Yang Liu ran all the way without stopping and went straight to Second Aunt's house. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw Yang Shu sitting on the porch with his head drooping dejectedly, and he kept using his little hands to lift the grass debris off his clothes.
"Xiaoshu, you said Yang Bai is missing, what's going on?"
"Second sister." When the boy saw Yang Liu coming, he rushed over as if he had found his backbone, his eyes full of anxiety.
"I went looking for him yesterday, intending to invite him to your house for dinner, but I looked everywhere he usually gathered pig grass, but I didn't see him. Then I asked around, but no one had seen him either."
"Later, when I came back, I ran into Widow Liang. She said she saw Yang Bai leave with his father early in the morning, as if he was going to see his mother. I didn't think much of it and planned to come over today to ask him what he did yesterday. But when I went to his house, I found the door locked. I saw that they didn't come back yesterday."
He and Yang Bai grew up together. There was not much difference in age between them, so they could play together. Normally, they would tell each other whatever was on their mind. If Yang Bai wanted to go somewhere, he would probably tell him.
This time he left for no reason, and he felt something was wrong.
Because of its terrain, Tianjiaba has a lot of trouble with irrigating crops every year. If it is a bad year and there is drought, the crops in the fields will suffer.
In order to completely solve this problem, after the last autumn harvest, when the secretary convened a meeting of villagers, someone suggested that they build a canal themselves, and then open the gates through the upstream village to release water, which would flow down for them to irrigate their crops.
If this thing can be accomplished, it will benefit everyone, so every household is very excited. Those who have strength contribute their strength, and those who have brains contribute their brains. In short, everyone offers suggestions.
However, the implementation of this matter still needs to be reported to the commune leaders, so Secretary Tian Shouyi took the villagers to see the leaders early this morning.
Yang Nan and Yang Zhi went out to pick grass for the pigs, and now Yang Shu was the only one at home.
Yang Liu thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Yang Bai's mother had passed away for several years and had never contacted him before. Why would she suddenly want to see him? Looking at his third uncle's character, he would not be so kind as to send the child to see her, so there must be something fishy here.
When she thought of the affair between her third uncle and Widow Liang, her intuition as a woman told her that Widow Liang was lying and was deliberately misleading them.
After figuring this out, she immediately ordered, "Xiaoshu, go call your father and uncle back, and then ask other people in the village if they have seen Yang Bai and his father. If they haven't seen anyone, tell them to call the police immediately."
When Yang Shu heard that they were going to call the police, she trembled with fear, and her voice began to tremble as she asked, "Second sister, is Yang Bai okay?"
"It's hard to say right now. Go find your father and I'll ask Widow Liang."
Last time, she accidentally caught them having an affair in the back mountain. At that time, she heard her third uncle say that when he finished the business, he would take her to the city to live a good life.
His third uncle is a poor loser with no ability or strength. He only knows how to talk. How can he make money in a legitimate way?
Moreover, he is the kind of person who cares most about face, so if he was telling the truth in front of Widow Liang, then he must have made a fortune through some unconventional means.
But what does it have to do with Yang Bai?
Oh no.
Yang Liu suddenly thought that no matter what era, there seemed to be such unscrupulous people as human traffickers.
If her third uncle had mentioned doing this business before, then it would make sense that he had tricked Yang Bai away.
And a few days ago, when she was picking mushrooms in the mountains, she heard Aunt Dazhu say that she saw her third uncle coming out of the state-owned restaurant.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her guess was probably correct. Yang Liu rushed to Widow Liang's house without saying a word. As soon as she arrived at her door, she saw the woman was about to go out, but when she saw her passing, she immediately retracted her head and closed the door.
Yang Liu knew the situation was urgent and didn't have time to play along. She knocked on the door and asked, "Auntie, please open the door. I have something to ask you."
Widow Liang held the door tightly from behind and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Don't ask, I don't know anything."
"Auntie, I didn't even ask, and you said you knew nothing. Isn't this telling me that you know something?"
Feeling that she had revealed herself as soon as she opened her mouth, Widow Liang was as panicked as an ant on a hot pot. She slapped herself in the face from behind the door, and then said vaguely, "I don't know what you are talking about. I'm going to sleep."
Yang Liu knew that Widow Liang was usually a piece of hard meat, who could not tell good from bad and would not listen to anything. She was probably even more so at this moment.
I'm afraid that if I don't use force today, I probably won't be able to pry her mouth open.
After looking around and finding no suitable tool, Yang Liu went to the back of her house, picked up two pieces of wood, and turned around, ready to break the door open.
Today she is Niu Hulu Liu, and she will fight to the death with anyone who tries to stop her.
Widow Liang put her ear against the door, hunched over, listening to the noise outside. Suddenly, there was a loud noise next to her ear, which made her ears buzz and scared her to death.
Before she could recover, she saw the door panel in front of her fall straight down in front of her. If she hadn't dodged quickly, she would have been crushed inside.
Yang Liu didn't expect that the door of her house was so unstable. She didn't even use all her strength, but it was opened with just one hit. It felt too easy.
I saw the man standing in the middle of the yard, shaking.
Yang Liu ran up to her in just a few steps, grabbed her clothes, and asked fiercely, "Auntie, I advise you to be sensible and tell me everything you know, otherwise..."
She raised the brick in her hand and shook it in front of her, full of threats.
Widow Liang suddenly came to her senses again, stretched her neck out in front of her, and shouted in a shrill voice, "Hurry up, someone's killing someone!"
What a joke! She, an adult, could be controlled by a young brat. Everything that happened just now happened too suddenly. She didn't react in time, so she got the upper hand.
Yang Liu pulled the man in front of her fiercely. A foul smell rushed into her head, making it almost impossible for her to open her eyes. She didn't know how long it had been since this man had washed his hair or taken a bath.
"If you scream again, I'll tell you all about that awful thing you and Yang Minqing did in the back mountains. I have witnesses, and then I'll decide whether to send you to a cell to eat peanuts or to a labor camp to do hard labor. It's your choice."
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