Not good.

Those people intended to make things difficult for them.

Su Huaiyuan and Qiao Jiuru exchanged a worried glance in the dimly lit room, and their eyes involuntarily fell on their two young grandsons.

They feared that tomorrow, the two children would have to sleep in for another morning.

After all, even adults would be mentally scarred by such a scene, let alone two children under two years old!

However, the most urgent matter now was to find clothes for Da Bao and Xiao Bao to wear; otherwise, in such cold weather, they would definitely fall ill.

Qiao Jiuru glanced around the small dark room and then looked at her husband.

With just one glance, despite the distance between them, Su Huaiyuan understood his wife’s meaning.

“Xiao Ze, you’re stronger, come hold Da Bao for a moment. I’ll look around the room and see if any clothes were left behind.”

Qiao Jiuru handed the tightly clutched Da Bao to her eldest son, who was already huddling with his wife to warm up Xiao Bao.

She had to find an excuse to retrieve clothes from the space.

Su Ze didn’t suspect anything and immediately took Da Bao, then placed both Da Bao and Xiao Bao together, holding them tightly along with his wife, desperately trying to warm them.

Indeed, as the mother said, men were stronger, and their bodies generated more heat than women.

Qiao Jiuru had originally needed her husband to cover for her, but now, she didn’t need to.

Her son and daughter-in-law were already huddled together, warming up the two children.

Feigning to bend down, she quickly retrieved one of her large cotton jackets from the space.

Luckily, she had previously been cautious and patched up the jacket several times. Without those patches, it would have been hard to pass it off.

“Xiao Wan, Xiao Ze, I found a cotton jacket that was thrown in the corner near the wall. Quickly wrap it around Da Bao and Xiao Bao.”

Thankfully, the jacket was thick, and Qiao Jiuru, like a thief, approached her son and daughter-in-law and placed the jacket over the two children.

Su Ze and Zhou Wanwan didn’t think much of it and were just pleased, immediately wrapping the children in the cotton jacket.

After wrapping them up, they continued their actions, afraid the children wouldn’t be warm enough.

After so much suffering, it wasn’t just the children who were exhausted; the adults were already weary.

But it was still only past noon, and the committee was still in session, so Qiao Jiuru had no chance or excuse to take out anything to eat from the space.

At this moment, the whole family was both cold and hungry.

Finally, after enduring the whole afternoon, the committee members began leaving work one by one. From the time they brought the Su family from the train station to the committee, they hadn’t been given a single bite to eat, let alone a drop of water, much less a chance to use the restroom. It was as if they had been forgotten.

The sky in the northeast gets dark earlier than other places, and by six o’clock, it was already completely dark.

After six, the entire committee office was empty.

Qiao Jiuru subtly nudged her husband, signaling that she was ready to act.

The couple quietly made their way to the door.

Su Huaiyuan crouched above the door, and Qiao Jiuru crouched below.

Qiao Jiuru turned to look at her son and daughter-in-law but found that even from a short distance, she couldn’t see them clearly.

Without hesitation, she entered the space, then used the remote to appear outside the door.

However, when she saw the lock on the door, she realized she didn’t have the ability to unlock it and would have to find a key inside the committee.

Qiao Jiuru didn’t hesitate and immediately turned to search for a key in the nearby rooms. It didn’t matter whether the key was important or not.

Soon, she found a small bunch of keys hanging on the wall in one of the rooms.

Click.

With a soft sound, the lock on the door was easily unlocked by Qiao Jiuru.

Su Huaiyuan pressed his ear to the door, listening for any sounds from the outside.

He clearly heard the click and knew that his wife had unlocked the door.

The next moment, Qiao Jiuru appeared beneath him, and carefully opened the door.

With just a slight pull, the door opened wide enough for cold air to rush in, waking up their son and daughter-in-law from the back room.

Su Huaiyuan seized the opportunity and widened the door gap enough for a person to pass through.

He cautiously extended his body outside.

Like a thief, he glanced outside to assess the situation, and then, to the stunned expressions of his son and daughter-in-law, darted out like an arrow…