Xu Tong murmured, "But Zhou Jian'an and Zhou Fangchun have already run away. As far as I know, those two were the leaders of the mutual aid society. They've all run away, so who am I supposed to look for?"
Xu Tong doesn't have superpowers, so how would she know where the person went?
If she had that ability, she would have already put a map on Zhou Jian'an and followed him wherever he went, even when he defecated or urinated. She wouldn't be in this state now, frantically searching like a headless fly.
Chu Yu was thinking about how to reasonably and legally tell her the information he had.
Chu Yu phrased it as follows:
“I have a friend whose uncle was cheated out of a lot of money by a mutual aid society. After the society ran away, his uncle and aunt committed suicide by burning charcoal. He hated the mutual aid society so much that he collected evidence against it everywhere. Luckily for him, his friend from Guangdong Province actually met Zhou Jian'an and Zhou Fangchun at the dock!”
"Guangdong Provincial Port? Are they planning to smuggle people to the port city?"
Xu Tong was quite surprised. She thought that the siblings would at most find a place to hide for a few days, just like people who owe money and go to another place to hide until the storm passes before coming back.
But these two actually want to go to Hong Kong?
Once they cross the border illegally, Xu Tong will have no hope of getting any money.
Chu Yu had revealed their whereabouts to the public security department.
However, these days, police investigations follow established procedures and emphasize cooperation. After Chu Yu reported the case, the police in Beijing were quite proactive, but there happened to be a major smuggling case to handle in Guangdong Province, which diverted a lot of police resources, so they didn't pay much attention to the mutual aid society's case.
Chu Yu initially thought it would be quite troublesome, but upon seeing Xu Tong, she remembered that Dai Donglin had mentioned the Xu family's background.
Xu Tong lost money herself and also borrowed millions of yuan from others. Unable to repay the money, she could only put pressure on the Xu family to find the Zhou siblings as soon as possible.
The embezzled funds were recovered.
Chu Yu sold the information to her, so Xu Tong owes her a favor.
It won't do her any harm.
Xu Tong's eyes lit up. "Does he know which dock it is?"
"He mentioned to me that their genes seem to have a specific route to the port city. The place where my friend bumped into them was called something like Feng'an Bridge."
Feng'an Bridge? Xu Tong didn't know this place, but not knowing it didn't matter. With this place name, he could easily find the two people's whereabouts.
Xu Tong then realized how wrong she was. Zhou Yun wasn't blinded by greed and treating the country girl like a treasure.
Zhou Yun was clearly smarter than a monkey, and she saw that Chu Yu was unusual.
This girl couldn't possibly be raised in the countryside.
How could an ordinary person calmly analyze the situation and offer feasible solutions when she was at her wit's end?
Xu Tong suddenly felt that her past self was ridiculous.
People can always overturn their past selves, reshape their perceptions, and reflect on themselves in an instant.
Xu Tong saw her own narrow-mindedness in Chu Yu. She decided that after this matter was resolved, she would repay this girl properly. Even if she couldn't win Zhou Fangchun back in the end, she would still regard Chu Yu as her benefactor.
From now on, this girl will be under her protection in the compound. Anyone who dares to bully Chu Yu will have to go through her.
Xu Tong acted swiftly. As soon as Chu Yu sent the message, action was taken in Guangdong Province. By the time Chu Yu received the news from Li Jinchao, only one hour had passed since she sent the message to Xu Tong.
These past few days have been tough for Zhou Jian'an and Zhou Fangchun.
They originally planned to hide in a fishing boat and smuggle themselves to the port city.
This is also one of the common methods of illegal immigration.
More than 20 years ago, Guangdong province experienced several major waves of people fleeing to Hong Kong.
Just after the three years of natural disasters, the ten-year Great Revolution began, and the educated youth in Guangdong Province could not see a future.
They learned that after a day of hard work, they only earned a few cents in work points, while farmers in the port city could earn more than 10,000 yuan a year, and white-collar workers could easily earn several thousand yuan a month.
People in the port city use trendy home appliances, drive luxury cars, and live in high-rise buildings.
The people of the port city do nothing, and the government gives them several thousand yuan in subsidies every year. But the educated youth from the mainland have to work day and night, endure hunger, and suffer a lot of mental torture in addition to physical torture in order to earn 100 yuan.
With the national situation tense, people are looking forward to moving to the port city to live a prosperous life.
In order to escape to Hong Kong, people are willing to spend a lot of time practicing swimming every day, hoping to swim directly from the bay to the other side. However, in recent years, due to strict regulations, this route has been almost completely blocked. In addition, swimming to the other side takes one or two days, and the mortality rate is extremely high.
Zhou Jian'an and Zhou Fangchun both chose not to take this path.
They all chose fishing boats.
Luckily, we ended up with the same boatman.
They all thought they had the victory in their grasp, and the other person was left behind in Beijing as a scapegoat, awaiting police interrogation.
But who could have known that they would spot each other at a glance in the cabin of the same speedboat, among more than 30 stowaways?
That's awkward.
Zhou Chufei, without any guile, shouted at Zhou Fangchun:
"Second Aunt!"
Zhou Jian'an's face darkened, his veins bulged, and he glared fiercely at Zhou Fangchun, gritting his teeth as he said:
"Second sister, what are you doing here?"
The shampoo girl took his money, saying she would find someone to lock Zhou Fangchun up. He thought Zhou Fangchun couldn't escape, but he actually saw his own sister, whom he should have abandoned, on the fishing boat that was smuggling people across the border.
Zhou Fangchun's smile was sarcastic, almost distorted. "That's the question I should be asking you. What are you doing here? My dear brother!"
Zhou Fangchun gritted her teeth.
She initiated the mutual aid association. She had witnessed how nuns committed fraud and absconded. She always thought she was in a dominant position, but she never expected that Zhou Jian'an, whom she had never taken seriously, could predict her prediction.
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