Chapter 186 Manman Li Youliang is likely not the first time to...
This happened five years ago.
Liu Cuihua was married to the village. She had a younger sister, who also got married not long after Liu Cuihua got married.
Originally, the two sisters married not far away, so it was convenient for them to see each other from time to time. But after the reform and opening up, my sister's husband thought again and again, and resolutely gave up the job of digging for a living in the fields, and decided to start his own business. Originally it was just a try, but he actually made a name for himself with it. Within two years, they felt that Shanghe Village was too small and not as well developed as the south, so they planned to move to the south.
Sister Liu Cuihua was reluctant to leave her relatives and friends, but the opportunity to make money was there, and she couldn't just give it up. In the end, she said goodbye to her parents and sister, and the family moved far away to the south.
After all these years apart, the two families have not lost contact and know that the other party is doing well. However, they are far apart and busy with business, so it is rare for them to see each other.
In the past twenty years or so, my sister's family has come back so many times that I can count them on one hand. After my parents passed away, they came back even less often, with the most recent visit being five years ago.
When they first went out to explore the world during the reform and opening up, they were already middle-aged. Now I have been out there for more than ten or twenty years, and I am in my fifties and almost sixty years old. The older my sister gets, the more she misses her relatives and friends back home. Four years ago, I asked my eldest son to send me back.
It was July at that time, and her fifteen-year-old granddaughter was on summer vacation. Her parents were busy and had no time to take care of her, so her sister simply brought her granddaughter Manman back with her, intending to have her live in her hometown for a while.
But who would have known that something would happen in just a few days.
After the younger sister came back, she stayed in her hometown for two days and then went to her elder sister's house. The two sisters hadn't seen each other for many years and missed each other very much. Plus, there were girls of similar age in other families in the village. After Manman came back, although she was not used to the new environment on the first day, she started playing with other girls in the village on the second day.
It was a sunny day, and Manman and other girls went to the mountains and rivers to play as usual. The elders didn't care. After all, for children in rural areas, this was a very normal activity.
But that afternoon, because there were guests at Liu Cuihua's house, Manman went to the store alone to buy salt and never came back.
Liu Cuihua and her sister waited for salt for a long time, but Manman didn't come back. They thought the child went out to play with others and forgot about it for a while. But when they went out to look for her, the girls of the same age in the village said that they had never gone out with Manman.
They panicked.
Later, the whole village went to look for him together, even the police were alerted, but they searched for more than a week and still found no clues. Some people said that Manman might have been murdered; others said that she might have been kidnapped. It is said that in some remote mountain areas, men who cannot afford to marry like to buy such wives. I guess she is in great danger now...
No matter what others said, Sister Liu Cuihua never gave up looking for her granddaughter's whereabouts. Later, Manman's parents and brother also came back, spending a lot of time, energy and money... but still got nothing.
Until now, no one knows where Manman is, or whether she is dead or alive.
Five years ago…
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan exchanged a glance. It took about ten years for Li Youliang's eyes to go from being able to see light vaguely to being able to see things clearly. Plus what he said himself, he usually likes to go to the river to peek at women bathing...
They hurried to Liu Cuihua's house again and asked about what happened that year. The other party's face suddenly changed, and he obviously didn't want to talk more. After the two men revealed their identity as police officers, he answered their questions with red eyes.
"Has Manman ever gone to the river to take a bath? Yes, yes! I remember she did! The girls Shuang and Yun who played with her both loved playing in the water. They often went to the river in the summer, even though their parents told them to. After Manman came, she also went to the river with them. When they came back that day, their heads were all wet, like wild girls. We just saw that she was happy, so we didn't say anything..."
"Hey, comrade police officer, is Manman's disappearance related to this incident?"
“Is it, is it Old Li, is it that Li Youliang, is it related to him?!”
The fact that Li Youliang was arrested could not be concealed at all, and everyone in the village knew what they should know. The police appeared again and asked the same question. Liu Cuihua almost instantly connected the two things.
Shen Qingye met the old man's hopeful gaze, pursed her lips, and said with some reluctance: "This is just our guess now, we don't know the specific situation yet."
"We just want to learn more about what happened back then."
Liu Cuihua cursed angrily: "What don't you know? What's not clear? That old bastard, no wonder he always wandered around the river before. So that's why, so that's why... My Manman, my Manman was also... "
"That bastard deserves to be killed a thousand times, my Manman, my Manman——"
She grabbed Shen Qingye's hand, her old face full of tears: "Comrade police, comrade police, you must investigate this thoroughly, you must give our Manman justice, comrade police..."
Shen Qingye tried his best to persuade and give assurances several times before he finally calmed Liu Cuihua down.
After leaving the Liu family, Shen Qingye looked at Yue Lingchuan, feeling a little confused for a moment.
If it was really as they guessed, that Manman was murdered by Li Youliang, then what exactly happened that year?
"Suppose that Li Youliang saw Lin Manman by the river, had sexual desires towards her, and took her away when no one was around, committing a crime - after that, it is very likely that he would choose to... kill her to silence her." Yue Lingchuan spoke calmly. Shen Qingye breathed a sigh of relief and sorted out his confused thoughts. He said:
"So where does he put the body after he kills someone?"
"The Liu family, the Lin family, and the police have searched the surrounding area for a long time, but have not found any trace of Manman... Where could he have hidden the body?"
The two men hesitated for a moment, and the police got involved. They must have searched the obvious places, but there was no clue at all...
The two men suddenly looked up at each other and said in unison: "Grave!"
Yue Lingchuan spoke quickly: "It is very likely that this is not the first time that Li Youliang has hidden a body in a grave!"
Shen Qingye said: "Manman's body...maybe he hid it in a grave somewhere?!"
The two looked at each other, both with surprise in their eyes. But after a moment, they both calmed down.
The question arises again, with so many graves, where would Li Youliang hide the person?
They can't possibly dig one by one, right?
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