Back at the ice factory, Li Ke quickly released all the supplies from the Zuo family, as well as other supplies she had collected along the way, filling the warehouse to a greater and fuller level than before.
Not long after, Li Ke noticed lights approaching. She looked outside and saw two trucks driving towards them.
Li Ke took out his binoculars. When the car stopped outside the ice factory, he saw a person who looked like Xiao Yi get out of the car with his men. After confirming the identity of the people, Li Ke took out a copy of the confession he had collected earlier and hung it on the gate. He then flipped onto the roof and glided to the outside of the ice factory.
Hearing a faint sound, Xiao Yi stopped and waited for a while. When there was no further movement, he ordered his men to remain on guard and then slowly pushed open the warehouse door of the ice factory.
A thin rope hung on the door, with a brown paper bag dangling from it. Xiao Yi, wearing gloves, tentatively touched it with his hand. After finding nothing amiss, he slowly picked it up and, feeling that it contained a stack of papers, pulled the bag down and held it in his hand.
Two hours ago, a short arrow struck his door, with a small bag attached to it that read: "Supplies available at the ice factory warehouse. Come quickly."
The words were printed with ink, leaving no trace. Xiao Yi's heart pounded. His men reported that suspicious people had entered the building, but after discovering that the people had probably escaped through the window, Xiao Yi did not send anyone to chase them.
He led twenty men directly and secretly to the ice factory. On the way, he suspected it might be a trap or a trick, but he also inexplicably held a great deal of hope.
Holding the paper bag and seeing the warehouse piled high with supplies, Xiao Yi truly believed that there were extraordinary people and events.
"Captain, there really are supplies! Who sent them?" Xiao Yi's subordinate asked excitedly.
Xiao Yi said coldly, "Of course they are friends. No one can leak this information. Go and arrange for our people to secretly transport this batch of supplies back to our warehouse."
Standing on high ground, Li Ke saw people moving around outside the ice factory. After confirming that the supplies had reached the right people, she turned and left. She needed to ransack her perfectly renovated three-story old house; it was full of things she liked.
The only person she knew who held a high position and was fairly fair was Xiao Yi. He took the Zuo family's supplies to bring them down, not to disrupt the balance of the shelter.
This time, she was truly leaving this place and embarking on her own journey alone.
In the shelter's single room, three women sat together on the bed, covered with thick blankets. Next to them was a pile of clothes that needed mending. These were jobs they had picked up from the job posting office. Together, the three of them could barely earn two work points a day.
The situation is bad right now; work is very scarce, and everyone is having a hard time. Fortunately, the shelter provides a free bowl of hot porridge every day, which allows everyone to keep going.
The child was no longer in the house. Thinking back, he had passed away a week ago. His health was deteriorating, and despite Li Meng and the others' best efforts, they were still unable to save him.
Li Meng only cried occasionally during the first two days, but now she seems to have put away her sadness and is focusing on living her life now.
Seeing that her daughter's frostbite had cracked and was bleeding, He Ru said with some heartache, "Mengmeng, stop and rest for a while. There's some frostbite medicine in the room. Apply it and warm your hands up."
Li Meng shook her head: "It's no use. I can't feel any pain now, so applying it would be a waste."
They were all wearing fingerless gloves, which made needlework very difficult, and Li Meng had really gotten used to the frostbite.
Liu Jingyan's hands were also red and swollen, but she was better off without any wounds. Of the three of them, He Ru was in the best condition. Although her hands were the roughest, she was not frostbitten at all.
He Ru recalled the past and said, "Your hands probably look like your father's. He said he often got chilblains when he was a child, but his condition improved as the weather warmed up. After you were born, the winters weren't as cold as they were back then, and we took better care of you. I thought you would be like me, but I never imagined you would be so frostbitten now."
Li Meng gave a listless "hmm" and continued doing her own thing. Liu Jingyan asked a couple of questions to lighten the mood.
He Ru remained silent for a while before finally speaking again: "Wang Zhuo has been released from the reform camp and is now living in the lobby of the building next door. I ran into him when I went to get my meals these past two days."
Li Meng glanced at her mother without saying anything. He Ru took this as a response and continued, "He wanted to come back, saying he would listen to you from now on and do whatever you asked, and he would never dare to disobey you again. After hearing that Xiangxiang was gone, he even cried a lot. It seemed like he had really changed for the better, which was quite pitiful."
Beside her, Liu Jingyan kept her head down, doing needlework without saying a word, but in her heart she disagreed with He Ru's words. Believing in the idea of a prodigal son returning home was simply wishful thinking.
Moreover, she currently shares an apartment with He Ru and Li Meng. What will she do if Wang Zhuo comes back? It will still be four people crammed together, which is very inconvenient just thinking about it.
Li Meng coldly dropped what she was doing, looked up at her mother: "What? You pity him and want to take care of him?"
He Ru's heart skipped a beat, realizing that her probing had angered her daughter. She quickly said, "That's not what I meant. I saw him come out, and he kept looking for me. I was afraid... I was afraid he would bother you again. I'm just discussing with you what to do."
Last time, she helped her daughter complain to the law enforcement team, saying that Wang Zhuo had abused Mengmeng, and that Mengmeng had only fought back in self-defense. The law enforcement team deliberately showed favoritism and sent the injured Wang Zhuo to a reformatory.
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