Within two days, the county government issued a notice asking everyone not to make random guesses, as the truth of the matter would be investigated by the constables.
When Jiang Cheng went to the street, he heard fewer rumors. The county government had already intervened, so everyone thought the matter was groundless and gradually stopped talking about it.
After returning, Jiang Cheng told Xu Sanniang about this. Xu Sanniang thought that the county government was probably afraid that the people would cause a bigger disturbance, so they issued the notice to appease the people!
After all, it is a fact that the kidnapper has reappeared. If the county government does not take any action for a long time, there will be chaos!
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"Ah——" One night when everyone was sleeping soundly, suddenly a shrill voice pierced the silent sky, and then several families lit candles and there was light.
Jiang Cheng was sleeping soundly when he suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, his back covered in cold sweat. After calming down for a while, Jiang Cheng lit a candle. With light in the room, Jiang Cheng felt relieved!
"What's wrong?" Jiang Cheng's movement startled Song Tingzhi. He looked at Jiang Cheng's actions in a daze and came over to ask with concern.
"Did you hear any noise?" Jiang Cheng asked.
"What?" After hearing what Jiang Cheng said, Song Tingzhi sat up straight and listened carefully for a while but heard nothing.
"No, it's clearly there!" Jiang Cheng didn't think he had misheard. He threw back the quilt, got out of bed, opened the door and went to the yard to take a look.
Although it was a summer night, the wind was quite strong. Song Tingzhi was afraid that Jiang Cheng would catch a cold, so he picked up his coat and followed him out to put it on him.
When Jiang Cheng stayed in the yard for a while and was about to go back to the house with Song Tingzhi, the sound he had vaguely heard just now came again, and it was even more frightening than the last time.
"Listen!" Jiang Cheng suddenly grabbed Song Tingzhi's arm.
"I heard it, don't be afraid!" Song Tingzhi got goosebumps from the voice. Seeing Jiang Cheng like this, he thought he was scared, so he hugged him to give him some support.
"You guys are up too?" Jiang Cheng turned his head and saw Xu Sanniang standing under the eaves looking at them. Xu Sanniang was also awakened by the sound, but fortunately Song Youjin was not woken up.
"Mom...what's going on?" Jiang Cheng has lived here for six years and this has never happened before. He wasn't scared, just a little confused.
"I don't know about this either. Go back to sleep first! You'll know everything tomorrow morning!" Xu Sanniang winked at Song Tingzhi and asked him to take Jiang Cheng in.
Song Tingzhi also understood what Xu Sanniang meant, so he took the confused Jiang Cheng into the house to sleep.
The sound never stopped. Jiang Cheng couldn't fall asleep even if he wanted to. He could only sleep in a daze until dawn.
As soon as it was light, Jiang Cheng got up and went out to see what was going on. To his surprise, he was not the first one to get up. Many shops were already open. He guessed that they were all unable to sleep because of the noise.
Jiang Cheng walked closer and listened. It was just as he guessed. Everyone got up early because of the noise and couldn't sleep. They started talking about what happened at night.
"It seems that Mrs. Lin's grandson is missing. She said he was playing in the yard during the day, but when Mrs. Lin went to the toilet at night and wanted to check on him, she found he was gone!"
"Could it be that the thief stole the child at night?"
"Who knows? Maybe his yard wasn't locked properly and the thief got in!"
"It's so scary! We have children at home too, how come they came here? I can't even sleep at night!"
"Yeah yeah"
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Jiang Cheng listened for a while and walked back quietly without saying anything.
The first thing Jiang Cheng did when he got back was to check on Song Youjin who was still asleep. Song Youjin was over two years old and had become very shy about strangers. It was impossible for someone he was not familiar with to carry him away.
When Jiang Cheng was selling tofu that day, he noticed that some police officers were going door to door on the street to question people. Jiang Cheng was also questioned twice, and then he didn't know the outcome of the matter.
The constables came to Jiang Cheng's place several times but failed to find the suspect. Some people felt that the county government was perfunctory and were secretly dissatisfied with the county government.
This matter was investigated for a long time but there was no result. Gradually, people stopped taking it to heart. After all, there were too many unresolved cases. Although the people were dissatisfied, they had become accustomed to it.
Jiang Cheng once met Aunt Lin who had lost her child. She looked like she had aged twenty years, walking on the street with a hunched back and her clothes were a little tattered. People passing by kept their distance from her.
Jiang Cheng saw her from afar and felt sorry for her, but it was useless.
After Xu Sanniang knew that a child from a nearby family had been stolen, she kept Song Youjin under her watch every day. Now that Song Youjin can run around in the yard, Xu Sanniang takes better care of him than usual.
At night, Xu Sanniang asked Song Youjin to sleep with her. Not only that, she also locked the door inside and out before going to bed.
At first, Song Tao didn't know about it. One night when he went to the toilet, he tried to open the door but it didn't work. He tried several times before he noticed that Xu Sanniang had locked the door, which made a lot of noise.
In the summer, Xu Sanniang let Song Youjin play in the yard. Before that, Song Tingzhi found some wisteria seeds from somewhere and built a wooden rack in the yard for the wisteria to grow. In the summer, the wisteria flowers bloomed all over the yard, which was very beautiful.
Xu Sanniang was watching Song Youjin in the yard, and she was lying in the rocking chair, rocking comfortably.
In a blink of an eye, the two hottest months of summer passed, and the days suddenly became cooler. Song Youning had been in the private school for three months. Except for the time when he was called in for drawing a turtle on someone's face, nothing else happened.
Jiang Cheng's shop now not only sells tofu, but also makes some tofu-related snacks which sell very well.
"Constable Chen, what are we having for dinner today?" Jiang Cheng was setting things aside when he felt a shadow falling in front of him. He looked up and saw that it was Constable Chen who had been taking care of his business.
"It's still the same!" Constable Chen said neatly, then found a place to sit down and wait for Jiang Cheng to serve the food.
Seeing that he looked a little tired, Jiang Cheng knew that the work in the county government office was not easy. Then Jiang Cheng added more food to Constable Chen's bowl and brought it to his table.
"Hey? Is this too much? Mr. Jiang, if you keep doing this business, you will lose money!" Constable Chen had been eating here for so long that he could naturally tell that the portions were larger.
"No way, you look so tired, I guess it's because there's a lot of work to do in the county government office. Don't worry, eat!" Jiang Cheng said politely.
"Yes, we're busy. There have been several cases of missing dolls in the neighboring county recently. They're short-staffed, so they asked us to help. It's so busy to have to take care of our own work and other people's work at the same time!"
Constable Chen didn't bother to be polite with him and whispered to Jiang Cheng what he knew.
Jiang Cheng didn't say anything after hearing this, but silently brought him another dish to taste.
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