The four of them were starving, but luckily there was meat stewing on the stove, so they quickly filled their stomachs and began to discuss what to do next.
Gu Qi analyzed: "Since we know that his activity location is near the ferry, I believe we can also find out where he lives. We can ask the neighbors and we should be able to find out more information."
Li Ying still had a look of disbelief on her face: "It must be Chen Liuzi who kidnapped Ah Miao! It must be him! He must have threatened Ah Miao, Ah Miao would never go with him!"
Gu Yi frowned and asked back, "She was with him all day, and everyone saw it. She packed her luggage and left with Chen Nantai. How can this be considered trafficking? Unless Chen Nantai really sold her to Southeast Asia, it would not be considered trafficking."
"I don't care!" Li Ying said gruffly, "We can't let him go like this! Aqi, let's go to the police station and report the case tomorrow morning!"
Gu Qi didn't say anything, thinking calmly.
Chen Xingling on the side wiped the corner of his mouth and rolled his eyes secretly.
"Calling the police is useless. Gu Miao goes to the ferry port to look for Chen Nantai all day long, and even several ferrymen know her. I heard that the two of them were very close and went in and out of his place many times. Unless there is real evidence, it will not count. In addition, they are already at sea, and we don't know where in Nanyang they went. It's not easy to track them down."
"Will they go... abroad to capture him and bring him back?" Zhao Xiaoxing asked tentatively.
Chen Xingling shook his head: "It's undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack. The communication is backward and the journey is long. The hope is very slim."
"You can't just not look for Miaomang!" Li Ying cried, "Aqi, you can't just ignore Ah Miao. She's the youngest in the family, she's still young, and she doesn't know who's a good person and who's a bad person. Find her back quickly! Also, this matter must not be spread out. Once it gets out, how will Ah Miao get married in the future!"
She ran away with a man without getting married or engaged - obviously eloping.
Once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will be difficult for her to find a husband in the future, especially a family with a high social status. Once they hear that the girl has such a shameful past, they will definitely stay away from her.
Everyone is no longer a child and they understand the seriousness of the matter.
Gu Qi said calmly, "Mom, please stop crying and calm down first. Tomorrow morning we will go to the south of the city to find someone to ask her about this. If this is true... we will try to find a way to ask someone to send her a letter and try to persuade Ah Miao to come back."
"It's almost certain." Chen Xingling said, "We need to see if we can find out where Chen Nantai and the others are going. Most people who go to Southeast Asia go to work in rubber plantations to earn money, and some go to work in local overseas Chinese factories or gardens. Most people in Yucheng like to go to Southeast Asia. There is a ship going there every three days. If we keep asking, we will get some news sooner or later."
"Sister-in-law, I still have to rely on you to ask around." Gu Yi said in a low voice with embarrassment; "We are all from other places, and we can't remember the way. Besides, we don't know many local people, so it's hard to find anyone to ask around and how to ask around."
Chen Xingling did not refuse, saying: "I will accompany you to the east city ferry to ask tomorrow morning."
After all, Gu Miao is Aqi's biological sister. After something like this happened, she couldn't just sit there and do nothing about it.
"I want to go too!" Li Ying suddenly interrupted: "Maybe Ah Miao didn't go to Nanyang at all. She is timid and has been to few places——"
"If she really went there," Chen Xingling interrupted her, "she should be back soon."
Everyone looked over with confusion.
Chen Xingling explained: "Gu Miao is very lazy and can't endure hardship. She definitely can't stand the hot and humid weather and hard working environment in Nanyang. With her personality, I believe she will come back soon."
She had known Gu Miao for a while and was very familiar with her lazy, greedy and stupid personality.
No matter where in Southeast Asia they went, it was summer all year round there, the weather in the tropical rainforest was humid and hot, the working environment was poor, and the living environment was also very ordinary. It was simply not something a girl like her could adapt to.
She cannot endure hardship or hard work, and will retreat immediately when encountering difficulties.
