Just when Ye Qiao was shocked, Hua Rui's words answered Ye Qiao's doubts.
"Drug lords forced the mountain people to plant these crops. Almost all the men in our village are addicted to drugs! There is no labor to work, no farming, and no income. Just like this, poverty continues from generation to generation! Mr. Qiao, if I didn't miss my mom, I would never want to come back here! My dream since I was a child was to get out of here, the farther the better!" Hua Rui said excitedly as she looked at the enchanting and poisonous sea of flowers.
Drug lord...!
Ye Qiao was shocked again. Looking at Hua Rui, who was thin but exuded a sense of strength, he admired her even more.
"Hua Rui, you did it! When you graduate and get a formal job, bring your mother to the city as soon as possible! By the way, do you have other family members?" Ye Qiao encouraged her, saying that students who graduated from J University will have a bright future.
Hua Rui's expression changed again, and she shook her head. "Master Qiao, we'll be there once we get over the hill ahead! Let's hurry!"
She didn't want to mention her father or brother.
Ye Qiao looked at the sea of poppies, thinking about Hua Rui's words, and seemed to be lost in thought.
The fact that the drug lord is here, does that mean that she is very close to him now?
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Hua Rui's family was even poorer than she had imagined, enough to be described as bare. There was only her mother at home. She was in her forties but looked more than sixty years old. She wore black ethnic minority clothes. She only spoke dialect and could not speak Mandarin. Ye Qiao could not understand what she said and had to ask Hua Rui to translate.
Although grandma didn't say anything, she was very enthusiastic and killed the only laying hen she raised to entertain Ye Qiao.
Huarui went to the store at the village entrance to buy some rice, but there was no rice in the rice jar. After they bought the rice, Huarui dug a lot of matsutake mushrooms as they walked.
"This stuff is very expensive!" Ye Qiao had eaten mushrooms in his previous life. Edible fungi like mushrooms were very rare and expensive. He didn't expect that they were everywhere here, and there were also wild mushrooms such as porcini, chicken mushrooms, and white onion mushrooms.
"The good thing about the mountains is that they're full of treasures. Even if you don't farm, you can still survive by eating wild food all year round!" Hua Rui said with a smile, "Master Qiao, those mushrooms are poisonous, don't pick them!"
"I heard you guys eat poisonous mushrooms here?" Ye Qiao asked curiously. "I heard eating them can cause hallucinations, with little people talking and little ghosts dancing. Is that true?"
"It's true! Those are poisonous mushrooms. Only local people like us dare to eat them! You will have a lot of hallucinations after eating them, and you might even die!" Hua Rui said with a smile.
When the two returned home, the delicious aroma of chicken was already wafting from the pot. The local chicken stewed with wild mushrooms was a delicacy that could not be found in the city. And the matsutake mushrooms fried by Huarui's mother with local pig lard were definitely more delicious than what she had eaten in Michelin restaurants in her previous life!
Despite Hua Rui's repeated persuasion, Ye Qiao decided to go to the town and find a decent hotel to stay in, as there was no place to take a shower at her house, which was really inconvenient.
"Lu Xiaogun, tell mom quickly, how far away am I from your dad now? Mom always feels he's very close..." After finally taking a hot bath, Ye Qiao lay down on the bed and asked seriously.
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard gunshots outside.
Ye Qiao sat up immediately. No way, the time is wrong!
"Brother Amu! Get in the car!" Ye Qiao ran to close the window, and heard noises coming from downstairs, as well as the sounds of fierce fighting. She carefully closed the window. Although she knew kung fu, it didn't mean she wasn't afraid of bullets!
Downstairs, the back door of a black car opened, and a nimble figure quickly jumped into the car, and the car drove away!
(There will be an update today)
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