When Bai Lu hurriedly packed her clothes and rushed out, her husband Su Jianmin had already been taken away.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Su Xiaosi raised her neck and cried loudly, "Will dad never come back?"
His elder brother patted him and said, "Don't talk nonsense! We didn't steal the fish at all. Dad will be fine."
"But they said there were witnesses and physical evidence, but Dad didn't even have a chance to explain," the second child said with tears welling up in his eyes, sobbing, "What will we do if Dad is judged to be a thief?"
The neighbors were talking a lot, and several co-workers who had a good relationship with the Su couple came in to comfort Bai Lu, saying that they believed Master Su was definitely not someone who would steal.
"The fish wasn't stolen. Did it fall from the sky?" Lin Yulan said sarcastically in the crowd, "Why are you still alive when you don't even have enough to eat? What a great mistake. What a big mistake!"
Several elder sisters-in-law around him frowned displeasedly, looking down on people like Lin Yulan who would add insult to injury.
"Daughter-in-law of Xu Qiang's family," straight-tempered Zhang Hongmei took the lead, "how do you speak? Does Master Su's family eat your food or drink your food? How many children do you have? What does it have to do with you?"
"That's right! I think you are jealous of Mrs. Su because you can't give birth to a son, right?"
Lin Yulan's face flushed with anger and she said angrily: "Would I be jealous of her? A capitalist's daughter married a thief..."
Before she could finish her words, Su Xiaosi rushed forward and stepped on her hard, causing her to scream in pain.
"You brat, you...you dare to step on me..." Lin Yulan was furious.
Regardless of whether the other person was just a seven-year-old child, she raised her hand and slapped Su Xiaosi on the face.
There was a crisp "pop" sound, and there were five more fingerprints on the right side of the little boy's face, which was so red and swollen that it looked like blood was oozing out.
When Su Nanbing, who had been quarreling with Xiaosi in the afternoon, saw Lin Yulan, he grabbed Lin Yulan's clothes and wanted to punch her.
Su Wennian stopped his second brother in time, "The most important thing is to save dad now and stop causing trouble."
"Third brother is right, now is not the time to show off one's loyalty." Su Zhiyuan said.
Hearing what his eldest brother said, Su Nanbing suppressed his anger and let go of Lin Yulan.
"Rogue!" Lin Yulan pointed at the sons of the Su family and scolded, "The thief father gave birth to a litter of little gangsters!"
"Oh, Sister-in-law Xu, please stop talking. Why are you rubbing salt on someone's wounds?" A neighbor who lives across from Xu's house kindly persuaded her.
Lin Yulan snorted and straightened her collar, "I'm too lazy to get to know them."
After she walked home angrily, Zhang Hongmei said to Su Zhiyuan alone: "You are the eldest brother, you have to take good care of your mother and sister. Jinbao is still so young, she was only born less than a month ago, eh..."
"Well, I will definitely take good care of my sixth sister."
"If you have any difficulties, tell Auntie, I will help you if I can!"
Su Zhiyuan felt his nose was sour, and he swallowed slightly: "Thank you, Aunt Zhang."
"How do you say thank you? We have been neighbors for many years, and we all say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and it is necessary to help." After Zhang Hongmei finished speaking, she secretly stuffed a sweet potato into Su Zhiyuan's hand.
"No need for this..."
"It's not for you to eat, it's for your mother to eat."
Zhang Hongmei felt very sad when she saw Bai Lu sitting blankly as if she had lost her soul.
She gave Su Zhiyuan some more words and asked him to take good care of his mother before leaving with the others.
Su Wenian closed the door and made sure everyone was gone, then asked his eldest brother in a low voice, "Is that fish really stolen?"
"Of course not! How many times should I say it, it was caught! It was caught by our father himself!"
"In that case," said the third child, "there should be someone around to see it, right?"
Su Zhiyuan's eyes suddenly lit up and he said hurriedly: "Yes! There were many people by the lake who saw it..."
Hearing what he said with such certainty, the second child said excitedly: "Brother, let's go find someone now and ask them to testify for Dad!"
"It's too late now, let's go tomorrow," the third child suggested, "I'll go tomorrow too."
"I want to go too!" Su Xiaosi wiped away her tears and raised her hands high.
Su Zhiyuan nodded, indicating that he agreed to join.
"Dad will be fine!" Su Wennian supported his pale mother and comforted her.
"Mom, we will rescue dad, don't worry." Su Xiaosi had become very motivated.
On the bed, little Jinbao listened to the sounds outside and felt very worried about his father.
Her mother stayed up all night, crying silently.
Early the next morning, Su Zhiyuan took several younger brothers to look for someone near Haiding Lake.
Bai Lu was waiting for the news at home, but she couldn't sit still. She asked the factory director and found out that Jianmin had been taken to the Po Lin Labor Camp, and that he would probably be sent to a farther place. Without thinking, she carried little Jinbao to Po Lin.
Lin Zhen rushed.
The journey was long, and halfway through, she suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground.
The little Jinbao "Gululu" in her arms rolled into the middle of the dirt...
The little baby was wrapped tightly and was not injured.
She looked around and guessed that this was a suburb near Jinghai City. Except for the sound of wind and water, there was no sound of people at all. It was obviously an inaccessible place.
Woo woo woo...
She has just been reborn, isn't she going to die again?
Although the family is poor, she quite likes her parents and brothers.
From afternoon to night, when Xiao Jinbao was half asleep and half awake, he vaguely heard the sound of a car.
How could there be cars in this era? There were not even ten in any city, and they were all public buses. Only high-ranking cadres could use them.
Su Jin thought about this randomly and heard the sound of the car mixed with the sound of the wind getting closer and closer, becoming clearer and clearer.
After confirming that she heard correctly, she cried loudly without hesitation, "Wow wow wow..."
Sitting in the driver's seat of the jeep is Hong Haibo, the mayor of Jinghai City, and his classmate Yao Heming is the co-pilot.
Yao Heming is only 35 years old. He is a well-known neurosurgeon at home and abroad. He was recently hired with a high salary to return to China and serve as a research professor at Jinghai Medical University and concurrently as the president of the First People's General Hospital.
"The domestic conditions are difficult, Comrade He Ming, please don't run away from the battlefield!"
After Hong Haibo finished speaking jokingly, Yao Heming was about to answer the call when his wife Yang Xuelan, who was sitting in the row behind him, said: "He! He has been returning home for a long time, but he has been delayed by scientific research projects, otherwise he would have come back a few years ago."
Several adults were chatting, and Yao Heming's four-year-old son Yao Hua suddenly pricked up his ears and said, "Mom, listen..."
Yang Xuelan looked at her son who was holding a stuffed bunny toy, and asked doubtfully: "What are you listening to?"
The little boy has red lips, white teeth, and a pair of bright dark brown eyes.
He opened the car window and confirmed: "There is a baby crying!"
The two men in the front row listened carefully and soon heard the cry.
The mountain road is dark and bumpy, and the visual distance illuminated by the headlights is less than 100 meters.
Hysterical cries echoed in the mountains, and Hong Haibo couldn't tell the direction for a while. When Hong Haibo noticed a small object in the middle of the road, it was already close at hand, and he was so scared that he stepped on the brakes urgently.
"Creak..." A car of people leaned forward...
Yang Xuelan came to her senses and hurriedly went to pick up her son, but found that he had actually run out of the car.
"Mom," little Yao Hua squatted next to little Jinbao, "there is a little brother here!"