When the father and daughter walked to the department store, Su Qingyun felt that his feet were no longer his own.
The first floor of the department store sells daily necessities. In addition to money these days, all kinds of tickets are needed to sell things. Even though the supply is still in short supply, buying something is like fighting a war.
"Yunyun, get ready, dad will take you in." Su Aimin was eager to give it a try.
"How about... let's forget it, dad." Seeing this terrifying crowd, Su Qingyun swallowed and decided to give up.
"You've come, how can you not go?"
Well, these are the four words that people fear the most.
Before she could charge into battle with her father, Su Qingyun was hit hard and her shoulder hurt.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, little girl, are you okay?" The person who bumped into her was an old woman wearing patched coarse linen clothes. Her face was full of apologies. She was holding a child in her arms and her eyes were closed. Yes, maybe he fell asleep.
"It's okay." Su Qingyun patted his shoulder without getting angry.
Su Aimin frowned, glanced at the child, but still didn't say anything.
"Thank you!" The old lady hugged the child and hurried away, looking towards the direction out of the city.
The daughter was hit, and Su Aimin didn't want to take her to squeeze in. "Yunyun, let's go to the second floor. There are cloths on the second floor. Go and see if there are any colors you like."
He was about to take Su Qingyun to the second floor, but Su Qingyun suddenly stopped.
cloth? Color? Su Qingyun knew something was wrong.
"Dad, the one who hit me just now was Paihuazi!" Su Qingyun screamed.
"What?" Su Aimin didn't react, "What are you talking about?"
"The old lady who bumped into me just now was wearing patched clothes, but the child she was holding in her arms was made of fine silk. The child was still sucking milk, and she was just wrapped up casually and then carried out. It means My home is not far away, but the old lady obviously doesn’t have the accent here, and she was walking out of the city!”
The more Su Qingyun talked, the more he felt something was wrong, and his face became anxious, "Also, just now I saw the child sleeping, and his face was a little red. I thought it was from the sun, but now it seems that he was drugged, right?"
Seeing that she was speaking in a decent manner, Su Aimin's face turned serious. Abducting a child was not a trivial matter. If it was not done well, a whole family would be destroyed.
"Let's go, follow up and take a look." He hesitated and then said, he would rather believe that this kind of thing happened than not believe that it didn't happen.
The father and daughter chased in the direction the old lady left.
Fortunately, the old lady, Xu, was older and had her child in her arms, so she didn't go far. The father and daughter followed closely behind to discuss countermeasures.
They can't just go up rashly and say that the child was abducted, right? It would be bad if he got bitten back.
The old lady kept walking forward, then suddenly stopped.
The father and daughter looked at each other. Isn't this the place where they wait for the shuttle bus? This train will pass through several villages, but I don’t know where her destination is?
"Come on, let's get on the bus." Su Aimin made a quick decision.
The two of them walked forward and stood at the waiting area. The old lady raised her eyes and gave them a wary look.
Su Qingyun moved the corners of her mouth twice and raised a bright smile, "Grandma, you are also waiting for the bus. What a coincidence."
The old lady squinted at her and recognized her, "It's you, little girl, who is this?" A little girl was nothing, but she became wary of a grown man.
"This is my dad."
"Oh, aren't you shopping in a department store?" The old lady looked at their empty hands.
"There are too many people. I can't squeeze in, so I won't buy it."
Su Aimin smiled. He looked upright and had an honest smile, which made it easy for people to let down their guard. The old lady relaxed visibly. In order to avoid her suspicion, the father and daughter stopped talking.
After a while, the shabby bus stopped at the platform, and the driver turned off the engine as usual and waited for others.
Su Qingyun and the other two deliberately got on the bus behind her, waited for the old lady to sit down, and then looked for a seat as if nothing had happened.
The bus had two rows of seats on the left and right, with an aisle in the middle. The father and daughter sat across the aisle to the right of the old lady.
There were not many people in the car. Su Aimin looked at it, stood up, walked to the driver's side, and took out a cigarette from his pocket.
"Old Chang, take a shot?"
The driver always glanced at him and waved his hand, "I smoke my dry cigarettes, but you can't handle this foreign thing."
"Try it, this is a good product from the sea market." Su Aimin still stretched out his hand, "Let's go down and smoke. My daughter is sick and can't smell the smoke."
