Song Qing immediately thought of the day he saw Zhou Han leaving the village alone on the road. How could he have entered the black market to sell things so soon after arriving?
The black market is being cracked down on now; if you're not an acquaintance, the people inside won't let you in to do business.
"Mom, where are we going?"
An'an was carried by her aunt and walked around for a long time. There was nothing new or interesting along the way except for people. She still couldn't forget about the zoo.
"I won't forget your zoo, but I need to send a letter first."
Lu Ronghui had already written the letter before she arrived, and Song Qing and An'an watched her go in from outside the post office.
"Mom, who is Auntie sending the letter to? Is it to Grandma?"
How could Lu Ronghui possibly write a letter to He Shuyue? She wrote a letter of complaint and sent it to the local public security bureau.
The sudden appearance of so many smuggled bicycles on the market is seriously damaging to national interests, and I believe the Public Security Bureau will take it seriously.
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“Zhou Zhiqing, no matter how much you beg me, I cannot grant you this leave.”
The captain was exasperated by Zhou Han. At first, he said he would ask for half a day off to go to the city, but now he actually wants to ask for several days off to go home. Why doesn't he just fly to the moon?
"You've only been here for less than two months. What will you do with the farm work if you need to take time off? Who will be responsible if something goes wrong on the way?"
The brigade leader stood there, leaning on his hoe, his face dark with anger.
"Captain..." Zhou Han knew that asking for leave to go home was a pipe dream, so he gave up and asked the captain for a few hours to go to the city.
"Okay, three hours it is." The captain compromised.
Everyone was working hard in the fields, and Zhou Han saw that it was almost time to go back to the educated youth settlement to pack his things.
"What exactly happened? Why won't you tell me anything?"
Bai Rongjun grabbed his sleeve. She only found out after that day that Zhou Han had started acting strangely after receiving a letter from home.
"It's alright." There are no buses to the city at this hour, so he can only go by bicycle. He borrowed a bicycle from someone in the village yesterday for 50 cents, and it will take several hours to go there and back.
"Nothing wrong? If nothing's wrong, why did you take leave? We're already engaged, why did you hide it from me?"
Zhou Han didn't want her to worry, so he told her that nothing could be solved except making her worry.
“Zhou Han didn’t even want to talk to her, but she still tried to pull him away.”
Yang Fangmei stood up and looked at the two people in the distance, swinging her hoe fiercely, raising clouds of black soil as she hoeed.
"What's wrong with you that you're spreading this here? Don't you have eyes?!"
They were digging furrows in the peanut field. Now that the sun was finally out, the female educated youth lifted her straw hat to dry her sweaty hair, only to be hit in the face by the dirt that Yang Fangmei kicked up.
Yang Fangmei knew she had made a mistake and quickly admitted it, but she still looked at the two people over there with jealousy.
Zhou Han is tall and handsome, while Bai Rongjun is petite and delicate. No matter how picky Yang Fangmei is, the two look like a perfect match.
Didn't you have a fight a few days ago? How come you're back to normal?
Seeing tears welling up in her eyes again, Zhou Han had no choice but to wipe them away with his sleeve. "Go back first, we'll talk when I get back."
Liu Ruo also saw the two of them huddled together again. She slowly moved towards Lu Ronghui, who was putting peanuts on the ridge, and whispered in her ear.
"I don't know what happened to Zhou Han's family, but these two are still saying goodbye so reluctantly."
"It must be quite serious. I heard from the male educated youth that he hasn't gone out these past two nights, but he's either sitting on the kang (heated brick bed) in a daze or smoking outside."
Almost everyone at the educated youth settlement was studying intensively, except for Zhou Han, who didn't seem to care. Zhao Hui thought that for him to be so indifferent even to the textile factory workers, something terrible must have happened.
Zhao Hui and Bai Jiamei happened to be nearby, and upon hearing Liu Ruo's voice, they quietly came over.
As the two continued to speculate, Bai Jiamei, who knew about the Zhou family's situation, carefully glanced at Lu Ronghui's expression and found that she was still digging furrows with a calm expression, so she lowered her head.
In the book, nothing bad ever happened to the Zhou family. Zhou Han's father's official position would rise even higher, paving the way for his path to becoming the richest man for many years. When he retired, he would be a highly respected senior official. Zhou Han could even use his father's remaining influence to open up business opportunities.
Bai Jiamei dug a hole with all her might. What could possibly happen to the Zhou family? It won't affect Zhou Han's career development, will it?
She was even thinking of investing in pre-IPO shares.
It took Zhou Han more than an hour to ride his bicycle to the city. He randomly found a factory and borrowed a phone from the gatehouse for 50 cents. When he was at the brigade headquarters, someone was always watching him, so he didn't dare to ask too many questions on the phone.
"Mom? It's me, Zhou Han."
Li Mei had been living in fear at home for a long time. Zhou Qi had been taken away for several days and there had been no news of him returning. All the things in her house had been sealed off, and she was now staying at her parents' house.
When her family found out about Zhou Qi's accident, they wanted to sever all ties with her immediately. They had been urging her to move out for the past few days, but her house was sealed off, so where could she go?
"Son, what should we do? Your father has had an accident."
"Mom, don't panic, what happened?"
Li Mei had no idea what good could come of being taken away by the Revolutionary Committee.
She and Zhou Qi had been married for so many years and had seen so many of these things, but she never expected it to happen in her own home one day.
“Son, I don’t know. Someone must be trying to harm your father! He has offended too many people over the years.”
Li Mei had long forgotten that she had been arguing fiercely with Zhou Qi just a few days ago, and she had no idea who her family had offended.
“Your dad is over 50 years old. He might be paraded through the streets and made to wear a hat.”
In the years when the uproar was at its worst, not only were they forced to wear hats and parade through the streets, but they would also be secretly punished by the guards. After the parade, no one knew where they would be sent to.
Li Mei was going crazy just thinking about this. Whether Zhou Qi would get into trouble or not was another matter. What if it implicated her and her son? How would they survive if they were locked up in a cowshed?
These past few days, she's been crying out to heaven and earth in vain. Those people broke into her house and took Zhou Qi away without saying a word, and even she was locked up for several days.
The Revolutionary Committee members were even more ruthless than the police. Li Mei was tortured to the point of collapse during those days, and the thought of her time inside made her tremble.
"Son, does the fact that they released your mother mean I'm alright?"
If things really come to that, Li Mei thought she should have her son also publish a notice in the newspaper severing ties with that old man; she couldn't let him and her son be implicated.
"Mom, we're a family. If something happens to Dad, it will definitely affect us. The most important thing now is to find out why Dad was taken away."
Zhou Han quickly comforted Li Mei, saying that now was not the time to sever ties.
"What can we do? They took all the letters and books from home, and everything else too." Li Mei cried as she held the phone. What was she going to do?
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