Yesterday, Secretary Liu drove a walk-behind tractor and forced Li Jian and his family out of the Changhong Corps, preparing to take them to the commune to catch a bus.

Unexpectedly, Li Jianyan started to have diarrhea before they even reached the commune. Li Shenxing was older and in poor health, so he vomited and had diarrhea, and soon his face turned pale.

Secretary Liu did not dare to delay and drove the tractor at a racing speed to take them to the hospital.

When they arrived at the hospital, the doctor asked what the children had eaten. Li Jian and Liu Ruyan hesitated and refused to answer. The doctor got angry and said, "How can you be parents? You don't even know what your children have eaten? We need to prescribe the right medicine to stop the symptoms first."

The commune hospital has limited technology and cannot perform gastric lavage. Children can take some medicine first. If a child accidentally eats pesticides, he or she must be taken to the county hospital for treatment immediately.

Li Jian and Liu Ruyan each held one in their arms and still refused to speak. They thought that after taking croton seeds and having diarrhea, they would be fine.

After all, they wanted to use this to frame Sheng Tunan, so Li Jian and Liu Ruyan felt very guilty and did not dare to tell the truth.

At this moment, Li Shenxing started vomiting again.

The doctor looked at the vomit on the ground, carefully identified it, and found that it was croton that had not yet been digested. He immediately prescribed antidiarrheal drugs for the two children.

"How can you be a mother? Why do you feed croton to such a young child? If the child is constipated, he should eat more vegetables. How can you feed croton to random people?"

The doctor wrote a prescription and asked the nurse to get the medicine, shaking her head and admonishing Li Jian and Liu Ruyan. The young doctor didn't know how sinister people were, and thought that the child's parents gave the child croton seeds to treat constipation.

Secretary Liu, who was standing nearby, frowned. Li Jian and Liu Ruyan were evasive. It was definitely not as simple as curing constipation.

Thinking of how Liu Ruyan insisted that Sheng Tunan give the child a bite to eat, Secretary Liu guessed that this family wanted to frame Sheng Tunan, and his face immediately darkened.

At this time, the nurse took medicine and gave it to the two children.

Li Jianyan was a little older, so after taking some medicine and resting for a while, his complexion looked better.

Li Shenxing had little nutrition in his mother's womb, and was weak and sickly since birth. He took so much croton and was very weak. In addition, he kept vomiting, so the medicine went in, but before it could take effect, he vomited it out again.

Li Jian and Liu Ruyan were so busy taking care of the two children that Secretary Liu couldn't bear to watch them, so he stayed behind to help take care of them, running around fetching water and buying food.

By the evening, his condition had almost improved and he no longer had diarrhea. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Li Shenxing suddenly turned pale and his breathing became very weak.

Seeing that the child was in a bad condition, the doctor transferred them to the county hospital again.

As early as when Li Shenxing couldn't take the medicine, the doctor suggested that they go to the county hospital, but Liu Ruyan was reluctant to go because she was worried about the money. She said that he just took some croton seeds and would be fine after vomiting.

Unexpectedly, after delaying for a long time, I am now breathing out more than breathing in.

"I'll take you to the county hospital." Secretary Liu was a father, and he couldn't bear to see a child die in front of him, so he waved his hand and asked Li Jian to hold Li Shenxing on the tractor.

Liu Ruyan hesitated: "Secretary Liu, we have no money. We spent a lot on the road. We only have a little money. We have to pay for the child's medical treatment. What will our family eat?"

"I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you, okay?" Secretary Liu shouted anxiously when he saw Xiao Shenxing's face turning paler and paler.

Liu Ruyan nodded and asked Li Jian to carry the child into the car. At this moment, Li Shenxing twitched a few times, foamed at the mouth, and died in his father's arms.

"That's exactly what happened." Secretary Liu shook his head and said firmly, "It's really harmful to others. Liu Ruyan gave the children croton seeds to eat. She must have wanted to frame you. Who would have thought that now their own child would be killed."

