Chapter 189
Zhu Meizhen was so distressed that she could only smack her lips. She scolded the brother and sister for spending money lavishly while praising the TV for being good, the refrigerator for being convenient, and the washing machine for being practical.
Of course Xu Wenqiao Qian also needs to warm up the pot.
The Xu family had so many people that they packed the small living room.
This is when the children, led by Xu Che, are not at home.
Xu Wen had just renovated the new house, and Zhu Meizhen didn't allow those naughty boys to play in the room, for fear that they would damage the house.
Xu Qie was at the age where he didn't want to listen to adults talking, and he ran out to play because he was annoyed by Zhu Meizhen's nagging.
Xu Qie was the leader of the group. Once he left, Yuan Bao and Dong Sheng followed him.
Unfortunately, Chunsheng was too young, and the older children thought he couldn't keep up and didn't play with him. He cried sadly for a long time.
Xia Chu was fine, she felt like her mom was her own without her brother around.
However, just as she climbed onto Xu Wen's knees, she was carried away by Lu Yuanzheng, "Mom is pregnant with a little brother or sister, you can't suppress her."
When Xia Chu heard that she had finally waited for her mother, but now she had to share her mother with her younger brother and sister, she burst into tears sadly.
But she only cried a few times, and then stayed obediently in Lu Yuanzheng's arms.
Fortunately, my father is still my own.
The whole family was amused and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Zhu Meizhen looked at the color TV and listened to the washing machine running, but she still felt distressed: "With this ten thousand yuan, you can do something else. You can build several five-room houses in your hometown! You can't eat or drink this stuff you bought."
Xu Wen advised her: "Mom, money is earned to be spent. Otherwise, why do we work so hard to earn money?"
Zhu Meizhen disagrees with Xu Wen's point of view, "How can you earn money and spend it at the same time? You can only feel at ease if you keep it in your hands. Besides, you are spending it happily now. When Dongsheng grows up, he will need money to go to school, right? When he gets married in the future, you will have to pay for the dowry and furniture, right? If the conditions are good, you will also have to buy him an apartment, right?
The same goes for Xiao Xiachu. Even if you don't have to pay a betrothal gift, you still have to buy her dowry, right? Besides, you're pregnant with two babies. You don't know if it's a boy or a girl, don't you have to take care of them?"
Xu asked: "..."
"Mom, you're thinking too far ahead, aren't you?"
Sang Xiaoqing had a similar idea to Zhu Meizhen, "As parents, we definitely want to give our children the best. I've discussed it with your brother, and after we pay off the mortgage, we'll give Chunsheng some money to start a family."
Xu Wen shook his head: "I refuse to work for my children. My money is earned by me. As a parent, I have the obligation to support them and should give them the best life within my ability. But this does not mean that I will sacrifice my quality of life to fulfill them. I can earn money to live a good life, and I think my children can also support themselves.
Of course, if I have the ability, I don’t mind giving them a room and a betrothal gift. But if I don’t have the ability, they can only rely on themselves.”
Lu Yuanzheng interrupted, "Wife, you can also rely on me! I don't make as much money as you, but it's more stable."
Xu asked: "..."
Frankly speaking, Lu Yuanzheng's conditions were already very good. He was already the deputy head of the group at a young age, and his salary was much better than that of ordinary people. It was a pity that he married Xu Wen, a man with a lucky life, and became the weaker party in terms of economy.
Xu Wang tried to smooth things over: "Why are you arguing about this? Every family has its own way of living. Mother, you were all poor back then, and everyone was used to living frugally. But now the conditions are better! What's wrong with living a better life? Ten thousand yuan is indeed a huge sum of money for people like us in Wei Zhuang.
The question is, is Xu Wen an ordinary person? How many tens of thousands of yuan does she make in a year? She can't be so rich that she has to live on salted vegetables, right? As for raising children, with the income of Lu Yuanzheng and Xu Wen, four children can live well. "
Originally Xu Qiushi supported Zhu Meizhen, and after hearing what Xu Wang said, he also advised Zhu Meizhen: "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings! Don't worry about it."
