Chapter 954 The Direction of the Black Market
The two sides immediately got into an argument, which escalated into a heated debate.
Who would have thought that Tang was hiding a knife? In the chaos, she stabbed Old Cui in the thigh.
Little Sprout witnessed this scene and was stunned. Old Man Cui instinctively urged her to run away quickly.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Li Xiaoshan stepped forward, grabbed Xiaoya'er, choked her, and threw her to the ground.
When Old Cui saw that his only granddaughter was motionless, he became furious and lunged at Li Xiaoshan, ready to fight him to the death.
The explosive power of anger is astonishing. Li Xiaoshan struggled with him until they reached the courtyard. Just as Old Man Cui was about to cry for help, Tang Shi stabbed him in the neck without saying a word.
Old Cui's blood sprayed all over Li Xiaoshan's face, blurring his vision. It took him a while to stagger to his feet.
Both of them were terrified, but since they had already killed him, there was nothing they could do but calm down and think things through.
Tang first helped Li Xiaoshan to the kitchen to wash his eyes. After they finished cleaning up, she planned to dispose of the bodies of Old Man Cui and Xiaoya.
Unexpectedly, Xiaoya'er disappeared. The two were shocked and, without thinking, immediately ran out to look for her.
There was no sound outside, and Xiaoya didn't go to the neighbors for help, but the person was indeed missing.
Upon hearing this, Shu Yu couldn't help but frown. "Are you sure she escaped on her own, and wasn't harmed by you?"
Mrs. Tang immediately shook her head, "No, if we had really harmed her, we would have put her in the cellar."
"Didn't you hear her open the door and leave?"
The door of the Cui family's house was actually quite loud, especially at night. If Xiaoya had really opened the door and gone out by herself, Tang and the other woman couldn't have missed it.
Shu Yu knew she was probably not lying. She said she killed Old Man Cui with a knife. If she were lying, she could easily pin the blame on Li Xiaoshan.
"Could they have gone out through the dog hole?" Lu Sanzhu suddenly appeared at the door of the main room and said.
"A dog hole?" Tang was taken aback. "The Cui family has a dog hole?"
Lu Sanzhu rolled his eyes. "Of course I did. When I was looking for the child, the first thing I looked for was the dog hole."
When he was a child, he often crawled through dog holes to play, and he was very good at finding dog holes.
In the corner of the wall in the backyard of the Cui family, there was a very small opening that was blocked by several common herbs, such as mint and aloe vera, that were planted there.
Lu Sanzhu searched the area, but finding no one, he went to look elsewhere.
Upon hearing this, Shu Yu quickly asked him to lead the way and got up to follow him to the backyard.
Lu Sanzhu skillfully moved several herbs to the side, revealing a hole—a very small opening, probably only big enough for a small, thin child to squeeze through.
Shu Yu crouched down and saw some dark red marks at the entrance of the hole; they were... bloodstains.
“Little Sprout did indeed leave from here.”
The outside of this wall does not face the village, but rather the direction leading out of the village.
Has Little Sprout left the village?
Shu Yu walked out of the Cui family's house and looked up into the distance.
Because there was no food, the place was barren as far as the eye could see, except for the mountain in the distance.
That mountain is where the black market is located.
Four miles, or two kilometers, how could a five-year-old injured child run that far?
But regardless of whether it was possible or not, Shu Yu wanted to try looking along the way.
She asked Yingxi to drive the mule cart from the village, and as she was about to leave, Young Master Jiang also got on.
(End of this chapter)
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