◎Third update◎
There were a man and a woman on duty at the street office today. Sister Hao was in her thirties, with a slightly round face and a very friendly smile. When she saw Liu Nianhua was emotional, tears welled up in her eyes. Then she heard these words, "Oh my god, the man lying on the ground is actually a slut!"
"Sister Hao, please help me. It's not easy for me to raise two children. I was supposed to be at work today, but when I came back, I saw my ex-husband holding the children outside in the cold wind. Look at what has happened to them."
Sister Hao glanced at the trembling Xiaohu. As a mother herself, she couldn't bear it. "This is the guy, right? If we find out that he is having an affair, we will punish him severely! Now is the time for the great leader to tell us not to act like a hooligan and not to have any problems with our conduct!"
"Sister Hao, I didn't do that. She just made it up!" Zhou Guoping was afraid of being raped and sent to a reformatory. He shook his dizzy head and denied it again and again. "She was the one who cheated on me. It was this woman! She...she cheated on me with this man. Otherwise, why would he beat me so hard!"
Zhou Guoping hurriedly took off his hat and pointed at Zhou Qingdang who was talking nonsense.
Liu Nianhua has been an honest person all her life, and this is the first time she has been slandered as an adulterer! She couldn't stand it, so she stepped forward and slapped Zhou Guoping, who was lying on the ground, "I'll beat you to death, you heartless man, you still want to ruin my reputation at this time! Comrade, I have a letter of guarantee written by him personally, which clearly states that he had an affair with Wang Fang, the wife of Zhao Qiang, a truck driver in a tube building on Dongsheng Street. Every word is written clearly, and there are his handprints on it. Not only that, I have witnesses, and two of my neighbors saw it. We caught them in bed together."
"Sister Hao, my wife and I did see it." Xu Shengjie had just come out of the Hong family, but when he returned home he found that there was no one there. In the entire compound, there were only a lot of people gathered at the door of Liu Nianhua's house. With his sharp eyes, he spotted his wife Liang Baozhen's floral cotton shirt in the crowd.
As he approached, he just happened to hear what Liu Nianhua said. While Xu Shengjie was talking to the staff of the street office, he put his arm around Liang Baozhen's waist and whispered, "Aren't you tired of standing like this? Sit down and take a rest."
"You're back?" Liang Baozhen suddenly felt relieved when she heard Xu Shengjie's voice. On the one hand, she was worried about Liu Nianhua, and on the other hand, she was also concerned about the baby in her belly. Fortunately, Zhou Qingdang arrived first and helped stabilize the situation.
"Zhou Guoping is really a haunting guy." Xu Shengjie frowned and looked at Zhou Guoping, he really felt that his eyes were dirty.
"Sister Hao, they...they were in collusion, and they forced me to write that note!" Zhou Guoping did not give up and was still making a desperate struggle.
"Sister Hao, I am a retired soldier and I used to wear a military uniform. I can guarantee that everything Comrade Liu Nianhua said is true. Everything I said is also true. Otherwise, I would be unworthy of wearing a military uniform."
Seeing that the young man looked upright, and hearing that he was a veteran, Sister Hao looked up to him a little more. Then she looked at the man lying on the ground, who looked like a scoundrel. She used to work in the Women's Federation, and she hated this kind of scum. Everyone in the alley knew what kind of person Liu Nianhua was. He was a very honest person and had never had a quarrel with anyone. But today he was shouting so hard, obviously because he was forced into a vicious situation.
"Let's take him back to find out more about the situation. Xiao He, go and inform the Revolutionary Committee. If he is really an adulterer and has a bad behavior, he will have to be reported to the Revolutionary Committee."
"good."
Not long after, people from the Revolutionary Committee also arrived and took the troublemaker Zhou Guoping away. Liu Nianhua entrusted the child to Zhang Rong and Zhou Yun, and went to the Revolutionary Committee with them to explain the situation.