Zhu Meizhen: “…”
She can't say anything bad about her children, and she can't say anything bad about Xu Qiushi?
Zhu Meizhen rolled her eyes at Xu Qiushi in displeasure: "Why are you pretending to be a good person? If you have the ability, you can also make money and let me spend money freely? I will save these heartless people from accusing me of being stingy."
Xu Qiushi: “…”
Xu Wang: “…”
Xu asked: "..."
Lu Yuanzheng and Xie Dechun, the two sons-in-law, looked at each other and quickly changed the subject.
"Dad, how are the crops this year?"
Speaking of land, Xu Qiushi suddenly became lively again, and he talked nonstop: "The land on our island is much more fertile than the land in Wei Zhuang. Whatever you plant will grow well! It's just that the climate is not so good. When it's warm, the crops grow fast! But they grow too fast, and the crops feel like..."
Xu Qiushi frowned, not knowing how to describe it, and only said, "Even if they are made in the same way, the wheat here is not as floury as the wheat in the north. The rice is not as fragrant as the rice in the north."
After hearing the suggestion, Xu Wen said, "Dad, why don't you try growing fruits and vegetables instead? Farming doesn't necessarily mean growing grains, right?"
Xu Qiushi refused subconsciously: "That won't work! What will we eat if we don't grow food? Farmers must grow food when they grow crops."
"Dad, it's not like that. You should plant what is suitable for you. Look at the climate and soil on our island. Aren't the fruits and vegetables grown here sweeter than the ones you planted in Wei Zhuang?"
In Wei Zhuang Commune, people were reluctant to spend money on buying fruit, so they would often plant some fruits and vegetables in the empty spaces between crops in the fields in the spring.
Generally, we plant crops that are easy to manage, such as melons and watermelons.
Some families also plant one or two fruit trees in their yards, mostly pomegranates, followed by peaches and apricots.
Other fruits like figs, apples, pears and dates are also grown.
The fruits produced in Rainbow Island are of course different from those in Wei Zhuang. Most of them are tropical fruits, such as bananas.
But Xu Qiushi didn't understand these things. He carefully pondered Xu Wen's words and nodded, "Don't tell me! The fruits in the south are indeed sweet. They are also juicy."
Xu Qiushi didn't eat much other things, but he had eaten sugarcane. The sugarcane in the north was dry and not very sweet, but the sugarcane on Rainbow Island was so sweet and juicy.
"So the right things can only grow on the right land. This doesn't mean you won't have food to eat. For example, if you grow bananas, you can sell them on the street and exchange the money for rice in the north."
Xu Qiushi slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! Now we can do business!"
Zhu Meizhen disagreed: "You can't buy northern rice here either."
Bringing rice from the north to sell here is called speculation!
Individual business owners are gradually becoming legal, but it is not completely legal yet and is still being gradually opened up.
Xu Wen nodded: "That's it for now. Gradually you'll be able to eat all the popular northern foods here."
If you think about it carefully, the convenience brought by economical flying is really scary.
Without leaving your home, you can buy things from all over the world with just a mobile phone.
In this era, it is indeed unthinkable.
Under the persuasion of his children, Xu Qiushi decided to wait until the grain harvest was over and then try growing some locally produced vegetables and fruits.
If he made money, he would help his fellow villagers become rich.
Now the population of their Xinri Village is increasing. Although it is still less than half of the population of Xinyue Village, the population of Xinri Village is increasing year by year.
Xinyue Village is different and does not accept outsiders.
"When I make money, I'll be jealous of that Louhan Mountain!" Xu Qiushi said angrily.
Xu Wen smiled and shook his head.
Old child, old child. As people get older, they really become more and more like children.
It's amazing that they can keep quarreling for so long at such an old age.
In August, the Yangtze River returned and took Lu Yuanzheng away, saying that he would be away for half a year.
Lu Yuanzheng never said why he was going there, but Xu Wenwen asked the magic mirror.
