Speaking of which, the villager paused and then added, "You may not know who the third granny is, right? Not long after her granddaughter was taken away, she was arrested, charged with the crime of trafficking women and children, and sentenced to more than a decade!"
The group fell silent, seemingly unprepared for such a revelation about He Zhilan's childhood.
Mrs. Gu was somewhat choked up, hardly daring to imagine what He Zhilan, bruised and battered, must have looked like.
"Did the He Family treat He Zhilan well?" Mrs. Gu asked softly, her voice trembling as she turned her head away, her eyes moist with emotion.