She suddenly curled up tighter, as if resisting some invisible pain, and fine beads of cold sweat oozed from her forehead.
Zhao Youcai's snoring stopped for a moment.
He wasn't actually asleep.
How can I sleep peacefully with doubts in my heart, like a stone?
Su Yufen's suppressed, tearful mumbling in her sleep entered his ears.
He held his breath, opened his eyes in the darkness, and listened carefully.
"...Shanghai...I can't go back..."
Su Yufen uttered another indistinct mutter, turned over, and faced away from him, her body still trembling slightly.
Shanghai?!
These two words touched Zhao Youcai's sensitive nerves.
He was still thinking about it when he was calculating supplies during the day. She dodged him during the day, but she couldn't hide in his dreams at night.
Zhao Youcai's heart sank suddenly. A cold anger and deeper suspicion made him want to pull Su Yufen up and ask her clearly.
He lay there motionless, listening to the suppressed sobs and broken dreams of the woman beside him.
Su Yufen was indeed hiding a secret from him.
The next day, Su Yufen got up with two thick dark circles under her eyes. She looked listless and her eyes were even more uncertain.
She didn't even dare to eat breakfast at the same table with Zhao Youcai. She made an excuse that her stomach was upset and took a bowl of porridge and hid in the corner of the kitchen to drink it.
Zhao Youcai had a gloomy face and was eating dried salted fish by himself.
He chewed hard, but his eyes swept over Su Yufen sharply.
Her hand holding the bowl was shaking slightly, and she was absent-minded while drinking the porridge, and the spoon hit the edge of the bowl several times.
He looked distraught, as if his soul had been taken away. It was not just that he had a stomachache, it was clearly that he had something wrong!
Su Yufen's mumbling in her sleep was like a ghost fire that ignited in Zhao Youcai's heart.
Once suspicion ferments, it can no longer be suppressed.
He began to look for evidence quietly.
He no longer questioned Su Yufen directly; that would only cause her to close her shell tightly like a frightened clam, and nothing would come out of her. He wanted to investigate on his own.
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