Aunt Cao yelled, "Hey! Why are you running away, young man? We just want to ask you a few questions."

When the ex-boyfriend heard this, he ran as fast as he could, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this. “What’s going on? They ran away when they saw us?”

Aunt Cao clapped her hands and said, "Do I need to ask? He must be feeling guilty about kidnapping Lingling. Why are you guys still standing there? Hurry up and chase him."

"Shall we go after them?" The young men looked at each other with confusion in their eyes.

They were all city kids, and because they were born late, they didn't get to go to the countryside to work and study, and they had hardly spent any time in the countryside in their lives. They saw the young man disappear in the blink of an eye, so they had no idea of ​​chasing him.

A few guys wanted to chase after her, but they didn't know where to go, so they just stood there stupidly.

Aunt Cao glared at him, feeling very disappointed. "If you don't chase him, do you want me, an old lady, to chase him? Or do you want Xiao Xu to chase him? Hurry up. If you are late, he will run into the mountains and the daylilies will get cold."

The young men thought so too, and walked forward with their heads held high, looking around: "Where is the person? How come he died before he could even talk?"

As they were talking, Yan Li came out from the back of the house with someone in his hand. Everyone took a closer look and found that it was the boy who had just escaped.

The young man's hands were handcuffed behind his back, and Yan Li pushed him forward. The young man kept groaning all the way, and it was obvious that he was pretending. His eyes were rolling around, and no one knew what bad idea he was thinking of.

When they arrived at the door of the house, Yan Li asked in a deep voice, "Why are you running?"

"Why should I ask you guys what you guys are doing? Can't I just run away to my own house?" The ex-boyfriend turned the tables and said, "You guys rushed into my house, isn't it okay for me to be scared?"

He shouted at the top of his voice: "Let me go quickly, what do you guys want to do? Break into the house and rob?"

"What robbery? We are all good people. We just want to ask a few questions." Aunt Cao said quickly.

The ex-boyfriend immediately yelled, "Why don't you ask nice questions? You just came over and grabbed my hands."

"If you don't run, can we arrest you?"

The ex-boyfriend immediately said, "Then let me go."

Aunt Cao: "What if you run away again after I let you go?"

"I promise not to run away."

Yan Li let go of his hand, and his ex-boyfriend, who had just said he would not run away, suddenly jumped up and ran towards the back mountain. He had thought it through. He was familiar with the terrain, so he would just run into the back mountain and hide there for a day or two, and then come out after the group of people left.

The ex-boyfriend was thinking as he ran. He decided to hide somewhere else for two days after coming out of the mountain. However, he was surrounded by this group of people before he took a few steps.

"What do you want to do?"

The young men in the alley reacted and stood in front of the ex-boyfriend. "We don't want to do anything. We just want to ask a few questions. You tell us everything you know and we'll leave. I said, why are you running? The guy who just chased you is a police officer. You've seen his skills. Do you think you can get away?"

The ex-boyfriend looked back and was immediately in despair. He thought he had escaped just now, but this person suddenly appeared from behind him. Before he could react, his hands were grabbed and twisted behind his back. It still hurts now.

He admitted his mistake, walked back with his head down, glanced at Mrs. Xu, and said weakly, "Tell me, what do you want to ask?"

Mrs. Xu was going crazy. "Where is my daughter? Where is Lingling? Did you take her away? Give my daughter back to me!"

Ding Ling is only in her teens this year. She has been missing for almost a day and a night, and there is no news about her. Mrs. Xu was able to stay rational and look for her at first, but now she is completely unable to do so.

Her hands and feet are now as weak as noodles, her mind is as confused as eight-treasure porridge, and she speaks incoherently.

The ex-boyfriend pretended to be stupid: "Auntie, what are you talking about? I don't understand a word. What did I bring? If you have something to say, just say it. If you don't, I'm going home. Are you crazy?" Then he turned around and left.

Lin Minjun happened to be standing next to him. She grabbed the young man's sleeve and asked him directly, "There is a little girl named Ding Ling in our alley. You used to be in a relationship with her, but now she is gone. I want to ask you, did you take her away?"

