Captain Wu strolled around the edge of the field; in another two or three days, the wheat would be ready for harvest.

"Captain!"

"Uncle Wu!"

Song Yan and Jiang Xiaoxiao came together.

"Is something wrong?" The captain guessed pretty accurately; his grandson had said yesterday that Xiaochun hadn't gone to class.

Song Yan explained his purpose.

We have to go check on him; we can't let Xiaochun starve to death. Captain Wu: "Let's go check on him!"

"Captain, where are you going?" Li Yuanzhao walked towards them, followed by Cheng Wenkai, the criminal investigation captain of the county public security bureau.

Captain Wu narrowed his eyes. In other brigades, male educated youth led the way. Their brigade was different; there were far more women than men.

Especially Li Yuanzhao and Song Yan, neither of them gives an inch! Neither of them is easy to mess with!

Jiang Xiaoxiao was honest and didn't say a word. But did you see if Song Yan suffered a loss? Song Yan did suffer a loss. Last year, he confronted a formidable opponent like Sister-in-law Wei. This quiet girl is quite fierce.

"Let's go! Let's go for a walk!" Captain Wu led the way.

Ji Xiaochun lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), barely alive.

"Xiaochun, what's wrong?" Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't expect Xiaochun to be like this after just one day.

Song Yan: Xiao Hu taught us very well last night!

Li Yuanzhao: If Song Yan isn't worried, then everything's fine!

"I'm hungry!" Xiaochun's voice was so soft that it could be barely heard.

"I'll find you something to eat." Jiang Xiaoxiao ran to Ji Dagang's outer room (kitchen) to look for food. But, "everything in his house was locked, and there was no food outside."

Are his family planning to starve this child to death?

The brigade leader led Li Yuanzhao and other educated youths to Ji Dagang's house. People in the vicinity who saw them were also curious and came to Ji's house to take a look.

Song Yan: "Does anyone have any sugar? Could you make me a bowl of sugar water? Xiaochun is starving."

Everyone in the village is very friendly, seeing each other all the time. They come to visit anyone who needs help. Xiaochun, in particular, is quite pitiful, and everyone is very concerned about her.

"I have some at home!" Erzhuang lived nearby and was renting someone else's house. Erzhuang's wife quickly made a bowl of sweet soup.

"Ji Dagang is too cruel. Isn't he really going to starve the child to death?"

"Captain, you have to take care of this. Someone could die."

"Everyone says stepmothers are cruel, but oh dear, how come the sister-in-law is like that too?"

"This child is so diligent, no wonder we don't see him working, he's going to starve to death."

Xiaochun's dying state, lying there unable to get up, successfully aroused public outrage.

Captain Wu ordered all the brigade's cadres to be summoned, and also ordered Ji Dagang and his wife to be called over.

Xiaochun thought the sugar water was really sweet, and she drank it down sip by sip, tears silently streaming down her face. It was truly heartbreaking to see these women watching!

Everyone started criticizing Ji Dagang and his wife.

Cheng Wenkai: "Although no one reported this to the police, I happened to be there, so I can't just pretend I didn't see it."

This child is going to starve to death; that's practically murder. Your brigade must handle this properly. If the child's older brother objects, hand him over to us.

Captain Wu glanced at Cheng Wenkai; he'd really gone to great lengths to win over his wife. "Captain Cheng, you've run into this mess. Why don't you join us and discuss how to handle it?"

If the couple still shows no remorse, you can take them away if you need to, and lock them up if you need to. I will not protect them.

When Ji Dagang and his wife returned, they heard what the brigade leader said.

Cheng Wenkai was wearing a uniform and had a serious expression.

Ji Dagang was so frightened that his hands and feet went weak. Were they going to arrest him?

Everything in the house was locked up, and the child was going to starve. Captain Wu gave him a good scolding, and Ji Dagang kept saying yes, yes, yes, I was wrong and so on.

Song Yan: "Did Xiaochun eat breakfast this morning?"

“She…she…she won’t eat…” Ji Dagang said in a low voice.

"Is it that she doesn't want to eat, or that you didn't give her any?" Li Yuanzhao asked.

Neither Ji Dagang nor Sun Lan spoke.

Song Yan: "Xiao Chun, what did you eat last night?"

"A bowl of porridge," Xiaochun said.

Song Yan: "What did you eat for lunch yesterday? What did you eat for breakfast yesterday?"

Sun Lan: "I gave her lunch yesterday."

No one paid any attention to Sun Lan; they were all waiting for Xiao Chun to speak.

"Yesterday at noon I had a bowl of thin porridge. I didn't eat breakfast."

Captain Wu kicked Ji Dagang, yelling, "Did you know about these things? You heartless bastard!"

Sun Lan was still unconvinced, "Xiao Chun did it on purpose. She gets to eat big meals outside...aren't we all just giving her food?"

Captain Wu pointed at Sun Lan, too angry to speak for a long time.

Everyone present was utterly speechless. Were Ji Dagang and Sun Lan not planning to feed Xiaochun and then make her go door to door begging for food?

Song Yan: "Captain, it's not worth getting angry with someone like that. Let's think about Xiao Chun's future!"

Then punish Ji Dagang and Sun Lan.

Captain Wu remained silent for a long time, taking deep breaths for quite some time.

No one expected that Ji Dagang and Sun Lan would be this wicked.

Cheng Wenkai's gaze shifted back and forth between the two people.

Captain Wu: "Xiao Chun, let me divide the family property for you!" According to seniority, Ji Xiao Chun calls the captain "uncle".

Without anyone suggesting it, Captain Wu made the decision.

Sun Lan: "How can we divide the family property? How can a little boy divide the family property?" Dividing the family property means dividing things and houses, which Sun Lan is unwilling to do.

Ji Xiaochun was starving to death. This news caused an uproar in the production brigade, and everyone who was home rushed over.

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