CHAPTER 471: CHAPTER 468: ADVANCING AND RETREATING TOGETHER (19TH UPDATE)

After some searching, Mu Shuangshuang indeed found Wang Fugui’s room.

However, the light in his room wasn’t on yet.

Mu Shuangshuang guessed that he must not have woken up yet.

Gently jumping in through the window into Wang Fugui’s room, Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng slowly approached Wang Fugui’s bedside.

By the moonlight, Mu Shuangshuang saw that the person on the bed was undoubtedly Wang Fugui.

The two exchanged a look, and Mu Shuangshuang found a cloth to blindfold Wang Fugui and then stuffed his smelly socks into his mouth.

"That’s enough..."

Mu Shuangshuang whispered, and Lu Yuanfeng stepped forward and landed a punch on Wang Fugui.

With a "crack" sound, one of Wang Fugui’s teeth was knocked out.

Waking from the pain, he discovered his mouth was stuffed, his eyes were blindfolded, and he couldn’t see a thing.

Punches rained down on him like raindrops.

"Mmmmmm..."

Wang Fugui struggled to scream, but all that came out was this kind of "mmmmmm" sound, completely unintelligible.

After Lu Yuanfeng finished teaching him a lesson, he stepped aside, giving the stage to Mu Shuangshuang.

Mu Shuangshuang didn’t use her hands, she took down the latch from Wang Fugui’s door and smashed it on Wang Fugui’s head twice.

"Bang bang~" Wang Fugui passed out directly.

"Phew~ finally vented my anger!" Mu Shuangshuang let out a long sigh and said, looking at the limp rag on the bed.

"Yeah, let’s get out of here quickly!" Lu Yuanfeng said dotingly.

The two retraced their steps back to Old Wang Family’s yard, and seeing the big fat dog lying in the shadows of the yard, Mu Shuangshuang felt playful again. She had Lu Yuanfeng carry the dog out of the Wang Family’s yard, heading straight to Old Lu Family.

The mastermind behind this scene was Xia Guagua, so she had to send Xia Guagua a gift as well.

Getting into Old Lu Family was much easier than Old Wang Family; although Lu Yuanfeng didn’t live at the old house, he knew who lived in which room.

By now, it was actually very late at night, but fortunately, Mu Shuangshuang had Yu Si Niang and the others go to bed first, otherwise, who knows how much trouble there’d be.

At some point, a few gusts of cold wind had begun to blow through, whistling, but it wasn’t cold, in fact, it was quite refreshing.

Mu Shuangshuang followed Lu Yuanfeng to Xia Guagua’s door. Because it was Xia Guagua’s boudoir, Lu Yuanfeng didn’t go in; only Mu Shuangshuang did.

She laboriously carried the fat dog from Old Wang Family, found two ropes in Xia Guagua’s room, tied up the dog’s legs, and tucked the dog into Xia Guagua’s bed.

Thinking of Xia Guagua waking up early tomorrow to find a dog in her bed and being scared out of her wits, Mu Shuangshuang was so excited she couldn’t sleep.

But indeed, she couldn’t sleep tonight.

The matter with Lu Yuanfeng was still blocking her heart, she really didn’t know when the right moment would be.

Leaving Old Lu Family, Lu Yuanfeng escorted Mu Shuangshuang back.

On the road, bathed in the white moonlight, neither of them spoke.

Outside the third branch’s courtyard, Mu Shuangshuang finally spoke.

"Fengzi, if I knew a secret that someone desperately wanted to know, but telling them would surely hurt them, should I tell them?"

"If it were me, I would want to know that secret, even if it would hurt." Lu Yuanfeng answered truthfully.

"I see, Fengzi, come to my house early tomorrow, I have a gift for you!"

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The next day, Mu Shuangshuang climbed out of bed with huge dark circles under her eyes.

Outside the window, birds chirped softly atop the tree branches, creating a harmonious scene full of life.

Upon leaving the room, in the yard, Lu Yuanfeng was carving wood. He must have been here for a long time, as Mu Shuangshuang had overslept today, having just fallen asleep in a daze in the morning.

Upon waking, she found that Yu Si Niang had already started cooking breakfast, so she went back to sleep.

And so, it was already this late by the time she got up.

"Why didn’t you wake me up earlier?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.

"You’ve been tired these past few days, more rest is good for your health!" Lu Yuanfeng chuckled.

Looking at someone so concerned for her, Mu Shuangshuang sighed.

She went back inside, and came out holding a piece of xuan paper and a brush, along with ink and an inkstone she had bought for Xiao Han.

Xiao Han had always been reluctant to use the brush and paper that Mu Shuangshuang bought for him, always using a stick to scribble on the ground.

Seeing Mu Shuangshuang, Lu Yuanfeng was puzzled, he really couldn’t understand why Shuangshuang was bringing these things out.

"Fengzi, do you still remember what your mother looks like? I’ll help you draw her."

Drawing portraits is a demanding skill, especially based solely on others’ descriptions. Mu Shuangshuang couldn’t guarantee that, after so long without drawing, she could still do it.

A long time ago, her skills in portraiture were never particularly stable, and now, without continuous practice, who knows how far they’d deteriorate.

Lu Yuanfeng fell into memories; his mother was a particularly gentle woman. Although the family was poor, and she wore coarse clothes, she was always clean, without a single speck of dirt on her.

Lu Yuanfeng remembered how she looked while sitting under the willow tree, holding Yuanbao and singing.

He had kept that image in his mind for five years.

"My mother has an oval face..."

Lu Yuanfeng spoke very slowly, as if recalling each detail.

Between, Yu Si Niang came to call for breakfast, but seeing how focused and serious they were, she couldn’t bring herself to interrupt.

The entire morning, under Lu Yuanfeng’s descriptions, Mu Shuangshuang modified and adjusted, and finally completed the portrait of Lu Yuanfeng’s mother.

At the moment she put down the brush, Mu Shuangshuang felt utterly exhausted, but she still handed the xuan paper to Lu Yuanfeng.

"Thank you, Shuangshuang, it’s very much like her! Really, it really is!"

The portrait didn’t have much technique or embellishment, just that familiar face.

"Fengzi, there’s something, I might have to tell you..."

Mu Shuangshuang shared what Matchmaker Sun told her, without omitting a word. He was right last night, he wanted to hear the answer.

Moreover, she had no right to decide his life for him.

Lu Yuanfeng’s emotions in his eyes shifted from disappointment, to anger, to despair, and finally filled with hope again.

"Shuangshuang, let’s find my mother together, let her live a good life! I’ll go and tell the village chief later, I want to cut ties with the Old Lu Family!"

Cutting ties wasn’t just splitting the family.

This was a dead end, but Lu Yuanfeng was willing.

After all, keeping such unrighteous relatives around was disgusting.

"Fengzi, I’ll always stand by your side. If you want to find someone, I’ll accompany you. We’ll visit more places, and eventually, we’ll find her."

"Mm!" A warm feeling spread through Lu Yuanfeng’s heart, his greatest fortune was meeting Shuangshuang.

His greatest happiness was having someone by his side during his toughest times, and that person was Shuangshuang!

"Let’s go, I’m starving, haven’t had breakfast yet!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

At this point, her stomach was indeed growling, if she didn’t eat soon, she’d starve.