Lynch and the others sat in the car and came to the Zhou family in a different direction from the Lin family's compound, and the Lin family is different in that the Zhou family is located in a quiet part of the city, a chic three-story building with a small courtyard, and there is a large piece of reclaimed land in the courtyard, which is where the old man Zhou grows vegetables.

Zhou Hui took Lynch and them through the courtyard, Lynch looked up at a room on the second floor, the white curtains were tightly drawn, not leaking a single gap, Lynch's heart sank, he knew who the people in that room were, and it was precisely because of the people in that room that he was so hesitant about Zhou Hui's feelings.

"Zhou Zhi, long time no see." Lynch muttered in his mind.

Zhou Hui pulled Lynch to the living room, called grandpa, and then went into the kitchen to take out a fruit bowl, put it on the table and greeted Lynch and Zhou Ren.

"My parents should have gone to a relative's house to pay New Year's greetings, grandpa seems to have gotten up quite early today, now it should be resting in bed, you sit down first, eat some fruit, my parents should come back in a while." With that, Zhou Hui picked up an apple and handed it to Lynch.

Lynch nodded, took the apple, and kept his eyes glued to the stairs leading to the second floor.

"Hey, by the way, I've brought some gifts back from England, I'll get them for you." Zhou Hui suddenly remembered that the gift she had specially selected for Lynch from England was still pressed in the suitcase, so she ran upstairs and back to her room.

Lynch kept staring at the closed door on the second floor and didn't move, Zhou Ren felt that Lynch was not quite right, so he followed his eyes to look at the room on the second floor, his face changed slightly.

"Hey, you don't think so." Zhou Ren pushed Lynch, lowering his voice.

"As you said, after so many years, what you should face is what you have to face after all." After speaking, Lynch got up and walked up the stairs step by step, and Zhou Ren heard Lynch's answer, and a layer of cold sweat broke out in his palms.

Lynch slowly walked up to the second floor, and the cotton shoes on his feet made a heavy sound on the wooden floor, and a sound pressed on Lynch's heart.

He took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, strode to the door of the room, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Enter." A deep voice peeked through the crack in the door, and Lynch pushed the door hard and walked in.

The layout of the room is simple, with a bed, a bookshelf full of books, a table, and a subtle light from the curtains. The person in the room was in a wheelchair, with his back to the door, the trouser tube on his right leg was empty, the familiar room, the familiar smell, and the memories of the past came flooding back.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, and then became more and more serious, neither the Zhou family nor the Lin family were spared, in 1975, Mr. Zhou and Mr. Lin were beaten into the cowshed, Zhou Dian and Lin Zhenguo were decentralized, and the original residence was also sealed, at that time Lin Qi was only 14 years old, Zhou Zhi was 15 years old, Zhou Hui was 13 years old, and they were temporarily placed in a relative's house in the countryside of Zhou Wei.

At that time, life in the countryside was hard, and the three children grew up in a honeypot since they were children, and they had not suffered any grievances since they were young.

During the day, he worked in the field with the relatives of the Zhou family, and there was no fine grain to eat at night, and the three of them nested in the haystack and were willing to eat sweet potatoes, at that time Lynch was forced by Mr. Lin to practice martial arts every day since he was a child, and his body was not bad, and he could still cope with the physical work during the day, and Zhou Zhi and Zhou Hui's brothers and sisters have been weak and sick since they were young because of Zhou's mother's dystocia, and now they still do so much farm work every day, and they lose more than half of their weight every time.

Lynch, who was a year older than them, felt that he had a duty to take care of them, helping them with a little of his own farm work each day, and giving half of the food for dinner to the siblings.

But the good times didn't last long, because of overwork and malnutrition, Zhou Hui still fell ill, and the illness was not light.

Zhou Zhi and Lynch were anxious in their eyes, at that time, some of the children of ordinary families became Red Guards to supervise their labor, and that day the Little Red Guards saw that Zhou Hui did not come to work, so they called a group of people to come over and had to take the seriously ill Zhou Hui to the farmland.

At that time, Zhou Ren's parents were also decentralized, and then Zhou Ren was placed at a relative's house in the countryside, and he happened to be neighbors with Mr. Zhou's relatives, and these four friends got together again.

