Mu Cangnan looked at the villagers running up from the foot of the mountain in surprise, "Your mother won't let you go to university because of a dowry of 500 yuan?!"
Li Xiyue nodded and said, "Yes! Actually, she's not my mother, she's our nanny... She secretly switched me with her own child..."
Mu Cangnan was shocked; it was utterly astonishing!
He grabbed Li Xiyue's hand and said, "Get in the car! I'll take you away!"
Li Xiyue followed Mu Cangnan into the jeep, and Mu Cangnan drove the car very fast.
On the pitch-black mountain road, the car's headlights shone like two bright, large eyes, their light illuminating a great distance.
Li Xiyue sat next to Mu Cangnan, her hands unconsciously clutching the lapel of her clothes.
Their child, everything about her and Mu Cangnan's past flashed through her mind.
But she couldn't tell Mu Cangnan anything...
I'm sorry, Cangnan, I didn't read your last letter to me. You were wronged, and you must have very important evidence to tell me!
sorry!
If I had seen it, perhaps things would have been different for us and our son…
Even in the darkness, the girl's delicate face and the tears she held back could not be hidden.
The more the girl held back her tears, the more Mu Cangnan felt sorry for this girl he was meeting for the first time.
He said, "Switching your own child from someone else's is illegal! Buying and selling marriages is also illegal!"
Our country has long had laws prohibiting arranged marriages and advocating for free love! I'll take you to the police station to report this!
Li Xiyue quickly said, "Brother, you absolutely mustn't take me to the police station. The police station can't handle village affairs..."
In our poor village, there was no such thing as free love. When a girl grew up, her parents would find a matchmaker to arrange a marriage. As long as the bride price was reasonable and the man didn't have any disabilities, they would marry the girl off to him...
If my mom catches me, I'll never be able to go to university, never go to Beijing, and never find my biological parents again! Could you take me to the train station?
Only she knew that after the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in her previous life, the rural people became wealthy, and the girls in the village were able to freely fall in love and have their own happy lives.
Mu Cangnan frowned. "If I take you to the train station, what if they find it?"
I have a mission to complete right now and can't take you back to the capital..."
He had to return to the classified research base within the stipulated time; he carried classified information that the base urgently needed!
Li Xiyue was also in a dilemma. If she didn't take the train, how was she going to get to the capital?
Jin Cuicui led the villagers to the mountain road halfway up the mountain, and watched helplessly as the car drove away. She stomped her feet in anger.
But two legs can't outrun four wheels. She plopped down on the ground and cursed viciously, "You little slut! If you dare to run, I curse your ancestors for eighteen generations, may your whole family die a horrible death! If I catch you, I'll break your arms and legs!"
When the villagers heard Jin Cuicui's curse, they all stared at her as if she were a fool.
"You're cursing her ancestors for eighteen generations? You're cursing her whole family to die a horrible death? Isn't she your daughter?!"
Jin Cuicui's face stiffened when the villagers asked her the question; the villagers had almost discovered her secret!
She hurriedly said, "I'm so angry at that little slut that I've lost my mind! If I catch her, she'll be dead!"
She suddenly remembered that she had seen Li Xiyue returning from the village entrance that morning, but Li Xiyue had said she was returning from her neighbor's house...
She got up from the ground and said, "That little slut might have gotten her college acceptance letter. She'll definitely take the train to the capital! Everyone, please help us catch her at the train station!"
The villagers all agreed to Jin Cuicui's suggestion. They all went back to the village and borrowed a horse-drawn carriage from the village branch to go to the train station in town to arrest the person.
Although they felt sorry for Li Xiyue, they would never allow such a thing as running away from marriage to happen.
Since ancient times, people have always used matchmakers to arrange marriages; no one falls in love on their own. Besides, they were really poor these days. If they didn't have the money for a daughter's dowry, how could their sons get married?!
Li Xiyue must be brought back so that all the unmarried girls in the village will know that they cannot be as rebellious as Li Xiyue and disobey their parents' orders!
Mu Cangnan's car sped along the highway, but Li Xiyue noticed that the route the car was taking was different from the route Mu Cangnan had taken her in her previous life.
Where does this road lead?
The system said in the space, "Want to know where this road leads? It's not difficult. I'll open the electronic map for you!"
A map appeared on the large screen in the space in a flash.
Li Xiyue's eyes widened in surprise, "An electronic map?! That's so advanced! Did they take a picture of the map and put it on the computer?"
The system said, "This is not a photo. The little red dot on the map is your location, and this road is the road you are on."
Looking at the name on the highway, Li Xiyue said, "This national highway leads to the capital. Why did Mu Cangnan drive here? He should be going to the secret research base."
She wanted to ask Mu Cangnan, but she couldn't. She couldn't tell Mu Cangnan that she knew everything about him, or he would definitely treat her like a monster!
Mu Cangnan kept driving along the road, glancing at his watch every now and then. Time was running out; changing his route to rescue people was a mistake…
But when it comes to this girl, he'd rather risk making a mistake.
For some reason, even though it was their first meeting, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with this girl, as if they had met in a past life...
He didn't know how long he drove before he finally saw car lights at the end of the road.
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