But I didn't believe it, and I kept searching. Finally, I persuaded Mu Lei's sister and she said she could help me secretly find out the news.

Just when I thought I would find them soon, Mu Lei's sister also met with an accident, also said to have been eaten by a wolf."

"Tsk, how can it be such a coincidence that they were all eaten by wolves!" Chen Ruxue knew it was a lie as soon as she heard it.

"Yeah, how could it be such a coincidence? Of course I don't believe it.

Later, because I didn't want to be touched by Mu Lei, he hit me on the head. I became stupid and didn't remember anything.

I was in a daze for so many years, and it wasn't until I met you that I woke up."

"Haha! What a coincidence! Haha!"

The woman looked at Chen Ruxue steadily, then suddenly got off the bed and knelt in front of Chen Ruxue, "I want to ask you to help me find out the truth. I want to know whether Cheng Qian and those three people are dead or alive?

If he is dead, where is he buried? If he is alive, why hasn’t he appeared in all these years?

Chen Ruxue looked at the woman who kept kowtowing and felt her head tingling: No, what is going on? She actually encountered this.

"You said your last name is Xia, so do you have any other relatives in Jing City? Let's not talk about whether I can help you. Even if I can help you, I'm alone and weak, and I can't do anything to those people!"

"My name is Xia Jin. I have a younger sister named Xia Yu, and my father is Xia Mingyuan. I don't know if they are in Beijing right now, and there's no way to contact them. I'm sorry to have caused you trouble!"

"Xia Yu? Why does this name sound so familiar?"

"Wife, Uncle Lin!"

"Oh!!! Yes, yes, it's her." Chen Ruxue looked at Xia Jin. "I do know someone named Xia Yu, but I only know her name. But... Brother Nan, do they look alike?"

Ye Haonan carefully looked at Xia Jin across from him, and after a long while, he spoke, "The face shape is similar, the eyes are similar, the eyebrows are similar, and the height is about the same. However, the mouth and nose are not very similar, so it's hard to tell them apart."

"Whatever. Four people disappeared at once. This is no small matter. How about we take some time tomorrow to go to the county town and call them back? Writing letters or sending telegrams is too slow."

"Okay, let's do it!"

"By the way, that bastard Mu Lei will be locked up for seven days, so you should take this time to get some rest. However, we still have to go up the mountain tomorrow, so you'd better pretend to be the same as before and don't let anyone see your flaws."

"I understand, thank you!"

Chen Ruxue and Ye Haonan left A Meng's house and went straight back to where they lived.

A dreamless night!

At dawn, Chen Ruxue was awakened by shouting coming from outside the door. After listening carefully, she found that breakfast had arrived.

As usual, Ye Haonan got up and went out to get breakfast, and Chen Ruxue lay on the bed and continued to stay in bed.

Only after she had stayed up long enough did Chen Ruxue get up to eat.

After breakfast, Ye Haonan left Hulu Village alone and went straight to the county town because only there was a telephone.

Chen Ruxue was not idle either, so she went to A Meng's house for a stroll.

As soon as I got there, I saw the little girl A Meng playing a game of chasing each other with Xia Jin.

This was what A Meng and Xia Jin often did when she was stupid.

Seeing Chen Ruxue coming, Xia Jin ran straight into the house.

"Are you going into the mountains now?"

"Don't go now, wait until my husband comes back from the county town.

I'd like to hear more about what happened back then, and see if I can find any clues!"

Xia Jin sat on the bed, slowly recalling, "The night before Cheng Qian disappeared, Mu Lei and two people from the village insisted on taking him out for a drink.

We drank until late at night before Cheng Qian came back. I stayed awake that night, and only went to sleep after I heard some noise and saw him enter the room with the educated youth through the crack in the door.

But early the next morning, the male educated youth who lived in the same room with Cheng Qian found me and said that Cheng Qian had not returned all night.

But how is this possible? I clearly saw Cheng Qian go back to the house, how could he just disappear? "

"I saw it with my own eyes, really."

Xia Jin told Chen Ruxue over and over again.

Seeing that she was not in good condition, Chen Ruxue quickly interrupted her, "I believe you!

But... there are other possibilities.

Maybe he went back to the house first and then left again, or maybe the person you saw was not Cheng Qian at all."

"It's not Cheng Qian, it's not Cheng Qian..." Xia Jin muttered, and suddenly grabbed Chen Ruxue's hand, "Yes, you are right, that night, I didn't see his face clearly, I only saw his back.

It was Mu Lei, it had to be him. He had confessed his feelings to me several times before, wanting to be my friend, but I ignored him.

Later, he always appeared in front of Cheng Qian intentionally or unintentionally, and became brothers with him.

After Cheng Qian's accident, Mu Lei began to show me great concern. Later, when he found out I was pregnant, he offered to marry me, hiding A Meng's background from me.

The more Xia Jin talked, the more she felt that this was the case!

Chen Ruxue felt a little strange. "Didn't you say before that Cheng Qian's disappearance was planned by Mu Lei? Why are you so excited now?"

"No, I was just guessing before because after getting drunk, Mu Lei kept cursing Cheng Qian and saying that Cheng Qian was from the city, so what? In the end, he still won, so I said that."

"Maybe what you think is true. Mu Lei is indeed suspicious." Chen Ruxue said to Xia Jin in a carefully considered tone.

"By the way, where are the other two people now?"

"One married into another place, and the other drowned one winter!"

Afraid that Chen Ruxue would overthink it, Xia Jin quickly added, "He really is dead. I saw it with my own eyes. He was swollen."

"That's not easy to deal with! Maybe the people who knew about this matter are no longer around, so there's no way to investigate!" Chen Ruxue pinched her eyebrows.

The disappearance of Cheng Qian is not a simple matter at first glance, and it involves several lives. It seems that the people of Hulu Village are not as simple as they seem on the surface!

She and Ye Haonan had to be very careful in the village.

In the bamboo building, Mu Lei knelt on the ground, counting his fingers out of boredom.

"Mu Lei, why won't you listen to advice? Do you have to cause another death before you're done?

Uncle Abu... Dad, please stop scolding me. I just hated that woman for not giving birth to my child, and I lost control of my anger. I will never do that again.

Village chief Abu looked at his useless son and really regretted giving birth to him. It would have been better to just beat him up instead of causing trouble for him every day.

"So many people have been killed because of the mess you caused. You'd better behave yourself from now on. Otherwise, don't blame me, your father, for being ruthless."