In the remote village, the villagers were uneducated.
Ignorant people can do many things.
The butcher Gu Minmin married, actually used her to make money.
The other party was infertile and never expected Gu Minmin to bear him children.
No matter how beautiful a woman is, there cos a ti when the novelty wears off. Within a few years, the butcher began to use Gu Minmin to support the family.
Not only did he let others have their way with her.
But he himself also often visited widows in various villages for his own pleasure.
Gu Minmin died by suicide; the look of despair in her eyes when she died in the dream still tugs at Gu Jin’s heart.
How desperate and helpless she must have felt to take the step of ending her own life.
In her previous life, she clearly understood her position, recognized her dispensable status, and survived within the Zhen and Liu families’ challenges, yet didn’t reach the point of suicide.
Thinking of everything Gu Minmin experienced in the dream, Gu Jin turned on the bedside lamp and picked up the phone from the table, glanced at the ti: midnight, twelve o’clock.
She did not know if the scenes in the dream were real; if they were false, it would have been a false alarm.
If they were real, she did not know the exact ti, only that it was a few days after she and the Zhen steward left.
It’s been two or three days since the Zhen steward left.
Gu Jin needed to find soone to verify.
It was inappropriate to call ho at midnight, so Gu Jin found her cousin Gu Jiajie’s number and dialed it directly.
"Hello——"
The call was answered after a long delay.
From the receiver ca the confused, sleepy voice of her cousin.
Gu Jin asked, "Jiajie, have you called ho these past few days?"
"Hmm?"
On the other end, sounds of rustling as if getting up from bed ca through.
"No, why?"
Gu Jin felt a bit uneasy, having a premonition that sothing was going to happen.
She lightly frowned and said into the phone, "I dreamt that sothing happened to Minmin, I just feel like sothing is going to happen."
"What happened to Minmin?!"
The ntion of sothing happening to Gu Minmin instantly woke Gu Jiajie up, his voice rising several tones.
"I can’t say for sure, just a bad feeling."
Gu Jin had already gotten out of bed.
"Are you at ho?" Gu Jiajie’s questioning voice ca through the phone.
"Yes."
"Wait for , I’ll co over right now!"
"Okay."
Gu Jin hung up the phone and changed out of her ho wear into casual athletic clothes.
She decided that no matter what, she needed to return to the village.
There was just a feeling that sothing had definitely happened at ho.
Gu Jiajie lived in the sa neighborhood; since the Hundred Flavors Restaurant opened and beca profitable, he bought a house in the sa neighborhood as Gu Jin.
Gu Jin sat on the sofa waiting.
In less than ten minutes, she heard the rapid knocking on her door.
Getting up to open the door, there stood Gu Jiajie with a face full of urgency.
"What did you dream about?"
As soon as he arrived, he directly asked.
Gu Jin looked directly into his eyes, "Sothing bad."
Unable to express the specific details, Gu Jiajie seed to understand sothing.
He took out his phone and dialed ho, saying, "I called ho on my way here, but couldn’t get through. What’s going on? Minmin has always been studying in the county, she’s so well-behaved, could she be bullied at school?"
Ultimately, he wasn’t willing to think of the worst-case scenario.
Over the past two years, he also knew Gu Jin was quite capable, not only closely associated with Wanhai’s governor but even the richest Jiang family treated her with respect.
Moreover, he knew that anything she said was highly likely to be true.
Still unable to reach the family’s phone, Gu Jiajie was sweating from anxiety.
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