Hearing the four-year-old talk so shamelessly about getting married, Lu Zhensheng covered his mouth and said embarrassedly, "Many soldiers in the barracks haven't gotten married yet, so the aunties and grandmas who come with them go around introducing potential wives to everyone. As a result, the children in the yard overheard them and started clamoring to get married all the time, which has made them a laughing stock."

"I see," everyone exclaimed in realization.

The Ke family was a little uneasy just now, worried that the child had learned it from the village and it would be difficult to explain to the child's parents, after all, the village customs of Luofeng Village were quite fierce.

"Thank you all so much for saving my son," Lu Zhensheng said solemnly as he saw the Ke family members arrive. "My older brother isn't married yet, and my wife and I have been married for five years before we had this child."

“His family spoiled him terribly, otherwise he wouldn’t have developed such a fearless personality.”

“If it weren’t for Comrade Ke and Comrade Qin, this brat would have been kidnapped, and our family would have been ruined.”

In fact, he was injured in battle and may only have this one child in his entire life.

His brother, grieving the loss of his beloved, had long harbored the idea of ​​dedicating himself to the military.

Lu Zhensheng can still clearly recall the chill he felt when he received his wife's call and heard that their son was missing.

Children are a continuation of human life, a source of hope, and a connection.

He felt this way, and if his elders at home found out, they might fall seriously ill!

Therefore, his gratitude to Ke Meiyu and Qin Yuanjiu was beyond words!

“From now on, the Ke family and the Qin family will be this child’s godparents. You can come to the Lu family for anything,” Lu Zhensheng said solemnly. “Although the Lu family is not very powerful, we still have some influence in Kyoto and in the entire military of China.”

"Comrade Lu, the little guy is sensible and adorable. We welcome him to visit often." The old man coughed softly. "But don't take this life-saving grace too seriously. Anyone would stop child traffickers if they saw them abducting children."

"Besides, he's a military family member. You soldiers are on the front lines protecting our country. The good life we ​​enjoy now is all thanks to you. If anyone should thank you, it's us ordinary people!"

The Ke family members responded in unison.

After talking for a while, Lu Zhensheng had other tasks to complete, so he didn't linger and left with his child.

No matter how hard the Ke family tried to put the things he brought back, they couldn't get them back.

"Sister," the little one said as he was about to reach the door, then turned around and rushed into the house, hugging Ke Meiyu's leg and bursting into tears, "Sister, will you miss me when I'm gone?"

Ke Meiyu patted his head. "Yes, you can learn to write and then write me letters. You can come here to play when you have time."

Will my sister come to play with me?

"Of course! I'm so young, I definitely want to travel all over the country. I'll have to trouble you to host me then."

The little one nodded repeatedly, "Sister, just go ahead!"

After cuddling for a while, the little guy left with his father, turning back every few steps.

Ke Meiyu was able to enjoy a large bed all to herself again. After rolling around for a while, she saw that it was completely dark and the whole village was silent.

She quietly changed her clothes, took the seasonings she had secretly bought from the supply and marketing cooperative behind Qin Yuanjiu's back, smuggled a bathtub and a kitchen knife from home, and picked some potatoes, green beans, eggplants and other vegetables from her own vegetable garden, and headed straight for the back mountain.

Speaking of which, she promised to make candied hawthorns for Tuanzi, but she couldn't keep her promise and will have to wait until they meet again.

Ke Meiyu's spatial storage was large and could regulate the temperature according to her consciousness, so she took advantage of the autumn when the prey was plump and harvested again, including a group of wild boars that were active near the village.

By the river, following the method provided by the system, she simply bled the pig, scalded it, scraped off the hair, removed its internal organs, and cut it into pieces.

Then she took the things to the cave, lit a campfire and started grilling meat skewers, vegetable skewers, pig's trotters and pork chops!

After a satisfying meal and having stocked up on plenty of ready-made food, Ke Meiyu turned off the fire, put the items into her spatial storage, concealed her presence, took a bath with spring water to remove the smell, and then slipped home.

After placing a tub of prepared pork in the old lady's room, Ke Meiyu lay on the bed and continued practicing drawing talismans with her divine sense. She fell asleep sometime later.

The scene suddenly changed, and Ke Meiyu looked around in a daze.

Isn't this the place where we saved Tuanzi back then?

Has she been reborn?

Just then, a hurried sound of footsteps approached from afar. The burly man, carrying a slightly heavy basket, walked briskly, and when he saw that no one was around, he started to jog.

Ke Meiyu raised an eyebrow and stepped forward again, stretching out her foot to trip the big man.

"Brother, what good stuff are you carrying?"

But she watched helplessly as the person walked right over her legs and ran away without even glancing at her!

Ke Meiyu pursed her lips and ran forward, but no matter how hard she tried, she was always half a step behind.

So she watched helplessly as the big man exchanged the white dough balls in his basket for five hundred yuan.

A masked couple hurried toward the train station, carrying a child. In the waiting room, three men and two women were already waiting, each carrying one or two children on their backs.

At that time, every household had four, five, six, seven or eight children, so they were not considered conspicuous.

Moreover, the children were given a lot of sedatives, so they were in a deep sleep, not crying or making a fuss, and therefore less likely to attract attention.

"Why is it so slow? The train is about to leave!"

"What's the rush? This batch is good; it'll fetch a good price," the couple said smugly, peeking out a bit of their child from the basket on their backs.

The fair-skinned and pretty child was a sight to behold. "It really is! You guys are really something!"

Ke Meiyu followed along the way, and realized with frustration that she had probably entered a lifetime without her interference.

Without hesitation, she boarded the train with a group of people.

The train was still the most primitive green-skinned kind, and people were carrying heavy luggage, filling the space under the seats and the aisle. What surprised her even more was the frantic rush of everyone trying to catch the train; not only were people crammed together, but some were even throwing their luggage out the windows and climbing in themselves…

Ke Meiyu sat on the roof of the train, swinging her legs and watching intently. Every now and then, she would hang upside down to check if the group of human traffickers were still in the carriage.

When the train arrived at its final destination, Kyoto, the group began to excitedly move out, whispering among themselves in the noisy station: "Kyoto is full of rich people, and many of them are short of sons. We have quite a few boys in this batch, so we can make a fortune!"

“Three- or four-year-old children don’t remember much, so they can be sold to city people. If they’re locked up at home for two or three years, they’ll have long forgotten who their parents are! Older children are sold to the countryside, and if they try to run away, their legs will be broken. Let’s see if they dare to do that.”