The couple made a living in the 1950s.

In the living room of the Bai family, Sanbao looked at Bai Ye who was changing his coat and came close to him.

"Dad, Mom said you came home late because you had dinner with Uncle Fu Jia and the others."

Bai Ye raised his hand and touched his little girl's head, "Mom is right, Dad will take you out for dinner next time."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Lin Manyu, "Man, I'll go out and help find the child."

"You stay home with the children and don't go out."

Only after seeing Lin Hanyu nod did Bai Ye feel at ease to leave.

After Bai Ye left, the atmosphere at home became a little solemn. Lin Manyu sat on the sofa with the children.

Dabao sighed softly and let himself lean back against the back of the sofa.

Erbao lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sanbao leaned against Lin Hanyu and said, "Mom, I wonder if Leilei has come home yet."

At this moment, at the third entrance to the main courtyard, Li Ze supported Zhang Mei, who had started to walk weakly since she was sure that her son was not at home.

"We have to send Leilei and Xiaojun to Bai Ye's house as soon as possible."

"Fang Xu...Ming Yu...where are you?"

"Mingyu...Fangxu..."

At the gate of the courtyard, Bai Ye was holding a kerosene lamp, waiting for Li Ze and his wife.

He kept hearing the sounds of everyone helping to find the child.

The neighbors haven't returned home yet, so they are looking for them in the alleys around the courtyard.

The police are also conducting door-to-door searches.

He and Li Ze planned to go around the school to look for the two children again.

Nowadays, bicycles don’t have lights, which makes them extremely inconvenient to use at night.

Bai Ye and Li Ze separated and walked around with kerosene lamps, calling their two children's names.

At the primary school gate, Zhang Mei saw Bai Ye coming back alone, and finally couldn't control herself and squatted down and cried loudly.

Li Ze quickly reached out and grabbed her, his eyes full of anxiety.

The children finish school at five o'clock, and almost four hours have passed since they left school.

Bai Ye lowered his head and didn't look at Zhang Mei's gaffe. "Is it possible that the child will go to a relative's house?"

"We don't have any relatives in Beijing." Li Ze said in a hoarse voice.

"Does the Jiang family have any?"

As soon as Bai Ye finished speaking, Zhang Mei excitedly grabbed Li Ze's hand.

"Aze, maybe Mingyu took Xiaoxu to visit relatives."

When Bai Ye heard Zhang Mei's hopeful voice, he remained silent and did not speak again.

It's always good to let her see that there is hope at this time, and we still have to keep looking for the two children.

Li Ze lowered his head in the night to hide the emotions in his eyes so that his wife would not see.

"His Xiaoxu is not an ignorant child. Even if he is playing for a while, he will not stay out so late and make them worry."

Li Ze held Zhang Mei's hand, Bai Ye walked beside Li Ze, and the three of them walked quickly towards the courtyard. They had to go back and ask if Jiang's relatives lived nearby.

At this time, most of the residents living around Dongjiaomin Lane had turned off the lights and gone to bed.

Fang Xu lay on the bed, trying hard to keep his eyes open to prevent himself from falling asleep, and tried to stay away from Mingyu's cousins.

Jiang Mingyu, who was lying beside him, had a swollen face, and he was lying on his side with his back to him, crying silently.

Just now, Jiang Mingyu wanted to sneak back home with Fang Xu, but was discovered by his uncle, who slapped him hard.

In the next room, Mingyu’s aunt, Li Erya, had a pair of triangular eyes full of calculations.

"Boss, we can't keep waiting like this."

"Otherwise, we can go find my sister-in-law now and ask her to pick up the child."

Lin Sen turned over impatiently and faced Li Erya.

"Why are you in such a hurry? You have to let my sister know how powerful we are, so that she can give us money and tickets like before."

"Do you think our son's uncle will call the police?"

Lin Sen was half asleep. "If we really call the police, my eldest sister will help us. This is just a family matter."

"What about the child from the Li family?"

"He fell asleep on the street and we picked him up. His parents have to thank us."

"The people's police serve the people, and his father cannot bully us by relying on his police status."

Li Erya thought about it and it made sense. Ever since the food rationing began, the family had never seen any money from her sister-in-law.

In the past, we could occasionally see a few cloth coupons from her at home.

There are no tickets now.

Bai Ye and the other two entered the courtyard and went straight to the Jiang family.

At this moment, the door of Jiang's house was wide open, and the whole family was sitting dejectedly on the sofa in the living room. They had just returned from looking for their child.

The police had checked the area around the courtyard and found no trace of the children, and no one had seen the two children.

When the Jiang family saw Bai Ye and the others coming in, they stood up and walked forward excitedly.

"How's it going? Do you have any clues?"

Bai Ye suppressed the emotions in his eyes and said nothing.

Before Li Ze could speak, Zhang Mei stepped forward and held Aunt Jiang's hand, no longer showing her usual calm demeanor.

"Auntie, is it possible that the two children went to play at a relative's house?"

Aunt Jiang looked at Lin Ai and said, "We don't have any relatives in Beijing."

"Only my in-laws."

When the group arrived at Lin Ai's mother's house, Zhang Mei saw that it was pitch black around her, without any light at all. Her heart sank, thinking that Xiaoxu should not be here.

"She has reminded Xiaoxu of hers more than once that he can sleep at Yu's house."

"If you want to sleep at someone else's house, you have to ask your parents for permission."

Lin Ai stood at the gate of the yard, feeling complicated. She was too anxious just now and didn't think about her mother's home.

What if the child is really at the eldest brother’s house?

Seeing that Lin Ai was slow to knock on the door, Bai Ye turned to look at Li Ze, and just happened to meet his gaze.

He calmly left the crowd and went to the outer wall of the courtyard.

He stood up, climbed over the wall and entered the yard with quick and clean movements.

Bai Ye didn't know which house Lin Ai's parents lived in.

In this courtyard with two entrances and two courtyards, every time he passed a house, he would stop at the window for a while.

It was not until he walked to the window of the west wing of the second courtyard that he heard intermittent sobbing sounds from inside.

A cold light flashed in Bai Ye's originally cold and handsome eyes.

At this time, the gatekeeper at the entrance of the courtyard was awakened by Jiang Jiadong's violent knocking on the door.

"Who is it? You come back so late."

As soon as he opened the door, he saw several people standing outside the gate, each holding kerosene lamps in their hands.

Two of them are the daughter and son-in-law of the Lin family in the second courtyard.

"Lin Ai, you're coming back to your parents' home so late?"

Aunt Jiang walked forward anxiously without waiting for Lin Ai to speak.

"Have you seen two boys around eight years old come to this yard today?"

The gatekeeper heard this and was surprised. "Yes, there are two boys. They were brought back by Lin Sen and Li Erya."

"The two children were sleeping at the time, and one of the boys was Lin Sen's nephew."

"I didn't think too much about it. Did something happen?"

No one had time to answer his questions now.

Aunt Jiang and Zhang Mei bypassed the gatekeeper and ran into the yard.

Li Ze, Jiang Jiadong and Jiang Mingbo followed closely behind.

Lin Ai was feeling very nervous at the moment. She was the last one to enter the yard, and her elder brother would not harm her child.

But I’m afraid the Li family won’t be easy to deal with regarding this matter.

When everyone arrived at the door of Lin Ai's mother's house, they saw two children in the house standing behind Bai Ye.

Lin Sen put his hands on the stool and looked at Bai Ye with a defensive look on his face.