Chapter 406: Acting Stupid
After sitting in the car, Aunt Zhang said: "The girl in the middle family is really miserable. She was depended on by a second-rate guy, and her head was beaten so that she is not very smart. She is stupid all day long.
Just now when I was processing Zhixia's discharge procedures, I heard the nurses say that the girl had a difficult birth, and the baby was deprived of oxygen for too long and might have some brain problems in the future.
Oh, everything has happened at once."
The group of people were also a little moved after hearing this. Fang Yuan turned his head to look at An Zhixia who was holding the child and coaxing her gently. He couldn't help but reach out and hold her tightly in his arms, "Wife, thank you!"
An Zhixia chuckled and whispered, "How many times have you said thank you since you met me? How can a husband and wife be so polite?"
He smiled but said nothing. He looked at his wife and two children, feeling a pang of sadness in his heart.
When he thought of An Zhixia's fate in her previous life, he felt cold all over and his heart ached with anger. Fortunately, they were all fine. Perhaps this was God's special compensation for them.
After two days of living at Jiang's house, the adults and children were in stable condition. An Zhixia and Fang Yuan were worried about their children at home, so they returned to the TV station's family compound. During the day, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Fang came to help, and Fang Hongye also held the baby to accompany An Zhixia in the stuffy room.
There were always various soups boiling on the stove. At night, An Zhixia only had to feed the child, and Fang Yuan took over the job of changing diapers.
That day, Aunt Zhang came in with a pair of pig's trotters in her hand and said, "I just went to the grocery store to buy meat. Do you know who I met?
She is the grandmother of the child in the middle bed where Zhixia is hospitalized!
Her son-in-law wanted to eat meat, so she took the meat coupons that had just been issued by her family and went to buy meat. She told me that the ward was really robbed the night we left. The child of the family near the door was stolen!
It was said that the woman was so happy to have a grandson that she showed off everywhere and attracted attention, so she was targeted. The thief failed the first night, so the next day he brought some incense, and everyone in the room fell into a deep sleep. In the morning, when the nurse went to make her rounds, they found that the child was gone!
Not only is the child gone, but also the canned food sent by relatives and friends in the past two days, the milk powder bought for the child and other things are all gone."
"The child from the house near the door is gone? What about the one in the middle?" An Zhixia asked, pursing her lips.
Aunt Zhang also exclaimed, "Yes, how come the child near the door is gone? The child in the middle is still fine." The baby's grandmother felt sorry for her daughter and asked for a few cleanly shaved bones to take home and make soup.
They didn't bring much stuff with them when they went to the hospital, only a thermos, an enamel basin and an enamel pot.
Could it be that the thief also heard that the child was lacking oxygen and his brain might not be in good condition, so he didn't steal it?"
An Zhixia looked at Fang Yuan: "Brother Yuan, you said that plainclothes police often squatted in the hospital, but no one noticed?"
Fang Yuan shook his head: "This group of people is very cunning. Even if someone is waiting, they can come up with many plans to steal the child. The large number of people in the hospital gives this group of people greater convenience."
As he said this, he suddenly looked up and exchanged glances with An Zhixia, and both saw realization in each other's eyes.
He stood up suddenly and said, "I'm going out for a while."
"Why are you in such a hurry? Aren't you going to have lunch?" Aunt Zhang asked.
Fang Yuan waved his hand and left in a hurry.
When he came back, Aunt Zhang had already cleaned up the dishes and was waiting for Jiang Shiming to pick her up.
"The mother and daughter just finished eating and went to bed. I'm stewing chicken porridge on the stove. If Zhixia is hungry at night, you can serve her a bowl. Tomorrow morning, go to the canteen to buy some oil cakes and eggs, which will go perfectly with the chicken porridge." Aunt Zhang put on her coat and wrapped her head tightly with a scarf. Although it was already May, it was still a little cold at night. "The weather forecast said it would rain tomorrow, so I might have to come a little later."