There was no such thing as escort in the 1980s, but Xu Wen felt that the significance of Lu Yuanzheng's trip was almost the same as escort.
It is mainly used to escort our country's merchant ships and combat pirates.
Xu Wen calculated the time and thought that she would be giving birth by the time Lu Yuanzheng returned.
It's inevitable that I'm still reluctant to separate, but this time it's a little easier to accept because Lu Yuanzheng will call her whenever he has time.
Xu Wen insisted on making a satellite phone in order to break free from the constraints of wired and wireless.
However, I don’t know whether it is due to the immaturity of satellite technology or mobile phone technology, but sometimes calls cannot be connected or there is noise during calls.
Even so, they are very content.
We can talk on the phone at least once a day and tell each other how much we miss each other.
Lu Yuanzheng had nothing to say except that he wanted to ask Xu Wen. He could neither say where he was going nor his current coordinates.
When the two of them talked on the phone, it was usually Xu Wen who did the most chattering, talking about their daily lives.
Most of the time, Lu Yuanzheng just listened quietly.
Xu Wen knew that this was the greatest comfort for Lu Yuanzheng.
When Xu Wen had some free time, apart from occasionally looking at the factory's accounts and walking around the factory, he was mostly idle.
Just like when I took care of Dongsheng, I took Xiao Xiachu out to play.
Children often don't sleep, so Zhu Meizhen often takes Xia Chu to sleep with her for fear that she would disturb Xu Wen's rest.
Sometimes when Xia Chu missed Xu Wen, she would sleep with him.
Normally, when Xu Wen woke up, she was the only one at home. She would get up, wash, clean the house, and then go to her vegetable garden orchard.
Everything, chickens and ducks, was given to Zhu Meizhen. Some branches of her durian tree were broken by the typhoon, and now the number of fruits has obviously decreased.
If I want to cook, I just pick some vegetables and cook them at home. If I don’t want to cook, I just squeeze some milk and take it to Zhu Meizhen to cook, and then visit Xiao Xiachu at the same time.
The cows have now been sent to the battalion headquarters. There are four cows, which is more than enough to provide milk for the soldiers. If it is not enough, we will take turns. Give it to one company today and another company tomorrow.
Only one little dairy cow was left for Xu Qiushi to raise.
Sometimes when Xiao Xiachu sleeps with her, she will wake up early.
When she wakes up, she can make breakfast for Dongsheng. After the family has breakfast, she can also be a good mother and send Dongsheng to school.
Dongsheng was already used to having multiple little sisters, and didn't mind having more little brothers and sisters. This time when Xu Wen was pregnant, he not only didn't get upset, but also took extra care of Xu Wen.
If he was in a hurry, he would go to Zhu Meizhen's house for dinner after getting up early, or he would go to Doudou's house for dinner. If he was not in a hurry, he would cook breakfast for himself and leave a portion for Xu Wen.
He often left notes for Xu Wen in crooked handwriting, reminding her to remember to eat breakfast.
If you know how to write Chinese characters, write them. If you don’t know how to write, use pinyin. If you don’t know pinyin, just draw them.
After finishing breakfast, Xu Wen would take Xia Chu with him, because Xu Qiushi and Zhu Meizhen had to go to the fields to tend to the crops, weed and catch insects.
When the weather is not too hot, I take Xia Chu out to the sea on a houseboat.
If you feel hot, go to the factory office and take care of your work.
Whether it is an office or a workshop, as long as there is no requirement for temperature, it is all equipped with ice cubes and fans for cooling.
Otherwise, take a boat to Pengcheng.
Go visit Uncle Yi, go to Xu Wen's house to eat and drink, or chat and play with Xu Wang, and also get a prenatal check-up.
Uncle Yi is really having his first spring.
Xu Wen met his new aunt, who looked about the same age as Zhu Meizhen.
Maybe it’s because I take good care of myself, or maybe it’s because I’m really young.
Looks very gentle and speaks softly.
Uncle Yi's local specialty shop is also doing better and better business.
