Yu Qiuying clearly remembers that in 1995, at the end of this year, three children went missing in Shuiba Village.
At the time, Shuiba Village almost suffered a fatality because the disappearance of the three children was related to a family in Shuiba Village that made coffins.
The family's ancestors were tomb raiders. After the reform and opening up, they started a coffin business in the village. I don't know if it's related to that, but every generation of male members in that family doesn't live long.
These days, many people are superstitious. That family only had one son in this generation, and he was about to get married when he suddenly developed a high fever that wouldn't go down. They were taken to the provincial hospital, but the doctor couldn't cure him. So they went to find a sorceress in Tutang Village.
Yu Qiuying didn't know exactly how the fortune teller performed the divination, but in the end, she found two men with strong birth charts to move into that family's house, saying they had to stay for a full five months.
The most amazing thing is that a few days after the two men moved into that family's house, the family's son's fever really did gradually subside.
At the time, the story spread like wildfire throughout the surrounding villages.
But in early February, just before the Lunar New Year, the two men suddenly disappeared, along with the three children.
After investigating the situation, the police confirmed that the two men were human traffickers, one of whom was a wanted criminal. The three children were taken away by the two traffickers.
When the children's family learned of this, they immediately beat up the family that made the coffin, nearly killing their son.
In the end, the whole family and the sorceress were arrested.
At the time, this incident caused quite a stir in the entire Xinfeng County.
However, Zhong Xiaolan had already married into the family by then. During that time, Yu Qiuying and Zhong Xiaolan were constantly arguing, causing chaos in the house. Yu Qiuying had no energy to pay attention to anything else and only overheard snippets of their conversations.
She didn't know whether the two men were caught or not; all she knew was that the three children were never found.
Thinking of this, Yu Qiuying frowned. Could that fugitive from yesterday be a human trafficker?
"Mom, what's wrong? Are you worried about Caiping too? Maybe I should go to Shuiba Village tomorrow and talk to Caiping, and tell her to be careful." Seeing that Yu Qiuying suddenly stopped moving and her brows were furrowed, Zhou Cailian thought that she was also worried about Zhou Caiping.
Yu Qiuying came to her senses and said, "No need to go, it should be fine."
The reason she didn't let Cailian go wasn't because she was targeting her second daughter, but because a guess suddenly popped into her mind. She planned to find some time to go to Shuiba Village herself to find out what the situation was like for the family that made coffins.
If that family still hires two men to live in their house, just like in her previous life, she'll have to go and check if one of them is the fugitive from yesterday.
Hopefully, she's just overthinking things.
Regardless, she had to find an opportunity to talk to the police about this. If she didn't know, that would be fine, but now that she did, she couldn't let those three children be abducted like she did in her previous life.
"Oh, are you really alright?" Zhou Cailian was still a little worried.
Yu Qiuying gathered her thoughts. "What could possibly happen? That man is too busy running for his life to dare show his face at this time. Eat quickly. I have to go to your Uncle Qiu's house tomorrow. If Lao Wu comes back tomorrow, tell him to tidy up his room. Make him take down the mosquito net and bed sheets and wash them. If he doesn't wash them, don't let him eat, understand?"
Yu Qiuying's youngest son went out this morning and hasn't come back yet. She's too lazy to look for him, since he's not going to get lost anyway.
"Okay, I understand." This time, Zhou Cailian didn't say much. Since her mother wanted to discipline her younger brother, she couldn't be soft-hearted and indulge him anymore, otherwise all her mother's good intentions would be in vain.
The next day, after breakfast, Yu Qiuying went out to the town to take a bus to the county seat.
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