I stayed by the side of the stout Auntie until she woke up. After her condition stabilized, I held her hand and looked at her with confusion in my eyes.

"Xiaoqing, you must have many questions to ask me, right?" she said weakly.

She explained that before the day trip to the park, she thought I was a bride who had been trafficked. The Zhang family was worried that I would escape,

so they hired them to keep an eye on me.

After the day trip to the park, she realized that wasn't the case.

I seemed to know some unspeakable secret about the Zhang family, so they were monitoring me to prevent me from revealing it.

She also told me that she could speak English, and it was her son who taught her.

She understood the English I spoke to the taxi driver that day, and the reason she stopped me from saying more was that she feared the tall maid would inform on us.

Additionally, she had secretly read the diary I kept under my bed and discovered the secret of the human meat buns.

The opportunity for this prenatal checkup was also something she had deliberately arranged.

She even sent away the tall maid because that maid was Zhang Yi's aunt.

The most important thing was: a year ago, after a quarrel with her, her high school son ran away from home and never returned.

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