Fang Yuan smiled and whispered, "Aunt Zhang, if it rains tomorrow, you can just stay at home for a day. Grandma and grandpa need to be with someone, and Aunt Fang is here to take care of them. I can handle a lot of things, so don't worry."
Aunt Zhang sighed.
An Zhixia heard the sound of brakes, and soon Fang Yuan came in after sending the person away and locking the door.
"Awake?" There was a table lamp on in the room at all times. In the dim light, Fang Yuan kissed her, looked at the two sleeping children, and whispered, "I went to the police station this morning and told them my guess.
Some comrades indeed saw the man entering and leaving the ward twice. Because his clothes were baggy, it was not easy to be discovered even if he was holding a child in his arms.
We quietly captured him in the toilet to avoid alerting others."
"Did you find out anything during the interrogation? He doesn't look like the kind of person who would confess honestly." An Zhixia thought about the man who pretended to be honest but was actually ruthless, and asked with a frown.
"He was quite dishonest," he sneered, "pretending to be stupid and nagging like a clam, insisting that he knew nothing. The process was a bit tortuous, but he still entertained us in the end.
They hid the children in the cellar of a desolate house on the outskirts of the city. There were a total of 23 children of different sizes, and they were about to be shipped out to other places for sale!"
An Zhixia was half happy and half worried, "You are involved?"
Fang Yuan's hands and feet had warmed up by now. He touched her plump and smooth cheek and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I haven't shown up, so no one will target me for revenge."
She slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and said against his chest, "Although I have been a mother for less than a month, I seem to be much more timid and selfish than before."
"Silly," he held the man in his arms, "you've done a good job. None of us are saints, and the world will not stop turning just because we do less or more.
I would rather you and your children be selfish and live a good life.
There is a saying in the underworld that those with money support people, and those with money support money. If we make more money in the future and support the country and the people with money, it will be considered as doing our best. "
An Zhixia's self-loathing mood disappeared completely in an instant. She nodded and smiled, "Yes, money makes the world go round. If the country becomes rich and powerful, all aspects will surely improve, and the people's ideas will change, then the phenomenon of human trafficking can be alleviated!"
"I did hear about the family's story at the police station. They had given birth to six daughters and finally had a son. The wife finally stood up straight, but the son was stolen.
The whole family was going crazy, going to the police station every day to make a scene, saying that if the child couldn't be found, the family would break up. The woman was already looking for a young woman who could give birth to a son for her son."
"Is the child in the cellar?" An Zhixia asked.
Fang Yuan sighed softly, "No, they are all slightly older children. These children can already remember things, and it is difficult to sell them locally, so they will be sold to remote areas and strictly guarded by the buyers.
Small babies, especially newborns, are easy to sell. Most of the time, they contact buyers first and then steal the children. Families who can buy children definitely don’t want to be found, so their information is either false or not leaked. ”
An Zhixia touched the two children's soft hands fearfully, "Tell me, if, if we hadn't gone home a day earlier, would we have been knocked unconscious too, Zhuozhuo and Yunyun..."
"No," Fang Yuan didn't dare to imagine this situation: "We will all be fine! I won't allow this to happen!"
"Yes, yes, yes," she ruffled his hair and kissed the corner of his lips, "We will all be safe."
After An Zhixia finished her confinement, Fang Yuan was also preparing to take a group of people to Country E.
"I'll be back before September. You've been working hard at home these days," An Zhixia helped him pack his clothes. The summer in Country E was particularly short. Thinking of the lack of resources there, she also brought him a lot of pickled vegetables from her home and kept reminding him to be careful.
Fang Yuan and she both tacitly worked hard to welcome the arrival of the year 7 or 8, which was a moment of epoch-making significance for Xia Huaguo.
From 1974 to 1978, Fang Yuan would go to Country E for four months without fail. At the beginning, all the gold he dug out was used to purchase large-scale machinery to expand mining. When the economy relaxed, he exchanged the gold for brand new trucks and drove them all the way from Country E to the newly built first private transportation company in the suburbs of Kyoto: Xia Yuan Transportation Group!
(End of this chapter)
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