"Who called her?" asked the public security comrade.
"I didn't go out, and I didn't see anyone. I just know it was a man with an unpleasant voice, and his throat was hoarse as if it had been burned. They whispered a few words at the door, and I didn't hear a single word. Then Li Hongxia went back to the room to get some things, took Fang Xue, and followed them out. They left in a hurry."
As Yun Huaying spoke, she glanced at Fang Ziqiang imperceptibly. She saw that his expression changed slightly when he heard the exact characteristics she mentioned. He lowered his eyes, hiding the strange light that flashed in the depths of his eyes.
The public security officer glanced at Fang Ziqiang and saw that his brows were furrowed. He asked again, "Anything else?"
"Less than a minute after they left, Fang Xue's classmate Li Fang came looking for her. She said Deputy Director Fang had handed out his salaries yesterday and invited them to the state-owned restaurant for meat buns. I told them they were leaving, thinking they'd just left and Li Fang would be able to catch up. I made myself some food at home and went out to run some errands that afternoon. I didn't see them again until that evening, and I haven't seen them today either. If Deputy Director Fang and his team hadn't come looking for them, I would have thought they'd gone to Fang's house and wouldn't have known they were missing."
"Deputy Director Fang, Yun Huaying provided an important clue. Do you know the man she was talking about?" the public security comrade asked him.
Fang Ziqiang was about to nod when a young man suddenly rushed into the restaurant, "Huaying, you're here, I have something to tell you."
Yun Huaying turned her head and saw that it was Lin Shan's second brother, Lin Yuan. She stood up and said, "Second Brother Lin, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Lin Yuan strode over and saw Fang Ziqiang and the police there, so he asked hurriedly, "What happened here?"
"Deputy Director Fang's wife and stepdaughter are missing. They suspect I'm involved, and the police are looking for me to investigate."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan frowned and looked at Fang Ziqiang with a strange look in his eyes. "Deputy Director Fang, your woman, Li Hongxia, is in another man's bed. She was just caught red-handed by his wife and his parents-in-law. Now she's been stripped naked and tied to a telephone pole outside the brewery's residential area."
"What!"
The Fang family members all changed their expressions.
The most obvious one was Fang Ziqiang. His face, which was originally gloomy, turned green at this moment.
"And your daughter, I don't know if it's Fang Xue or Fang Shuang. When her mother was fooling around with some strange man, she was guarding the door for her mother. Now they're tied to a telephone pole and being hit with rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves."
Lin Yuangang witnessed the farce with his own eyes. After confirming Li Hongxia's identity, he immediately rode his bicycle to find Yun Huaying. When he thought of the scene of the mother and daughter being stripped naked and tied to a telephone pole, he, an unmarried gay man, blushed with shame.
"No, no, my mom wouldn't do that. You're talking nonsense." Fang Shuang was so scared that her face turned pale.
"If you think I'm talking nonsense, go and see for yourself. Right now, the area outside the brewery's family quarters is crowded with people. Just now, leaders from the street office, the Women's Federation, and the brewery have all gone over." Lin Yuan looked at them with disdain.
Fang Ziqiang's well-maintained and handsome face was now as green as a prairie. He was very angry and his feet felt like they were filled with lead and he couldn't move an step.
Seeing that his face was twisted with anger, but his legs were not moving, the public security comrade had a complicated expression: "Deputy Director Fang, it seems that your wife and stepdaughter are not missing. It has nothing to do with Yun Huaying. You should hurry to the brewery family quarters to deal with this matter."
"Brother, let's go."
Fang Zilin had no idea that his sister-in-law was having an affair. At that moment, he felt completely ashamed. He immediately pulled him away and said to the other younger generations, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and leave."
Seeing them about to leave, Yun Huaying sneered and raised her voice, "Deputy Director Fang, don't eat vegetarian food tonight. Although the tortoise is a little green, it is still a meat dish after all. Enjoy it. I wish you a pleasant meal tonight."
"Bang!"
Her cold and sarcastic voice fell into his eardrums, and Fang Ziqiang's brain froze. He staggered and fell to the ground.
Fang Zilin quickly pulled him up and glared at Yun Huaying angrily: "You should be more polite with your words."
"Your Fang family ancestors didn't do good deeds, so what's the point of relying on me to do good deeds?"
Yun Huaying was always good at talking, and she even said to him harshly, "Fang Zilin, you should be happy. The eldest sister-in-law your family has is ugly as a pig, but she's very capable, and she's found you a big brother. From now on, not only will your eldest brother protect you, but you'll also have your second eldest brother. If you look carefully, you'll probably have a third and fourth eldest brother as well. Your relatives are growing so fast, you can follow them and live a luxurious life. Your Fang family will be able to gain a firm foothold in the city, and you don't have to worry about being driven back to your hometown one day."
Fang Zilin felt a lump in his chest and was so angry that he wanted to faint on the spot.
They were so angry that they were about to vomit blood. They didn't care about arguing with her at this time and rushed towards the brewery's family quarters.
Seeing that the matter was clear, the public security comrade looked at Yun Huaying deeply, but said nothing. He said to Han Zheng and Song Nanfeng, "The matter has been investigated and clarified. We will leave now without disturbing you two from eating."
"Goodbye." Song Nanfeng nodded at him.
They all left, but Lin Yuan stayed. He had seen them yesterday, but he didn't know who they were. He just nodded as a greeting and asked Yun Huaying, "Huaying, do you want to go and watch the fun?"
Yun Huaying didn't say whether to go or not. She smiled and asked, "How did you happen to encounter this?"
"I have a classmate who works at a brewery. His parents are leaders there. I went to visit him and happened to ask about the brewery's job openings."
Lin Yuan doesn't have a job yet. He feels bad thinking about his sister going to the countryside for him. He wants to get a job as soon as possible and earn more money so that he can make up for her in the future.
Yun Huaying didn't ask much about his affairs. Thinking about where she and Lin Shan were going, she asked Han Zheng, "What's the environment like in Yang County?"
"The environment is similar to yours, a hilly area surrounded by mountains. There's a river running through the front of the commune you're visiting. The soil is fertile, and there's a wide variety of crops grown. The people are quite simple and honest."
"The Red Star Commune you're going to is not far from Yang County. The nearest brigade is only five or six miles away. The commune cadres are all quite capable and have good character. Every brigade has educated youth stationed there. My grandfather's village has five or six of them, all older than you. I haven't been there for two years, but there should be more educated youth there in the past two years, probably quite a few."
Han Zheng usually wouldn't explain things in such detail, but he treated her specially and wanted to leave a good impression on her.
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