When this cold snap passed and December came, the first heavy snow fell.
At this time, all the educated youth who were taken away from Qingshan Village were released. It cannot be said that all of them were released, as there were still two or three people missing. However, everyone tacitly kept silent about this matter, as if those two people had never appeared, and never discussed it outside.
When Tian Cai went to Qingshan Village for a medical consultation, he specifically asked Hu Cuihua and found out that the two educated youth who did not return were Ding Wenlong and Yu Qian, and the other one was Liang Gui, who had lived in the village for many years.
Cai has no impression of this Liang Guitian at all, and may not even have seen him.
"That night, the wooden barn was opened!" Hu Cuihua whispered. She still feels a lingering fear when she thinks about it. "Everyone in the village heard it. There were more than one explosion! It was the first time we knew there was a special object hidden near us. It was really scary."
Tian Cai also found it unbelievable. She was very sure that it was these two people who had come to her house to search before. She just didn't understand how their search for Cai Ping's things was related to the special items.
It was another night of wind and snow. After Tian Cai had breakfast, he put on gloves and a hat, opened the door, and called Mimi to help clean up the snow in the yard.
It was said that we were greeting it, but in fact the little guy was just playing by himself in the snow. At least there was some human presence around him, and the yard was more lively.
Before Tian Cai finished cleaning the yard, Mimi started howling at the gate. She pricked up her ears and listened for a while, but didn't hear anyone outside, so she ignored it.
I didn't open the gate until I finished cleaning the yard before I was ready to clean outside. As soon as I opened the door, I saw the person I hadn't seen for a long time.
She raised an eyebrow and couldn't help laughing at his expression, "Changed your hairstyle?"
Qin Ling at this time was completely different from before. He was still the same person, but his mental state was completely different. It was as if he had finally taken off the shackles on his body, and his whole body exuded an indescribable sense of relief.
His originally long hair was shaved into a crew cut, revealing his thick black eyebrows and diluting his overly beautiful eyes.
There was a blood scab on the cheek, which looked like it was scratched by something.
Now those dark eyes were looking at Tian Cai quietly, with a faint smile at the corners of his lips.
Tian Cai thought he was laughing for no apparent reason. She looked down at herself and saw nothing wrong. Then she looked up at him strangely, "What are you laughing at?"
Unexpectedly, the person in front of him laughed out loud after hearing this, walked around Tian Cai, stepped into the yard, and closed the door behind him, "Let's go, let's talk inside."
Tian Cai looked at him doubtfully, and finally chose to follow him into the house.
The two of them sat down in the main room. She took off her hat and gloves again, and her originally black, shiny and smooth hair was let down.
Tian Cai's hair hasn't grown long yet. The current length is only enough to tie a small bun at the back. When the hat was pulled, her hair spread out directly. She casually pushed it to both sides of her cheeks. The slightly messy hair made her face look even fairer and more beautiful.
Qin Ling stared at her scrutinizingly, a flash of something in his dark eyes. Seeing that Tian Cai was listening attentively, he got down to business, "Cai Ping—is that your mother?"
Tian Cai was shocked. She had never mentioned Cai Ping's name to anyone. How did Qin Ling know it? She suddenly became defensive.
Qin Ling saw this and felt a pang of pain in his heart. They had known each other for such a long time, but she never trusted him. He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and explained the reason, saying, "I didn't mean to pry into your privacy. I just heard some news."
Seeing Tian Cai's gaze, Qin Ling reorganized his words before continuing, "Those people received instructions to search for your mother in Huang County. They were supposedly looking for something on her body, but they've been searching for years with no results. This year, I don't know whose idea it was, but they selected several communes and released schistosomiasis to force her out."
When he said this, he glanced at Tian Cai. Tian Cai just looked at him quietly without saying anything.
Qin Ling continued, "Because you discovered the worm disease and even cured it, they suspected you. They even came to search while you were out. Although they didn't find anything related to your mother, they didn't let down their suspicions about you."
Tian Cai lowered his eyes, and after a while he looked back at Qin Ling. "I think you're mistaken. I'm from Xian County, Hebei Province. I came here with my parents to escape famine. When I arrived in Huang County, they abandoned me because I fell ill. I was already a teenager by then, and I can remember my parents' names very clearly. It's not Cai Ping as you're talking about."
Qin Ling stared into Tian Cai's eyes and pressed on, "Then why are you called Tian Cai, and why is it Cai Ping's Cai?"
"No, my name is Tian Cai. Cai means cabbage. I don't know why the person who registered my household registration was written as Cai." Tian Cai still refused to admit it.
Qin Ling looked at Tian Cai deeply, but did not force her to accept this identity. He came here deliberately to test Tian Cai's opinion.
He had been keeping an eye on the two people who were captured for a long time, and this time he helped those people capture Tewu with only one purpose.
He wanted to know the whereabouts of Zhou Wenliang and others, but they all said they didn't know Zhou Wenliang.
Qin Ling saw that they did not seem to be lying, and guessed that these people might be two separate undercover agents who did not know each other.
Judging from the time of their appearance, these two educated youth came to Qingshan Village after Zhou Wenliang disappeared.
And that Liang Gui has been in Qingshan Village for several years.
Based on this, Qin Ling deduced that Liang Gui was the leader among them.
He revealed the inferred information to the person in charge of the arrest operation, and they then launched a surprise interrogation of Liang Gui.
Liang Gui was also a tough guy. He refused to speak and only revealed a little when he really couldn't bear it anymore.
Now it is certain that they are looking for a man named Cai Ping, and their purpose is to get something from her. Liang Gui, a low-level person, doesn't know much about their master's family. He only knows that he is a middle-aged man, and they call him Brother Quan.
In return, the person in charge told Qin Ling some unimportant news.
Qin Ling integrated the known information and speculated that Zhou Wenliang and others should be dead.
And they weren't sure who had done it.
Tian Cai leaned forward a little, and whispered with a gossipy look on his face, "Can you help me find out how those special objects were discovered? I'm quite curious about this."
There was no way. She was naturally curious about who had taken action on her behalf. Before she could take action, she wondered how these people had revealed their true colors and were caught.
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