Chapter 082: The Matter is Finally Resolved
That day happened to be Saturday. After Wen Jiajia arrived at the meeting, she did not rashly go to find Comrade Lu, but told Wei Dai about the matter first.
Wei Dai was tasting tea. It was wild tea leaves picked from the nearby mountains before Qingming Festival. He felt it was good and had to have a cup from time to time. At this moment, when he heard this, the tea in his mouth spurted out.
"What did you say?" He was very shocked.
Wen Jiajia was anxious, so she pulled him into the room and told him how she had noticed something strange and how she had asked Lin Yunfei to help investigate.
Of course, Lin Yunfei also talked about the news she brought today. She didn’t miss a single word, but she did include every key point.
Wei Dai was stunned for a long time, unable to come back to his senses. As someone who had just started to read novels, he would never have thought that this kind of operation would be possible.
He said in disbelief: "Even if we hate someone in our hometown, we won't swap their children."
This lacks great virtue.
Wen Jiajia didn't comment, that's not a chance. Otherwise, why have the incidents of accidentally taking the wrong baby away from hospitals always happened in the past few decades?
There are even scumbags who sell children, and there are naturally people who swap children. Wei Dai has seen too little of this. He has not experienced the information explosion and only thinks this kind of thing is shocking.
"Why? He's my own brother."
Wei Dai really couldn't understand it, but he was not a stranger.
Let’s not talk about family ties. The possibility of being discovered alone is not worth taking such a big risk to do such a thing.
After all, they would not have no contact with each other forever. When the children grew up and saw the two children, wouldn't they be suspicious? How could such a thing be hidden from the sharp eyes of the country people?
You know, there are almost no secrets in the countryside. Your neighbors will know how many times you got up last night.
Children always resemble their parents, not neither. You may not be able to see it yourself, but if the two children stand together, the villagers will definitely be able to tell.
Wen Jiajia frowned: "What if that girl is gone?"
Don't think that a couple can't do this. How could they not do it in order to protect their son's superior life?
You should know that Lu Yiyuan and his wife’s monthly salary is equivalent to what they earn in a year.
Li Sunming is at the same level as Wei Dai. Lu Yiyuan also saved a lot of money by following the engineering team through life and death a few years ago. Now he has a job as a clerk in a nearby commune, and his monthly salary is also not small. However, Lu Yiyuan has a cold body, and he had heavy bleeding during childbirth last time, so it is likely to be difficult for him to have another child... Interests can turn two lazy couples into demons.
"Gone? What's gone?"
Wei Dai didn't react for a moment to what "gone" meant. After a few seconds he realized that "gone" meant dead. If the child died, it didn't matter even if he looked like the child again.
In just a few minutes, the shock was like a wave. Before the shock had subsided, the shock behind it came over again. Even someone like him who had experienced life and death could not help but feel a chill at this moment.
He said, "Don't go, I'll go."
After a pause, Wei Dai continued, "Li Sunming is not someone who can be easily fooled. If you tell him about this, he will investigate the matter thoroughly."
Wen Jiajia: "That's perfect."
She was afraid that Li Sunming was a moron who would rather have a nephew than his own daughter, so she decided to just go with the flow.
Wei Dai sighed: "I mean, he will probably find out about you. If my mother-in-law has a relationship with Comrade Lu, I'm afraid he won't be able to hide it from her."
Wen Jiajia was suddenly speechless.
After thinking for a while, he frowned and said, "If you know, then know. This is not something shameful. If there is really any trouble, you can't let Comrade Lu take care of it by putting it on me."
Who knows, the people over there might be afraid that she might be trouble.
In that case, Wei Dai went and said it.
He didn't even have time to eat. He took off his apron and rushed to Li's house.
The Li family was also having dinner at this time. Wei Dai knocked on the door and it was Li Sunming who opened the door.
He was surprised and confused: "Wei Dai?"
Then he warmly welcomed Wei Dai into the house: "Come in, come in, have you had dinner? Come and have a bite at my house."
Lu Yiyuan also agreed, then got up and went to the kitchen to get chopsticks.
Wei Dai quickly stopped him and said to Li Sunming, "No need, Brother Li. I came here to talk to you about something important."
