"Attention all villagers! Attention all villagers! My daughter, Zhao Xiaoyan, is missing! She just disappeared while delivering dumplings to Grandma Zhang's house! Whoever finds my daughter, I'll let him date her!"
It turned out that Zhao Xiaoyan's father, seeing that his daughter had not returned for a long time, went out to look for her at Old Mrs. Zhang's house.
Of course, Old Mrs. Zhang wouldn't tell the truth and say she didn't see it.
Zhao Xiaoyan's father was immediately alarmed. He was very strict with his daughter and was afraid that she would be harmed by the men in the village.
My daughter never leaves the house, never goes out to visit others, so there's no way she could have disappeared. The fact that she's gone can only mean one thing:
Zhao Xiaoyan's father rushed to the village office immediately and used a loudspeaker to make a message.
"Hold!"
The eldest brother's expression changed drastically.
"This old man reacted so quickly?"
The third brother panicked too.
"We're doomed! Now every single bachelor in the village will be coming out looking for us!"
Indeed, Zhao Xiaoyan's father's promise was like a stone thrown into calm water.
In less than ten minutes, the entire Zhangjiazhuang village was in an uproar.
Doors were pushed open, and men rushed out with hoes and shovels, some even carrying torches.
"Zhao Xiaoyan!!"
"Xiaoyan, where are you...?"
Shouts rose and fell, coming from afar and growing closer.
The atmosphere inside the cave instantly became extremely tense.
The fourth brother was so scared that he trembled.
"Brothers...should we run?"
The eldest brother gritted his teeth as he looked at Zhao Xiaoyan, who was struggling on the ground again, a fierce glint in his eyes.
"Run? You think you can let the duck that's already in your mouth fly away?"
He grabbed Zhao Xiaoyan and gagged her to prevent her from screaming, then yelled at his three younger brothers.
"Come on, put her in bed, let's pack our things! Let's go to the back mountain!"
The second-in-command hurriedly grabbed the rope from the ground and tied Zhao Xiaoyan up.
The other two were quickly tidying up.
The tidying up was completed quickly.
The eldest brother picked up Zhao Xiaoyan and ran deeper into the cave.
There is a narrow passage leading to the other side of the hillside.
...
The next morning.
At 5:30 a.m., just as dawn was breaking, Su Jianguo rode his bicycle to the police station.
He barely slept a wink all night, waiting to go to Zhangjiazhuang to find someone today.
"Officer Li!"
Su Jianguo spotted Officer Li smoking in the yard at a glance and rushed over in three steps.
When do we set off?
Officer Li stubbed out his cigarette and patted Su Jianguo on the shoulder.
"Don't rush, we'll leave once Xiao Wang and the others are ready."
He looked at Su Jianguo's bloodshot eyes.
"You haven't slept all night?"
"I can't sleep."
Su Jianguo took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, shook one out, and handed it to Officer Li.
"I must find those four beasts and make them pay the price."
Officer Li took the cigarette and lowered his voice.
"Don't worry, we brought police dogs this time. Anything belonging to those four won't escape."
Su Jianguo felt relieved when he heard that police dogs had been deployed.
Transportation these days isn't that advanced, especially since one of the four was missing an ear.
Even if they try to escape, they can't get very far.
Officer Li glanced at his watch.
"Wait ten more minutes, then we'll leave once everyone arrives."
Ten minutes later, a jeep and two sidecar motorcycles drove out of the police station compound.
They soon drove out of Beijing and headed straight for Zhangjiazhuang, which was not far away.
It took more than ten minutes to drive.
"Zhangjiazhuang is just ahead."
Officer Li's voice came through the phone.
Su Jianguo looked up and could already see the outline of the village in the distance.
Strangely, there seemed to be a lot of people gathered at the village entrance, and some were running around.
Something's not right.
Officer Wang, who was driving, frowned.
"Why are there so many people so early?"
It's not the busy farming season now, and people in the village usually don't get up too early. The current situation seems a bit off.
As the car drew closer, Su Jianguo could finally see the scene at the village entrance.
At least twenty or thirty villagers were running around, some of them carrying sticks and shovels.
They were shouting something, their voices particularly clear in the morning air.
"Zhao Xiaoyan! Zhao Xiaoyan!"
"What happened?"
Officer Li rolled down the car window and leaned out to ask.
As soon as the jeep stopped at the village entrance, an old man with gray hair rushed over.
He looked to be in his sixties, his blue cloth jacket was wrinkled, and his face was covered with a mixture of sweat and dust.
"Officers! Officers, you've finally arrived!"
The old man rushed to the front of the car and knelt down with a thud.
"Please, please, save my daughter!"
Officer Li quickly got out of the car and helped the old man up.
"Grandpa, what happened? Tell me slowly."
The old man's lips trembled, and tears streamed down his face.
"My daughter, Xiaoyan, went to deliver dumplings to Grandma Zhang last night and hasn't come back yet! The whole village has been searching all night, but we haven't seen a trace of her!"
Su Jianguo also got out of the car, and when he heard the words "Grandma Zhang", his eyebrows twitched.
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