Su Dazhi still loved Su Yin dearly. Before he could recover from the grief of losing his mind, he pleaded with Sun Qiaomei: "Mom, this is Su Yin. He got sick in the countryside, had a high fever, and became mentally impaired. The educated youth office sent him back. Mom, can we keep him? He can sleep with me!"

Sun Qiaomei glanced at Su Yin sideways and asked, "Who is this?"

"Third son," Su Dazhi said with a fawning smile, "Mom, although he's mentally challenged, he's very obedient."

"Be obedient?" Sun Qiaomei snorted, cleared her throat, and spat a mouthful of phlegm onto the ground. "Let him lick it!"

"Mom..." Su Dazhi pleaded, "Mom, please don't do this..."

Sun Qiaomei looked at Su Yin: "You brat, can you even understand human speech?"

"Old sow!" Su Yin looked at Sun Qiaomei and laughed.

Su Dazhi quickly covered his mouth: "Mom, he's an idiot, he doesn't know what he's saying!"

Sun Qiaomei's face visibly darkened.

She struggled to get off the recliner and walked up to Su Yin: "You brat, do you know me?"

"You're the stinkiest old sow in Sujiazhuang!" Su Yin said, a sweet yet foolish smile on her face.

Su Dazhi was terrified.

Sun Qiaomei pulled her fifth daughter-in-law, Su Cuifang, who was hurrying by, and asked, "Who is this again?!"

Su Yin looked at it carefully and shook her head: "I don't recognize it."

Sun Qiaomei, refusing to believe it, grabbed his collar and pulled him directly in front of Su Xueshu: "What about this one?"

"Isn't this my utterly despicable grandfather?" Su Yin said with a grin.

"Then who am I?" Sun Qiaomei asked again.

"An old sow," Su Yin answered crisply and quickly, "the stinkiest one in Su Family Village!"

"Slap!" Sun Qiaomei slapped Su Yin hard across the face.

Su Yin staggered: "The old sow has swine fever!"

...

Meanwhile, Xia Tianyu, who had been handcuffed to the radiator in the detention cell of the Harbin Public Security Bureau, had been in a frenzy for four days.

Her wrists were so worn down by the handcuffs that you could almost see the bone.

"Let me out!"

"I'm going to Su Family Village to find Brother Su Yin!"

"Brother Su Yin can't live without me!"

We're getting married soon!

...

"Summer Rain! Stop going crazy!"

The police officer who had questioned her earlier came in. "Your father has fled to avoid punishment, and we have preliminarily determined that he is the murderer. We have now clarified that you have no connection with the case of Xiao Yindi's murder."

Summer Rain quieted down: "...What do you mean?!"

"That means you can leave now!" The policeman was very impatient. These past few days, Xia Tianyu's constant chatter had given him a migraine, and now, whenever he heard her speak, he felt like a tight headband was tightening around his head.

"...Go?! Where to?"

Xia Tianyu looked at the police unlocking her handcuffs, bewildered, "I... I can go find Brother Su Yin now?"

"No, that won't work. Su Yin has already been sent back to Haicheng." The police officer patiently explained to her, "But you don't have a unit to receive you, so you can't go back to the city."

"Then... can I make a phone call?" Xia Tianyu's eyes lit up again.

"Okay!" The police had been waiting for this, and immediately gestured for someone to prepare to wiretap.

Xia Tianyu called her second uncle Xia Nan's office directly: "Hello, I'm looking for Chief Xia."

A strange voice came from the other end of the phone. After a pause, it said rudely, "Xia Nan has been placed under quarantine for investigation! Who are you? State your identity immediately!"

Summer Rain hurriedly hung up the phone and leaned on the table, catching her breath.

"I...I'll make another call." She looked timidly at the police officer in front of her.

"Go ahead and hit me," the policeman said, feigning indifference.

They had already received word that the Xia family would soon be wiped out.

Unexpectedly, Xia Tianyu's call was made to her second uncle, Xia Xi.

Xia Xi, a nuclear physicist, is a hidden gem.

He spends most of his time in the laboratory in the desert and has no contact with the rest of the Xia family.

When Xia Tianyu was a child, she went to his laboratory to play and showed some curiosity about his research, which made her Xia Xi's favorite junior in the entire Xia family.

"Hello? Can you help me find Teacher Xia Xixia?" Xia Tianyu's voice trembled slightly.

"Xiaoyu? How come I can't even recognize your second uncle's voice?" It was Xia Xi herself who answered the phone.

He was on his way back to the office to retrieve some documents. He had just found the documents and was about to leave when the phone rang, so he answered it.

"Second Uncle..." Xia Tianyu could no longer hold back and burst into tears, "Second Uncle, save me!"

"What's wrong, Xiaoyu? What happened?" Xia Xi's hand holding the phone trembled involuntarily.

"Second Uncle, my dad is missing. The police said he killed a nurse..." Xia Tianyu began to talk non-stop, telling Xia Xi everything that had happened recently, down to the smallest detail.

However, she concealed the fact that she and Lulu had come to the countryside for the same man, only saying that Lulu had taken a liking to a male educated youth, and that she was worried about him, so she and Xia Tianxiu came along.

"Lulu opened fire with a gun and beat up the village doctor in the area where you were sent to the countryside?!" Xia Xi pinched her brows, clearly finding it hard to process the news. "And it was all because of a male educated youth?"

"Second Uncle, Lulu is dead." Xia Tianyu cried so hard she could barely breathe. "What am I going to do? I'm all alone, and that damned Xia Tianxiu ran away in the chaos!"

Xia Tianyu learned from the police that Xia Tianxiu had not returned to Dingjiatun.

Because when the police questioned Xia Dong, she said that Xia Tianxiu was usually closest to Xia Dong, and it was very likely that Xia Dong had run away with her—she said this just to cause her some trouble.

However, after investigation, the police discovered that Xia Tianxiu had gone missing at Sanhe County People's Hospital many days earlier on the way to be taken away by Ding Honglei. She neither returned to Dingjiatun nor had any contact with Xia Dong.

"Xiaoyu, don't worry," Xia Xi said soothingly. "I'll find a way to get you back to the city first. Actually, someone asked me a few days ago, and I told you not to get involved in anything concerning your father and your third uncle, understand?"

"Okay, I understand. Second Uncle, what happened to Third Uncle?" Xia Tianyu asked.

“I don’t know either.” Xia Xi sighed, pulled out a pen, and grabbed a piece of paper. “Anyway, Xiaoyu, remember, they are them, and you are you. However, helping you get back to the city won’t be easy, and you should be prepared that it might not be possible. After all, our family is not the Xia family we used to be! Okay, now tell me the address of the place where you’re going to the countryside.”

"Second Uncle, you must help me!" Xia Tianyu's voice finally trembled with tears. "I beg you!"

"Xiaoyu, don't cry, tell me the address quickly." Xia Xi felt a throbbing pain in her temples.

Summer rain wiped away her tears: "The address of the place where I was sent to the countryside is..."