Now, the special products sold by military wives after work only account for a small proportion of his store.
My uncle would go to surrounding provinces and cities to look for specialty products and bring them back, but because of the possibility of involving speculation, he would try to purchase from special economic zones.
Xu Wen asked them about their return from Wei Zhuang and brought him some northern specialties for him to sell.
People who come to Yishushu's store are all from abroad or the other side of the Taiwan Strait. Some of them have worked here for a year and buy some local specialties to bring back when they return home.
The business is quite prosperous, but it is still far behind Xu Wen and Xu Wang.
But Uncle Yi is too old to work as hard as Xu Wen and Xu Wang.
In order to take care of his uncle, Xu Wen moved his household registration here. When Rainbow Island becomes available for settlement, he will have him settled there so that he can be taken care of more easily.
Aunt Xinyi is very skilled in cooking and is good at making delicious soup.
Every time Xu Wen came to see his uncle, he could walk a little more after drinking a bowl of rice.
Xu Wen has not been in Pengcheng recently. He is busy setting up his branch in the provincial capital and will not be able to come back until it gets on track.
All the dumpling restaurants in Pengcheng are run by Sang Xiaoqing.
Although it is called a dumpling restaurant, the most distinctive feature is actually the dumplings, but it also specializes in a variety of home-cooked dishes.
The store expanded again and again.
The restaurant hired a Shandong cuisine chef, a dumplings maker, two waiters who also worked as cashiers, and someone who washed dishes and cleaned the place.
Exactly seven.
Sang Xiaoqing is now a true boss lady. When it is busy, she will help collect money. When it is not busy, she will just check the bills and walk around the store.
Life is getting better and better.
Xu Wang's store is not getting bigger, but it is getting more and more high-end. Recently, he has been busy preparing to open branches in other cities.
However, the site is still being selected.
In fact, compared to Xu Wen, Xu Wang's store business can be considered quiet.
There aren't many customers in a day, but the amount spent by any one customer in the store is enough to match what Xu Wen earns from a meal.
Xu Wang's store is becoming more and more boutique-oriented, and the products it sells are becoming more and more high-end.
Xu Wang has already graduated from school and is considering studying abroad.
But I'm too busy with business now, and I can't just sit there and do nothing like Sang Xiaoqing.
It is even more impossible to be like Xu Wen, who is basically not bound by business constraints.
Anyone who has run a business or opened a store knows that being a boss gives you more freedom and less control, but in fact you have less freedom when it comes to making money.
How can a business open and close every day? Basically, there are only small hours but no big hours.
Even Sang Xiaoqing had to keep an eye on the store.
The only exception is Xu Wen, who, even though he has become the factory director, still doesn't have to manage much himself.
Probably the time when I put the most effort was when I was promoting the diaper-free product.
Urine is already in short supply and there is no need for Xu Wen to run around.
Speaking of which, I have to thank my sisters-in-law. They brought Xu Wen's diaper wipes to cities across the country.
Of course, maybe Wen was also very generous and gave them commissions.
Now that Guo Jianye is in charge of operations, Lu Yuanzheng has also transferred someone from their finance department to be in charge of accounting.
Xu Wen only occasionally went to ask about production status.
Luo Zemin's printer factory is becoming more and more prosperous and has become a world-class printer company.
Xu Wen occasionally helped with some ideas and waited for dividends.
Military factories that produce mobile phones are also stepping up production and sales.
There is no need for Xu Wen to intervene there, he can only collect the money at the end of the year.
If Xu Wen's personality were followed, she could just lie back and travel around with her two children every day.
If you invest the money you earn in real estate from time to time, you can make a lot of money.
There will also be money for the wife and dowry for having children in the future.
Unfortunately, in life, there are both active and passive scrolls.
There are still two and a half years left until 1985.
If she hadn't been pregnant, she would have really started a winery.
However, to run a winery, we need to find someone who knows the business, otherwise we will have to rely on Xu Wen, and I'm afraid she won't be able to take care of it when she gives birth.
