Seeing the old lady's confident demeanor, Liao Nanxing hesitated.
After all, Gu Yao's two bodyguards weren't just for show.
"Um... Mom, let's discuss this further. I'll take you to the hotel first."
"Why stay in a hotel? Listen to me, let's go pick up Nini! As long as we can bring Nini home, why should Zhou Chunhua not come back on her own?"
Seeing Liao Nanxing's troubled expression, Xu Xiuzhen immediately sensed something was wrong.
"You...you wouldn't be afraid to meet Zhou Chunhua's lover, would you?" After saying that, Xu Xiuzhen added, "You're spineless."
Liao Nanxing, already irritable, couldn't help but recall Zhu Lina's words "coward" upon hearing those three words, and his face instantly darkened.
Without saying a word, he started the car and took the old lady directly to the hotel.
...
Over here, Zhou Chunhua is getting closer and closer to Ganxi Village.
Three days later, Zhou Chunhua returned to the small village where she had abandoned Gu Yao.
This is because it's the only place to stay overnight on the only road leading to Ganxi Village.
Having been here once before, I'm quite familiar with the place this time.
She pointed out the way, and the car drove directly to the uncle's house.
But the courtyard in front of me is different from the one I visited before.
There used to be only a crooked wooden hut, but now there is a flat and tidy cement bungalow.
The courtyard is no longer paved with pebbles, but with smooth cement.
However, the uncle was still the same uncle, and even the pipe in his hand was the same one as before.
Zhou Chunhua got off the bus.
The uncle who was sitting in the yard with his pipe in his hand was stunned for a moment, then stood up.
"You, you are that...that..." The uncle's eyes welled up with tears.
Zhou Chunhua smiled and said, "Uncle, it's been a long time."
It really has been a long time.
The last time I was here was five or six months ago.
"Yes! Yes! Long time no see!" The uncle turned around excitedly and shouted a few times in his dialect towards the house.
Zhou Chunhua couldn't understand until the aunt came out of the house.
"Come in, come sit down." The aunt still spoke Mandarin with a regional accent.
After thanking her, they followed the woman into the house.
The dilapidated wooden house has now been transformed into a transparent cement building.
It's not great, but it's much better than a log cabin.
When the uncle came in, his pipe was gone.
He warmly brewed tea for her and then asked the aunt to cook.
When the aunt went out, the uncle told her to kill the chicken and the goose.
"Uncle, don't be so polite. We're just asking to stay for one night..." Before she could finish speaking, the woman had vanished.
The uncle moved a chair over and sat down opposite her, saying, "Yes, yes, we're so glad we didn't get your contact information back then. We don't know how to thank you properly."
"If it weren't for your and Attorney Gu's help, my son wouldn't have received the compensation, and our family wouldn't be able to afford this house."
"You won the lawsuit?" Zhou Chunhua asked excitedly.
The uncle nodded repeatedly: "Oh, let me tell you. We just called the number that Attorney Gu gave us, and as soon as they heard that Attorney Gu had recommended us, they immediately started to help us with this matter."
Just a few days later, the lawyer there called us to come over and sign a settlement agreement, saying that the other party was willing to compensate us! We won without even going to court!
You don't know, that lawyer Hou, on top of the compensation we requested, also demanded a large sum of extra money for my son's medical expenses. My son, my son he…”
At this point, the uncle wiped his eyes with excitement.
Just then, a man who looked to be in his early thirties walked in through the door.
He was very thin, and there was a slight, barely noticeable abnormality in his gait.
He was followed by a child who looked to be about ten years old.
The man immediately pointed at him and said, "Look, this is my son! Without you and Attorney Gu, he would never have been able to stand up again in his life!"
Thanks to you and Attorney Gu, not only can my son live a normal life, but our family can also be reunited. Thank you and Attorney Gu.
Zhou Chunhua understood this perfectly.
No wonder he was walking a little strangely earlier; he's using a prosthetic leg.
That night, the uncle's family treated them to a feast, killing a chicken and stewing a goose.
The next day, before dawn, they set off for Ganxi Village.
When they left, the uncle and his whole family came out to see them off.
If she hadn't refused the older man's offer, he probably would have filled the car's trunk to the brim.
Two days later, Zhou Chunhua finally saw Ganxi Village again.
This time, however, the village was both dilapidated and desolate.
They spent a day searching the village.
No traces of human habitation or any unusual circumstances were found.
The four of them spent the night in the village.
As soon as it was light, they set off for the stream.
Zhou Chunhua led the group to the place where she had parted ways with Huang Tao, following the direction she remembered.
Then walk upstream along the stream.
Fortunately, the journey was very smooth; we didn't encounter any large wild animals or any other people.
Among the people accompanying her on this trip was one of those who had participated in the arrest in Ganxi Village.
He pointed out the route they took during the search.
So this time, they chose a different path that they hadn't explored before.
As they followed the stream upstream, just as they were about to reach the summit, they witnessed a chilling scene.
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