The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

Chapter 895: Chapter 873: Being a Top Student in the 1980s

Anning finished receiving the original owner’s memories and understood her wishes. She squatted in the woodshed and smiled while resting her chin on her hand.

In the original owner’s view, the Zhang Family had been a burden to her throughout her life, and all her tragedies were caused by her adoptive and biological parents.

After she was admitted to university, her biological parents came to find her, just to tell her she was their biological daughter and to remember to help her siblings if she became successful. They hadn’t raised her for a day or said a caring word, yet shamelessly only sought to take from her, making Anning feel that her biological parents were actually more despicable than her adoptive ones.

The original owner felt the same way. She didn’t want to deal with her biological parents and found ways to make Li Guilan come forward to scold them away.

Whenever her biological parents wanted her to do something, she would cleverly let Li Guilan know and let Li Guilan handle it.

It’s safe to say, the original owner was quite a smart girl.

However, her intelligence was not used correctly.

She only knew these little tricks and schemes, but her vision and perspective were still lacking.

She was too concerned with this and that, ultimately losing her life due to her concerns.

When it came to Anning’s turn, Anning wouldn’t do it that way.

No matter how many little tricks and schemes there are, they can’t compare to open and honest strategies which bring more satisfaction.

Anning arrived when the original owner was seven years old. At this time, she hadn’t started school and was kept at home to care for Zhang Qiang. Any slight neglect would result in Li Guilan hitting and scolding her.

Anning looked at the patched clothes on her body, glanced at her hands, skinny like chicken claws, and took a deep breath. She crouched at the woodshed door to eavesdrop.

Hearing no movement in the yard, she pushed open the door and walked out.

It was mid-morning, and most people were working in the fields.

Zhang Fugui and Li Guilan had also gone down to the fields.

Anning didn’t pay attention to the dirty bedding piled up in the yard. She entered Zhang Fugui and his wife’s room, climbed onto the kang, and inserted a thin wire she found in the woodshed into the kang cabinet’s lock.

Soon, the lock opened. Anning opened the kang cabinet, took out a small cloth bundle from the layer, opened it, and took out US$ 20.

She put the money in her pocket, wrapped the cloth bundle back, locked the cabinet, restored its original state, and then ran out of the house, walking along the path from the village onto the main road.

She walked for an hour before arriving at the town.

Every noon, a bus bound for the county would be at the town, and when Anning arrived, the bus was already parked by a small stall in the town.

Anning saw that several people were sparsely sitting on the bus and got on directly, sitting in the back corner.

The conductor boarded the bus and asked for tickets, noticing Anning in the corner: ”Little girl, why are you alone? Where are your parents?”

Anning rubbed her eyes and tears dropped down: ”Auntie, my mom is sick and hospitalized, my dad went to care for her, they haven’t been home for days, I want to go see them.”

Anning took out the crumpled money from her pocket: ”Auntie, I have money for the bus ticket.”

The money was made up of many pieces of US$ 1.50, all crunched up, Anning carefully smoothed it: ”Auntie, how much is the bus ticket?”

The conductor waved her hand: ”Forget it, you’re such a little child, what bus ticket money are we taking from you? Keep your money safe. Also, where are you getting off? Auntie will call you when it’s time.”

Anning quietly said: ”Getting off at the county hospital entrance will do, it’s safer there.”

The conductor chuckled: ”You even know it’s safer there.”

But she thought Anning was right; it is safer there. There’s a stop right at the hospital door, you get off and directly enter the hospital, preventing the child from getting lost.

”Alright, auntie will call you at the hospital entrance.”

Anning sat on the bus for about ten minutes, and it swayed as it set off for the county.

Meanwhile, in Tuliang Village, Li Guilan and Zhang Fugui returned home. Seeing the dirty bedding in the yard, Li Guilan cursed angrily: ”Anning, where the hell are you? Don’t you know to wash the bedding? Get your miserable self out here.”

No matter how much she cursed, Anning remained silent.

Li Guilan was fuming: ”Get out here, you damned girl, or I’ll drag you out and break your legs.”

Zhang Fugui also grabbed a stick and stormed into the house.

As soon as he entered, he smelled a stench of urine.

Looking over, Zhang Qiang had wet the kang again, but Anning hadn’t cleaned it up.

Zhang Fugui was furious, looking in each room for Anning, and Li Guilan was searching too. The couple searched all over the house and outside, but there was no sign of her.

Li Guilan began asking the neighbors: ”Did Anning come to play at your house?”

”Auntie, have you seen Anning?”

”Sis, have you seen Anning?”

After asking a dozen households, all said they hadn’t seen Anning.

However, a newly married woman asked Li Guilan: ”Is your daughter wearing student-blue clothes, about this tall?”

The woman gestured, and Li Guilan nodded: ”Yes, did you see where she went?”

The young woman pointed in a direction: ”I saw her heading that way this morning, but just glanced and didn’t ask where she was going.”

Li Guilan hurried to find her; the path led to the hillside, and she wondered if Anning went to collect firewood on the hill, but why hadn’t she returned yet?

She reached the hillside but still saw no sign of Anning.

Li Guilan began feeling uneasy.

She rushed home to tell Zhang Fugui, who immediately called people to search for the child.

Tuliang Village was in chaos.

Anning arrived in the county by bus more than half an hour later.

As the bus passed the county hospital entrance, the conductor signaled the driver to stop so Anning could get off.

Anning smiled sweetly and bid farewell to the conductor: ”Thank you, Auntie, goodbye!”

The conductor smiled and waved: ”Goodbye, be careful!”

She watched Anning until she was far from the bus before signaling the driver to leave.

Anning stood at the hospital entrance, waiting until the bus was out of sight, then turned and walked in the opposite direction of the hospital.

She knew the layout of the county from the original owner’s memory.

At this time, some establishments in the county hadn’t moved in ten or twenty years, although they had been rebuilt later and looked nothing like now, the locations remained unchanged.

Walking less than five hundred meters in the opposite direction of the hospital, there’s a small alley; going through it leads to the police station.

Indeed, Anning wasn’t heading to the hospital but to the police station.

Anning wasn’t planning to argue with the Zhang Family or find her biological parents. Isn’t there a saying in later generations that if there’s an issue, find the government? That’s exactly what Anning was doing.

She walked quickly, soon passing through the alley.

At lunchtime, the gatekeeper was having his meal at the police station entrance, and Anning slipped in unnoticed.

Once inside, she burst into a run.

She burst into a room, panting, and saw a police officer, grabbing him: ”Uncle, I want to report a case, where do I report a case?”