The school bus passed through the city overpass, passed through the towering base city protective wall, and slowly drove out of the city.

Soon, the world outside the car window was turned upside down.

Gone are the high-rise buildings and traffic that can be seen everywhere in the city, replaced by endless barren ridges and ruined walls, and the wide, smooth roads have become twists and turns, potholed yellow mud roads.

On both sides of the road, clumps of weeds and dead trees are scattered scattered, and the mountains in the distance are hidden in the thin clouds and mist, like dragons and tigers, with a vast color.

"Mom, how is it, can you stand such a bump?"

Chen Yuan saw his mother waking up slowly, worried about her motion sickness, and asked with concern.

"I'm okay, don't worry. Guo Weilan pulled the thin coat draped over her body and said softly.

"It's okay. Chen Yuan felt a little relieved and said, "I'll be home in ten minutes, and I'll leave the housework to me and my father, and you will lie on the bed to rest as soon as you get home." ”

"How can mom be so squeamish," Guo Weilan looked at her son and said with a faint smile: "You are usually not at home, let me and your father come to the housework, your hands are the hands of turning books, I am afraid that you are not used to rough work." ”

"Habit, you must get used to it," Chen Yuan said: "I remember when I was a child, you taught me to work by hand, this little thing is not difficult for me." ”

"the child, don't stop him," Chen Kexiong said with a smile: "If my son wants to work for us, let him do it, anyway, now that he has grown up, he should be asked to take on more family affairs." ”

"Dad still understands me. Chen Yuan grinned.

Guo Weilan looked at the two fathers and sons, shook her head and smiled, and said no more.

......

The school bus bumped all the way, passed a long yellow mud road, and finally drove on a relatively smooth dirt road, where the tires ran over, a dusty place.

After driving forward for a while, I could faintly see some buildings.

Liu Xu looked out the window, turned his head and said, "Uncle Chen, Aunt Chen, I'll get off at the intersection in front." If you need any help, just ask Chen Yuan to call me. ”

"Yes, say hello to your mother for us. The couple hurriedly said.

Liu Xu nodded, and chatted casually with Chen Yuan.

After a while, the school bus slowly stopped on the side of the road.

Liu Xu opened the car door, got out of the car with his luggage, beckoned to Chen Yuan, strode forward, and after a while, disappeared into a corner in front of him.

After a while, the doors closed and the school bus continued to drive forward.

The slum is divided into four areas, which are located in the east, west, south and north suburbs of Linjiang City.

The area where the school bus is located, located on the southern outskirts of the slum.

The southern suburbs are divided into 12 streets, each of which is crowded with more than 100,000 residents.

Chen Yuan's home is in the northwest of the "Hongfeng Street".

Linjiang officials have set up corresponding "management committees" in each slum area.

Each committee has a number of "sub-district offices" under its jurisdiction, which work with various departments to set up stations in the slums and jointly manage the 8 million residents in the four major slum areas of Linjiang.

In addition, the Linjiang "Warrior Association" also has "offices" in various slums, which are responsible for assisting the authorities in dealing with some emergency matters in the slums.

Compared with the urban area of Linjiang, the slum area is much worse in terms of infrastructure, living environment and public security.

Although it is not like "Blackwood Town", where there are frequent major and important cases such as human trafficking, drug trafficking, and underground forces, there are still countless public security problems.

The local "management committee", the police, and the warrior association have been working hard to crack down on these problems.

However, on the one hand, there are too many people in the slums, and the ratio of police to people is huge, and relying on the warriors and police currently stationed in the slums alone is a drop in the bucket.

Second, the population in the slums is hugely mobile, and many criminals are on the go to commit crimes, and over time, the problem of law and order in the slums has become a hidden pain in the hearts of every slum resident.

Moments later, the school bus pulled into a crowded town.

The road is lined with stalls of all kinds of goods, residents wander to and fro, and hawkers shout loudly.

At this time, a light rain suddenly fell outside the window.

The brand-new school bus drove through the town and onto a muddy path, which was instantly covered with dirty and slimy mud.

Chen Yuan opened the car window and looked out through the densely woven rain curtain, and the style of the slum came into view.

The uneven buildings, the narrow and cramped country roads, the plainly dressed and sallow-skinned villagers, and the occasional rooster and dog barking in the distance suddenly dragged him back to his carefree childhood.

"It's the same place as before, it's the same at all. ”

Chen Yuan touched the scene and felt a lot of emotion.

Since he came to Linjiang to study, he has rarely returned to the slums.

In addition to the reason why his parents stayed in the mine for a long time, he also wanted to wait for himself to become famous in the city, and then return to his hometown in style.

For three years, he has missed his little family all the time.

A small courtyard fenced with bluestone bricks, a poorly decorated hut, a jujube tree with a crooked neck, and an old yellow dog that has given birth to two or three litters of cubs carry all Chen Yuan's childhood memories.

When he was a child, he, Liu Xu, Huo Yuan and a group of friends often played in the yard, and when they were tired of playing, they climbed up the trunk of the tree to pick dates to eat.

