Dreaming of 1988, I have the ability to see ghosts and ghosts

"Xiao Min, just stay with us at my house tonight, and we'll figure out a solution tomorrow morning."

After washing the dishes, grandma sat down and said to Xiao Min.

"Grandma Xu, this is embarrassing. I've already troubled you so much."

Xiao Min said timidly.

"It's okay. Our bed is big, so we can just squeeze in for one night. Besides, it's so dark now and it's raining. Where can you go? Going back to your sister's house won't work. What if the family planning team comes looking for you again?"

What grandma said makes a lot of sense.

"Grandma, don't you have some bedding? Spread it on the bamboo bed and I'll sleep here."

I saw the bamboo bed in the main room and said to my grandma, "Grandma and I sleep on a 1.5-meter bed, which is really not enough for three people."

"Sister Feng'er, how can I let you sleep here, Grandma Xu, please help me make the bed. I will stay at your house tonight and sleep on the bamboo bed."

"That's fine too."

Grandma went into the room, took out the bedding and put the bamboo mattress in place.

The weather was too cold, so we chatted for a while. Around 8 o'clock in the evening, we washed up and went to bed.

I was drowsy and didn't seem to have been asleep for long when I heard a series of rapid knocks on the door.

"Aunt Xu, are you home?"

Another man's voice sounded at the door.

"Hey, who is it? It's so late at night."

Grandma's old voice sounded a little impatient.

"Aunt Xu, please open the door."

The man didn't say who he was, but kept shouting, "Open the door."

I was half asleep and half awake. When grandma pulled the light cord, I squinted and looked up at the clock. It was not yet 10 o'clock, so I had really just fallen asleep for a while.

"Grandma Xu, is someone coming to arrest me?"

This was Xiao Min's sister's voice. Her voice was trembling. She was very alert and must have been awake. When she saw grandma was about to open the door, she was so scared that she was shaking all over.

"It's okay, I'll open the door and take a look first."

Grandma probably thought that since there was only one person knocking on the door, he probably wasn't from the family planning team, as they usually acted in groups of four or five.

With a creak, grandma opened the door.

"Aunt Xu, you are at home."

The person at the door saw grandma open the door and looked into the inner room with a sly look.

"Oh, it's Captain Huang. Why are you looking for me so late?"

It turned out that the person who came was the captain of our team 6.

"Oh, my cat is missing, and my cat insisted on letting me go out to look for it, so I had to look around. I wonder if you have seen an orange cat."

The man looked into the main room in the dim light.

When I heard what he said, I felt something was wrong. How could people in the countryside come out to look for cats? Domestic cats are raised as wild cats. Apart from giving them some food, no family would care where the cats spend the night.

Could it be that Captain Huang is here to investigate and see if Xiao Min is hiding in my house?

Thinking of this, I quickly got up, put on my clothes and walked to the main room. I wanted Sister Xiaomin to hide.

But before I could go out, several people suddenly jumped out from the corner of the wall and walked straight in. They held flashlights in their hands and shone them on the bamboo bed in the corner of the main room.

Sister Xiao Min buried her head in the quilt and shivered.

I ran to my grandma angrily, shouting while trying to close the door.

"Can you please let me sleep in peace? You guys woke me up even when I was sleeping."

"No, I didn't see any cat."

Grandma also understood what was going on and pushed the door with me, trying to close it.

However, we were too weak and were pushed away by them.

At this time, Sister Xiao Min was still curled up in the quilt, not daring to say a word.

After they pushed open the door, four people rushed in, two men and two women. One of the older women was the women's director of our village, who I met at the construction site last time.

There was also a younger woman, and I didn’t know either of the two men.

"Director Huang, what are you doing?"

Grandma recognized the person and asked.

"Aunt Xu, is Zhang Xiaomin here with you?"

Director Huang asked with a serious face.

Before grandma could reply, the younger woman strode over to the bamboo bed and pulled away Xiao Min's quilt.

"What are you going to do?"

I ran over and protected Sister Xiaomin behind me.

"Forget it, Liu Feng, there's no way to avoid this."

Sister Xiaomin behind me started to sob and put on her clothes while crying.

"Little girl, don't mind your own business."

A man pulled me aside and said to Sister Xiao Min.

"Zhang Xiaomin, hurry up and put on your clothes and follow us."

"Director Huang, you see the baby is already old enough, just let her give birth to the baby."

Grandma looked at Xiao Min who was getting dressed with great emotion, and spoke to Director Sun sincerely.

"Aunt Xu, we have no choice. The policy from above is that a family cannot have more than one child, and we cannot have one more child."

Director Huang looked at grandma and felt helpless.

"Can't you be flexible?" Grandma pleaded again.

"Old lady, please stop meddling in other people's business. You haven't been convicted of harboring a criminal yet!"

A middle-aged man standing next to Director Huang shouted at grandma.

"Aunt Xu, they are the leaders of the town's Family Planning Office."

Director Huang lowered his head and whispered to grandma.

Grandma was startled and then dared not say a word.

"What do you mean by harbouring? Isn't it okay for Sister Xiaomin to come to my house to visit relatives?"

I was quite angry and yelled at the middle-aged man.

"Besides, what rights do you have to arrest people?" I was very unconvinced.

"Little girl, I told you to mind your own business, or we'll take you away too."

The young man who came in later shouted at me again, trying to scare me.

"Liu Feng, you don't need to argue with them, I'll just go with them."

I wanted to argue with them, but was stopped by Sister Xiaomin.

As she spoke, she had already put on her clothes and pulled me behind her. She looked pale, very depressed, and her voice was hoarse. She didn't want me to get involved in this mess.

My grandma and I stood there in a daze, not knowing what to say or what to do. We watched them carrying Xiao Min out the door.

At this moment, my heart was broken, and I believe Xiaomin felt the same way. She stroked her belly with both hands, her eyes full of helplessness and heartache. The little life that she had nurtured for several months was about to be taken away from her chance of survival.

It could be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, he will be ruthlessly injected with drugs and die in the womb, and his biological mother will use all her strength to give birth to the dead fetus. It is too cruel.

Xiao Min walked to the door and looked back at me and my grandmother. The despair in her eyes was beyond words, just like the final farewell of a person going to the execution ground to his loved ones.

"Grandma Xu, Liu Feng, no matter what, thank you for today."

Her cheeks were covered with tears, and her sad voice made people feel cold in their hearts.

My grandma and I both had trembling lips, our voices were choked in our throats, and tears were welling up in my eyes.

I didn't expect that the policies implemented in the wheel of history would be so ruthless.