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Chapter 18 An Uninvited Visitor
The east wind was blowing, and the sun was catching up. A dark cloud blocked the view of the sun. A gust of wind blew sand and rocks on the ground. The clothes, shoes and socks I had just blown were blown everywhere. I quickly put down my nursing daughter and went to collect the things outside. My mother-in-law saw Zhuang also hurried over to help me and snatched everything into the house in three strokes.Just as he was about to sit down and rest, Dabao rubbed his eyes and ran out of the back room. He watched his sister drinking milk and swallowing saliva. He stared at the bottle and walked to his mother-in-law and said, "Grandma, grandma, I I want to drink it too." She pointed to the bottle in her sister's hand, but her mother-in-law was not happy when she heard it. She said to Dabao with a long face: "Oh my god! Don't call me grandma. If outsiders find out, what will happen? Come on! What will you do if your third uncle, fourth uncle, and fifth uncle’s family are implicated? Then I won’t be a sinner. Wrinkle baby (Dabao’s nickname), my dear grandson, please don’t call me that outside!" Dabao! He nodded in understanding and wanted to get closer to his mother-in-law, but her mother-in-law looked around for fear of being seen. She held Dabao on the bench and sat down, turned around and left.After walking a few steps, he still turned around and said to me: "Hey, Xiaolan, you'd better go out and hide these days. What if someone discovers that our family has a child who is too late and there is no fine? Otherwise, you still have to go out and hide." How many days are you going to hide with Dabao?" I said, "Isn't it so serious to have more children? Even if there is a fine, it is just to punish us. How can it involve my brother and sister-in-law?" My mother-in-law then said, "It can't be done. Well, they will take the child by force." I said in surprise: "No way? How can I still hold the child when there is a fine?" Seeing that I didn't listen, my mother-in-law waved her hand and said, "Okay... I'm too lazy. I tell you, just be careful." With that, the mother-in-law left impatiently.

At noon that day, there was a sudden thunder. I looked at the sky and then at my son who was playing outside the shop window. He held the sand in his hands and raised his head to smile at me. I hugged my daughter who was several months old and motioned for him to come in. Come, but he glanced at me and then lowered his head to play.

At this time, I heard a strange man at the entrance of the village asking Aunt She across the door: "Hey, Aunt She, is there anyone in your production team who has more children without a fine?" Aunt She smiled and said haha, half-jokingly: "How did I know? Wow? Who wouldn't have children without having children? Why are you so serious?" "Hey, isn't that your duty! If you don't do this job, who cares?" "Hey, forget about others pretending to be you. What happened when the sack was thrown on the road? If God hadn't opened his eyes and asked passers-by to untie it for you, would you still be alive now?" The strange man said unhappily: "Why did you bring this up?" "No. What are you doing!, I just want to remind you not to do too many unethical things. If you do too much, you will be punished." "You...you have been a women's director after all, so why do you say this?" "What's wrong with being a women's director? He doesn't do anything wrong and is not afraid of ghosts calling the door in the middle of the night, unlike some people who do their own private things under the guise of work!" "Hey... you..." When he saw Aunt She ignoring him, he strode towards our house. come.I saw it was broken!What if this is really aimed at my Dabao?I heard that this man is very dedicated. No matter who treats him or gives him gifts, he will be punished as much as he wants. Otherwise, he will give his child to others by force.oops!What's wrong with Dabao's father not being home today?Thinking of this, I broke out in a sweat and quickly told Dabao to come in quickly, but Dabao didn't feel any sense of crisis at all. He glanced at me and then lowered his head to play with the sand on the ground.Seeing this uninvited guest getting closer and closer, my heart was in my throat.
He looked at the child on my back, then at Dabao playing in the sand next to him, raised his head and said to me: "Boss, bring me a pack of red plum cigarettes." I said "hmm" and took the I handed him the cigarette but kept my eyes on him secretly, fearing that he might take advantage of me and take advantage of my child.Later, I saw him open a cigarette, smoke one, and put it on the window sill, as if he was looking for a lighter.I handed him the lighter casually, and he lit up the cigarette and took a long puff. He handed me the money from his pocket. He looked at Dabao who was playing in the mud in front of him and asked, "Whose child is this?" We are all having so much fun." I glanced at him, pretended not to hear, and quickly gave him the change. He looked at Dabao and then at me, took a deep breath of cigarette and asked: "How many brothers do you have? We all live in the same courtyard, huh?" I nodded in agreement, and then pretended to yell at Dabao's nickname loudly: "Wrinkle baby, come in quickly! Wait for the baby's baby to come." Then he smoked cigarette again and left, My heart finally relaxed a little.

Later, when my mother-in-law found out about this, she was so frightened that she didn’t come to my house for a few days, and she didn’t dare to admit that Dabao was her grandson in front of the world. Protect this family, lest you can't pay the fine and implicate your brothers and sister-in-law." I didn't say it, but I knew it was true in my heart. I have to do my duty and work hard to earn money to pay the fine for the child. I can't let the child live with others for a long time. His surname has been hidden for a lifetime.But it's not as simple as I thought...

(End of this chapter)