The Tender Beauty is Sweetly Doted in the 20th Century Novel!-Chapter 211 - 210: My Daughter

"Come, let’s take the car back, it’ll be a bit faster."

Liu Yanghua took the initiative to open the car door, "There are quite a few of us, Manman you sit in the back with He Chen and the old man, we’ll be there soon."

The seats in the car were connected front and back, but the front wasn’t suitable for three people. Besides, Liu Yanghua knew very well that his old dad definitely wanted to get closer to the young couple, so he arranged for them to sit in the back.

After getting in the car, Ye Manman didn’t feel anything special, but He Chen, sitting in the middle of the back seat, was clearly a bit nervous.

He hadn’t expected this family to be so wealthy, able to afford such a car. After running around Jing City for a month, he hadn’t seen many people driving; even many bosses could only ride bicycles.

Sitting in this kind of car for the first time, He Chen had a lot on his mind. His long limbs were cramped in the back seat, making him feel very crowded and constrained.

Ye Manman held his hand without speaking, but it seemed to say to him, don’t worry, we’ll have a car like this too one day, instantly calming He Chen’s anxious nerves.

Old Mr. Liu kept stealing glances at them with his peripheral vision. He intended to look more at Ye Manman, but with He Chen sitting in the middle, he ended up noticing their clasped hands instead.

He Chen’s hand was still a bit rough, marked by the traces of long-term farming, but Ye Manman’s hand was white and tender without a single mark. It was unclear how this child took such good care of herself in the countryside.

She must have endured hardships that ordinary people couldn’t.

Thinking of this, Old Mr. Liu began to calculate in his mind.

The Liu Family’s place wasn’t far from Qing University, primarily because traffic jams didn’t exist on the streets of this era. Pedestrians and cyclists would automatically yield to such a car, so the journey was fast and steady.

After getting out of the car, Ye Manman made it a point to observe the layout of the Liu Family’s home.

In an era where most people still lived in bungalows with red brick, the Liu Family lived in a large villa. The decor was quaint, with an old European style. Though there weren’t any butlers or the like, it was enough to show their family’s strength.

With such family conditions, taking care of a mentally troubled woman was indeed no problem.

She found herself believing them a bit more.

Moreover, Ye Manman had long questioned why, more than a decade ago, her biological mother could leave her a dowry of two hundred yuan. In this era, two hundred yuan was already a huge sum for an ordinary family, let alone earlier.

However, the original text said her mother had long passed, so Ye Manman did not think much of it. After all, the original was just a web novel. Sometimes, unreasonable settings were added to make it exciting, which could be passed over and not delved into.

Now she seemed to connect these seemingly illogical plot points.

This setting should be a hidden line in the author’s setup, but the original character focused solely on Fengmian, making it impossible to take the college entrance exam to Jing City, so this line didn’t appear in the text.

"Child, your mother should be in the backyard at this time. Whenever she has an episode, she likes to wander around, and we’re afraid she might get lost again, so we have to confine her in the backyard. There are orange trees and lilac flowers she planted as a girl in the backyard. With those things accompanying her, she doesn’t run around during her episodes."

Old Mr. Liu sighed, leading them into the house.

The Liu Family’s villa was large, with a special reception room on the first floor. On the second floor, Liu Rulan’s old room was kept, but no one stayed there anymore, and it remained vacant.

"She can’t go upstairs, and if she leaves the backyard, she runs away, so we keep her locked in the backyard."

"There’s a room behind the first floor. When she gets tired, she goes in herself to rest, so we moved her room to the first floor, but it’s usually locked."

Old Mr. Liu explained as they walked, and the group soon reached the back door on the first floor.

Old Mr. Liu opened the back door, but there was still an iron gate with a lock beyond it.

"This iron gate allows you to see the yard. Since there are a lot of people now, we’ll leave it closed for now. You take a look at her first..."

He stepped aside, and Ye Manman took a step forward, peering through the iron gate into the backyard.

At first, hearing Old Mr. Liu say that she was locked in the backyard made it sound terrible, but it was quite the opposite; the backyard was beautifully scenic.

What caught the eye first was a sweeping view of purple lilac flowers in full bloom, with deep and light purple colors clustered together. Some scattered purple petals were on the ground, painting a very picturesque scene.

Near the yard wall stood a big orange tree that was evidently very old, its trunk thick and branches lush. As it was the end of September, bordering on autumn, countless green oranges hung from its branches, some even turning yellow at the edges.

In the yard was a woman in a mid-length white dress, bending over, watering the lilac flowers with a green watering can.

The woman had fair skin and a slender figure, her hair simply tied with a wooden hairpin, looking gentle and serene.

Although the woman had her back to Ye Manman, just that one glance made Ye Manman’s heart race as if emotion was welling up within her chest.

She unconsciously grabbed the iron gate, which made a slight noise that caught the woman’s attention as she was watering the flowers.

The woman turned her head to look, and her face made He Chen and Ye Manman’s hearts tighten simultaneously.

She was too beautiful. Even after enduring inhuman treatment, her spirit was now unsettled, yet her face was surprisingly well-kept by the Liu Family.

There were quite a few natural wrinkles on her face, her eyes vacant and her lips pale, yet one could still see how stunning her appearance was in her youth.

He Chen stood by Ye Manman’s side, unable to resist clenching his fists.

He suddenly remembered seeing this person when he was a child.

In the earliest memories after he could recall things, He Chen had a vague impression of this face. That was when his parents had just passed away, and Li Hongmei tricked him, living in his house for three days before abruptly changing her attitude. He couldn’t bear the change and frequently went to the brigade captain to report her.

But no one believed him; everyone thought he was stingy and lying. Only this woman believed him, giving him a dime to buy food.

Originally, he was hopeful, wanting to find this woman to speak on his behalf to the brigade captain, but soon she disappeared, and the villagers said she had died.

He Chen had been very young then, and their interactions were brief, so he only had this faint impression, triggered upon seeing her face again.

"My, daughter!"

As he was in utter shock, the hollow-eyed woman suddenly dropped the watering can and rushed towards the iron gate.

Liu Yanghua quickly pulled Ye Manman back a little, "Careful!"

He thought Liu Rulan was having another episode, calling every girl her daughter, worried she might scratch Ye Manman.

However, Liu Rulan merely clung tightly to the iron gate when she reached it, not reaching to grab, and her eyes, which were once empty, were now full of tears, staring at Ye Manman as tears rolled down.

She clung to the iron gate, seemingly not understanding why she couldn’t reach Ye Manman, continually calling out to her with all her might.

"Manman!"

"Manman!"

"My, Manman!"

"My, daughter!"