Fang Shengli could only tell Yu Xianghe's family everything she knew. She had no evidence in her hands. What she had hidden was a letter from Yu Xianghe and Yu Qingshan asking for help. If the letter had been preserved, it would have been useful, but the letter was eventually burned.
Fang Shengli: "You should go to Shanghai to find Tao Yan. She is the smartest among us. She was almost captured by the village party secretary, but she found another way out for herself." Although she had to pay the same price, she devoted herself to the village party secretary, became a cadre of the commune, got herself a job, and finally returned to Shanghai safely. There is no doubt that she is capable and perhaps has something else left.
On the other side, in the capital, Wen Ruzhen brought the porridge into the room and urged Yu Xiangyan, who was writing or drawing there, "Why don't you eat? If you continue like this, your body won't be able to bear it. I know you want to find evidence quickly, but if your body can't bear it, what will happen next?"
Hearing her persuasion, Yu Xiangyan put down his pen and rubbed his brows, "I'm sorry to have made you worry."
Wen Ruzhen sighed, "What nonsense are you talking about? We are husband and wife. I am also anxious when encountering such a thing, but no matter how anxious you are, you can't skip a meal. People are made of iron and rice is made of steel. If you don't eat, your body will not be able to bear it. Don't be too anxious. This matter will definitely not be let go like this."
"We are here to help. My brother has so many classmates, many of whom are in politics. Although they are not assigned to that area, there are some not too far away. I have asked him to help find out who is behind them. He said he will reply to us when he has news."
Yu Xiangyan held her hand and said, "Thank you for troubling him."
Wen Ruzhen pushed him and said, "We are a family no matter what we say. Hasn't he bothered you, his brother-in-law, enough in the past? Now he finally has a place where he can help. Okay, stop talking and drink your porridge quickly."
She was also very pretty. When they went to the countryside, they were in great danger. If it weren't for Yu Xiangyan, a tall and strong man who was devoted to her, protecting them, she didn't know if she would have encountered such a thing.
It is very easy for someone with some power in the countryside to bully a stranger.
They were assigned to work in the fields, and were arranged to do heavy and tiring work, which would overdraw their bodies. If they did not eat enough, their bodies would collapse. With the level of medical care in the countryside, let alone intentional harm, even if they did their best, if they got sick they would be wrestling with death.
Now, after hearing about what happened to Yu Xianghe, her third sister whom she had never met, she was filled with fear.
Just after finishing the porridge, Yu Xiyi came into the room with a cup of sugar water. Seeing Yu Xiangyan took it, he supervised him, "Dad, you have to drink it. Finish it."
Looking at his eldest daughter's stubborn face, Yu Xiangyan touched his stomach and said, "Okay, okay, I'll finish it."
Seeing her father drink up the whole cup of sugar water, she nodded with satisfaction, "Dad, we are all good. You work hard and we won't let you and mom worry."
The three siblings didn’t know what was going on, but they felt the atmosphere at home.
Yu Xiyi is the oldest and takes care of his younger siblings, preventing them from being naughty.
Yu Xiangyan touched her hair, looking at this face that looked like her mother, and he could imagine her future beauty since he was a child, and his heart ached even more.
How can such a scumbag deserve to live in this world?
He also has classmates and his own connections. Even though he is far away, he can still help. If the evidence is complete, no matter who is behind the other party, don't think of covering up the truth!
Wen Yizheng really did his best. He and his sister had always been helped by the Yu family, and he kept it in mind. Because of this, before he got married, he spent a lot of money on his sister and nephews. One was his sister's child, and the other was a way to make up for it a little. Now that there was a place where he could contribute, Wen Yizheng naturally would not just talk about it.
He also told his lover about this matter. She is also in the system, although it is the health system, but she has heard of more than one such case.
Her attitude was consistent with Wen Yizheng's: "People like this should be stripped of their skin and exposed to the sun!"
Even Wen Ruzhen's father Wen Yanjun was helping. When he learned about this, he immediately broke out in a sweat.
He had a nightmare like this. When he was being reformed, he dreamed that his daughter was noticed by a local bully because of her outstanding appearance, and the bully wanted to force her to marry him. His daughter disagreed, and his son naturally couldn't bear to watch it. Then his son was beaten to death on the spot, and his daughter was forced into the bridal chamber, and hanged herself there the next day... When he dreamed of this, he was frightened awake. Now he has become a different person, with the same ending.
Lin Chuanbai was not idle either. He could not ignore such a thing when it happened, let alone it was his own relative. He went back to Qincheng and told the promoted Lin Houpu about it.
