Xia Yujiao is a person who is often silent and has little presence.

She doesn't like to talk, doesn't like to go out, and doesn't like to chat gossip with the young ladies in the village. Most of the time, she stays in the house and doesn't go anywhere.

Working, doing things, and walking are all very quiet, making almost no noise.

If one day you find that there is no movement in the kitchen but the food is already cooked, then it must be Xia Yujiao who cooked that day.

Xia Yujiao's personality makes it easy for people to unconsciously ignore her.

A few days ago, Jiang and Liu had accidents one after another, and Zhou's mind was occupied by these sudden events.

Later, Zhou was busy counting the accounts, thinking about how to save money in all aspects of food, clothing and daily necessities so that she could save some money to support the first wife.

Zhou was still thinking about finding a wife for the eldest son after the mourning period for Liu was over.

The eldest son only needs to wait for one year, but the matter of finding a wife must be arranged at least half a year in advance. Whether it is about marriage or getting married, money is needed.

Zhou's mind was almost entirely devoted to this, and the only thing that could make her feel relaxed was to go see the locust flowers.

So, although it was not intentional, Zhou still unconsciously ignored her little daughter who was already silent these days.

However, during meals, the old couple can still see Xia Yujiao.

But today during dinner, Zhou wanted to ask Xia Yujiao what she wanted to eat in the evening, but found that there was no one inside or outside the house.

Only then did she remember that she hadn't seen Xia Yujiao the whole day.

Zhou was anxious and asked everyone in the family to go out and look for her. She also looked around herself and went to two or three families who were familiar with Xia Yujiao. She asked along the way, but no one had seen Xia Yujiao.

The whole family had been out searching for almost half an hour, their voices were hoarse, but they still couldn't find the person.

Zhou ran to the South Lake again, found Jiang, and asked her to help find someone.

There are actually not many useful people in the fourth room.

But the pickle workshop hired a lot of temporary workers and its relationship with the villagers became better and better.

Zhou always felt that letting Jiang come forward and call on the villagers for help seemed to make her feel more confident for some reason.

Jiang didn't think too much about it. When she heard that Yujiao was missing, she put on her coat immediately and went out with Xia Youtian to look for her.

Zhou reminded her hastily, "Fourth Brother, you should also call a few temporary workers to go with you!"

Jiang nodded happily and said, "Mother is right, we should call a few more people to help. Look at my brain!"

Lihua ran out the door, shouting, "I'll go get some help!"

Wu Lang also put down the book in his hand and stood up steadily:

"I'll go look for someone too. Daohua, don't go. You and Linghua stay home and look after Huaihua! Lock the door tightly. No one can open it until our parents come back."

Xia Daohua nodded: "Okay, I'm at home. Go quickly and be careful on the road."

So the three little girls, Xia Daohua, Linghua and Huaihua, stayed at home, while everyone else went out to look for Xia Yujiao.

The sky gradually darkened, and the smell of smoke and food from many homes wafted over. Linghua was hungry, and Huaihua also started to cry loudly.

Xia Daohua had no choice but to prepare food for the two little ones herself.

Xia Daohua asked Linghua to look after Huaihua, gave her some water first, and went to the kitchen to get some food.

After randomly searching for some existing ingredients, Xia Daohua put some of them into the space supermarket. She then took out a bag of milk powder from the space supermarket and poured hot water into it according to the instructions. She then took out a bag of roast chicken and heated it in a pot. She also cooked some rice porridge and served two bowls of it out.

Linghua suddenly became upset: "Sister, you stewed a chicken in such a short time? Why didn't I hear any sound of killing a chicken?"

Xia Daohua laughed and said, "How could I kill a chicken? When have you ever seen me kill a chicken? This is the one Lihua stewed for our mother this morning. I added some autumn oil and cooked it again."

As he spoke, he tore off two chicken legs and stuffed them into Linghua's mouth: "Eat it quickly!"

Linghua swallowed her saliva and said, "Save it for Wulang. He studied hard and needs to make up for it."

Xia Daohua laughed. "Just eat it if I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? If Wulang wants more, I'll just make it for him. Our business is so good now, is having two chickens too much?"

Linghua smiled embarrassedly, then happily picked up the chicken leg and started to eat it.

Xia Daohua took a small spoon and fed Huaihua milk one spoonful at a time.

Sophora japonica opened its little mouth and ate with relish.

Xia Daohua looked at Huaihua's little face and mouth, but she felt a pity in her heart - she had such a good thing as a baby bottle, but she couldn't use it...

Linghua was only concerned with eating and didn't care about the locust flowers.

After half a chicken was eaten, Linghua finally regained her breath and asked Xia Daohua, "Sister, what did you give Huaihua to drink?"

Xia Daohua remained calm: "Rice soup."

Linghua clearly still had some questions, but she tactfully stopped asking.

Xia Daohua cleaned up the leftover chicken from Linghua, let Linghua drink some porridge, and drank some herself. Then she tidied the house again - when people are upset, it is easier to calm down if they find something to do, like cleaning the house.

That night, they waited until late at night, when Linghua and Huaihua fell asleep, before the people from the fourth room came back.

Xia Yujiao really disappeared.

The residents near the village entrance also did not see Xia Yujiao passing by.

The villagers at the foot of the mountain did not see Xia Yujiao go up the mountain.

The Xia family searched Beiguan Village thoroughly and also roughly searched the mountains and forests near Beiguan Village. The four brothers Xia Yougui, Xia Youxi, Xia Youtian and Xia Youliang also walked around Beiguan Town several times.

Zhou also went to Xia Youcai's house and informed the eldest wife's family, asking them to help keep an eye out.

Xia Youcai was woken up in the middle of the night and looked unhappy, but after hearing Zhou's explanation, he nodded in agreement. Although he had a lot of grievances against his brothers, he still had some feelings for his sister, Xia Yujiao.

The Xia family members returned home exhausted, feeling a little overwhelmed.

The old couple decided to go to the county government office to report the matter as soon as the next day broke.

Xia Yujiao had not woken up yet.

She was tied with ropes, her mouth was stuffed with walnuts, her face was covered with black cloth, and her whole body was put in a sack and hidden in a grain carriage. She was secretly transported to Huazhi County.

On the carriage carrying Xia Yujiao, she was the only one who had been abducted and hidden in the grain pile.

She was kidnapped the night before, in the middle of the night.

Her captors were well prepared and used a sleeping potion, so everyone in the old house fell into a deep sleep.

Xia Yujiao herself was also sleeping soundly.

Although the effect of the drug had worn off, Xia Yujiao was still a little drowsy. She vaguely realized that she seemed to be tied up and blindfolded. Now everything in front of her was dark and she could not see anything.