"Who are you, sister? What do you mean by taking her away or not? I don't know Ding Ling. Stop talking nonsense to me here." The young man said, reaching out to touch his nose, with a panicked expression on his face.

He reiterated and emphasized, "I don't know Ding Ling, and I've never dated anyone. Stop throwing dirty water on me."

"You're talking nonsense!" Mrs. Xu leaned on Aunt Cao and trembled for a long time. "Lingling brought me to your house before and said you were her boyfriend!"

"Evidence, you said Ding Ling said I was her boyfriend, call her over to prove it." The ex-boyfriend spread his hands and said.

Everyone immediately felt that this person was impossible to communicate with.

Aunt Cao couldn't help but say, "We came to look for you because Lingling is missing. Now where can we find someone?"

"Then how do you prove that I took her away?" the ex-boyfriend asked again.

"Some kids in our alley saw it."

Ex-boyfriend: "Where is the kid?"

"The child is sleeping at home."

The ex-boyfriend started to fight and cursed: "You guys are crazy, you rushed to my house for no reason and put accusations on me. And can you take a child's words seriously? I even said that you deliberately let the child lie and came to cause trouble for me!"

He sneered: "If you want to prove that I talked to her, just call her over and we can confront her face to face."

"You are trying to change the subject. We are here to find her," someone said unconvinced.

"I can't do anything about it. If you can't prove it, just let go of my hands!" The man shook his hands vigorously.

The ex-boyfriend was struggling when suddenly the kitchen door opened and a middle-aged woman came out coughing. "What's going on? Let my son go first and we can talk it out."

Lin Minjun let her ex-boyfriend go. "Aunt, there is a little girl in our yard who used to date your son. Now she is missing. We just want to ask if she has come to your house."

Aunt Qian coughed again and smiled softly: "Why haven't I heard that my son has a girlfriend? But you can see it if you want. If I show it to you, it should be able to prove my son's innocence. We are an orphan and a widow, so we can only do whatever you want."

After she said this, several young men in the alley lowered their heads and felt a little ashamed. They felt as if they were bullying an orphan and a widow.

Lin Minjun felt that this was not right. "Aunt, we came here just to ask a question. Your son ran away when he saw us, so we pulled him aside to talk. What else can we do besides asking a few questions? You said it as if we were going to rob you."

Aunt Qian didn't respond. She smiled softly and walked to the big house and opened the door. "You can go in and see if there is the person you are looking for."

There are two houses in total, a big room and a kitchen. You can see inside by opening the door.

This house was completely bare, without even a cabinet. Everything could be seen at a glance. Everyone looked every inch carefully, but no one found it.

A young man whispered, "I even lay down under the bed to look, and Lingling was not there."

Now everyone is puzzled. If you weren't there, why did you feel so guilty when we came over just now? You could have just said you were not there and that would have been it. There wouldn't have been all these things later.

The young men were also polite. Since they had looked for her and didn't see her, they let go of her hand and said, "Sorry for offending you just now. We didn't want to do anything to you, we just wanted to find someone."

The ex-boyfriend looked particularly flustered just now, but now he suddenly stood up, "Just saying sorry is all? My arm was almost broken just now, is that all?"

"What's going on, Jianjun? Why are there so many people at your house? Are they visiting relatives?" A neighbor passed by with a hoe on his shoulder and saw a group of people gathered at the door of Qian Jianjun's house. Of course, he was curious and asked a question. After saying that, he sighed: "I can't tell that you have so many rich relatives. You must be from the city. Why are there so many bicycles?"

Qian Jianjun grabbed the people and started yelling, "These people are not my relatives. They are a group of bandits. I don't even know them. They came up and splashed dirty water on me. Look, my arm was almost twisted off by them."

"What? Are they really bandits? Should I go call the village chief?" The old man was shocked.