There is another easier way.
I heard that once the 1982 grapes are made into wine, I will buy them back and wait for them to appreciate in value.
However, the tariffs are a bit expensive.
What else can I do if I don’t run a winery? Xu Wen has been thinking about this recently.
Real estate can certainly make money, but the money she has might make her a wealthy woman in the county, but in the real estate industry, it's nothing.
Our daily currency unit is yuan, and the real estate currency unit is ten thousand yuan.
Millions or tens of millions, maybe only tens of thousands.
But Rome was not built in a day, and no one can become fat in one bite, it takes one step at a time.
Xu Wen sat on the sofa, turning the remote control boredly, feeling a little worried.
Just one urine-dryer can't support so many officers and soldiers on Rainbow Island!
Besides, their future finance will definitely not be a business unit.
If Lu Yuanzheng rises a little higher, he will be in charge of the entire archipelago.
How much does it cost to support all the soldiers on the island?
The main reason, of course, is that there is nothing good to watch on TV.
To be honest, the biggest advantage of TV dramas in the 1980s was that there was no GG.
In 1982, gg was not yet popular.
It’s just that all TV dramas are old-fashioned to Xu Wen. She doesn’t want to watch them. She just gets bored and thinks about business.
I have no idea about business matters for the moment and feel a little worried.
I simply turned off the TV, stood up and wanted to move around, when suddenly my cell phone rang.
The factory called.
"What did you say?" Xu Wen frowned.
"One of the workers is missing."
Xu asked: "..."
"Don't be impatient, make your words clear first."
In order to make it easier for people to find her at the factory, Xu Wen placed a telephone in the factory.
It uses satellite calling technology, but the casing is similar to a regular phone without the wires.
She made two, and Luo Zemin's factory also had one.
As for the battalion headquarters, she doesn't need to donate, it will be distributed.
Xu Wen and Xu Wang have landline phones in their stores.
There is no signal only on the island.
Someone from the factory called to say that a female employee named Wang Xiu had not come to work for a long time and had not asked for leave. The team leader went back to the dormitory to check, but found that the employee was not there either.
She reported this to the foreman, who arranged for the sisters in the dormitory who did not have to work to go out and look for him, but they did not find him.
Guo Jianye happened to be on shore for some work, so they could only come to trouble Xu Wen.
Xu Wen said a few simple words of comfort, hung up the phone, got dressed and went out.
There were about a hundred workers, all of whom she brought from her hometown. In addition to paying them wages, Xu Wen also had the responsibility and obligation to ensure their personal safety.
In theory, safety is not a problem on Rainbow Island.
At present, this small island is still remote and there are few strangers on the island.
Unless you leave Rainbow Island.
Xu Wen drove his electric car to the factory, trying to search his memory to figure out who this Wang Xiu was.
There were too many people coming. Xu Wen must have known those from Taoyuan Village, but those from other teams were strangers to him.
Search failed.
As soon as Xu Wen arrived at the entrance of the diaper factory, the workshop foreman was already waiting anxiously at the door.
"Mr. Xu, you're here!" said the foreman as he followed Xu Wen into the workshop.
"Tell me about Wang Xiu's situation first."
"Wang Xiu is from the Sixth Brigade, now called the Sixth Village. She is not even 19 years old. She works diligently and carefully, but she is a bit boring and not very likable. She rarely chats with her co-workers or roommates in the dormitory. That's why she was not found in the workshop until she started work."
"Are you sure you've searched every spot on the island?"
The foreman shook his head. "The people we were looking for haven't all returned yet, so we're not sure about the exact situation, but we definitely didn't find anything during the first search."
"There are not enough people just resting. Stop the machines and have everyone go out to look for her. Also, ask who has a good relationship with Wang Xiu or is in the same production team with her and is familiar with her, and call them over."
The foreman left and Xu Wen returned to the office.
After a while, someone came to the office.
An older woman and two teenage girls.
The woman was Wang Xiu's relative and could be considered Wang Xiu's aunt.
