Chapter 306 Is She the Final Boss?
When Chu Yao got up the next day, it was almost noon and Qin Jiahuai was not at home.
She pushed the door open and saw two middle-aged women cleaning the room.
The house has been almost cleaned and all the arrangements have remained unchanged.
The living room curtains were still the same as they were ten years ago, only the light blue had faded to grayish white. The wallpaper on the walls was printed with a childish bear pattern, something I had insisted my grandmother buy for me when I was little, but now the color had faded almost beyond recognition. In the corner under the table lay a pile of packed textbooks, emitting the stifling smell of damp ink...
Everything is the same as it was back then.
It's just old.
The cleaner came over with a piggy bank in her hand and greeted Chu Yao with a smile: "Madam, you're awake. Your husband arranged for us to come and clean the house. We're almost done now, except for this sticker in the piggy bank that's a little tricky to clean."
Chu Yao reached out, took it and looked at it.
On that faded piece of paper, written was her small, stage-by-stage goal: [Save money to treat Qin Jiahuai to a nice dinner after the college entrance exam.]
The jar was heavy and contained quite a bit of money.
At that time, all the classmates had started using mobile payment, but she was afraid of being cheated, so she didn't start using it until much later.
At that time, she thought that the college entrance examination was the biggest hurdle in life, and the thing she looked forward to and feared the most was the college entrance examination...
Who would have thought that life would be full of obstacles.
She smiled at the cleaning staff and said, "It's okay. You don't need to clean this. Thank you for your hard work."
"Okay, we'll leave first." The cleaner took away all the garbage and left.
Chu Yao went to the bathroom to wash up. Just as she finished washing her face, her cell phone suddenly rang outside.
When she went out, she noticed that Qin Jiahuai's cell phone was there.
The caller was from an unfamiliar number.
Chu Yao picked up the phone, and Qin Jiahuai's voice came from the other end: "I just went to buy you a cell phone. This is your new number. Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"
Chu Yao immediately said, "I want to eat what we loved when we were kids: fried shrimp, old-fashioned bread, and shredded chicken soup... I wonder if these shops are still around."
Qin Jiahuai: "Okay, I'll go take a look."
After a while, Qin Jiahuai came back.
He was holding the food she wanted to eat. The sunlight shone through from behind him, giving him a golden edge. He seemed to be the boy who always found various excuses to come to her house to see her.
Chu Yao went over and took the thing from his hand: "Oh my god, it's actually here."
Qin Jiahuai closed the door with his backhand: "Yes, the boss has changed, and it's their child who has replaced him."
Chu Yao exclaimed: "Great!"
It’s really great to open a small shop and pass it down from generation to generation.
The two of them sat down to eat together, and the food tasted pretty much the same as they remembered.
The steam from the sand soup was rising, and Chu Yao suddenly felt a little jealous.
After all these years, some things have never changed.
Those ordinary and insignificant daily moments, those old times that she once thought she could never return to, were all restored perfectly by him.
Qin Jiahuai was very happy when he saw her cheeks bulging with food.
When a person returns to him, he will slowly bring her back to life.
After dinner, Qin Jiahuai showed her what was inside Lao Luan’s safe.
A very old black and white photo.
The photo shows a family of three. The man is wearing a military uniform, the woman is wearing a cheongsam, and she is holding a chubby baby in her arms.
There is also a handwritten document, which has been laminated and preserved.
Chu Yao frowned: "What is this? I don't understand it at all."
Qin Jiahuai said, "During the Civil War and the Liberation War, both parties would send intelligence personnel to the other side to gather intelligence. This is a crucial piece of information."
Chu Yao nodded: "Then what does this prove? Is Lao Luan a traitor?"
Qin Jia: "No, these are all positive and are very significant achievements."
"Oh." Chu Yao was a little disappointed. "So what's the point of all this? Does it mean that even if I have evidence of the Luan family's wrongdoings, I can't bring them down? Because they have made great contributions?"
Qin Jiahuai said nothing, as if he was deep in thought.
After a long while, he suddenly asked for no apparent reason, "Has Luan Zhengrong been good to you these years? Is he the kind of person who values family affection?"
Chu Yao also thought about it and said fairly, "It's neither good nor bad. He spent money to support my education and educate me, but he also kept me under close watch and didn't give me freedom. When I was almost trained, he married me off to someone who helped him make money."
"He does value family, but he's a complete patriarch. He only cares about his father and his son. Luan Wen and I are both contributing to Luan Jing. Luan Wen is the slave that makes money for his brother, and I am the bond that consolidates the interests of the Luan family."
"Just like the princesses of those small countries in ancient times, after they were trained, they were sent to marry or marry ministers to consolidate the relationship and prepare wedding clothes for the prince."
Qin Jiahuai nodded thoughtfully: "Then why did he marry your mother?"
"Maybe it's out of a desire to make up for the past. Zheng Aiyuan once said during an argument that my mother's temperament is very similar to his first love when he was an educated youth."
"How many times has he visited your mother on Rong Island in the past ten years?"
"I asked my grandma, and she said she had only been there twice."
Qin Jiahuai sensed something was wrong: "A man's love, no matter what the reason, is not something he can just marry and leave alone. If he really wanted to commemorate his first love, he would have kept your mother by his side to see her every day."
Chu Yao couldn't figure it out: "Then why? Does my mom have something on him?"
If this is true, then she really underestimated Song Huiping.
She always thought that Song Huiping was a very traditional and honest woman, whose mind was full of happy family and she was obsessed with washing clothes and cooking. Even though the Luan family villa had many servants, she was still studying cooking there every day.
Don't suddenly jump out at the end and say that this silent person is the ultimate boss.
The atmosphere fell silent again.
Both of them were sorting out their main tasks in their minds.
There is only one thing left, which is to prevent an accidental fall into the water.
But Chu Yao was taken to Rong Island only after she fell into the water...
Moreover, the reason Song Huiping gave at the time was that she was afraid that Luan Zhengrong's political enemies would use the two of them as leverage against them.
Why does it feel like this would still happen even if the person was prevented from falling into the water?
Qin Jiahuai suggested: "Is there any way, under the premise that you don't initiate contact, to trick your mother out of Rongyu through someone else, and then find an opportunity to ask her directly."
Chu Yao pondered for a long time: "There is a way. She has a daughter who is imprisoned in Yuncheng."
Song Huiping divorced and left directly that year, and the Cheng family soon returned to their old ways.
The fate of their family almost overlaps with the previous version, with only slight changes in details.
Cheng Yiyi is still in prison now, and she probably doesn’t know that Song Huiping has such a “good” life.
Some prisons are very humane. In Chu Yao's previous report as a reporter, there was a special report about a prison that helped serving prisoners find their biological parents whom they had not seen for many years.
Chu Yao took Qin Jiahuai's arm and said, "Huaihuai, please make an appointment for me to visit the prison in Yuncheng Prison. I want to go see Cheng Yiyi and tell her about our mother's rise to fame."
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