Chapter 3

“How did you do this?”

The hospital was in chaos at the moment, and Xiang Nuan searched for a long time before finding a young doctor.

Xiang Nuan explained casually, “I was accidentally injured while walking on the street. It hurts so much. Please, doctor.”

The doctor bandaged the wound quickly and then prescribed some anti-inflammatory and trauma medicine for her.

“Remember to take your medicine on time and get more rest when you get home.”

Xiang Nuan said a little embarrassedly, “Doctor, I had a quarrel with my family. Can I stay in the hospital tonight? I’ll pay.”

The doctor didn’t bother to care about these things and just wrote her a hospital admission order and asked her to pay the bill.

He thanked Xiang Nuan and went to check in for hospitalization.

The ward was a six-person room, with three others including her. Everyone was sleeping, so she found her own bed and lay down quietly.

She had something on her mind, and there was constant noise outside, so she didn’t sleep well the whole night. She got up at seven o’clock the next morning and rushed home. On the way, she found a deserted place, slipped into the space, and ate two slices of bread to replenish her strength.

It was nearly eight o’clock when she got home. There were already quite a few people on the street. She opened the door and walked in. A minute later she ran out screaming wildly.

“Someone come, catch the thief! There’s a thief!”

He shouted three or four times in succession, and soon the door of Xiang’s house was surrounded by people watching the fun, even members of the Revolutionary Committee came.

One of the middle-aged men wearing a red armband stepped forward and asked sharply, “What’s going on?”

When Xiang Nuan saw him, she pulled his arm and cried bitterly as if she had found a life-saving straw, “Comrade, my house has been robbed and all my things have been stolen!”

The man frowned, “Where are your family members?”

Xiang Nuan shook her head. “I don’t know. I had a quarrel with my father last night, and when I went out, someone accidentally hit me on the head. I went to the hospital for treatment. I stayed there overnight, and when I came back, I found that my house had been robbed!”

The man turned his head and winked at his men, “Go in and take a look.”

As the people from the Revolutionary Committee entered, many onlookers followed in curiously. When they saw that the house was completely emptied except for the furniture, they were all shocked. What kind of talent did this require to steal everything overnight? It must have been an organized and premeditated act!

“Comrade, what shall I do?”

Xiang Nuan pitifully asked the middle-aged man for help, but the man ignored her and sent someone upstairs to investigate.

Soon someone came down to report to him, “Brother Li, it’s the same as down there, everything has been emptied except for the furniture.”

The man called Brother Li looked at Xiang Nuan with suspicion when he heard this, and he already had a guess in his mind.

There were always people on the streets morning and night recently. It was incredible that someone could quietly empty their house overnight. Their whole family was not at home during this period of time. In addition, given their family’s background, he had reason to suspect that this was a case of the thief crying “stop thief”.

“Where are your parents?”

“I don’t know. They were still at home when I went out last night.” She shook her head and suddenly seemed to remember something and widened her eyes. “They wouldn’t really…”

Brother Li asked sharply, “Really what?”

Xiang Nuan shook her head guiltily, “I don’t know anything!”

Brother Li snorted coldly and threatened directly, “If you don’t know, come with us to the Revolutionary Committee!”

Xiang Nuan broke down and cried, “I said, don’t take me away. I overheard my dad telling my stepmother that we were going to Hong Kong City last night.”

Brother Li’s pupils suddenly shrank, and he immediately arranged for people to investigate and report the case.

“You stay at home and be quiet. If we find out that you have run away, you know what will happen to you!”

Brother Li threatened in a cold voice, then left with his men.

Those who were watching the fun didn’t dare to stay any longer, for fear of getting implicated, so they all left.

Xiang Nuan looked at the crowd filing out and raised her hand to casually wipe away her tears.

As an excellent anchor, she still has some acting skills.

If you want to live a good life in Hong Kong, just dream on!