Aunt Qian smiled bitterly at the right moment, waved her hand and said, "My son was joking. These people are all from the city. They said my son was dating a girl from their alley, and they insisted on coming to my house to look for him. What can we do as an orphan and a widow? We can only let them look for him. Now that they haven't found him, we can only suffer a loss."

Lin Minjun watched from the side and gradually figured out what was going on.

This mother and son are really interesting. One plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. They can say anything. No wonder Lingling is so fooled by them.

When the neighbor heard what Aunt Qian said, he looked the group up and down and his face turned unhappy.

The sky gradually turned pale, and the villagers all went to work in the fields. When they passed by, they would pass by the Qian family's door. Seeing that there were so many people, everyone liked to stop and watch the excitement.

Whenever someone stopped, Aunt Qian would smile bitterly and talk about the injustice her family had suffered early in the morning, and everyone would look at the people at the door of the Qian family with contempt.

Aunt Cao was busy comforting Mrs. Xu who was about to faint, and the rest of the young men stood there awkwardly, accepting the stares from the Qian family's neighbors.

In less than ten minutes, a group of people had gathered at the door of the Qian family's house, all of them looking like they wanted to stand up for the Qian family.

"Don't worry, Aunt Qian. We are here and will not let you and your son suffer any injustice."

"That's right. You just come up and splash dirty water on people. Even if you are a city dweller, you can't do that."

A group of young men in the alley were thin-skinned and stood there with red faces, not knowing for a moment whether to leave or continue to stand there and be scolded.

They themselves don't know what bad thing they have done, they just came to ask a few questions!

There was a commotion at the gate of the Qian's house. Lin Minjun took advantage of the chaos to walk out of the crowd and walked around the gate of the Qian's house. She always felt that her ex-boyfriend's attitude was not right, so she thought of taking a closer look to see if she could find any clues.

Let’s go to the big house first and look inside from the window. This house is really poor. There is layer upon layer of newspapers pasted on the walls, and they are still falling off.

I walked around the kitchen door again, because their kitchen was really small and no one had looked carefully just now. After all, you can't hide in this place. If you want to hide, you can only hide in the stove.

Lin Minjun stood outside the kitchen. She didn't feel anything wrong at first because there was no one in the kitchen. But after a closer look, she felt something was wrong. The pot was empty but was still burning, but there was a fire in the stove?

This situation is quite strange, because dry cooking will ruin the pot, and pots are expensive and hard to buy nowadays. If the Qian family is so poor, why would they waste things like this?

When Lin Minjun went in, she saw that what was burning in the stove was not firewood or platycodon, but several books. They were almost burned out, with only one book left, which was also half burnt.

She immediately took out the flint, put out the fire, looked through it carefully, and suddenly laughed out loud.

At this time, my ex-boyfriend was still complaining to his neighbors at the door, spitting non-stop, saying that these people were bandits who bullied people, "They were even more cruel than bandits, they came up to beat me up, if I hadn't run fast, I would have been beaten up!"

The neighbors picked up their hoes and said, "Our village is not a place for them to run wild. If you want to fight, let's see who can win!"

The ex-boyfriend smiled and was about to continue talking when he suddenly felt someone pulling his arm, causing him to turn around.

He was about to lose his temper when he saw the girl in front of him suddenly smile, her lips red and her teeth white. "Comrade Qian Jianjun, right? Now I have to confirm something. If you answer, I will apologize to you. We will all apologize to you. I have to make amends for your crime. Now answer me, okay?"

Qian Jianjun had never seen such a scene before, and his mind was a little confused. "What do you want to ask?"

The girl with red lips and white teeth smiled and asked, "Are you sure you don't know Ding Ling? And you've never met her?"

The ex-boyfriend nodded: "Of course, I have never heard of this person."

Lin Minjun: "Are you sure? Where's your mother?"

The ex-boyfriend swore: "I have never seen her, I don't know her. Didn't you all look for Li Jia just now? No! Mom, what do you think?"

Aunt Qian suddenly had a bad feeling, but her son had already made his promise, so she certainly couldn't interrupt.

