Seeing her younger son and daughter-in-law return, Mother Li called from the dining room, "Come in and eat quickly."
"Okay." Tian Jing and her husband washed their hands in the restroom and went straight to the dining room.
Li Weili was already eating with a bowl in hand, "Mom, you came back too late, I was so hungry I couldn't stand it, so I ate first."
Tian Jing sat down at the dining table, "I've been busy the past couple of days and got off work a bit late. Eat first if you're hungry, just don't starve the baby in your belly."
"Mmm, mmm." Li Weili responded while eating, "Mom, we're leaving the day after tomorrow."
"Mmm," Tian Jing nodded, "Tell Grandma to prepare more things for you to take back. We'll use the seven-seater car."
Li Weili's eyes crinkled into a smile, "Okay, okay, I can take a lot more things back."
After the meal, Han Lushishi and Li Zhengguo cleared the table.
Li Weili wiped her mouth and asked her mother why the Tian family had come.
Tian Jing shook her head and sighed, telling her daughter about Tian Daxue and Tian Xiaoxue:
"...From now on, don't be kind to those who are willing to sell their bodies like I was. People like that have no sense of shame anymore."
"I thought it wasn't easy for them to sell themselves, so I helped them out, and I didn't expect to be blamed."
"The Tian family is still the Tian family, they can't change."
Li Weili pointed to her head, "They have a problem here too."
Mother Li said to her granddaughter, "You've heard it, and you know about this. Be careful in the future. Not all women are worth pity."
Li Weili nodded vigorously.
...
On the morning of the 5th, after seeing off her daughter and son-in-law, Tian Jing went to the nursery and worked for a morning. She handed over the ginseng greenhouse to Ouyang Meihua and the nursery matters to Sister-in-law Niu and Brother Niu, saying she would be away from Kusan for a few days.
Ouyang Meihua and Sister-in-law Niu told her not to worry, they would take good care of the nursery.
After lunch, Tian Jing packed her clothes and then told her husband she was going to the special training team for intensive training.
Li Zhengguo froze for a moment, then held her tightly, "Come back soon."
Tian Jing nestled in her husband's arms, chattering about household matters, and Li Zhengguo responded to each one.
When Tian Jing left, she said goodbye to her mother-in-law. Mother Li smiled and nodded, "Go early, come back early."
After her younger daughter-in-law left, Mother Li looked dejected. Only she and her younger son were at home.
When Li Zhengguo went to work, he told his mother, "Tiantian said that if you feel lonely, you can ask Sister-in-law and Minmin to come over for dinner, or you can go see Xiao Fu and Hua'er."
Mother Li nodded, "It's a good time to visit Hua'er."
...
All the supernatural ability team members at the special training team had been recalled.
Zeng Jingrong held a meeting for all the team members, the theme of which was the classification of foreign supernatural ability users.
Now, all the team members felt a sense of urgency. They had been living in a well.
As soon as Tian Jing put her luggage in the resting room of the office, Zeng Jingrong's call came, asking how she had arranged things.
Tian Jing said, "Let me go see Yulia first. You can ask Li Weixin to find me in the dungeon."
Yulia waited and waited, not knowing what day it was, and no one came to question her or tell her anything about the outside world.
She felt like a deaf-mute, living in her own little world.
She finally understood why Jing Chu liked to cause trouble.
She also wanted to cause trouble, but every time she shouted, no one paid attention to her.
She wondered how Jing Chu was doing. With his intelligence, he should have found a way to escape, right?
The window above darkened, and a head appeared.
"Yulia."
Yulia looked at the woman's head in the window, "You, who are you?"
"Tian Jing, a friend of Jing Chu, deputy captain of the Chinese Special Training Team."
Yulia was completely stunned, "You, you, your rank is only deputy captain?"
"What is my rank?"
Yulia shook her head, "I don't know, but I think you are at least level three or above."
"Alas!" Tian Jing sighed, "Yulia, even now, you haven't told me the truth."
Yulia was confused, "I'm not lying?"
"Do you know?" Tian Jing looked at the woman in the window, who had changed a lot, "Jing Chu's leg is broken."
"Impossible!" Yulia didn't believe it. She shouted at Tian Jing,
"It's all your fault, it's yours. I didn't go back in time, he, he..."
Under Tian Jing's cold gaze, Yulia couldn't finish her words.
After a long silence, Tian Jing asked, "Whose fault is it?"
"Me, it's my fault." Yulia fell onto the bed and looked up at the small window.
"I thought I was just coming to take the baby. A few days would have been enough."