When he heard the urgent matter, Lu Yiyuan went to the room consciously, holding the hand of the child next to him in the process.
The child slapped her hand away and Li Sunming's face turned dark immediately.
He wanted to teach him a lesson, but Wei Dai was still there, so he suppressed his anger. However, he couldn't hide his desire to hit him, and the child even backed away.
Seeing this, Wei Dai smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you guys eat. Brother Li and I will go outside to talk."
Li Sunming also nodded.
As they spoke, the two of them went downstairs one after the other.
Li Sunming was still thinking about what it could be. He and Wei Dai didn't really have much in common. Even if there was something wrong with the troops, they would only be notified after the superiors had communicated with them.
As the weather gets hotter, it gets darker day by day.
At this moment, the sky was still filled with sunset glow, which dyed the open space where mugwort grew with the color of the sunset glow.
Thinking about his pregnant wife at home, Wei Dai got straight to the point: "Brother Li, I think there is something wrong with your child. Don't get excited yet--"
When Li Sunming's expression suddenly changed, Wei Dai even took a step to the side, fearing that he would punch him unexpectedly.
Wei Dai spoke very quickly, just like Victor: "The problem I'm talking about is that he is most likely not your child, but your eldest brother's child. In other words, your eldest brother's daughter is your child."
Li Sunming wanted to curse, but after Wei Dai finished speaking, he just stood there.
"Fart!" he said angrily.
Wei Dai was not angry. He put himself in the other person's shoes. If someone suddenly said this to him, he would also think that the other person was playing a joke on him.
He sighed, "Why would I lie to you? We have no relationship, and I only found out about this by accident. Just listen to me first."
"Tell me, tell me quickly!" Li Sunming turned around twice and scratched his hair fiercely.
Wei Dai told how his wife noticed something was wrong, how he asked someone to investigate, and what they found out.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia had explained the whole thing from beginning to end before, and Wei Dai was not a fool, so he just had to repeat what Wen Jiajia had said to him not long ago.
Wen Jiajia spoke in a very organized way, pointing out all the doubts one by one. So Wei Dai also spoke in a very organized way, at least his logic was very clear, even Li Sunming, who found it hard to accept, felt a little uneasy at this moment.
“The police also said there’s a problem?” His chest heaved.
Wei Dai nodded: "Why don't you ask someone to investigate? My wife wanted to talk to your wife directly, but your wife is not in good health, right? I was afraid that something might happen, so I came to talk to you first."
He didn't stay long, sighed again, and patted Li Sunming's shoulder: "I suggest you don't get excited or let any news out, especially not let your eldest brother, eldest sister-in-law, and... your parents know. If the two children were really swapped, your daughter is at your eldest sister-in-law's family home. If anything happens..."
Li Sunming naturally understood what Wei Dai had not said yet. If they knew about it, they would definitely do something desperate.
Li Sunming took a deep breath, there was even a dazed look in his eyes, his chest was so blocked that he couldn't utter a word, as if he had lost his voice.
He instinctively didn't believe what Wei Dai said, but he also understood that Wei Dai had no reason to lie to him.
After Wei Dai left, he stayed there for a long time, squatting on the ground and smoking three cigarettes. When he stood up again, the sky was already as dark as ink.
When I got home and saw my child making a loud noise, I couldn't help but stare at him quietly.
It doesn't look like him, it looks like his brother. People in the village used to say the same thing, but he just smiled and passed it off.
There are also cases where nephews resemble their uncles.
However, at this moment, he saw some shadows of his elder sister-in-law and younger brother on his son's face.
Lv Yiyuan was exhausted, so he ignored him and told Li Sunming, "Go and take care of your son. Don't let the neighbors upstairs and downstairs come and complain."
Li Sunming asked, "Is he like this every day?"
"Yes, it's like this every day." Lu Yiyuan's eyes instantly turned red, "He's asking for your parents to come, asking for his uncle and aunt, or asking to go home, saying that I'm not his mother."
It was strange, he was only like this towards her. But towards his father, he was a little afraid and a little flattering.
Lu Yiyuan guessed that it was someone from her hometown who taught her son to be distant from her.
