The village is not big, with a hundred and ten households, and at this time, the sun is setting, and the sun has already sprinkled its last bit of afterglow, burying its head in the horizon. It was the time of the meal, most of the families ate at home, and Zhao Liangsheng's family lived at the entrance of the village, so they did not meet the villagers.

Seeing that he saw home, Zhao Chen didn't let his father hug him, and ran home after struggling to get off the ground, shouting as he ran: "Mother!" Mother! We came back, and my dad and I picked up a younger sister. ”

Yan Siqin had already made dinner, and was wondering why the two of them hadn't come back, if they had come back as usual, at this hour, Zhao Yu, who was playing crazy outside every day, had already sat obediently at the small dining table waiting for the meal, Yan Siqin stood at the door and looked at the village road, and saw someone coming over from a distance, looking at the figure, one of them was the child's father holding the child, and the other was holding the child and didn't know.

Yan Siqin was relieved, thinking about whether it was a guest, if it was a guest, then the dishes she prepared would definitely not be enough, she turned her head back to the house, took a basket and went to the vegetable garden to take a look, pinched a few tender cucumbers down, the thin-skinned peppers were also thick, picked up a big one, just returned to the well, was washing, and listened to Zhao Chen shouting and running into the yard.

"Mother, my father and I picked up a younger sister, and my sister is so good-looking." Zhao Chen ran straight to his mother's side, regardless of whether his mother had water in her hands or not, he took his mother's hand and dragged it to the door.

"You kid." Yan Siqin got up with his son's strength, and wiped his wet hands on his apron by the way. As soon as the two of them arrived at the gate, Zhao Liangsheng and Li Hua were also preparing to enter the hospital.

"Mother, my sister, look at it." Zhao Chen pointed at Shi Ke and said to his mother to show off.

If you are a child, how can you take it seriously, the parents of the little girl are still following, yo, she is still a public security comrade, Yan Siqin turned her inquiring gaze to Zhao Liangsheng, she didn't remember that Zhao Liangsheng had relatives or friends who were public security officers.

In just an instant, Li Hua looked at Yan Siqin all over the place, a neat peasant woman, with a big black braid hanging down the back of her head, a long round face, double eyelids and slightly raised at the outer corners of the eyes, a bit similar to Danfeng eyes, and a dimple looming on her cheeks as she spoke: "This is my sister-in-law, right?" ”

"Well, it's the child's mother." After Zhao Liangsheng finished speaking, he said to Yan Siqin: "Morning mother, this is Comrade Li from the Public Security Bureau. ”

Yan Siqin rarely deals with people in the public family, especially the comrades of the Public Security Bureau, in her cognition, as long as there is contact with the public security, something bad must have happened, today the child's father took the public security home, the first thing she thought of in her mind was: Oh no, the child's father must have recruited a thief, and the money on his body was stolen by the thief.

Li Hua didn't know what she was thinking, and gently patted Shi Ke's little arm: "Why don't you call someone?" ”

"Hello Auntie." Shi Ke shouted sweetly at Yan Siqin.

Yan Siqin opened his mouth and smiled, before he could talk, Zhao Chen was reluctant: "You can't call Auntie, you are the sister that my father and I picked up, you have to call Mother!" ”

Do you call mother? Shi Ke tilted his head and thought about it, well, Cui Niang also called her mother, she shouldn't be wrong, and immediately changed her words: "Mother." ”

Originally, Yan Siqin thought that Zhao Chen was commanding indiscriminately, and he wanted to scold his son, but he didn't expect the little girl to really call her "mother".

For Shi Ke, this "mother" is just a title, but it is different for Yan Siqin, a delicate and soft, beautiful little girl called her "mother", Yan Siqin was excited, and his heart was also soft by Shi Ke's "mother".

"My little girl! Come, I'll hug. Yan Siqin was overjoyed, took Shi Ke and hugged him in his arms, and greeted Li Hua by the way: "Comrade Li, sit in the room quickly." ”

The yard is very large, there is a three-point appearance, the east wall root is the chicken shed, in order to facilitate the cleaning of the chicken's excrement suspended construction, there are more than 20 chickens in it, the hens are the majority, there is a big red crown, the big rooster in the oily brocade clothes is majestic, high-spirited patrol its territory. Next to the chicken shed is a large jujube tree, and the pale green jujube flowers exude a faint fragrance.

To the west is a vegetable patch and a pressurized well, which is tightly fenced off to prevent chickens from entering and harming the vegetables. The well was dug there, presumably for the convenience of watering the vegetables.

