All the buns were sold out and the sun had just risen.
It seemed that Shen Subai was just passing by. He took the buns and strode away without any extra words. Xie Yunshu didn't take it to heart.
Xie Mingcheng withdrew his gaze from Shen Subai's tall back, put away the incubator, and asked curiously: "Sister, who is he?"
"He's a team leader on the construction site. He's a very upright person." During the time that Xie Yunshu and Shen Subai had been in contact, she had only one impression of Captain Shen, and that was that he was upright, very upright!
He was so upright that he seemed to be free from all emotions. She couldn't even imagine what it would be like for such an upright man to have a partner. She was thinking wildly, would he have to recite the Tao Te Ching on his wedding night?
Xie Mingcheng said, "Oh!" Although he was still young, he could tell that Shen Subai was not like an ordinary person at all. He had a sense of oppression from being in a superior position for a long time. But wasn't my sister selling lunch boxes at the construction site? How could she know a man like this?
"Go to the market and buy five chickens and a dozen winter melons. It's quite cold today, so buy some red peppers and I'll make chili oil when I get back!"
Xie Yunshu had already ridden on a two-wheeled bicycle, one leg trying to support the ground: "I'm going to go back and get that kid away first. It's not always like that in our house."
If Zhou Xinyue and Lu Zhixing had been more careful, they should have searched the whole city for the child after he went missing all night, and she should have explained the situation to the police station. It is a crime for such a young child to be beaten like this!
Sometimes it is so helpless, it seems natural for a mother to beat her child, even the police can hardly control it...
Thinking of the pitiful look of the child, Xie Yunshu sighed, unable to explain what he felt. Logically speaking, if Xiaowei's abuse became known to everyone, then Lu Zhixing and the Lu family would become a joke.
He used the attitude of a superior to do good to others just to create an image of a kind person with compassion for the world, but what was the result? Lu Zhixing and Zhou Xinyue got together in broad daylight, and it would have been fine if they were ridiculed by others, but he used the excuse of pitying the child, and the child was beaten like this under his nose!
The Lu family's hypocritical mask was exposed, making Lu Zhixing unable to hold his head up in Haicheng Hospital.
But Xie Yunshu didn't feel happy either. Whenever she closed her eyes, she could see Xiaowei's frail and scarred body. Not to mention a child, even an adult would find it difficult to recover from such an experience.
She was not a rescuer, and couldn't even help the child much...
When they returned to the tube building, Li Fenlan had already prepared breakfast. She had baked a few pies with the leftover meat from yesterday, and put green onions and lard in them. They smelled very fragrant.
Xiaowei sat timidly beside the stove, his sweater had been dried by the oven. Li Fenlan asked for a cotton-padded jacket that Lin Xiaohu wore when he was a child from Lin Cuiping's house upstairs and put it on him. The marks from the slaps on his face had not yet gone away.
Seeing Xie Yunshu, he stood up hurriedly, with half a pancake still in his hand. He only dared to look at her cautiously. He looked like a scared puppy, with its tail between its legs, wagging carefully and flatteringly, which made people feel suffocated.
Xie Yunshu pursed his lips: "Sit down and eat."
Lu Xiaowei didn't say anything, but was very well behaved. He sat back on the stool and put down the cake in his hand, as if he didn't dare to eat it anymore.
Li Fenlan looked at him with pity: "You ate two bites, why don't you eat anymore?"
In his only memory, he would be beaten if he ate too much, let alone something so delicious.
Xiaowei put his hand on his stomach and whispered, "I'm full."
He seemed to be more energetic than yesterday. At least he could say other words besides "I'll be obedient".
She felt pity for the child, but to be honest, Xie Yunshu still found it difficult to have a good impression of the child, probably because he was Zhou Xinyue's child, and now it was still under Lu Zhixing's name. In the past, Lu Zhixing had used the child's pity as an excuse to make her suffer too much.
"Didn't your mother teach you not to waste food? Who are you going to let eat the leftover bread?" Xie Yunshu glanced at him calmly, then served a bowl of rice porridge and placed it on the table: "Finish the remaining bread, and then drink this bowl of soup."
Lu Xiaowei took a big bite of the pancake, and then drank the soup in one breath, very quickly without any hesitation, for fear that a slap would fall on him if he was a second late.
Li Fenlan's eyes turned red again: "This child..."
How timid should one be to make a five-year-old child so obedient, like a well-trained robot, doing whatever you say? How could Zhou Xinyue have the heart to hit such a child?
Xie Yunshu drank a few mouthfuls of soup and ate a large piece of pancake before speaking: "Mom, Mingcheng will be back with some vegetables soon. You and Aunt Zhao should start the pot and prepare. I'll take him to the police station and will be back soon."
Li Fenlan hesitated for a moment: "Yunshu, are you sending the child away so soon?"
Xie Yunshu knew that her mother was always soft-hearted. Even though the child was Zhou Xinyue's, she couldn't bear to see such a young child suffer, so she had to soften her voice: "He has a father and a mother. How can we keep him forever? When his mother comes to find us, we will become human traffickers."
Li Fenlan didn't dare to look at the child again and turned away: "Then you should make it clear to the police comrades that they can't be allowed to do anything to the child casually again."
After saying that, he added in a low voice: "Is it still human to hit a child?"
Xie Yunshu pinched his brows and looked at Lu Xiaowei: "Let's go."
Lu Xiaowei's face suddenly turned pale. He didn't dare to say no. The light in his eyes that had just lit up because he had eaten a full meal suddenly went out. He stood up numbly with empty eyes. He even thought that if he went back this time, would he be beaten to death?
It's good to die. Last time at school, he heard other kids say that when you die, you go to heaven. Heaven is so wonderful...
Xie Yunshu didn't know what he was thinking. She had to come back to sell lunch boxes at noon, so she didn't have time to waste. She took Lu Xiaowei on a bicycle and went to the police station closest to her home. But when they arrived at the door, they stopped again.
She thought for a while, then continued riding her bike until she stopped at the police station opposite Haicheng Hospital.
"See this place? It's right across from the yard where you live. If you get beaten or go hungry again, run here to find someone." Xie Yunshu parked the car, pointed at the sign outside the police station, and told Xiaowei word by word: "The uncles inside are all good people, they will help you."
The police station near her home is a bit far from here. If Xiaowei needs help in the future, this place, which is closest to Haicheng Hospital, is more suitable.
Xiaowei stood in front of the bicycle and asked quietly, "What about you?"
"What?"
Xie Yunshu didn't hear clearly, she frowned and bent down: "What did you just say?"
Xiaowei lowered his head and looked at his toes: "I am obedient and eat very little. I don't have to eat at all."
He could also pick up leftovers outside. Once, when he was extremely hungry, he even picked up half a dry steamed bun from a stray dog.
So can we not leave...
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