When Lu Yuan returned home carrying a net bag of apples and a cage, he found it a little strange not to see the Yu family's baby.
"Where did that child go? I haven't seen him anywhere, inside or outside the house," he asked his wife.
“She was taken away by Yu Xuejian’s sister,” Wen Moxue replied.
"Yu Xuejian's sister? Why did she suddenly take the child away?"
"Who knows? She suddenly came over today to see her nephew. At the time, Xiao Hui was trying to take Er Bao's doll, and the three brothers disagreed and were crying. Then Yu Xiaomei said that we were abusing him and that she would take the child away and raise him herself."
"If she wanted to raise him, why didn't she say so earlier? Why is she only saying this now?"
“My mom said she was just saying it casually, and that she would send the child back in a couple of days if she found taking care of the child too difficult.”
Lu Yuan nodded slightly. Yu Xiaomei had just gotten married, and he heard that her husband was getting married for the second time and had his own child. His family would never let her take a child with her, so the child would be sent back sooner or later.
At this moment, Wen Qihang and his wife, along with Mo Dajiu and his son, also arrived. Upon seeing the cage in the yard, and then looking inside, they discovered four live rabbits. Mo Ziyang was the first to exclaim in surprise, "Wow, where did you get these rabbits?"
Lu Yuan walked out and said with a smile, "I just ran into an old man outside who came to the city to deliver rabbits to his relatives. He couldn't find his relatives' rabbits, so he couldn't deliver them. I switched with him."
"There are four rabbits in total. I checked and there's one male rabbit left. We can keep two of them as breeding stock. They'll have a litter of baby rabbits soon, which will make it easier to eat rabbits later."
"Won't they stop allowing us to keep them?" Mo Zihong asked.
“Keeping one or two is fine, but more than that is definitely not good,” Mo Mingde said.
"We'll put the cage in the backyard. People can see it when they come and go from the front yard, but if we put it in the backyard, no one will know unless our family says anything."
As Lu Yuan spoke, he picked up the rabbit cage and went to the backyard. He would keep two rabbits for breeding, and kill and clean the other two. He planned to make one today and have Uncle Mo and the others take another one back with them.
The celebratory feast was very lavish, with chicken, duck, fish, and rabbit meat, and everyone ate to their heart's content. Even the triplets got a few sips of chicken soup, and the eldest and second eldest clapped their hands with joy.
"Xiao Hui is out of food. If his aunt hadn't taken him away, he would have had chicken soup too," Mo Ziyang said, looking at the triplets' greasy little mouths.
It's not easy to have chicken soup these days. Many families might not be able to stew a chicken for months. If they buy meat twice a month, that's already considered a luxury.
When Yu Zhenghui is mentioned, people inevitably bring up the incident of Yu Xiaomei taking the child away.
"She even said she'd raise the child from now on, but I've never seen her act like that before. When something happened at home, she abandoned the child and went to marry someone else. Now she's coming here to play the good guy," Lin Yue'e complained.
“She herself went to be a stepmother, how could they possibly let her take care of a child? It’s just talk, she won’t really raise Xiaohui, she’ll have to send him back in less than two days,” Mo Yitao said.
Mo Ziyang also said, "What good people could the Yu family have? They're rotten to the core. Even if the man's family says they want to raise the child, Yu Xiaomei probably won't agree. Could it be that she took the child away today to try and extort money from her aunt and the others?"
Wen Qihang smiled nonchalantly, "What can she use to extort money? To threaten me with the child? How can she threaten me with the child?"
Mo Ziyang said, "She abuses children. We couldn't stand by and watch. When we asked her for our children back, she demanded money from us."
Mo Zihong glanced at his younger brother with disdain. "This approach is too foolish and doesn't threaten us. The child's household registration is with his aunt. If he really doesn't want to give the child to us, we can go to the police station to ask for their help."
Mo Ziyang was indignant at his brother's look of disbelief. "Hmph, I think that Yu Xiaomei is both stupid and wicked. Even if she doesn't want to extort money from Aunt and the others, she's definitely up to no good. She's definitely trying to cause trouble for Aunt and the others, otherwise she wouldn't have come to take the child away for no reason."
Everyone agreed with this statement, but Mo Yitao was not afraid at all. "If she dares to cause trouble under the pretext of having a child, I will make sure she can't live in her new in-laws' house."
Lu Yuan seemed to understand. Mo Ziyang was right. Yu Xiaomei was, after all, a selfish person. She wouldn't suddenly come to see her nephew for no reason. Taking the child away must be for some bad purpose.
What is she trying to do?
He hadn't paid much attention to this matter before, but now that everyone was talking about it, he couldn't help but think about it more. Just like Mo Zihong said, it was impossible for him to be stupid enough to use the child to threaten them and extort money. Even if he succeeded in extorting money, once the police were notified, she would have to return the money and would be in jail.
If that's not the case, then what was her motive? She couldn't possibly blame her current bad situation on a child and take the child away purely to abuse and vent her frustrations, could she?
It's hard to say for sure; some people are just that twisted.
Lu Yuan expressed his concerns, which made Mo Yitao and Wen Shengtao uneasy.
"Let's go and get the child back. If she really takes her anger out on a child, Xiaohui will suffer a lot."
“Okay, I’ll drive you there,” Lu Yuan said.
“I’ll go with you too,” Mo Ziyang said. “In case they don’t want to give the child, they won’t dare refuse because there are many of us.”
Actually, he just wanted to ride in Lu Yuan's truck because he saw Lu Yuan driving.
Wen Qihang and Mo Ziyang exchanged a glance and quickly stood up as well. Trucks, what man doesn't love them?
The elders knew what they were thinking, so they smiled and let them be without exposing them.
They didn't know where Yu Xiaomei's current husband lived, so they went to the neighborhood committee to inquire. They found out that he worked at a textile factory. After noting down his name, Lu Yuan drove straight to the textile factory.
I thought to myself that I really had a connection with this textile factory.
Today was the weekend, and the textile factory was closed. Lu Yuan drove the truck directly to the factory's staff quarters. He found Boss Zhong's house first, knowing the way like the back of his hand.
When Zhong Weiming saw that it was Lu Yuan, he was extremely enthusiastic.
"Comrade Lu, what brings you here? Please come in."
Lu Yuan entered the house, and Zhong Weiming asked his wife to pour him some tea. Lu Yuan waved his hand, "Director Zhong, I won't have any tea. My father-in-law and his family are still waiting downstairs. We have something we'd like to ask you."
Then she told them that Yu Xiaomei had brought the child back and that they had come to pick up the child.
"We don't know exactly which family she married into, so we would appreciate Director Zhong's help."
Do you know what that family's name is?
"I know, his name is Zhang Aiguo."
“Zhang Aiguo?” Zhong Weiming was surprised.
"What, is there something wrong with this person?" Lu Yuan asked, puzzled, seeing his surprised expression.
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