"I don't know. He left in such a hurry that we didn't have time to ask."
"Oh." Su Miaomiao responded gloomily, "Let's go to Chu Yunyun."
Su Miao was anxious and couldn't help but quicken his pace.
When I arrived at Chu Yunyun's house, I heard Chu Yuanyuan crying as soon as I entered the yard.
"Oh my God, why are other people's children fine, but my Xiaohua is missing?"
"Where could you tell me this child could go? I've looked everywhere I could."
"During dinner today, Xiaohua was very happy. She ate a big fish head by herself and then went back to her room to sleep. If I hadn't gotten up in the middle of the night to check if she had kicked off the quilt, I wouldn't have noticed she was missing."
"Wow, I only have this one daughter, Xiaohua is my life. If I can't find Xiaohua, I won't live anymore."
…
Su Miaomiao felt sad when she heard this.
She brought the children in and saw Chu Yunyun sitting on the kang crying, surrounded by fellow villagers who came to comfort her.
Chu Yunyun wiped her tears with a handkerchief. Seeing her coming, she stood up and walked towards her shakily.
"Miaomiao, my little girl is missing. What should I do? I only have this one daughter. I can't live without her."
Seeing Chu Yunyun like this, Su Miaomiao's eyes became hot.
She patted her hands comfortingly.
"Sister Yunyun, please calm down first. Let's find a solution together."
She didn't say much and got down to business.
"Sister Yunyun, please tell my uncle Xiaohua's birth date and time first, and let him calculate it for you."
Chu Yunyun's head was buzzing at this moment. After Su Miaomiao's words entered her ears, she took a moment to react before she understood.
A glimmer of light flashed in her dim eyes, and she grabbed Zhang Xing's wrist and asked expectantly.
"You, you can tell fortunes?"
Seeing Zhang Xing nod, Chu Yunyun felt that she saw hope.
When sick, one tries anything.
Whether it works or not, she will try it.
She spoke quickly.
"Xiaohua is the frozen one from five years ago..."
Seeing that she was about to say this in front of everyone, Zhang Xing quickly interrupted her.
"Sister-in-law, just come over and tell me secretly."
It is better not to let too many people know your birth date and time, so as to avoid being used by people with ulterior motives to do bad things.
"Oh, yes, yes!"
Chu Yunyun nodded in agreement.
She obediently followed Zhang Xing and went to the next room.
There's no one in this room.
Zhang Xing closed the door cautiously and said.
"Sister-in-law, tell me."
"Xiaohua was born five years ago, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, at the hour of Chen."
After listening to this, Zhang Xing nodded to indicate that he understood. He interrupted the surrounding situation and asked.
"Sister-in-law, can you find me a piece of underwear with small flowers? Is that convenient?"
"That's convenient, I'll get it for you right away."
The room they were in was where the three children lived.
As Chu Yunyun spoke, she climbed onto the kang, opened the lid of the box, and took out a small bellyband from it.
"Is this okay? If not, there are other options."
"This one will do."
Zhang Xing took the bellyband, folded it twice and put it on the ground.
He sat cross-legged in front of his bellyband and calculated with his eyes closed.
His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and then he opened his eyes.
Seeing this, Chu Yunyun asked hurriedly.
"Have you figured it out yet?"
Zhang Xing frowned and spoke slowly.
"Your Xiaohua was tied up, with something stuffed in her mouth. She was surrounded by dry grass. I think it was a haystack with a hole in the middle. Xiaohua was inside. There were probably two other children tied up with your Xiaohua, both boys. The younger one was about the same age as your Xiaohua, and the older one was probably about ten years old. Sister-in-law, besides your Xiaohua, are there any other children missing from our village?"
Chu Yunyun, the mother, felt her heart tighten after hearing this.
She thought about it and shook her head.
"No, I haven't heard of anyone else losing their child. Did you calculate it wrong? How about you calculate it again?"
Zhang Xing stood up directly with his bellyband in his hand, his tone firm.
"I won't make a mistake." He stuffed the bellyband back into Chu Yunyun's hands and said, "Sister-in-law, please put the child's things away."
After saying that, he opened the door and went out.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Su Miaomiao waiting anxiously at the door. When she saw him, she hurried over and asked.
"How about it?"
"I've counted them. To the northeast, there are three children in a haystack."
"Three children?"
Su Miaomiao exclaimed.
At the same time, the people in the other room were also keeping a close eye on the situation on their side.
Everyone thought that Zhang Xing was young and didn't look like he was good at fortune-telling. When everyone heard Zhang Xing say that he had three children, they all thought that Zhang Xing had made a mistake.
They only heard that Hu Dazhuang's family had lost a child, and had never heard of anyone else's family losing a child.
Everyone started talking in low voices.
"We may have three children, but there's only one!"
"We've looked in the direction you said, but there's nothing there."
Someone said with a laugh.
"Did you miscalculate? Everyone knows you mean well, but your nonsense is likely to cloud everyone's judgment. What if everyone goes in the direction you mentioned, but the children are actually in another direction? Wouldn't that mean they're looking in the wrong place?"
Faced with such obvious doubts from everyone, Zhang Xing ignored them and only focused on communicating with Su Miaomiao.
"Yes, there are three. Besides Xiaohua, there are two other boys."
Although Su Miaomiao had never seen Zhang Xing tell fortunes for others, she knew that Zhang Xing was definitely not talking nonsense.
She believed in Zhang Xing.
Facing the people who were questioning her, she couldn't help but retort.
"It's so noisy! I can't even hear Zhang Xing talking. Can you guys keep your voices down? Are you here to help or to cause trouble? His calculations are wrong, and yours are right! If you have other good ideas, then say it. If not, then shut up. It's fine if you don't want to help find a solution, but you also don't allow others to help find a solution. What kind of people are you?"
Su Miaomiao has a special status in the village. Now when she speaks to others, almost no one dares to talk back.
The room suddenly became quiet.
Su Miaomiao said to Zhang Xing.
"Did you just say Xiaohua was in the northeast?"
"right."
Facing Zhang Xing's affirmative answer, Su Miaomiao asked again.
"Is Kaoshan Village just to the northeast?"
"right."
Kaoshan Village is in the northeast, so...
Su Miaomiao suddenly thought of something and spoke quickly.
"Zhang Xing, go quickly and see if you can stop the car and tell your brother what you have calculated."
Zhang Xing saw Yang Xiaogang walking towards the yard out of the corner of his eye, so he quickly pushed open the door and said.
"Brother Xiaogang, go to the back alley and stop my brother. He's driving a van. Tell him..."
Before Zhang Xing could finish his words, Yang Xiaogang interrupted him.
"Why are you still trying to stop them? I just saw your brother drive away. They got in the car right in front of Dazhuang's house and have been gone for a while. They must have left the village by now."
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