Since Liu Piao wore several layers of clothes, it made her look bulky, and it was hard to notice the baby bump.
But as a mother herself, Wang Muxiao could see so changes in Liu Piao’s body and expressions. So, she was sure that she was pregnant, albeit not knowing how far along the pregnancy was.
Lu Cheng saw his wife’s excited expression and shook his head. After being ’caged’ by his mother in their house for three months, his wife was like a wild horse the mont she ca out.
Her eyes looked around as she cracked her lon seeds. Right now, she looked like an eagle preying on a chick.
If people didn’t know, they would think that she was a thief looking for her next target. Inside his heart, he knew that she only felt bored and wanted so gossip.
After everyone left the village hall, An Xuyuan went to the Zhang family’s house. When he arrived, he saw Zhang Yulan plucking a pheasant. Seeing this, his face darkened as he parked his bicycle in the front yard.
Seeing him coming, Zhang Yulan greeted him with surprise, "Brother An, what brought you here today?"
An Xuyuan walked over to her and glanced at the pheasant in her hand before he asked, "Did you and your brother go to the mountain again?"
Noticing his bad mood, Zhang Yulan shook her head and replied, "After your warning, we didn’t go anymore."
"Then, where did that pheasant co from?" he asked again with raised eyebrows.
"This, ah, it’s from Brother Ding Lei. He ca over in the morning and sent two pheasants and a basket of eggs," Zhang Yulan replied with a smile.
The mont he heard this, An Xuyuan frowned and said, "If I rember correctly, he lives in Yan Village and has no connection with your family. Why did he suddenly send these things over?"
"I’m not sure either," Zhang Yulan replied.
She also didn’t expect that Bajie would co knocking at the door at dawn and send so many things over. Besides the pheasants and eggs, he also sent brown sugar, salt, sesa oil, flour, pickled fruits, and pickled vegetables.
After he rejected her brother’s attempt to arrange a blind date for them, Zhang Yulan no longer looked at him as soone she wanted to marry.
Due to their family selling things to Houzi, it was unavoidable that they would et and talk sotis. So, she could only treat him like a friend to avoid awkwardness.
An Xuyuan observed her for a while, and when he saw her eting his gaze with confusion, he let out a silent sigh of relief in his heart. Since his heart was moved by her, he had already checked everything about the Zhang family and the people they ca into contact with.
It’s not that he looked down on them, but with his family’s background and the current political situation, he didn’t want them to be implicated by him and beco the victims of political fighting.
Because of this investigation, he learned that Zhang Ermu was trying to set her up with Bajie, and it was at Zhang Yulan’s request.
The mont he found out about this, his heart sank. And from then on, he realized that he might have fallen too deep to let her go. Since he couldn’t let go, he wouldn’t.
Seeing that he was lost in thought, Zhang Yulan asked, "Brother An, why are you coming to visit today? If you are looking for my second brother, he went out and hasn’t co back yet with my second sister-in-law."
Hearing her words, An Xuyuan was pulled out of his thoughts and said, "I ca to find you."
"Do you need anything from ?" Zhang Yulan asked while continuing to pluck the pheasant’s feathers.
Noticing her hands reddened, An Xuyuan rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let do it."
The weather was cold, and even though she used hot water to scald the pheasant, the warm water turned cold quickly. For a girl, it was better not to touch cold water for too long.
Zhang Yulan was indeed feeling cold and didn’t reject his kind intention. After months of interaction, she no longer feared him as much as before. What’s more, he often ca to visit her family and went to the mountains with her, so she had already taken him as a close friend by now.
Fearing that he would get frostbite, she said, "Brother An, I will go get more hot water."
After she said this, she went to the kitchen and ca back with a bucket of hot water. As she poured the hot water into the big basin, she asked, "Brother An, didn’t the production team hold a eting this morning? What were you all discussing?"
While plucking the pheasant’s feathers, An Xuyuan replied, "At dawn, three villagers returned from the mountain with heavy injuries. Two of them passed away on the way to the hospital, while another one is currently in the hospital."
"What’s going on?" she asked in shock.
"From their incoherent words, we only know that they t a pack of wolves when they went to the mountains to pick firewood, and five of them were killed," he replied.
Zhang Yulan was taken aback by this information and asked, "Will the production team send people to search for their bodies?"
Shaking his head, An Xuyuan said, "It would be too dangerous for us to go there now. So, we decided not to take the risk and asked the military to send people over instead."
"Then, what about those bodies?"
"For now, we can’t do anything about that. To lose their lives for picking firewood was not worth it," An Xuyuan said with a sigh.
Hearing this, Zhang Yulan felt uncomfortable in her heart. Without people retrieving their bodies as soon as possible, when the military arrived, even if the bodies didn’t rot in the cold weather, the wolves would tear them apart.
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