55 Treasures Hidden in the Old Tree
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Lingcheng County is not big, and the police can still find out the whereabouts of the missing girls in the past few days through careful investigation.
In the end, Iketani Ai found out that it was a woman in her thirties who took them away.
When the police came to the store where Chi Guyu had been, the owner of the clothing store learned that several young girls were missing and had been taken away by middle-aged women. He immediately told the police everything he knew.
He was afraid that the police would misunderstand him as that woman's accomplice.
"Although I am related to that woman, it really has nothing to do with me if these people are missing."
"My shop was too busy at the time and I didn't have time to hire anyone. My cousin who worked in the Eighth Route Army happened to be back from Hong Kong City. He had nothing to do so he came over to help me for two days."
"These girls had indeed come to my shop to buy clothes before. The person who served them was my cousin who was from the Outlander Group. But I was too busy at the time and didn't pay much attention. Now that I think about it, she seemed to have been talking to those girls about making a fortune in Hong Kong."
"My cousin from the Eighth Route Army also left last night. The timing matches. Those girls must have gone with her to make a lot of money."
Seeing that the owner was evasive when talking about his cousin, Iketani Ai immediately guessed that the other party's profession might not be so innocent.
When asked further, the owner hesitated for a moment, but still told us all his guesses.
But before saying that, he patched himself up.
"Comrade Public Security, it's not that I want to hide this, but those are just my guesses and I can't be sure."
"If I tell you something and it's wrong, wouldn't that ruin my reputation? If my cousin's family finds out, they'll fight me to the death."
Seeing the owner hesitating and stammering, Iketani Ai lost her patience.
The most important thing for them now is to find out the whereabouts of the woman as soon as possible and bring her back.
If so many young girls were really abducted by human traffickers, so many families would be broken.
Just last year they caught all the local human traffickers in Lingcheng County and thought they would have some peace for a while.
Unexpectedly, the local human traffickers disappeared, but people from other places came here.
Go to Hong Kong to make a fortune? Is Hong Kong so easy to go?
Just by seeing that she specifically picks on young and ignorant girls to coax them, you can tell that even if she is not a human trafficker, she is not a good person.
Seeing that Iketani Ai was getting impatient with her procrastination and frowned, the owner didn't dare to delay any longer.
"When our relatives get together, we all speculate about what kind of job my cousin from the Eighth Route Army does in Hong Kong City."
"She was beautiful since she was young, and the man she married was also very promising, with a stable job. But people are never satisfied. After the policy opened up a few years ago, her husband said he had relatives in Hong Kong and wanted to take her there to live a good life."
"They both quit their jobs and went there. This year during the Chinese New Year, she finally came back, but she came back alone."
"It is said that her husband drowned while trying to stow away. Without him, she couldn't find any relatives and almost ended up in the slums."
"Fortunately, she was lucky. Not long after she came ashore, she met a kind person who introduced her to a job."
"I heard that even jobs like washing dishes in Hong Kong pay very high wages, many times more than in the mainland."
"If I hadn't opened a clothing store and made a lot of money, I would have almost been coaxed into going with her."
"But the more I think about it, the more it seems wrong. She said she worked as a waitress in a restaurant, but not only did she dress in a worldly way, but there were no signs of work on her hands."
"Some of my more knowledgeable relatives said she might be like those prostitutes before liberation, not doing any serious work."
"It's all speculation. Maybe we just assumed too badly of him and guessed wrong."
Although he said this, the shop owner felt that this was probably the case.
The owner couldn't help feeling a little regretful.
If she had known that the cousin from the Eighth Route Army would take advantage of the opportunity to help in her shop to cheat the little girl, she would not have been greedy for that little bit of free labor.
Now look what happened, not only did I not get much advantage, but I also got into trouble.
If the missing girl cannot be found, will the parents who lost their children let her go?
The disaster happened in her shop, and those parents must have torn it down.
Her store business is booming and she can make a lot of money every day.
If she was disturbed, she would be heartbroken.
The shop owner became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it, and hoped to find the person back as soon as possible even more than Iketani Ai.
After hearing the shop owner's guess, Iketani Ai's bad feeling became stronger and stronger.
