After finishing their business, Grandma Yang and Wang Jingyi went about their own business, tacitly leaving Fu Shen and Su Yue alone.
Su Yue pulled Fu Shen into the room. As soon as Fu Shen closed the door, she turned around and asked.
"You and Lu Yunting just discussed arranging for Grandma to meet Uncle Huo inside the house?"
Fu Shen responded.
Su Yue: "He has no suspicions about you at all?"
Lu Yunting was clearly a meticulous person, and a member of the military at that; how could he not have any suspicions?
Putting everything else aside, even without Fu Shen's knowledge, he had a vague sense of her personal space.
Fu Shen was silent for a moment: "Yes, but he was persuaded by my sincere words. I first told him the name of the person who made the mission a condition for him, then I talked about the relationship between Grandma Yang and that person's mother, and how I had been looking for him for several years without finding any information. Later, he was sent down to that place, and finally I mentioned the secret pick-up in Shuiwen Village. Lu Yunting should have checked Grandma Yang's identity and probably also knew which military region Political Commissar Yang was working in. After hearing what I said, he dispelled his doubts and even told me the details of the sudden change that person went through from leaving the research base to being sent down."
As he said this, he unconsciously clenched his fist.
Fu Shen recalled Lu Yunting's words and thought of Huo Xueshen, a scholar, who had taken medicine that caused his whole body to ulcerate in order to survive. His heart trembled and he felt the pain as if it were his own.
Su Yue: "What does 'mutation' mean?"
Fu Shen helped Su Yue sit down on the edge of the bed and continued, "Given that person's identity, he was initially supposed to be sent to the Great Northern Wilderness for reformation. Lu Yunting's people received information that they would kill that person once he arrived in the Great Northern Wilderness. So, Lu Yunting arranged for someone to infiltrate the area and give him a drug that would cause his entire body to ulcerate and emit a foul stench. Those people thought it was an infectious disease and were afraid of dying. At this point, the person who infiltrated suggested taking that person to another place, since he wouldn't survive with this disease anyway. Those people panicked and didn't know exactly how they did it, which led the other side to believe that the person had already died. It wasn't until Lu Yunting applied for the mission that the other side realized that the person was still alive."
Su Yue covered her mouth in shock; she had never imagined that Huo Xueshen had experienced such a thrilling event.
They originally thought he was sent to their village as soon as he was sent down to the countryside, but they never expected there to be so many twists and turns behind the scenes.
She couldn't help but recall her past life, in which Huo Xueshen passed away this winter.
She couldn't help but wonder if Huo Xueshen's death was caused by some intense trauma that led him to jump into the river in the middle of the night.
After all, when Tang Jianguo saw him in the village a few months ago, he looked like he had lost his soul and was lifeless. Even Tang Jianguo thought he wouldn't survive the winter.
But so many years have passed, why did you suddenly become so pessimistic?
Seeing that Su Yue's face was pale and she remained silent for a long time, Fu Shen reached out and gently squeezed her shoulder. "What are you thinking about?"
Su Yue looked up, her eyes filled with worry: "I'm thinking, if Lu Yunting's mission fails, will Uncle Huo be in great danger? After all, his whereabouts have already been discovered."
Fu Shen: "I asked Lu Yunting about this."
Su Yue asked anxiously, "What did he say?"
Fu Shen imitated Lu Yunting's gesture, making a throat-slitting gesture. "He said that even without a knife, the other party has a way to break that person down and make them lose the courage to continue living in the world."
Su Yue thought for a moment, but still couldn't figure out what could make a person lose the will to live. "What is it?"
Fu Shen: "Tell him the cause of his mother's death."
Su Yue's heart sank, and she instantly understood.
In his past life, Huo Xueshen jumped into the river in the middle of the night because those people told him the cause of his mother's death, which made him completely lose hope of living.
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