When she returned to her hometown in Beijing, her old mother treated her like a baby. She ate everything else and used everything else. She couldn't even wash her own clothes. She was a typical lazy person who didn't know how to work.
Yucheng is no exception, the food and accommodation are still top-notch.
For someone like her, studying is too tiring and hard, so how could she possibly endure the hardship of working to earn money!
Although Li Ying was somewhat dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law's comments on her younger daughter, she thought her daughter-in-law's guess was correct.
"... That Chen Liuzi tricked her away, so there's no way he'd let her come back! Even if she wanted to come back, she would be stopped from coming back!"
"That's not necessarily true." Chen Xingling said, "Although Chen Liuzi doesn't like to hang around and looks lazy, he is not an unreliable person. He has never done anything bad, nor has he hurt anyone else. His home is not far from our hometown, so we are neighbors. We don't need to worry too much about this."
She had been to the capital for a few days, and she knew Chen Nantai. Although she didn't have any feelings for him, she wouldn't slander him and accuse him of being a nobody.
Although Chen Nantai is lazy, he is very filial to his family and has a group of friends willing to follow him, proving that he understands filial piety and righteousness.
He was able to carry Gu Miao, who had suffered from heatstroke, back to the north of the city in the middle of the night, and did not take the opportunity to bully her or do anything to take advantage of her. This shows that he has a sense of right and wrong and is not the kind of person who would act recklessly.
He and Gu Miao had been in love for several months. If he had not treated her well, she would have left him long ago, considering her temperament of being a fussy and calculative person.
But Gu Miao was still willing to give up her happy home and elope with him, which showed that he must be very good to her.
In the original book, Chen Nantai was a man of quick mind and courage, and he eventually became famous. He returned to his hometown to build a house and a clan temple, and did a lot of other things, becoming the "Big Boss Chen" in the eyes of the villagers.
It's just that the current plot is different. Whether Gu Miao will be separated from him again, whether he can become a "big boss", everything is still unknown.
"Yeah." Gu Yi nodded in approval: "Sister-in-law's analysis makes sense. Although Chen Yuliuzi is annoying, he is not a wicked person. He has loved wandering the streets since he was a child and occasionally steals things, but he has never done anything bad. Otherwise, he would have been in prison a long time ago."
Li Ying rolled her eyes when she heard this: "If he wasn't a bad guy, he wouldn't have kidnapped your sister! Ah Miao is only sixteen or seventeen years old and still studying. Even if he wanted to marry her, he couldn't do this! Besides, he's a toad who dares to eat swan meat - I should have beaten him to death long ago!"
Everyone else was silent.
Gu Qi and Gu Yi naturally disagreed with this matter, but now that the matter has been settled, some things really cannot be said.
Chen Yuliuzi was indeed not a good match, and his sister was still young. If they had known about this earlier, they would have definitely stopped it.
But my sister is already with him... and if they really love each other and want to stay together forever, then they won't say anything. After all, it's not them who are going to get married, but my sister herself.
They are brothers, not fathers. They can give their sister advice and remind her that Chen Yuluzi may not be reliable, but they can't help her make choices.
However, Chen Xingling disagreed with the idea of "a toad wanting to eat swan flesh". In her opinion, it was very lucky for a girl like Gu Miao to have a man wanting her.
In the original book, she and Chen Nantai could not get along, and later she married a man from a relatively wealthy family. But she was lazy and naughty, and she did all kinds of evil things, which brought misery to the man's family and herself.
The mother-in-law boasted that her son and daughter were the best, and that the children of others were short, ugly, and poor. She despised them in all kinds of ways, but she had no idea how beautiful her own daughter was—she deserved the name "swan"!
Haha! What an insult to the word "swan"!
Gu Xuan, who had been sitting there without saying a word, couldn't stand it anymore and suddenly said something.
"If he comes to ask for your hand in marriage, you will beat him to death. If you can agree, they need to elope?"
Li Ying: “…”! ! !
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