"Vote? What's the point of voting? Just let her go; that's more than enough!"
"Exactly! It's only because we have some manners that we won't be able to leave here today!"
"Exactly! Who would want to be with someone who betrays them?"
"Traitor!"
Watching the crowd chattering amongst themselves, Lin Rui's mother's downturned lips slowly curved into a smile.
The shameful look in her eyes gradually faded, becoming as calm as a stagnant pool, without a ripple.
Just as everyone was chanting that they should drive her away, she smiled.
"Heh, heh heh... hahahahaha..."
The maniacal laughter immediately silenced everyone.
Her gaze swept over everyone, finally settling on Zhou Chunhua's face.
"Yes! I made a mistake, but... if this happened to any one of you, who can honestly say they wouldn't make the same choice as me?"
Upon hearing this, everyone present lowered their heads with varying expressions.
She continued, "I can't do it, and neither can you! Do you know why? Because we are all ordinary people, living at the bottom of this society!"
Is it wrong for me to want to find my son? I've spent half my life searching for him and still haven't found him. Now those people with real power say they'll help me find him, and I choose to believe them. Am I wrong?
Lin Rui's mother was smiling, but tears were already streaming down her face.
She stood up unsteadily and pointed at her.
"Her, Zhou Chunhua! If it weren't for Attorney Gu's help, do you think she could have found her daughter on her own? Heh heh, and Old Chen too, if it weren't for Old Chen risking his life to help her..."
Why? Why are my legs almost broken from kneeling, yet no one is willing to help me? Why!
After Lin Rui's mother finished yelling, everyone's eyes turned to Gu Yao.
Actually, what she just said also caught Zhou Chunhua off guard.
Yes, she and Gu Yao met by chance, but Gu Yao seemed to take special care of her.
Lost in thought, Zhou Chunhua didn't notice that the people around her were also looking at them with puzzled expressions.
"You want to know why?" Gu Yao suddenly asked. "Because she would never betray her friends for her own sake."
Lin Rui's mother, who had been grinning menacingly, suddenly regained her composure.
Gradually, her expression turned sad.
"Heh heh heh, friends? People like us don't deserve to have friends..."
A distraught Lin Rui's mother walked toward the door, muttering to herself.
Everyone remained seated without making a sound until Lin Rui's mother's figure disappeared from sight.
"Nini's mom?"
When Yangyang's father's voice came, Zhou Chunhua finally came to her senses.
"What do you think we should do next?"
Zhou Chunhua glanced at the direction of the gate and said, "Just like before, send the message to all the groups and tell them to prepare the necessary materials tonight. After we compile the list, we will talk again tomorrow."
"Okay. I'll get right on it." Yangyang's dad took out his phone and started editing the message to be sent to the group chat.
The others started eating or doing their own things.
No one mentioned Lin Rui's mother anymore.
It's as if this person never existed.
She gently patted Old Chen.
He leaned closer and whispered, "Contact Lin Rui's mother and ask her to send up her son's information as well. We'll submit it together tomorrow."
Old Chen paused, puzzled, and asked, "You...you're still willing to help her?"
Zhou Chunhua shook her head: "I'm not helping her, but helping a mother who, like us, is anxiously searching for her child."
"Don't you hate her?" Yangyang's father asked again.
She shook her head.
Everyone's experiences are different, so it's impossible to use the same standard to measure how a person conducts themselves and how they do things.
She also believes that if there were better options, Lin Rui's mother would definitely not have chosen this method.
Originally, Zhou Chunhua thought that as long as more people joined in, the matter would not fade from people's view and could be moved forward.
But to her surprise, she received a strange phone call that very night.
When her phone rang, she paid special attention to the location of the number.
She found it strange when she saw that it was a local phone number from Qing'an.
After all, they were all from out of town; not one of them was a local.
But she still answered the call.
It was very quiet on the other end of the phone, so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.
She frowned and asked, "Hello, who is this?"
The person on the other end said, "Zhou Chunhua, I advise you not to make a scene! Otherwise, you won't be able to bear the consequences."
Only then did she realize that she had received a threatening phone call.
"Who are you?" Heaven knows, her heart was practically leaping out of her throat.
"Ha! Don't worry about who I am. I'm calling just to remind you to quit while you're ahead. I'm giving you one day to get out of Qing'an and don't show your face again."
"you……"
Before she could even finish speaking, the call was disconnected.
The busy signal in her ear brought Zhou Chunhua back to her senses.
It was only then that she noticed her palms were sweaty.
Her first thought was to tell Gu Yao.
So he immediately pulled up Gu Yao's phone number.
However, she stopped just a second before she was about to dial.
Looking at Gu Yao's phone number on the screen, all she could hear were the threatening words from that person and the scene of the car accident that nearly cost her her life...
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