After I tidied up briefly, I drove to the community where Liang Jing lived. When I arrived at the garage, she was already waiting for me in the garage.
I drove the car in front of her, got out of the car and helped her load some live broadcast equipment into the car.
After getting in the car again, I asked her where she was going.
She took my phone from the holder, entered a destination directly into the navigation, and said, "It's right here. I looked at the whole highway and it'll be there in two hours."
I subconsciously looked at the destination pointed by the navigation system and was shocked.
Isn't this destination the place where Xiaoqing's mother remarried?
What a coincidence!
Liang Jing saw me staring blankly at the navigation destination, and then asked me: "What are you doing? Driving!"
"Are you sure you want to go to this place?"
"I'm sure! Why are you acting so weird today?"
"That's such a coincidence. I was planning to take time to visit this place."
Liang Jing looked at me slightly surprised and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Something happened, please fasten your seat belt."
After saying that, I started the car and filled up the gas before getting on the highway.
After getting on the highway, Liang Jing opened the sun visor and started putting on makeup.
While putting on makeup, she asked me: "What are you doing recently?"
"What else can I do besides work? That's work."
"Have you not considered personal emotional issues?" As she said that, she turned to look at me.
"I don't think about it anymore, now I just want to make money."
"If you want to make money, come to me! I told you, I will give you an annual salary of two million, and the salary can be increased at any time."
I sneered and didn't answer her.
"Why are you laughing? Seriously, I really need an assistant right now."
"I'm not qualified, you should find someone else."
"Look at you, you said you want to make money, but I don't even want to give you a chance to make money." Liang Jing said with a groan.
"Don't think that I won't hate you after you explain it clearly to me. Even if I don't hate you, I won't come and work with you."
"Ahem, your words are so hurtful. Don't you just think that I let you break up with An Lan? It's a big deal. If you want people, I will pay for them. If you want money, I will pay for your money. You don't want it."
"If I want it, what will become of me?"
Liang Jing snorted coldly, stopped talking to me, and continued to put on her makeup.
After more than two hours of driving, we finally arrived at our destination, a place called Donghe Village.
As soon as you enter the village, you will see acres of orchards filled with citrus trees. The trees are full of citrus. You can see orange all over the mountains and plains.
We arrived at the location of the village committee and met with the orchard contractor through the village secretary.
Liang Jing began to discuss cooperation methods with the contractor's boss, and I was going to go to the village secretary to talk about Pan Xiaoqing's affairs.
When I arrived at the secretary's office, I knocked on the door and walked in. I asked straight to the point: "Secretary Huang, I would like to ask if Pan Xiaoqing is from your village?"
"Pan Xiaoqing? Do you know her?"
Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the information I had found before was correct.
I nodded and replied, "I know her. Is she from your village?"
"Yes, this girl hasn't been back for many years. Are you her friend from outside?"
I smiled and replied: "That's right. I just want to know something about her. Can you tell me a little bit about her?"
He nodded and then said to me: "This girl remarried to our village with her mother when she was about six or seven years old. Her hometown is in Changhe Town, which is not far from us."
I nodded, handed him a cigarette, and listened patiently.
He lit the cigarette, frowned and continued: "This girl has a hard life. Her mother has some brain problems, but it's not a big problem, but she has never cared about her since she was a child... Her stepfather is an alcoholic, and we are all troubled here.
She was famous for beating her and her mother when she was drunk every three days... Our village office staff also came to her door to persuade her several times, but it was of no use. After all, you know that it is difficult for upright officials to deal with household chores."
Speaking of this, Secretary Huang sighed and seemed to be worried about these things in Pan Xiaoqing's family.
At this time, I asked: "Is her family still there?"
"Yes! Do you want to go to his house to visit?"
"Okay, is it convenient for you?"
"Let's do this! I'm going to the town to have a meeting later, and I'll send someone to take you there."
"Okay, I'll trouble you." I nodded and said with a smile.
He immediately called the village women's director for me, surnamed Lu, and asked her to take me to Pan Xiaoqing's house to learn about the situation.
Director Lu also told me that Pan Xiaoqing's stepfather used to be a butcher, specializing in killing pigs and cattle for villagers in Shiliba Township. He earned some money and was the first family in the village to build a two-story house.
However, this man was addicted to alcohol. When he drank too much, he would act randomly. Later, his family life was almost ruined by him.
After following her for about three miles, they came to a private house. It was indeed a two-story red brick house.
The door was open, and a woman with some gray hair was standing in the laundry chute in front of the door, washing clothes.
There were many chickens, ducks, and poultry in the open space in front of the door. The ground was covered with poop from various poultry, which looked disgusting.
However, this is the case in most rural areas, but as a new rural area, it seems to affect the image of the village a bit.
After bringing me there, Director Lu shouted to the woman: "Sister Yang, someone is here to see you."
I bought some gifts and fruits on the way here. I immediately walked up to the woman with the gifts and shouted to the woman: "Hello, auntie."
The woman turned to look at me, squinted her eyes and looked at me before asking: "Who are you?"
"I'm Pan Xiaoqing's friend. I know she lives here, and I happened to be here for business today so I came to see you."
"Xiaoqing's friend?" She looked at me in surprise.
He quickly wiped the foam on his hands on his apron and asked me impatiently: "How is Xiaoqing? Is she okay? Where is she? Why didn't she come back?"
Seeing her eager to know about her daughter's condition, I suddenly felt a little sad.
There is no mother in the world who doesn't miss her children, but it seems that her mental condition is a little bad.
In order to reassure her, I smiled and said to her: "She is fine, don't worry about her."
She asked me excitedly: "Are you really Xiaoqing's friend?"
"Yes, Xiaoqing misses you too. She will be back after a while."
After hearing what I said, she hurriedly shook her head and said in a panic: "No, no...she can't come back, don't let her come back."
I felt confused. Didn’t you just ask me why she didn’t come back with me? Why didn’t she come back with me now?
At this time, Director Lu said from the side: "Sister Yang, haven't you always missed your daughter? Why don't you want her to come back?"
"No, she can't come back. Someone will harm her. I don't want her to come back..." She started to become a little crazy and kept repeating the sentence that someone was going to harm her.
Director Lu and I looked at each other, and she seemed confused too.
But I feel that there must be a reason for this, and it is probably this reason that caused Xiaoqing to become like this.?