As for Gong Yunqiu, when her eyes met Lu Cheng, she seemed to be under a spell of immobilization. Her feet froze in place and her face instantly turned as pale as paper.
Lu Cheng's eyebrows, features, and features were so similar to his father Gong Qiheng's. This familiar yet unfamiliar face was like a sharp dagger, piercing straight into the deepest secrets in her heart, causing her heartbeat to speed up suddenly and her breathing to become rapid.
"Who are you?" Lu Cheng was the first to break the silence, his eyes full of doubts, and he asked. His voice echoed in the slightly silent air, but it seemed to carry an invisible pressure, making Gong Yunqiu and Zhang Junyang feel more nervous.
Gong Yunqiu opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but her throat seemed to be blocked and she couldn't make any sound. Her hands unconsciously clenched the corners of her clothes, her fingertips turned white due to the force, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
Seeing this, Zhang Junyang hurriedly stepped forward, forced a smile, and said, "We are just passing by and just took a look. This village has nice scenery, so we walked around for a while."
His voice sounded relaxed, but his eyes were evasive and he didn't dare to look Lu Cheng and Lin Yuexi in the eye.
Lin Yuexi naturally didn't believe it, so she said, "Since the scenery of this village is nice, why don't you stay here for a night before leaving..."
Before Lin Yuexi could finish her words, Gong Yunqiu interrupted her in a panic: "No, we have urgent things to do. We really just stopped by to take a look."
Her voice trembled slightly and she tried to sound calm, but her hands tightly clenched around the corners of her clothes betrayed her nervousness.
Lu Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly. He was keenly aware of the strangeness of the two people and became even more confused.
But out of politeness, he did not continue to ask, but just smiled faintly: "In this case, then I won't force you two. There are many forks in the road in the village, so you should be careful."
Gong Yunqiu nodded hurriedly, pulled Zhang Junyang and turned away in a hurry.
After they walked a distance apart, Zhang Junyang lowered his voice and asked, "Yunqiu, why did I scare you like this? Is this man really your uncle Gong's biological son?"
Gong Yunqiu paused, took a deep breath, and spoke in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "He looks like my dad... too much like him, for sure..."
The words came to her lips but she swallowed them back, her eyes full of worry and fear.
On the other side, Lu Cheng looked at the two people's departing backs, thoughtful.
Lin Yuexi held his arm and muttered, "Lu Cheng, have you never doubted your own life experience? Don't you think that woman just now looks very much like your mother Liu Cuihua?"
Lu Cheng patted her hand gently: "I had some doubts when I was a child. She was really not very nice to me, but my father was pretty good to me. So, don't think too much. If I was not their biological son, my father would definitely treat me badly! He would not send me to school or to join the army..."
At this time, Gong Yunqiu and Zhang Junyang were sitting in the car returning to the city, all the way in silence.
Gong Yunqiu looked at the scenery passing by rapidly outside the window, and her thoughts drifted back to her own life experience. Was the secret that she tried so hard to protect really going to be revealed?
There was a flash of determination in her eyes, and she secretly made up her mind that no matter what, she would not let this secret ruin everything she had now.
After getting off the bus, the two went to the guesthouse in the county town.
On the way, Gong Yunqiu looked at Zhang Junyang and whispered, "Junyang, can you find a way to transfer Liu Cuihua or Li Xiuying back from the labor camp?"
Zhang Junyang was startled, "Yunqiu, what do you want to do?"
Gong Yunqiu said, "If we want to keep this secret secret, there is only one way, and that is to make that person disappear..."
Having said that, she paused, a hint of ruthlessness flashing in her eyes.
"Yunqiu, you want to..." Zhang Junyang's face turned pale in an instant, and his lips trembled slightly. He didn't dare to believe what Gong Yunqiu was going to say next.
"Junyang, you don't want me to go back to being a village woman, right?" Gong Yunqiu's voice suddenly rose, with a bit of anxiety and unwillingness.
"Besides, Gong Qiheng and Ye Shihan will be here soon! Once they find out the truth, everything I have now will be gone!"
Her hands tightly grasped the corner of her clothes, as if she could hold on to something that was about to be lost.
Zhang Junyang was silent, he was struggling fiercely in his heart.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and said slowly: "Okay, I'll think of a way, but I can only transfer one back. Which one do you want to transfer?"
There was a hint of fatigue and helplessness in his voice, as if he had a premonition that he was about to be drawn into a dangerous vortex.
Gong Yunqiu thought for a while, a trace of calculation flashed in his eyes: "Let's transfer Liu Cuihua! She is my mother, she will definitely do anything I ask her to do for me. She feels guilty towards me, and it's time for her to pay me back for all these years."
Thinking of Liu Cuihua, a sneer appeared on Gong Yunqiu's lips, as if in her eyes, Liu Cuihua was just a chess piece that could be manipulated at will.
Zhang Junyang sighed helplessly and nodded in agreement, "I'll ask around first, but this is not an easy matter, and there may be someone investigating, so you have to be mentally prepared."
Gong Yunqiu nodded slightly, with a determined light in her eyes, "No matter what the cost, we must get this done."
Back at the guesthouse, Gong Yunqiu lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Lu Cheng's face kept appearing in her mind. That face, which was exactly the same as Gong Qiheng's, was like a sword hanging over her head, which could cut off the life she had carefully constructed at any time.
At the same time, although Lu Cheng tried to comfort Lin Yuexi on the surface, he was also worried in his heart.
Lin Yuexi's words were like a stone thrown into the lake of her heart, stirring up ripples. Recalling Liu Cuihua's indifference to her when she was a child, those details that she had deliberately ignored came flooding back like a tide.
He couldn't help but ask himself whether his life experience was really as simple as he imagined?
A few days later, Zhang Junyang brought the news. After great effort, he finally found a connection that could make this happen, but it would require a large sum of money to open the way.
Gong Yunqiu gritted her teeth and took out all her savings without hesitation. She also borrowed some from Zhang Junyang to make up the huge sum of money.
Soon, Liu Cuihua was released early and appeared in front of Gong Yunqiu.
Liu Cuihua didn't seem to have much affection for this daughter who was swapped with her since she was in her cradle.
Moreover, the treatment she received in the labor camp during this period made it impossible for her to feel any affection for this daughter who was related to her by blood but did not grow up with her.
Gong Yunqiu looked at her, also without any warmth, and said coldly: "Mom, I need you to do something for me. Once you've done it, not only will you not have to go back to the labor camp, I'll give you some money so you can live a good life..."
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