Chapter 89 Reunion of Husband and Wife
Three days have passed since Liu Mei and the five fugitives were arrested.
Under separate interrogations, Liu Mei's cover-up for the five fugitives was exposed.
The higher-ups already knew how many evil deeds the eight escapees had committed, and they also knew what happened to Liu Mei, who had escaped from the Second Division, after she was captured by these people.
Liu Mei was a labor camp and reform-through-labor prisoner in the Second Division. After the matter was investigated and clarified, the Sixth Division would naturally notify the Second Division. Either the Second Division would send someone to take her back, or the Sixth Division would send someone to deliver her.
A phone call was made, and the Second Branch Office received the notification. The mailroom then sent someone to the adobe factory to inform the person in charge who was guarding the labor and reform prisoners.
Outside the adobe yard of the Second Branch Farm.
Lin Shuhong, who had become darker and thinner, stood in the sun with Lin Jinyao by her hand.
Knowing that Liu Mei had been sent here, Lin Shuhong took the child by train and headed straight to the Second Branch Farm under Shicheng.
It's easy to find a place to live and transfer your household registration, but good jobs are extremely rare in Xinjiang province.
The cadres in these government agencies and institutions are at least high school graduates who have attended the Communist Youth League school. Other good units are not short of people either, and even if they are, it would not be his turn as an outsider.
What's more, this outsider also has a wife who is a convict.
Even though Lin Shuhong was a high school graduate, he had been here for more than a month and still couldn't find a satisfactory job despite running around like crazy.
Without a job, there was no food supply. He didn't want to take his child to the production team to do farm work, so he had no choice but to go to the farm's engineering team.
The construction team was hardworking, and its main members consisted of people who had fled during the famine a few years ago, also known as migrant workers, and prisoners who had completed their labor reform and re-education.
As long as the daily work tasks are completed, the construction team will not only provide three meals a day, but also give you three yuan a month.
Yes, it was only three yuan, a tiny fraction of his previous salary.
Only after leaving his hometown did he realize how comfortable his past life had been.
But he couldn't let the child's mother suffer alone here.
After securing a stable job, he took advantage of his lunch break today to come to the adobe factory.
I heard from the construction team that the work at the adobe factory was just as heavy as that of the construction team.
Liu Mei's health couldn't possibly withstand it.
Lin Shuhong's face was burning hot under the sun, and Lin Jinyao stared longingly at the gate of the adobe factory: "Dad, will we be able to see Mom today?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door creaked open, and a man walked in.
"You two go back. Liu Mei has run away. She's been gone for over ten days."
The captain, who had just come out, looked at the two of them suspiciously. "Didn't Liu Mei come looking for you?"
Lin Shuhong was incredulous; he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Just then, the messenger arrived by bicycle from the mailroom.
"Captain Zhao, it just so happens that you're out here. The female prisoner who escaped from your area has been caught at the Sixth Division. A few of your men need to go and bring her back."
Lin Shuhong: "...!"
Is she the child's mother?
How did they get caught so quickly!
Captain Zhao nodded. "I understand."
After the messenger left in a hurry, Captain Zhao looked at Lin Shuhong and said, "Come back in three days. When you come, we will arrange for you to meet. Now that you're here, she should be able to behave herself."
Lin Shuhong: "Comrade, will her escape lead to a longer period of labor reform and re-education?"
Captain Zhao said matter-of-factly, "That's for sure. We'll have to wait until we hand over the details to the Sixth Division before we can tell you. We'll let you know then. But you'll have to try to persuade her to behave well so she can get a reduced sentence. If she runs away again, it will be an even more serious crime."
Lin Shuhong returned home with a heavy heart.
Back in the dormitory, Lin Shuhong took out paper and pen to write a letter to her father, Lin Dahai.
In the letter, he mentioned that Zhang Cui wanted all the money and that he had been struggling to raise the child these past few days, revealing a hint of regret in his words.
At the end of the letter, he wrote: "Dad, I'm sorry. I only realized how good you were to me after I left home. I'm such an unfilial son. From now on, just pretend you don't have a son like me. You and Aunt Zhang should live a good life together."
By the time the letter was folded, his face had returned to its expressionless state.
regret?
Regret my ass.
An unfilial son? His father never treated him like his own son, otherwise he wouldn't have refused to help him at all.
If he sends this letter back, his father should be able to find a way to get him some money and national food coupons, which will alleviate his predicament of running out of money.
Three days later, Lin Shuhong successfully met Liu Mei, who had been brought back.
The family of three huddled together and wept bitterly.
Thinking about what she had been through these past few days, Liu Mei was overcome with grief and almost fainted from crying.
Lin Shuhong, heartbroken, comforted him, "You should behave well in the future and try to get a reduced sentence. Don't be afraid. Jinyao and I are here with you. Once you've served your sentence, the three of us can be reunited."
Liu Mei nodded, tears streaming down her face, patting his back and sobbing, "Why didn't you come sooner? Why didn't you come sooner..."
Captain Zhao sighed inwardly.
If Liu Mei's husband and children had arrived earlier, she wouldn't have run away. If she hadn't run away, she wouldn't have been violated by those men.
However, Liu Mei herself has to blame. If she hadn't run away and had honestly worked and reformed herself, she wouldn't have suffered so much.
Given the couple's situation, they wouldn't tell Lin Shuhong about Liu Mei's past experiences; if they did, the family of three might fall apart.
Just as Lin Shuhong and her family of three were reunited after a long separation, Song Lubai and Feng Ying, who were taking care of Sun Hong and her husband at the clinic, were about to return to their camp.
The two wounded patients had recovered enough to take care of themselves, so the instructor didn't want them to waste their labor here.
In the past few days, another patient came to the ward. Song Lubai and Feng Ying could only sleep by the bedside at night. Although they couldn't sleep well at night, they didn't have to do a lot of physical labor. In just five days, Song Lubai's skin returned to its original whiteness, and her complexion was better than before.
Upon reaching the entrance of the armed forces department, the guards saw the lunchboxes in the two men's hands, chuckled at them, and then ran inside.
Feng Ying chuckled: "Everyone knows what someone's intentions are."
Song Lubai pinched her awkwardly, "What nonsense are you talking about? Didn't you eat the soup and bread that they brought you?"
Feng Ying: "I only feel guilty for you because you've already gotten into my belly."
Song Lubai opened the cleaned lunchbox: "Feeling guilty? Then give me the same amount of money I gave you."
There were two yuan in the box, which was the money Song Lubai paid for Wei Yang's seven meals of vegetable soup delivered to them over five consecutive days.
They delivered it seven times in total, each time with two full boxes, enough for the two of them to eat their fill with naan bread.
Feng Ying reached into her pocket and pulled out 37 cents. "What should I do if this isn't enough?"
Song Lubai took the money without ceremony, put it in the lunchbox, and closed the lunchbox.
"This should be enough. Now we're not just eating for free."
She could sense Wei Yang's attitude towards her.
She has no plans to date right now, and she can only settle his kindness with money.
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