The next day, as dawn broke, light streamed into the room through the narrow wooden window.
Grandma Li didn't sleep a wink all night, her gaze cold as she looked at her granddaughter on the bed.
As soon as Li Lijuan opened her eyes, she met the old woman's cold, piercing gaze, and her heart trembled.
"Come with me to the Lin family's house after dawn." After saying this, Granny Li didn't look at her again, and with a creak, she opened the door and left.
As dawn broke, Lin Atai opened the door and saw the two people sitting on the stone stool.
"Old Lady Li, what brings you here so early in the morning?" Lin Atai looked at the two of them suspiciously.
When his gaze fell on Li Lijuan, a dark light appeared in her cloudy eyes, but it vanished in an instant.
Li Lijuan and Ziyan used to be good friends...
When did everything change?
"We've come to apologize," Grandma Li said, her voice hoarse as she gripped Li Lijuan's wrist.
Lin Atai, "..."
She stepped aside and invited the two of them into the house.
Lin Ziyan had just washed up and come downstairs; she was picking vegetables in the main room.
The grape leaves in the yard swayed, and a fresh fragrance filled the air.
"What are you apologizing for?" Atai pulled out two rattan chairs for them to sit on.
Li Lijuan kept her head down, not daring to look at them, her hands tightly gripping the hem of her clothes, and did not sit down.
Grandma Li glanced at her and sighed with disappointment.
She briefly explained the situation.
Grandma Li breathed a sigh of relief; she had finally managed to get the truth out of the matter.
"Apologize now!" Granny Li hissed.
Li Lijuan pursed her lips tightly, "I'm sorry, I... I was too frightened at the time... and I couldn't step forward to save people in time."
Lin Ziyan's gaze gradually turned cold, and she scoffed inwardly, "It's not that she's overly frightened, it's that she harbors malicious intentions, isn't it?"
Lin Atai gave Li Lijuan a cold look, said nothing, and her eyes were gloomy.
What could she say?
Grandma Li noticed Xiaoxiao and immediately pulled her up, calling for help.
Her granddaughter, however, ran away immediately upon seeing the drowning without telling anyone.
If she were to be blamed for this, she wouldn't know how to judge it.
Lin Atai looked at the two of them expressionlessly.
The atmosphere froze instantly.
Li Lijuan trembled all over, recalling the faces of those two people she saw in her dream, and cold sweat kept pouring down her forehead.
"Did you see those two people's faces clearly?" Lin Ziyan asked in a calm tone.
“I…can see it clearly…” Li Lijuan’s teeth chattered; she couldn’t control her emotions at all.
She didn't push the person, but she had nightmares every day, afraid that those two people would find out.
Her fingers gripped the bamboo strips on the chair, her face deathly pale.
Lin Ziyan: "That's perfect, they can help me paint their portraits."
One hour later,
Holding a glass of warm water, Li Lijuan calmed down before beginning to look around Lin Ziyan's room.
A bookshelf covers half the wall, a desk lamp sits on the desk, and professional books are neatly stacked on the desk.
There was English and other text she couldn't understand.
Li Lijuan paused for a moment; she had known before that Lin Ziyan was very good at foreign languages.
There was a painting under the glass of the desk, its colors particularly vibrant.
"Take a look, does this painting need any revisions?" Lin Ziyan handed her a newly completed portrait.
Li Lijuan put down her water glass, picked it up and glanced at it, then looked up at Lin Ziyan in shock.
Almost exactly the same...
“Same,” she murmured.
Lin Ziyan nodded, "Draw another one."
The second portrait was painted much faster than the first.
When Lin Ziyan handed the portrait to Lu Yunshen, she said in a calm tone, "He is from Country E."
The country closest to the sea area of Fukushima.
Moreover, the people there are 90% similar to Chinese people.
Lu Yunshen looked at the portrait, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Lin Ziyan: "They won't leave easily if they haven't achieved their goal."
It might still be in Hai County, or even in the town itself.
She had seen news reports before that these enemy agents who had infiltrated the area might have been there since childhood.
Some of them are no different from the locals.
"Also, they are all under 1.3 meters tall," Lin Ziyan reminded them.
Lu Yunshen, "..."
At less than 1.3 meters tall, isn't he a child?
He looked at the portrait in his hand; the features of the portrait already resembled those of an adult.
Lin Ziyan continued to explain, "They should be patients with dwarfism, their physical development is uneven..."
She briefly described the characteristics of the patient.
Lu Yun Shen stared at her, his eyes churning with questions. Where did she get all this knowledge from?
Sending out this portrait is like sending out a photograph; he still has to keep it a secret...
Lin Ziyan was preoccupied with the matter between the two people and did not notice the change in his expression.
In the following days, the number of police officers patrolling the town and the county increased.
But they were all in plain clothes, so not many people could recognize them.
That day, Fatty and Cao De went to the county town to buy things and deposited their money into a joint account.
"Ade, look at those two kids, don't they look a little strange?" the chubby girl whispered to Cao De.
She hadn't been to the county town for a long time, and this time she found that there were many more vendors.
Cao De frowned and protected her as they walked towards a less crowded area.
His eyelids kept twitching when he went out today, and he had a feeling that something was going to happen.
"Shall we go take a look?" The chubby girl turned her head and glanced at one of the boys, which startled her so much that she didn't dare to stop.
"I'd better not watch it," she muttered.
Cao De pursed his lips; he had already subtly observed them as they walked out.
These two people are not children at all; they must be adults.
There are people like this in their village; I heard they are born with developmental delays and never grow up.
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