Chapter 29: Trip to Haicheng
"Is it your eldest nephew?" The waitress was very excited when she talked about this. After all, it was the first strange thing she knew:
"Everyone here knows that the kid is very strong. When he was five years old, he could easily lift an adult weighing 150 kilograms over his head! We all said that when he grows up, he will definitely be able to move a ton of things. It's a pity that he was born in this small place. If he was born in Haicheng or the capital, he would have a bright future."
Ye Qinglan thought to himself, this strength is even greater than what Wei Han said. If it is true, it must be a natural supernatural power.
If such a child is smart, it would be great to train him to be an agent.
The waitress continued, "If you can participate in the sports meet, the weightlifting event, wouldn't you win a lot of awards? Participating in that - oh no, you said you were going to Qiannan Town? I remember he was not from Qiannan Town, but from Wanmiao Town, the same town as my grandmother's."
Ye Qinglan mentioned Qiannan Town casually.
At this moment, he changed his words: "That may be my mother's misremembering. She is old and a little confused. Comrade, then let me ask again, which brigade is he from? Or does he just live in the town?"
The waitress didn't answer and looked at her questioningly: "Comrade, isn't that your nephew? How come you don't know anything about him?"
"It's a long story. My family was poor before and couldn't afford to raise more children, so my mother gave my second sister away. Now that my family is better off, I want to find my second sister. It took a lot of effort to find out some information. I had been studying in another city before, and this time when I returned to my hometown, my mother told me about this and asked me to look for her."
When it comes to lying, she is not embarrassed at all, nor is she afraid of being exposed. If one lie is not enough, she can just tell another one.
After she said this, the waitress suddenly understood.
He clapped his hands and said, "You've asked the right person. I remember that child's family was from the Red Star Brigade, which seemed to be the Xiaoliu Production Brigade, now called Xiaoliu Village. Her mother's family was from my grandmother's brigade. In the spring, my grandmother told me that the child's mother was not in good health. I don't know how she is now. I haven't seen my grandmother for more than half a year."
Ye Qinglan didn't expect to find the child's address so easily.
I quickly thanked the waitress: "Oh, comrade, thank you so much, really. Your news is really important to me. I don't know how to thank you. Let me give you a dollar as a thank you fee."
“No, no…”
The waitress was actually quite tempted, as it was only one dollar, but she thought it seemed too greedy to charge money for just a few casual words, so she firmly refused to accept it.
The two of them made some excuses.
Ye Qinglan thought that this girl was in really good spirits and thanked her a few more times. Then she left and they were almost done with their meal.
After leaving the state-owned hotel, she went to the bus station to ask about the bus to Wat Myeong Town.
The people at the station said that Wanmiao Town was about ten miles away from the county seat, which was relatively close, and there were many cars passing by, so she stayed in a guesthouse in the county seat for one night.
The next morning, I bought a few canned foods and a few bags of sugar and took a bus to Wa Miao Town.
After arriving, she walked another three or four miles to Xiaoliu Village. She found the village chief, who sighed and looked gloomy when he heard that she was looking for her child.
Ye Qinglan secretly thought that this was not good.
"Village Chief, is there anything inconvenient?"
The village chief then spoke: "Comrade, you are late. Hu Tou got lost half a month ago. Half a month ago, his uncle and aunt took him to go to the gathering place, but they didn't know that the child never came back."
Tiger Head is the strong kid.
Ye Qinglan thought to himself, what a coincidence!
"Village head, didn't you search the village? Didn't you contact the police?"
Village chief: "How can you not look for a lost child? Didn't you find him? I wanted to ask the police, but his uncle and aunt didn't want to, saying that the police were so busy and there was no need to bother them. They also said that Hu Tou was very strong and would not suffer even if he was lost. He might find his way back home one day. His own family didn't care, so what can outsiders do?"
What kind of bullshit is this!
Ye Qinglan felt that there was something wrong here.
"Village chief, can you tell me in detail? I am really this child's relative. I came from Fanzhou and my family also lives in Fanzhou. These things were originally bought for the child's family, but now they are all for your honor. Why is Hutou being taken care of by his uncle and aunt?"
The village chief glanced at the things on the table, and then slowly began to speak: Hu Tou's father died when he was young, and he had been living with his mother. But that spring, his mother also died of illness, and after his mother died, he went to his grandmother's house.
But my grandmother and two uncles never separated. After less than a month, my uncle and aunt were unwilling to raise another child, so they sent the child back.
Before she got lost, she lived with her uncle, aunt, and a blind grandmother.
The reason why the village chief looked unhappy was because he suspected that the child had been given away or sold by his uncle and aunt. But it was not nice to give away the only flesh and blood of his brother, so he lied that the child was lost and was unwilling to call the police.
Ye Qinglan got some useful information. She sat at the village chief's house for a while and then suggested going around the village. The village chief asked his grandson to take her around.
As soon as she left, the village head's wife said, "Is this comrade really a relative of Hu Tou?"
The village chief shook his head: "Maybe. He looks quite rich."
He took a cigarette and sniffed it, but he couldn't bear to smoke it. This cigarette was just given to him by Ye Qinglan. It was a good cigarette. I'm afraid this one costs fifty cents!
The village chief's wife spat: "No matter if he has money or not, Hu Tou was definitely sold by his uncle. This child is a miserable person."
"What are you talking about? There is no evidence."
"Tsk, evidence? Haven't you seen that his family has been eating meat and chicken these days? Who has the money to eat like that? There must be something fishy going on."
The village chief's face darkened when he heard this. It's hard to say about this family.
Ye Qinglan went around the village and got some information from the village chief's grandson. When she passed by Uncle Hutou's house, she saw his two sons squatting in the yard, each holding a can of food and eating, while Aunt Hutou was plucking duck feathers. She had a basic judgment.
After leaving Xiaoliu Village, she packed up her things and went directly to Haicheng, where she went to the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai.
The next day, Hutou's uncle and aunt were "invited" away by the police from Pingxin County.
After just a few threats, the other party said that they had given the tiger head to a family in the neighboring county, Shengnan County, and that family gave them 400 yuan as a thank-you fee.
When Ye Qinglan and two police officers rushed to Shengnan County overnight and joined forces with the Shengnan County police to find the family, they were told that the child had run away!
The hostess was furious: "If you hadn't come, I would have gone to Xiaoliu Village in two days. We agreed that I would give them 400 yuan and they would sell the child to me. Now the child has run away, I have to ask them for money, and also ask them, is that a child? On the way, he lied to us that he had to urinate, and then he took my man and threw him into the river!"