Not wanting to cause any further trouble, Lu Wanqing waited until Li Fang left before showing the letter to Lin Chunhua.
Lin Chunhua was overjoyed and chased after Lu Wanqing, asking, "Did you really find Dad, Captain Liu?"
Lu Wanqing's raised eyebrows drooped again. "He said that the person was a little confused, but he said he was Lin Baoguo, and we need to go and see him in person."
"Anyway, that means there's hope. Are you going tomorrow? Then I won't go back today." Lin Chunhua packed her things and started picking vegetables to cook.
Lin Ye will be off work soon. I don't know what he'll say, but if we're going to the county town tomorrow, we'll have to stay here tonight.
Around six o'clock, Lin Ye rode back on his bicycle. When he saw Lin Chunhua, he hurriedly asked if his brother-in-law was ready.
Lin Chunhua briefly explained Wang Tiegang's situation and then started talking about the letter she received that afternoon.
Lu Wanqing also showed him the letter and asked him when he was going to the county town.
"There's a quiz tomorrow, so all the kids' PE classes are canceled. Let's just take a day off!"
It seems Lin Ye is also a little impatient.
After finishing their meal, the group chatted in the kitchen for a long time before going to bed, preparing to leave early the next day.
Lin Chunhua slept with Zhao Xiaolan, which gave the two of them a chance to whisper secrets.
Before, when she slept in the house, Lin Ye and Lu Wanqing would be lying in the next bed, which made her very uncomfortable. Now that she has her own room, she no longer has to worry about hearing anything she shouldn't hear.
The next day, Lin Ye got up early as usual, went to the well at the village entrance, and brought back two buckets of water, which he then poured into the water vat.
The new house is great in every way, except that there's no well, so you have to walk several hundred meters to fetch water.
Strangely enough, the water in the tank was not consumed quickly; two buckets a day were enough for a day's use.
Breakfast was made by Lin Chunhua and Lu Wanqing together: sweet potato and white rice porridge with a little bit of scrambled eggs. Everyone was eager to go to the county town, so they ate quickly and finished their meal in no time.
After dinner, at Lu Wanqing's suggestion, Zhao Xiaolan and Lin Ye found their old clothes from more than ten years ago and put them on so that Lin Baoguo could quickly remember them when he saw them.
When Lin Ye was about to set off, he went to borrow a bicycle, only to find that Lin Chunhua had come by bicycle, and she had also bought one.
"Tie Gang got a few industrial tickets from his friend, and I bought a bicycle," Lin Chunhua explained with a smile.
Lin Ye then said, "Then Mom, you can ride in your car!"
"Okay, Mom, get on." Lin Chunhua helped Zhao Xiaolan sit down before starting to ride.
After locking the courtyard gate, Lu Wanqing jumped onto Lin Ye's back seat and wrapped her arms around his waist.
To be honest, this was the first time they had all gone out together, and she didn't know if Lin Gou Dan or Zhou Ling would show up and cause trouble at home, so she had no choice but to leave Xueqiu behind.
Snowball is clever; at least it won't let the attacker gain an advantage.
Upon receiving the order, Snowball acted like a shrewd policeman, pacing around the yard one moment and leaping onto the fence the next, scanning like a searchlight. Apart from a few people who came to visit, there was no sign of Lin Gou Dan or Zhou Ling.
Lin Gou Dan was bitten by a snake and is still recovering at home. Zhou Ling's family is in dire straits, but Wang Xiuqin has the opportunity to punish her. She makes her do a lot of work every day and also has to take care of Lin Gou Dan. She has no time to go out for a stroll.
As the saying goes, "the closer one gets to home, the more apprehensive one becomes," and the closer Lin Ye and his companions got to Liu Zhengfeng's house, the more flustered they became.
When they arrived at his house, they found the gate was closed and there was a note on the door that read, "If you need to find me, please go to the police station."
They probably guessed they would come, and since they had to go to work, they left a note.
When they arrived at the police station, Liu Zhengfeng greeted them with a smile, "You received the letter, right? We went through a lot of trouble to find this clue. Let me take you to identify it!"
The best police vehicle the station has now is a motorcycle, commonly known as a "sidecar," which can only carry two people and is not as convenient as a bicycle. So Liu Zhengfeng rode his own bicycle and took everyone to the outskirts of the county.
On the way, Liu Zhengfeng and Lin Ye rode side by side, and Liu briefly explained the process.
It turned out that after the flood at Tuanjie Lake in Shengli Brigade, the water flowed downstream and eventually into the ditch. Whether he climbed ashore on his own or was rescued, there was no certainty that a homeless man suddenly appeared in Xiaohe Village downstream after the flood.
At first, he didn't know his name or where he came from. To avoid being asked questions, he even ran up the mountain to hide.
When Liu Zhengfeng found out about him, he was a homeless beggar. When they asked him to find someone named Lin Baoguo, he suddenly shouted that he was Lin Baoguo.
"In short, I have no way to verify it; you'll have to come in person," Liu Zhengfeng concluded.
Lin Ye was extremely uneasy. He guessed that if his father was really alive, he might not have returned home because of amnesia, but he didn't expect him to have been wandering outside all this time.
Zhao Xiaolan showed no emotional change; she seemed to have forgotten Lin Baoguo's existence and was immersed in her own world.
In a remote, dilapidated temple, they finally found the man who called himself Lin Baoguo.
He had a stubble beard and long sideburns that almost covered his face, and his exposed skin was dark and dirty. At first glance, you couldn't tell what he originally looked like.
But when Lin Ye saw the clothes he was wearing, he immediately remembered that they were indeed the clothes his father wore before he disappeared.
Because the coat was sewn by Zhao Xiaolan stitch by stitch, with an inner pocket specially added to the chest area, specifically for keeping money close to the body.
Lin Ye grabbed his clothes, unbuttoned the top two buttons, and flipped them open. Sure enough, he found the small pocket.
He glanced at the others a few times, then said with trembling lips, "Yes, it's Father's clothes."
After he said that, Lin Chunhua recognized the clothes. However, no matter how hard it was to recognize the person's appearance, the eyes would not lie, and the person was completely different from the one in her memory.
Lin Ye was certain the man wasn't Lin Baoguo, and his emotions flared even more. He grabbed the beggar by the collar and demanded, "Who are you? How come you're wearing my father's clothes? What did you do to him?"
Liu Zhengfeng hurriedly stepped forward, released Lin Ye's hand, and asked suspiciously, "What? Is he an imposter?"
Lin Ye nodded, staring angrily at the beggar.
Since he was able to wear Lin Baoguo's clothes, even though the hem and sleeves were tattered and looked like he had been wearing them for a very long time, does that mean that he might have stolen or found these clothes back then?
The beggar, grabbed by the collar and questioned, turned serious. "What are you doing? Let me tell you, I am Lin Baoguo. If I'm not Lin Baoguo, then what am I?"
Seeing this, Liu Zhengfeng added, "This man is crazy. Our men followed him for several days. He was either digging for food in the soil or constantly muttering that he has a son and that he is Lin Baoguo. But when we asked him anything else, he couldn't give us any coherent explanation."
Everyone was immediately plunged into a silent despair.
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