"Yaya, you’re finally back."
The gunshots outside, although their home was inside the factory area, they had heard about it. The granddaughter hadn’t returned for a long time, which gave the old lady great concern.
Yao Jingsong wanted to go out and search, but Grandma Yao stopped him.
Now, it’s chaos outside, so it’s better not to go out, but Grandpa Yao rode out on his bike to look for her.
"You’re nothing but a troublemaker." Yao Jingsong said angrily, "If Grandpa gets into any trouble, I’ll never forgive you."
"Yao Jingsong, what are you saying?" Yao Zhenjiang walked in with a sullen face, pushing his bike.
"Grandpa, you’re back?" Gu Lingling said excitedly, "Are you alright?"
She had thought about how her family would worry while she was at Yang Yunhai’s place, but it wasn’t like in a few years where the family could install a phone to assure them.
She could only silently hope that her grandparents wouldn’t go out to search for her.
"I’m fine, how did you get back?" Yao Zhenjiang asked in confusion.
He had noticed Gu Lingling’s behavior these days and believed most of what Grandma Yao said. This granddaughter was different from before.
Gu Lingling didn’t hide it, she explained how she ran, then accidentally bumped into a classmate and opened the back door of a house, later realizing that person was a soldier, recovering at home from an injury.
Initially frowning, Yao Zhenjiang was relieved to hear that it was a soldier.
"Oh my, we must thank them properly. You two little girls are really lucky." Grandma Yao listened, both frightened and concerned, as she hugged Gu Lingling empathetically.
"They practically saved your lives. Shouldn’t we thank them properly?"
"Yes, prepare a gift tomorrow, and I’ll take Yaya there." Yao Zhenjiang nodded.
"Is that really necessary?" Gu Lingling thought for a moment, that person probably didn’t want to be disturbed, "Didn’t I already make him a meal?"
"You don’t understand the situation outside today." After a long while, Yao Zhenjiang sighed and said, "You all are very lucky."
"There were over a dozen people injured by trampled, and many others beaten or taken away, do you think it’s nothing?" Yao Jingsong snorted.
"I guess the school should be closing for the next few days," Grandma Yao coaxed. "Listen to your grandpa, go with him tomorrow, alright?"
This was to prevent Gu Lingling from being stubborn like before.
Gu Lingling nodded silently.
At night, while lying in bed, she couldn’t sleep no matter what, with thoughts of how Yang Yunhai was holding his chest today.
It seemed like he was quite seriously injured.
"Couldn’t the unit assign someone to take care of him?"
(Little did she know, someone from the unit had been assigned, but due to a family emergency, they went back home.)
"Why did you refuse so adamantly? Is He Yue really that good?"
"You’re truly an ice sculpture!"
"You’re making me so angry!"
Gu Lingling wrestled with her thoughts all night. By the time she got up the next day, she had dark circles under her eyes as she followed Yao Zhenjiang to Yang Yunhai’s home.
Last night, Grandma Yao had already prepared the thank-you gifts.
There wasn’t anything particularly special, just some jerky made by Grandma Yao and a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes given by Wang Shuosheng during the holiday, which Yao Zhenjiang had saved and been reluctant to smoke.
Now, he took it out for the sake of his granddaughter.
In Gu Lingling’s heart, a warm feeling arose, and she resolved to take good care of her grandparents in the future.
Who would have thought, when they arrived at Yang Yunhai’s place, the front door was locked, and Yang Yunhai wasn’t home at all.
"Where could he have gone so early?"
With the owner not at home, the grandfather and granddaughter had no choice but to take the gifts back.
They hadn’t even entered the yard when they heard Wang Meili’s voice. What was this woman doing at their house?
"Aunt, I heard that the transformer factory will be recruiting soon?"
Gu Lingling slightly smirked coldly, this woman really didn’t show up at the Three Treasures Hall without a reason.