Liang Baozhen was worried about Liu Nianhua being alone, but she was not in good health to walk, so she was just about to ask Xu Shengjie to go with her, but Zhou Qingdang spoke first.
"I'll go with Sister Hua to avoid any more trouble."
"No, no, I've troubled you enough today." Liu Nianhua felt very uncomfortable when he thought about how his family affairs had troubled his neighbors again and again.
Zhang Rong took pity on the three women and said again, "Nianhua, why are you so polite? Just ask Qingdang to go with you. You have a helper. Zhou Guoping is not easy to get along with. There are many people in the Revolutionary Committee, so Qingdang can also help."
Liu Nianhua had no choice but to set off with Zhou Qingdang.
Zhou Yun held Xiaohu and rubbed his hands. After the child's body warmed up a little, he fed him a cup of warm water, and he looked better.
"It's really a sin. How could you torture your child like this?"
"Do you have a fever?" Liang Baozhen walked over and touched Xiaohu's forehead. The temperature was normal.
"I have Analgin at home." Xiaolong stayed beside his brother and answered obediently after hearing what his aunt said.
"That's good. Let's wait and see tonight. If he really has a fever, your mother will give him medicine."
The room was warmed up by the coal stove. Xu Shengjie helped Liang Baozhen sit down. After careful questioning, he learned about Zhou Guoping's incident of causing trouble and snatching the child. He raised his eyebrows and said, "We really let him down at the beginning. He dared to cause trouble. If everyone hadn't gone out to buy New Year's goods today, he wouldn't have been able to be so arrogant."
"Fortunately, Zhou Qingdang just came back, otherwise he might really take Xiaohu away." Liang Baozhen tried her best to delay him with words, and was also glad that Zhou Guoping had not had time to go out yet.
But Xu Shengjie still felt a little scared when he thought about it. The scene was chaotic, with people pushing and shoving everywhere. His wife was nearby with a seven-month-old belly. Although she was standing farther away, it was still dangerous. "You should have just informed us, and don't go near them. What if they bump into you?"
Xu Shengwei and his sister, Biaozi and Fang Zhibin also came to Xiaolong and Xiaohu and whispered to the two brothers. Xiaoya squatted beside them and helped to rub Xiaohu's hands. She also reached out to her brother's pocket for the handkerchief and blew Xiaohu's nose.
"Yes, use force." She had never taken care of a child blowing his nose before, so she put the handkerchief on the base of Xiaohu's nose, wrapped it back together, and asked Xiaohu to blow his nose hard.
Xiaohu roasted the fire for a while and gradually warmed up. His hands were also warmed up from rubbing. He listened to Sister Xiaoya and blew his nose hard. Only after blowing his nose did he feel that his nose was unblocked.
"I'm fine." He was really scared today. His father held him tightly and refused to let him put on clothes. He hated his father! Why was his father so mean? He was almost freezing to death.
Xu Shengwei and Xiaolong were also watching from the side. They were relieved to see Xiaohu finally come to life. They patted Xiaohu on the shoulder and comforted him, "Xiaohu, warm up quickly. Let's go play snowballs together."
Snow? Xiaohu shook his head. He was frozen to death today. He felt cold when he heard the word snow. He decided not to play snowballs for the time being.
"Brother." Xiaoya called Xu Shengwei.
"What's the matter?"
"Please keep your handkerchief."
The handkerchief that Xiaohu had just used to blow his nose was wrapped up and returned to Xu Shengwei. Xu Shengwei stared at the blue plaid handkerchief in a daze, then touched his pocket, "Hey, where's my handkerchief!"
"Xu Shengya, why are you using my handkerchief to blow Xiaohu's nose?"
"Then I'll definitely take yours. My handkerchief can only be used by girls, and you are all boys." Xu Shengya said righteously.
Fang Zhibin saw this and tried hard not to laugh out loud, but he couldn't help it and burst out laughing, "Xiaowei, Xiaoya is right, hahahaha."
