Chapter 387: Retribution for Son Preference 3: Her son is missing, and she seems...

Yu Hongfang was humiliated by Xiao Qu and had to leave with her things in anger.

Wang Cong heard the door open and quickly dodged behind a nearby pile of debris. Unexpectedly, he found a pile of coal briquettes behind him. He leaned in so suddenly that the pile of coal briquettes was on the verge of falling. Frightened, he quickly stuck his butt out, arched his back, and used his body to hold it together. After his mother walked away, he groaned, "Is anyone there? Quick, help! The coal briquettes are about to fall."

Xiao Qu heard the noise and came out to see what was happening. He hurried to help. He moved some of the coal balls from the high place, found a wooden board and a shoulder pole, used the wooden board as a shield and the shoulder pole as a support, and built a "卜"-shaped support. He finally saved Wang Cong.

Xiao Qu held the carrying pole firmly in place, turned around and glanced at the brat, a flicker of pity in his eyes. After much thought, he finally reminded him, "School is about to start. Stay home for the next two days and don't run around."

"Oh, then can't I come out and play with my classmates?" Wang Cong was confused. Ever since he was beaten up by Yao Zhizhi, he has been very honest in the past two years. At most, he muttered a few words behind their backs and didn't dare to yell in front of Yao Guanying and Yao Guangmei.

Seeing that he didn't quite trust her, Xiao Qu had to remind him again: "It's just after the Chinese New Year, and many people from other places are coming to visit relatives. The population is very mobile, and it's quite chaotic out there, so it's best for children to stay at home. Do you understand?"

Wang Cong said "oh" but thought to himself that it had nothing to do with him because his family didn't have any relatives from other places.

Xiao Qu sighed silently and thought, forget it, it’s hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words. Everyone has his own destiny, so just go with the flow.

He didn't say anything else, turned around and went to light the boiler in silence. Wang Cong always felt that something was wrong, but when he chased him and asked for a long time, Xiao Qu refused to say a word, so he had to go back in confusion.

When Wang Cong returned home, he found that his eldest sister still hadn't come back. He looked at his mother who was washing dishes and asked, "How about I go to his eldest sister's master's house to check on him?"

Yu Hongfang didn't take it seriously at all and scolded, "Don't bother with her. What kind of person is she? She still wants to play this trick on me. Wait until she gets mad at the master's house and comes back."

Wang Cong thought about it and it made sense. The eldest sister had always been bullied by both sides. The master disliked her for being a slow learner and would beat and scold her at any time. Her mother disliked her for not being a son and beat and kicked her even more. Now that her mother was pregnant, she didn't beat her sister as often. Unexpectedly, her sister became restless and ran away for a trivial matter. It seemed that the eldest sister really deserved to be punished.

However, he was afraid that what happened to Cao Guangyuan's family would happen to him, so he could not ignore his sister's life or death.

So he went back to the back room, called his younger brother Wang Rui, and prepared to visit his sister's master's house.

My sister's master's house was not far away, in a nearby tube-shaped building, and it only took about twenty minutes to walk there. Riding a bike was faster, but although Wang Cong had learned to ride a bike, he didn't know how to lead others, so the two brothers took flashlights and prepared to walk there.

When they reached the entrance of the alley, the two brothers were still talking and laughing, thinking about how to coax their sister back.

Wang Rui was more observant than Wang Cong. He noticed the dim intersection, tugged at his brother's arm, and asked, "Brother, why is the streetlight broken?"

Wang Cong didn't think much of it: "Maybe he got frozen from the snow a few days ago. Come on, hurry up and call big sister back. Otherwise, our mother will be so angry that she won't know how long she will keep chanting sutras."

Wang Rui nodded and said, "That's right, my eldest sister is dull and stupid. She can't do anything right and often makes my mother angry."

My second sister was rebellious and eccentric, which made my mother very angry. Fortunately, my second sister went to learn tailoring with a master, who provided her with food and accommodation, so she didn't have to stay at home. Otherwise, if my second sister had fanned the flames, my mother might have been so angry that she gave birth prematurely.

