Su Wei whispered, "Was Hu Qiang frozen to death?"

Chen Yan paused while eating and shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Hu Qiang did not show up that day. If he had nothing to do, he should have come to settle the score with Su Wei long ago. His silence made people feel uneasy.

Aunt Hu San finally realized something was wrong. Her son hadn't come home for a few days, so she ran to Wang's house to look for him. Wang Ming yawned and said he hadn't seen him. Aunt Hu San angrily said, "He's been staying with you a lot lately. How dare you say you didn't know?"

Wang Ming stood up, staring at Aunt Hu San with his triangular eyes. "I don't know, and I don't know. I'm not his father."

If someone else had said this, Aunt Hu would have been furious, but who was Wang Ming? He had been in prison, and he looked fierce. Aunt Hu had no choice but to leave. When she passed by the Shen family, she happened to see Su Wei busy at work. Aunt Hu suddenly remembered that Hu Qiang had said not long ago that he would teach Su Wei a lesson...

Su Wei felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Aunt Hu San, so he turned and went into the house.

Aunt Hu San cursed under her breath and turned away.

Hu Qiang's disappearance did not attract much attention in the village. After all, he was such a grown-up boy, and everyone guessed that he might have gone somewhere to hang out.

Aunt Hu San searched for several days without success; no one had seen Hu Qiang. It was true that Hu Qiang had been unreliable before, but he had never been away from home for such a long time...

Aunt Hu San's eyelids kept twitching, and she always suspected that something had happened to him.

Until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, everyone in the village was busy celebrating the festival, and Aunt Hu San was extremely anxious.

The Hu family searched everywhere for Hu Qiang but couldn't find him. Finally, they found him in the abandoned yard of Old Man Chen's house...

Hu Qiang's clothes.

Su Wei recognized those clothes; they were taken off by Chen Yan himself.

But where is Hu Qiang?

Why were only his clothes left?