At that moment, Ye Fan said to her, "Honey, I never thought such a barren little village could produce a beauty like you."
"You flatterer!" Mu Wanxin's cheeks flushed as she spoke.
Ye Fan burst into laughter.
The two of them arrived at the village entrance. Villagers were sizing up Mu Wanxin; she had been away for so long that many of them no longer recognized her.
"Sister-in-law Yang, it's me, Mu Wanxin!" she said to one of them.
The somewhat plump woman's eyes widened in realization. "Wanxin! Where have you been all these years? You've been gone for a full eight years!"
Mu Wanxin replied, "I went to another province to study and then worked there. Sister-in-law Yang, how is my mom?"
In her memory, her mother was a woman who was often ill and had even been brutally beaten by her stepfather, so she was desperate to know what had happened to her.
A look of sorrow crossed Sister-in-law Yang's face. "Wanxin, you probably don't know yet. Your mom… she was such a pitiful woman!"
