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"Did you know that the Zhang family in Huaihua Hutong was raided by H guards a few days ago?" Hu Yun lowered her voice, with a tone of mystery.

"What?" Although he knew that the situation was tense recently, Song's father was still shocked when he heard the news suddenly.

"Isn't his family similar to ours? Eighteen generations of ancestors have been digging in the soil for a living, and only moved to the city a few years ago." When Song's father said this, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, glanced out the window warily, and then whispered, "H guards also robbed?"

"Who knew?" Seeing that Song's father had really taken the bait, Hu Yun's face showed an indescribable expression. "Mr. and Mrs. Zhang usually look honest and decent, but I never thought they have a background."

"You'd never guess it, but Old Zhang's wife's background is said to be quite unusual. It's said...she has a complicated relationship with the one from Taiwan."

"Hmph!" Song's father was startled and quickly reached out to cover Hu Yun's mouth, saying in a panic, "Don't say that."

"How could I possibly say something so baseless?" Hu Yun slapped his hand away and rolled her eyes. "The big-character poster is already up. Who in the surrounding streets doesn't know about it? Only you, a dull ox who only cares about running back and forth between the factory and home, are still in the dark."

"Old Zhang is quite pitiful. He's already in his forties, and only just now did he find out that the man he was sleeping with was actually related to the leader of the counter-revolution. Not only did he get himself into trouble, but his two children also suffered as a result."

"Alas, if I had discovered it earlier and cut ties with him sooner, I wouldn't have suffered this unprovoked disaster."

Having said that, Hu Yun glanced at Song's father's increasingly ugly expression and sighed with pretended regret.

Eighteen years have passed since Zheng's mother passed away. Eighteen years is long enough to bend the back of a young man who was once alone and fearless.

Today, Song's father is over 40 years old, with gray hair on his temples. He is no longer the bachelor who could feed his family with one meal. He has a wife and children, and carries the burden of an entire family on his shoulders.

For a man of this age, the thing he fears most is anything that will disrupt his peaceful life. Therefore, even though Zheng's mother's bones may have already merged with the grass and trees.

But with the previous experience of the Zhang family, he naturally did not dare to keep Song Guanwen, a hidden danger that could explode at any time, by his side.

So, for the first time, the tall middle-aged man hunched his back in front of his son, begged with tears in his eyes, and threatened to commit suicide.

As early as a year after Zheng's mother passed away, Song's father remarried. Song Guanwen realized that his father did not have much feelings for him and his mother. At this moment, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him crying, the last ray of light in his eyes completely disappeared.

"I can go, but I want half of all the money in the family. If you and she don't agree, then I will let the people from the Youth League Office come to our house to select people. This will be fair to everyone." This was the last sentence Song Guanwen said to his father before going to the countryside.

It was under such circumstances that Song Guanwen went to the countryside.

Lin Xi, who went to the countryside with him, had a less complicated background. She was the eldest daughter of Hu Yun's cousin Hu Lan.

Hu Lan was an employee of a textile factory. She married Lin Gang, a co-worker in the same factory, after falling in love. After marriage, they had two sons and two daughters, and Lin Xi was the eldest.

Although Lin's parents were both formal employees of the textile factory, Lin's mother injured her waist due to years of bending over to work. She had to take medicine all year round and had to raise four children, so the family did not live a very affluent life.

Both of them were honest and decent people, not good at scheming for personal gain. Therefore, after years of hard work, they were just ordinary employees, and they had no ability to provide a future for their children. Therefore, when the notice to go to the countryside came, Lin Xi, as the eldest daughter, naturally took the initiative to go to the countryside.

Lin's parents originally did not agree. Although Lin Xi was the eldest of the children, his personality was most like theirs, and he was the softest.

And because she was born with some deficiencies, even though she was already a seventeen-year-old girl, she looked no different from a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child. She spoke in a soft and timid voice and was afraid to look at people.

Such a docile person like a lamb, let alone being placed in the poor and remote countryside, even if she was placed right under their own noses, Lin's parents would always be afraid that she would be bullied. How could they bear to let her leave home thousands of miles away alone?

Nowadays, if girls who are not only children and have graduated from junior high school or high school want to stay in the city, they have only two options: either get a formal job or get married and have children.

So the two of them discussed it and came up with the idea of arranging a marriage for Lin Xi so that she could stay in the city.