Su Miao was surprised but more nervous. Gu Junming must have known she took the child, and her appearance here was no accident. Has he been looking for her all along?
How can I absolve myself of guilt? How can I make Gu Junming not treat me so harshly? Her eyes darted around as she cried even more miserably.
"I’m a victim too, big brother, please don’t be angry!"
Gu Junming pushed her aside, suppressing his irritation and inner fury: "I have no reason to be angry; this matter is between you and your family. I hope you can honestly tell the police what you did."
"Don’t!" Su Miao exclaimed excitedly, "I stole someone’s child! I’ll go to jail! Let me go! I was wrong! I’ll never dare again. I was just upset for a moment. My aunt was so bad to me, you saw it too. I just wanted to scare her. I was going to return the child to my uncle! Who knew as soon as I got on the train, someone was watching me, then when I got off, they took my child away! There was nothing I could do!"
This was half true. She intended to go to X City after getting off, but a woman came over to ask the time. She had a plum watch and looked down at it. In that moment, the woman and a man came over; one held her shoulder, and the other quickly took the child and ran away.
Su Miao, being clever, held onto the woman and kept pleading, hoping to report to the railway police for help. But they, too nervous, knocked her unconscious. By the time she woke up, she was back.
These people often trafficked children to the south, specifically boys.
Su Miao was clearly out of her element and not the child’s mother, with no sense of caution. Nervous and alone, she was targeted as soon as she boarded the train.
Once off the train, the child was snatched.
Su Miao pleaded with them. They said, "If you want your child back, steal one to exchange."
She had no choice but to take the risk.
It wasn’t that she liked the child so much, but if the child was sold from her hands, it would be major trouble, and she’d never see home again!
She didn’t gain a cent, so why would she do that? That’s why she ran to the hospital. Who knew she would meet Ding Kang there?
It was a coincidence that saved her life; otherwise, she might have lost the child and been sold herself.
Inside was the sound of the child crying loudly.
Gu Junming was furious, coldly saying: "Your child was taken, so you take someone else’s? Are you crazy? I will not let you go! You did something wrong; you should know that doing wrong comes with punishment!"
"We’re from the same village; you know I like you. Can’t you give me a chance? Just say it was them!" Sun Chan pointed to the people on the floor, trembling, "I was wrong. But I had no choice! I haven’t even married yet, big brother, have some pity on me!"
She cried bitterly, looking pitiful as if she had suffered a great injustice.
Gu Junming said, "No choice? You could have called the police! You’re just a selfish woman."
Su Miao’s lips moved; she didn’t dare. She was afraid her aunt would come after her life if she called the police; she couldn’t do anything then. She had to be threatened to exchange someone else’s child back.
"Okay, enough. You call the police. I’ll find some rope to tie them all up. You may be guilty, but you won’t be sentenced for long. I’ll speak for you." A woman with bad intentions deserves proper re-education.
With that, Gu Junming pushed Su Miao away. Then he pulled a white cloth from the sofa, intending to tie them up, but Su Miao was adamant. She gritted her teeth, looked around, and grabbed a wooden chair, ready to hit Gu Junming on the head.
She didn’t intend to do much harm, just to knock him out and escape,
But before she could act, Sun Chan swung an axe, not too forcefully, hitting her on the shoulder. But it knocked Su Miao to the ground. Already exhausted, and with the tension and fright, she fainted. The chair also fell to the floor, leaving quite a mess.
Sun Chan threw down the axe and rushed into Gu Junming’s arms: "I was terrified!"
Gu Junming was also startled, holding Sun Chan tightly: "This woman is really vicious. Because I wouldn’t listen to her, she wanted to kill me too."
"Su Miao is truly terrifying," Sun Chan said through gritted teeth.
Gu Junming said coldly, "If we let someone like that go, who knows what harm she’ll do next time. Okay, go ahead and call the police."
Sun Chan nodded. The two cooperated, and when the police arrived, they tied up the people for their arrest, and the child on the kang was rescued.
The parents from the hospital, who were anxiously crying, were overjoyed to see their child returned.
However, while their child was found, Su Jinxiu and Zhao Yingjun’s child was nowhere to be seen. It had long been sold off, and to Guangxi, a faraway place.
Upon hearing the news, Su Jinxiu fainted again. Zhao Yingjun was so angry, he gnashed his teeth, wishing he could eat Su Miao alive!
But he couldn’t reach her to hit her; she was detained.
Ding Qiuyue and Su Minjian went to see their daughter, both sighing deeply. Ding Qiuyue cried, "What are you doing? Why are you causing trouble? You’re ruining us! What are we to do now? If you’re truly sentenced, you’ll never have a good life!"
Her daughter was just in her early twenties, so young and beautiful. If she went to prison, who would marry her when she got out?
Thinking of this, she resented Sun Chan and Gu Junming deeply.
"We’re from the same village; how can they be so malicious? Our Miao Miao didn’t do anything!"
"Didn’t do anything?" Su Minjian slapped his thigh. "She stole someone’s child from the hospital! If it weren’t for Gu Junming, who knows if she’d even be alive? You still have the nerve to blame others? This is all due to your upbringing, raising a child without boundaries, and now look at the result. You still have the gall to say she’s at fault?"
"Shut up!" Su Minjian looked at Su Miao: "Gu Junming said he’d testify that you were coerced, so it might be better for you. Reflect well inside. I won’t spread this around, just say you went elsewhere to visit. Once you’re out, find someone from far away to marry off to. I can’t manage it."