Coming from the future, she knew more about the situation in the port city than the shop owner.
Those who fled to Hong Kong had just smuggled into the port city. If they had no relatives to rely on and were illegal immigrants, they would often end up in slums or become prostitutes.
After falling into depravity, many of these people choose to collude with evil forces in order to live a better life.
Those who had fallen on hard times in the early days even took the initiative to return to the mainland, using the pretext of going to Hong Kong to make a lot of money and live a good life, and coaxed many young and beautiful mainland girls to smuggle with them to Hong Kong.
Once these girls arrive in Hong Kong, they will lose their personal freedom.
By then, they will have no way to seek help and will be left to do whatever the evil forces want them to do.
Thinking of this, Ikeyani Ai immediately returned to the Public Security Bureau to inform the director of the situation, and then called for help from the public security bureaus in the provinces and cities along the way.
I hope they can intercept the person.
Even if she disliked her half-sister Chi Guyu, she didn't want her to end up in such a shameful place.
What's more, there were many innocent little girls with Chi Guyu.
Fortunately, the missing person was found in time. In addition, it is now a period of severe crackdown, and public security departments in various places are strictly checking people coming and going.
When the middle-aged woman and a group of young girls just got on a train from the provincial capital to a southern city, they were discovered by the conductor who had received the news.
When the middle-aged woman was grabbed and handcuffed by the flight attendant who suddenly appeared, Chi Guyu and several young girls were all shocked.
Chi Guyu thought that the conductor had arrested the wrong person and tried to speak well of the middle-aged woman.
This is the noble man who can take her to Hong Kong to make a fortune. If he is taken away by the train police, how can she go to Hong Kong to make a fortune?!
Chi Guyu, who had seen the prosperous scenery of the port city in picture magazines, was completely moved after listening to the woman's deception.
She has been unwilling to be ordinary since she was a child.
She originally thought that finding a good family in the mainland and marrying there would be a good future, but after listening to the woman's descriptions of Hong Kong City, she was full of beautiful visions of Hong Kong City.
Sister Xu said that a Miss Hong Kong star from a few years ago came from a very low-income family and had even lived on the streets in poverty.
Just because she is beautiful, she participated in the Miss Hong Kong pageant and became successful.
Now, not only has she become a big star and is highly sought after, but she can also earn more money by filming any drama or even taking any advertisement than she could earn in her entire life working hard in the mainland.
Chi Guyu, who wanted to make a fortune and become a popular star, was looking forward to Sister Xu taking her to the port city illegally.
Otherwise, as a young and weak girl, she would not be able to smuggle herself across the border even if she wanted to.
But she knew that if she tried to smuggle herself across the border without any connections or guidance, she would be risking her life.
Sister Xu’s husband is still a strong man. He drowned while trying to cross the river illegally.
She didn't want to die before achieving her goal.
When she sneaks into Hong Kong and becomes a big star that everyone admires, she will definitely return to the mainland and show off to Iketani Ai.
Even if Ikeyai has a stable job as a police officer, so what? He will still earn only a few cents in his lifetime!
By then, Iketani Ai will definitely be jealous of her and envy her to death.
And she will never let Ikeyai Ai get any advantage of her!
Also, isn't her father Chi Jianjun a son-in-law who values her brother Chi Gufeng more than girls? In order to save money for Chi Gufeng to get married, he doesn't allow her to continue her studies.
When she becomes a big star, I’d like to see if her father will regret not treating her better!
Although she is not very beautiful, Chi Guyu, who is extremely confident in herself, thinks so.
The prerequisite for achieving all this is that Sister Xu is not arrested and is not forcibly sent back to her hometown by the police.
Obviously, Chi Guyu, who has been found by the police, can no longer go to Gangcheng.
After Chi Guyu's dream of living in Hong Kong was shattered and he was sent back to Lingcheng County, he made a big fuss at home.
Even when she heard from the police that Sister Xu's job in Gangcheng was not a proper one, she turned a deaf ear to it.
"Woo woo, Chi Gu loves her so much that she can't stand me being well. If she hadn't been so nosy, I would have followed Sister Xu to Hong Kong City."
