Chen Ermei did the same thing as usual today: she bought groceries and cooked in the morning, and after lunch she prepared to take a nap.
Although Scarface hadn't contacted her these past few days, causing her to lose some of her savings, she'd still been living quite comfortably.
The only complaint was that Xu Jingui was going out almost every day.
Today was no different. As soon as he finished eating, before he had even put his chopsticks down properly, Xu Jingui went out.
Chen Ermei has gained weight and is becoming increasingly intolerant of heat, so lately she has been taking her afternoon naps in the yard with her two children, Da Bao and Xiao Bao, using a straw mat.
I had just fallen asleep when I heard someone banging on the door.
Bang! Bang bang! Bang!
"Deputy Director Xu! Something's happened! Open the door quickly!"
Chen Ermei wasn't woken up by the knocking, but by Xiaobao's crying.
When she woke up, Da Bao was comforting Xiao Bao. The person outside kept knocking on the door, so Chen Er Mei ignored Xiao Bao and went to open the door.
Seeing the door open, the person outside asked anxiously, "Where is Deputy Director Xu?"
"Ah, they're still sleeping in their rooms."
Chen Ermei wanted to tell him to wait a moment, but soon Xu Weimin and the others came out.
That's true, after all, with such a loud knocking, it's hard not to wake up.
"Deputy Director Xu! Something terrible has happened!"
The man ran up to Xu Weimin and quickly told him what had happened.
After hearing this, Xu Weimin's face turned as black as ink, and he said through gritted teeth, "Xu Weiguo! You bastard! I will not let him get away with this!"
Without bothering to explain to the rest of the Xu family, he rushed out with that person.
Chen Ermei stood there, completely bewildered, not understanding what had happened.
Lin Chunyan had been standing right next to Xu Weimin, and she had heard everything that had happened. Now, Lin Chunyan was deathly pale and swaying precariously.
When Da Bao and Xiao Bao saw that Lin Chunyan looked so bad, they ran over and each hugged one of her legs.
"Grandma, what's wrong?"
Grandpa Xu and Grandma Xu were a little slow, and when they came out, they only saw Xu Weimin rushing out in a hurry.
"Jingui's mother, what happened? Why does Weimin seem so flustered?"
Seeing them come out, Lin Chunyan immediately had an idea and said anxiously, "Dad, Mom! Come with me to my older brother's house!"
"Big Brother has arrested Jin Gui!"
"What?! That unfilial son!"
Grandma Xu said viciously, "If I had known he would be this vicious, I should have strangled him when he was born!"
"So that he won't come and cause us trouble now!"
Grandpa Xu said impatiently, "Alright, let's go see what's going on first. The most important thing is to rescue Jin Gui!"
Lin Chunyan originally didn't want to bring Da Bao and Xiao Bao along, but they kept clinging to her legs, so she decided to bring them along.
"My precious wife, take the baby and come with us."
"Huh? Oh, okay, I understand!"
......
Fang Hui and Xu Weiguo squatted in the yard, completely baffled.
They have searched the house inside and out several times, but they have not found Wang Xiufen's body.
Xu Weiguo even began to doubt whether Fang Hui had misremembered: "Are you sure you saw Xu Jingui pull people this way?"
"Are you out of your mind, or are you seeing things?"
"How could that be! I didn't drink any alcohol that day, how could I have been mistaken!"
Exhausted, Xu Weiguo plopped down on the ground and rubbed his hair: "How could we not find it? We've searched so many times, even the cellar."
"Could it be that she can somehow burrow underground?"
Upon hearing Xu Weiguo's words, Fang Hui excitedly asked, "What did you just say?!"
Xu Weiguo was a little confused: "Huh?"
"What was your last sentence?"
Xu Weiguo replied blankly, "Could it be that she can burrow underground by herself?"
Fang Hui slapped his thigh excitedly: "That's it! It's about going underground!"
They were so focused on searching inside the room that they completely overlooked the underground. Perhaps Xu Weimin and his men really did bury the person underground.
Fang Hui sent someone back to get the tools, while he and Xu Weiguo waited for them to return.
Xu Weiguo said smugly, "Looks like we still have to rely on me."
"You just got lucky. If I hadn't reminded you, would you have thought of it?"
"Moreover, it's not certain whether it's really underground. We'll only know after we dig it up."
Fang Hui's concern now wasn't about not finding Wang Xiufen's body, but rather: "You tell me, the body's been sitting for two years, how can you still tell who it was?"
"Hiss, it's really hard to say. It's been two years. If they find it, it'll probably just be bones."
Based on Xu Weiguo's many years of experience, after two years, basically only bones remain, which would be quite troublesome.
But let's find the body first. No matter how troublesome it is, we can always find a way.
Once the tools were in place, a group of people started digging in the yard.
Xu Weiguo joked, "It's been almost twenty years since I've worked in the fields. I never thought I'd have the chance to 'go down to the fields' again."
Who can argue with that? Fang Hui had never even done farm work since he was a child.
"This can't be compared to farming. All we need to do now is dig down. Farming requires skill."
They dug and chatted, and before they knew it, most of the yard had been dug up, but they still hadn't found a body.
Xu Weiguo patted his aching lower back and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "I can't deny I'm getting old. Even just a short while has made me feel terrible."
"Old Fang, do you think we're going to be so unlucky as to have to dig to the very last spot before we find it?"
"Don't jinx it, there's still a little over half of the area that hasn't been dug yet."
If they really only find it at the very end of the digging, then that's truly something else...
Suddenly, Xu Weiguo smelled a pungent yet familiar odor.
"Deputy Director Xu, we've made a discovery!"
Fang Hui and Xu Weiguo went closer and found that they had dug out a large iron barrel.
That pungent smell was coming from here. The metal drum was huge, big enough to fit an adult.
It took a group of people all their strength to lift the iron barrel out.
Fang Hui asked, puzzled, "How can it be so heavy? Shouldn't it be quite light?"
Even if the iron bucket itself has weight, it shouldn't be this heavy.
Xu Weiguo said with a solemn expression, "Besides the corpse, there are probably other things inside."
"And we shouldn't have to worry about not being able to recognize whether this is Wang Xiufen or not."
"Huh? Why do you say that?"
"Because it likely contains a large amount of formalin."
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