"Eh~" Xu Shengwei took the handkerchief and hurriedly took it outside to wash with a little disgust.
Only a few people in the room were left laughing, even Xiaohu laughed.
After Liu Nianhua explained the matter to the Revolutionary Committee, he added at the end that they could ask the truck driver who lived on Dongsheng Street about the situation, as the two were also divorced. In fact, the matter was very simple to investigate, as there were witnesses and evidence.
The Revolutionary Committee knew what was going on, so they left only Zhou Guoping to continue the interrogation and asked Liu Nianhua to leave first.
After walking out of the gate of the Revolutionary Committee, Liu Nianhua and Zhou Qingdang waited for the bus to go home together. Liu Nianhua stepped on the snow one step at a time, leaving one footprint after another. The snow was soft, and stepping on it felt like falling into the clouds. A relieved smile appeared on his lips, and Liu Nianhua finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you for today, as well as your mom and the others, otherwise Xiaohu might have really been taken away by Zhou Guoping."
"I'm glad you're alright. People like Zhou Guoping deserve to be sent to prison!"
Zhou Qingdang walked side by side with her, and smiled back at Liu Nianhua's words. He found that Liu Nianhua was different. In the past, this person was famous for her good temper and never quarreled with anyone. Later, when she divorced Zhou Guoping, she looked very bad. Her eyes were wandering, her face was sad, and she looked like she could fall down at any time. Even when she worked as a conductor on the bus, she was bullied. Later, she gradually got better. She worked as a conductor in a proper manner and was not bullied by some rude passengers. It was not easy to take care of two children at home alone. She ignored some rumors outside and lived her own life.
Zhou Qingdang thought about it and recalled that his most vivid impression of Liu Nianhua was that every morning when he opened the door, he would see her busy at the stove. She had to get up early to make breakfast for the children. Time was tight in the morning, so she had to get up even earlier. In winter, her hands were frozen to the point of numbness. However, every time he opened the door and made eye contact with her, Liu Nianhua would smile at him and say good morning.
The two got on the bus together. Liu Nianhua knew the bus driver. They were both employees of the public transportation company. The driver greeted her and waived her ticket. Zhou Qingdang also enjoyed the free ticket treatment.
This is an unwritten rule that provides preferential treatment to bus company employees and their families.
After getting in the car, the two stood side by side. Zhou Qingdang looked at Liu Nianhua's hands, which were red from being frozen. Her hands holding the armrest were a bit rough. She had been doing housework at home for many years, so she could not be said to be enjoying a good life, and her hands were not delicate. But now the back of her hands was red, like a precursor to frostbite, and there were several scratches on them, which should have been caused by her being scratched when she was struggling with Zhou Guoping.
He lowered his eyes, reached into his pocket with his left hand, touched his labor protection gloves, and held them tightly in his hand.
"Sister Hua..."
Zhou Qingdang had just taken out half of the glove when he suddenly heard Liu Nianhua lean over and say, "We're here, get off the bus."
Having said that, Liu Nianhua turned around and got out of the car first. She was still thinking about the two little ones at home, so she walked with the wind. Zhou Qingdang followed closely, and only called out to stop when they reached the gate of the large courtyard.
"Sister Hua, please put on a pair of gloves." He just saw Liu Nianhua's gloves fell to the ground during the scuffle with Zhou Guoping, and they were stepped on several times and torn. They should be unusable.
"No, I'm used to this." Liu Nianhua put her hands behind her back, feeling a little embarrassed. This happened to her every winter, and she was prone to frostbite. When an attack was severe, it itched terribly and she wanted to scratch it, but it hurt when she touched it, and it was very torturous.
"I'm going to go back to see Xiaolong and Xiaohu first. You should come back soon too." Liu Nianhua took a few steps and turned back to thank him solemnly, "Zhou Qingdang, thank you so much for today."
"You're welcome." Zhou Qingdang watched Liu Nianhua's back disappear in the cold wind, and he only felt that the smile just now was very brilliant.
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