But she felt guilty because she felt that she didn't like this child that much. But how could it be possible? This was the child she had spent ten months carrying and half her life giving birth to, and she actually didn't like him! How could she not like him!
Even hate him!
Lu Yiyuan was in great pain, with his reason and emotions constantly torn between them.
In the distance, the North Mountain.
After Wei Dai returned home, he nodded to Wen Jiajia, and Wen Jiajia knew that he had taken care of the matter.
Wen Jiajia breathed a sigh of relief. It was all right if she did it. If she hadn't told him, she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
Wen Jiajia's mood improved significantly, as if she had thrown away a heavy burden.
After dinner, she started playing this year's new Ai.
The Dragon Boat Festival is only a month away, but mugwort has already grown. Those who know the goods have already started picking them, drying them and storing them away. This thing is also a Chinese herbal medicine, which has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, cold and dampness-removing effects and can also prevent colds.
These men in the army must have problems with their feet all the time, not to mention other parts of their body.
Whether it’s eczema or a bacterial infection, one in three people will experience peeling skin.
Fortunately, Wei Dai doesn't know how to do it. If he did, Wen Jiajia wouldn't dare let him go to bed, for fear of infecting her feet.
Bao said her husband had a serious bacterial infection on his feet and he had to go to the hospital every year to get ointment, but it was of little use.
Well, this disease is not fatal, and it is not even a disease. But it is troublesome, just like a toothache, only those who feel the pain know it.
Although peeling feet is not as painful as toothache, the itching is extremely annoying. The key is that there is no cure, so I can only soak my feet in mugwort water every year, which seems to provide some relief.
Many women in the army also need to use mugwort. As mentioned before, it can dispel cold and dampness. This means that it is useful for dysmenorrhea, cold uterus and other diseases. Just like one out of three men has peeling skin, one out of three women also has cold uterus.
Well, it can be seen that mugwort is a popular plant in the army.
Wen Jiajia had just finished her meal and picked a lot of them in the yard before it got dark. She dried some of them and made some into mosquito coils.
To make mosquito coils, separate the stalks of the mugwort leaves, leaving only the leaves, and then spread the leaves out to dry.
Wen Jiajia looked up and saw that the sky was clear and there were countless stars. It was obvious that it would be sunny again next year.
So she placed the sunshade filled with mugwort leaves directly in the yard, not having to worry about the dew and saving herself the trouble of having to move it out the next day.
After finishing, Wen Jiajia clapped her hands, took a shower and went to bed.
Let go of your worries and you will have a dreamless night.
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Lin Yunfei is very concerned about the follow-up of this incident. In her words: Even if I am not informed of the follow-up, I will be thinking about it until I die!
Eh, Wen Jiajia's body trembled, but she could understand it.
She is also paying attention to the follow-up!
According to Wei Dai, Li Sunming asked for leave the next day, and he must have returned to his hometown to investigate. He was not confident in entrusting anyone to investigate, so he had to do it himself.
Wen Jiajia thought the matter could be sorted out in a week at most, but who could have imagined that Li Sunming would not return until half a month later.
The first thing he did when he got back was to send the naughty kid away. The neighbors who didn't know the inside story were celebrating so much that they almost laughed out loud.
The harm caused by naughty children is self-evident. Even if it is not at the level of a nuclear bomb, it is at the level of a rocket launcher.
It would be fine if they just made loud noises from time to time, but sometimes they would even howl in the middle of the night, keeping everyone in the building awake.
Lu Yiyuan went door to door to apologize, and the family had to buy fruit candies every week just to apologize.
In other words, she kept the child at home and did not allow him to go out and play with others until he corrected his behavior. Otherwise, she would not be able to pay for the loss even if she bought a pig a week, let alone fruit candies.
On the day when Li Sunming sent the child away, he brought another little girl with him.
He didn't elaborate on the details, but many people guessed it by looking at the child's face.
Because that child really looks a bit like Lu Yiyuan, and also like Li Sunming.
The upper half of her face looks like her father, and the lower half looks like her mother. When you look at them together, you can see both her father's shadow and her mother's appearance. No one would believe that she is not their child.
