Misfortunes never come singly. Qiao Lu's son disappeared, and before Song Qingping could comfort him, her own son Chen Baitao also disappeared!
Only two years older than Qiaoan! He also disappeared on the way home from school!
Before everyone had finished comforting Qiao Lu, they started to comfort Song Qingping.
Upon hearing that Qiao An was missing, Qiao Yan asked for leave and rushed to the compound.
After entering the house and looking around, I didn't find anyone. Then I heard from the neighbors that Qiao Lu had fainted and was sent to the hospital. I turned around and rushed to the hospital anxiously.
As a result, just after leaving the inner courtyard, he ran into Qiao Lu who had just returned from the hospital. With the help of Li Hongjun, she slowly got off the bicycle. Her lips were so white that they were transparent, without a trace of blood.
Qiao Yan rushed over and hugged her tightly: "Qiao Lu! How are you? Are you okay? Have you found An An?"
Qiao Lu was so sad that she couldn't speak. She opened her mouth, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and shook her head with difficulty.
With the support of Li Hongjun, she slowly walked into the house, and Qiao Yan quickly came up and held her other arm.
Entering the bedroom and seeing traces of Qiaoan in the room, Qiao Lu couldn't hold back her tears that she had finally stopped.
“Sister, sister…” He hugged her tightly, his body trembling.
"It's okay, it's okay. Calm down. We'll ask a few more people to help look for it. We will definitely find it, we will." At this time, apart from saying some weak words of comfort, Qiao Yan had no way to share her pain.
After sending the person off safely, seeing Qiao Yan also coming, Li Hongjun could leave with peace of mind: "Sister-in-law, you have a good rest at home, I will continue to go out to look for people."
Qiao Lu was so tired that she didn't even turn her head. She listened to Li Hongjun's footsteps getting farther and farther away until they disappeared. Only the chirping of a group of sparrows remained in the yard, which sounded lively and lonely.
"What about Haizhou?" Qiao Yan asked.
"Still looking outside." She was about to go, but her body was so grief-stricken and exhausted that she fell into a temporary coma.
She slept for about two hours and woke up feeling dazed and too weak to walk. Xu Haizhou was afraid that something might happen to her and did not let her look for her son. In the end, they both gave in and let Li Hongjun send her home, but he still did not let her go out to look for her child.
"Zhiwei, how are you lately?" It was already so late, but Qiao Lu still had the mind to pay attention to her second sister's baby.
Qiao Yan wiped away her tears helplessly and bitterly: "Okay, very good, if I had known earlier I would have brought him here. You two aunt and nephew haven't seen each other for a month or two. He has grown fat now. Maybe if I bring him here, he can comfort you."
Qiao Lu opened her dry lips and forced out an ugly smile: "You are only one year old and can't even speak. What can you do to comfort me?"
"That's still different. Zhiwei is clingy and likes to rub against your face. He..." As Qiao Lu said this, her face looked strange and Qiao Yan quickly shut up.
Praising your own son at this time is just an attempt to cause trouble for Qiao Lu.
Oh, it really is...
After comforting Qiao Lu for a while, seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Yan went to the market to buy vegetables and prepared to come back to cook a meal for her sister.
After buying vegetables, he scooped a few bowls of rice from the rice jar and prepared to wash it when he was suddenly stopped by Qiao Lu.
"Sister, use this..." She pointed at the rice cooker and spoke weakly.
"Let me do it." Qiao Yan didn't know what an electric rice cooker was, nor did she know how to use it. Then Qiao Lu took the rice from her hand and tremblingly poured it into the rice cooker.
Quickly, in two steps, plug in the power, and the rice cooker will start cooking automatically without any supervision required.
"What? Just put rice in there and it will be cooked? I don't have to worry about anything else?" There were no sparks at all, so how could it be cooked?
Qiao Yan was at a loss. She touched the body of the rice cooker and it was cold. How could this thing cook rice?
