Watching the two hurriedly departing figures, the three women and the boy in the room stood frozen, unable to react for a long while.
Whether it was the respectful attitude of a major or the sheer amount of information contained in their conversation, all of it left the four most ordinary residents of Anluo City at a loss.
How had Auntie Yuan, who played mahjong with them every day, been invited away by a major?
"Who is this Little Yuan?" the boy's mother muttered. "I think I heard that officer call her Dean Yuan Xiye?"
"Yuan Xiye?" The boy abruptly came to his senses, and his expression changed drastically. "She's General Chu Han's mother!"
Whoosh—
The women in the room all felt their vision go dark, followed by a deeply unreal feeling. General Chu Han's mother—didn't that make her the most distinguished person in Wolf Fang territory?
How could someone like that be here, playing mahjong with them?
The boy was still unable to make sense of it. Frowning, he said, "But I heard General Chu Han's mother has always served as the dean of Wolf Fang's Research Department. Her research projects keep her busy every day. How could she have time to come to Anluo City and relax?"
"Maybe she was just taking a break?" one of the women casually guessed. "Didn't she get summoned away immediately when something came up?"
"A big shot really is a big shot! Everything they deal with is an emergency, and a major personally came looking for her."
Amid the sighs of amazement, the boy recalled what Yuan Xiye had said earlier. If those words had come from an ordinary woman, they would only have been moving. But if the person saying them was Yuan Xiye, General Chu Han's mother, then their meaning