With the help of Lin Zhixia, Bai An and Cui Ju quickly completed the task assigned by the teacher. Seeing that it was not yet the scheduled school dismissal time, Bai An asked curiously.

"Have you finished hauling the dirt? Come over here and help us pull the weeds."

Lin Zhixia glanced at Bai An and said nonchalantly, "Not yet."

"You're here before I even start." Aster shouted in surprise, "What if you can't finish your mission?"

"What should I do?" Lin Zhixia sat on the ground, pulling the remaining weeds on the ground out of boredom, with a hint of confusion in her voice, "What should I do if I don't know how to do it? Have you ever seen me complete the tasks assigned by the teacher?"

Bai An frowned and felt a little strange looking at Lin Zhixia's indifferent expression.

But Cui Ju didn't say anything else. She knew that the task assigned by the teacher to her brother would take at least four or five days to complete. Even on the last day, the teacher would reassign the task to him, which resulted in his task never being truly completed.

"Why?" Bai An asked puzzledly.

Lin Zhixia looked at Bai An with emotions in her eyes that she couldn't understand. Before Bai An could see what was in her eyes, Lin Zhixia turned her head away.

"If you want to know why, you have to ask the teacher."

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Bai An glanced at him and said nothing. He also sat on the ground and looked at the sky boredly.

When the teacher came over, he saw three people sitting together on the ground, all in a daze.

"Are you done?" the teacher asked them.

Bai An nodded.

"When you're done, help other students with the work, and then you can go home when school is over."

Hearing what the teacher said, Bai An sighed, took Cui Ju's hand and said, "Then let's go help Da Zhuang."

"Okay." Cui Ju replied with a smile, and followed Bai An to run towards Da Zhuang.

Lin Zhixia sat on the ground helplessly, watching Bai An and Cui Ju who seemed to have forgotten about him and ran away to other places.

With a sigh, Lin Zhixia got up from the ground, nodded respectfully to the teacher, and walked slowly towards Dazhuang.

When Da Zhuang saw Bai An and Cui Ju coming over, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?"

Cui Ju also smiled and helped Da Zhuang pick up the remaining wood on the ground. "We have finished our work. The teacher asked us to come and help you."

"Hurry up and work. It will be time to go home from school when you're almost done." Lin Zhixia patted Dazhuang's shoulder and urged him.

When school was over, Da Zhuang had not finished his work, but he could wait until tomorrow to continue.

When he arrived at the school gate, Bai An saw his parents and Lu Jinan standing at the gate, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Bai An said hello to Da Zhuang and Cui Ju, and ran towards his parents.

"Mom and Dad, why are you here?"

Wanqing touched Bai An's head and said with a smile: "Cui Ju's mother asked us to come here and wait for him. Maybe she has something to say."

Lu Demin didn't say anything, but just looked quietly in the direction of the chrysanthemums at the school gate. There were still many people standing there.

Bai An didn't understand what they were talking about. She looked up at Lu Jinan, but Lu Jinan just smiled at her and pulled her to stand beside him, waiting for something to happen.

Gradually, more and more people gathered at the school gate, as if everyone in the entire village was here. The most conspicuous among them was the village chief standing in the front.

"Everyone is here, right?" The village chief cleared his throat and continued, "You can see that Aster has been found."

The villagers looked at the unharmed Chrysanthemum and whispered something to each other in the lower room. Their voices were getting louder and louder.

Aster looked at them in confusion, not knowing what was going to happen next, and turned to look at her mother.

Her mother blushed and didn't dare to look her in the eyes. She just lowered her head and looked at the floor silently.

Seeing that no one from Cui Ju's family wanted to come up and speak, the village chief looked at Bai An's family in silence, asking what to do.

Lu Demin and Wanqing looked at each other and saw what each other wanted to express in their eyes. Lu Demin turned around and nodded to the village chief, tacitly agreeing to the occurrence of this incident.

Although they acted very strong, they still felt a little bit reluctant towards Cui Ju's family.

The village chief also understood the emotions they wanted to express. He thought for a while and said solemnly.

"I also learned privately about Cui Ju's disappearance. It has nothing to do with Bai An's family."

The village chief solemnly said to the villagers below: "We went to Bai An's house to search for Cui Ju's whereabouts regardless of everything. Everyone knows what we did."

The group of people who were originally noisy suddenly quieted down after hearing these words. They looked at each other, and saw shame in each other's eyes.

Before they could say anything, they heard the village chief's voice, "Since everyone knows the situation clearly, don't mess around with it. Find out for yourself if you still have a conscience."

Some peasant women who were jealous of Wanqing rubbed the corners of their clothes and nervously patted their husbands' shoulders, thinking that the village chief had heard them saying bad things about their family to their children, and they felt very embarrassed.

The village chief didn't say a few words and let everyone go.

The Cui Ju family looked at where Bai An was and left in a hurry.

Bai An was confused throughout the whole process.

"Is that it?" Bai An pulled his father's clothes and asked, "Our family has been through so many things, is it just going to be over like this?"

Lu Demin touched Bai An's head and said, "That's enough. Tell them everything. Let them live here."

Lu Jinan glanced at Lu Deming and said nothing. He just pulled Bai An towards home.

On the way, Bai An thought more and more that this was not right, so he took Lu Jinan's hand and asked secretly while his parents were not paying attention: "Do you think so too?"

When Lu Jinan heard Bai An ask this, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked back, "What do you think?"

Bai An fell into deep thought. Although Cui Ju was her good friend, she secretly didn't want to let this matter go because of how their family treated her family.

Lu Jinan saw what Bai An was thinking, tapped her nose amusingly and said with a smile: "Why are you thinking about these things at such a young age? Your parents must have their own reasons for doing this, so don't worry about it."

"I know." Bai An lowered his head and said a little disappointedly, "It just feels a little unfair."

"How is that unfair?"