He retired from the army, and many of his comrades also retired and were assigned to various parts of the country.
There is no such thing in the town where Yushu Village is located, but there is one in the city.
After hearing this, he clenched his fist and said, "How ridiculous!"
After being sulky for a while, I asked him, "Have you found evidence? If you have evidence, you don't have to worry. You have to bear the corresponding consequences for what you have done. But if you don't have evidence, it will be difficult. Just a few testimonies without any evidence can't be used as evidence."
Lin Chuanbai: "They are already looking for it."
Lin Houpu was pessimistic about their finding evidence. "It's been so many years, it's hard to find evidence, but it's hard for people with such bad habits to completely change their ways. There are no educated youth now, but other girls may also experience such things. I'll ask my comrades to help, and I'll let you know when there's news."
If the other party had not stopped, I don’t know how many girls would have suffered over the years.
Yu Xiangan and his friends went to Shanghai to look for Tao Yan, but she had already moved away.
Miao Hongxing was stunned for a moment: "The last time we communicated was three years ago."
Seeing these strangers, the person who told them that Tao Yan had moved away looked suspicious: "Who are you to her? If you are good friends, she will definitely tell you where she moved to."
He just refused to tell them where Tao Yan had moved to.
Unable to find anyone, Yu Xiangan and his friends temporarily settled down in a hotel, and then Yu Xiangan set foot in his eldest brother and sister-in-law's home in Shanghai.
Lin Guangbai was transferred to Yancheng Development Zone, and later Yun Jing and her husband followed suit and were transferred to Yancheng. However, the two children still go to school in Shanghai. The teaching staff here is much better than that over there, and they don’t want to delay their children’s studies.
Lin Guangbai and Yun Jing also have two children. The older one is a son, Lin Qianjing, who is now studying at a university in Shanghai. The younger one is a daughter who is about the same age as the twins and is in elementary school.
Lin Qianjing and her sister originally lived at their grandmother's house, but now that Yun Jing is back, they moved back in.
Yun Jing poured tea for everyone, "Xiang An, I have already inquired about this matter, and there will be news soon."
Yu Xiangan sighed: "If we find someone, I wonder if she can bring us evidence."
Yun Jing comforted her: "There will be such a person. Even if there is no such person for the time being, sooner or later he will reveal his true colors. We have a line up there, and we will catch him in one fell swoop."
As he spoke, his brows were raised and his eyes were glaring, like an angry King Kong.
There will indeed be news soon.
I learned about Tao Yan's family's new address and her history since returning to the city.
She returned in 1979, and the next year she married a trade union cadre who was a few years older than her and whose wife died during childbirth. Before the family planning policy was implemented, they had two children, and now both of them are respectable people who earn commercial grain. The reason for the move was that they changed jobs and moved to a new house, and no one knew about Tao Yan's past.
Knowing this, Yu Xiangan frowned.
A person with scruples will consider many things. Among other things, for the purpose of protecting her children from being criticized by others, she would not want anyone to know what she went through during those years in the countryside.
Yu Xiangan and his friends went to the address and waited for a while before meeting Tao Yan at the door, who was returning from shopping with her child holding her hand.
Looking at this face, Yu Xiangan found it somewhat familiar, and Yu Qingshan also noticed it. The two looked at each other and remembered that she looked somewhat similar to Ruan Chenxi, but in comparison, Tao Yan was more delicate. Even if she was wearing a loose and featureless factory uniform, walking in the crowd, she was a woman who would easily attract people's attention.
She saw Miao Hongxing first, and then her face changed slightly. Then the middle-aged women who were chatting at the door greeted her: "You're back. Your family has guests today. We've been waiting for you for a while. Are they your relatives from your mother's side?"
Tao Yan looked at Yu Xiangan and Yu Qingshan's faces, and was silent for three seconds before she smiled and replied, "No, this is my old classmate. Oh, I can't recognize him. I haven't seen him for many years. We need to have a good chat. Auntie, I will accompany them to find another classmate. You can help me look after the child. When the child's father comes back, tell him that I accompanied my classmate today and will be with my mother in the evening."
"Okay!"
Miao Hongxing smiled and cooperated: "Let's go over there."
Tao Yan took them around a corner and somehow ended up in a dilapidated courtyard overgrown with weeds.
If people nearby saw it, they would look at it in admiration, because this is a well-known "haunted house".
It's haunted and no one dares to get close.
"We can talk here, what are you doing here?"
Miao Hongxing smiled bitterly: "I brought them to find you. They are Xiang He's family members, and they want to seek justice for her."
Yu Qingshan: "I'm her father."
