Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One-Chapter 456 - 26: What Are You Best At_3

"Children in the city are truly precious," she said with genuine regret in her tone.

She had just arrived, yet was already missing her nephew and niece.

...

Meanwhile, Zhao Weihong had successfully been brought back.

Matters of espionage have always been highly sensitive, and even someone as bold and audacious as Zhao Weihong couldn’t help but regain a cautious demeanor.

She knew that if her words were off, she couldn’t be sure of her future days, but it certainly wouldn’t be like now.

She was already exhausted after doing farm work in the countryside for a while.

If she were sent for labor reform, her youthful days would be over!

With rough hands and feet as a yellow-faced woman, even if she managed to endure until the economic boom and go to Hong Kong Island post-reform, which wealthy young man would give her the chance?

So now, sitting in the interrogation room, Zhao Weihong summoned her unprecedented will and determination.

— No matter what, the truth couldn’t be revealed.

The leader was watching through the window, while a stranger entered and glared at her with fierce eyes:

"Speak! Who exactly sent you? Where did you come from?"

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Zhao Weihong remained adamant, "No one sent me, I’m just a local educated youth!"

"Educated youth?" The interrogator dug deep into her background, "Then why can you speak Cantonese?"

Zhao Weihong regretted it—on Hong Kong Island, restaurant staff were required to speak three languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Having lived somewhere for decades, not only Cantonese but she often mixed in English too, both of which were quite sensitive nowadays.

She gritted her teeth and replied, "I previously met someone from Guangdong Province by chance and learned it from them, just curious, often jibed in Cantonese."

In this era, there was no surveillance, no internet, phones were precious, and truly trying to investigate something wasn’t as thorough as the information collected in later times.

Coupled with long distances and delayed timeliness...

With just such a fluke mentality, Zhao Weihong dared to be defiant even now.

"Learned it from someone? Then tell me, if your introduction letter clearly says you’re visiting gravely ill parents back home, how did you end up rerouting to Ningzhou on the train?"

The interrogator maintained a stern tone.

Zhao Weihong regretted it even more.

If she hadn’t fled along this route to Hong Kong Island in her past life, she wouldn’t have been reborn only to find no new path, having to rely on memory to figure out this old road.

She didn’t study mainland maps much in her past life, and now to buy a map one has to go to the city post office, how could she know that the man who eloped with her had made many detours through two provinces to avoid route checks tagged by the introduction letter.

But at this point, discussing it further was meaningless; Zhao Weihong clenched her teeth, "It was for pursuing true love!"

Her voice was loud, filled with a sense of recklessness:

"I fell for a fellow young village man serving in the military, he even saved my life, a life-saving grace should be rewarded with a promise."

"But before I could express my feelings, he accepted an arranged marriage at home and married a village girl who couldn’t even read!"

...

The interrogator paused, aware of the situation.

They turned around to look at the leader outside—both had been given a thorough briefing of the situation by Shi Suifeng, both true and false. Now he sighed more for this Chu River’s girl.

Such a fine young lady, the mother didn’t want anyone to know she didn’t support national policy; born and secretly sent away, nobody knew.

She ended up in a den of wolves and tigers.

Suffering endless grievances from childhood, enduring many hardships. That Old Chu Family wasn’t a place fit for humans.

After finally finding an excuse to bring her younger sister out in childhood, back in her hometown, even then they had to use such identities for concealment, just to get her mother Zhao Xiuhua’s consent...

Alas!

As for what Zhao Weihong said about true love...

Well... Although in this era, being so fiery and bold wasn’t good, firstly, being in a military district, one didn’t find excuses as freely like the Red Guards.

Secondly... on the matter of arranged marriage, freedom of love seemed to align more with policy education.

And according to their investigation, Zhao Weihong did appear sometimes crazed, so intent on marrying young.

Offering one’s body and such, wasn’t it because she fancied young’s good looks?

Logically, young’s current identity was important; if approached by spies, it indeed provided access to a lot of information.

But there were plenty more accessible targets with higher status than him.

Yet among so many choices, Zhao Weihong happened to be a young and pretty educated youth, why was she hellbent on this one tree?

If she were a spy, why did she go through such painstaking efforts to search throughout the train—Ah, wasn’t it to find Chu River?!

In this light, it’s true she had feelings for young; logically, it made sense.

Interrogation fell into a deadlock.

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