Hearing about drug trafficking, Suihe realized the problem was even more serious. Violent land sales, human trafficking, and drug trafficking—none of these things should be remotely related to the mayor of a small village. But now, all the evidence proves that the mayor not only committed all of these acts, but was also a major participant.

Any of these counts alone would be enough to warrant a prison sentence, and the last one, if true, carries a death penalty. Having spent years at the border dealing with drug traffickers, Suihe understands the situation perfectly.

After chatting with Aunt Sun for such a long time, Suihe looked at the time, got up, poured some hot water, and fed Aunt Sun some water. Then neither of them spoke anymore and just lay there quietly. After a while, Aunt Sun fell asleep.

Suihe sat on the edge of the kang, his hands half-clenched on his knees, his entire body tense, his teeth clenched. Since this was Old Sun's hometown, Suihe hadn't expected to uncover such a major drug operation. The village chief couldn't handle it alone. Drug production and distribution required a mature industry chain. Could the provincial boss be involved?

No, no, the village chief and the big boss from the provincial capital don’t know each other yet. Yesterday, the middle-aged man said at the village chief’s house that his second brother would introduce the village chief to the big boss at his wedding with Huang Xiaoju.

So who else might be involved in this?

And who exactly is this "Second Brother"? Could he be trafficking drugs? All the clues need to be dug up by Suihe himself, but Aunt Sun is away from home now, so we can only wait for our comrades to come.

Since the village chief knew the whereabouts of the two children, Suihe was no longer in a hurry to go to the county town to look for them. He was just waiting for the village chief to fall into his trap. How could Huang Xiaoju have changed so much in just three or four years? What had happened in the past few years?

Many things are like candied haws, one after another, one ring after another. From the outside, Aunt Sun's house looks like a candied haws, wrapped in thick sugar, tempting and delicious, but it hides the truth from people.

After getting up that morning and exercising in the yard, Suihe suddenly had a new plan. He wanted to take Aunt Sun and the two children away from home. He had the ability to raise them. Why let the elderly and children suffer here?

The two children should have been five and four years old just after the Chinese New Year. Being sold at such a young age must have caused psychological trauma. Suihe is the one who has the most say on the word "trauma".

When he was a child, he lived with his adoptive parents. Ever since he could remember, the cold violence they inflicted on him left a deep trauma in his young mind that would be difficult to heal in his lifetime.

Later, he joined the Special Forces, carrying out various top-secret missions. He was simply a killing machine. Every time he returned from a mission, he had to be locked up in a dark room to calm down, otherwise he would suffer from post-war syndrome and hurt ordinary people.

Therefore, trauma was a trigger point. If he wanted Aunt Sun and the children to live a good life, he had to take all three of them away and not leave them here. This was the best way. However, there was a more important matter that needed to be resolved, and that was the matter of the village chief.

Just as Suihe was sitting on the kang and thinking about how to arrange for Aunt Sun and her family of three in the future, a voice came from the gate of the yard. The village chief had arrived.

Suihe stood up and went out to greet her. Since Aunt Sun was sleeping, he asked the village chief to sit next door for a while.