"Yes, I bought it in Haizhou." The sight of the object reminded Qiao Lu of the person she had met. After she finished speaking, she remembered what her son had excitedly told her a few days ago, saying that with an electric rice cooker, she could cook for herself.
Even if mom and dad are not around, he won't be hungry.
Jolu couldn't hold back her tears, and cried bitterly with her face covered.
Shou Qiaoyan was in a panic, and quickly hugged her and wiped her tears: "Hey, why are you crying again? Don't cry, don't cry."
This crying was so heartbreaking that Qiao Yan saw it with her own eyes and felt pain in her heart. If her son also encountered the same thing, his reaction would not be much better than Qiao Lu's.
She finally cried until she was tired and sat on a chair sobbing. Seeing this, Qiao Lu coaxed her a few words and hurried to the kitchen to cook for her.
While I was doing it, I glanced at the situation inside the house from time to time. Seeing that Qiao Lu was not running around and was no longer crying, I felt relieved.
After cooking the dishes and bringing them into the house, Qiao Lu was tired from crying and hadn't slept for a whole day and night. She was so tired that she fell asleep on the table.
Just when Qiao Yan was about to wake him up, Xu Haizhou hurried home with two lunch boxes.
"Second sister?" Xu Haizhou was a little surprised to see her: "Where's Qiao Lu?"
Please forgive Xu Haizhou for being in a hurry. He was mentally and physically tired, so he didn't notice Qiao Lu lying in front of him.
"Your wife is probably tired of crying."
Xu Haizhou lowered his head, and when he saw Qiao Lu, he let out a sigh without making a sound.
He took a deep breath, walked over, put down the lunch box, leaned over and hugged her gently.
Qiao Yan was overwhelmed with emotion. She sighed and untied her apron. "I'll go back and ask a few people to help find the child. You take good care of her."
"Okay, take care, second sister."
Qiao Lu woke up when Xu Haizhou hugged her. She held his arm tightly and asked anxiously, "Haizhou, where is the child? Have you found the child?"
In fact, Qiao Lu also knew that if the child was found, Xu Haizhou would definitely be eager to tell her the good news.
If I don't tell you now, I'm sure you haven't...
He looked at her without saying a word, at her scarlet eyes and tear-stained face, and remained silent for a long time.
Finally, his thin lips curled up into a bitter arc. Qiao Lu looked at it, her nose felt sour, and she burst into tears again.
"Don't cry, don't cry, your eyes are swollen." He wiped her tears with his rough fingertips, his eyes full of sadness.
"Let me go, let's look for it together, let's look for it together..." Qiao Lu begged him desperately.
Xu Haizhou's eyes were red, his pupils were filled with mist, and he held her shoulders tightly: "Be good and wait at home. Your health is too bad. If something happens to you, what should I do?"
The air was filled with a suffocating silence. After a long while, Qiao Lu could no longer control herself and hugged him and cried with a hoarse voice.
"What should we do with An An? An An is so young, and he is still so young! Haizhou... Haizhou, you must find him, you must..."
Tears silently fell from the corners of my eyes.
But he couldn't cry in front of his wife and be seen by her.
He is the pillar of the family. If he falls, there will be no hope for this family.
After hurriedly eating a few mouthfuls of rice, Xu Haizhou continued to go out to look for his children.
Xu Haizhou and his two brothers were waiting at the entrance of the train station. There were also brothers waiting at the bus station and at the entrances and exits of the city.
He mobilized all the connections he could, no matter if they were familiar or unfamiliar, as long as they could help him find his son, he was willing to give anything.
These days, ordinary families don’t have cars, so it’s still easy to be discovered if they want to take a child out of town.
I’m afraid to put the child in a pocket or a box. Although it won’t be easy to be found, the child will be in danger!
So the couple was very anxious.
God bless you, please bless you. Even if you can’t find the child, please don’t let anything happen to him!
Likewise, I waited at the train station for a whole day today and gained nothing.
Li Xiuxiu somehow heard the news that Qiao Lu's child was lost, so she picked up the baby and ran to the big courtyard.
