Chapter 91
In March 1960, Yunshui County experienced several horrific cases of missing persons.
The missing persons were all young girls in their teens and 17s who worked in factories. Starting from early March, a girl went missing every few days.
At first, the parents did not take it seriously. Most of the girls working in factories these days lived in dormitories. They usually worked in workshops and stood for most of the day. They were tired and their legs and feet were sore. It was as if their bones were disassembled. Living in dormitories nearby would allow them to rest more.
A girl who went missing recently is Yu Qiuli, a native of Yunshui County. She worked as a female worker in the cotton spinning factory where Lin Yao worked. The cotton spinning factory is one of the largest factories in Yunshui County. Due to the famine, the factory stopped production for more than half a year. Now the situation has improved and the factory has received more orders. In order to ensure production, the workers in several workshops in the factory work in three shifts.
Before Yu Qiuli went missing, she worked a day in the factory and got off work at 6:30 in the evening. Old Man Yu told his eldest son to pick up his daughter after work. The eldest son of the Yu family came to the textile factory to pick up his sister as he was told, but he waited for an hour but did not see Yu Qiuli. The eldest son of the Yu family was worried and asked the old teacher who was guarding the door.
The old teacher said that Yu Qiuli had left the factory at around five o'clock and had not returned yet.
Yu's family members noticed something was wrong, so they quickly put down their work and went out to look for the young lady. They searched for the whole night, but they still couldn't find Yu Qiuli until the next morning. Old man Yu was so anxious that his blood pressure increased and he was sent to the county health hospital. He was delayed for another morning, and it was not until noon that he panicked and reported the case to the public security bureau.
Today it was Xu Xiangqian's turn to be on duty. He came to the big compound to call for Gu Shi'an after receiving the report.
After all, the old director went to the provincial capital for treatment, and Xu's father's old back problem was getting better and worse, so Gu Shi'an took the lead in the public security bureau.
Gu Shian frowned, put down the shoulder pole in his hand, changed his clothes and went back to the Public Security Bureau to organize police forces. Before leaving, he told Lin Yao that he might not come back for dinner in the evening.
Lin Yao had just heard what Big Head Brother said, and was still in shock. He nodded and let him go.
Lin Yao had seen Yu Qiuli a few times in the factory. Once, the girl came to the logistics department to collect summer factory uniforms. The girl had a good personality and spoke wittily, making several older sisters in the office laugh. At that time, Sister Hao in the office also liked the girl and wanted to marry her to her nephew.
Unexpectedly, in just a few days...
Gu Shian took the young men from the Public Security Bureau and immediately investigated Yu Qiuli's family, co-workers, and friends. Yu Qiuli was a girl who lived a simple life. She went to the workshop and the canteen every day. She also had a dormitory in the textile factory, and lived in the same dormitory with several girls in the factory.
The dormitory of the textile factory was a two-story red brick building. Most of the female workers in the factory lived inside. The corridor on the second floor was full of female workers' clothes. The quilt on Yu Qiuli's bed was neatly stacked and covered with a piece of cloth. It was obvious that no one had slept there for a long time.
The female workers in the same dormitory said that Yu Qiuli had not lived in the dormitory for more than a week.
Xu Xiangqian knocked on the dormitory wall seriously, raised his head and said to Gu Shian: "Old Gu, do you think this wall is hollow?"
Gu Shian looked through the records of the investigation and glanced at him indifferently.
"Why don't you go in and take a look?"
Big Head Brother: "......."
As soon as Yu Qiuli's case came out, several parents came to report the case within two days. Without exception, the missing girls were all beautiful and waiting to be married. Some of them were very good-looking and had already been engaged. Now that the girl was missing, her biological parents and the fiancé's family were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
Eighteen or nineteen years old is undoubtedly the best time in life. Seven or eight girls in their prime suddenly disappeared, and no one saw them alive or dead. In the past, their families were afraid that the reputation of the girls would be affected, and that they would have problems getting married in the future. They searched for them privately but did not report to the police. As time went by, the parents could not sit still.
After careful investigation, the county public security bureau found that this was a series of premeditated kidnapping and trafficking cases. The target of the traffickers was young, beautiful, and inexperienced girls. They used various means to confuse the girls, and then transported them to remote mountains to be wives for old bachelors to make profits.
Public security comrades have been arranged to stand guard near the Yunshui County Railway Station and Long Distance Bus Station, and strictly check the passengers going there. There are also plainclothes
officers walking around nearby, observing the surrounding movements at any time. The comrades of the county militia company and the armed forces have set up patrol teams, patrolling continuously with live ammunition. The county is tense, and the commune brigade below has also strengthened public security. The arrogant human traffickers were timid and hid themselves for a while.
The human traffickers dared not act. The county public security bureau was busy for several days, but only caught a few small fish and shrimps according to their confessions.
The county public security bureau finally got hold of some traces of the human traffickers. Gu Shian called a meeting with everyone and proposed a strategy to solve the case: throwing bricks to attract thieves, releasing baits to lure out the human traffickers.
Xu Xiangqian became interested.
"Old Gu, tell me how to lure them out?"
