Chapter 110
The incandescent light in the communication room suddenly flickered twice.
The moment Sun Qiumei said that, the light stretched Mu Qingxuan's shadow very long and distorted it onto the mottled wall.
Mu Qingxuan sucked in a breath of cold air, her fingers suddenly tightened, and her joints turned blue and white.
She only felt a buzzing in her ears, and Sun Qiumei's voice seemed to be coming through a layer of frosted glass, making it difficult to hear clearly.
"Actually, Mu Hongguo picked you up from the mountains."
Mu Qingxuan staggered back half a step, her lower back hitting the door handle, and she gasped in pain.
She stared at Sun Qiumei, her pupils contracted violently, and her eyes were full of disbelief.
"What did you say? Say it again!"
The voice was so hoarse that even Mu Qingxuan herself couldn't recognize it.
Sun Qiumei slumped on the ground, her original arrogance completely disappeared, her hair stuck to her sweaty face, and she looked very embarrassed.
She lowered her head, her nails unconsciously scratching the cracks in the ground, the sound was so vague that it seemed to have sunk into the depths of her memories.
"At that time, Mu Dashan and I had been married for less than a year. One day, the old man came back from the mountain carrying a bamboo basket, and in his arms was a purple baby. He said he found you in a dilapidated temple halfway up the mountain, with your umbilical cord still stained with blood, and you were crying silently..."
She suddenly laughed, with a hint of sadness in her voice: "He said that it should be the first child of Mu Dashan and me, but everyone knows that we want a son!"
"The gossipy women in the village block my door every day, saying that I was immoral before marriage and that I cheated on Mu Dashan and gave birth to a bastard like you..."
Sun Qiumei suddenly looked up and looked at Mu Qingxuan with crazy hatred in her eyes.
"I was scolded for half a year! Once when I was working in the fields, Aunt Wang threw vegetable leaves on my back and called me a 'bitch'!"
"Later, I had enough! I threw you at the door and swore that I would never raise a jinx like you again. Only then did the old man take you away and raise you himself."
Mu Qingxuan felt her legs go weak and she had to hold on to the cold wall to barely stand.
She never expected that the grandfather who was always kind in her memory and taught her Chinese medicine and how to behave in the world was not related to her by blood.
"Are you sure..."
Mu Qingxuan's voice trembled, and her throat seemed to be stuffed with cotton: "Are you sure what you said is true?"
Sun Qiumei gritted her teeth and said, "I swear on my life! If you tell me even a lie, I will make Dongjie childless and he will die a miserable death!"
Mu Qingxuan opened her mouth weakly. Sun Qiumei actually dared to swear on Mu Dongjie, which was enough to prove that she was absolutely not lying.
She felt dizzy and almost lost her balance.
Lu Jingfeng looked over worriedly and subconsciously reached out to support her body.
Mu Qingxuan leaned against the wooden door of the communication room, barely able to stand steady, pulled the corners of her mouth, and waved at Lu Jingfeng.
She looked at Sun Qiumei again, her tone cold: "Then who are my biological parents?"
Mu Qingxuan uttered the words "biological parents" with difficulty.
It was not until now that she understood why Mu Dashan and Sun Qiumei were never nice to her.
Even though they favor boys over girls, Mu Dashan and Sun Qiumei would occasionally smile at Mu Qianqian.
But when facing Mu Qingxuan, the two of them always beat or scolded her and never had a good face towards her.
After her grandfather passed away, Mu Qingxuan was not yet an adult, so the village brigade asked her to return to the Mu family.
But on the first day back, she was severely beaten by Mu Dashan because she was the last one to finish her meal.
For a period of time afterwards, Mu Qingxuan didn't have a single piece of healthy skin on her body and her life was worse than death.
If it wasn’t for grandma coming to see Mu Qingxuan, discovering her miserable condition, and taking her away again.
Mu Qingxuan felt that she would really die in the Mu family.
Sun Qiumei shook her head: "I don't know. The old man said that you were picked up in the mountains. No one in our village was pregnant or had a child at that time, but I don't know if it was someone from other villages."
Because of Mu Qingxuan's existence, Sun Qiumei was scolded and criticized by the villagers for decades.
She wished she could throw Mu Qingxuan to death or beat her to death, so how could she possibly care about the news about her biological parents?
Mu Qingxuan's face turned pale, she pursed her lips and stopped talking.
Sun Qiumei stared at her closely, suddenly panicked, and said hurriedly: "I have told you everything I know. No matter if you hate me more now, Mu Qingxuan, you promised me that you would let me go after listening to Mu Hongguo's secret!"
After telling the truth, Sun Qiumei no longer accused Mu Qingxuan of being ungrateful in the name of her biological mother.
She appeared to be timid but her tone was fierce, her eyes were evasive.
She looked very flustered, fearing that Mu Qingxuan would completely abandon her.
Mu Qingxuan slowly raised the corners of her mouth and said softly, "When did I promise you that I would let you go?"
Sun Qiumei's body stiffened, her pupils trembled, and she looked at Mu Qingxuan in disbelief.
Mu Qingxuan was too lazy to even look at her any longer and just turned around and left.
Sun Qiumei rushed over again anxiously.
But as soon as she took a step, she was escorted by Lu Jingfeng.
Lu Jingfeng winked at the policeman outside the door, indicating him to come over and take Sun Qiumei back to the detention room.
He hurriedly chased after him.
Lu Jingfeng noticed Mu Qingxuan's pale face and knew that she must be feeling bad, so he subconsciously wanted to comfort her.
But even though he ran out as fast as he could, he only had time to see Mu Qingxuan being gently held in the arms of a tall man.
It’s Huo Changfeng.
Lu Jingfeng stopped in embarrassment.
A hint of sadness flashed in his eyes, and his clenched fingers loosened and then clenched again.
After a while, Lu Jingfeng lowered his eyes, turned around and went back to the Public Security Bureau.
The rain was as fine as gauze, shrouding the Public Security Bureau building in a hazy hue.
Mu Qingxuan walked out of the door in a daze, with rain dripping down her hair.
Her eyes were empty and she moved her feet mechanically, like a body without a soul. The hustle and bustle around her had nothing to do with her anymore.
Just then, a black car slowly drove over and stopped steadily not far from her.
The car door opened, and Huo Changfeng's slender figure appeared in the rain, his dark suit stained dark by the rain.
Seeing Mu Qingxuan getting wet in the rain without any hesitation, he frowned, hurriedly opened his umbrella and went to meet her.
Huo Changfeng's eyebrows were slightly angry: "Why are you exposed to the rain? This is not good for your health..."
But suddenly, his eyes fell on Mu Qingxuan's distraught appearance, and his words became choked in his throat.
Mu Qingxuan seemed to have suddenly found support and ran towards Huo Changfeng with staggering steps.
She hugged him tightly and buried her head in his warm arms, her movements showing a bit of eagerness and dependence.
Huo Changfeng's body stiffened slightly, and then he felt the collar of his shirt getting wet.
It was Mu Qingxuan who was crying.
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