Chapter 19 You're Not Still Thinking About Running Away, Are You?
Jiang Mengyu pouted but said no more.
She definitely didn't want to be locked up.
Although she knew she wasn't a spy, the matter wasn't up to her to decide; it was up to Gu Dongxing.
With too many secrets and unable to justify herself, if he wanted to lock her up, she would be powerless to resist.
Being able to stay in Gu Dongxing's room was already like a blessing.
Besides, she really had nowhere else to go now; she definitely couldn't go back to that home.
If she went back now, Jiang Haidong and Li Chunhua, upon seeing her unharmed, would definitely sell her again to keep their daughter's university spot safe, and they might even put her under house arrest.
Since Gu Dongxing wanted to keep her, staying with him for a while wasn't a bad idea.
She might also take the chance to get closer to him, to cling to this golden thigh.
As for the university, by this time, Jiang Huaiyu must have already gone to university with her admission notice, right?
She would wait for her to study for a while, then expose her true face and reclaim her own academic status.
What she needed to do first was to clear herself of the spy suspicion and also rescue Jiang Hongyan and Pi Yuhua.
In her past life, Jiang Haiyan didn't interact much with her in the village, but took good care of her when they were in Tiger Valley.
She was helpless on her own before, but now, she had to find a way to make Gu Dongxing rescue her before she got pregnant.
In her past life, she had been sold into Tiger Valley and became pregnant after half a year.
But how to convince Gu Dongxing to rescue them?
She thought and thought, but couldn't find a reason compelling enough for Gu Dongxing to take action.
Suddenly, she remembered something from her previous life.
After she had been with the Zhou Brothers for six years, since she no longer seemed likely to run away, the villagers started to view her as "one of their own".
Once, an old lady told her that all the daughters-in-law in the village were bought. Wouldn't her son have to buy a wife when he grew up? Since they'd have to buy one anyway, why wait until he's grown? Why not buy a young Servant girl and raise her from childhood, so they would grow fond of each other, isn't that better?
But she didn't know where to find those people.
The old lady then quietly told her, "Your idea is good; there are indeed people in the village who buy child brides. If you're looking for them, I'll tell you, they live at the tofu stall in the marketplace; you just need to tell them you want to buy soft tofu."
Her heart stirred; that tofu stall was a den of human traffickers. Gu Dongxing had set an ambush in those mountain streams, where only human traffickers would appear.
This meant that the spy must be involved with human traffickers, either colluding with them or being a trafficker turned into a spy by someone.
Since that tofu stall contained clues about the human traffickers, there might also be clues about the spy!
Suddenly, a hand waved in front of Jiang Mengyu's face, and she snapped back to reality, glaring at Gu Dongxing.
But her beautiful, watery eyes, even when glaring, did not look intimidating in the slightest; they looked adorable no matter how you looked at them.
Gu Dongxing felt an itch in his hand and really wanted to ruffle her hair.
He quietly withdrew the hand he had sneakily extended and asked, "What are you thinking about? You're not still thinking about how to run away, are you?"
"I'm thinking—Gu Dongxing, is it possible to go to Tiger Valley and rescue those poor women who have been trafficked soon?"
Gu Dongxing froze for a moment, then his face turned stern, "I've already mentioned it to the authorities." He wasn't the Public Security after all.
"Don't you suspect that I am a spy?" Jiang Mengyu asked.