Chapter 50

After leaving the state-owned embroidery farm, Jiang Nian kept thinking about Ge Mei's words on the way back to the dormitory.

She walked outside the dormitory and looked at the pillars of the gate. When she lived in the dormitory before, Lu Yu stood here with breakfast in his hand. Ge Mei's words completely brought the things she didn't want to face or think about in her heart to the table.

Even if she wanted to escape and pretend it had never happened, it was impossible.

Jiang Nian exhaled a breath of foul air, and when she returned to the dormitory, she smelled the delicious smell of meat. Seeing that she was the only one there, Zhai Peipei asked in confusion, "Where is Director Ge?"

Lu Xiaojing looked outside and said, "Hey, why didn't Sister Ge come?"

Jiang Nian said, "Sister Ge had something to do at home, so she went back first. Let's eat first."

Zhang Xiao brought a basin of fish and chicken to the table, as well as two plates of vegetarian dishes. Lu Xiaojing filled everyone's enamel cups with water, raised the cup and said, "Come on, let's have a drink to celebrate that our state-owned embroidery house has finally returned to its previous peaceful days."

Everyone stood up, raised their cups and clinked them together, "Cheers."

After eating and drinking enough, Jiang Nian and Zhang Xiao cleaned up the pots and bowls, and lay on the bed at night, Zhang Xiao hugged Jiang Nian and acted coquettishly: "Jiang Jie, I missed you so much during the days you were away."

Jiang Nian wanted to tease her: "So, do you miss Zhu Jun?"

Zhang Xiao's face instantly turned red, and he let go of Jiang Nian and crawled into the quilt: "I won't talk to you anymore."

Lu Xiaojing said with a chuckle: "Oh, you're still shy?"

Zhai Peipei joked: "I'm still a little girl, so I'm definitely shy."

Lu Xiaojing asked: "Then what am I?"

Zhai Peipei smiled and said: "You're an old girl." Lu

Xiaojing snorted unhappily: "Okay, okay, I'm an old girl."

Several people fell asleep gradually while talking and laughing. The next morning, Zhai Peipei got up and heated up the leftover rice from last night for everyone. After breakfast, several people went to the embroidery shop. Jiang Nian repaired the embroidery and handed it to Ge Mei after it was flawless.

Ge Mei smiled and said, "I really admire your craftsmanship."

After finishing the embroidery, Jiang Nian had nothing to do in the afternoon. She planned to go to the department store to buy some fabrics and needles and threads to make two sets of summer clothes for Lu Yu and her. Ge Mei said, "Let Zhang Xiao accompany you, and you two can keep each other company."

Zhang Xiao stood up happily and said, "Thank you, Sister Ge."

After lunch, Jiang Nian and Zhang Xiao went to the department store together. On the way, they met the police arresting people on the street. They were all blind migrants who poured into the city. Jiang Nian turned around and saw more than a dozen men and women.

"Sister Jiang, Hu Zhongming's father is inside."

Zhang Xiao was startled and grabbed Jiang Nian's sleeve. Jiang Nian looked in the direction she pointed. Behind the two women followed a short but strong man, with dishevelled hair and unshaven beard, who looked very similar to Hu Zhongming.

When □□ led them past Zhang Xiao and Jiang Nian, Hu Zhongming's father must have seen Zhang Xiao, turned around and glared at her viciously. Zhang Xiao was so scared that she swallowed her saliva and approached Jiang Nian: "Sister Jiang, let's go."

"Okay."

Jiang Nian retracted her gaze and left quickly with Zhang Xiao.

And Hu Zhongming really heard Zhang Xiao call the woman next to him "Sister Jiang". Her surname was Jiang, and she was a woman, and her age was also right. Hu Zhongming's father turned around and looked at Jiang Nian's back, with a sinister look in his eyes. The department stores of this era are incomparable to those of the New Century

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Jiang Nian picked out a few kinds of fabrics and bought some of them. She also bought a few pairs of insoles to make two pairs of shoes for her and Lu Yu. Jiang Nian gave money and cloth coupons and went out with Zhang Xiao. There were two □□ looking for someone outside. When they passed by, they heard □□ asking if they had seen such a tall man with a beard. The two of

them wandered around for the whole afternoon. Jiang Nian bought some apples for Sister Zhai and the others. When they went back, the sun had already set. They had to pass through two alleys to return to the embroidery village. Who knew that Zhang Xiao was knocked unconscious by a brick as soon as he stepped in.