Suddenly, the family compound was extremely noisy! Even Wen Jiajia, who had just woken up, heard the noise.
"Oh my god, Jia Jia, how can you still sit still? Do you want to see the excitement? Go away, go away!" The one who came was Sister Bao. Even someone like Sister Bao who had given up gossip could not resist the temptation, which shows how attractive this matter is.
Wen Jiajia had just finished her porridge when Sister Bao pulled her up and quickly walked towards the family building.
"Tell me, how could such a strange thing happen in this world! Children could be switched, and it was their own father, mother, brother, and sister-in-law who did it." Sister Bao said as she walked, her eyes gleaming with a long-lost desire for gossip.
"That little girl is so pitiful, she is as thin as firewood, I am afraid she is not even half as heavy as the original child. How heavy was the original child, even fatter than Xiaopang. Tsk tsk, what a sin. Moreover, she is wearing clothes that cannot be patched any more, and she is hiding timidly behind Li Sunming and dare not speak. Oh, Comrade Lu is crying miserably while holding the child, it is heartbreaking to hear..."
Talking all the way, we arrived at the family building.
Wen Jiajia heard the crying from a distance. In her previous life, she had witnessed a kidnapped child being reunited with his or her parents. The mother's crying was like a sharp sword, making everyone present burst into tears.
It is the same now. Sister Bao was excited at first, but now her eyes immediately turned red and her excitement disappeared.
"It's so painful. My heart aches." Sister Bao touched her chest and said, "What mother wouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing something like this?"
Wen Jiajia nodded vigorously and touched her belly subconsciously. If her child was replaced by someone, she would fight to the death with that person.
Arriving at the door of Li's house, one can see the scene inside through the window.
There were many people gathered around, but not all of them were there to watch the excitement. Maybe they were at first, but when they saw this scene, they all fell silent.
I saw Lu Yiyuan sitting on the ground, holding the child tightly, crying, with a look of both grief and relief. The child was very frightened, but he also put his little hands on his mother.
Wen Jiajia shook her head, unwilling to look any longer, and left after saying something to Sister Bao.
She was not in a good mood all day.
But after she left, Lu Yiyuan came to her house.
That night, Lu Yiyuan came to her house and knelt on the ground before he even opened his mouth.
Wen Jiajia's eyes widened in fear, and she quickly bent down to help her up: "Hey, hey, hey, Comrade Lu, what are you doing? Get up quickly, get up quickly, and let's talk it over."
Lu Yiyuan said, "Comrade Wen, you saved my life! I don't even dare to think about what my daughter would have lived like if you hadn't pointed this out."
When Wei Dai heard the noise, he quickly put on his clothes and opened the bathroom door just in time to see Li Sunming.
He was a little unhappy and hurried back to the house. When passing by him, he whispered, "Thank you, but don't make your wife kneel down. What if she scares me?"
Jia Jia is still pregnant. He is very superstitious now, and he doesn't know whether this kneeling will have any effect on the baby in her belly.
After all, Comrade Lu is most likely his wife's sister, or a higher-level relative. It would be fine if he knelt to his wife, but what about kneeling to the child in her belly as well? Isn't that anti-Tian Gang?
Li Sunming quickly said "I'm sorry", then helped his wife up and said, "Comrade Wen is pregnant."
Lu Yiyuan had been at home recently, either battling with her naughty kids or going out to work. She was not a gossipy person, so she really didn't know that Wen Jiajia was pregnant.
"Sorry, sorry!" Lu Yiyuan slapped his head, "I lost my mind."
Wen Jiajia rubbed her face and said, "It's okay. Please sit down. Do you want some tea? This year's new wild tea is picked from the nearby mountains. It tastes pretty good."
The couple nodded and sat on the sofa.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan, who heard the noise, came out and met the couple.
Lu Yiyuan had never seen these two children, or maybe he had seen them but he didn't pay any attention to them.
She was now a woman with a daughter, and when she saw the children who were almost the same age as her daughter, she began to like them. She felt that Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were particularly friendly, so she took out two handfuls of candies from her pocket and stuffed them into the two sisters.
"Good boy, have some candy."
