Xu Zhen showed a crazy smile, which looked a bit abnormal.
"An Ning, don't you want to know how your mother died back then?"
Her heart trembled violently, and she slowly tightened her grip on the door handle to force herself to calm down.
"My mother died of illness. She was depressed and couldn't get better."
Xu Zhen retorted sternly: "Of course not! My wife is in good health! She won't die of illness!"
"Aunt Xu, what do you mean?"
"As long as you help me and help me rescue Nan Nan, I will tell you."
The last trace of warmth in Cheng Anning's eyes disappeared.
She looked at Aunt Xu numbly, as if looking at a stranger.
She said softly: "I never thought that you would keep hiding this from me."
Xu Zhen did not dare to look into her eyes, she lowered her head and tears fell again. Her resentment was suppressed and replaced with guilt.
"Aunt Xu doesn't want to either... But, Nan Nan is still young, and I am just a daughter..."
"So, you deliberately kept this matter because you were afraid that I would leave you behind so you could threaten me?"
Xu Zhen was silent.
Cheng Anning also fell silent. After learning the truth, it was like a thousand arrows piercing his heart.
She closed the door again, suppressed all her melancholy, and said, "Sit down and tell us what happened to Xu Nannan."
She told herself that this was a deal, so there was no need to be sad.
From Aunt Xu's mouth, Cheng Anning learned another thing.
Back then, Xu Nannan got one million yuan from selling her out. After getting the money, she took her mother away.
It's a pity that this money was not used to treat my mother's illness.
Xu Nannan was young and didn't even go to college. She made a bunch of bad friends. After those so-called friends found out that Xu Nannan had a huge sum of money, they set up a trap.
They lured Xu Nannan into becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol. They slowly emptied all their money and owed loan sharks.
In order to avoid debt collection by loan sharks, Xu Nannan and her mother hid here and there. In the end, they were captured and have not returned since.
"Nan Nan hasn't come back for several days. I've searched everywhere and can't find her. They won't let me in. I, I really have no choice..."
Aunt Xu started crying again. Her tears were like faucets that couldn't be turned off.
It was a pity that Cheng Anning would not relent, she said calmly: "Tell me where she may appear, and I will look for it."
"Okay, okay."
Xu Zhen took a pen and wrote down an address, "This is the place Nan Nan used to go to often."
Cheng Anning received the note but did not move it. Instead, she said: "Tell me how my mother died back then."
"Nannan..."
"Aunt Xu, you are not qualified to negotiate now."
In the end, Xu Zhen accepted her fate and directly told the truth about that year.
"My wife's health has always been very good. It wasn't until she got pregnant with you and married Cheng Hai that things started to get worse. I didn't know it at first. I thought that my wife was overthinking and was getting worse. One day later, I saw the servant giving birth to you.
There was some powder on the food prepared by my wife..."
"I told my wife about this, and then I didn't let her touch the food. She started to cook alone and gradually got better. But it left hidden dangers. After giving birth to you, my wife's body completely collapsed and she couldn't recover no matter what.
"
"Later, my wife went to Cheng Hai once and I don't know what she said. From then on, my wife no longer asked me to run a small stove, but to eat whatever the servants gave her."
"Later... later, my wife died, and I was kicked out of the Cheng family. She asked me to hide this matter and not to talk about it."
Cheng Anning was silent for a long time after hearing this.
"Did Cheng Hai kill my mother?"
"This, I don't know...I don't know whose orders that servant is following."
Cheng Anning's eyes were very red. She wiped her eyes fiercely, stood up, and said, "Okay, I understand. I will look for it, but I can't guarantee whether I can find it."
Xu Zhen was anxious and was about to speak.
"If you don't agree, then I won't go."
"An Ning! You just..."
"I promised to go and have a look, but if I didn't promise, I would definitely bring her back."
Xu Zhen swallowed the rest of her words.
"You go back first and I will notify you if I find the person."
Xu Zhen hunched over and left slowly, but when she was about to walk out the door, she turned around, perhaps because of uneasy conscience, and said, "An Ning, can you still find that pendant?"
Pendant…
The pendant is in Huo Yan's hand.
But Cheng Anning pretended not to know, frowned, and said, "What happened to the pendant?"
Xu Zhen simply said everything, "That pendant... is a very important token, related to your father."
After hearing this, Cheng Anning was not interested.
She has no desire for the father she has never met.
A man who could leave his wife and children behind was not worthy of being a father.
Seeing that Cheng Anning was not interested, Xu Zhen said nothing and walked away unsteadily.
Cheng Anning glanced at the address and saw it was a club.
Well, I'm still very familiar with it - Lanno Club.
Back then, she went to work there to raise money for Aunt Xu's medical expenses.
Unexpectedly, I came back to this place after going round and round.
She looked at the time and saw that it was still early, so she changed into a set of clothes, prepared some money, and took a taxi there.
The Lanno Club was very quiet during the day, even the door was closed, with only a doorman watching.
Cheng Anning came forward and didn't directly say that she was looking for someone, only that she was here to apply for a job.
The doorman was so shocked by her beauty that he led people to find the person in charge of the club, Sister Jin.
Sister Jin, whose full name is Jin Na, was settling accounts when she heard from her subordinates that a peerless beauty had come to apply for a job, so she took the initiative to meet her.
But when Sister Jin saw Cheng Anning, she smiled, "Little girl, you're not here to apply for a job, are you?"
Cheng Anning nodded calmly, "I'm looking for someone."
Sister Jin laughed angrily, "Do you know where I am here?"
"I know, I worked here."
Jin Na: "..."
Momentarily speechless.
"Okay, who are you looking for?"
"Xu Nannan."
"I don't have such a person here."
Cheng Anning calmly put the bag in his hand over, "There's not much more than a hundred thousand here. I don't know if it's enough, but can I see her?"
quite a while.
Jin Na asked someone to bring Xu Nannan out.
At this moment, Xu Nannan's nose was bruised and her face was swollen, and her clothes were in tatters. She was like a frightened bird being pushed over by a thug.
When Xu Nannan saw Cheng Anning, her eyes suddenly lit up and she wanted to rush over: "Sister An Ning! Will you come and save me? That's great!"
As soon as he took two steps, he was pressed down by the thugs.
"Be honest and don't move!"
Xu Nannan was afraid of being beaten and did not dare to struggle. She could only look at Cheng Anning expectantly.
"Sister An Ning, take me out quickly, wuwuwu, they hit me, it hurts so much!"
After not seeing each other for several years, Xu Nannan had completely lost her previous youth and immaturity, her whole person looked depressed and her eyes were cloudy.
Cheng Anning did not worry about her, but took a look twice to make sure that she only suffered a skin injury.
Sister Jin said slowly: "Do you want to rescue her? This one hundred thousand is not enough." This chapter has been completed!