"Zhang Xiao!"

The apple and the cloth in Jiang Nian's hand rolled to the ground. Zhang Xiao fell to the ground and blood began to flow from her head. Opposite her stood a man, who was Hu Zhongming's father. Jiang Nian almost instantly thought of the man she was looking for in the department store, and that man was the one in front of her.

"You must be Jiang Nian."

Hu Zhongming's father walked towards Jiang Nian. When Jiang Nian turned around to run away, he rushed over to strangle her neck, covered her mouth as she cried for help, and said viciously: "You have caused my Hu family to be unable to have a family, and we have lost our jobs, our houses, and we are being driven to the countryside."

Jiang Nian's body was shaking uncontrollably, and she pinched Hu Zhongming's father's arm tightly with both hands, trying to tear his hand off. She was worried that Zhang Xiao would get into trouble if he lost too much blood, and wanted to ask Hu Zhongming's father to let Zhang Xiao go first, but the man in front of her had obviously lost his humanity.

He stared at her viciously: "My Hu family has only one son, Hu Zhongming, and I want to take your life in exchange for my son!"

The other party was very strong, and Jiang Nian had no room to resist.

She was caught by Hu Zhongming's father and taken to some unknown place. When she was leaving, she saw a small pool of blood under Zhang Xiao's head.

Zhang

Xiao was found by the aunt in the dormitory. She was so scared that she ran to the state-owned embroidery farm and called Ge Mei and others to send Zhang Xiao to the city hospital. Looking at the unconscious Zhang Xiao, Zhai Peipei stamped her feet in panic: "Which bastard did this!"

Lu Xiaojing also asked anxiously: "Where is Jiang Nian? Auntie, have you seen Jiang Nian?"

The aunt in the dormitory shook her head, her hands still shaking: "When I passed by, I saw Zhang Xiao alone, but not Jiang Nian."

"Call the police!"

Ge Mei's face turned pale, and she panicked for the first time: "It must be Hu Zhongming's father! I'll go call the police!"

Zhai Peipei stayed with Zhang Xiao, while Lu Xiaojing and Ge Mei went to the Public Security Bureau to call the police. After explaining the situation, the public security comrades quickly contacted □□, confirmed that Hu Zhongming's father had run away, and began to quickly look for the whereabouts of Hu Zhongming's father and Jiang Nian.

Lu Xiaojing was so anxious that she cried: "Sister Ge, what should we do? What if Jiang Nian got into trouble?"

Ge Mei's body swayed, and Lu Xiaojing held her up. Ge Mei looked around in panic: "Call, call Deputy Regiment Lu."

If Jiang Nian got into trouble in her hands, she would not be able to face Deputy Regiment Lu.

For the first time in so many years, Ge Mei was so nervous that she couldn't walk. She held onto the brick wall and said to Lu Xiaojing, "Go back to Xiuzhuang and call Deputy Commander Lu immediately and tell him the truth."

It was getting dark and the road was pitch black.

Ge Mei leaned against the wall, holding her chest and panicking.

Lu Xiaojing ran all the way back to the embroidery villa, opened the lock with shaking hands and ran in. She picked up the phone and was stunned for a moment before she remembered the number of the military police station. After dialing the number, she heard the operator's voice. Lu Xiaojing panted and said, "Help me connect to the military district."

"Okay, please wait."

After a while, a strange man's voice came from the other end of the phone. Lu Xiaojing said a few words, "Help me find the deputy commander of the second regiment, Deputy Commander Lu. His sister-in-law is in trouble. We are now at the state-owned embroidery villa!"

The police soldier put down the phone almost instantly and ran to the family compound at a very fast speed. He happened to meet Deputy Commander Lu and Deputy Commander Song and a few others halfway.

"Deputy Colonel Lu..."

Lu Yu had just unbuttoned the two buttons on his military uniform collar when he heard a voice behind him. He turned around and saw a policeman with an anxious look on his face. His handsome face suddenly darkened: "What happened?"