Chapter 303 The child is missing?

He Zhi felt a little guilty because he had promised Qiangzi and the others not to tell.

Seeing that everyone was in a bad mood, Chen Tang asked, "What happened?"

Ye Qiangzi's mother's eyes were still red. "It was said that a child was lost in a nearby village. My kid is very naughty. A few days ago, he asked me about the nearby village. I was panicked when I couldn't find him."

"A child was lost in a nearby village?"

Shen Tang felt that something was wrong.

Although there were many human traffickers at that time, children often went missing in the village.

But because there is a military area here, human traffickers generally don't come to the nearby villages.

Unless the human trafficker wants to be caught in one fell swoop.

"I don't know what happened. They said a child was lost outside. We thought it was none of our business. But it was already noon and those kids hadn't come back yet. We were so anxious that we looked for them everywhere. Has your Ah Tang seen our child?"

The other two people were equally anxious.

Chen Tang pulled He Zhi over and said, "There may be human traffickers outside the family compound. If you know where Qiangzi and the others went, you can't be so chivalrous and not tell them at this time. Otherwise, you will harm them, okay?"

He Zhi knew how terrifying human traffickers were. When children were disobedient, parents would always use human traffickers to scare them.

He did not dare to hide it: "Qiangzi and his friends went to the mountain near the village to pick mulberries. They went with Shitou and his friends. Shitou said he had a relative nearby who planted a lot of mulberries and invited them to go over and pick some."

"Shitou said he would not treat me to a meal, but Qiangzi and Huzi said they would pick some and bring them back to me, so I did not go."

"What kind of fruit?"

"A few days ago, an aunt picked these black grape-like fruits from a mountain near a nearby village when she was walking back home."

He Zhi scratched his head. He had never eaten it, but he heard it was delicious.

"That should be mulberries." Chen Tang explained. There are very few mulberries on the mountains here, but there are some on the mountains in nearby villages.

People from the family compound often went to the nearby village to buy chickens and ducks, so they knew where the mulberry trees were. When she mentioned it, he guessed the village that Qiangzi and his friends had gone to.

"It should be Qingshan Village."

“Isn’t that the village where the child was lost?”

The three aunts immediately became anxious.

Lin Xiao interrupted, "Then hurry up and find Aunt Liu. There must be an adult leading the way, otherwise they wouldn't let so many children out so easily."

"Yes, yes, let's go find Aunt Liu."

Chen Tang also carried little He Zhi and followed him to the teacher's house.

Aunt Liu was busy cooking lunch. Her eldest daughter, who was in high school, came back, and she planned to kill a chicken to feed the child at noon.

Before the stove was even lit, a bunch of aunties came in to watch the fun.

Aunt Liu listened to the discussion of several parents and did not take it seriously at all: "The lost child is just a rumor. My daughter's classmate lives in Qingshan Village. He said that what was lost in their village was not a child, but a pair of shoes. It's just that others didn't hear their country dialect clearly and mistakenly thought that a child was lost there.

You guys, don’t worry, my eldest daughter took Shitou and the others to Qingshan Village to play, and Shitou is obedient and won’t lose the child.”

Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief.

Da Hu's mother was still worried and complained, "Even if that's the case, your Shitou shouldn't have taken our child away without telling us to take care of him."

Aunt Liu rolled her eyes immediately and said, "Then I'll ask Shitou not to take care of your child next time."

Liu Shengnan is very relieved about her daughter.

This was not the first time her daughter had taken Shitou out to play.

Last time, Shitou brought a few of his good friends with him. When they came back, each of them was holding fresh fruits in their hands, making the children in the staff quarters drool with envy. He looked very proud.

Her daughter brought her a bag of loquats, which she couldn't finish, so she gave some away to her friends. Some even asked her where she bought them.

When I learned that the trees were from a nearby village, I wanted to ask her connections to pick some for me, but out of consideration for her daughter, she didn't tell me the location.

But despite this, she felt happy.

Aunt Liu thought that Shitou was still taking care of the same children as before, so she didn't think much about it. But when she found out that Shitou was taking care of Qiangzi and the others, she felt a little angry.

This kid is so stupid that he didn’t even bring his own people with him!

Even though Goudan cheated him so much, he still took him with him. He just gave away the good things for nothing.

She asked why Shitou was so excited last night, and said that Goudan and the others would not listen to He Zhi tomorrow.

It turns out that he was trying to bribe someone.

"Why hasn't the child come back yet?"

Aunt Liu retorted: "Walking doesn't take time?"

Qingshan Village is closest to the military area, but even for adults it takes half an hour to walk there.

After the three aunts thought about it this way, they finally felt less nervous.

It’s just that Aunt Liu’s eyes were obviously evasive when she spoke, but the other people were so concerned about the child that they didn’t notice.

Chen Tang saw this and suddenly asked, "When did Shi Tou come back when he led people out of the family compound?"

Aunt Liu choked and subconsciously avoided her eyes: "I didn't notice it, I guess it's around this time."

In fact, the child did not walk there.

The reason why she could only take care of three children was because her daughter and her classmates could only take care of four children when riding their bicycles.

Although the roads in the countryside are difficult to travel on, Qingshan Village is relatively close to the military area, so the roads are much flatter than those in other rural areas. Even if you ride a bicycle slowly on weekdays, you can reach their village in just over ten minutes.

The last time Shi Tou and his friends came back, they came back at 11 o'clock.

It's almost twelve o'clock now.

"It's not a big deal to wait like this. It's close anyway, why not ride a bike to take a look?" Chen Tang always felt that he came back a little late.

Goudan's mother said, "Oh, since Aunt Liu has said so, forget it. With Shitou and Yueyue here, everything should be fine."

Goudan's mother doesn't like Chen Tang very much, mainly because she feels that her son is being played around by her son.

I finally got to play with Commander Zhu's son, but ended up offending that son with He Zhi.

She was so anxious that she always told her son to play with stones more at home.

But her husband is a gangster. As soon as she finished teaching the child, her husband said, "Don't listen to your mother, play with whoever you like."

Goudan's mother was angry and anxious, but she could do nothing about her man. After all, he earned all the money in the family, so she could only reluctantly maintain a relationship with Shen Tang.

Qiangzi's mother trusted Shen Tang's words very much, and she was panicking, so she hurriedly said, "If you don't look for me, I will look for her. I'm panicking. Can you please show me the way, Aunt Liu? I'll go look for her. It's noon now, and the child should be back for dinner."

Aunt Liu was also worried, so she said, "That's fine, it's getting late."

Food is very precious in the countryside. Their children would just pick some wild fruits, but they would definitely not stay at those people's homes for meals.

If he hasn't come back yet, maybe he picked too much and can't carry it back.

Aunt Liu comforted herself and pushed her bicycle to the nearby village with everyone.