Chapter 210: I Just Feel Like You Look Familiar

“So what should I do now?” Gu Jianing muttered to herself.

Now that she was sure Li Shuyao was an enemy agent, she definitely needed to have her arrested.

But right now, she was the only one who knew about this. How could she get Li Shuyao caught?

After all, Li Shuyao was a member of the Li family.

If she made an anonymous report, she was afraid it wouldn’t be taken seriously, or worse, she might expose herself and end up in danger.

“If only Xi-ge were here, maybe he’d know what to do…” Gu Jianing thought for a moment and decided she’d better call Sheng Zexi and ask for his advice.

But how should she say it? She needed to think carefully.

After all, all the phones in the military district were monitored. It wouldn’t be good to just blurt out her suspicions.

If someone asked how she knew, how would she answer?

She couldn’t exactly say she could understand animals, could she?

Gu Jianing was someone who carried two huge secrets: the “Childbirth System” and her “rebirth.”

Her ability to understand animals was also a reward from the Childbirth System.

She was afraid that if her ability to understand animals was exposed, her deepest secrets would be at risk.

So if she could avoid exposing herself, she would.

Gu Jianing pondered how to drop a hint to Sheng Zexi, and used the Sang family’s phone to call the Northwest Military District.

But in the afternoon, Sheng Zexi was probably in training and didn’t respond.

“Alright, then could you let him know when he finishes training? Tell him to call me back no matter how late it is—I have something urgent.” Gu Jianing finally said.

“Okay, Dr. Gu.”

Just then, Gu Jianing suddenly heard a noise at the door.

She looked up and saw Grandpa Sang coming in with two people—a man and a woman, both around thirty.

“Xiao Qin, Xiao Du, come on in,” Grandpa Sang called, introducing them as they entered.

“This is my wife, and this is my granddaughter-in-law, Gu Jianing.”

“These are the new researchers at the institute, a married couple—Xiao Qin and Xiao Du. They’re both outstanding young talents.”

Gu Jianing greeted the couple along with Grandma Sang.

She couldn’t help but size them up.

After all, this was the first time since she’d been staying at the Sang house that Grandpa Sang had brought guests home.

He wasn’t the sociable type, especially with his busy work at the research institute.

So the Sang family’s days were usually pretty quiet.

But today, Grandpa Sang had actually brought people home and seemed to be in a good mood about it.

This piqued Gu Jianing’s curiosity, so she took a closer look.

As she looked, Gu Jianing’s brows furrowed slightly, a hint of confusion in her eyes.

“Dr. Gu, is there something wrong? You keep looking at us,” the man Grandpa Sang called Xiao Qin asked.

Gu Jianing snapped out of it and apologized, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to stare. It’s just… you both look a bit familiar.”

She said they looked familiar, but in truth, Gu Jianing felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this couple, as if she’d seen them somewhere before, though she couldn’t recall where.

“Oh, is that all?” The couple didn’t take it to heart.

While Grandma Sang made tea, the couple chatted with Grandpa Sang.

Gu Jianing learned that they were from the southeast region.

They had previously worked as researchers at a weapons institute in the southeast, and now they’d come to the capital, probably for the project Grandpa Sang had mentioned a few days ago.

Gu Jianing didn’t plan to listen in, and was about to go back to her room to rest.

But just then, she heard the wife of the couple sigh with a hint of sadness, “I just hope the project finishes soon, so I can go back to see my son Xiaotian and my daughter Qingqing, and my mother-in-law. I wonder how they’re doing?”

“It’s been over eight years since I last went home. I miss them all the time.”

That remark made Gu Jianing, who was about to leave, stop in her tracks.

Xiaotian, Qingqing, mother-in-law?!

Gu Jianing’s eyes lit up—she remembered!

No wonder she found this couple so familiar, as if she’d seen them somewhere before.

Now that she thought about it, they looked just like Qin Tian and Qin Qing.

No, to be precise, Qin Tian and Qin Qing looked just like them.

So this couple must be Qin Tian’s parents.

Gu Jianing turned and looked at them, asking, “Sorry to be presumptuous, but are you Comrade Qin Zhihong and Comrade Du Lan?”

Qin Zhihong and Du Lan were surprised when Gu Jianing, who had been about to leave, suddenly turned around and asked this.

Qin Zhihong nodded, “Yes, my full name is Qin Zhihong, and this is my wife, Du Lan.”

But there was a hint of confusion in his eyes.

Gu Jianing let out a sigh of relief. “Then I was right.”

She sat back down, and under everyone’s curious gaze, said to Qin Zhihong and Du Lan, “My husband is a soldier, and I’m with him as a military spouse.”

“We’re in the capital for some business.”

“Previously, I was stationed with my husband in the northwest, near a place called Qin Family Village, close to the Northwest Military District.”

At first, Qin Zhihong and Du Lan were still confused by her words.

But when she mentioned the Northwest Military District and a nearby Qin Family Village, both of them tensed up.

Especially Du Lan, who immediately stood up, her eyes fixed on Gu Jianing, asking anxiously, “You know Qin Family Village? Then do you know, do you know…”

Before Du Lan could finish, Gu Jianing answered for her, “I happen to know Granny Qin, and also Qin Tian and Qin Qing.”

As soon as she said this, Qin Zhihong and Du Lan were overjoyed.

Their eyes instantly reddened.

They hadn’t expected that after more than eight years, they would finally hear news of their family.

“Dr. Gu, how are my mother-in-law, my son, and my daughter doing?”

“Yes, Dr. Gu, if you know anything about them, please tell us.”

The couple was desperate for news of their family.

“Are they doing well? Are they… are they…” Are they angry with us?

Gu Jianing recalled how Qin Tian and the others had been living, and sighed, “These years… they haven’t had it easy…”

It was the truth.

As soon as she said this, tears welled up in Du Lan’s eyes.

She began to sob.

Qin Zhihong quickly comforted his wife. “Dr. Gu, what happened? Could you tell us in detail?”

Gu Jianing recalled, “I remember the first time I met Qin Tian was at the market.”

“It was the dead of winter, bitterly cold.”

“The siblings had to sell herbs they’d gathered from the mountains to buy food and firewood for the winter.”

“The second time, Qin Tian came to the Northwest Military District for help. Granny Qin had fallen ill with tuberculosis. And in the village, a man named Qin De wanted to introduce Qin Tian to a job as an apprentice at a woodworking factory out of town…”"