Several children listened to him and nodded in agreement.

They are Li Zhengxin, 15 years old, who came in April last year; Liu Xiaoqin, 4 years old, who came in November last year; Wei Yue, 12 years old, who came in March last year; Ma Qingchuan, 11 years old, who came in August last year; and Huang Xiaozhen, 14 years old, who came in May last year.

After they were brought here, they were first taught to steal things with poles and sticks. After a week of learning, they were forced to go out on the streets to steal. The children had to find at least 10 yuan a day to complete the task, otherwise they would either starve or be punished.

The person who was beaten today was Ma Qingchuan. Just because he didn't steal any money, he was beaten with 10 sticks. If he tried to run, his legs would be broken.

Wen Qing asked: "Did anyone run away?"

Wei Yue, who arrived first, said: “No.”

Usually when they go out to work, there is always someone watching them. At night, the door of the room is locked, and the yard is also locked, so there is no chance to escape.

"Now that you're out, where are you going?"

They were all grown children when they were abducted and had not been sent to the thieves' den for long. They all knew their home addresses. Now that they had escaped, they heard that they could go home and started crying. They all said they wanted to go home.

Wen Qing asked one by one and found out that Huang Xiaozhen's home is in your province, Li Zhengxin's home is in Hunan province, Liu Xiaoqin's home is in the western part of the province, and Ma Qingchuan's home is in Sichuan province.

Wen Qing said, "I'll give each of you 100 yuan. Can you go home on your own? But I think it's not safe. It's better for you to report the case together and let the police notify your family to pick you up."

Each of them gave 100 yuan, and Wen Qing took them to the police station and pointed out the direction. The five children went to report the case, and she left quickly.

After receiving the report, the police station attached great importance to this case. It was a theft gang and also human trafficking. When the police came in to arrest people, several people were still asleep, and the things in the warehouse and the eldest brother's room were missing without anyone noticing.

The police asked the children who rescued them. They said they didn't know who she was. Li Zhengxin said, "She was taller than us, had a cloth covering her face, wore a cap on her head, spoke Mandarin, and from the sound of her voice, she looked like a middle-aged woman."

When asked about what was missing from the warehouse, everyone said they didn't know, and the person who took them away didn't look like he had a lot of things on him.

The police interrogated Yu Lao Da, Gan Zi, Gun Zi, Jin Jie and Men Zi. They arrived in Nankun City at the beginning of last year. In the past, Yu Lao Da, Gan Zi and Gun Zi were petty thieves, stealing wires and spare parts from factories to sell. Later, Men Zi and Jin Jie joined them and kidnapped children to steal things.

Seeing that everything they had saved for a lifetime was gone, several people were very desperate, but after being caught, they were glad that no one found more stolen goods, so that their sentences might be lighter.

Finally, the police defined this case as gang-eating-gang, and Yu Lao Da and several others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to five years; the children were sent back to their hometowns, and the police continued to track down the criminals.

After daybreak, Wen Qing dressed up as an old woman and rented a single room next to the hospital. She said that she was accompanying her husband to see a doctor, and that her husband was in the hospital and she needed to find a place to live and go to the hospital to deliver meals every day.

The landlords were an elderly couple and she rented the house for a week.

Wen Qing went to Nankun to sell wine and shop for things. She went to the flea market she had been to last year, where she bought a pair of vases with yellow backgrounds and peacock patterns, a rosewood chest of drawers, two armchairs, two pieces of rice paper, a box of old pine ink, and a piece of agarwood.

She went to visit old customers near the train station, sold 500 bottles of wine and 800 bottles of liquor, exchanged her clothes for 20 kilograms of rice and a piece of bacon to Zhang Deying to thank her for sending her the test paper.

After staying there for a week, she told the old couple that her husband was discharged from the hospital and checked out to return home.

I drove a tractor during the day and rode a motorcycle at night, and returned to Luchun County on the fourth day.

After the Lantern Festival, the educated youth returned to Xiangyang Village one after another.

Luo Yixing looked depressed when he came back.

Among the educated youth who came with them, Gu Hua and Guo Jianguo returned to the city, Li Wei and Wu Qing got married, but he was the only one who saw no hope for his career and family.

Several of his classmates who went to the countryside were in the same situation. Some married local villagers and even had children, and were locked in the countryside for the rest of their lives; some suffered in the countryside and could not find a way to return to the city.

The countryside where he went was far from home, and his parents suggested that he take his place in the factory, but his brother had been in the countryside longer, and the two almost fought over this position. Finally, his parents persuaded him to let his brother take his mother's job first. If he still had no chance to return to the city after two years, he would take his father's job.

He is already 23 years old this year and really doesn't want to endure another two years in the countryside.

You Manli came back happily and brought back a big bag of various food.

Wen Qing encouraged everyone to continue studying, and with hope in their hearts, the "4+1" study group began to attend evening self-study classes again.

She has also been working in the countryside for five years, but she did not place her hopes on others. She just hoped to go to college after the college entrance examination was resumed.

Wu Qing said: "The current leaders have always supported the development of education and encouraged students to study hard."

Luo Yixing: "Life in the city is better now than before, but it's still hard to find a job."

Li Wei: "I wonder when the commune will recommend workers, peasants and soldiers as college students?"

Luo Yixing: "Do you have any news?"

Li Wei: "Last year, we recommended 2 people, and the year before, we recommended 3 people. I don't know how many places we will have this year."

Wu Qing: "One day I heard the principal talking about the recommendation with someone else, but he said he hadn't received any notification yet."

Luo Yixing: "Do you want to sign up?"

Wen Qing: "No idea."

Li Wei: "Even if I sign up, there's no chance, so I won't fight for it."

Wu Ying just listened and didn't say anything.

Wu Juan: "Today I saw Sister Manli carrying a basket to the captain's house."

Wu Ying: "Where did you see it?"

Wu Juan: "I saw it while I was waiting for Sister Damei to play under the tree over there."

Luo Yixing: "Did you see what's in her basket?"

Wu Juan shook her head: "The basket is not big and looks quite heavy."

Wen Qing: "Workers, peasants and soldiers can't learn anything from college. If the college entrance examination is restored, everyone will have a chance."

After hearing this, Luo Yixing stopped talking and worked hard secretly. Everyone was immersed in studying.

At the end of February, Wen Qing said, "We should have finished reading the textbooks. I plan to change my study method."

Wu Qing asked, "What study method should we change?"

Wen Qing: "Do the questions first, then find your weaknesses, and then improve them in a targeted manner. I found some test papers, and there are also some practice questions in the self-study series. Let's do the questions first, then exchange and correct the papers, and then do the wrong questions again."

She remembered that this was what her teacher did before the college entrance examination in her previous life.

In the evening, after Wu Qing and others left, Wen Qing took out the papers she had collected some time ago. She had done most of the test questions. She took out a paper and copied the questions one by one onto a white paper, preparing to have everyone do a paper every night.

I remember that the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came out in October, and the exam was more than a month later, so the time for review was very short.

It is now the end of February and there are still 2 months left. This year's college entrance examination is divided into liberal arts and science, but this is a parallel universe, and she cannot be sure that things will be exactly the same in another universe.

She herself focused her energy mainly on science, casually reading history and geography, and mainly relying on newspapers and school test papers for politics.

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