The woman wanted to ask more, but was stopped by the man. The man smiled at Lian and Qing and said, "Excuse me, comrade. Let's go ask somewhere else."
Looking at their hunched backs, Lian Yuqing asked, "Have you gone to the police station to report the case?"
The woman nodded.
"My husband is in the army. Give me the photo and I'll ask him."
The woman was overjoyed and excitedly handed the photo to Lian Yuqing as if she had found a treasure.
"Thank you, comrade. You are such a good man."
Lian Yuqing was not originally a nosy person, but in this age of ignorance and scarcity, he became more compassionate.
"Comrade, my name is Bifang, and this is my wife, Lin Fengxia. If you can help me find my daughter, we will give you everything we have to repay you." The man said sincerely.
Lian Yuqing put the photo away and said, "There's no need to spend all your money. Tell me about your daughter's life before she disappeared."
The cold wind was blowing outside. Lian Yuqing looked at the thinly dressed couple across from him and said, "It's cold outside. Let's talk inside."
Lian Yuqing asked the elder sister for a pot of hot water, and she was willing to serve him even though he didn't order any dishes.
Lin Fengxia held the cup of hot water in her chilblained hands, her eyes blurred by the heat. "Minmin has been obedient since she was young, got along well with neighbors and classmates, and never quarreled with anyone. How could such a good child..."
She lay in her husband's arms and sobbed quietly. Bifang could only hug his wife tightly, his expression unable to hide his pain.
"Where did she go that day?"
Bifang: "She said she was going to hang out with her friends. Later we went to ask her, but she never came back home after leaving her friend's house. No one had seen her."
Lian Yuqing was not a criminal investigator, so she could not come up with an analysis. Based on the suspenseful police and gangster movies she had watched, she asked one last question: "Did anything strange happen before she disappeared? Or anything unusual?"
After a while, Bifang shook his head. At this time, Lin Fengxia suddenly said, "I remember one thing. A month before she disappeared, I asked her to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some brown sugar."
"But she didn't buy brown sugar that day, and her clothes were dirty. I asked her a few questions, but she refused to tell me."
Lin Fengxia held her husband's hand tightly, "Lao Fang, do you think our daughter has offended someone?"
Bifang looked at Lian Yuqing.
"Well, the two of you go to the supply and marketing cooperative where she was before she died, take the photos and ask what happened that day. After you find out, inform the police, and we'll meet up in a few days."
"good."
Lian and Qing took a car to the army. She showed the photo to the soldier who was driving. He often traveled between the army and the city and met many people, but had never seen Bi Minmin.
She got off the car at the entrance of the unit and asked the soldier on duty, but he also said he had never seen him.
Later, Lian Yuqing found Qian Liang and asked him to help show the photo to everyone in the army, and anyone who had seen it or remembered it should tell her.
When I saw Cai Guifen in the evening, she said that Xiaohuzi's fever had subsided. The chubby boy was lying listlessly on the bed with a red face.
Lian Yuqing took a piece of candy to tease him. Little Tiger stretched out his little hand to take it, but Lian Yuqing took it away: "You can eat it only when you get better."
After a while, the child fell asleep and began to snore.
Lian Yuqing and Cai Guifen went to the living room. Cai Guifen said, "According to what you said, this girl either eloped or was kidnapped. It's more likely than not."
"Yeah." Lian Yuqing had thought about it before.
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