Mr. Liu looked up and occasionally looked up from the rearview mirror to look at Gu Yanqiu sitting behind him.

The employer's information and requirements must be kept confidential, which is the industry rule. Mr. Liu first received her request eight months ago, and there was no clue to it, only a name and a recent photo.

The facts proved that the name Gu Yanqiu gave her was fake, and only one of the three words was correct. He searched all over the country with this photo, and finally found her hometown in a county town in the central and southern part.

Gu Yanqiu stayed in the highest-end hotel in the county town. The small place was not big. It was twenty minutes' drive from her grandmother's nursing home, if she was true. Mr. Liu gave her some photos, which he took in the nursing home.

Grandma's surname is Gao, and she is an ordinary old lady. According to her age, she should be in her early seventies this year. Her hair is completely white and she is old. The folds on her face are so deep that they can kill a fly. Gu Yanqiu tried to find something similar to her mother on her face, but unfortunately she couldn't find anything.

In the evening, she had a phone call with Lin Yuewei. Lin Yuewei asked her how she was doing at the old man’s house and whether she had prepared gifts. Gu Yanqiu talked to her about the gifts. At that time, she was wearing photos of Mrs. Gao and comparing them with her mother’s photos.

"If you confirm the time tomorrow, tell me and I will go to the airport to pick you up." Lin Yuewei said.

"Aren't you busy?" Gu Yanqiu temporarily pressed the photo and took his eyes back.

"On Sunday, others have to have a holiday. I'm not too busy studying scripts at home."

"I'll tell you if I'm sure."

“Stay early.”

"The same to you."

"Good night."

"Good night."

Hang up the phone.

The closer she got to the truth of the matter, Gu Yanqiu thought she would be, and the more psychological pressure she was, so she tied her hands up in the evening. As a result, she woke up the next morning and found that nothing had happened last night. She was kept in the dark for so long, and faced the truth without being timid, but couldn't wait.

Mr. Liu got up early enough, Gu Yanqiu was even earlier than him. After breakfast, the two of them went to the nursing home early.

The procedures were completed before. Mr. Liu took Gu Yanqiu to meet a receptionist here, a middle-aged woman in her forties. Gu Yanqiu shook hands with the other party: "Director Fang."

Director Fang pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and in Mandarin with a local accent: "Are you Grandma Gao's granddaughter?"

Gu Yanqiu nodded.

Director Fang looked at Mr. Liu on one side and led her forward: "Come with me."

Director Fang talked to her while walking. Gu Yanqiu listened carefully and there were some words she couldn't understand. Her mother did not have any accent in Mandarin. If she had to say something, she would naturally bring Yan Ning's accent after living in the north for a long time, which led to the increasing difficulty of finding her hometown.

Director Fang said that Mrs. Gao was sent in by a middle-aged man a few years ago. At that time, her husband, Mrs. Gu's father, had long passed away. Mrs. Gao's physical and mental state were not in good health. She lived a difficult life with the government's minimum living allowance.

Gu Yanqiu frowned as he heard this.

Her mother doesn’t look like an unfilial person, so how could she let her parents fall into such a field?

Mr. Liu mentioned it slightly in the email to her, but it was all fragmentary news, and there was no key clue that completely connected it.

Mr. Liu asked: "Didn't you tell me before that Ms. Chen has been here several times? You have seen the person in the photo I gave you."

Gu Yanqiu's mother's real name is Chen Huaiyu, Yu, Meiyu. The person who named this name hopes that she has beautiful jade and has good qualities.

Gu Yanqiu suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Director Fang.

Director Fang nodded and said, "Yes, she has been here. Since the year when Mrs. Gao entered the nursing home, she will come back to visit her about six months. The old lady is old and has Alzheimer's disease. Sometimes she knows her and sometimes doesn't know her. Every time she comes, she will carry a lot of gifts and give a lot of money to ask us to take good care of the old lady." Director Fang rubbed her hands together, "Hi" and said, "We are a public nursing home. Even if she doesn't explain, we will treat everyone equally."

Gu Yanqiu smiled, not commenting.

Just listen to these polite words, can she not know the tricks of these things?

Gu Yanqiu suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked, "Will she be one or two people every time she comes?"

"I think about it." Director Fang showed a thoughtful look and said, "It's not alone. There is a middle-aged man around her, but that man basically doesn't accompany her in."

Gu Yanqiu took out his cell phone, found a photo from the album, and handed it to Director Fang.

Director Fang looked at it for a moment and said affirmatively: "It's him."

Gu Yanqiu took back his cell phone.

The person who accompanied her mother was Gu Huai, but why didn’t Gu Huai go in?

Director Fang took her around a corner, pointed to the old lady sitting in a wheelchair in front, tilted her head to bask in the sun, and bowed slightly and said, "Ms. Gu, that's Old Mrs. Gao."

Just as Gu Yanqiu was about to walk forward, Director Fang stopped her: "By the way, Miss Gu."

Gu Yanqiu: "What's wrong?"

Director Fang paused and reminded: "In the past, your mother would be in a bad mood every time she met Mrs. Gao, and her eyes were sometimes red. I think it was not because of ordinary things. Be careful, the old lady would do it."

Gu Yanqiu frowned slightly and thanked Director Fang: "I will be careful."

Director Fang looked at the way he came: "Then I..."

Gu Yanqiu made a call: "You go and do your business."

Director Fang said: "If you have something to do, you can shout it out loud, I can hear it."

Gu Yanqiu nodded, and Mr. Liu followed Director Fang.

