Wang Laishun looked at his superior cautiously. "..."
"Keep a good job!" The town mayor stood up and patted him on the shoulder. "I have high hopes for you!"
After saying that, she glanced at her watch. "Comrade Su Xiaonuan, I won't stay with you any longer. The people from the farm who are here to pick up the fugitives are about to arrive."
"Go ahead and get back to work, we need to head back to the village too," Su Xiaonuan said, shaking hands with them to say goodbye.
The village chief was absorbed in the leader's words. "They think highly of him? Does that mean he has a bright future?" At his age, could he possibly be promoted?
"Village chief, let's go!"
The village chief came to his senses and walked out with Su Xiaonuan. Some of the villagers had already left, while others were still waiting for them in the courtyard.
Su Xiaonuan's eyes caught sight of the children's location, and before she could even walk over, Dou Dou and Guo Guo waved their little hands and called out.
"Mom, I'm here."
He walked over in two quick steps, reached out and hugged the two children, giving them a kiss on the cheek.
"Mommy." DouDou and GuoGuo moved in unison, hugging her tighter and tighter, as if afraid of losing her.
"Sister Xiaonuan, let's go!" Xu Yong held up his reading glasses and shone them in the glaring sunlight.
"Bad guy!" Dou Dou and Guo Guo cursed and hit Xu Yong as he approached.
Dou Dou held onto Xu Yong's hair tightly, and Guo Guo took the opportunity to scratch several bloody marks on Xu Yong's face.
"stop!"
Su Xiaonuan never expected the children to be so vengeful and to go to such lengths to avenge her.
"Mom, he's a bad person, I want to kill him."
"Yes, kill this bad guy."
Xiao Nuan had to pry Dou Dou's hand away so that her hair wasn't grabbed, which allowed Xu Yong to escape.
She jumped several meters away, touching the spot where Dou Dou had scratched her, "Sister Xiao Nuan, it's over, I've become the bad guy in Dou Dou and Guo Guo's eyes."
"You brat, you deserve it!" Aunt Hua slapped him on the head again. "You didn't even tell your own mother, making me so angry. Not to mention Dou Dou and Guo Guo hate you, I, as your mother, wish I could punch you back into the womb. You're making me so angry, I thought you were really being used by those people with ulterior motives."
"Mom, you're too violent!"
"Haha, you deserve it!" DouDou and GuoGuo clapped their hands. "Grandma Hua, beat him up, beat him hard, he's a bad guy."
After clapping, DouDou and GuoGuo threw punches left and right, their adorable antics making everyone laugh.
On the way back to the village, everyone wanted to lighten Su Xiaonuan's burden and offered to help carry the two children, but they refused. Grandma and Aunt wouldn't let them carry them, so why would they let outsiders carry them?
Su Xiaonuan sensed that the children cherished what they had lost and then regained, fearing that if they let go, their mother would be kidnapped by bad people again.
This incident has likely left a shadow in the child's heart.
And she couldn't explain it clearly to the children, and even if she could, the children might not understand.
Aunt Hua was worried that Xiao Nuan was too tired, so she borrowed a basket. "Dou Dou, Guo Guo, come and get in Grandma Hua's basket, okay? Mommy can free her hands so we can play a game of holding hands. It's a lot of fun, do you want to try?"
The two little ones looked at each other, then at Aunt Hua, and realized that Aunt Hua had just helped them beat up the bad guys. They nodded at the same time, opened their arms, and were about to get into Aunt Hua's basket to play games.
"Slow down!" Xiao Nuan put them into the basket one by one. Their bodies were facing backward, and their little hands were still holding onto their mother's hands. However, it was much easier than if she carried them herself.
The village chief and Chen Hao both moved closer to Xiao Nuan, chatting as they walked.
"Little Nuan, you didn't know any martial arts before, so why are you so good at it now?" Chen Hao asked, voicing the question that everyone wanted to ask.
"Well..." Su Xiaonuan pondered for a while before speaking. "Actually, it's nothing. My father is a soldier, and he taught me by example. It's normal for me to know some martial arts. My mother doesn't like girls who use their fists and feet. She says girls should be more refined. So, I listened to my mother and tried to be a quiet girl. But as you all saw, I had no choice but to use my martial arts."
"Oh, I see!"
Hearing Chen Hao and everyone else's expressions of relief, Su Xiaonuan felt that she was incredibly talented as an actress; she could just make up a story and they would believe it.
...
This exciting and thrilling day is finally over.
Tomorrow will be a new beginning.
Early in the morning, the town mayor arrived in a police car.
The villagers thought something big had happened again, and they spread the word.
The village chief was also quite frightened, thinking that something had happened to the village again, and hurriedly came to greet them.
"Leader, what brings you to our village so early in the morning?"
"It's not that something's wrong in your village, it's just that I have a personal matter I'd like to ask Comrade Su for help with." The town mayor waved to the onlookers. "Go about your business, stop watching, there's no excitement to be had."
Since the mayor had said so, they didn't dare to follow anymore, even if they were curious.
"The leader can pass on the message to me; there's no need for him to come in person."
"Don't worry, I won't hesitate to help you if I need it." The mayor patted him on the shoulder. "Comrade Su may be away from home for a few days. You'll need to send someone to take care of her children and family. She has to go to Taiping Town to help solve a long-standing cold case."
"Don't worry, leader, I will do my best to protect Su Xiaonuan's family."
Xiao Nuan had just gotten up and hadn't eaten breakfast when she saw them arrive.
"What are you up to now?" Xiao Nuan asked lazily as she approached.
"Comrade Su, I'm sorry to bother you again." The town mayor nodded and then bowed slightly. "I remember what I told you before, I wanted you to go to Taiping Town to help investigate a cold case from years ago."
"You're so concerned about things in Taiping Town, is it someone you have a personal relationship with?"
"To be honest, this isn't exactly my personal matter. This old case in Taiping Town is more or less related to our town," the town mayor sighed. "Although the missing person is from Taiping Town, her family is from our town. Every year, her family comes and makes all sorts of trouble, saying that their daughter must have had an accident and asking us to get involved in the case. Taiping Town is treating it as a missing person case. This is really a headache."
"You asked me to assist with the investigation, so do you also think it's not a missing person case?"
“The mayor of Taiping Town is a friend of mine. He is also constantly bothered by the various petitions and disturbances from the missing person’s family. It has even reached the higher authorities. Some people have had their promotions ruined because of this. However, they can’t find any evidence to prove that the missing person was murdered. We need to find the person, whether alive or dead.”
“Okay, I’ll go to Taiping Town with you,” Su Xiaonuan said. “However, I need to see my family members who firmly believe in me.”
“It’s best not to see them, otherwise they’ll pester you to death.” The mayor shook his head. “The leaders at all levels in our two towns are afraid of them and can’t even avoid them. If they see us, they’ll make trouble for us. There really isn’t any suspicious point in this case. The woman cheated on me first and then disappeared without a trace. In my opinion, she eloped with someone.”
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