Sheng Tunan and Zhan Xinyue looked at each other and felt that it was retribution.

Especially Zhan Xinyue, who had no sympathy for their family at all. As a senior, because Li Shenxing was in poor health, Zhan Xinyue treated him better than Li Jianyan. When he was sick, it was Zhan Xinyue who stayed with him, fed him medicine and wiped his body, and dared not sleep all night.

Later, the two brothers, Zhenyan and Shenxing, committed murder for money, and Li Shenxing showed no mercy.

Seniors, it was clearly Zhan Xinyue who regarded them as her own children and dedicated herself to them selflessly, but these two ungrateful people still remember that their biological mother Liu Ruyan had never even washed their clothes since Zhan Xinyue came into the family.

In the final analysis, if you don't know each other well, then you don't raise them well.

Zhan Xinyue was determined in her heart to have a few biological children. Sons and daughters were fine, as long as they were her own.

"Hey, do you think Li Jian and Liu Ruyan are worse than pigs and dogs?" Secretary Liu saw that the two were silent and thought that Sheng Tunan and Zhan Xinyue were too embarrassed to curse, so he spoke for them.

"Yes." Sheng Tunan nodded and asked, "Li Jian and Liu Ruyan, this is considered murder, right? Have you reported it to the police?"

"Ah?" Secretary Liu was confused and shook his head.

These days, there are countless cases of parents beating their sons to death or drowning their daughters, and no one has ever reported the case.

Sheng Tunan remembered that it was only 1977 and the Child Protection Act had not yet been implemented, so he did not continue the topic and nodded to Secretary Liu: "Secretary Liu, Xinyue and I are back in the army. I'll trouble you and Aunt Xiumei to take care of grandma."

"Don't worry. Stay in the army and defend the country, and don't worry about home." Secretary Liu waved goodbye.

The journey to the island was not short, and it took two days to drive there. In order to get back to the unit as soon as possible, he hardly stopped to rest. He only stopped to eat when he was hungry, and continued on his way after he was full.

In order to arrive earlier, Sheng Tunan did not take the national highway but took a shortcut.

There are many trees and few pedestrians on the shortcut. Although the road is a bit rugged, it is not a problem for military off-road vehicles to drive on it. It is very cool to travel under the dense shade of trees on both sides of the road.

Two military off-road vehicles were speeding on the road. Zhan Xinyue sat in the passenger seat, watching the moon slowly replace the sun. She kept looking at Sheng Tunan with her peripheral vision. Long-distance driving was very tiring. The man had been driving all day. It was already past seven o'clock in the evening. In case Sheng Tunan dozed off, she would have to remind him.

Suddenly, several gunshots rang out.

Sheng Tunan braked immediately, and the car behind him also stopped urgently.

Li Hu was already lying on the ground. Li Erhu took out a telescope and stood on the roof of the car. Wang Xinyi took a gun and quickly got ready for battle.

Hu Shengli sat in the driver's seat, holding the steering wheel, ready to start the car at any time.

Zhan Xinyue closed her eyes, carefully identified the situation and said, "The gunshots were to our southeast. There must be a fork in the road ahead."

At this time, Li Hu jumped up from the ground and came over to report: "Captain, there was a gunfight in the southeast. Erhu saw our military vehicles through the telescope. I can't see how many enemies there are at the moment, but they are attacking fiercely."

At this moment, there was a loud explosion.

"Go and provide support quickly." Sheng Tunan said.

"Yes." Li Hu took the order and left. Hu Shengli drove past Sheng Tunan and rushed to the battlefield.

"Xinyue, are you staying here?" Sheng Tunan asked.

"No, I know martial arts and can protect myself. I won't be a burden." Zhan Xinyue took out a curved knife.

She made this out of a sickle for self-defense.

"Okay." Sheng Tunan started the car. He was worried about leaving Zhan Xinyue here alone. What if some bad guys found her and abducted her? The consequences would be disastrous.