Afraid that Lu Zhiye would overhear the little boy's words and upset him, Zhou Xinxin quickly tugged at his sleeve and said, "Didn't I tell you before? He's the one who saved me last night!"
The little boy was still skeptical, and his wariness did not disappear!
Seeing this, Zhou Dabing burst out laughing and slapped the little boy on the back: "What's your name?"
What, are you afraid I'll kidnap you?
The boy stubbornly declared, "My name is Zhou Lele!"
Zhou Dabing grinned: "Oh ho, you even share the same surname as me?"
"Are all of you little brats surnamed Zhou?"
"No, Xin Xin and I are surnamed Zhou, we are siblings!"
As he spoke, he pulled Zhou Xinxin behind him.
Lu Zhiye stared blankly at the three people standing together, wondering why they looked somewhat alike!
Zhou Xinxin's resemblance is not obvious yet, but Zhou Lele, a boy, looks 60% like Zhou Dabing!
For a moment, Lu Zhiye felt a mix of emotions. Could these people be Zhou Dabing's relatives?
That's impossible! Zhou Dabing himself said that a flash flood wiped out the entire village!
How did these two dolls survive?
Besides, if he really is Zhou Dabing's relative, he has been in the army for at most seven or eight years. This older child looks to be eight or nine years old. Zhou Dabing would not have this reaction when he heard his name!
After finishing her meal, Yang Li was called out by Wen Sihe to invite Lu Zhiye in for dinner.
"President Lu..."
Yang Li's voice stopped abruptly when she touched on the faces of the two dolls.
Her voice was filled with disbelief: "Zhou Gou Dan??? Duck Egg???"
Upon suddenly hearing that familiar name, Zhou Lele looked in the direction of the voice, confused!
Zhou Xinxin saw Yang Li first, pouted, and burst into tears!
"Sister Xiaoli..."
This commotion not only startled Zhou Dabing, but also made the customers in the room look over in surprise!
Yang Li hugged Zhou Xinxin tightly, tears streaming down her face.
Wen Sihe quickly came out of the house and asked in confusion, "What happened?"
Yang Li cried and hiccuped: "Sister Wen, they are from our village, and they are of the same generation as me!"
Most people in our village are surnamed Zhou; those with the surname Yang are people who moved here later.
Later, the two families intermarried and became indistinguishable!
The commune said everyone in our village was dead, I never expected to run into these two children!
On one side is the distant Guizhou province, and on the other side are two children who are not yet ten years old!
They simply couldn't imagine how the two children had escaped death and traveled through mountains and rivers to get here.
The two children's cries were so loud that people kept gathering around. Just then, an old woman pounded her cane and said, "My home is in the next alley. Let's talk over there."
Don't waste business here!
Wen Sihe looked up and saw that the person was the old lady her mother-in-law had introduced to her earlier.
She gave the old lady a grateful smile, nudged Lu Zhiye, and gestured for him to follow.
Lu Zhiye walked to the end and, when no one was paying attention, took out a few meat buns from his spatial storage!
He didn't go to the yard immediately, but stood outside for a while before going in!
He said to the children, "I asked someone to buy these meat buns, have some to tide you over!"
The children were practically drooling, but they remained sitting there nervously, their eyes involuntarily glancing at Zhou Lele!
Zhou Lele wiped away her tears, took the meat bun in her hand, bowed to Lu Zhiye, and only then did the other children dare to gather around.
They imitated it quite well, so Lu Zhiye pulled up a stool and sat down.
Yang Li held little Zhou Xinxin in her arms and asked in a choked voice, "Your province is so far away, how did you get here?"
How did you all manage to...?
To be honest, Yang Li still held onto a sliver of hope!
If these two children can survive, can't others too?
When they first counted the deaths in their village, the vast majority of the deaths were counted on a family basis!
The entire village was buried, and with the flash floods, the current manpower and resources are simply insufficient to support a very thorough search.
All the adults in the Zhou family have been found, leaving only the two children from the eldest son's family. The commune believed that in such a rapid current, even the adults would be left with no trace, let alone the two children!
Zhou Xinxin wolfed down the meat buns, stuffing them into her mouth. After finally swallowing them, she choked so badly that her eyes rolled back in her head!
Finally, the old lady couldn't bear to watch any longer and brought a glass of water from inside the house to hand it over!
Zhou Xinxin then swallowed it smoothly.
Perhaps because he had lived too long, Jian Nanxing suddenly felt like watching a spectacle.
She walked unsteadily to the eaves and sat down in her recliner.
The recliner creaked as she moved.
The next moment, the little girl pouted and said, "At that time, my parents were holding us. My father got a piece of driftwood from somewhere and put my brother and me on it. We don't remember anything after that!"
When I woke up, I had been swept far away; I couldn't find my parents, nor could I find my way home!
The little girl's big eyes were full of tears, clearly because she had remembered something sad!
Zhou Lele swallowed the bun and then replied, "Mom said she hopes we two will grow up happily, and she also said she will become a star and watch over us."
"Sister Yang Li, do you think our parents really turned into stars?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Li completely lost her composure and immediately hugged the two children tightly in her arms!
"Yes, they turned into stars and are watching over you."
So, how did you get here?
"When we were swept away, Dad said that my second uncle was a soldier in Dajing City, and if he survived, we should go find him!"
My sister and I begged our way to the train station!
Later, he hid under the car seat and traveled through many places before finally arriving here.
The hardships the two children endured are self-evident!
Even Jian Nanxing, who had lived a life full of storms and waves, was somewhat moved at this moment!
Zhou Dabing stood there blankly, and ever since Yang Li called the two children's names, he had been in a stalemate.
Lu Zhiye called him several times, but he didn't respond.
It was he who arranged for Xiao Liu to drag Zhou Dabing over here!
Lu Zhiye's intuition told him that there must be a close relationship between these people!
Sure enough, before anyone could react, Zhou Dabing suddenly sat down on the ground and broke down in tears!
This frightened the children; they had never seen a grown man cry with snot and tears streaming down his face before!
Zhou Xinxin was so frightened that she instinctively shrank into Yang Li's arms.
He looked so pathetic. Just as Xiao Liu was about to speak, Lu Zhiye grabbed his arm.
Now that things have come to this, being a soldier in Beijing and having his home destroyed by a flash flood are more or less consistent with Zhou Dabing's resume!
Most likely, he is the second uncle the two children are talking about.
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