After hearing Shao Qingyuan’s explanation, Gu Yundong felt a bit ashamed of her previous hasty speculations.

Ah, he had suffered for so many years, just wanting to eat something delicious. Why did she have such dirty thoughts about him?

It wasn’t a big deal to cook a meal for someone. After all, he had helped her so much just to satisfy his own appetite.

As Gu Yundong scorned herself, she returned to her room. After closing the door, Shao Qingyuan climbed onto the wall and sat on the neighboring courtyard wall, gazing in her direction from afar.

He was too hasty. She was even more guarded than he had imagined. She must have encountered many things on the journey, which made her not very trusting of people, especially those who didn’t seek any reward. She had an unusually cautious attitude.

He had heard her forbidding Niudan from calling him a wolf cub.

Shao Qingyuan frowned and climbed down from the wall.

However, Gu Yundong felt much more comfortable sleeping in a different environment. Dong Xiulan had tidied their room very neatly, without the deliberate roughness of the Fang family mother and daughter, giving it a warm feeling.

However, in the middle of the night, she was awakened by a low sobbing.

Gu Yundong suddenly opened her eyes and looked around. She found that it was her mother, Yang Shi, who was crying.

She was stunned for a moment and hurried over to Yang Shi’s side, calling out to her softly, “Mother, mother, are you feeling unwell?”

Due to her intellectual disability, Yang Shi’s emotions were not very volatile, unless she was in pain, then she would subconsciously cry.

Gu Yundong called out to her for a while, but Yang Shi seemed to be in a daze and refused to wake up, even two tears streaked down her cheeks.

Gu Yundong was afraid that something was wrong with her head. Her voice became a little louder, and she directly pinched her nose. “Mother, wake up, mother?”

Gu Yundong was awakened by the noise. He rubbed his eyes and saw the situation. He immediately became alert. “Big sister, what’s wrong?”

Gu Yundong didn’t have time to answer his question. She pinched her mother’s nose tightly, and Yang Shi finally woke up.

She looked at Gu Yundong blankly, and suddenly hugged her, “Da Jiang, Da Jiang, sob…”

Da Jiang? Gu Dajiang?

Gu Yundong couldn’t believe it. Her mother had dreamed of Gu Dajiang, and she was crying so miserably. She had thought that her mother’s intelligence was only at the level of a four or five-year-old, and she wouldn’t understand anything about love between men and women. But now it seemed that she had taken it for granted.

Gu Yundong allowed her to hug her, patting her back gently, and whispered comfortingly, “It’s okay, it’s okay, you had a nightmare, but you’re awake now.”

But Yang Shi couldn’t stop crying, and it wasn’t the kind of loud wailing. Instead, it seemed like she was trying to suppress her crying as much as possible, which made it even more heartbreaking to listen to.

Gu Yundong’s emotions were quickly affected. She wiped her eyes with her hands.

“Big sister, mother dreamed of father, is it… is it because something’s wrong with father, so mother cried? Big sister, I don’t want anything to happen to father. I miss father. Will we be able to see father again in the future?”

Gu Yundong pursed her lips and said firmly after a moment, “We will be able to see him. Tomorrow, big sister will ask someone to inquire. If there’s no news, after the house is built, big sister will go to the Qing’an Mansion to find him herself.”

Seeing a person alive is like seeing the body dead. Although life and death are unpredictable on the road of escape, Gu Yundong was still unwilling to give up without trying harder.

The next day, Gu Yundong planned to go to the county town. However, as soon as she left the house, she saw Feng Daneng looking at her with a guilty expression. “Yundong, Uncle Feng apologizes to you.”