Cui Yu stood up and said to Yan Ci:
"Uncle, in 1962, I was abducted by human traffickers and secretly hidden in my home."
"It was thanks to you that I was rescued after you caught the human trafficker and informed the police. Thank you!"
After speaking, he bowed to Yan Ci.
Yan Ci quickly stopped him: "Xiao Cui, don't be so polite. It's been so long, I've forgotten about it."
Besides, it was the police who saved you; I didn't really help much, I just mentioned it casually.
Cui Yu's eyes were a little red at the corners:
"Uncle, it was your casual remark that saved my life; otherwise, I would have starved to death there."
Yan Ci waved his hand: "No, I believe the police will get you out sooner or later."
Liu Guoan said to Yan Ci:
“Yan Ci, this little boy came to me as soon as he arrived here, asking where you were and even asking me to accompany him to thank you. He’s very thoughtful.”
Yan Ci: "Brother Liu, to be honest, I told you this because I was worried about my child. I just happened to overhear the human traffickers talking and told you casually. It really doesn't count as saving a life."
Liu Guoan laughed heartily:
"I know you're doing this for your daughter. That little girl was fierce, but she's all grown up now!"
Just then, Ruyi and Changle returned home.
Yan Ci instructed the two to greet him: "This is Uncle Liu." Ruyi and Chang Le obediently greeted him.
Liu Guoan: "Oh dear, both of your daughters are so grown up now. Which one of you was the child who was almost abducted that year?"
Upon hearing this, Chang Le knew that the person was talking about him, and said generously, "Uncle Liu, it's me, my name is Chang Le."
Liu Guoan gave a thumbs up: "Back then, you were so young, yet you beat those three black and blue. Impressive!"
Chang Le thought of Ding Cuihua and decided to ask, "Uncle Liu, those people are so bad, why were they released again?"
Liu Guoan looked at Yan Ci with a puzzled expression.
Yan Ci said, "It's Ding Cuihua from our village who has been released. She was one of the three human traffickers back then."
Liu Guoan said, "I really didn't know she had been released."
Generally speaking, if someone is released, it means they have served their full sentence.
Alternatively, good behavior in prison could lead to a reduced sentence and early release.
Cui Yu sat beside her, silently observing the bright, beautiful, and radiant girl.
Chang Le, she seemed genuinely happy; her smile was so dazzling it could burn.
She was saved because of her.
Liu Guoan pointed at Cui Yu and said to Chang Le:
“Chang Le, this is Cui Yu. He was also a child who was abducted years ago. He was rescued because of you, and he has come here today to thank you for saving his life.”
Chang Le finally got a good look at Cui Yu, and curiously examined him before glancing at her mother.
Cui Yu stood up and said, "Thank you, Chang Le, for saving my life."
Chang Le took a few steps back: "You don't need to thank me, it has nothing to do with me."
Then, she pulled Ruyi to the kitchen, and Bai Xiaoyue gave Yan Ci a look and also went to the kitchen to work.
Since there were only vegetarian dishes at home, it wasn't suitable to entertain guests. Bai Xiaoyue asked Chang Le to go to the meat processing plant to find Wang Weiguo and see if they could get some meat.
Chang Le ran out like a gust of wind.
As a result, when Chang Le brought the meat back, Liu Guoan did not stay for dinner. Cui Yu put down the gift and left with him.
Bai Xiaoyue said with a laugh, "Then let's eat the meat ourselves, it'll be a good way to improve our lives."
She quickly stir-fried a pork dish with garlic sprouts and braised an eggplant.
As Xiaobai ate the twice-cooked pork, he kept saying, "Mom, this pork is so fragrant and goes so well with rice."
Bai Xiaoyue said, "This dish is quite simple. I'll teach you when I have time. If you can make it yourself, you can eat it every day."
Xiao Bai's eyes widened: "How can we eat meat every day? We'd eat our family out of house and home!"