"That's Hong Kong, a place full of money. I can make a lot of money just by finding a job. Not to mention I might even become a big star."
"Now look what happened, she's messed it up!"
Chi Jianjun, who had finally found his little daughter, could no longer bear to hear her heartless words.
If he, as a father, hadn't begged her, Chi Gu Ai wouldn't have bothered to bother with the damn girl Chi Guyu and go to so much trouble to rescue her.
It would be fine if this damn girl wasn't grateful for being rescued, but she even had the nerve to blame Ikegami Ai.
"Do you know that you were almost sold out by that Sister Xu? She's a prostitute. If you had smuggled yourself to Hong Kong City with her, your life would have been ruined!"
"Why don't you just stay home and find a job, then find someone to marry in the future? I'm your biological father, how could I possibly harm you?"
How could it not harm her?! Stopping her from going to Hong Kong City is harming her!
"I'm not stupid, okay? Sister Xu wanted to sell me out, so why wouldn't I run away? I just wanted to use her to sneak into Hong Kong City!"
Chi Guyu was unwilling to admit that he was deceived by Sister Xu and continued to be stubborn.
And like she said, she's clever.
If she goes to Hong Kong and finds that something is wrong, she will definitely run away.
Chi Jianjun was choked by Chi Guyu's ignorant and naive words and couldn't help rolling his eyes.
She lives too comfortably and has no idea how bad bad people can be.
If she falls into the wrong hands, how can she escape? She is not Nezha with three heads and six arms!
Too lazy to waste words with Chi Guyu anymore, Chi Jianjun simply locked her at home and let her reflect on her mistakes.
When you figure it out, then let her go out.
Then Chi Jianjun struck while the iron was hot and went to the Public Security Bureau, hoping to use this opportunity to repair his father-daughter relationship with Chi Gu Ai.
Because they rescued the deceived girls in time, Iketani Ai and others received endless gratitude from the parents.
When Chi Jianjun came over, Chi Guai and the others were receiving banners from their parents.
Chi Jianjun, who came empty-handed, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.
He only thought that Chi Gu Ai was his own daughter and it was her duty to help him rescue Chi Gu Yu, and he even forgot to send a banner to express his gratitude.
Ike Gu Aike had no time to care about Chi Jianjun. After presenting the banners, the parents asked her what the punishment would be for Sister Xu who was caught.
"A woman this evil should be shot straight away. Not only did she stoop to prostitution, but she also came to harm our children."
"If the police hadn't been so helpful and caught the man in time, our child would have been sold off to the port city as merchandise."
Parents are still frightened when they think about this.
If the child is really coaxed to Hong Kong City by someone named Xu, what good will it do!
After the child was rescued, they could not contain their anger and scolded the child severely.
It was because they were not vigilant enough and were fooled by Sister Xu's words.
His mind was filled with thoughts of going to Hong Kong to make a lot of money. He didn't even tell his parents and just left with a letter.
If they had told their families, this wouldn't have happened.
Although the parents were angry at their children's stupidity, they hated Sister Xu even more for her evil intentions.
After learning from Ai Iketani that Xu's fate would definitely not be good, the parents felt relieved.
They were afraid that the evidence was incomplete and the woman surnamed Xu would get away with it.
If that were the case, they would be vomiting to death.
Fortunately, Mr. Xu was unlucky and encountered a severe crackdown, so this time he will definitely be sentenced to a heavier penalty.
Although Xu kept saying that she just wanted to take the girls to Hong Kong City to make a lot of money and didn't mean to harm anyone, no one could see her real purpose.
It is only right to convict her of human trafficking.
Afterwards, in order to raise everyone's vigilance, the county public security bureau also held several lectures in the county.
It is to prevent everyone from easily believing those words that there will be pie in the sky and that you can make a lot of money by going out with others.
Now that the policies have been relaxed, you can indeed make a lot of money by going to the south, but there are even more scams and frauds.
Don't trust others easily. You may not only not make money but also lose yourself.
In the past two years, many people have been sold to Southeast Asia as pigs or forced to work in illegal coal mines.
Especially teenagers who are still in school are the key targets of the Public Security Bureau's publicity this time.