"You thought?" Tian Jing sneered, "You treat our country like your backyard?"
"After you were captured, why didn't you tell us Jing Chu's location in time?"
"From this, it's clear that Jing Chu means nothing to you."
"You don't know," Yulia said softly, her tone very calm. "We can't have children with ordinary people casually. After the baby was born, I tested him and found that he was just an ordinary person."
"Jing Chu followed me and hid for nine months. He also knew that people without supernatural abilities could only be servants in the association."
"It's not easy to be a servant of a supernatural ability user. Beatings and scoldings are common, and sometimes it can even cost your life."
"Jing Chu said he wanted to send the baby away, but I couldn't bear to part with my child."
"Exhausted from childbirth, I fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up, they were both gone. I felt betrayed."
"Jing Chu always said he loved me, loved our child, and wanted to start a normal family with me."
"For him, I hid and didn't let the association find us, but he ran away when I was weak after giving birth."
"I was so angry that I almost killed him. I didn't expect him to come back alone a few days later. He told me he had handed the baby over to someone reliable for upbringing."
"Reliable person? When even a lover and a partner can't be trusted, who else is reliable?"
"I want to raise my child by my side, but he wouldn't tell me who he gave the baby to."
"I kept him under house arrest. This time, I stopped hiding from the supernatural ability users in the association. Those people only thought I was deliberately tormenting an ordinary person, and didn't pay much attention. He stayed with me like this."
"Even under house arrest, he still tried to persuade me to come back with him, to live a normal life with him, saying that he could guarantee our safety after returning."
"I don't believe it. How can an ordinary person guarantee the safety of my mother and child?"
"But I missed my child so much. I pretended to agree with him, saying I wanted to find an opportunity to escape. He still wouldn't tell me who he gave the baby to, saying I would know when I returned."
"Finally, during your Spring Festival, I celebrated the New Year with you according to your customs and promised to come back and live with him. He believed me and revealed the baby's whereabouts."
"After getting your address, I was still worried it was fake, so I imprisoned him and prepared half a month's food and water for him..."
"He hates me, doesn't he?" Yulia's tears fell, "Everything he said to me was true, and that he could guarantee the safety of my mother and child was also true."
"I deceived him, gained all his trust, and then imprisoned him."
"His leg, was it broken by people from the association?"
"No," Tian Jing said indifferently, looking at her tears. "He fell and broke it while escaping from where you imprisoned him, and then he was caught by Matvey."
"Even if the doctors in your country are very poor, they wouldn't have set his bone incorrectly, would they?"
Yulia sat up abruptly, "His leg?"
"It's been re-broken," Tian Jing's voice was cold. "Even if your supernatural ability users' association doesn't have doctors, don't supernatural ability users understand human bones?"
"You really don't treat ordinary people as people. He was with Matvey for two months. Who knows what he went through."
"If it weren't for the need to exchange for Lovna and the others, he probably wouldn't have made it back alive. And you're talking about a broken leg?"
Yulia lay back down, "Have the others been exchanged?"
"Yes," Tian Jing nodded. "Matvey also paid to exchange you. After seeing Jing Chu, I ignored our agreement and kept you."
Yulia wasn't angry at Tian Jing for keeping her, "How much in supplies?"
"A lot, so much that it required two train loads to transport."
"Thank you."
"Why thank me?"
"Because you keeping me saved me. With so many supplies from the association, I would have to accept punishment when I went back, and might even become their experimental subject."
Tian Jing was surprised, "Experimental subject?"
"Yes, experiments on the generation of supernatural abilities, the growth of levels, the differences between branches, the possibility of dual abilities, in short, experiments useful to supernatural ability users."
Seeing that Yulia was willing to talk, Tian Jing seized the opportunity to ask, "Matvey said that your supernatural abilities above level four are enhanced by potions."
"Yes."
"Your level isn't high, how do you know about the potions?"
"My speed ability is very suitable for reconnaissance, but there are very few speed ability users. The association planned to buy potions for us, but I refused because I discovered I was pregnant at the time."
"What happened later? Did you use it?"
Yulia shook her head, "Another ability user with a speed ability like mine used it. After using the potion, she became very violent and bit anyone she saw. The association caught her and put her in a cage and took her away."
"I was scared, so I didn't dare to use it. The association didn't force me, saying the potions were already very expensive."
Tian Jing said, "What if I kept you here forever?"
"Whatever," Yulia said with a look of indifference, "Here, I experience the helplessness of not having supernatural abilities, and I no longer have the worry of being in danger at any moment. It's very relaxing."