Chapter 129: An Inconspicuous Shrink

"Master Huo, since you already know that these children are dead, can you figure out who the murderer is?"

Officer Zhou's eyes turned bloodshot.

At this point, if the murderer is not severely punished, I am afraid he will become very upset.

Huo Ning's eyes turned cold. She didn't say who the murderer was. She only said, "The beneficiary is Zou Kai."

Officer Zhou was stunned.

He thought of many possibilities, but Zou Kai was the last one he thought of.

If we talk about the top wealthy circle in Jiangcheng, the Zou family dares to claim to be second, and no one dares to claim to be first.

As the grandson of the eldest branch of the Zou family, Zou Kai was highly regarded by his grandson, so his position as heir was basically set in stone.

And he is still young, only twenty-nine this year.

Logically, Officer Zhou shouldn't know so much, but the Zou family often appears in the news, and Zou Kai has even been on many pornographic programs, so it would be difficult for him not to know this Young Master Sun.

Of course, if these were not enough to make him impressed by Zou Kai.

Officer Zhou’s youngest son loves to eat melons and jumps around in the melon field every day.

The sentence he heard his youngest son say most often was that Zou Kai was Huo Baiwei's bootlicker.

He held Huo Baiwei as the white moonlight on the tip of his heart.

But Mr. Zou looked down on an actor and only wanted his grandson to marry a girl from a noble family who was a good match for him.

It is said that Master Zou gave Huo Baiwei a lot of injustice because of this.

In fact, it stands to reason that the Huo family has been on an upward trend in recent years.

The Zou family is an old aristocratic family in Jiangcheng, and the Huo family is the new noble family in Jiangcheng.

If these two families were to marry, it would be a good story.

But the problem lies in Huo Baiwei's identity.

She is the legitimate daughter of the Huo family and the apple of Huo Zhenting's eye.

Huo Zhenting has said more than once that what he is most proud of is having such a beautiful, well-behaved and hardworking daughter like Huo Baiwei.

In every interview, he almost praised Huo Baiwei to the sky.

but--

But he praised the man to the sky without giving his beloved daughter a corresponding share.

Just kidding, Huo Baiwei is a rich lady, but she doesn't even own 1% of the shares of her own company!

The wealthy families in Jiangcheng are not fools either.

Huo Zhenting said nice things, but he was stingy and didn't give any shares to his daughter. Who knows if he has an illegitimate child outside.

Under such circumstances, let alone that Mr. Zou was not happy about Zou Kai marrying Huo Baiwei.

Even those noble families that were on par with the Huo family were unwilling to do so.

That’s getting off topic.

Officer Zhou usually doesn't care about these gossips, but he can't help it when his son keeps whispering in his ear.

Therefore, he was forced to remember what a good son-in-law Zou Kai was, and how charming Huo Baiwei was, which made the eldest grandson of the Zou family fall at her feet.

Because his own son kept talking, Officer Zhou's impression of Zou Kai was that he was a high-quality, affectionate man who was deeply in love with Huo Baiwei but was sadly separated by his own grandfather.

But at the moment, Officer Zhou just wanted to send Zou Kai to be shot immediately.

Huo Ning sighed.

"They acted cautiously and did not leave any evidence. It is difficult to bring them to justice."

They did not choose to steal children in big cities, but chose remote, poor mountain villages without even any surveillance.

To have an extra layer of insurance, they didn't even go to the mountain village in person.

Instead, he hid in the mountains and controlled the ghosts in the mountains to bring the child out for them.

Officer Zhou's eyes were bloodshot, and his gaze gradually turned blood red.

"Are we just going to let them get away with it?"

At large?

Huo Ning lowered his brows, and a hint of hostility suddenly flashed across his eyes.

How can these beasts get away with it!

…

Yecheng.

Zhao Juan, with disheveled hair and dull eyes, sat on the big rock at the entrance of the village, crying and laughing.

Her body and hands were covered with wounds, blood was dripping down.

That was when I fell on the way back.

"Son...my baby..."

"Where are you, baby?"

"Baby, come out quickly and stop playing hide-and-seek with mommy. Mommy can't find you, baby..."

By the evening, the weather in Yecheng had become a bit cold and it was necessary to wear a thick coat.

But Zhao Juan was just wrapped in an ordinary single piece of clothing, holding a one-inch photo of her baby in her hand and staring blankly.

This is the photo she took of the baby when he was just born. There is only one photo of him.

After the baby was lost, she went to a photo studio and had the photos printed out.

It seems that if she watches over him like this every day, her baby will come back.

"Woo woo woo...my baby..."

Zhao Juan broke down, burst into tears, and began to look for her child.

Find the end of the village from the beginning.

She accidentally missed a step and fell down the steep thorny slope. Her body was covered with scary blood beads, but she was completely unaware of it.

"The crazy woman is here to look for the child again, hahahahaha!"

"Oh, look! There's so much blood on the crazy woman!"

"Look, the crazy woman is going to the river to look for her child!"

Several children, about eight or nine years old, giggled and took Zhao Juan's suffering as fun.

Boom!

One of the kids picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at him.

A blood bubble instantly appeared on Zhao Juan's mouth.

She spat out a mouthful of blood, and the pain made her sober up briefly.

She stared blankly at her half-wet clothes.

If she went any further in, her mouth might be submerged in the river.

Is it her baby protecting her?

"Hahaha! This crazy woman is stupid, it's so funny!"

"Hey! I'll smash it too!"

Several children threw stones at Zhao Juan maliciously, without caring at all whether she would feel pain from being hit by the stones.

Anyway, the adults in the family said that Zhao Juan was a crazy woman, and crazy women would eat children.

"My grandma said that the crazy woman's child must have been taken away and eaten by wild dogs!"

"My grandfather said that she must have cheated on a man. It was a wild man outside and her child. The baby was taken away by the wild man!"

"The crazy woman's child must be dead. My parents said it was her fault because she was useless and didn't take good care of her child!"

Zhao Juan was struck by lightning.

She walked out of the water in a daze, looking at the children with dull and confused eyes.

"Yes...I didn't protect my baby well..."

"It's all my fault!"

"I was so stupid, really. I only knew that I was tired and needed to rest, but I didn't know someone would steal my baby."

She saw a round-faced child among them, and immediately grinned and rushed towards the child quickly, "Baby!"

"Mom found you!"

"Come home with mommy, baby!"

"Ahhhh! Help! A crazy woman is eating children! Run!"

Several children were so scared that they ran away in all directions. Some of them angrily hit Zhao Juan in the face with stones before running away.

Zhao Juan's face was covered in blood, but she was crying and laughing.

"I found my son..."

"They all said my son was dead, but I didn't believe it..."

There is more than one Zhao Juan in Yecheng.

She was just the most inconspicuous member of a family that had lost its child.