When she thought of those young girls who were coaxed into following Sister Xu with just a few words and foolishly followed her without telling their families, Ikeyani Ai sighed.
I don’t know whether to say that they are too naive or too stupid.
I just hope that after this lesson, they will be more vigilant.
After being locked up at home for several days, Chi Guyu finally became more obedient when he saw that making a fuss was of no use.
Seeing that she had calmed down a lot and stopped making trouble, Chi Jianjun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
God knows Chi Guyu has been throwing things around and swearing at home these days, annoyed all the neighbors in the building.
If he hadn't taken the initiative to come and apologize, Aunt Wang and the others would have blocked his house.
Chi Jianjun, who felt that he had given birth to an unjust person, became more determined to find a husband for Chi Guyu as soon as possible.
Although Chi Guyu was only seventeen years old and still one year away from adulthood, Chi Jianjun couldn't wait.
As this troublemaker, he should let her get married as soon as possible and cause trouble to other families.
He is old and really can't bear it.
But Chi Guyu’s reputation is not good now, and it is not easy to find a suitable family for her to marry in the county.
There was no other way, Chi Jianjun could only look lower.
These days, a county town household registration is still very valuable. People in the county town look down on Chi Guyu, but many people in the towns and villages below are willing to look at Chi Guyu.
After all, the woman has a city hukou, so if she has a child in the future, she can directly settle down in the city and eat the food supply.
This is very attractive to those families in towns and villages who have some wealth but cannot become city dwellers.
That's why Chi Jianjun found a matchmaker and spread the news, and many families expressed their willingness to meet the girl.
When Chi Guyu learned that her biological father was so eager to arrange a blind date for her, and that he only looked for people from rural towns, she was furious.
After only two days of peace, he started quarreling with Chi Jianjun again.
"I'd rather die than marry a country bumpkin. If you really want to find me a family like that, I'd just hang myself at home!"
As he spoke, Chi Guyu took out a rope and pretended to swing it onto the roof.
"What kind of family did you find for Chi Gu Ai before? Why do you become a country bumpkin when you come to me?"
"It's okay if you want me to get married, but the blind date partner must be similar to the one you found for Ikeyani Ai."
Chi Jianjun was so angry.
Doesn’t Chi Guyu know what her own conditions are?
He wanted to find a well-off family for Chi Guyu, but the family had to be likable to him.
Doesn't he want to find a son-in-law from a better family? Isn't it that Chi Guyu doesn't meet his requirements?
If Chi Guyu wants to blame someone, she can only blame herself for not living up to her expectations.
If she hadn't completely ruined her reputation through her own reckless behavior, would he have given up on the city candidate and looked for someone in the countryside for her?!
Even those people in the towns and villages were not interested in Chi Guyu as a person.
Instead, he was attracted by Chi Guyu's city household registration, his connections over the years, and his sister Chi Guai, who was a police officer.
"Anyway, you have to go to this blind date, or get out of here and fend for yourself! I don't have that much money to keep you at home doing nothing and eating for free all day!"
Ever since Chi Guyu was found, the money she had taken from Chi Jianjun was confiscated by Chi Jianjun.
Chi Guyu, who is penniless, wants to be tough, but he can't.
In the end, after mumbling a lot, he decided to muddle through and agreed to go and see her.
It's just a matter of going to see each other, and it doesn't necessarily mean it will work out.
By then, she will definitely mess up the photo shoot.
When the man changes his mind, her father can't blame her.
During this period, she had to find a way to get money.
With the money, she could sneak into the port city by herself.
Chi Guyu, who has not given up his dream of becoming a big star in Hong Kong, has made up his mind not to act up in the next few days.
Chi Jianjun thought that it was his economic sanctions that scared Chi Guyu, and he couldn't help but regret not sanctioning her earlier.
Then, Chi Jianjun remembered that he had punished Chi Guyu before, but at that time Chi Guyu found a middle-aged man to support him.
His heart suddenly tightened, fearing that this evil creature would betray him and hook up with someone else.
Chi Jianjun felt that it was not safe for Chi Guyu to stay in the county town, so he took Chi Guyu back to his hometown in the countryside that day.