More than ten years have passed.

The former friends have gradually grown up.

And he himself has grown from a poor boy with no name in the slum area to the top student in the city's college entrance examination that has attracted the attention of the entire Linjiang.

"Mom, has our bluestone fence been demolished?" Chen Yuan suddenly asked.

"Not yet," Guo Weilan said: "It was supposed to be demolished at the beginning of the year, but your father was too busy to make time to demolish it." ”

"Don't dismantle it. Chen Yuandao.

"If you don't dismantle it, you won't dismantle it," Chen Kexiong sighed, "If you stay there, you can still make a thought." ”

"What about 'Lao Huang', is it okay?" Chen Yuan asked again.

"I died last year, and I was beaten to death by a dog dealer out of town. A sadness flashed in Guo Weilan's eyes.

Chen Yuan's eyes darkened slightly, nodded, and did not speak.

Five minutes later, the bus stopped in front of a small courtyard fenced with a bamboo fence.

Chen Yuan and his father picked up their umbrellas, helped their mother off the school bus, unloaded the luggage of large and small bags, and started the "automatic return" program on the bus.

After a while, only listening to the soft sound of "Di", the school bus turned around and drove slowly towards the path, and after a while, it disappeared into the rain.

Chen Yuan and the others supported Guo Weilan and walked towards their small courtyard.

In the middle of the courtyard wall, in front of a narrow door made of wood.

Chen Yuan saw that the door was open, frowned and asked, "Dad, Mom, did you forget to lock the door when you left?"

"It's locked, I locked it with my own hands. Chen Kexiong said with a puzzled expression.

"Yes," Guo Weilan also felt a little weird, "I also specially reminded your father twice when I left, and he checked it, and it was indeed locked." ”

"That's weird, is it possible that the family has been robbed?" Chen Yuan's brows furrowed even tighter.

Security in the slums has always been poor, and it is not uncommon for families to be robbed.

Regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, he strode forward and pushed open the courtyard door.

Chen Yuan glanced into the courtyard, and his expression suddenly changed.

The small courtyard was in a mess, the stone tables and chairs were broken into pieces and scattered all over the ground, the jujube trees in the courtyard were cut down, the dead branches hung weakly in the corner of the wall, and there were traces of man-made destruction everywhere.

Chen Kexiong saw Chen Yuan standing outside the courtyard, and hurriedly helped Guo Weilan into the courtyard gate.

When I saw it, I was also taken aback.

"Oh my God...... We've only been away for a month, this, who did this......" Guo Weilan had just been discharged from the hospital, her body was relatively weak, and when she saw this scene suddenly, she only felt dizzy in her brain.

"How can this be ......" Chen Kexiong was also shocked.

Chen Yuan's face quickly became gloomy, and he walked towards the courtyard with the dead leaves all over the ground.

He came to the hut located deep in the courtyard and pushed the door open.

I saw that in the narrow brick room, everything was turned into a mess, and the damaged tables, chairs, dishes, chopsticks, and furniture were scattered all over the ground.

"If you owe money to repay the debt, it is a matter of course, if you don't pay back the money, you will kill your whole family!"

Chen Yuan walked into the house without saying a word, and there was a "click" under his feet, as if he had stepped on something.

He lifted his feet, leaned down, and picked up a shattered glass picture frame on the ground.

Inside the broken glass, there is a yellowed group photo taken by Chen Yuan's family of three in the yard.

A huge muddy footprint, stepping impartially in the middle of the frame.

Chen Yuan put the photo frame back in its place and walked into his and his parents' rooms to check it out.

Sure enough, the situation was not much better than in the living room and yard, which were also a mess and miserable.

Even the award certificate he got at school when he was a child was torn to shreds and thrown on the ground.

And the parents' bedding has been splashed with paint and can no longer be used.

Chen Kexiong walked into the house and was also shocked.

Guo Weilan's face was even more pale, she kept patting her chest with her hands, and said with a crying voice: "The child's father, it must be them, they must have come to the door!"

Chen Kexiong didn't answer, he let out a long sigh, and a sad look flashed in his eyes.

Chen Yuan happened to come out of the room, heard his mother's words, and hurriedly asked, "Mom, what do you mean by what you just said, what 'they are coming', who are 'they'?"

"They are ......," Guo Weilan was about to speak.

Chen Kexiong, who was next to him, turned his head sharply and glanced at her.

Guo Weilan's lips moved, and finally swallowed the words into her stomach, her eyes were full of tears, and she was silent.

"Dad, Mom, such a big thing happened at home, how long do you want to hide it from me?!"

Chen Yuan's eyes were red and he said emotionally.

He didn't want to be angry with his parents, but he was angry from the bottom of his heart at the destruction that had befallen him.

In his opinion, his father is honest and honest, and his mother is kind to others, and they are all well-known good people.

The two of them are also frugal on weekdays, and they spend very little, how can they be called for debts?

Chen Yuan's brows were tightly locked, and he couldn't figure it out.