He Yun burst into tears. Looking at her bare house and thinking about the impoverished days to come, she couldn’t help but weep bitterly.

“Yuanbao isn’t dead, so why is Lin Yao treating me like this?”

He Yun said this, but she was filled with regret in her heart. What she regretted was why she hadn’t drowned Yuanbao. If Yuanbao died, Lin Yao and Qin Shishen’s relationship would definitely break down. It would be even better if the two of them fell out because of this life, and Lin Yao would never have a good life.

He Yun was filled with remorse.

But he could only watch helplessly as Lin Yao left.

–

“Yuanbao, are you hungry? Have a peach. When we get to the county town, I’ll take you to the state-run restaurant for big meat buns.” Lin Yao currently has nearly 1,800 yuan in savings.

After all, Qin Shishen would send fifty yuan back every month. Twenty yuan was more than enough for her and Yuanbao to spend each month, and they could save thirty yuan each month. Over three years, that’s how much they would have.

“Mom, where did this peach come from? It’s so delicious! Mom, you should have some too.” Yuanbao took a bite and was amazed. He dutifully handed the peach to Lin Yao.

Lin Yao shook her head, “You eat, I have some.”

As she spoke, she took another one out of her bundle.

Yuanbao’s eyes lit up. He took back the peach and began to eat it heartily.

Lin Yao casually explained, “It was hidden in your aunt’s room, and I kept it.”

“Hmph, Auntie is a bad person, I don’t like her.” Yuanbao snorted arrogantly.

Actually, they’re kind of silly and cute, and have absolutely no danger.

The mother and son had just finished eating a peach when a tractor appeared on the road. Lin Yao quickly stepped forward to stop it, and sure enough, it was a tractor from the next village.

She stopped the other party, gave them money, and then, holding the gold ingot, rode the tractor into the city.

The first thing to do upon entering the city was to take Yuanbao to a state-run restaurant for big meat buns. Lin Yao also bought some extra to eat on the train.

After having breakfast, they went to buy train tickets. They were lucky and managed to get tickets for around 4 p.m., which would take about two days and two nights to get to city A.

“Yuanbao, let me call your dad first.” At the newsstand next to the train station, Lin Yao waited in line to use the phone, and didn’t forget to tell Yuanbao in advance who she was calling.

Yuanbao immediately raised his little head, his eyes filled with both anticipation and confusion.

“Mom, aren’t you going to divorce Dad? I’d better not talk to Dad anymore.” Although Yuanbao missed Qin Shishen very much, she held back for Lin Yao’s sake.

Lin Yao reached out and ruffled his hair. “Does your mother need a child like you to protect her? If you get along well with your father, it won’t affect our relationship. It would be selfish of me to stop you from seeing each other. Don’t worry, do whatever you want.”

Yuanbao looked up, blinked his innocent eyes, and hugged her leg. “Mommy, I like you the most anyway.”

Lin Yao was so pleased with her son’s words that she couldn’t stop smiling. He was indeed the child she had raised; he was so thoughtful.

While the two were talking, the call was connected.

But no one answered for a long time.

Lin Yao frowned. This was the contact number she had obtained from Su’s mother. For the past three years, she and Qin Shishen had mainly communicated by letter. At first, they also kept in touch by phone, but Qin Shishen was always on missions. When she called the military base, the operator would often tell her that he was not available. After this happened many times, she became too lazy to call and started sending letters instead.

Later, Qin Shishen stopped replying to her letters individually, only mentioning her casually in a letter he sent to his mother.

It’s no wonder Lin Yao was angry, so she stopped contacting him. Later, when she replied to his letters, they were mostly insults. But those letters were intercepted by He Yun and others and never sent out, which means the two of them had lost contact for three years.

She really didn’t know anything about the other person’s situation.

The call ended automatically because no one answered.

The Qin family.

A little boy who looked like a gold ingot stood in the stairwell with a gloomy look in his eyes, staring at the middle-aged woman in the living room who was muttering curses.

“Whoever made the call is so impatient! I was only a little delayed by cutting meat, and the phone stopped ringing as soon as I came out. It made me waste my time!”

Cutting meat?

Ha, this is clearly meat theft!

Le Bao stared intently at the middle-aged woman’s figure, her small fists clenched at her sides, and her teeth clenched tightly.

The middle-aged woman made a couple of complaints, then turned around and went back to the kitchen.

Le Bao walked barefoot, without making a sound, to the phone. He stared at the phone with a mixture of longing and disgust. If it was his father calling, he would pretend to be good and make the other person come back!

It would be best if he caught this damned, vicious nanny bullying him, so that he could stop being tormented and save himself!

Therefore, he answered the phone the moment it rang.

When he answered the phone, his heart was pounding, and he instinctively turned to stare at the kitchen door, afraid that the middle-aged woman would come out.

If the wicked nanny sees him answering the phone, she will definitely lock him in a dark and gloomy room again, only give him one meal a day, and say that he is a picky eater.

“Hello, Qin Shishen? Hello…”

The female voice coming from the microphone caught Le Bao’s attention.

He had never heard of that voice before, but that didn’t stop him from pretending to be innocent.

“Hello, who are you? Are you looking for my father?”

Lin Yao was surprised to find that the person who answered the phone was Le Bao, her other son in the story. She had never actually met him before. After watching the story, she felt that Le Bao’s tragedy was a pre-arranged plot, just to pave the way for the female lead, Su Ruanruan, to rise to power.

If Qin Shishen’s child hadn’t suffered so much, why would he have gone to find a divorced wife just to take care of the child?

The more Lin Yao understood these logical relationships, the more she felt that the so-called plot was despicable.

“I’m Lin Yao, and you’re Le Bao?”

Lin Yao?

Le Bao’s pupils suddenly contracted as if he remembered something. His face, much thinner than Yuan Bao’s, turned ashen. He gripped the receiver tightly and began to tremble uncontrollably.

“Bad woman!”

Le Bao roared like a wounded little animal.

“Oh, so you know I’m your mom?” Lin Yao would be stupid if she didn’t know he knew her. He hated her at such a young age, no wonder he hated her even more later.

“You’re not my mother,” Le Bao said sharply, her voice filled with malice. “Bad woman, get out of here.”

Tsk, what a brat.

“Le Bao, do you hate me because you’ve been bullied?” Lin Yao’s bluntness left Le Bao completely unable to predict what she would do next, always catching her off guard.

“You know I’m being bullied by the nanny, and you don’t even come to my rescue. What kind of mother are you?” Le Bao blurted out her true feelings.

Lin Yao nodded seriously, “You’re right, you can call me Auntie. But since you hate me so much, shouldn’t you also hate your dad? After all, your dad takes care of you, and I take care of your brother. You weren’t taken care of properly, so the main responsibility lies with your dad.”

Le Bao got even angrier. “Are you trying to brag to me that your little brother is doing better than me?”

Lin Yao: “…” No, she really didn’t mean that. She just felt that it was really unfair that Le Bao didn’t dislike Qin Shishen but disliked her. Shouldn’t both parents dislike her?

“You don’t hate your dad, you only hate me. I’m not even angry yet, how dare you be angry?”