Widow Xie shook her head. "She probably wasn't there..."
That kind of noncommittal answer wasn't what Ji Huan wanted.
She pressed, "What do you mean, 'probably'? Aunt Xie, please try to remember."
"Think about it. Every family was busy with the autumn harvest back then, right? Even if she were to visit her family, she'd wait until after the harvest when there's less farm work to do. It's just like this time—didn't she only come back after the spring planting was finished?"
"There's always an exception. Could there have been some special circumstances that made her return to her family's home early?"
"Well... It's been so long. You can't expect me to..."
"Or... did she show up after Ji Mu went missing?"
'Her younger brother's child went missing. Normally, she would have come back for something like that, right?'
But the original owner of this body's memories from that time were a complete blur, offering no useful information.