Yu Xiangqing and Yu Xiangan: "We are her sisters."
Tao Yan looked at their faces and was silent for a long time: "Seeking justice? That's easy to say. It's been a long time since this happened. Their power over there is not that simple."
There was indifference on her face.
"You better be careful. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you don't have something in your hands, you might end up getting yourself hurt."
Yu Xiangqing: "I don't believe this dark force can be lawless. If not, I can submit an article to the newspaper and report it with my real name. I am a high school teacher, my father is a retired worker, my eldest brother is also a worker, and my second brother is a cadre in the capital. My sister graduated from the capital university and knows some people in the system. With so many people, I don't believe they can cover the sky with one hand!"
Tao Yan's eyes swept across their clothes and the expression on her face softened a little.
"I've lived with her for a while, so if you want to ask anything, just ask. Once we leave here, I won't recognize anything you say. I just want to talk to an old classmate today, and I don't know what you're talking about."
Because she had already married after returning from the countryside, if her shameful past were known to people she knew, her family might have broken up.
So she was willing to tell them, but she would not testify or accompany them to find evidence and seek justice.
If they say she is selfish, she will admit it, but she will not stand up.
She was firm in her meaning.
It was just some news she could say, and that was it.
She didn't admit it.
She knows nothing.
This is not surprising.
Can you say she is wrong?
How many people can not care about this aspect nowadays?
This is different from Miao Hongxing. She has never suffered this kind of treatment, so she can understand the anger and unwillingness of Yu Xianghe's family about this matter, but she also does not want it to affect her normal life.
It was not easy for her to escape from that place.
She cherishes the life she has now and doesn't want anything to disturb her.
Tao Yan nodded at Yu Qingshan: "Uncle Yu, you are a parent, and I am also a parent now. I am back, married, and have two children. No one here knows what I have been through. If this matter gets out, my two children will be ruined."
When she came back, everyone thought she had abandoned her man and children in the countryside. This was not uncommon among the educated youth. But if everyone knew what she had experienced during her time in the countryside, everyone would look down on her and her children.
Other people's criticism has a huge impact on children who have not yet established their own character.
She won't take any risks.
Yu Qingshan's throat moved: "I hope you can help us find evidence. We lack evidence."
Tao Yan nodded: "I just know more. If you want evidence, I can't help you. Although I can't help you, I can tell you someone. You can go find her. If you can pay enough, she can help you achieve your goal."
Yu Qingshan was disappointed when he heard the first half of her words, but was surprised when he heard the latter part. "Who?"
"She was not an educated youth who went to the countryside in Yushu Village. She was from the next village and went to the countryside two years earlier than us. But she also experienced the same thing. She was married at the time, but it was useless. Her husband met a jackal in the mountains and died, leaving her and her two children. After her husband died, she had to support the family, and was threatened by the team leader with the two children, so she had to be his lover. He and Pan Wang were sworn brothers. The hearts of people in that commune were all evil!"
As she spoke, Tao Yan became emotional. "She is having a hard time now. If you are willing to give her enough money to solve her worries, she should agree to come forward. She has also returned to Shanghai, but she still has a son trapped there."
"She has evidence. After her husband died, she gave birth to two children. One of them looks like the captain, and the other looks like the mayor. These two children are living evidence. Maybe she has other evidence."
After hearing this, everyone fell silent.
So is Miao Hongxing.
It turns out that the famous "Wild Mandarin Duck" next door is also from Shanghai.
Yu Xiangqing spoke in a dry voice: "If we go to their door like this, they might not believe us."
Tao Yan took a deep breath and her emotions calmed down. She controlled her emotions very well. After a few breaths, her face regained its calmness: "I can take you to find her."
No one wants to talk about the pain in the past easily, but if it can bring her a stable life, Tao Yan knows that with Yuanyang's personality, she won't mind taking the lead, not to mention that she still has a son there.
Those people over there are all rotten!
If she had had no other choice, she would have found a way to escape with him.
Yuanyang had just arrived in the countryside and married a local man because of a heroic act of saving a beautiful girl. At that time, she lived a good life for two years.
But the family she married into had few members and they were outsiders with no roots in the local area. Once something happened to her husband, things would be bad.
How can she and her mother-in-law, two frail women, support the family?
What's more, she has a weak spot.
She had to obey. If she didn't, she would suffer the same fate and her child would not survive.
Later, she gave up everything and her reputation was ruined. But when the policy was relaxed, she immediately fled with her daughter, leaving behind her original son and her two subsequent sons.
The eldest son could not be taken away and was trapped there. As for the other two, they were proof of her shame and she was not willing to take them away at all!
