Chapter 76 Chapter 76 The First Drawing
Dou Yinhua is not at home.
Pei Qing asked Yang Xingping to check Miao Lihua's call records again. Miao Lihua's call records showed that after Dou Yinhua had a phone call with someone last night, she had not made any other calls until eight o'clock this evening.
Where would Dou Yinhua be now?
Pei Qing suspected that Dou Yinhua noticed something was wrong and ran away because she was afraid of being caught by the police.
Xu An has a different opinion.
"Dou Yinhua and Ping Jinfeng are distant cousins. If we must say it is human trafficking, there is actually no sufficient evidence. It is not uncommon for relatives to foster each other's children and raise them in the countryside."
Liu Cong also said: "In our area, especially in the villages and towns in the mountains below, there are indeed many cases where newborn girls are raised by their maternal relatives. If we must sue for human trafficking, it is actually untenable. In the end, the judge may still support mediation."
Pei Qing frowned, very unhappy.
"What if Dou Yinhua has trafficked other children?"
Xu An: "That also needs to be supported by evidence, and there is no evidence at the moment."
He still believed that someone like Dou Yinhua, especially since the child she took over was a girl from a relative's family, did not need to run so fast.
Xu An looked at the supermarket and said, "Dou Yinhua has a supermarket, a house, and a daughter. She wouldn't run away so suddenly and not let her daughter know. Let's find Dou Yinhua first."
Pei Qing thought about it and stopped insisting. He began to think about where Dou Yinhua had gone.
"Dou Yinhua has not contacted her daughter, and her SIM card has not made any calls. Does she have another SIM card?"
In response to this question, Pei Qing and the other two went to find Miao Lihua.
Miao Lihua is from a small mountain village, which is an hour's drive from Changping Town.
When Liu Cong saw the name of the small mountain village, he thought to himself that it was bad. He explained to Pei Qing and Xu An: "The small mountain village is far away from here. It's in a mountain cave."
Mountain nest...
Liu Cong looked at the car he was driving with a headache. This car was the company bus. If it drove to the small mountain village, the tires of the car would definitely be in a mess. After returning, he would be scolded by the people above.
After thinking about it, Liu Cong decided to find a way to get a ride from a fellow villager.
Liu Cong found the local police station.
The three of them barely made it through the night, and the next morning at five o'clock, Liu Cong woke up Xu An and Pei Qing.
"Let's go, there's a fellow villager who's going back to the village, let's take his car."
Pei Qing followed Xu An in a daze, without brushing her teeth or washing her face. Before she could react, she saw a diesel tricycle parked in front of the police station.
Her pupils trembled.
Liu Cong waved to Pei Qing as usual and asked her to come up.
"Hurry up, hurry up."
Liu Song urged.
Xu An put his hand on Pei Qing's shoulder and pushed her onto the tricycle.
He also had some bread and milk in his hand, which were given to him by the local police station. The police station police kindly reminded him: "Be patient and try not to eat on the way. Eat when you get to the destination."
He looked at Xu An and Pei Qing with great sympathy. He heard that they came from City A. It was really not easy for them.
Pei Qing's eyelids jumped when he saw the policeman's expression, and sure enough, he saw the tricycle at the door when he came out.
She climbed up anyway. It's nothing! It's just a tricycle, right? I can ride it! There's a first time for everything.
The tricycle wobbled slowly toward the small mountain village. The driver was a dark-skinned old man in his fifties or sixties.
The old man glanced at Liu Cong, and Liu Cong handed him fifty yuan. The old man reached out to take it. Pei Qing saw his hand, which seemed to have a crack on it.
The old man said a few words to Liu Cong, but Pei Qing didn't understand. After listening, Liu Cong turned around and asked Pei Qing and Xu An to sit down.
"Let's go, sit tight and don't fall down. If you fall down, you will definitely get a scar."
Three people were sitting on a tricycle. At the beginning, the tricycle was driving on a cement road, and the front section of the road was relatively flat. After the tricycle had been driving for half an hour, it turned into a small road, which was crisscrossed with mud.