I plan to have the blind date in my hometown in the countryside and then let Chi Guyu come back.
Once we go to the countryside, I don’t believe she can still act like a demon.
Of course, Chi Guyu was not willing to go back to the countryside, but it was not something she could decide.
After being starved for two meals by Chi Jianjun, Chi Guyu finally gave in and went back to the countryside with him in a depressed mood.
After instructing the villagers to help keep an eye on Chi Guyu and prevent her from running away, Chi Jianjun hurried back to the county town.
I plan to wait until the day of the blind date and then take a leave to go back.
Chi Guyu, who was left in the countryside, wanted to run away.
But she had no money, so where could she go?
Just when Chi Guyu was worrying about where to get the money for the trip, Chi Gu Ai also came to his hometown in the countryside to visit his mother's grave.
After Liao Xiangyun died, she was buried in the Chi family's ancestral tomb in their hometown in the countryside.
During the Chinese New Year some time ago, the Public Security Bureau was very busy. It also happened that Sister Xu kidnapped a young girl, so Ikeyai had no time to go to the countryside to visit Liao Xiangyun's grave.
Now that the case was over and the bureau was not very busy, the director gave her two days off.
When she arrived at her hometown in the countryside, Ikegani Ai discovered that Ikegani Yu lived there.
Ignoring Chi Guyu's cock-fighting reaction, Chi Gu Ai pushed her away and went into the old house.
Chi Guyu, who was pulled apart, was so angry that she felt that Chi Gu Ai was just picking on her.
"I lived here first, you can't move in!"
Seeing Chi Gu Ai enter the yard without saying a word, Chi Gu Yu was so angry that he showed his teeth and claws.
Ikegani Aicai ignored her. They were all daughters of the surname Chi, and she also had a share in the old house. Why couldn't she enter!
Chi Guyu tried to stop him again, but was suppressed by Chi Guai with force.
Rubbing his aching arm, he realized that he was no match for Chi Gu Ai in a fight, so Chi Gu Yu didn't dare to fight her again.
"It's fine if you want to live here. I cleaned up the main room with great difficulty. You can't live here."
Ikeyani Ai paused, turned around and went to the west wing of the old house.
When Liao Xiangyun was still alive, the original owner would live here every time he came back to the countryside with Liao Xiangyun to celebrate the New Year.
The main room was once occupied by the deceased old lady Li Zaohua, but she thought it was unlucky and refused to live there even when asked to.
Unable to force Chi Guai away, Chi Guyu could only feel angry and cowardly.
Then she saw that Iketani Ai was carrying a large bag, and her eyes rolled back, and her mood improved a lot.
Thinking that Iketani Ai must have a lot of money on her, Iketani Yu started to target Iketani Ai.
He decided to wait until the next day when Iketani Ai went to visit her mother's grave and then steal things.
Unexpectedly, before dawn, a strong wind suddenly blew at night.
The wind was very strange, and Chi Guyu was frightened by the howling sound and couldn't sleep.
Looking at the hideous shadow swaying outside the window, she thought of her dead aunt Liao Xiangyun and her grandmother Li Zaohua who had once come back to life. She was so scared that she almost couldn't hold her urine.
Chi Guyu wanted to go to the west wing to find Chi Guyai, but the little bit of backbone left in his heart prevailed.
I just curled up in a ball on the bed, holding my urine and staying awake until dawn.
Chi Guyu, who hadn't slept all night, felt dizzy from holding his urine.
Fortunately, the strong wind finally stopped. She struggled to get out of bed, opened the door and went to the bathroom.
Who knew that when he went out to take a look, he found that the persimmon tree in the yard of the old house was blown crooked by the strong wind that suddenly blew at night, and half of the roots were exposed.
Seeing this situation, Chi Guyu was stunned for a moment.
Immediately, my attention was attracted by an iron box exposed next to the tree roots, and I even forgot the strong urge to urinate.
An iron box buried under a tree? Chi Guyu's eyes lit up.
Could this be the treasure her father Chi Jianjun hid? !
Chi Guyu squeezed his legs together and ran over to pick up the iron box.
The only one who moved faster than her was Iketani Ai, who also pushed the door open!
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