"How do you know it?"
Meng Wantang's heart skipped a beat. It turned out that there was really someone in the vegetable cellar that day.
"I took a bullock cart this morning and went to my second sister's house. My second sister got married in Xiling Village. She wrote me a letter a few days ago, saying that my mother knew that my little sister was here. . It’s not like the potatoes are all finished. I went over to talk to her and don’t let her tell my mother and the others about Yinfeng. As a result, I heard about it as soon as I went there.”
"The person you arrested this morning?"
Meng Wantang asked doubtfully.
"I heard it was last night. The girl's family is still looking for her. I don't know where I got the news. People who came directly from the provincial capital went to Wu Donglai's house overnight, climbed over the wall and entered the vegetable cellar to rescue him. I heard that they were inside Three white bones were also dug up.”
Miao Yinhua said and shivered in fright.
It's really terrible.
That's three lives.
"Then how did you find out about this? You have been locked up for five years. You didn't look for it before, but now you want to look for it, and you found it right after you returned it?"
Meng Wantang always felt that something was fishy.
What a coincidence.
"I heard that this girl had planned to stay and not go back. After all, she originally planned to date another educated youth. Later she thought that this was the opportunity her parents had worked so hard to find, so she decided to return to the city. . What if we can think of a way to get that educated youth to return to the city? Just like that, she left in the middle of the night. The male educated youth was angry and did not go to see her off. When the girl left, she was crying. Girl At home, I received a telegram from her. I was angry that this girl was ignorant and didn’t find anyone."
Miao Yinhua said with pity on her face: "It's just such a strange combination of circumstances that no one from the two parties was found."
Meng Wantang still felt that things were too coincidental.
"Then why did you find it again?"
"The male educated youth returned to the city and met the female educated youth and her sister-in-law, and they found out that the female educated youth had been missing for five years." Miao Yinhua sighed for a while.
This is quite reasonable.
"As long as a person is alive, there is hope." Meng Wantang feels that nothing is more important than living.
Miao Yinhua curled her lips: "I guess that even if that educated youth is alive, his life is completely over. He was locked up below by the Wu family, deprived of food, beaten every day, and forced to give birth to children for the Wu family. I don't know what the Wu family is. It’s not that he lacks virtue, it’s that the educated youth has no children anyway. I heard that if Mrs. Wu’s old man can still do it, that educated youth is probably doomed.”
Meng Wantang was instantly disgusted.
She knew that some people were inherently evil, but the evil of the Wu family was disgusting.
"No wonder Wu Donglai was arrested."
Meng Wantang now feels scared when she thinks about what happened that day.
She felt that she was really lucky and had escaped two disasters directly.
"Their family was not familiar with the people in the village. That Wu Donglai stared at girls when he saw them, so those who have girls at home keep a close eye on their children."
Miao Yinhua wanted to go home, so she said, "I'm going back first. I have to wash a lot of clothes today. I also have to take out the children's cotton clothes and trousers and renovate them. Otherwise, the trousers will be too short."
"Then sister-in-law, walk slowly."
"Okay, then go back quickly."
Meng Wantang waited for Miao Yinhua to go away before turning back to the courtyard.
"Who were you talking to just now?"
Lu Qingye had good ears and heard something vaguely. Looking at the expression on Meng Wantang's face, he already guessed what it was about.
"Do you still remember the day I told you that Wu Donglai seemed to have personal matters in their vegetable cellar?" Meng Wantang was still staring at Lu Qingye when he said this.
Always observing in secret.
Lu Qingye asked: "Remember, what happened?"
"Last night, people from the province came and found a female educated youth directly from the Wu family's vegetable cellar. I heard that there were three bones inside."
Lu Qingye frowned: "Why are there female educated youths in their vegetable cellar?"
It’s certain, this person really doesn’t know anything.
Meng Wantang told him everything Miao Yinhua said.
"Do you think if I hadn't escaped that day, would they have locked me in the vegetable cellar?"
Meng Wantang's hair stood on end just thinking about it.
"Impossible, I won't let you be caught by them. Even if you are caught, I will rescue you at night."
Lu Qingye's words were very confident and domineering, making people feel particularly safe.
Meng Wantang said with a smile: "I don't want to say whether you can do this, but what you said is quite nice."
"I'm telling the truth."
Lu Qingye felt a little aggrieved.
He couldn't tell her what he did. In their line of work, their family may not even know what their profession is until they die.
Lu Qingye could only hide it till death.
"School is about to start, and I have to make two schoolbags for the children. Didn't you have a military backpack when you were a soldier? Can't you take out two for the children to carry?"
When Meng Wantang heard from the older generation, they said that children born in the 1970s were proud to carry military schoolbags.
Every household has a big-brimmed hat.
Every child has a green military uniform.
Green military uniforms are temporarily unaffordable, and large-brimmed hats will have to wait for more than ten years. But the military schoolbag can be armed first.
"It's true. I'll find it for them later." Lu Qingye stood up and went into the house to find his schoolbag.
Meng Wantang said: "Don't look for two, look for three. Even if Little Fatty doesn't go to school, he still has a schoolbag."
Regardless of whether there are two or three children in the family, a bowl of water must be kept at home.
"That's not enough."
Lu Qingye just finished speaking and received a big look.
"Then let's find a way. Look at which of your comrades has it, and ask them to send one over. Let's send them something else, such as this cloth."
When Meng Wantang thought about it, it seemed to work.
She got up and went into the house, choosing a few feet of relatively good cloth: "You will send this cloth to others when the time comes."
"You won't sell it?"
He remembered that when Meng Wantang sold it to Miao Yinhua that day, his calculations were very loud.
"Don't talk nonsense, am I selling it? I'm bringing it for a good friend."
If she hadn't been unable to defeat Lu Qingye, she would have had a winner.
"As long as you know it yourself, if something like this happens, you will be shot."
Lu Qingye wasn't trying to scare Meng Wantang. He had already shot several opportunists in the past few days.
Meng Wantang felt guilty but confident.
"I don't think I'll live long."
Meng Wantang said and went out to bring out breakfast.
She turned back to Lu Qingye and said, "Go to the backyard and call a few children over for dinner."
"good."
After a while, several children came running back.
Everyone sat at the table to eat.
Not enough benches.
Gou Sheng and Gou Dan both make bricks.
The bricks were left over after the old house had been burned down, and there were also carved flowers and other things on them.
It can be seen that the Lu family used to have a good life.
"Are you sure your family used to be poor farmers?" Meng Wantang didn't believe it no matter how hard she felt.
Real poor peasants cannot afford to live in such a house.
These are three large brick and tiled houses!