It was early summer, and all kinds of vegetables in the garden had basically borne fruit, and some of the tomatoes had begun to glow a little red, and the cucumbers had also set fruit, and the dark green gherkins were on the shelves, and next to the cucumber racks were a bunch of eggplants, and the small purple lanterns were hanging around their waists, followed by peppers, and next to the peppers were leeks and coriander. The small vegetable garden is well maintained and clean, which makes people feel refreshed at first sight. The entire west wall is planted with loofahs and autumn plum beans at the root, which have just climbed the seedlings and have not yet occupied the entire wall.

"Brother Zhao, your small courtyard is really well maintained." Li Hua sincerely praised that although there were so many chickens at home, there was no strange smell in the yard.

"It's all picked up by the children's mothers, Comrade Li, sit in the house." Zhao Liangsheng invited Li Hua into the house.

"No, I'll just sit in the yard, sister-in-law, I have to tell you something again."

Zhao Chen ran to the house to show off to his brother, and then pulled his brother around his mother to look at his sister.

Yan Siqin was playing with Shi Ke, causing Shi Ke to giggle. Hearing Li Hua calling her, she was about to come over with a bouldering stone, but when she saw Li Hua signaling her to come alone, she reluctantly put Shi Ke on the ground, and instructed uneasily: "Take care of my sister." ”

Zhao Liangsheng pulled the bench in the courtyard over, and the three of them sat together, Li Hua looked at Shi Ke, and saw that the little girl and the two little boys were playing.

"Comrade Li, don't worry, my kid is fine, and he won't bully your daughter." Yan Siqin thought that Li Hua couldn't rest assured that she would not be able to leave her daughter.

"Sister-in-law, that's not my daughter, that's like this, that little girl's name is Shi Ke, she accidentally let the traffickers catch her, the child is smart, and the opportunity to see ran away, no, let Brother Zhao meet ......"

"What!" Yan Siqin looked surprised: "Human traffickers, there are really human traffickers!" She looked at Shi Ke, the little girl was about to play hide and seek with the two boys, she covered her eyes, and her mouth was counting: "1, 2, 3......." ”

Is the little girl so thin, so small, 4 years old? Thinking of such a young child being taken away by traffickers, and looking frightened and helpless, Yan Siqin felt distressed. She is also a mother, the child is gone, the heart is broken, poor such a good child, so beautiful, so cute, so small and can be counted, how can it be so difficult!

The more Yan Siqin thought about it, the more uncomfortable she became, tears couldn't stop flowing, she lifted her shirt and wiped the corners of her eyes, a little embarrassed: "Comrade Li, then don't laugh at me, I'm also a poor child." ”

Li Hua empathized: "No, no, sister-in-law, this is the current situation, now the child provides too little useful information, and the child speaks Mandarin, I can't even hear the dialect where, the country is so big, to find the child's home is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, according to the regulations, such a child must be fostered in a welfare home before finding her parents." ”

"Welfare home? No, Comrade Li, you can't send it to the welfare center. Yan Siqin interrupted Li Hua's words: "Comrade Li, you see that the child will be put in my house first, I will raise it first, when will you find the child's father and mother, and when will you come to pick up the child, okay?" ”

"Chen's mother, I think so too, it just so happens that our family also has a daughter, let's raise it first, the child has found a home, let's return it to her father, if you can't find it, it's our daughter, you say no."

"Medium, why not!" Yan Siqin set his eyes on Li Hua, and Li Hua said with a smile: "The matter of that child will trouble Brother Zhao and sister-in-law in the future, both of them are good people, and the child will be blessed with you." ”

"It's not about happiness, at least we promise not to let the child suffer, Comrade Li, don't worry, we will be able to take care of the child." Yan Siqin was afraid that Li Hua would not be at ease, so he repeatedly assured.

Seeing that the matter had been explained clearly, Li Hua said goodbye to the husband and wife: "In this case, I will leave first, and I will come to talk to Brother Zhao again when I have time." ”

"Let's go after eating, I'm done." Yan Siqin retained.

"No, sister-in-law." Li Hua got up as he spoke, and when he was about to walk to the door, he paused and thought that it would be better to say goodbye to the little girl, and shouted: "Shi Ke, uncle will go first." ”

Shi Kezheng was playing energetically, raised his little hand and beckoned to Li Hua: "Goodbye, uncle." ”

This kid has a really big heart, and he will get along with others after a long time, he smiled helplessly, and after saying goodbye to Zhao Liangsheng, he got in the car and went back to the unit.