Ji Ying waited for them to leave before she detailed the twists and turns of the matter.
"The thief stole the child and dumped her under the Big Locust Tree that same day?" asked an old lady with sharp eyes.
"That's what was said," Ji Ying nodded, recalling how the Gu Family had described the event in detail when they first came to talk about it.
The old lady smiled but said nothing more, instead turning to look at Xu Nianhua, who stood slender and graceful, sensible and well-mannered, and said, "You've raised the child very well; she's even a university student now!"
The old lady's gaze fell on Xu Nianhua's hands, hands that were clearly pampered and never touched by the hardship of manual labour.
It was said that she had two older brothers, and under such circumstances, the fact that the Xu Family was able to raise an adopted daughter so well and send her to school was indeed very impressive.
