distracted and look behind him.

It seemed as if he wanted to quickly escape from that place, that pit where new soil was buried on old soil, and those countless piles of graves without tombstones...

Just now she suddenly had a premonition that if she left alone, Zhao Yuyan might not be able to get out.

People still need some ideas to support them in order to survive, even if the limit is a day, a quarter of an hour, a cup of tea, or a blink of an eye...