My third sister was a tomboy who often made trouble. My mother was so angry that she gave her to a friend of my uncle. The friend couldn't have children, so he could only adopt a child so that someone would take care of him in his old age.

I heard that family gave my mother some money. I don’t know where the money went. Why is our family still so poor?

Fortunately, he and his brother are relatively easy to take care of. They just need to stay quietly in their rooms, read books and listen to the radio.

Now in order to regain such peace, he and his brother had to go and find his elder sister, so the broken street light didn’t matter, they could see clearly with a flashlight.

The two brothers calmed themselves down, walked out of the shadows in the alley, and were about to turn onto the main road.

At this moment, a burly man came quietly behind the two of them, holding a stick in his hand, and suddenly hit Wang Cong on the back of the head.

Wang Cong fainted before he could call for help. Wang Rui, who was standing beside him, screamed in fright, but he only had time to shout before he was knocked unconscious by a figure that appeared from behind the big man.

The figure was short and thin, with two pigtails, and it was obvious that she was a woman.

The night wind blew, and a hint of sweetness came into the air.

A man and a woman worked together to put the two boys in sacks, tied them to the back seat of a bicycle, and took them away.

*

It was late at night and Yao Zhizhi was sleeping when she was suddenly awakened by crying and shouting from the other side of Qi Tiao Hutong.

She pulled the light switch and looked at the time. It was one in the morning. Who was that? What a psychopath.

She sat up, put on her clothes and prepared to go out for a look. Qi Changxiao also woke up, quickly put on his clothes, took his scarf and hat, and wrapped Yao Zhizhi tightly before he was willing to leave.

The couple came to Qi Tiao Hutong and found it crowded with people. After asking, they learned that three children had disappeared from Yu Hongfang's family.

Yu Hongfang was so frightened that she woke up all the nearby residents, who went to every household to ask if they had seen her child.

As for Yao Zhizhi, Yu Hongfang did not dare to disturb her. The reason was very simple. Her son Wang Cong had been punished by Yao Zhizhi, so it was impossible for him to stay at Yao Zhizhi's house overnight without going home.

In addition, she was a little afraid of Yao Zhizhi, so she naturally would not act wildly on Tiger Head.

Seeing Yao Zhizhi approaching, Yu Hongfang's crying became quieter. She held Xiao Jin's hand and wiped away her tears. "I've been looking for her for over three hours. I've asked all the neighbors nearby, but I still can't find her."

Xiao Jin also had a headache. Being woken up in the middle of the night in such a cold day was really painful.

He quickly asked where the child had been and who he had met before he disappeared, then turned to the woolen mill dormitory to ask Wu Xiaojun and Wang Cong what they had said before they left the party by Yu Lake.

Wu Xiaojun was pulled out of bed by his parents in the middle of the night. He was furious and said impatiently, "Nothing was said. They just said that Uncle Cao Guangyuan's child is dying."

Xiao Jin doesn’t understand, what does this have to do with Wang Cong’s disappearance?

He wanted to ask for more specific details, but Wu Xiaojun was so sleepy that he simply fell into his mother's arms and pretended to sleep.

Xiao Jin had no choice but to go out with his colleagues. He had no idea where to find his child in the middle of the night.

Anyway, let’s start from Wang Jia’s master’s house. After all, it was because she didn’t go home that Wang Cong and Wang Rui went out to look for her.

After Xiao Jin left, Yao Zhizhi tugged at Qi Changxiao's sleeve and said, "Let's go home."

Qi Changxiao didn't want to get involved. After all, some people really deserved what they got and couldn't blame anyone else.

The couple returned home, lay down in bed, and fell asleep without worrying about Yu Hongfang's children.

The next morning, the couple was awakened by Yu Hongfang's screams again. After tossing and turning all night, they were basically certain that the three children were not at any relative's home related to the Wang and Yu families, and there was no trace of the children in the surrounding neighbors' homes.

Yu Hongfang didn't sleep the whole night and cried her heart out.

Yao Zhizhi got up, washed, and had breakfast before going to Qi Tiao Hutong with Qi Changxiao. At the edge of the crowd, Xiao Qu was standing with his hands behind his back, silently staring at Yu Hongfang who was crying.

