Chapter 155 Assassination in broad daylight
A month later, the rainy season became more frequent.
Chen Tang was playing with her child at home when Li Hong ran to her house and hugged her and cried.
This continued for half a month, and Chen Tang asked helplessly, "What happened again?"
Li Hong's eyes were red from crying, she felt wronged and angry: "What else can I do? Old Yan and I had another fight. That heartless guy, his mother couldn't stand me anyway, and he even helped his mother to scold me."
Speaking of this matter, Chen Tang was overwhelmed. The family compound had been peaceful for so long, and finally there was a wave of explosions.
Li Hong's mother-in-law came because she wanted to give the job to her younger son who was about to graduate from high school and go to the countryside. In addition, Li Hong said she wanted to arrange her younger sister-in-law into the art troupe, so Li Hong's mother-in-law wanted to come and live with her eldest son.
Grandma Li Hong took a few days off to come and check out the situation at the family compound, waiting for her youngest son to finish his exams in June and get his diploma so that he could move in directly.
Because of this, Li Hong had a big fight with her husband.
Li Hong was not happy about her mother-in-law coming. They lived in a single room, such a small room, and with the addition of her mother-in-law in the middle, who wouldn't feel disgusted?
But her husband Yan Chang thought that his mother was just coming to see her daughter and would not stay for too long, so it should be fine to separate a small room.
Besides, the buildings in the staff quarters have been completed and will be allocated soon.
Although he and Li Hong are not eligible for separate housing, they can rent public housing according to the policy. It will not be a problem for them to have one room and their mother and sister to have another. In the future, when he and Li Hong go to work, there will be someone to help them cook.
Li Hong is 24 years old this year. It is time for her to have a baby. It will be easier for her to have a mother to take care of both of them.
In the end, Chen Tang didn't know how Li Hong was coaxed into calming down. Anyway, Li Hong and Yan Chang had been arguing for a long time. They finally reconciled for two days, but after her mother-in-law came, they started arguing again.
Li Hong's mother-in-law has a strong personality, and Li Hong herself is no less strong-willed.
Getting used to living with different people is really torture.
Li Hong cried for a while and then she stopped. She didn't go to Lin Xiao's house mainly because she felt that Lin Xiao was about to give birth and she was afraid of upsetting her.
If she comes to Chen Tang's house, she can hug little He Zhi, and maybe she can be lucky enough to get pregnant. Her mother-in-law has been saying this in her ears a lot recently.
"By the way, your He Xu hasn't returned from his mission yet?"
Chen Tang: “No.”
But it should be soon.
Recently, Grandma Fan trusted her more and more. With her care, Fan Yang stopped stealing and robbing. He learned to read and write down what happened in the courtyard in exchange for some money from her.
That little money was enough for the Fan family to live a stable life.
Chen Tang asked a few questions tentatively, but Grandma Fan remained tight-lipped about the past and was unwilling to say more.
Grandma Fan’s husband’s friends live far away from Hai City. She calculated that, considering the time it takes to go back and forth and do things, with He Xu’s ability, he should be back soon, and things must have made progress.
At this moment, a soldier suddenly ran over from outside, his voice carrying a hint of urgency: "Comrade Shen, the division commander is calling you."
Chen Tang handed the child to Aunt Zhang and followed the soldiers to the division commander's office.
The commander just put down the phone and said solemnly: "Fan Ling is missing."
Chen Tang couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean lost? Haven't our people been keeping an eye on the Fan family?"
Commander Tan sighed, "You are right. Xiang Ming is indeed suspicious. We dug up a body at the place where Fan Zhong and Xiang Ming had the accident. After examination, it turned out to be a female body. The bones were dislocated and broken all over. It didn't look like she fell from the mountain. Instead, it looked like she was beaten to death. There was a blurry photo next to her. We suspect that this body is Fan Yang's mother."
"Back then, Fan Yang's mother said she was going to look for Fan Zhong, but she never came back. Everyone thought she had run away with the money, but now it seems that she really went to look for Fan Zhong and was killed in secret.
The biggest suspect among them is Xiang Ming.
This man was extremely sensitive, and we didn't know what went wrong. When our people just targeted him, his wife and children went to visit relatives in the countryside.
