"Dad, let me go." Yang Huaitian looked at the courtyard wall. At this height, he should be able to climb over it.
Chunxiao held him back. "Don't do anything rash. Trespassing is illegal." Chunxiao glanced at a nearby house and suddenly had an idea. "Don't act rashly. Shuwen, come with me. Stay here first."
Chunxiao took Shuwen to a courtyard next door and knocked on the back door. A young woman opened the door and was very curious when she saw them. "Miss, who are you looking for?"
Chunxiao smiled. "Sister-in-law, we're not looking for anyone. The truth is, my nephew is a mischievous child. He lost a piece of jade while playing. He said he might have accidentally dropped it into the yard next door. The jade was his engagement jade with a girl, and if it's lost, the marriage will be ruined. We're not sure if it's over there, so we thought we could borrow your roof to look into that yard. If it's there, we can come and visit." As she spoke, she took out a tael of silver from her purse and placed it in the woman's hand. "Sister-in-law, please be kind."
The woman saw the silver in her hand and smiled. "Okay, you see, this young man is too careless. How could he lose the engagement token? This is a big deal."
Shuwen really admired his aunt, who could tell such a lie so easily. However, this was indeed a good idea, as it allowed him to see what the yard looked like without any effort.
They were standing on a high place and it was easy for people to see them. They borrowed a ladder from the woman, took the thatch and went up to the roof, pretending to thatch the roof.
"Auntie, this is too fake. The roof is tiled, not thatched."
"What do you know? Don't you see there's a thatched hut next to it? We can just put the thatch on the hut later." The two of them climbed onto the roof smoothly. Not only did they see the situation in the yard, they also saw the father and son who were acting suspiciously outside the yard.
"Auntie, there are quite a few people here, but we don't see the child. We are being too suspicious."
Chunxiao looked at it for a while, then hurried down from the roof with Shuwen. Then he thanked the woman and left the yard, quickly walking up to the father and son.
"Dad, big brother, second brother, one of you should go find the soldiers quickly. There is something wrong with this yard."
"Is there really a problem?" Yan Bingfa was shocked.
"Aunt, what's the problem?" Shuwen was puzzled as to how there could be a problem just because he saw a few men in the yard.
"There wouldn't be anyone guarding the backyard of an ordinary house, and this isn't an escort agency." Chun Xiao said, "Hurry up and find someone. If they leave in a carriage, we won't be able to catch up."
The three members of the Yan family, father and son, all knew the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly asked Yan Dahe to take Yang Huaitian to the yamen to find the officials.
"Have you seen the child?" Yan Bingfa looked at them and Shuwen.
Seeing Shuwen shaking his head, he sighed again, "It's uncertain if I haven't seen the child."
"Did anyone see you in the yard when you went up to the roof just now?" Yan Dashan asked.
"I don't know if you saw it, we pretended to lay thatch, it should be okay if they saw it. Laying thatch is a normal activity." As they were talking, they heard a noise in the yard. They didn't know what these people were doing, and they didn't dare to get too close for fear that the sound of their voices would be heard. There seemed to be voices in the yard.
"Brother, you and Shuwen go to the front and watch. If anyone comes out of the front door, you can pretend to ask for directions and start a conversation. In short, we will act according to the situation."
"Then let's go ahead. Dad, you and Chunxiao have to be careful."
The two listened to the noise in the yard, and soon the voices stopped, as if someone had entered the house.
At this moment, Chunxiao wished she had a pair of X-ray vision so she could see what the people inside were doing and whether they had really kidnapped the child and hidden him inside.
The officials from the township government arrived two incense sticks later. "Miss Yan, are you sure there's something wrong with this house?"
Chunxiao was so discouraged by his question, "Officer, I just have some doubts. Why don't you check it out? If I'm wrong, we'll compensate you with money." Yes, at worst, he would just compensate you with money. At a time like this, of course, no clues could be missed. What's the big deal about compensating you with some money?
The officer looked at them helplessly, gestured to his men, and asked them to go up and knock on the door.
"Boss, this place was searched yesterday." The subordinate kindly reminded.
"Just go knock on the door if I tell you to. Why are you wasting time talking?" The leader was getting a little impatient.
The runner had no choice but to knock on the door, but no one answered after knocking for a long time.
The leader looked at Chunxiao and asked, "Is there no one inside?"
"There is someone. Someone was talking just now." Yan Bingfa now felt that there was a ghost in this house. The more he felt it, the more excited he became.
When the leader heard it, he walked forward and banged on the door, "The government is investigating, open the door quickly." After banging for a while, no one responded. Finally, the official became impatient and kicked the door open. The backyard was empty, and there was no one there.
Yan Bangfa and the others followed him in. "This is strange. There were people there just now, but how come they are gone all of a sudden?" Everyone walked from the back to the front, and the soldiers guarding the front and Yan Dashan and the others also came in.
"Brother, did you see anyone go out in front?"
Yan Dashan shook his head.
At this moment, a messenger came running in from the side door and said, "Boss, a carriage just ran past me."
After all this time, there was still a side door. What a mistake.
"Hurry up and take two people to chase them. If you see the soldiers, run away. I think there is something wrong with this house."
Several officers and soldiers went to chase the people.
The leading officer looked at Chunxiao and the others again and asked, "How did you know there was something strange here? We searched yesterday and didn't find anything amiss."
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