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Xu Yan almost didn't sleep the whole night. It was not until dawn that she heard what seemed to be footsteps at the door.

She stood up suddenly, walked out of the house quickly, and met the eyes of Xie Zhuo, who was holding a baby in each hand.

"I'm back," Xu Yan walked to Xie Zhuo without stopping. Seeing that Xie Zhuo was intact and his two boys were fine too, he felt relieved.

"Why did you come back now? What happened?"

As Xu Yan asked, he glanced outside the gate but didn't see Lin Dong.

"I'll send Dabao and Xiaobao into the house first," Xie Zhuo naturally saw Xu Yan's actions, his eyes darkened, and he walked into the house holding the children.

Xu Yan hurriedly followed and lifted the door curtain for him.

After Xie Zhuo put the two kids back on the kang, took off their shoes and covered them with quilts, the two of them went out again.

Xu Yan wanted to ask more.

Xie Zhuo was out for a day and a night, and took the two children with him. God knows how she felt when she waited and waited, but the two children never came home.

She hurried to the school to ask, only to find out that Xie Zhuo had gone to school in the morning to ask for leave for Dabao and Xiaobao.

I didn’t even know to tell you in advance!

Xu Yan had a lot to say. Even before Xie Zhuo went home, she had thought about how she would scold him for his unreasonable behavior when he came back.

But now seeing that Xie Zhuo looked exhausted and his voice didn't sound right, she couldn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yan raised his hand and held Xie Zhuo's hand that was hanging by his side.

Xie Zhuo didn't say anything. When Xu Yan's soft fingertips touched his broad palm, he suddenly pulled her into his arms, then put his head in the crook of her shoulder and sniffed gently.

Xu Yan's expression paused slightly.

She raised her other hand and put it around Xie Zhuo's waist. After a long while, she asked softly, "Didn't you find Lin Dong?"

Xie Zhuo still didn't say anything until Xu Yan felt that he was about to be strangled to death by this hug. Then Xie Zhuo loosened his hand, stepped back a little, and then rubbed his face hard with his hands to make his voice sound a little normal.

"Found it," Xie Zhuo said.

"Then..." Xu Yan looked at Xie Zhuo's slightly red eyes, pursed his lips, and continued to ask, "Is he having a bad time?"

Xie Zhuo didn't answer this question again. He raised his hand and pinched his eye sockets hard a few times, and his voice became hoarse again.

"No, he's in the city hospital now. I'll come back to send Dabao and Xiaobao back and get some money."

"Hospital?" Xu Yan's expression suddenly changed and his brows furrowed.

Then, without waiting for Xie Zhuo to answer whether Lin Dong's illness was serious or not, she turned around and walked into the house. After opening the box and taking out the money, she urged Xie Zhuo to take her to the hospital.

Xie Zhuo and Xu Yan were walking towards the city with the money in their pockets. Xie Zhuo then told Xu Yan about his journey to find Lin Dong.

When Xu Yan heard that Lin Dong was beaten to death by Old Man Li and thrown next to his family's ancestral grave, his hands were shaking with anger, "Is he so courageous? Isn't this intentional murder and dumping the body in the wilderness?!"

It was just dawn and they were the only two on the road. Xie Zhuo reached out and grabbed her hand, squeezing it soothingly.

"Everyone in the village said that Lin Dong died of illness," said Xie Zhuo.

Xie Zhuo was also very angry. Even when he finally brought Lin Dong out of the mountains and went to the brigade to borrow a bullock cart, the brigade leader looked at Lin Dong with an expression as if he was looking at a "dirty thing".

Xie Zhuo almost couldn't help but punch him in the face.

"Is your team so careless about human life?" Xie Zhuo endured it again and again, and asked coldly with overwhelming anger, "A half-grown child was beaten like this!"

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about?" The captain's face changed and his voice became a little higher. "This kid obviously died of tuberculosis. Who beat him?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Zhuo punched him in the face!

He originally wanted to look for that old man Li, but unexpectedly, the old widower had gone to another production team to play cards and did not return home.

In his broken thatched house that could neither block the wind nor the rain, there lived three little girls who looked like kittens.

The three little girls were incredibly thin, with scars all over their faces, but none of them were easy to get along with. When Xie Zhuo saw that there was no sign of Old Man Li, he was about to go back. One of the little girls picked up a small piece of dirt and threw it on his shoulder.

Xie Zhuo turned his head and glanced at her coldly. The little girl immediately lowered her head and shrank behind the broken door.

But when Xie Zhuo turned around and continued walking, she threw another clod of earth.

Seeing that Xie Zhuo didn't react, she giggled twice and called on the other two little girls to throw clods of earth together.

Xie Zhuo never looked back from beginning to end.

It was not until he walked back to the captain's house that he patted the mud on his body and punched the captain in the stomach.

Perhaps it was because Xie Zhuo was too cruel, or maybe the way he looked at people was not right at that time, the captain said nothing more and agreed to send Lin Dong to the city by ox cart.

Dabao and Xiaobao's eyes were swollen from crying.

He was very cautious throughout the process and didn't dare to touch Lin Dong.

The two kids only ate two steamed buns a day, plus the half piece of peach cake left by Xiaobao. Their stomachs were growling with hunger, but they still saved the half piece of peach cake for Dabao.

At this time, Dabao was gently placing half a piece of peach cake next to Lin Dong's mouth and whispering to him to eat it.

Unfortunately, Lin Dong had already fainted.

Apart from the faint sound of breathing, no other vital signs could be felt.

Finally, Dabao put the peach pastry on the straw next to Lin Dongtou.

Xu Yan came from the twenty-first century in the future. She had hardly ever had the chance to go hungry since she was born. The biggest changes she had experienced in her life were her parents' divorce and her traveling through a book.

The impact of her parents' divorce on her was that she had to start living alone.

As for the book, except for the first few days when I was bullied by the people at the educated youth center and could not fight back due to the constraints of the original plot, no completely unbearable suffering occurred.

This is the first time.

She clearly felt the pain of being born, the difficulty of living, and the evil of human nature, which were very close to her.

When my brother and sister-in-law died, they sold their children.

The person who bought the child went back and beat the child to death and threw it away, then said that the child died of illness.

Some people who know the truth not only do not stop or help the victims, but instead help the murderers and abet them in their atrocities.

Xu Yan somewhat understood why Xie Zhuo's eyes were red. He hated these perpetrators and also felt really sorry for Lin Dong.

When they couldn't help but cry, they were already outside the hospital ward.

Normally, it would take a while to get there by bike, but they arrived in less than half an hour.

The captain was still in the hospital because Xie Zhuo had gone back to get the money and the child he brought with him could not be left unattended, so the nurse stopped him from leaving.

At this moment, as soon as he saw Xie Zhuo coming back, he immediately wanted to go out.

Xu Yan paused and was about to walk towards him, but Xie Zhuo grabbed his arm.

Xu Yan glanced at him, Xie Zhuo let go of his hand, and followed Xu Yan as he walked forward.

"How does it feel to be an accomplice to evil?" The tears on Xu Yan's face had been wiped dry, but her eyes and nose were all red. She just stared at the captain with a hoarse voice.

"If your own child was lying in there, life or death unknown, would you be so indifferent?"