The other two are co-workers who have a good relationship with Wang Xiu. One of them knew Wang Xiu when he was in his hometown, and they were childhood friends.
Everyone looked worried.
Aunt Wang Xiu spoke first: "Mr. Xu, our Xiuxiu has always been a good child. She works hard and does her job well, she doesn't like to talk, and she's not the type to run around. Something must have happened."
The remaining two nodded in agreement.
One of them spoke up: "Mr. Xu, Xiuxiu and I were childhood friends. She really wasn't a bad girl. She was just slow-tempered and didn't like to argue. Everyone liked to bully her. She definitely didn't leave on her own."
The remaining argument is similar.
Everyone said that Wang Xiu was an honest girl, and her sudden disappearance must not be a joke.
"Don't worry, I know she's a good girl. She will definitely take responsibility to the end. But you only say good things about her, which doesn't really help us find the person. Think about it carefully, what's wrong with Wang Xiu recently? Has she encountered any unhappy things recently? Or has anyone bullied her?"
Everyone shook their heads in confusion.
Aunt Wang Xiu said, "No! She sent me some snacks yesterday, saying she brought them back from Pengcheng."
"I have one too." Another roommate said, "She seems to be out a lot lately."
My childhood friend also said, "Yes! When you said that, I remembered something was wrong. Xiuxiu and I have known each other since we were young. Xiuxiu's family was not well off, so she was always very frugal. She never spent money or bought things when she could.
Recently, she has not been in style. She has to go out every day off. Every time she comes back, she buys new clothes and brings some fruit snacks for us to share. "
The roommate added: "Not only on weekends, but sometimes she would go out in the morning when she worked the night shift."
Xu Wen's diaper factory operates in two shifts, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The childhood friend slapped his forehead and remembered something: "She has been writing a lot of letters recently. She used to write to her family, at most two letters a month, but now she can write two letters a week."
Xu Wen frowned and asked them, "Does she have a boyfriend?"
Listening to their personal descriptions, isn't this what girls in love look like?
As a result, when they heard Xu Wen's question, everyone shook their heads.
The auntie didn’t know about this. After all, she was the elder, and Wang Xiuxiu usually wouldn’t take the initiative to share such things with her.
My childhood friend was not sure, "I haven't heard her say that!"
My roommate was a little hesitant. "Although she hasn't said it, she seems to be very close to a gay man. Doesn't our factory have a phone? I feel like she calls often recently, and she's always talking and laughing."
Xu Wen pressed the button on the phone in the factory, saying that workers were allowed to use it.
Generally, if there is an emergency at home, they will call to find someone at the factory, or if they miss home very much, they will also call home.
However, there are rules that prohibit you from occupying the phone for a long time.
It’s not that Xu Wenjianmen is stingy about the phone bill, but there are many people in the factory. If everyone uses the phone for a long time, others will not be able to use it.
After all, there is only so much rest time.
Besides, what if a business call comes in?
Xu Wen originally wanted to install two telephones, but telephones were not yet popular because the production cost was too high and they were not even popular in the military, so Xu Wen felt embarrassed to ask for more.
Otherwise, she also wanted to call Xu Qiushi and Zhu Meizhen.
It will take some time before we can truly enjoy the freedom of conversation.
Xu Wen asked them a few more questions, and when he had a rough idea in his mind, he let them go back first.
After everyone left, she tapped her fingers on the table, thought carefully, and called Xu Wang and Sang Xiaoqing, asking them to find a way to help find the person.
It is not yet time to report the person missing, and we don’t know whether the person has gone to Pengcheng or not.
Xu Wen intuitively felt that Wang Xiuxiu was no longer on Rainbow Island. Xu Wen raised his wrist to look at his watch. It was not yet time for the passenger ship to dock, and he couldn't ask the boatman.
After waiting for a long time, all the employees who went to look for Wang Xiuxiu came back. As Xu Wen expected, she was not found on the island.