Two little carrots followed behind him, still dressed the same as usual. What was rare was that the two little girls finally put on thin coats.
Li Xiuxiu's family of five still lives in the dilapidated temple. Zhao Quan was born in a rural area. He had nothing but great strength.
Later, I found a job at the dock carrying heavy bags, earning two yuan a day, but I didn't have work every day. Sometimes there was no goods, so I had to go home and rest, and then go back to work when there were goods.
After a month, I managed to reach 30, which was not much worse than doing farm work in the countryside.
Although Li Xiuxiu graduated from junior high school, she didn't know how to do anything except farming during the years she spent in the countryside.
Her main task now is to take care of the children in the dilapidated temple, and sometimes she would chat with her old neighbors.
She deliberately wanted to humiliate herself in front of Qiao Lu, but she hadn't seen her recently. She heard that the couple was very busy with their business, so it was not easy to meet them.
After finally getting off work in the afternoon, the family of three came back, but after dinner they went out for a walk and shopping. She wanted to get closer to them, but there was nothing she could do.
Fortunately, there is always a way out. Now, she has learned that Qiao Lu's child is missing, and it is said that there is a high chance that the child will never be found!
Li Xiuxiu quickly came over with the child to see what was going on.
Qiao Lu originally had a good impression of Li Xiuxiu. She thought that since she would rather live in a dilapidated temple than cause trouble and prevent them from returning the house, she should not be such an unreasonable person at heart.
As a result, after only a few words of comfort, his true colors were revealed.
"Sister Qiaolu, don't be sad. If you really can't find the child, then..." Li Xiuxiu made an expression of reluctantly giving up the child. She held her chest with one hand and handed the baby in her arms to her with the other hand: "I will give my son to you."
After these words were spoken, not only Qiao Lu, but everyone present was stunned.
With a bang, Qiao Lu felt that she was hit on the head by a rapidly launched basketball, which made her see stars and she was disoriented.
"Go! Go! Get out!"
Qiao Lu couldn't find her child no matter what and was extremely upset, but Li Xiuxiu said she would give her own child to her!
Is there anyone who is a mother like this? Is she worthy of being a mother? !
Qiao Lu was tired, physically and mentally, and all kinds of fatigue invaded her. At this moment, she didn't know where a surge of strength came from, and she pushed the man out of the room with all her strength: "Get out!"
Qiao Lu had never been so angry before, and had never roared like this in front of outsiders.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
The neighbors who were watching the show at the door hurried to explain to the people who came behind what kind of vicious words Li Xiuxiu had said!
Qiao Lu's eyes were swollen from crying. Whenever the tears flowed out of her eye sockets, the corners of her eyes felt as if they were burned by boiling hot water.
Li Xiuxiu made me so angry that I started crying again.
When Xu Haizhou returned home after searching for his child, he saw his wife surrounded by people and crying with her face covered. He dropped his bicycle and rushed in without caring about anything.
Holding her tight, my arms tremble.
Looking around, he soon noticed Li Xiuxiu in front of him.
His eyebrows knitted deeply: "Did you bully her?"
Li Xiuxiu was stung by Xu Haizhou's cold gaze. She swallowed her saliva, shrank her shoulders and said, "I... I am alone, how dare I bully her."
What she meant was that there were many people here, and only Qiao Lu could bully her, but she had no right to bully Qiao Lu.
Qiao Lu, who was already heartbroken, was now so angry that her chest ached.
"She said she wanted to give her youngest son to you two. Anyway, you can't find Qiao An anymore!" Chen Jiamei shuddered at the frost in Xu Haizhou's eyes and quickly explained: "Hey, why are you looking at me like that? This is what Li Xiuxiu meant. I'm just repeating it, not me who said it!"
Then he looked at Li Xiuxiu, his eyes were as cold as a pond, and the surging emotions in his pupils were brewing a storm: "Say this at this time, are you still a human being!"
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That's all for today. I have some things to do in the 3D world. I'll update more tomorrow.