Qiao Xuan's words were too direct, which made Sun Jianmin feel a little embarrassed and he didn't know how to respond.

Gu Yang looked at the father and son of the Sun family, and the temperature in his eyes turned a little colder.

After Qiu Baizhou asked that question just now, she paid attention to the micro-expressions of the Sun family father and son.

Sun Kang and Sun Jianmin both lied.

It's impossible that she was lucky enough to give birth to nine boys in a row. There must have been a girl during that time.

So where did these girls go?

Did she abort the baby after finding out it was a girl at an informal hospital, or did she throw it away or give it away after it was born and found to be a girl? And...

"Where is the child's mother?"

Gu Yang and Qiu Baizhou asked almost at the same time.

The two looked at each other and could see that the other had the same guess.

Sun Jianmin hesitated for a moment, and looked at Qiu Baizhou with a wary look in his eyes, "The child's mother...is gone."

Qiu Baizhou frowned: "Gone? Died?"

Sun Jianmin was impatient with Qiu Baizhou's questioning. "Why are you asking so many questions? Are you here to help the poor or to check the household registration?"

Sun Kang explained, "My parents had a deep relationship. After my mother passed away, it was hard for my father to accept it, so we rarely mentioned her to make him sad."

Qiu Baizhou was silent for a moment, looked in the direction of Gu Yang, and then said to the Sun family father and son lightly: "Sorry."

He didn't continue talking after that, but looked at Gu Yang from time to time.

"We are not here to help your family with poverty. We just want to learn about Sun Xi's situation."

Gu Yang took out a few White Rabbit candies from his down jacket pocket and gave them to Sun Xi.

Sun Xi's eyes lit up, and he carefully took the candy from Gu Yang's hand, uttering broken syllables, and a child's innocent smile appeared on his dirty face.

Sun Kang looked at Gu Yang and laughed.

This little girl is innocent and kind, but Sun Xi is a mute, so how could he say thank you?

Feng Jue and Gu Jin's gaze stayed on the candy in Sun Xi's hand for a moment, and when they realized that the other party was also looking at the candy, they looked away as if nothing had happened.

They would never admit that there was a moment when they wanted to snatch the candy from the children.

"What happened to Sun Xi? Is it because of the incident yesterday when he knocked down your ladder? Wasn't that the kid from the Li family who caused the trouble?"

After hearing that the program crew came to his home not to help with poverty alleviation, Sun Jianmin's enthusiasm waned, and he even began to suspect that the program crew was there to cause trouble.

"Isn't this child born mute?" Gu Yang took Sun Xi to the well, fetched water and helped him wash his face.

Sun Xi obviously liked Gu Yang very much and was very obedient to her. After washing her face, she even smiled widely.

Feng Jue looked at the child, narrowed his eyes, and pursed his lips.

Sun Jianmin looked at Gu Yang in surprise, "How did you know?"

Sun Kang explained: "Xiaomute...Xiaoxi suddenly fell ill last year and became mute."

"He is not mute, he has aphasia. There are many causes of aphasia, some are caused by brain or nerve diseases, and some are caused by post-traumatic stress psychological problems."

Gu Yang took Sun Xi for a walk in the yard.

"Given our family's situation, even if we knew he was ill, we couldn't afford to pay for his treatment." Sun Jianmin was impatient to hear this, but thinking of the identities of these people, he couldn't help but say, "Unless someone helps us."

"What are you doing?!"

Sun Jianmin then discovered that Gu Yang had unknowingly walked to the dilapidated adobe house in the yard and kicked open the tightly closed wooden door.

(End of this chapter)