Chen Wu smiled and said, "I haven't seen what he looked like before. When I first met him, he was a very nice person. What was he like when you saw him before?"
Speaking of this, Aunt Zhang suddenly remembered: "I still have the photos I took of him before. I'll get them for you."
He came out in a hurry and came back after a while.
Holding two photos in his hand, he said, "Look, this is the first time I met him on the farm."
Farm?!
Chen Wu paused, took the photo and looked at the people in it. Lu Xuan was standing in the middle, with Aunt Zhang on one side and Old Tong on the other. The man in the middle looked somewhat strange, yet very familiar.
His clothes were tattered, with countless patches on them, and there seemed to be unpatched holes at his elbows. The most eye-catching thing was his face, which was so thin that it looked sunken.
He looked like a teenager, with a cold expression on his face. When taking pictures, he stared straight into the camera, like a wolf cub, and his hostility seemed to penetrate the photos.
Everyone in the village was hiding a well-known secret from her. Chen Wu guessed that Lu Xuan must have done something wrong, but it was difficult to talk about it. Now, it seemed that through this photo, she could vaguely see a corner of it.
Chen Wu asked curiously, "Is this when he's in his teens?"
Aunt Zhang recalled: "He should have been around fifteen or sixteen. Your uncle and I thought he would join the army after the New Year and on the sixteenth. But when that incident happened, it was already half a year later when your uncle and I found out. He had already been in labor reform on the farm for half a year. If he waited for the investigation to be completed and he was released, he would have a criminal record. Your uncle was unwilling to take him in. Otherwise, he would have a bright future and he wouldn't have to stay in the village."
There was some regret in his tone.
"I wanted to take his brother Lu Ye in and train him, but Lu Ye was in a bad mood at the time, and your husband was worried that something might happen to his brother again, so he didn't send him over."
Chen Wu said: "Aunt, do you know what exactly happened?"
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