He had been driven crazy by this case in the past few days. So many girls were ruined by a group of evil beasts at the best age of their lives, and he was powerless to do anything. The pain was unbearable.
Gu Shian looked over and said it briefly.
"Honey trap."
"Honey trap?"
Everyone was talking about it.
Xu Xiangqian had an idea and grinned. He understood what Old Gu meant.
The key to solving the case lies in the Public Security Bureau. They need to pick a professional to act as bait. They will lie in ambush nearby and lure out the traffickers.
There are several pretty girls in the county Public Security Bureau who are more or less capable, but I don't know which one Old Gu chose. Xu Xiangqian
was thinking about it.
Gu Shi'an whispered something to Xu's father, who clapped his hands happily.
"Okay, this is a good idea. This brat has been raised as a little girl by his mother since he was young. It would be great if he could use a little girl as bait."
Then, Xu's father remembered that there were still a few wigs left by old actors in the warehouse of the Public Security Bureau. They were used by the female roles in the old society to perform operas. After liberation, there were fewer actors, so those wigs were sent to the Public Security Bureau and placed in the warehouse. They could be used after being trimmed with scissors.
Father Xu asked his son to go to the warehouse to find a wig.
Big Head Brother asked stupidly.
"Dad, why are you looking for a wig?"
Why don't you go solve the case quickly! "
I'll put it on your head so you can pretend to be a little girl."
Xu Xiangqian: ???
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The weather in March was getting warmer day by day. After a drizzling spring rain, the crabapple and pomegranate trees in the compound sprouted. There was one day off a week. The sun was warm at noon. Lin Yao put Gu Doudou in the walker and pushed the little guy to the yard. She was busy loosening the soil in the vegetable garden. Gu Doudou walked around in the walker with his fat legs.
Gu Mancang had applied fertilizer to the seedlings in the vegetable garden. The pungent smell took several days to dissipate.
Lin Yao was very concerned about her watermelon seedlings. Whenever she had time, she would go to the vegetable garden to check and loosen the soil. Yesterday, she found that a few trembling green shoots had emerged from the watermelon seeds she had planted.
This gave Lin Yao a boost of confidence, and he came to the vegetable garden more often.
After Zhang Cuilan finished her work in the house, she took out a long strip of linen from the closet and tied it around Gu Doudou's fat waist. Gu Doudou danced with joy.
"Grandma, let's go for a walk!"
The little boy's obsession with walking became stronger and stronger.
"Okay, let's go for a walk. Grandma will take Doudou for a walk."
Zhang Cuilan used the strip of cloth to lead Doudou to walk in the open space in the yard. At first, the little fat boy's short legs like lotus root nodes were a little weak, and he walked crookedly like a little crab.
While taking care of her grandson, Zhang Cuilan told Lin Yao about several recent cases.
"Yaoyao, do you think those girls can come back? Oh, they are such good girls, so young, and their parents raised them up, and now they are gone. How sad it must be for the parents."
She is also a mother, how could she not know how the parents feel when their children are in trouble.
Lin Yao thought of the recent case and felt a little heavy.
"Yes, mother, evil will be punished and good will be rewarded. It's not that there is no retribution, but it has not come yet. Didn't Uncle Xu say that as long as Gu is here, there will be no case that cannot be solved, don't worry."
Lin Yao comforted.
Zhang Cuilan thought about it and it was true. Her eldest son was really good at solving cases. When she looked down and saw Gu Doudou holding his little hands and chewing on a steamed bun, she smiled.
"Doudou's lower teeth have come out. When children have itchy teeth, they just hold something to chew. Yaoyao, the steamed buns you made are very good. They taste as good as biscuits."
"How is this made? To make biscuits and steamed buns outside, you have to use a big pot or oven."
The old Gu family doesn't have an oven.
Lin Yao looked at the fat kid who was chewing the biscuits vigorously and explained with a smile.
"Mom, where is the oven in our house? I steamed it in the pot at home."
Nowadays, children who are teething eat cornmeal to grind their teeth. Gu Doudou's gums are tender, so she specially made small steamed buns in the shape of biscuits, put sugar and eggs in them, and they tasted sweet, which was just right for Gu Doudou to grind his teeth.
Gu Doudou finished eating the biscuits and steamed buns, and his hands were sticky. The little fat boy liked to be clean, so he frowned and waved at Lin Yao.
"Mom, wash your hands."
Lin Yao looked at the two dirty hands of her fat son and washed his hands.
After the family had lunch, Gu Doudou was full of energy. He lay on the bed, eating his hands and swinging his feet. He didn't look like he was taking a nap. Lin Yao took a storybook and told the little fat boy a lullaby... a story.
Before the story was finished, Gu Doudou puffed up his cheeks and squinted his eyes and fell asleep.
In the evening, the sky gradually darkened. A cold wind blew outside, making the banyan tree at the entrance of the alley rustle. It looked like it was going to rain. Smoke rose from every household in the compound. Today was the day when the factory distributed wages and benefits. Workers from all the factories were all smiling, carrying large and small bags of rice, flour and meat coupons issued by the factory and rushing home.
The aroma of oil spread in the family courtyards of all the families in the county. It started to rain outside. In a remote alley away from the train station, a beautiful "girl" with an umbrella appeared.
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