After crying for a long time, I felt a little hungry, so I ate a meat bun and drank some water before locking the door and walking towards the newspaper office.

She wanted to put an announcement in the newspaper to sever ties before Xiang Jinghua and the others were arrested. She would go to the countryside tomorrow, and she had to cut off all ties here before leaving.

Recently, many people came to the newspaper to sever ties with them, but the newspaper staff helped Xiang Nuan to publish the advertisement without any hesitation.

After she finished, she went home. Because of today’s disturbance, the Revolutionary Committee would definitely send people to keep a close eye on her. Now all she had to do was go home and wait for the Youth League Office to notify her to go to the countryside tomorrow.

Xiang Jinghua and his wife took their child and traveled all the way, finally leaving Jingshi before dawn. They planned to go straight to Jinshi to take a boat, but they were caught as soon as they entered Jinshi.

It was already afternoon when Xiang Nuan received the news, and she was called by the police to cooperate with the investigation.

When Xiang Jinghua and Zhu Qingyuan learned that their homes had been robbed, they were completely confused and knew nothing about anything. In addition, they wanted to cross the country illegally, and the police had not found any traces of the thieves, so they all suspected that they were the thieves crying “stop thief” and deliberately created the illusion that their homes had been robbed in order to hide their property.

After a night of interrogation, nothing was found. However, the crime of smuggling Xiang Jinghua and his wife was aggravated. They were arrested the next day.

It was sent down to the Northwest for transformation.

Xiang Nuan voluntarily published an announcement to sever ties with the family and reported her parents’ attempt to illegally cross the border, which was rewarded. She also actively responded to the country’s call to go to the countryside to receive people’s transformation. The police did not make things difficult for her, a helpless little girl, and allowed her to go to the countryside normally.

Xiang Nuan did not see Xiang Jinghua and the other two off. She carried her luggage and went to the train station on time.

Looking at the scene outside the window gradually receding, I don’t know when I will be able to come back after this separation.

On the train to the Northwest, Zhu Qingyuan secretly wiped away tears and sobbed softly, “Everything was clearly arranged. It’s all your good daughter’s fault. She ruined the happiness of our entire family!”

Xiang Jinghua closed his eyes and leaned his head against the glass window in annoyance. He couldn’t understand why things turned out like this. He was very sad that his biological daughter reported him, but what he couldn’t understand the most was how his house could be robbed so thoroughly. He didn’t doubt Xiang Nuan because he knew his daughter well and she was not capable of such a thing. And how did the money and things in his box become fake? He was puzzled by everything.

“Say something! I heard that life in the Northwest is very hard, and we eat sand every day. How are we going to survive there?”

Zhu Qingyuan was very disappointed with her husband. Apart from his looks and talent, he had nothing else to offer. She had to take care of everything at home and outside. Now their family of three was sent to such a remote area. She didn’t dare to imagine their future life.

Xiang Jinghua opened his eyes and looked at her. After a while, he said, “Live the way you want to live. If others can live, we can live too. I didn’t agree to leave at the beginning. Maybe there would be a chance of turning around. Now it’s like this. What can I do?”

Zhu Qingyuan stared at him in disbelief, forgetting to cry for a moment, “Are you blaming me?”

Xiang Jinghua waved his hands irritably, “Alright, stop talking, this is fate.”

“Why is my life so miserable?”

Zhu Qingyuan hugged her son and cried bitterly when she thought about the future. Whether she was at her parents’ home or after getting married, the greatest hardship she had ever experienced was drinking coffee. She never thought that greater hardship would befall her.

“Mom, I’m scared!”

Four-year-old Xiang Yuan was spoiled by his parents since he was young and had never suffered a single day of hardship. However, he fell from heaven to hell in just two days. When he saw his mother crying, he was so scared that he burst into tears.

“Why are you crying?”

The person in charge of escorting them was given a headache by the crying of the mother and daughter, and he scolded them coldly. The two were so scared that they dared not make a sound anymore.