Chapter Seventy-One Reunion
On the threshing floor, the scene was beyond just weeping; it was a chorus of grief from hundreds of families.
Familiar faces and unfamiliar faces alike gathered together, their expressions ranging from excitement to sadness. Some even fainted from crying, and then chaos ensued.
Meng Tian looked at the chaotic scene in the wheat field with a complicated expression, and pulled Gu Zuozuo aside to explain to her.
"I don't know the specifics. We just happened to be on the same road as these people on our way here. We only heard that these people were rescued from an illegal mining operation and were sent back from the hospital."
"Some of them were people who had been missing in the village for several years, the longest being almost ten years. I heard that the grass on the cenotaphs built for some of them was almost taller than a person, but the graves were still there, and the people were standing alive in front of their families. It was almost a surprise that turned into a shock. Several of them have fainted."
Gu Zuozuo looked at the dozen or so people who were surrounded at the innermost part of the group. They had one thing in common: they were pale-faced and had gloomy eyes. They looked at their relatives with a hint of happiness, but when they looked at others, they could not relax their vigilance.
[Host! Are they the people you indirectly rescued from that lab? How did they turn into a black market mining operation?]
"Hmm, probably, it's another secret that can't be told."
She just didn't expect them to be released so quickly; she thought they would have to undergo a long period of psychological treatment before being allowed to go home.
"Where have you been! Ah! Your son's already married and you're only just coming back! Do you know how hard it's been for me all alone! Waaah! You heartless bastard! You might as well just die already, I almost got myself married off..."
The man, who had been beaten so badly he dared not fight back, glared at her and his loud voice pierced the air, echoing throughout the noisy wheat field.
"What? You still want to get married? What am I supposed to do then?"
The familiar voice made Gu Zuozuo look at the man who was clearly tall, but so thin that he was almost emaciated.
He recognized the voice; it was the same loud, energetic voice she had heard when they were exploring the cave, the one that had alerted her to something amiss.
Aunt Li choked, almost dying of anger at the man's words. But then she thought of her youngest son, who died less than two days after birth, and grief overwhelmed her. She grabbed her husband, who was even whiter than her, and burst into tears again. The more she cried, the more heartbroken and distressed she became. The man was in a panic, but when he saw the man behind his wife who was taller than him, he was stunned.
"Iron...Iron Boy?"
Ma Tiewa stared solemnly at his long-dead father in front of him, listing all sorts of gossip versions he had seen and heard in his mind. After taking one last look at his father, he asked his first question since they met.
"You didn't marry a mistress outside, get swindled out of your money and virtue, and then come back to my mother because you couldn't survive, did you? You didn't make up the story about the black mine, did you?"
The man looked at his son, who was taller than him, with a look of utter disbelief, and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Have you ever seen a rich person as thin as me?"
"But you're even fairer than my mother! And why don't you look like you're doing hard labor when you're imprisoned and digging coal? Your calluses are almost gone!"
Do you really think he's a fool? He might fool his mother, but he won't fool him!
"I was smothered while locked underground!..."
Gu Zuozuo looked away with a complicated expression, her lips twitching involuntarily. It's true that there are always some conspicuous bags in every era.
"Aren't you two tired from the train ride? What are you still standing here for? Come on, let's go back and rest."
As she spoke, she picked up a large package in one hand and led the group back to the educated youth settlement. If she watched any longer, she was afraid he would burst out laughing at such a sad scene.
The three of them walked back to the educated youth settlement in hushed tones. Just as they were about to enter, they brushed past a girl wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket and a rabbit fur hat.
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