She immediately smiled softly: "I don't know him either, I've never seen him before."

Ex-boyfriend: "Are you satisfied now? Apologize. You can't leave without an apology today! And you have to pay money. You scared my mother. She can't cook. You are responsible for our meals." This is really pushing the envelope.

As soon as the words fell, the girl who was smiling sweetly just now suddenly changed her expression and raised her hand to throw something at him: "Responsible! Of course we are responsible. Not only are we responsible for your family's food, I will also have to send you to jail. Look for yourself whose name is written here!"

The ex-boyfriend picked up the book and took a look. The words "Ding Ling" were clearly written on the cover.

He suddenly broke out in sweat, "This..."

Lin Minjun then asked, "You just said you didn't know Ding Ling, so how come her textbooks are in your house?"

"I just remembered it wrongly. I knew Ding Ling and we were in a relationship, but we broke up a long time ago, several months ago." The ex-boyfriend spread his hands and said, "This textbook was left at my house when I was in love with her. This is normal, right? You can't convict me for this."

"Have you ever been to school?"

Ex-boyfriend: "What? What do you mean?"

Lin Minjun smiled and said sincerely, "You are such an idiot. If you look carefully, you will find that there is a "Volume 1" written on this textbook, which means it is the textbook for the last semester. When you were dating, Lingling was studying the textbook for the second semester of the previous grade. In other words, she only got this textbook recently. How dare you say that you have never seen her?"

She pressed on, "If you don't tell the truth, we will hand this textbook over to the police. You are trafficking people, but you still refuse to admit it."

Staring at the girl's sharp and determined eyes, the ex-boyfriend finally faltered, "I admit that I met Ding Ling, and she did go with me."

Lin Minjun turned around, raised the textbook in her hand, and said to everyone, "You all heard it just now. He admitted that he took the girl from our alley away. We went to their house to look for him, but the mother and son refused to admit it and turned the tables. Tell me, with such a person in the village, can you still live a peaceful life?"

At this time, the looks everyone had when they looked at the Qian family mother and son became very complicated, and they all felt that they couldn't see through them.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. The villagers who had just helped to curse at the man now changed their expressions. "Bah! I thought your family was a good one, but why did you kidnap a girl? Where is she? Why don't you call her out?"

"That's right. Even his family came to look for him, but he still refused to admit it."

The ex-boyfriend didn't know what to say, but Aunt Qian was smart and her expression suddenly became particularly amiable.

She stopped coughing at this time, and quickly walked to Mrs. Xu's side, put one hand on Mrs. Xu's arm, and said with a smile: "Actually, we didn't lie before, it's just that the two children were a little awkward, and we said it in anger. Don't you agree, relative?"

The speed at which she changed her expression was astonishing, and she was still trying to get close to Mrs. Xu: "Lingling has already agreed to marry my Jianjun. We are all family from now on. Why can't we talk it out? What about kidnapping or not? How rude it is. We are in-laws from now on. We don't need outsiders to interfere in family matters."

Seeing that Mrs. Xu didn't say anything, she said, "Let's go in first. I'll make you some tea and some fruit. Let's sit down and have a good chat."

She pulled Mrs. Xu into the house, not noticing that beneath Mrs. Xu's calm face, veins were throbbing wildly.

Just when I was about to enter the house, something unexpected happened in that instant!

No one reacted. All they heard was Mrs. Xu screaming, then she jumped up and slapped Aunt Qian in the face in a rage.

She grabbed Aunt Qian's hair and pushed her to the ground, then sat on her and slapped her in the face with her angry big slaps.

While beating him, he cursed: "My daughter is so young and she's getting married. How can you say such a thing? When you were clamoring for marriage, I came here to give you face. I also told you that the two children were not suitable. What did you say to me at that time? You said okay, okay, it's not suitable, I won't force it. But in the blink of an eye, you kidnapped my daughter. Do you have the face to do that?"