With so many people, no one can say that they will definitely not miss any corner, but as long as Wang Xiuxiu doesn't hide in a corner like Dongsheng did back then, then she is definitely not on the island.
Where can you go if not on the island?
Xu asked and frowned.
It was getting dark.
If something really happened to a girl, Xu Wen would find it difficult to explain to her family.
Xu Wen asked everyone to go eat first.
Even if you find someone, you have to eat a full meal to have the strength.
She went to Zhu Meizhen's place to say hello to her family, and then went to the pier to wait for the passenger ship to dock.
The boatman and the ticket seller go back and forth to pick up people on the island all day long and are familiar with everyone.
They knew all the more than a thousand people on the island, or at least they were familiar with their faces.
Sure enough, after listening to Xu Wen's description, the ticket seller said, "Now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered that the girl you mentioned did go out with me this morning. But she doesn't seem to have come back."
Xu Wen's heart skipped a beat and he frowned, "She didn't come back? Which city did she get off the ship in?"
Nowadays, passenger ships go to many places, and the final destination is Pengcheng.
The ticket seller thought about it carefully and said uncertainly: "It seems to be Pengcheng."
She could only remember which people took the boat today, but she couldn't remember who got off where or who took each boat.
Xu Wen thanked him and walked back.
It's troublesome for people to leave Rainbow Island.
Xu Wen held his forehead, feeling a little helpless for a moment. She was the one who brought the person out, and he couldn't let anything happen to him in her hands.
Wang Xiu was only eighteen years old, an age when one is most easily seduced and overwhelmed by so-called love.
Xu Wen returned to the factory and contacted a few people to find out the situation.
Everyone said basically the same thing: no one knew where Wang Xiuxiu had gone, or whether she had found a partner.
I only know that Wang Xiuxiu has been a little abnormal recently. She loves to laugh, likes to dress up, and is willing to buy clothes and lotion for herself.
She would never have been willing to do that before.
Xu Wen felt that his guess was basically correct, but he didn't have any more clues.
With a grit of teeth, Xu Wen had someone break the lock on Wang Xiuxiu's cabinet and open her letters.
There is no police station on the island, so we can only ask the army for help.
It stands to reason that reading other people's letters would violate Wang Xiu's privacy, but there is no better way at the moment.
Xu Wen looked at Wang Xiuxiu's letter. The address with most letters was Pengcheng, but the address on the envelope was not very clear.
The city is Pengcheng, but the detailed address is always changing.
The content of the letter confirmed Xu Wen's guess that Wang Xiuxiu was in love with the person in the letter.
Wang Xiuxiu calls him Brother Feng.
However, after reading these letters, Xu Wen's first reaction was that Brother Feng was not a good person.
The best possible outcome is that this Feng Ge is a scumbag who played with Wang Xiuxiu's feelings. He deceived her heart and body.
The worst outcome is that this Brother Feng might be a criminal.
Maybe a personal trafficker, maybe something else.
All in all, the situation is not optimistic.
Xu Wen no longer hesitated and went straight to the battalion headquarters for help.
Without saying a word, Shi Lei immediately contacted Pengcheng to check the sender on the envelope.
A team of people was also sent to help go to Pengcheng to look for people. Xu Wen also went to Pengcheng and asked Sister Mulan to go with him.
When you meet a bad guy, you can still rely on Sister Mulan.
Human life is at stake, and after the military and police in Pengcheng connected, they quickly launched a search and rescue operation.
Xu Wang and Sang Xiaoqing have also been helping.
When it comes to finding people, Xu Wang's high-end customers are not as good as the diners in Sang Xiaoqing's restaurant.
Because most of the people who come to Sang Xiaoqing's store are workers, they are scattered in every corner of Pengcheng and are particularly familiar with the surroundings.
One of the customers actually provided a useful piece of information, saying that a group of human traffickers had recently appeared in Pengcheng and specifically targeted these migrant workers.
The only reason they knew about this was because these people acted rashly when they first arrived and ended up kidnapping a local girl. They were seen by her family and were nearly beaten to death.