With a "clang", the wheels of the tricycle sank into the mud. Pei Qing held the edge of the car, staring at the tree not far away without saying a word.
Pei Qing heard an old man cursing. Although he didn't understand what he was cursing, a few seconds later, the tires were pulled out of the mud and the car started to drive smoothly again on this muddy country road.
Pei Qing suddenly looked at Xu An opposite him.
Xu An sat opposite Pei Qing. Seeing Pei Qing's unhappy face, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Pei Qing's body was stiff, he clung to the tricycle tightly, and said, "I want to vomit."
Xu An asked her to be patient.
"That's what Sanbenzi is like."
Pei Qing had no choice but to endure it.
Liu Cong said: "Oh, it's hard work for a while, it will be fine in a moment."
He recalled his experience at the police station and said to Pei Qing, "When I was at the police station, I often went to the village to do ideological work for the villagers. It was still okay in the summer, but in the cold winter, if you drive yourself, the car is likely to break down. If you take a fellow villager's car, the fellow villager is not willing to take you. Even if they are willing to take you, the winter wind is so strong that it can drive people crazy."
Pei Qing reluctantly said, "Then your job is really not easy."
Liu Cong: "That's not the case. So later when I had the chance, I worked very hard to get admitted to the Public Security Bureau."
Pei Qing: "I didn't expect that I would have to go to the countryside after arriving at the Public Security Bureau."
Liu Cong laughed: "It's all work, just get used to it, just get used to it. It's not easy for you to come all the way here."
The tricycle wobbled to the intersection of the path. Pei Qing looked at the roadside, where graves were scattered among the barren woods.
Some of the tombs are intact, in a round arch shape, and have tombstones erected.
Some graves are just a mound of earth with no trace of tombstones in front of them. There are weeds growing around them and it seems that no one has taken care of them for a long time.
The wind was blowing and the sky was already almost light.
There is smoke rising from the distance and graves clustering nearby.
Pei Qing put his hands on the edge of the car, thinking that this business trip was going to be really exciting.
Before her father died, Pei Qing only lived in the urban-rural fringe of City A. The roads in the urban-rural fringe were well built, and Pei Qing had never been to such a muddy road with gullies and ravines.
She had never been to such a quiet mountain village, which was very old and conservative. She had never seen piles of graves on the roadside, and occasionally there were burnt papers floating in the air. The eerie and lonely atmosphere was frightening.
Ten minutes later, the old man finally drove the tricycle to the small mountain village.
Under a big tree at the entrance of the village, he looked back at Pei Qing and the other two, stared at Pei Qing's sweaty face for a few seconds, then waved at them and asked them to get out of the car.
Liu Cong thanked the old man in dialect.
After getting off the car, the three watched the tricycle continue to drive away into the distance.
Xu An said: "He has to drive a little longer, we are really just taking a ride."
Liu Cong said: "This fellow is not from the small mountain village. If he is, we have to be more careful. Don't let the news leak out and let him run away."
Pei Qing moved his legs, which were numb from sitting, and then followed Xu An and Liu Cong into the small mountain village.
Xu An divided the bread and milk he had brought with him.
Liu Cong and Xu An have been on many business trips and have been to all kinds of environments. They got off the tricycle and ate bread as if nothing had happened.
Pei Qing couldn't do that. She held the bread in her hand and planned to wait a while before eating it.
Xu An asked: "Do you still want to vomit?"
Pei Qing has never been prone to motion sickness since he was a child.
Pei Qing: "It's OK, I'll get some fresh air."
Then she said to Liu Cong: "People in small mountain villages rarely go out, right?"
Liu Cong nodded: "Of course, it's such a hassle to come out, and the elderly people here can't speak Mandarin and usually don't go out."
In this way, Pei Qing could understand why people in the small mountain village would give their ID cards to Dou Yinhua to apply for mobile phone cards.
She already had a bad feeling in her heart, and said to Xu An: "Dou Yinhua should have several mobile phone cards."
This is a very realistic thing. Pei Qing also wants to know how much money Dou Yinhua can pay to buy the mobile phone cards in the names of these people.
The villagers got up early, and Liu Cong found Miao Lihua's house while walking and asking.
