The captain waved his hand, "Your injury will require at least two days of rest. Go back, you can do the work anytime."
"Okay, thank you, Captain."
The young boy limped home, unaware that someone was hanging behind him.
"Xiao Yan, how much longer until we reach Hu Family Village?"
Song Yunjiang felt anxious, and her eyelids twitched nervously.
"The milk is just ahead."
Zhou Yan often went out and was quite familiar with the surrounding villages.
Xie Lin took a different path into the mountains. He only needed to combine the terrain with the fact that Xie Lin mentioned the Hu family to guess that it was Hu Family Village at the foot of the mountain.
The village road was narrow and the car couldn't get through, so the group had to get out of the car and walk into the village upon reaching the entrance.
"Fellow villager, could you tell me how to get to Hu Feng's house? I only know that his house is near the foot of the mountain on the edge of the field, but I don't know how to get there from the village entrance."
Three old ladies were chatting under the tree. Xie Lin gave each of them two milk candies, and then asked one of the kind-looking old ladies for directions.
His words indicate that he knows Hu Feng and knows the location of Hu Feng's house, and he does not want to arouse suspicion and obstruction from the villagers.
The old woman glanced at the five people, then turned and pointed towards the village road.
“Keep this road straight, it’s a bit winding. Don’t turn into the side paths, just keep going until you reach the end of the village.”
"At the end of the village, there is a three-way intersection. If you go to the end of the left-hand side, you will see two stone courtyards. The one on the right is Xiaofeng's house."
Another old lady squeezed the candy in her hand and smiled, "Xiao Feng and Xiao Kong are both good children. Their uncle is a bit of a troublemaker. What are your ties to them?"
"Yes, if they are your relatives, I advise you to take the children away. They are like two oxen here, working day and night to support their uncle's family."
Song Yunjiang felt a lump in her throat, an indescribable sadness welling up inside her.
"Sister, where are their parents?"
Seeing that the three were reluctant to talk, Xie Lin took out a handful of candy from his pocket and gave it to them.
The three old ladies exchanged glances, and the kind old lady who had asked Xie Lin for directions sighed.
“The children’s father passed away when the children were eight years old. Their mother was so traumatized that she developed some mental problems and went missing. She hasn’t been seen since.”
"Poor thing, I heard the mother was pregnant when she went missing. I wonder how she is now?"
One of the old ladies seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes lit up.
"You wouldn't happen to be Xiaofengniang's relatives, would you?"
"Why is it Mother's family, and not Father's family?"
Xie Lin voiced his doubts: if he was a descendant of his maternal great-uncle, who only had a son, then he must be a relative of Xiao Feng's father.
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