To be honest, Wang Liang didn't come...it didn't affect the investigation at all.

There is absolutely no working camera within a few kilometers of this village. The local police have already retrieved all the camera information from nearby roads and highways.

In winter here, the temperature can easily drop to minus 10 degrees Celsius at night, and there are wolves in some places. If a person is missing in the wild for a few days, he or she can basically be sentenced to death. Of course, the probability of encountering a wolf is very low, and the biggest threat to humans is still the low temperature.

This is the coldest time of the year.

At present, the task force has three main views on Tian Fang’s whereabouts.

Death, kidnapping, and Tian’s mother’s lies.

The first two are what we are investigating, and the third point is also under investigation.

Until now, Tian's mother has given people the impression that she is hiding something from everyone, but her sadness is not fake.

Bai Song also took people to talk to Tian's mother, but there was still no new clue, and the language was not very fluent. Linyang City was naturally a Han ethnic group gathering area, but Tian's mother was a mixed Mongolian and Han, and she had basically forgotten Mongolian. Her Chinese was basically mixed with dialects, so she could only let Tian Gen serve as an intermediate translator.

Tian's mother was very sad about her daughter's disappearance, but she always had a state of "I don't really want you to find her back." This state was very confusing, and it gave people the feeling that someone was bullying Tian's mother.

But after visiting the village, I didn't find anyone who was so powerful. In the end, it was probably because of the cowardice of these women. In some remote areas, the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls is really too serious.

In many developed areas, there is no idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, and coupled with the high housing prices, many families prefer to have a daughter, but in poor areas, there is still a greater preference for boys over girls.

After Tian Gen went missing, her mother searched frantically for her. When the rescue station in Beijing contacted her, she immediately set off for Beijing, but the situation was completely different now that her daughter was missing.

Therefore, during the meeting, everyone believed that this situation might be caused by many reasons, including Tian's mother's cowardice and the rigidity of traditional ideas.

…

The two police dogs had a hard time holding on in the cold wind. This place was relatively remote, but there were many coking plants and the like in the surrounding areas. However, due to the wind, the air quality was still acceptable.

The wind is quite strong tonight, with sand blowing. I guess there will be no haze tomorrow.

Tian Huan has disappeared for a week.

The local county bureau gave great support, which made Bai Song feel sorry for the situation. He could only tell the county bureau leaders to stop searching at night and let the comrades rest first as it was too cold.

Bai Song looked at the weather and found it was minus 21 degrees Celsius. Once the temperature drops below minus 10 degrees, the thinner clothes will quickly lose body temperature, and the police cannot protect their whole body, so they will get frostbite if they continue searching.

There were still four or five days before the Chinese New Year, and Bai Song felt the pressure. Before coming here, he had thought that maybe he was making a big deal out of nothing, and maybe as soon as the plane landed, he would tell others that the person had been found or the case had been solved, and even Director Li thought so.

But no one expected that Bai Song had been here for a day, and the comrades from the county bureau had been searching everywhere for him but to no avail.

"Captain Bai, we have prepared some fast food here. You are busy so late, how about..." Deputy Director He, who was in charge of receiving Bai Song and others, said. It was already 1:30 in the morning.

"No need to go to so much trouble. We ate a lot at night, so we're not hungry. The four of us can just go and rest. But you have to make arrangements for the two dogs when you come back." Bai Song instructed.

"That's for sure. I'll ask someone to arrange for you to go to the hotel." Director He said he understood.

…

Back at the hotel, Bai Song's phone didn't have a single message. The leaders of the Criminal Investigation Bureau were all asleep, and Xin Qiao never disturbed him when he was busy.

"Let's have a brief meeting and chat, and then take a break." Bai Song said.

"Well," Sun Jie said, "I feel that the atmosphere in this village is not right. After Tian Fang disappeared, many people did not feel any grief for the loss of a rabbit, nor did they feel any feelings of pity or sympathy. Does this make sense?"

"That's normal. Although their family doesn't live well, Tian Fang is one of the few families that are allowed to go up the mountain to collect coal. There are many people in the village who are jealous of them." Bai Song said, "Don't think that the people in the countryside are simple and honest."

"That's true," Liu Shuyuan said, "When I was a criminal policeman in the Tianbei Branch, I went to some poor areas and saw that the villagers were really calculating against each other. At that time, there was running water there, but the amount of water was not very large. They would secretly calculate against their neighbors just because they wanted to know how to route the pipes so that their homes could get water first."

"People's hearts have changed..." Wang Huadong sighed, "So our gains today are really not enough."

"We can only go to the village tomorrow to check in detail," Bai Song said, "We have failed today. But, it is also within my expectations."

"Oh?" Huadong became excited: "What do you mean?"

"When I heard about this case from Tian Gen before I came here, I felt it was not that simple. We need to know that this village is relatively closed, and not everyone can go to the coal mining area. This means that it is actually relatively safe for Tian Fang to go there. She was just picking up coal, and no matter how much she was driven away, those people would not kill her, right? The key issue is that she is already old enough to get married, and everyone in the village knows it. She will not pick up coal soon, so why kill her? And around the village, in places like the village, the possibility of adult female trafficking is very low." Bai Song said: "After all, the village is not a city."

"Yes, that's the case in the village. You mean it's unlikely to be abduction?" Sun Jie said, "If it's a murder case, or some other kidnapping, then who did Tian Fang offend?"

"Her interpersonal relationships are not complicated. She has the man her mother wants her to marry, the stranger she likes, her mother, her younger brother, and the villagers. None of these people has a strong motive to commit a crime." Liu Shuyuan said in confusion.

"So the problem is still with her mother?" Wang Huadong felt that the situation was getting more and more confusing.

"I brought you here because I feel this case doesn't make sense," Bai Song said seriously, "We have handled so many cases, and all cases in the world must conform to logic. There is no love or hatred without reason in this world. Murder cases are the most logical, and the situation in this village does not conform to the state of purposeless killing. Moreover, if there is no purpose for killing, it is impossible to find the body. With so many problems here, wouldn't it be a pity if we don't take a look?"

"Then do you have any more reliable inference in your mind?" Shu Yuan asked with the same seriousness.

"Go to sleep, it's two o'clock, we'll talk about it tomorrow." Bai Song shook his head: "I feel confused too, but a ball of yarn always has ends."