After escaping from there, she lived a period of wandering with her child. Her home was here, but her parents had both passed away, and she had no family to rely on. After returning, she made a living by making clothes for others, and the mother and child had a very difficult life.
Tao Yan told Yu Xiangan and the others about Yuan Yang's experience so that they could get to know her better, and then she led them there. No one spoke along the way.
I felt like there was a huge rock pressing down on my heart.
Yu Qingshan thought about the experience of the girl named Yuan Yang. While he felt sad for her, he was also thinking, if it was his daughter... As a father, he would rather she live such a difficult life, because there is hope as long as she is alive.
There is always hope that the past will pass, but if it passes away in its prime, there will be no future.
When they arrived, Yuan Yang was washing vegetables by the well.
What is washed are the old vegetable stems that others don’t want or are used to feed chickens and pigs.
The clothes on their bodies were patched up layer upon layer, and it was impossible to tell what their original color was. Moreover, both mother and daughter had bangs that covered most of their faces.
When Yu Xiangan saw the hairstyle, he guessed that they didn't want to show their faces.
Even though she returned to this familiar place, she didn't dare show her face. Her daughter, who was already a grown-up girl, walked with her back hunched over. When she saw them coming, she unconsciously hid behind her mother.
He seems very introverted and shy.
Yuan Yang looked up at these people, and Tao Yan walked over. "It's me. I need to talk to you. Let's find a place where it's convenient to talk."
Yuan Yang paused while washing the vegetables, looked at them, nodded, turned around and said to her daughter, "You continue to clean up the vegetables on the ground. I'll take them out for a walk. You can go home after you're done."
Her daughter didn't say a word. She lowered her head deeply, revealing the back of her head, and nodded heavily twice.
She stood up and walked out. Yu Xiangan and the others followed her. They walked for a while along a deserted area. When there was no one around, Yuan Yang stopped and asked, "What's going on?"
Tao Yan: "You should also remember Yu Xianghe, who lived in the same Youth League House with me. This is her family. They want to seek justice for her and avenge her." She said in a light tone: "But it's been so long since the incident. You know it's hard to find evidence. I came to ask if you have any relevant clues."
Yuan Yang was silent for a moment, looked at Yu Qingshan and Yu Xiangan, then pulled her out, "Let's talk first."
Yu Xiangan watched them walk a distance away and then stop to talk. Their voices were so low that they couldn't hear clearly.
Miao Hongxing was also nervous. Would this "wild mandarin duck" agree?
She admired this woman very much, this woman who was despised by almost all the women there, who had gone through so much and yet was still able to live so hard. If this were to be exposed, it would be tantamount to reopening the scars and exposing her naked flesh and blood for everyone to point fingers at.
She couldn't do it, she would rather die.
Yu Xiangqing clasped her hands together and clenched them tightly. She looked in their direction and asked in a low voice: "Xiao An, do you think she will agree?" She was very conflicted. She wanted to avenge her sister very much, but if she wanted to take revenge without other evidence, her shameful past would be made public, which would cause great harm to her. If those who were not mentally prepared were to be driven to death by these rumors.
But despite this, she still hoped in her heart that she would agree.
She could see that the other party's family was in financial difficulty. She had money, although not wealthy, but she could still give some money to help her as long as she was willing to help them.
Although the injustice Yuan Yang encountered was not from Yushu Village, the people above him were the same. When the protective umbrella above falls, will the small shrimps below still be safe?
Won't.
It will definitely be uprooted.
Yu Xiangan looked at Yuan Yang's clothes and thought about the girl he had just met. "I think she will agree for the sake of her child."
What will happen to her daughter if this continues?
And she couldn't let go of her eldest son there.
For the sake of the two children, Yu Xiangan felt that Yuan Yang would agree. As for the rumors... the fact that Yuan Yang could endure them and return to Shanghai was enough to prove her strong character.
Such people will find a way to get over it no matter how difficult their lives are, as long as there is no cliff in front of them.
The child and his grandmother depended on each other for survival. Perhaps in the child's eyes, she was still a bad mother, leaving them with so many gossips and leaving them there to bear, and took her sister away. But the fact is that he had spent all his energy even on escaping. The other party did not give his son any chance at all, and his grandmother was still a confused person, believing whatever others said.
So she invited him to the Special Administrative Region. He could introduce her to a job and send her a lump sum of money, which was enough for him to buy a house there for his family to live in. Ah, the Special Administrative Region is open-minded and has a mixed flow of people. No one would know what he had experienced in the past. He also wanted to go to the Northeast.
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