Miao Lihua has white hair and looks older than her actual age.
If you are in City A, people in their fifties are still at the age of striving for success. Most people of this age will not lie at home, but will still find a job.
Miao Lihua's back was hunched and weather-beaten. When she saw three strangers, she looked at them warily.
It is unrealistic to ask for ID when facing such people. If you say it is the police, these people will not cooperate at all.
Liu Cong still took out the cash and handed it to Miao Lihua, saying that he just wanted to find out something.
He spoke in the same dialect as Miao Lihua, so Pei Qing and Xu An tactfully chose to keep silent.
They couldn't understand the conversation between Liu Cong and Miao Lihua at all.
After a few minutes, Miao Lihua collected the money and invited the three people in.
Liu Cong, Pei Qing and Xu An explained: "She was the only one at home. Her husband died last year, and her son and daughter-in-law were not in the village. She had no money, so she listened to Dou Yinhua and sold her ID card for 200 yuan."
Pei Qing: "Two hundred yuan?"
Liu Cong: "That's too much. If you talk to them about the law, they won't understand."
Miao Lihua pointed out to Liu Cong several people who sold ID cards to Dou Yinhua.
Liu Cong asked her: "Has Dou Yinhua not contacted you recently?"
Miao Lihua shook her head.
A string of dialect came out of her mouth.
Liu Cong translated for Pei Qing and Xu An, "She said Dou Yinhua is not from their village, but from Dashan Village. We can go to Dashan Village to ask. Dashan Village is close to here, and we can get there in two or three kilometers."
Pei Qing followed Xu An and Liu Cong to Dashan Village.
"I will never go on a business trip with you again!"
She said fiercely.
Xu An stroked her hair: "You'll get used to it. This is how it is in this industry."
Pei Qing looked carefully at the potholes on the road, as he could easily step into one if he was not careful.
We finally reached the big mountain village. There were more people in the big mountain village than in the small mountain village, and we could see a few young people.
Liu Cong went to ask someone where Dou Yinhua's home was.
An old woman showed him the way: "The one with a bare door is her house."
Pei Qing followed for another hundred meters and arrived at Dou Yinhua's house.
Liu Cong knocked on the door, but no one answered.
But there was loose mud and sand in front of Dou Yinhua's door.
Xu An squatted down to take a look, and dug out an elm leaf from the mud, but when he walked in through the door, he didn't find any elm trees planted in the village.
Pei Qing saw his neighbor shrinking his head and suggested going to ask him.
The neighbor said, "Yinhua hasn't been back for several days!"
As she spoke, she glanced at Liu Cong and Xu An, her eyes evasive.
Something was clearly wrong.
Pei Qing saw it and nudged Xu An with his elbow.
Someone must have been to Dou Yinhua's house and may have stayed there for a while.
Xu An talked to Liu Cong for a few words, and Liu Cong interrogated Dou Yinhua's neighbors.
"Dou Yinhua really hasn't come back recently? Did you know that she got into trouble? If you hide it from her, you will be guilty of harboring someone and will go to jail!"
Dou Yinhua's neighbor hurriedly shook her head: "No, no."
Liu Cong: "Who is that person who appeared at her door?"
Dou Yinhua's neighbor: "I don't know, I don't know him!"
Liu Cong: "Then why are you so scared!"
Dou Yinhua's neighbor looked dull, glanced at Dou Yinhua's house, and said nothing.
She couldn't say anything useful, so in an emergency, Pei Qing discussed it with Xu An and sought Liu Cong's opinion, and decided to go to Dou Yinhua's house to take a look.
Originally, the three of them were ready to climb over the wall, but Xu An reached his hand into the crack of the door, pulled the bolt from behind, and found that there was no padlock on the bolt.
He opened the door easily.
The three of them walked into Dou Yinhua's house and found that the lid of the water tank in Dou Yinhua's house had been opened and fell to the ground, and everything in the water tank had been turned over to the ground.
When I walked into the main house again, I saw that the bricks on the ground had been turned over, and there was nothing under the place where the bricks were originally placed.
Did someone take things from Dou Yinhua’s house?
Who is it?
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