Seeing Yao Zhizhi coming over, Xiao Qu nodded politely and walked over here.

When passing by Yao Zhizhi, Xiao Qu glanced at Qi Changxiao and reminded him, "Everyone has their own destiny. Sometimes, when you are kind enough to help someone, you may end up hurting yourself."

Qi Changxiao smiled politely: "Thank you, I know."

Xiao Qu also smiled and turned to leave.

Behind him, the couple looked at each other and exchanged opinions. It would be better to stand by and watch this matter.

Not everyone can help. For example, Wang Jia must have accumulated deep resentment in her heart due to her parents' long-term abuse and beating. Hatred is the driving force behind Wang Jia's survival. If someone tries to stop her from taking revenge, she will definitely hate that person and take revenge together.

But Wang Cong and Wang Rui are not innocent. They are no longer babies in swaddling clothes, nor are they ignorant children of two or three years old.

They went to school and had their own judgment, but they acquiesced to their sisters' suffering and enjoyed the benefits brought by their sisters' sacrifices. Naturally, they deserved the hatred from their sisters.

There are too many injustices in this world that cannot be punished by law and can only be changed by the parties involved themselves.

This incident caused a stir for several days, and even after Yao Zhizhi's family boarded the train, they still couldn't find the three children.

Soon, Yao Zhizhi started school. The coursework for her junior year was busy and fulfilling, and more than a month passed by unknowingly.

When Yao Zhizhi returned home from school that day, she received a call from Yao Taotao.

Yao Taotao lamented, "Yu Hongfang was devastated. Her baby went into labor prematurely and ultimately died in her womb. She also had to have her uterus removed due to heavy bleeding. Yesterday, when I went to see my niece, I ran into Yu Hongfang. She looked like she had aged twenty years in an instant. Her back was bent, and she walked with a shaky gait, like an old lady."

Yao Zhizhi wasn't surprised at all. She was just curious: "What about Wang Zhigang?"

It can't be that all the blame falls on women, right? Is Yu Hongfang's man any good?

Yao Taotao lamented, "Wang Zhigang drank to drown his sorrows and got into a fight with a coworker in the workshop. He was fired and is now unemployed."

Yao Zhizhi has no sympathy for such people at all. Behind every mother who abuses her daughter, there is a father who condones this chronic torture. He deserves to be fired.

In fact, the situation of the He family is similar, but the difference is that the He family is dominated by the male owner, and He Qiang is the first to beat and scold his daughter. Lu Fen herself is not so bad to the child.

Yu Hongfang, on the other hand, took the initiative to become an accomplice and the executioner who oppressed her daughter. Yao Zhizhi could not feel any sympathy for such a woman.

Yao Zhizhi warned: "Don't bother with them. If they ask you to borrow money, just say you don't have any."

Yao Taotao really didn't plan to borrow money. She was just worried: "I don't know how Wang Jia is doing. I hope nothing has happened to her, right?"

"She's so old now, she shouldn't." Yao Zhizhi was not too worried about Wang Jia's situation. A daughter who dared to run away and rebel would most likely take care of herself, as long as she didn't do anything illegal.

Yao Taotao thought about it and it made sense. Although the three children of the Wang family disappeared on the same day, she intuitively felt that Wang Jia disappeared on her own initiative, and Wang Cong and Wang Rui were the ones who were truly in danger and at a disadvantage.

After all, they are not yet adults. If their disappearance is related to Wang Jia, then...

Forget it, she had no evidence. She didn't call to express her feelings about the Wang family. She had something more important to tell Yao Zhizhi.

"Cao Guangyuan's two daughters haven't been found." Yao Taotao sighed and asked, "Zhizhi, can you help? I really don't want to see anything happen to Cao Guangyuan. The two little girls can remember it. No matter how bad Cao Guangyuan is, he is still their father."

Yao Zhizhi was silent for a long time, and finally agreed: "I'll ask Xiao Qu, he should be able to figure out where the child is. Ask Xiao Qu to come to my house at this time tomorrow to answer the phone."