Lao Chang couldn't refuse, so he had to follow Su Aimin out of the car.
Through the car window, Su Qingyun could see the conversation between her father and the driver. Before they could say a few words, the driver quickly looked into the car. She understood that her father had told the driver about their guess.
After a while, the two of them got on the car with normal expressions.
There were more and more people on the bus, including many carrying chickens and ducks, and the bus started to become noisy again.
Maybe it was too noisy. Su Qingyun frowned when he saw the child in the old lady's arms. He woke up, waved his little hands in the air and scratched, pursed his lips, and started crying.
When he cried, the chickens and ducks screamed louder like a competition, and many people frowned and looked over.
"Mom, why does your child keep crying? Is he hungry or peed?" An uncle sitting in front turned around.
"It's okay, I'll just coax him." The old lady shook the child gently.
But maybe it wasn't the familiar scent of the child, so he cried harder and harder.
"No, aunt, you have to take a look. If the child pees and is hungry, coaxing it like this won't help." Another kind-hearted aunt also spoke. She was a little strange, "You have to take the child in the car for so long. Why don’t you bring anything with you? Such an older child gets hungry all the time, so it’s hard to live without something to eat.”
Hearing this, the old lady panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down, "I rarely take my grandson with me, but today I was in a hurry and forgot about it."
Su Qingyun always felt that she specially emphasized the three words "my grandson".
"I've never raised a grandson, but I've raised a son before." The aunt muttered, not wanting to speak again.
Su Qingyun looked at the child who was still crying and said softly: "Grandma, why don't you let me comfort you? The child will get hurt if he cries too much."
She smiles harmlessly, making it easy for people to like her.
The old lady pursed her lips and looked at the child, already out of breath, "Okay then." There was a young girl on her left, so there was nothing to worry about.
However, this girl looks really good, if...
Looking at the tall Su Aimin next to her, she temporarily rested her thoughts.
"Give it to me." Su Qingyun stretched out his hand.
The old lady hesitated for a moment, then handed the child to her.
Su Qingyun held the child carefully, like holding a cloud. She gently patted the child's back with her right hand and hummed softly.
Strangely enough, the child's crying gradually stopped and his hiccups calmed down.
People around were surprised, "Hey, this kid's grandma is not as good at coaxing a kid as this little girl."
Su Qingyun had a smile on her face. Although the child couldn't speak, he could really feel the kindness and malice in people.
"Give it to me after you're done coaxing it." The old lady was a little anxious.
"Shh." Su Qingyun raised her index finger to her lips and said softly: "Wait until he falls asleep, otherwise it will cause trouble again later."
"Yes, let's talk after the child goes to sleep."
"Ma'am, don't worry. This girl is careful and won't throw your grandson."
The old lady slurred her lips a few times and then retracted her hand.
Su Qingyun was still humming in a low voice. She gently touched the child's little face. It was a little hot. Her heart froze and she couldn't delay it any longer!
She brushed the swaddling clothes with her hand and said to the old lady casually: "Grandma, your family raises the children very carefully. There is even embroidery on this swaddling clothes. Is the child's surname Lin? It sounds really nice."
The old lady was stunned for a moment, and then said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, my son's surname is Lin, and of course my grandson's surname is Lin too. Isn't this because I'm afraid of losing the child? My daughter-in-law embroidered the words on it."
Su Qingyun sneered in her heart, she had the nerve to mention the child.
"Are you from Linjia Village? I haven't heard of anyone having a baby recently? I think you are unfamiliar with it." An older brother from behind poked his head over and asked doubtfully.
The old lady smiled stiffly, "I'm not from Linjia Village. I'm taking my children to visit relatives in Xiao... Xiao Yuan Village."
Su Qingyun watched her talk nonsense and gave her father a look. Su Aimin understood and her muscles tensed up in preparation.
"Grandma, is your son's surname really Lin?" Su Qingyun said with a smile, but her tone was a bit strange.
The old lady had a gut feeling that something was wrong, but she could only follow her words and said, "Of course."
Su Qingyun tilted her head and smiled playfully, "But grandma, this baby is clean, but there is no word "lin" on it. I just lied to you."
"Damn girl, you lied to me!" The old lady was stunned for a few seconds before she realized what she was doing. She finally peeled off her hypocrisy and revealed her ugly face.
Her eyes were red, and she rushed towards her, trying to snatch the child back.
