Mother Dai's eyes swept across Xia Youtian, Jiang, and Wu fiercely, which stunned them - why did Mother Dai bite her teeth at them?
Mother Dai turned around again to see who was present.
My daughter is missing, so we have to keep it a secret. Unfortunately, many people have heard the story. Fortunately, they are all strangers, so it won't spread to our village too quickly.
Dai Sanlang, who had just been crying with tears and snot, calmed down, perhaps because he had regained his composure after seeing his parents, or because he had vented his anger.
At this time, the whole story has been narrated again.
However, he emphasized several times how hard and anxious it was for him to find his two sisters.
He also hinted that if Lihua and the others had not been separated from her two siblings, her two sisters would not have disappeared like this.
Xia Youtian was the first to quit:
"How can you blame Lihua Nie for this?
Lihua is three years younger than you. How can you expect Lihua to take care of someone you can't even take care of? "
Dai Sanlang couldn't find any words to refute. He opened his mouth, but it was stuck. Finally, he said:
"If we hadn't separated, and something really happened, wouldn't I have heard it if Lihua and the others had just shouted?"
Xia Youtian said angrily:
"Your two sisters are older than you, and when something happens, don't you know how to shout?
You actually expect Lihua to shout for them?
What are you thinking about?
In this matter, the person who should be held most responsible is you, a man, right?!"
Jiang's tears came down:
"Ping'er and Chuan'er are missing, and it's hard to say whether Lihua and the others are safe! What should we do? Should we report this to the police?"
Mother Dai was so angry that her voice became hoarse:
"You can't report this to the police! How can you make this kind of thing public? What are you thinking?"
Wu glared at Dai's mother:
"Aunt Dai, even if you're worried, you can't just bite people! My fourth sister-in-law is just worried about my niece's whereabouts, so she thought it would be safer to report it to the authorities. Who knows, maybe the authorities have already caught the thief and posted a missing person notice by now!"
Wu was deeply impressed by the fire on the Lantern Festival and remembered clearly the speed at which the officials cleared the streets. Her trust in the government office deepened.
However, Dai's parents were often visited by tax collectors and village heads to extort money from them. They were more wary of the people in the yamen than they were of their trust in the county magistrate and the county constables.
The two sides argued for a while, but Wu finally smoothed things over. Everyone decided to have some tea and snacks, rest a bit, and then go out for another look.
If you really can't find it, report it to the police.
Although Xia Youtian and Jiang were also worried about Lihua and the others, they vaguely felt that they should be fine.
This confidence probably comes from the superstition about the luck of summer rice flowers.
Ever since Xia Daohua broke her head and woke up from a coma, she seemed to have truly lived up to the saying "Those who survive a great disaster will be blessed in the future."
Her wounds wouldn't stop bleeding, and she was unconscious, but the old couple was willing to spend money and ask for favors, and borrowed a carriage to send her to Puji Hall.
She was sent to Puji Hall, where she unexpectedly met Doctor Wang;
Doctor Wang actually risked his reputation and admitted her without a second thought;
Her health has recovered, her courage has grown, and her temperament has become more lively;
She goes into the mountains and digs a hole, and then she can catch rabbits;
She could dig up ginseng just by walking into the woods;
When she went mushroom picking, there were several pheasants with broken wings waiting for her to catch them;
She encountered a pack of wolves that had been injured by a hunting party, and not only was she not harmed at all, she even managed to pick up the unwanted prey and drag it home...
There is basically no explanation for these things except good luck.
And Xia Daohua's luck is simply too good to be true!
Since she is around, nothing will happen to Lihua and the others!
Thinking about it this way, it's no wonder that Daohua and Dai Sanlang bickered, and that Lihua and them parted ways on bad terms. Perhaps it was because Daohua couldn't help but get angry at seeing how miserable he looked!
Xia Youtian and Jiang looked at each other, as if they saw the affirmation of their own ideas and the confidence in Xia Daohua in each other's eyes.
They have this awareness in their hearts, so they are not so worried.
But before I saw the children, I was still a little worried, so I tried very hard to find them.
When it was time to pay the bill, the two sides started fighting over it. Xia Youtian tried twice but failed to get the money over Dai's father. He just smiled foolishly, took a step back, and didn't try again.
Mr. Dai was startled for a moment, but the look of surprise passed quickly and he gritted his teeth and paid the bill.
Six bowls of coarse tea cost twelve cents, a plate of radish cake, a plate of dried tofu, and a plate of chestnut cakes, and it actually cost him a full sixty cents!
The price of the tea is quite reasonable, but the price of the snacks is too high!
The two families hurried out of the tea stall and dispersed to look for someone.
But there are too many idle people at the temple fair.
The six of them were thrown in like a basin of water poured into the sea or a handful of sand thrown into the desert, and were almost quickly swallowed up by the crowd.
Fortunately, they had agreed that no matter whether they could find the person or not, they would meet at the entrance of the Huaishu Niangniang Temple at the place where the two families had met before at exactly 3:00 p.m.
Time flies so fast, the hour of You is here in the blink of an eye.
Dai Sanlang first arrived at the open space in front of the Huaishu Niangniang Temple. The place was not too big, but it was quite quiet.
Small vendors, even those selling incense, candles and paper products, would set up stalls a short distance away from the entrance of the Niangniang Temple.
Apart from people like Wu who had made an appointment to meet someone, there were not many people around the temple entrance.
A moment later, Wu also arrived.
She searched all the way until her voice was hoarse, but she neither met Lihua and the others, nor did she meet Dai Ping'er and Dai Chuan'er.
At this time, Mrs. Wu's face looked very ugly, not only because she was tired, but also because she was a little desperate about the disappearance of her children.
The Lantern Festival, March 3rd, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, temple fairs and other lively days are often the days when kidnappers come out to do evil when they smell the scent of money.
Young girls, young wives, teenage girls, sensible and ignorant children, and even old ladies may be kidnapped by traffickers and sold to unknown places.
If they were kidnapped, these children might never be found again.
Wu frowned tightly, already feeling a bit irritated from thinking about these things. Seeing Dai Sanlang still mumbling and complaining about something, she felt even more irritated.
Just when Mrs. Wu was about to lose her temper, Mrs. Jiang came back.
Unfortunately, Jiang Shi didn't get much either. Moreover, Jiang Shi's eyes were red, probably because she cried on the way.
Wu was comforting Jiang when Dai's father and mother returned one after the other. It was unclear whether they had met on the road or had never been separated. But the two of them had not found the person either.
Dai's father still looked passably presentable, but Dai's mother looked haggard and gray, barely resembling a human. Their clothes were equally a mess.
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