Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 692 Going to Every Child’s Home, Yet Unable to Knock on a Single Door

Blake examined the surveillance footage, furrowing his brow. “This old lady didn’t just arrive today. She was hare last night, waiting all through the night.”

Lilly looked at the monitor screen.

In the footage, the old lady was wrapped tightly in the only plastic sheet she had, lying on a long stone

bench.

Battered by wind and rain, she shivered, unsure if she was asleep or unconscious, enduring the night in such a state.

At one point, she called out a few times, and a light on the second floor of the self-built building ahead flickered briefly before going out, with no response from anyone.

It wasn’t until dawn that the old lady slowly regained consciousness, tremblingly stood up, and laboriously. retraced her steps….

“Daddy…” Lilly’s voice choked, “Where did she go?”

Blake stood up and looked into the distance. Suddenly, his gaze froze, and he said. “I don’t know, but she’s back now.”

In the distance, an elderly lady, shaky and unsteady, walked past the vegetable garden, heading towards

them.

Her gaze was vacant as if she couldn’t sense anything, as if she couldn’t see her own lifeless body.

The old lady stopped in front of the stone bench, tremblingly sat down, and clutched the white plastic sheet tightly to her chest with trembling hands.

Then, with clouded eyes, she looked up at the building and cried out, “Son… open the door, Mom is cold….

“Open the door…”

She called out a few more times and then fell silent, staring intently at the upper floors. After a long while without anyone coming out to open the door, she shouted again:

“Son… open the door, Mom hasn’t eaten much, Mom can take care of myself, wash my face and bathe…. please, open the door.”

The voice, filled with age and desolation, stopped for a few moments. Seeing that no one came to open the door, she curled up, as if shivering from the cold. “Open the door… even your younger brother won’t open the door for Mom. Mom will freeze to death… so cold…

The old lady murmured, her cloudy eyes filled with disappointment and confusion. She wiped away her tears with a trembling hand, bent over, stood up, and forlornly walked toward the small path.

Lilly remained silent, following behind.

Josh, holding a camera, witnessed everything, his mouth gaping open.

in confusion, “What does this mean? Is the old lady looking for her

lips and said.

an umbrella and said. “Keep an eye

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watching the old lady’s body while casting a slightly cold glance at the

slightly but

even

was willing

in a daze. In Josh’s camera, the same old lady appeared

H-what does this mean??

“Keep an eye on them. They’re just a few kids… or you can stay here and

immediately caught up, saying, “I’ll go watch

already run up behind Lilly with an

old lady’s spirit moved slowly, trembling and swaying, just as she did in life. The wind blew against the white plastic sheet covering her, providing meager protection from the rain. She wore short sleeves, lacking a warm coat or

knows how she lived

and the others followed slowly

the old lady walked, she arrived at another self-built building

Are you home?” she

No one answered.

for a while and then called again. “Tom, open the door, Mom is freezing to

there was

and this time she

an hour of following her, Lilly and the others arrived at a village

lady approached a house, extending her trembling hand to knock

anyone home?” she

one

she silently walked through

odd lady led, “Mom here nowhere else to go Open the

on didn’t

glimmer of hope when the throught about her youngest com opening the door for her in the pet the hurriedly said Shum Moms odd, haven’t

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what her graingt vom might have sad, but the old lady knelt with a thud and pleaded,

best when her hand dropped, leaving her sitting alone in

let out a sigh, slowly stood up with trembling legs.

daughter’s henne, calling out a few times, but

by

done on the long yourney from the village to the