They were fighting in the street, and they were just passing by to watch the excitement.
When Xu Wen heard this, he immediately asked when the incident happened and on which street and specific location.
After finding out everything, I headed straight to my destination with Sister Mulan.
What this diner can see must also be seen by nearby businesses and residents, so after asking a few families, I got the information of that family.
Xu Wen and Sister Mulan asked along the way and found the family that was almost abducted.
This family is from the local area. When they heard Xu Wen's purpose, the head of the family immediately said that it was obviously the grandson who did it.
He had fought with Liu Feng and sent him to the police station, so the police station should have some information about Liu Feng.
Xu Wen thanked Sister Mulan and left.
The household owner caught up with them and added, "You'd better find him as soon as possible. When they kidnapped my daughter, they told her they were going to sell her abroad."
Xu Wen's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. If the person was really taken away, it would be a big trouble.
Xu Wen immediately called the police station, told them about Liu Feng's situation, asked about the address Liu Feng had registered at the time, and then went straight to Liu Feng's residence with Sister Mulan.
We finally found a place, but the landlord told us that Liu Feng had checked out at noon today.
The landlord didn't know where Liu Feng was going, but he knew that different girls had come to see him recently.
The landlord also became suspicious. He thought that a single young man who kept changing his partners must not be a good homosexual!
Xu Wen understood what the landlord meant. In 1982, having promiscuous relationships between men and women was a very bad behavior.
The landlord was afraid that something might happen to Liu Feng and he would be implicated, so he asked him what was going on.
Liu Feng said that those girls were not his type, they just wanted him to help them find jobs.
Because Liu Feng is going abroad soon.
The landlord thought that it really takes ability to go abroad these days, no wonder so many girls came to him.
However, for safety reasons, she still checked Liu Feng's ID.
Liu Feng's ID shows that he is not a Chinese citizen, but from a neighboring country. He also has several passports.
"Although I am very puzzled as to why such a capable person would rent my shabby room, but since it is not illegal, I will not ask too much."
Sister Mulan's mouth twitched, "Have you ever thought that the ID he provided was fake?"
Landlord: “…”
How could he, an ordinary citizen, have imagined that someone would try to trick him?
Besides, Liu Feng paid his rent on time.
Xu Wen had the same idea as Mulan's sister-in-law. She asked the landlord, "Did Liu Feng say what time he would leave today?"
The landlord shook his head. “How could someone possibly tell me this?”
The landlord's wife came back from playing mahjong and heard them chatting. She said, "This morning when I was emptying the spittoon, I saw several girls looking for Liu Feng. Out of curiosity, I walked to his door and listened to a few words. They said that the boat would leave at ten o'clock tonight..."
She thought for a long time before she remembered a name, then she said it was wrong and it was better to say that she didn't remember it.
After hearing this, Xu Wen grabbed Sister Mulan and ran out without saying a word, "Thank you! I'll come back to thank you later."
"Why are you running?" Sister Mulan wondered, she hadn't even found out where she was.
"I roughly guessed where it was." Xu asked, "It's almost nine o'clock in the evening now. If he can't find him, he will run away."
Although the landlord's wife did not say the correct place name, Xu Wen knew that it was a foreign name.
There's no point in knowing. Who knows whether he really went there or was just fooling the girls.
The key point is that the ship sets sail at 10 o'clock.
The requirements for going abroad are so strict now, it is definitely not through official channels, especially for those girls who were deceived. It is even more impossible to go through official channels. It is probably through smuggling ships or illegal immigration.
Xu Wen took out his cell phone and called Shi Lei and the local police station, hoping they would help look for him at the dock.
After hearing what Xu Wen said, the military and police rushed out at the same time, directly blocking the port and the dock, and strictly prohibiting any ship from leaving without permission.
Military ships were searching for suspicious vessels in nearby waters.
It's not that I'm giving Xu Wen face, it's just that Xu Wen's diaper factory is now also considered a military factory, and the major shareholder is the battalion headquarters.
It is equivalent to the workers in the military factories being abducted.