Mrs. Xu was no longer the soft-footed shrimp she had just been. She was furious and violent like a bull. She was slapping him and talking madly: "I didn't explain it clearly at the beginning. You better listen to me now. Your son is a loser, stupid as hell, and a jobless vagrant. He is not worthy of my daughter at all. How dare you say that? Where is my daughter? Where is my daughter? If anything happens to my Lingling, I want you two to pay with your lives. Do you understand? Hand over my daughter now!"

Aunt Qian's face was swelling up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there was a particularly clear slap mark on the left side of her face. Aunt Xu didn't like it, so she slapped her again, holding her down tightly to prevent her from getting up.

She sobbed and didn't even say a word to ask for help. Everyone else was dumbfounded.

Everyone: “This…”

Mrs. Xu usually doesn't talk much in the alley and is a very steady person.

Who knew he had such a violent side? Everyone hesitated and didn't dare to step forward, fearing that they would also be beaten up.

In the end, it was still a mother and son situation. The ex-boyfriend was the first to react and rushed to save his mother: "Let my mother go first and stop hitting her!"

"Get out! You idiot! If you don't hand over my daughter today, I will die with you!" Mrs. Xu slapped him away and turned her fire to her ex-boyfriend.

Whenever she thought about what she had just heard, about in-laws and marriage, she felt angry and couldn't suppress it.

Her daughter is only fifteen, in the prime of her life, how dare this old helper covet her daughter!

After beating my mother, Mrs. Xu beat my son. She was really mad.

My ex-boyfriend was luckier. He was only slapped twice, but his mother couldn't stand it anymore. She cried and said, "Ding Ling ran away, your daughter ran away! Now we don't know where she is!"

So, after finally finding the person's whereabouts, you discover that the person is really missing?

Mrs. Xu was so excited that she almost fainted. She stood up with a pale face and opened her mouth but could not utter a word.

Lin Minjun immediately winked at Aunt Cao, motioning her to go over and continue. She said, "How did he run away? What happened? Tell me everything from beginning to end. Don't leave out any details."

Aunt Qian cried with a face full of stupidity: "She said she didn't want to stay at home anymore, so I told her to come to my house and be my son's wife. She agreed. But that night she asked my son to take her home, but she ran away secretly that night. We don't know where she went."

Lin Minjun: "Why didn't you tell us when we came here?"

Aunt Qian cried even harder: "She ran away from my house. How can we explain it to her? What should we do if her mother asks me for her?"

"Why didn't your family quickly look for someone? We came to your house to inquire about the situation, but you still made a fuss. Didn't you ever think that something might happen if a little girl ran away?" Lin Minjun felt that the mother and son simply did not have normal thinking patterns. They were too selfish.

But there is something even more selfish going on. Aunt Qian said with particular grievance, "She wanted to run away on her own. What does it have to do with us? My family feels that we are at a disadvantage because we lost a daughter-in-law for nothing."

After she said this, if she hadn't run fast, Aunt Cao's stinky shoes would have been thrown directly at her face.

Aunt Cao's nose was crooked with anger: "Shameless, I have never seen such a shameless person, Lingling is so young and you tricked her into becoming your wife, does she know what a wife is? No, Xiao Xu, we can't let them bully our daughter like this, report to the police, and arrest this child abductor and swindler."

"Lingling is not a child, right? Is this human trafficking? In any case, it is not something a human would do. Report it to the police. By the way, isn't Brother Yan Li a police officer?" someone said without thinking.

Yan Li patted one of the young men on the shoulder and said without hesitation: "Go to our police station now and get to know the way. Go and report the case. We have found clues about the missing persons. Ask them to bring a few more people over."

The young man got on his bike and rode away quickly. He almost rode the bike like a Hot Wheels. He was so excited.

Aunt Qian was stunned: "Why call the police? Who are they going to arrest?"

She trembled and said, "Are they trying to arrest my son?"

She actually guessed it right.

The author has something to say:

This is the update on the 22nd. I didn’t go home on New Year’s Eve, and arrived home on the evening of Spring Festival. I’m sorry that I wrote it so late.

Happy New Year!