Meng Zhiyu went to the state-owned restaurant to pack some food and put it into the space, then went to the meeting place to pick up Qingqing, and returned to the village with Li Tingman.
When Meng Zhiyu encountered an ox cart on the road, he slowed down and greeted Uncle Niu.
"Meng Yu."
The earthen child who was holding Lin's arm called out softly.
Tuwa didn't know why he called out to Meng Zhiyu. Yes, he knew she was Meng Zhiyu, not some Meng Yu.
He didn't know whether Meng Yu would pay attention to him, or whether he would be like the others, staying away from him and despising him because his grandmother and father were captured.
Meng Zhiyu was a little surprised to see Tuwa, and noticed the uneasiness in his eyes. Just like before at the Public Security Bureau, he said to him, "My name is Meng Zhiyu, not Meng Yu. Your memory is not good. You need to study hard and improve yourself."
"Meng Zhiqing, his grandmother is a human trafficker. She has to eat peanuts, how can she study?" An aunt curled her lips and glanced at Tuwa with disgust.
Tuwa was not liked in the first place because he was always swearing and had dirty hands, not to mention that now there are two human traffickers in his family who are hated by everyone.
"That's right, I don't know if Crazy Zhang's twins can be found."
"I was wondering why Mrs. Zhao was so kind last time, and persuaded Li Zhengzhi to have another child. Could it be that she was planning to steal the child away?"
"How come I don't know about this?"
"I'm telling you..."
Listening to the discussions around him, Tuwa lowered his head and tightened his grip on Lin's hand. Meng Zhiyu interrupted the heated discussions on the ox cart, saying, "Tuwa had no involvement in what Mrs. Zhao did from beginning to end. Moreover, the fact that Mrs. Zhao was captured so quickly this time was thanks to the information Tuwa provided."
"He's also a victim. You only know that Mrs. Zhao dotes on Tuwa, but you don't know how she harassed and abused Tuwa behind his back. Tuwa's previous behavior was forced upon him by Mrs. Zhao."
Tuwa was beaten and scolded by Mrs. Zhao, but the people in the team really didn't know about this. They only knew that Tuwa was spoiled by Mrs. Zhao and became lawless. Not only was he lazy and gluttonous, but he also had no idea of hierarchy and bullied everyone he saw.
Li Tingman looked at the dirty Tuwa, who lowered his head and wondered what he was thinking, and felt a little sad. "Tuwa is just a child. If no one taught him to do this, why would he play tricks on you if you have no grudge against him?"
In her previous life, Mrs. Zhao didn't know what her final fate was, but when she returned to the city, other children went to and from school with their schoolbags on their backs every day, but Tuwa was still hanging around in the village all day.
The village chief would sometimes persuade Mrs. Zhao to send Tuwa to school, but Mrs. Zhao would always say that if Tuwa didn't want to go, then he didn't have to go, because the family could afford to support him anyway.
Before, she was wondering why some people would like to be illiterate and not want to learn to read and write?
Who would have thought that Tuwa was not Mrs. Zhao’s beloved grandson, but a puppet?
"Forget it, he's just a kid, why bother him?"
"From now on, it will just be the two of them, mother and son. Lin is weak, so things will be difficult."
"Tuwa, what happened to your mother?" Lin had her back to her, so she couldn't see her expression. She could only guess from the feeling emanating from her body that she might not be in good condition.
"Alas, the child is gone." An aunt sighed.
When they arrived at the village, Meng Zhiyu gave the bicycle to Li Qingqing and asked her to help push it back. She wanted to go back with Tuwa to see how his family was doing.
Li Qingqing felt sorry for Tuwa as well and wanted to go with him to see if he could help. "Brother Mu, please help me push it back."
In the end, no one went back. Mu Ziwei and Song Guangye pushed the cart, while Meng Zhiyu and others helped Tuwa to carry Lin back home.
Mu Ziwei and Jiang Zengzhi went to fetch water and collect firewood, Li Tingman and Li Qingqing boiled water to make porridge, and Meng Zhiyu took out some red dates from the backpack and asked them to add a few.
Tuwa had been sitting quietly beside the bed watching over Lin. Meng Zhiyu walked into the room to take Lin's pulse and felt that Lin's health was really too bad. Not only was she severely malnourished, but she was also suffering from a serious loss of energy.
"Will she die?" Tuwa looked at Meng Yu with a frown, and seemed to have guessed something.
Meng Zhiyu withdrew his hand and looked at the little adult-like child. He couldn't tell whether he was worried or just asking, "No."
But if you don't take good care of it, it may affect your lifespan.
"She is not my biological mother." Tuwa said in a deep voice while playing with his own things.
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