It was already dawn when Lu Chen came back. Sun Yuqi and Lin Muran were not at home, but had gone to Grandpa Mu's house. Today was the day Grandpa Mu and Grandma Sun returned to Beijing.

Team leader Zheng Chengwei drove a bullock cart to take the old couple to the commune to catch a bus to the county town.

Sun Yuqi and Lin Muren both prepared food and sent it over. The food on the train was really terrible, so they needed to prepare more food themselves.

"Grandpa Mu, Grandma Sun, you guys go back to Beijing first. I'll probably have to go back again by the end of the year, and I'll come visit you then!"

Lin Muren said with a smile that she was originally from Beijing, and it was not a lie to say that she would go back at the end of the year, Grandpa Mu said happily.

"Well, when the time comes, Miss Sun will also go to Beijing and live in our house. You can come back together after the New Year."

Sun Yuqi knew that she would be able to go to Beijing by the end of the year, so she readily agreed.

"Grandpa Mu, Grandma Sun, don't worry! I will definitely go to Beijing by the end of the year. Don't look down on me then!"

Watching the ox cart slowly moving away, Sun Yuqi felt a little reluctant in her heart and said to Lin Muren.

"Let's go, let's go back! We still don't know if Lu Chen has returned yet. What happened last night? Have you found out who did it?"

Lin Muren was also worried about this matter. After all, the man last night was coming for him. If this potential danger was not eliminated, it would be difficult for him to calm down.

The two of them moved very quickly and returned to the Youth League Home in a short while. As soon as they entered the Youth League Home, they saw Lu Chen, Chen Hao and a strange young man standing together and talking. When they saw the two of them coming back, they stopped talking and looked over.

"Muran, we've investigated the matter thoroughly. This time, it was someone from Jing City who did it. I need to go back for a while. You must be careful here."

Lin Muran glanced at Chen Hao, "Who is it?"

Chen Hao whispered something in Lin Muran's ear. Lin Muran's face was full of surprise, and then he disappeared again.

When Sun Yuqi saw Chen Hao talking in Lin Muren's ear, she knew that he didn't want her to know, so she didn't stay any longer and went back to her room.

Among these people, Lu Chen and Chen Hao are all friends, and they all came from Beijing. The strange man should also be one of them, so I am the only outsider here. Since he spoke in a low voice, it means that he doesn't want me to know, so I won't be there to cause trouble.

After returning to his room and making his bed, he started to cook. He got up early in the morning and went to see Grandpa Mu off before cooking. He was really hungry at this moment.

People here usually eat two meals a day during the winter, but Sun Yuqi may have been hungry during the end of the world, so she still prefers three meals a day.

After a quick bite of the meal, Sun Yuqi started reading and studying again. After more than a year of study, with the tutoring of Lu Yao and Lin Muran, and the teaching of Grandpa Mu and Grandma Sun, Sun Yuqi felt that if she took the college entrance examination, she should be able to pass.

Time came to the Spring Festival of 1977. During this period, Sun Yuqi had nothing to do and just studied and read at home. She didn't pay too much attention to what was happening outside. Chen Hao returned to Beijing, so Lin Muren was with Sun Yuqi during this period and basically didn't stay at the Overseas Youth Academy.

Lu Chen is still hard to find all day long, and no one knows what he is busy with.

In fact, Lu Chen has been very busy recently. She has almost finished investigating the Guanyun cultural relics smuggling case. Liu Guoqing was eventually arrested by Director Chen for hooliganism and sent to a labor camp for ten years of labor reform.

At the time, Chen Hui even ran to Liu Jingjing and asked her to find someone to rescue Liu Guoqing, but Liu Jingjing was just an ordinary educated youth, how could she know anyone? So in the end, Chen Hui returned to her hometown alone. Shortly after returning, Liu Jingjing's sister-in-law divorced Liu Guoqing directly with the help of the neighborhood committee. Of course, this was also what Liu Jingjing said.

Before the Chinese New Year, Sun Yuqi went up the mountain and cut up the wild boar he had hunted earlier, leaving some pork chops and pork legs. He also hunted two pheasants by the way, and then returned home after dark.

The New Year is a very lively time for the members of the village, as they visit relatives and wish each other a happy new year. However, it is very quiet here in the Youth League Home. Pigeon cooks some food in his house and celebrates the New Year alone.

Because Chen Hao was not around, Sun Yuqi spent the New Year with Lin Muren. Before the New Year, Lin Muren went to the commune and bought two kilograms of pork, and Beijing also sent her a lot of food, so the two of them had a good New Year.

The two of them ate and talked. They cooked four dishes, which were quite a lot. It was a very pleasant experience to sit on the hot kang and eat and chat.

“It looks like it’s snowing again!”

When Lin Muren heard Sun Yuqi say that it seemed to be snowing outside again, her face fell.

"No way? Today is New Year's Eve! It's snowing at this time. We really have something to do and can also stay up all year long."

Sun Yuqi said as she got off the kang and put on her shoes.

"I don't know yet. I just think I heard the rustling sound of snow. I'm going to go check it out."

When she walked to the door and opened it, she saw snowflakes flying in the sky and falling down. Sun Yuqi smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"Okay, we're probably not going to be able to sleep tonight, so let's eat! After we finish eating, we have to go up to the roof and sweep the snow. At this rate, it will probably take us an hour or two to clear the snow off the roof."

Lin Muren said this, but he still quickened his eating pace. After they quickly finished eating, they brought a ladder and climbed onto the roof. Looking into the village, they found that there were people standing there sweeping the snow even without a roof.

"Yuqi, after we finish clearing the snow off the roof, we have to help Chen Hao and Lu Chen clear the snow off the roof. I don't know where Lu Chen went. Did he go back home or do something else? He didn't even tell me when he left."

Sun Yuqi paused while clearing the snow and said nothing. Lin Muren didn't know why Lu Chen came here, but she knew that he probably had made some progress in the case he was investigating, so he went to get busy.

But she couldn't tell this to Lin Muren.

"Maybe something's wrong! Who cares?"

The two men who had finished sweeping the roof were just about to help clear the snow from Lu Chen and Chen Hao's roof when they saw that the two brothers Zhang Jianlin and Zhang Jiansong had already climbed onto the roof of Lu Chen and Chen Hao.

"You two girls, stop climbing up and down, let's just do it together."