“Su Ze, Mom and Dad seem to be quite busy these days.”

Zhou Wanwan was playing with her son while feeling curious.

After all, her parents-in-law’s behavior was unusually different.

It wasn’t strange for her to say that because normally, her parents-in-law had very regular routines — their lives were orderly, and the only places they went to were home and school.

But ever since their two sons fell ill, her parents-in-law seemed like completely different people.

If it weren’t for having to attend classes at school, they would rather stay outside all day.

Even now, they left early and came back late, and nobody knew where they went.

“Recently, Mom and Dad have been busy finding connections for Xiao Feng and Hua Zhu. Xiao Feng’s job has been settled, but Hua Zhu’s is still not. Hua Zhu is about to graduate from high school, and if she doesn’t find a job, she will have to be sent to the countryside.”

Su Ze naturally knew what his parents had been up to these days, but for now, he couldn’t tell his wife the truth — though he wasn’t lying either.

Now that his younger brother Su Feng could leave home and work at a hospital on an island, Su Ze felt a little relieved.

But for his younger sister, there was no other option but to be sent to the countryside early.

Today, the parents were busy arranging this for the younger sister’s countryside assignment.

He even knew the location for her transfer had been decided, and the family would soon send her off.

So, the parents-in-law were trying to find jobs and connections for the younger brother and sister.

Zhou Wanwan immediately understood their unusual behavior and lost her curiosity about prying any further.

When Su Ze saw that his wife stopped asking, he breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The matter of the family being reported could be kept secret as long as possible.

Since the incident had already happened, knowing early wouldn’t help, and it would only cause anxiety and fear.

Thankfully, his parents already knew in advance and were preparing.

It wasn’t even 10 PM yet, and Zhou Wanwan had already gone to bed with their two sons.

Su Ze sat in the living room with a book, trying to read but his anxious mind was elsewhere.

Fortunately, he waited less than an hour before Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan returned quietly and carefully.

“Mom, Dad, how did it go?!”

Su Ze couldn’t hide his excitement and anxiety; he immediately stood up and quietly asked in a low voice.

“Basically everything is settled. Xiao Feng will take the train tomorrow night with your Uncle Lu. Your little sister’s countryside location is confirmed; she will leave the day after tomorrow, and we even found a comrade from the team to escort her.”

“Your Uncle Lu also found someone from the Committee to help us change the place she’s being sent to. The location has already been given to them. They said our Qiao family has done them a favor before and will handle this well.”

“Su Ze, don’t worry. Your mom and dad have prepared lots of supplies these days. Just now, that comrade Guang also helped us find people on the black market, and we’ve ordered a large batch of food and supplies.

We have enough for two years with no problem. During these two years, we can continue to prepare for the next one or two years.

Besides, there’s also Uncle Zhang and Uncle Lu. Since Xiao Feng has a job now, they won’t abandon us.

Mom has also prepared milk powder, malt extract, sugar cakes, snacks, and eggs for Dabao and Xiaobao to ensure they grow up safe and healthy.”

Except for hiding the matter of the ink bracelet space, Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan basically told their eldest son all the arrangements.

After hearing all the careful plans from his parents, Su Ze felt much less worried and admired his parents’ decisiveness and quick arrangements.

“Tomorrow after lunch, pack Da Bao and Xiao Bao’s clothes and things, then take them to Uncle Zhang’s house. Uncle Zhang and Auntie Wan will take care of them for now. When we leave, they will send Da Bao and Xiao Bao to the train station.”

Given the current situation, the two children couldn’t stay home to be scared by those people again, so Qiao Jiuru planned to send the kids to Zhang Hong’s home.

Su Ze knew what might happen if those people came to their home and thought this arrangement was good.

After the family finished talking, it was already past half an hour.

They still had to attend classes tomorrow, so Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan quickly wiped their faces and went into their space to rest.

Fortunately, time in the space differed from outside time, allowing them enough rest to recover.

Around early morning, the couple quietly got up and carefully pushed their bicycles, sneaking out of the family compound.

It took about half an hour to ride from the big family compound to the small courtyard where they had arranged to meet the black market people.

When Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan arrived, the black market people hadn’t come yet.

But they had deliberately arrived early. Qiao Jiuru had only been to this small courtyard twice and wasn’t very familiar with the area.

The couple took out keys to open the gate of the courtyard, then quietly entered together.

The courtyard was a square house with three main rooms, one storage room, one side room, a kitchen, and a shower room.

There was also a well in the yard.

Both Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan had flashlights and roughly inspected the house before moving to the area near the gate to wait.

After about ten minutes, they heard the sound of wheels outside, and soon a cart stopped outside the gate, followed by gentle knocking.

“Auntie, it’s me, Xiao Lei.”

Xiao Lei’s voice came clearly with the knocking.

In the dark, Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan exchanged a glance before opening the door.

Outside the door, in the night, besides Xiao Lei, there were three carts and three people.