Jiang Tian and Grandma Hu both wondered if Wu Xiaomin wanted them to adopt the baby in her belly.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xiaomin shook his head and said sadly:

"I didn't know I was pregnant."

"That day, the cripple took me back, tied me to the bedpost, slapped me, and kicked me in the stomach."

"I was bleeding a lot from below. I escaped and secretly went to a small clinic. The doctor said it wasn't my period but a miscarriage..."

Wu Xiaomin raised her head, tears streaming down her face, her expression gradually becoming more ferocious, and she laughed twice in a sinister tone:

"My child is dead, he's dead!"

"The doctor told me that I would never be able to have children again in my lifetime."

"My child died before he even had a chance to see this world. Why is Cao Wang's child still alive and well?"

"They have done me a terrible harm and killed my child. They deserve to die! They all deserve to die!"

Wu Xiaomin cursed and cried for a while before she gradually calmed down. With her red eyes, she looked at Jiang Tian and then at Grandma Hu, with a hint of apology and regret in her eyes.

"Aunt, Tiantian, I'm sorry. I was greedy and repaid kindness with hatred. You kindly took me in, arranged such a good job for me, and protected me, but I didn't know how to cherish this opportunity."

"If God could let me choose again... Never mind! It's too late to talk about this now."

"Auntie, Tiantian, this may be the last time I see you. There are some things I don't want to bring to the execution ground. I have not made any contribution to this society in my life. Others bullied me, and I also bullied others. I know I am not a good person, but I really admire you. You have done many things that rural women cannot do."

"If God can give me another chance, I really hope to work with you to help those girls who have nowhere to go in the countryside, so that they can have a chance to choose their own lives."

"But it's impossible. I have no chance anymore."

"Auntie, Tiantian, look at me and remember me!"

"If one day you can no longer walk this path, just think about me. If there was someone like you and I who helped me when my parents forced me to marry the cripple, and didn't let me fall into that fire pit, how could I have ended up like this?"

"I know I deserve to die. I don't deserve other people's sympathy. I killed so many people, even the children... But those rural girls who are younger than me and haven't married yet, they still have a chance!"

"Auntie, Tiantian, I know you have been helping those girls from the countryside, so keep helping them!"

"Please help them, don't let them... become the next me, okay?"

Through an iron fence, Jiang Tian saw Wu Xiaomin's eyes. There seemed to be two flames hidden in those not-so-beautiful eyes, which made Jiang Tian's eyes red.

"Okay!" Jiang Tian covered her mouth, tears silently sliding down her cheeks.

The two female police officers nearby had red eyes and turned their heads away.

With trembling hands, Grandma Hu took out a washed-out handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to Wu Xiaomin through the iron fence with great effort.

…

When leaving, Jiang Tian turned around and saw Wu Xiaomin with her head down, her handcuffed hands tightly clutching the old handkerchief her grandma gave her.

It's like grasping at a life-saving straw.

However, Jiang Tian knew that this time, Wu Xiaomin would definitely die.

After returning from the Public Security Bureau, there was no smile on Jiang Tian's face for two consecutive days.

Grandma Hu went back to her parents' home and brought out a dozen girls about the same age as Jiang Tian from the village.

They are a group of girls who have not yet graduated from junior high school. Their families called them back from school, some of them so that they can help take care of their younger siblings so that their parents can go out to work and earn money.

For some of them, their families have already found a husband for them. They think that they will get married sooner or later anyway, and after marriage, they will become the daughter-in-law of someone else's family. There is no need to spend money to send their daughter-in-law to school.

So they simply called the girl back from school and asked her to work at home for two years and learn how to serve her parents-in-law and husband.

I don’t know what Grandma Hu said to these people, but except for two girls she was dating and wanted to get married as soon as possible, all the other girls were willing to work in the rice dumpling factory with Grandma Hu.

Two days later, Caodi Middle School’s “traditional program” - the pre-school assessment test, officially kicked off.

Before the exam started, Han Jisong and Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Tian with worry.

They didn't know what exactly happened at the Public Security Bureau that day.

All I know is that Jiang Tian hasn’t smiled since she came back from the Public Security Bureau that day.

I hide in my room every day, either reading books or doing papers.

If it were in the past, wouldn't the whole family be overjoyed if she studied so hard?

But when that day finally came, the whole family was almost worried to death.

Oh, not only the Hu family, but also Grandpa He and his wife, Han Jisong and Grandpa Han, and godmother Wang Chunjuan and her family.

Hu Qiongfang was extremely anxious.

My biological mother went back to her parents' home and hasn't come back for several days.

Her own daughter went to the police station and came out like a different person. How could she not be anxious?

"If I had known she would be like this, I would rather not have gone to this school." Hu Qiongfang has already cried twice with her sister Wang Chunjuan.

She now wonders if she is putting too much psychological pressure on her daughter.

My daughter is not a good student, but she has worked very hard to rank among the top 30 in the class.

She couldn't even pass all her subjects when she was in school, so why should she force her daughter to take the high school entrance exam?

Wang Chunjuan has an unusual way of thinking. She thinks the problem may not be with studying.

"I heard that there is a lot of evil spirit in the government office. Could it be that our daughter is possessed by something?"

"Ah?!" Hu Qiongfang raised her head in horror. She shivered in broad daylight.

"No, no way? In broad daylight..."

"What do you know? Who can guarantee that there aren't a few wrongful convictions in the government? What if there's a ghost who died unjustly... Bah! I think we should find a master to collect Tiantian's soul?"

Hu Qiongfang was confused and said vaguely: "I'll observe it for a while."

Hu Qiongfang knew that most of those stories about ghosts and gods were lies.

But what if Tiantian really did... then she wouldn't care about superstition or not, or masters, fortune-tellers, Taoist priests or monks. As long as her daughter could be safe, she wouldn't care what others said.

After two more days of anxious observation, the results of the pre-school assessment test came out.

"Chinese 96, Math 88, English 97... Damn it! He Tiantian, are you trying to kill us? Can we still be friends happily?"

After seeing Jiang Tian’s test score, the group of poor academic sisters in the back row all turned into jealous people.

Woo woo woo ~ We agreed to be happy elementary school losers together, but you actually went to make up lessons secretly?