Zhou Zhi and Lin Qi saw that Zhou Hui was forcibly dragged to work, their hearts were full of distress, the two rushed into the Red Guards and waved their fists to fight, who knew that there were more and more Red Guards, the two were outnumbered, and gradually defeated, and when the Red Guards had vented enough, the two of them lay on the ground covered with blood marks that they had beaten with sticks.

Zhou Hui saw that the two brothers were beaten with blood all over their bodies, and they were still sick, so they fainted as soon as their eyes went black. Seeing that Zhou Hui and Zhou Zhi had fainted, Lynch stood up with his body propped up, and at this time, Zhou Ren also heard that he rushed over from the farm next door, helped Lynch up, and brought Zhou Zhi and Zhou Hui home.

Zhou Ren helped Lynch wipe the wound with water, because there was no medicine and no doctor was willing to come to see the descendants of these so-called capitalist roaders, it happened that Zhou Ren grew up in the hospital, and he was familiar with the efficacy of some Chinese herbal medicines, so he picked some herbs from the hillside, mashed them and put them on the wound for Lynch and Zhou Zhi, and after a while, Zhou Zhi woke up, saw that his sister was still in a coma, and begged Zhou Ren to save Zhou Hui.

Zhou Ren looked at Zhou Hui's condition, sighed, and said to Zhou Ren and Lin Qi that Zhou Hui's disease was caused by malnutrition and long-term fatigue, and she had to quickly find something with high nutritional value to make up for Zhou Gui, so that her body could recover as soon as possible.

At that time, it was still a luxury for everyone to eat a whole sweet potato, let alone something with high nutritional value.

After listening to Zhou Ren, Lynch got up and limped out of the grass shed, and it wasn't until late at night that Lynch came back.

Lynch excitedly shook Zhou Ren and Zhou Zhi awake, and told them that he had just discovered that there were several old hens in the compound where the Red Guards lived, and that was the most nutritious thing now, and if she stole one back and gave it to Zhou Hui to stew soup, she would definitely get better immediately.

The more Lynch spoke, the more excited he became, but stealing things is always a bad thing, or stealing such expensive things, or it is even more difficult to live in the residence of the Red Guards, Zhou Zhi listened to Lynch's plan, and was still a little worried, but looking at his sister who was still lying unconscious on the grass, now that he thinks about it, there is only one way.

So the three little boys sneaked into the Red Guard compound in the middle of the night. According to the pre-arrangement, Zhou Zhi watched the movement inside the house outside the door where the Red Guard soldiers lived, Lynch was responsible for catching chickens, and Zhou Ren was responsible for answering outside the courtyard.

Lynch approached the coop lightly, grabbed the hen's wings, tied them with rope and threw them out of the wall. Zhou Ren caught the bundled hen from the outside, put it in the bag, and waited outside for Lynch to meet.

Lynch whistled to Zhou Zhi, who had been staring at the door, but unexpectedly alarmed the black dog who had been sleeping, the black dog barked manially, Lynch was so frightened that he got up and jumped out of the wall without having time to think about anything.

And Zhou Zhi, who had been some distance away from the wall, ran away before he could run away and was surrounded by the Red Guards who woke up from his sleep, the Red Guards at that time were also children, and they were very heavy, and stealing things late at night was a very serious problem at that time, so he couldn't explain Zhou Zhi, so he picked up the tools in the yard and threw them at Zhou Zhi's body.

In the middle of the night, there was a Red Guard with an axe to chop wood in his hand, and he saw the thief on the ground cut at Zhou Zhi's leg without thinking much about it, and the flesh and blood were blurred for a while, Zhou Zhi's right leg was cut by the axe A big gap, and the blood kept flowing out of the leg, and after a while, it spread to all around, and under the moonlight, the white bones on the leg were completely exposed.

Lin Qi ran hard, and when he was halfway through the run, he suddenly found that there was no shadow of Zhou Zhi behind him, he secretly cursed in his heart, and quickly turned his head and ran back to the Red Guard compound, and as soon as he entered the compound, he saw Zhou Zhi lying in a pool of blood.