On the way back to the brigade leader's house, Su Ying was holding Xiao Bao's hand and swaying back and forth. Suddenly, she stopped, squatted down, and looked Xiao Bao in the eye.
"Did you hear and understand what your parents and I just said?"
Liu Xiaobao nodded his little head. "I heard it very clearly."
Su Ying asked in surprise, "Then why didn't you react at all?"
Liu Xiaobao's eyes were blank. "How should I react? Actually, I heard what they said when they were talking about the baby in my belly at home."
“I am not their biological child, which is why they abandoned me without hesitation.”
"In order to sever all ties with me, they keep raising the price. My parents once said I was priceless, but now I've become valuable."
"I know that the handsome uncle and the beautiful aunt are my biological parents."
Su Ying stared in shock at that tender little face, and her words were heartbreaking.
Will my pretty auntie abandon me one day and sell me off?
Su Ying held the trembling little body and sobbed, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have come up with this idea."
"I didn't mean any harm by making Xiaobao so unhappy. I just wanted to take you home."
“My goal is to get your parents pregnant so they can have a new child and have something to look forward to. Then we can take you home so they won’t be too upset.”
"Giving them a thousand yuan was a token of gratitude because they raised Xiaobao so well. I don't know why it has turned out this way."
"They were so greedy that they kept raising the price. In the 1970s, a thousand dollars was a huge sum of money. They were never satisfied."
"Don't be angry, Xiaobao. Your pretty auntie will never abandon you. Why don't you come with me? Let's go home. Your family is waiting for you."
Su Ying had said so much, but Xiao Bao still hadn't said a word, so Su Ying started making conversation.
"Little Bao, haven't you always wanted to meet the handsome boy that your pretty auntie mentioned? Your pretty auntie will take you home today so you can meet him, okay?"
Liu Xiaobao looked at Su Ying with red eyes, his eyes brimming with tears that seemed about to fall but couldn't, which was heartbreaking to see.
"Does the pretty auntie dislike me and not like a good-for-nothing? So my brother and I are twins. The pretty auntie kept my brother but didn't want me. She threw me away and even wanted to kill me."
“Last night I overheard my parents talking. They said… they picked it up from a tree branch at the bottom of the cliff… they probably wanted to kill me by dropping it. Luckily I’m lucky… I didn’t die from the fall.”
"As expected, pretty aunties and handsome uncles are all the same. They don't like girls and they all like boys. You are just like the uncles and aunts in Qingshuihe. You don't like girls because we are all money-losing goods."
Su Ying felt as if her throat was being choked, making it hard to breathe, and she desperately shook her head in denial.
Afraid that if she spoke too slowly, Xiao Bao might misunderstand, she said, "No, no. It's not what you think. We never intended to throw you away. You were thrown off a cliff by bad guys and you were lucky to survive."
"For the past three years, your handsome uncle and I have been searching for you in the surrounding area for a very long time... but we still haven't heard from you. We have never intended to give up on you."
"That's why today happened... We've never forgotten you, and we've always wanted to bring you home..."
"I got your mother pregnant so they would have something to rely on, so they wouldn't have to worry about you anymore, and we could go our separate ways... But I never expected things to turn out this way."
Su Ying was afraid that Xiao Bao wouldn't believe her, so regardless of whether Xiao Bao understood or not, she told her the whole story of how she was taken away and then thrown down the mountain by bad guys.
Xiao Bao is a very smart child. She listened attentively and understood what was going on.
As long as she isn't thrown away, it's fine.
I didn't feel so sad anymore.
Ever since her parents found out she might be pregnant with her younger brother, their attitude towards her has changed.
She may be young, but she's not stupid...
Staying in Qingshuihe is not as good as going back to your biological parents.
At least she realized that the handsome uncle and the beautiful aunt were very kind to her, and that they were genuinely kind to her.
Instead of like Mom and Dad, who could simply add another thousand dollars to avoid seeing her again.
She didn't want to see them again.
They will not return to Qingshuihe.
She should go home.
She returned to the place where she had her older brother, maternal grandparents, paternal grandparents, great-grandparents, aunt, and many other people who loved her.
Thinking about it this way, the urge to burst into tears just now wasn't so strong anymore...
"Let's go home."
"good."
Su Ying stopped crying and smiled, then took Xiao Bao's hand and walked towards the brigade leader's house. When they arrived at the brigade leader's house, the first thing she did was to make a phone call to Gu Sinian's office.
Gu Sinian, who received the call on the other end, was taken aback. He realized it was his wife calling and began to speak in an increasingly irreverent manner.
"What? You haven't seen me for a month, have you missed me?"
"You're so unserious. Something's happened to me. Liu Dashan and Liu Qinghe have made Xiaobao and me very unhappy. I want to go back early. You don't need to go to Qingshuihe tomorrow. Just pick us up in the county town. We'll meet at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative in the county town."
"In urgent situations, we must act expediently. I have important matters to attend to here, so I won't go into too much detail with you."
"Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Before Gu Sinian could ask anything else, Su Ying had already hung up the phone.
The man looked helpless, but he did as Su Ying said. Although he didn't know what had happened at Qingshui River, his wife was unhappy, so something must have happened.
That's why the young wife changed her route and asked her to pick up the person in the county town near Qingshuihe. It's a bit of a distance from Qingshuihe to the county town, so I wondered if it would be inconvenient for the young wife and Xiaobao.
But then I remembered that my wife had a bicycle in her online space, so I wasn't so worried anymore.
He had predicted the route, which would take about an hour to travel from Qingshuihe to the county seat.
It shouldn't be a big deal for a young wife to ride a bicycle with her baby on the back...
He obediently did as he was told.
I'll wait for someone at the entrance of the county supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow.
After finishing her phone call, Su Ying began packing her luggage. When she had almost finished packing, she took advantage of her child's nap time to insert a silver needle into the child's acupoint.
Enough for the child to sleep for several hours.
Not long after the child finished eating the steamed buns, he became drowsy and fell asleep on Su Ying's shoulder.
Su Ying took the opportunity to put the child into her spatial dimension.
Leaving behind a letter and a few ten-yuan bills, Su Ying left Qingshuihe late at night.
Because she has space, she can perfectly avoid pedestrians on the road.
After leaving the Qingshui River, a bicycle appeared in front of her. She rode it away, using the moonlight to help her move forward.
I didn't go into my spatial dimension to sleep until we were almost near the supply and marketing cooperative.
Once everything was ready, Su Ying returned to her space and, to prevent Xiao Bao from waking up midway, extended Xiao Bao's sleep time.
He pinched Xiaobao's soft little face and held her as they drifted off to sleep.
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