Seeing that something was not right, our people immediately started to arrest him. However, the little girl from the Fan family had been following him. He had a screwdriver in his hand. We did not dare to act rashly and could only follow him from a distance.
We are still keeping track of his movements.”
Shen Tang asked anxiously, "How is Mrs. Fan?"
Commander Tan shook his head: "Mrs. Fan doesn't know yet that her granddaughter was captured by Xiang Ming. You and Su Xiaoxiao should prepare and go to the city to appease the Fan family first."
Chen Tang didn't say much, he called Su Xiaoxiao and borrowed a car to take him to the city.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived.
Old Mrs. Fan didn't know her child was lost yet, and was still wondering why Xiang Ming hadn't come back yet.
Fan Ling didn’t have many good friends in the compound. The youngest daughter of the Xiang family was about the same age as her, and Fan Ling liked playing with her very much. She didn’t care even though she was always bullied by the other children in the Xiang family.
Normally, Xiang Ming treated Fan Ling very well. Every time someone from the Xiang family bullied Fan Ling, he would step in to stop them and even take her to buy candy to apologize to her.
It was also because of this that Mrs. Fan, who was wary at the beginning, gradually calmed down in the end.
A few days ago, Xiang Ming had a quarrel with his wife Li Lan. Something happened to Li Lan's mother in her hometown, so she took her children to the countryside.
Xiang Ming was in a bad mood and would often come to tease little Fan Ling, saying that he had just received his salary and had money in his hands. As if he was angry with his wife and children, he took Fan Ling to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a hairpin.
Grandma Fan thought they were playing outside, so she sat at the door waiting for them to come back.
But no one came back until the afternoon.
Fan Yang went to look for them when they didn't come back at noon.
He was so anxious that he ran to the supply and marketing cooperative to inquire about the situation.
With so many people coming and going in the supply and marketing cooperative every day, how could the salesperson remember whether the man holding a child had been there or not?
He didn't dare tell his grandmother, so he went to look for Yang Cheng, only to find that he was not at home either.
Fan Yang had no clue and could only search aimlessly in the sea city. He searched all the places he often went to, but couldn't find any trace of him.
His sister is still so young. Where did Uncle Xiang take his sister?
There have been a lot of human traffickers in Hai City recently, and coupled with the look his uncle gave him, he couldn't help but panic and think about all sorts of things.
Just when he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he met Chen Tang and Su Xiaoxiao who had just arrived in the city.
Fan Yang hurriedly told her that Fan Ling and Uncle Xiang were missing.
Chen Tang: "Don't worry, I'll find a way. Go back and accompany your grandma first. Don't show panic. Your grandma has a bad heart and can't stand it."
Fan Yang heard something wrong in her words, grabbed her hand and asked, "Is there something wrong with Uncle Xiang? What did he do to my sister?"
He asked why his uncle looked at him in a strange way these past two days, and felt guilty from time to time. He thought he was feeling guilty about his father.
Xiaoling is only three years old. Could it be that he couldn't make ends meet and sold his sister to human traffickers?
Chen Tang couldn't tell him directly, so he could only hold down his trembling shoulders: "Whether there is a problem or not, we need to investigate to know. If you don't go back, your grandma will not only worry about your sister, but also about you."
Fan Yang's heart suddenly sank and even his voice trembled: "I know, I just, I just don't understand..." What on earth happened?
Chen Tang led him to the compound. At this time, everyone had gone to work and there were not many people in the alley.
Not long after she walked in and was about to turn the corner, Su Xiaoxiao suddenly grabbed her collar and pulled her back.
The next second, Su Xiaoxiao kicked fiercely towards the bend in front, and the man with the knife flew out with a muffled sound.
Chen Tang was startled and pulled Fan Yang behind him.
Several big men with sticks suddenly rushed out from all around. Su Xiaoxiao sneered: "You are committing such a crime in broad daylight. Are you sure the people behind you can protect you?"
The leading thug had a big scar on his face. He held a knife in his hand and when he laughed, the scar stretched to the corner of his eye, making him look particularly scary.
"You are a woman, do you think you can fight against us brothers just because you have some kung fu? I advise you to surrender obediently. We don't want your life or that woman's life, we only want the child in your hand!"
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