One evening, a few elderly women who had gone out returned to the village in a panic. They all flocked to Maosheng's house, and they scrambled to say, and saw a person in the town, like Mao Xiang, who was singing lotus flowers and begging for food at the farmers' market.

The Zhenshu woman added excitedly, yes, it's him. I also stepped forward and grabbed him and asked if it was Xingzai's father. He turned and ran, and he couldn't catch him.

Xylophone hurriedly coped with the kind people who came to deliver the letter. After sending the visitor away, the two immediately fell into a long silence.

- How can it be? Didn't he go to prison, why would he come back?

Mao Sheng's eyes widened nervously, and he was still fantasizing in his heart if they had seen the wrong person and mistaken the homeless man for Mao Xiang.

Muqin pondered for a long time, and replied, although it is a sentence, our mother has been home for four years, and it is possible that she will be released when the deadline is reached.

Maosheng became more and more nervous. He muttered to himself with palpitations, how could he come back? He can't come back, he can't come back.

This night, Xylophone and Mao Sheng went to bed very late. But I couldn't sleep again, and tossed and turned for most of the night. It wasn't until dawn that the two fell asleep in a daze.

It's dawn. When I got up, I found that the apricot boy was gone.

At the time of breakfast, the family of four sat around the dinner table, but there was no shadow of the apricot. At first, I thought he was going to the toilet or going out to play. After waiting for a long time, he was still nowhere to be seen. Maosheng asked Jing'er and Zhong'er, who were sleeping in the same Westinghouse, if they didn't see where this cub ran to the wild early in the morning when they got up. Both of them shook their heads, and when they talked about the time they got up, they didn't see him anywhere, and who knew where he ran to go crazy. Mao Sheng and Xylophone were in a hurry, saying that he had never run out at breakfast time, and what was going on today. The whole family ran to the street again, street by street, alley by alley, even the apricot grove on the edge of the village, but they didn't see his shadow.

Xylophone finally said what the family was worried about, whether he went to the town to find his dead father.

It seems that there is no doubt about it.

Muqin arranged the affairs of the team, and didn't bother to say hello to Sour Xing and Maolin, so he went straight to the town with Maosheng and Jing'er non-stop. The servants scattered, along a street and several deep alleys, street by street to investigate, alley by alley to ask, still did not see Xingzai. Most of the people who were asked shook their heads, saying that they had never seen a baby in a foreign country. also said that he had seen it, and his clothes and appearances were consistent with Xingzai, but he didn't pay attention to where he went.

Maosheng began to scold Xingzi angrily. Scolding others for being a big ghost, raising people, not being able to raise a heart, is a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed.

When he returned home in the evening, Maosheng's lips were filled with a few bubbles of water, which were crystal clear.

That night, the helpless xylophone went to Sour Xing's house, told Sour Xing about Xingzi going out to find his father, and asked Sour Xing to organize people to find Xingzi. The two of them were also anxious when they heard this, and immediately comforted Muqin and said, don't panic, don't panic. It's dark today, and there's no way to find it. As soon as the sky is bright tomorrow, we will scatter people out, and we will not find them. He also said, don't worry, it's a peaceful society now, and you can't lose anyone. Apricot boy is very ghostly, and it will be fine.

Xylophone returned home nervous. Seeing Mao Sheng squatting in the courtyard sighing, he didn't say anything superfluous. She persuaded him not to get angry. Uncle Sour Xing agreed, and as soon as the morning dawned, he organized people to find Xingzi. I can't lose it.

Maosheng is still not stable. One night, he squatted in the courtyard, sometimes pushing the door, and sometimes running to the dark street to look at the sky for a long time, and cursing Xingzi in a low voice from time to time. After all, with four or five years of nurturing, Maosheng has regarded Xingzi as his own cub. Although compared with his own cubs, there is always a slight deviation in the importance of the distance.

The next day, all the laborers of the whole village were concentrated in front of the brigade. Sour Xing personally came to the scene and instructed the leaders of each production team to take their own people to nearby communes and villages to find them, and resolutely find Xingzai. If you can't find it during the day, you can find it overnight. If you don't get it back, you will not stop.

I just got through the day in such a panic. It wasn't until it was almost time to eat dinner that Xingzi came back dejected under the crowd of people.

According to Xingzai's confession that night, he searched for two days and one night in the commune and the surrounding villages. Some people say that they have seen such a person as his father, but no one will notice the whereabouts and fate of a homeless man.

Mao Sheng scolded Xingzi fiercely, but did not hit it. Apricot Tsai leaned on a stool and leaned against the wall of the house under Maosheng's abuse, already snoring to sleep.

Mao Xiang is like the night when he was born, the wind came suddenly, and then quietly disappeared.

It was the appearance of Mao Xiang that brought unexpected bad luck to the xylophone. At the same time, it also brought a major turn in her political career.