Gu Yanqiu slowly walked into the old man who had a blood relationship with her. Old Mrs. Gao looked younger than in the photo, but it was just a little bit. She raised her head, her mouth slightly opened, and her face was full of dusk air. If it weren't for the slightly undulating chest, Gu Yanqiu would almost suspect that she had already...

The old man was afraid of the cold and had already put on two or three clothes before the beginning of autumn. Gu Yanqiu looked at the clothes and recognized it as a famous brand. The nursing home would not be too luxurious to buy famous brands for the elderly, but it could only be bought by Chen Huaiyu for her.

Gu Yanqiu squatted down in front of Old Mrs. Gao, slowly holding the other person's thin hand covered with old man spots. The old man's hand roared with obvious blue veins on the back of his hand, and slowly, he lowered his head and stared at her.

Even though she had no emotions in her eyes and just looked at it simply, Gu Yanqiu felt a familiar, natural connection between her bloodlines and relatives in her eyes.

"Grandma." Gu Yanqiu's eyes turned red.

Old Mrs. Gao tilted her head, her eyes only stayed on her face for a moment, then looked at the ivy in the room not far away, and continued to stare blankly.

"Grandma, do you still remember Chen Huaiyu?"

“…”

"I am Chen Huaiyu's daughter, your granddaughter, look at me."

“…”

The fingers of the old lady Gao were moved by her holding in her palm. Gu Yanqiu showed hope, but the old lady Gao pulled out her hand without any nostalgia, turned the wheelchair, pressed the wheels, slowly pushed forward, and shouted tremblingly: "Xiaofang, Xiaofang, Xiaofang..."

Xiaofang is the name of the nurse. Director Fang had told Gu Yanqiu before. Gu Yanqiu pressed his fingers on the corner of his wet eyes, walked to the old lady again, and said with a smile: "I am Xiaofang, what do you want to do?"

"Noisy..." the old lady could only spit out short words.

"Okay, I'll tell her not to speak."

The old lady continued to bask in her sun on her own, and Gu Yanqiu squatted and gently massaged her calves.

When the old lady's mood stabilized a little, she showed a peaceful smile on her lips and would whisper to her, although it was just some unsentence words. Gu Yanqiu took out a photo of her mother who had been prepared from her close-fitting pocket and sent it to the old lady, and asked softly: "Grandma, do you know this person?"

Old Mrs. Gao took the photo with great effort and looked at it carefully.

Gu Yanqiu pursed her lips tightly, waiting for her reaction.

***

Mr. Liu first heard the shouts from the backyard and called Director Fang, and the two of them ran over together.

"Director Fang!" Gu Yanqiu, who had always been calm, covered one cheek and called Director Fang in panic. The old lady Gao who was quiet at the beginning was completely furious at this moment. She seemed to have been hit by the wind. On one side, her face could not make any expression, and on the other side, her lips and teeth were extremely ferocious and distorted. Her lips and teeth that could not be clearly expressed were trembling and bumped, and her throat made an extremely angry "hoho" sound. Her thin fingers pointed at Gu Yanqiu, her body shaking, trembling as if it were a candle in the wind.

"Get out-" She was hysterical, "Get out-"

Tears as big as beans rolled out from her long-dried eyes, and she screamed: "Get out--"

Old Mrs. Gao's emotions were out of control. Director Fang hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her and loudly asked the nurse to call the doctor. Mr. Liu pulled Gu Yanqiu, who was standing there, to leave here quickly.

"Are you okay?" Mr. Liu looked at the red and swollen fingerprints on her left face. Half of the old lady's body was buried in the ground. She could still make people like this. It seemed that she was really angry. What kind of deep hatred is this?

"It's okay, thank you." Gu Yanqiu took the wet towel he handed over, pressed it on his face, and waved his back to him.

"Call me if you have something to do." Mr. Liu brought the door of Director Fang's office, and Gu Yanqiu took a break here for a while.

After Mr. Liu left, Gu Yanqiu seemed to have lost all his strength in an instant and buried his face in his palm.

Lin Yuewei was reading the script at home. Jiang Congbi was worried and instigated her to go out to eat. Lin Yuewei seized the time to recharge and didn't want to go out at all. Jiang Congbi tempted him with delicious food. Lin Yuewei was not fooled at all. Instead, she knew a good shop from her, thinking that Gu Yanqiu could take her to try it after she came back.

She originally wanted to send a message to Gu Yanqiu, but the other party might not be able to reply in time. Moreover, she wanted to hear Gu Yanqiu's voice. Gu Yanqiu was at a relative's house and probably didn't disturb her too much. She did her own ideological work and called Gu Yanqiu with peace of mind.

The sound continued to be heard until it was almost over before it was picked up.

Lin Yuewei shared the food with her happily. Gu Yanqiu was cold and only said "um" softly.

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Yue's smile gradually disappeared.

"Nothing." Gu Yanqiu pulled out the paper from the table and wiped his face.

"Gu Yanqiu."

"It's really okay." Gu Yanqiu took a deep breath. She had cried no more than three times since she became an adult, and Lin Yuewei had bumped into it twice. What a coincidence.

"Are you crying again? I heard it all."

Gu Yanqiu: “…”

What does it mean to cry again? It’s like she likes to cry very much. Is she liked to cry now in Lin Yuewei’s heart? Gu Yanqiu felt a sense of disillusionment about herself.

Lin Yuewei was too lazy to say more to her: "Send me a position."

Gu Yanqiu: "I'm really fine. I just played with a few naughty kids and was so angry."
To be continued...