Bai Xiaoyue put a piece of food in her son's bowl:
"Eat up, silly son. When you grow up, I'll feed you meat every day, but you won't even want to eat it."
Xiao Bai said, "Impossible, I'd be happy even if I ate it every day."
After the meal, Bai Xiaoyue looked at the gifts Cui Yu had brought: brown sugar, canned fruit, and snacks.
She asked Yan Ci, "A-Ci, what should we do?"
Yan Ci said, "Wife, accept it! Do you still remember where you put that letter from that year?"
Bai Xiaoyue asked, "The thank-you letter from the Cui family?"
Yan Ci nodded: "Find it, let me see."
Bai Xiaoyue: "It looks like it's in a box. We'll have to open the cellar!"
After the children had all left, the two opened the cellar and took out the letter.
The last line of the letter contained the Cui family's address, saying that if they went to Beijing, they should go to the Cui family's house to find Cui Yunchen.
Yan Ci and Bai Xiaoyue looked at each other in bewilderment. Cui Yunchen, the son-in-law of Old Master Cui, was also named Cui Yunchen.
Bai Xiaoyue asked, "Aci, do you think it could be the same person?"
Yan Ci carefully put the letter away: "Wife, don't worry about it, it has nothing to do with us."
That night, Chang Le secretly pulled Bai Xiaoyue into her room to whisper to her.
"Mom, doesn't that Cui Yu look a bit like Xiaobai? Could he be related to Uncle Yan?"
Bai Xiaoyue, having just suffered a loss at Yan Ci's hands, quickly said, "Chang Le, I didn't feel that way at all."
Chang Le said definitively, "It looks somewhat similar to me."
Bai Xiaoyue patted her daughter's shoulder: "Maybe so. It's normal for people to look alike."
Cui Yu could not possibly have any connection with your Uncle Yan; your Uncle Yan is the only one left in the entire Yan family.
That Cui Yu is from Beijing, thousands of kilometers away from where your Uncle Yan lives.
Chang Le nodded: "Mom's analysis is right, I was overthinking it."
Soon, the autumn harvest began, and the garment factories closed for the holidays, with everyone going to work in the fields.
Ruyi stayed at home, while Changle went to the fields with Bai Xiaoyue.
Wen Tong's daughter Rui Rui went to school, and her younger son was looked after by Bai's mother while she went to work in the fields.
Several of them came to harvest wheat, some bending over to cut, others squatting down to cut, and either their backs or feet ached, and the wheat awns were prickly.
That feeling was extremely unpleasant.
Li Mingyue felt sorry for Chang Le: "Changle, your mother and I will take care of it. Go and rest under the tree."
Chang Le wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Auntie, it's okay, I can do it."
Although Chang Le worked slowly, he was very serious and didn't slack off. By the end of the day, he had impressed the others.
Wen Tong praised, "Chang Le is better than me. When I first started working in the fields, it was a terrible sight."
Li Mingyue rolled her eyes at her: "You think you can compare to our Chang Le?"
Wen Tong yelled, "Sister Mingyue, what kind of look is that? Are you looking down on me? I'm doing just fine now."
Ye Fengqin said to Bai Xiaoyue, "Wen Tong and Mingyue have a very good relationship!"
Bai Xiaoyue smiled and nodded: "The more the two of them argue, the better."
That evening, Bai Xiaoyue noticed that her daughter's hands, which had been holding a sickle, were red, so she gave her a tube of ointment: "Changle, apply this before you go to bed."
Yan Ci said to Chang Le, "You and Ruyi can stay home and do housework. With me and Mom here, you don't need to earn work points."
Chang Le: "Uncle Yan, I have to try all kinds of jobs. I'm all grown up now."
Bai Xiaoyue said, "People who have studied should find ways to change their lives with knowledge. They don't necessarily have to go to the fields to do farm work."
Chang Le said, "I see several educated youths working in the fields, so I can too."
My great-grandfather said that if I work hard for three years, he'll recommend me for university!
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