The two sisters looked up at Wen Jiajia, and only after Wen Jiajia nodded did they happily accept it.
At the same time, he said, "Thank you, Auntie."
Wen Jiajia patted the two girls on the head and said, "No eating today. Go back to your room."
The two children skipped back to the house.
Lu Yiyuan said, "They are so lively, and they look a lot like you, Comrade Wen."
Wen Jiajia picked up the thermos to make tea and said with a smile, "You just came here at the beginning of the year, right? They are my nieces, the daughters of my two sisters, so they look like me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Sunming next to him hesitated to speak.
Wen Jiajia guessed that he must have found out something, after all, the name of the original owner's mother was on his personnel list. If he found out about this, he would be able to associate it with his own Yue family if he was a little sensitive.
Lu Yiyuan also laughed, and as he laughed, the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "To be honest, the moment I held my daughter in my arms today, I felt like a mother. You are the savior of our family. It is because I am an unqualified mother that she has suffered so much."
Wen Jiajia shook her head: "You can't punish yourself for someone else's mistakes. Giving birth is the most vulnerable time. This is not your fault. Don't hold a grudge against it. Isn't the child back now?"
Then he asked, "By the way, excuse me, how is your hometown now..."
Li Sunming said: "It's hard to say who is the mastermind, but probably all of them are. I called the police after I got home, and they put my eldest brother in jail after the trial. He took all the responsibility. He also lost money. I emptied my parents' savings."
In just a few days, relatives turned into enemies.
Wen Jiajia was quite surprised that Li Sunming had the courage to call the police and that his report was successful.
A few decades later, calling the police was a common thing, but people of that era believed that problems should not leave the village, and if they could be solved in the village, they should be solved in the village, and if they could be solved at home, they should be solved at home. Anyway, they had to keep it secret and not let others know.
There are also clan-based villages where the words of some so-called clan elders are more effective than the law.
There is a clan village under Fuyang. It is said that once someone was beaten to death in the village, the villagers solved the problem by themselves. It was the child of the person who was beaten to death who ran out of the village and went to the commune at night. Only then did the incident become known and the murderer was brought to justice.
What happened later? After several legal education sessions, the village’s atmosphere remained unchanged. The victim’s family was subjected to various unfair treatments because they “broke the rules” until the commune moved their household registration out of the village and into the commune.
It can be seen that in some villages where the law is illiterate, reporting to the police is a big deal. Not to mention that reporting to one's own family will definitely be criticized, and it cannot be done without perseverance.
Predictably, Li Sunming's reputation in his hometown was ruined.
As expected, Li Sunming said, "People in my area think I am making a big deal out of a small matter, but when I look at my daughter, I feel that I would be doing my daughter a disservice if I don't put my brother in jail. She is still in the hospital and has just fallen asleep, so we had time to get out."
Wen Jiajia asked hurriedly: "What's wrong with the child?"
"It's malnutrition and there are external injuries on the body." After saying this, the couple's eyes turned red again.
Wen Jiajia sighed, thinking that this girl might be even more miserable than the original owner when she was in her adoptive parents' home.
The two of them came with gifts, and Wen Jiajia just noticed the bag in Lu Yiyuan's hand.
They didn't stay too long, after all, the child was still in the hospital. Before leaving, Lu Yiyuan took out the things in his bag, stuffed them into her hands, and left in a hurry without waiting for Wen Jiajia to ask clearly.
What's in it? A basket.
When I opened the basket, I found meat and brown sugar wrapped in oil paper, dried goods such as red dates and shiitake mushrooms, and cotton cloth that felt extremely fine and soft.
There was even a bicycle ticket. No wonder I waited until I was leaving to give it to her because I was afraid she would refuse to accept it.
"I'm so sleepy, let's go to sleep." Wen Jiajia yawned and went back to her room. Her belly was slowly swelling, and even riding a bicycle was not as convenient as before. It wasn't clumsy, but she was just scared.
Wei Dai was afraid that Wen Jiajia would be hungry in the middle of the night, so he put a glass of water on the bedside table and also put an iron box of biscuits next to it.
Wen Jiajia thought to herself that after brushing her teeth, she would never eat anything, as her mouth was sealed.
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