A voice with a strong Sichuan accent rang out: "Daya!"
Daya stopped pushing the door, and turned around with Xu Jianguo to look in the direction of the sound, and found that there were more than a dozen people walking towards them quickly.
The person who just called out was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties who was walking in front.
"Daya, do you know her?" Xu Jianguo asked.
Daya nodded and said, "That's our production team leader, Kong Qingdong!"
Xu Jianguo nodded slightly, did not continue speaking, and stood there waiting for a group of people to come over.
"Daya, is it really you?!" Soon, a group of people walked up to Xu Jianguo and others, looked at Daya with surprise and asked.
"Well, uncle, long time no see!" Daya said with a smile.
"Hey, Daya, you, you can speak now?" someone in the crowd exclaimed.
"Well, my brother cured my illness!"
"Your brother?!" the middle-aged man asked, then looked at Xu Jianguo, who was standing beside him in military uniform, and then looked at Funiu and Erya. When his gaze lingered on Erya's face, he asked uncertainly, "You, you are Erya?"
"Uncle Kong, it's me!" Erya said with a smile.
"Good, that's great!" Kong Qingdong's eyes were a little red and he said in a choked voice.
Xu Jianguo looked at the emotional man in front of him with some confusion. He thought that these people came here aggressively to cause trouble for them, but when he heard the man say the word "that's great", he dispelled his guess.
After Kong Qingdong calmed down, he looked at Xu Jianguo, stretched out his hands towards him and said, "Comrade, thank you!"
"Uncle, what are you talking about?" Xu Jianguo also stretched out his hands and shook hands with him, and asked.
"Ah, these two girls have such a miserable life..."
As Kong Qingdong told his story, Xu Jianguo also thoroughly understood the whole story.
It turned out that the day the two girls fled from Xiapingba was the day Kong Qingdong went to the commune for a meeting. This was also planned in advance by the father and son from their neighboring house in order to avoid trouble. Even if someone asked about it, they could make a false accusation and refuse to admit it.
But they never expected that the four-year-old Erya overheard their conversation, which gave her the opportunity to escape from the clutches of the devil with her sister, and thus met Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian who were returning from a trip to the Lingyun Giant Buddha.
If they had not met, Xu Jianguo didn't dare to think about what would have happened to the two girls.
Later, when Kong Qingdong returned to the village after the meeting, he heard about this incident. In a rage, he immediately took the village militia to the door and arrested the two girls' neighbors.
However, the images of these people at that time could be described as horrific. One of the women was even a little mentally ill and was obviously frightened.
When Xu Jianguo first learned about this incident, he actually wanted to kill the father and son. However, when he was about to take action, he took into consideration that he was wearing a military uniform, and two young men had escaped during the chaos. If he really killed the father and son, it would inevitably cause trouble.
According to Kong Qingdong, he later took the militia to take the neighbor's family to the public security bureau, and then cooperated with the public security bureau to go to the family who paid someone to kidnap Daya.
Although these people were usually arrogant and domineering in the village, they were just ordinary villagers after all, so the police only had to ask them a few simple questions before they completely figured out the whole story.
In the end, more than a dozen people from the two families were prosecuted for crimes including human trafficking, gang fighting, gambling, and hooliganism. The human trafficking was an attempted crime, and the remaining crimes were confessed by these people voluntarily after they were caught because they could not bear the pressure.
So those who should be sentenced were sentenced, and those who should be shot were shot, and they have not been released until today.
Seeing Kong Qingdong regretting his decision and blaming himself more and more the more he spoke, Xu Jianguo relaxed his vigilance against him a little.
Daya and Erya were fine, and their emotions did not fluctuate much. However, when they listened to Kong Qingdong talking about the past, they would turn their heads from time to time to look at the dilapidated old house beside them, with a hint of sadness and nostalgia in their eyes.
"Uncle Kong, let's not talk about the past. You can rest assured that my two sisters are with me now. I brought them back this time because I want to trouble you with something." Xu Jianguo spoke after seeing that Kong Qingdong's emotions had calmed down a little.
"Hey, seeing how well you take care of these two girls, I'm relieved, I'm 100% relieved. Tell me, what do you want to trouble me with?"
So Xu Jianguo told them that he wanted to move the graves of Daya and Erya's parents.
Kong Qingdong was slightly stunned. He didn't expect Xu Jianguo to make such a request.
He originally thought that the two girls just missed home and wanted to come back to visit, but he never expected that they were planning to come back to move the graves.
Logically speaking, relocating graves is a big deal in rural areas, and it should be decided by a team meeting.
But after hearing the unquestionable tone in Xu Jianguo's words, and considering that he was the team leader and an elder who had watched the two girls grow up, as well as his guilt towards them, he thought for a while and nodded in agreement.
"Since the two girls are living with you now, it is indeed inappropriate to keep their parents' graves in the village. After all, no one goes to worship them during festivals, which is a bit desolate. Although the country does not allow feudal superstitions now, this is the rule passed down from our ancestors, and we must always abide by it." Kong Qingdong said.
Xu Jianguo didn't expect that the old man's thoughts would be so open-minded, and his favorable impression of him increased a little bit.
At this moment, a scream was heard from a distance. When several people looked in the direction of the sound, they found two middle-aged women in their forties or fifties running from a distance, shouting the names of Daya and Erya as they ran.
Xu Jianguo turned to look at the two girls and found that their eyes were already filled with tears. Before he could say anything, the two girls ran over and hugged the two aunts, and then the four of them started crying.
"They are all neighbors of Daya and Erya. Since the two girls' parents passed away, they didn't starve to death thanks to their care. But you also know that life was not easy for everyone at that time. Even if the two girls ate less, they still had two more mouths to feed. Their own family couldn't even make ends meet, so how could... Hey, it's all God's fault!" Kong Qingdong said.
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