Sold into a ghost marriage? Four-year-old and his thuggish father go on a killing spree.

"Dad, even if it kills me to run my legs off and I have to talk myself hoarse, I have to get it done!"

Gu Niannian's words were like a steel needle piercing Gu Yanqiu's muddled mind, instantly bringing him to his senses!

The next day, before dawn, Gu Yanqiu rode his old bicycle like a madman towards the commune.

Register Niannian's household registration!

The words "register Niannian's household registration" made his heart clench with pain!

However, the situation was far more complicated than he had imagined.

The clerk in the commune's household registration office was a middle-aged man who, through the wooden window, didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.

"What about the birth certificate? We can't get it done without a birth certificate."

"Comrade, my wife gave birth at home during the chaos of war, and..."

"If you don't have proof, go find the midwife, go to the village committee, and have them issue you a receipt and stamp it! Next!"

With just one sentence, Gu Yanqiu was dismissed.

The midwife moved away a long time ago, where can we find her?

Undeterred, Gu Yanqiu rode his bicycle towards the county town again.

He thought of Wanqing!

When Wanqing gave birth to Niannian, they rented a small, dilapidated house on the outskirts of the county town. She worked for a company; could there be some record of her with the local street office?

Based on his vague memory, he searched for three days in a row in that old residential area of ​​the county town!

I asked countless people, visited three different neighborhood offices, my legs were almost broken, and my lips were covered in blisters.

Finally, in a dusty corner of an archive room, an elderly clerk nearing retirement pulled out a yellowed register.

"Take a look, is this it?"

Gu Yanqiu leaned closer and saw a line of neat handwriting written in fountain pen on the thin booklet:

"Temporary Birth Report: Song Wanqing, female, gave birth to a daughter at home on October 1, 1959, named Gu Niannian. Reporting person: Song Wanqing."

The handwriting is Wanqing's handwriting!

Upon seeing that familiar brushstroke, Gu Yanqiu, a man in his thirties, burst into tears!

This was left behind by Wanqing!

It is the only official record she left for this world, for her and her father!

Holding this "temporary birth report," which was more important than his own life, he immediately contacted Li Huilan.

Upon hearing this, Li Huilan immediately mobilized all the old friends in the textile factory who knew Song Wanqing. More than a dozen people wrote a joint letter of proof overnight and pressed their bright red fingerprints on it!

On Cheng Tiezhu's side, they went even further, stamping three large red seals at the brigade headquarters and issuing a strongly worded "Certificate of Actual Custody".

In a short time, witness testimonies, physical evidence, and official documents piled up in Gu Yanqiu's hands like snowflakes.

He wrapped the thick stack of documents, which numbered more than a dozen, layer upon layer with oil paper, tucked it into his pocket, and walked into the household registration section of the county public security bureau once again.

This time, he was greeted by a younger woman.

When Gu Yanqiu carefully placed the large stack of materials on the table, the women's eyes widened in surprise.

She looked at them one by one.

From Wanqing's precious birth report,

Upon reading the heartfelt joint letter from Li Huilan and her accomplices,

Then there's Cheng Tiezhu's domineering village committee certificate...

Finally, she looked up at the unshaven man with deep-set eyes but an astonishingly bright gaze, and sighed deeply.

"Comrade, your situation is quite complicated."

"We have received the materials. According to regulations, it takes two weeks for approval. Go back and wait for our response."

Those two weeks were the longest fourteen days of Gu Yanqiu's life.

He was absent-minded at work every day, and would rush to the police station whenever he had a spare moment, but the answer he always got was "They're leaving, they're leaving."

He knew that Zhou Ming, that bastard, must be secretly sabotaging things behind the scenes.

But there was nothing he could do but wait.

Gu Niannian noticed her father's anxiety. She didn't say anything, but every night she filled his rice bowl to the brim and washed his dirty clothes clean.

She was cheering on her father in her own way.

On the fifteenth day, just when Gu Yanqiu was almost in despair, the police finally notified her!

"Comrade Gu Yanqiu, your application has been approved. Please bring your child to collect the household registration booklet."

At that moment, Gu Yanqiu felt like he was floating!

He rushed back to the farm machinery station, asked Lao Han for leave, and rode his bike at breakneck speed towards Chengjiawan!

He took Niannian with him and went once again to the household registration office, a place he both loved and hated.

When the brand-new red notebook, still smelling of ink, was handed to him, his hands trembled uncontrollably.

He turned the first page, his hands trembling.

Head of household: Gu Yanqiu.

He turned to the second page.

Name: Gu Niannian.

Relationship with the head of household: daughter.

White paper, black ink, red seal!

The proof is like a mountain!

"dad……"

Gu Niannian looked up at her father with her little face upturned.

Gu Yanqiu could no longer hold back and hugged his daughter tightly, very tightly!

Hot tears fell silently onto her daughter's small shoulders.

His daughter!

His constant thought!

From this day forward, from this moment forward, legally and completely, she is Gu Yanqiu's daughter!

No one can take it away from me!

That night, Gu Niannian held that small household registration booklet and looked at it over and over again countless times.

Her little fingers gently stroked the words "Gu Niannian" and "daughter" over and over again.

She finally has a name.

She finally has a legitimate identity.

She finally had a father who was recognized by the country.

As night deepened, she carefully placed the household registration booklet under her pillow before closing her eyes in peace.

With my household registration settled, I can finally feel at ease.

Gu Yanqiu felt that the biggest weight on her heart had finally been lifted.

He thought that from then on, he could work and earn money in peace and watch his daughter grow up day by day.

However, he did not know.

Sometimes, what's more terrifying than the wolves outside is your own "family" who have long harbored resentment towards you.

Just as the lives of the Gu family father and daughter were getting better and better, the "burden" they had gotten rid of, the Gu family's main house in Chengjiawan, was quietly undergoing earth-shattering changes.

However, this change does not seem to be moving in a positive direction.