His family was shocked by his guess.
"No, no..." Xuefu shook her head, clutching her chest, and said, "Since Wanwan said that Little Pink Butterfly is a good girl, she wouldn't do such a thing."
Moreover, if that ghost really wanted to harm Lin Wanyue, why would it diligently help its family chop firewood every day?
Isn't that just plain stupid?
Although the firewood was chopped into a really messy mess...
But it's especially useful for starting a fire!
"Alright, alright, don't worry, let's look for her again. You wait at home. If Wanwan comes back on her own, you'll feel at ease." Lin Weiming asked his son to bring a stool over so Xuefu could sit down and rest.
He and Liu Junlan took their two sons and went out to search.
The group searched the entire village, but they couldn't find any trace of Lin Wanyue.
As it grew darker, if they couldn't find the person soon, it would be even harder to find them at night.
There were no flashlights available at that time; the only thing that could be used was a torch, which provided very limited illumination.
Every household in the village has started cooking, and the aroma of food and wisps of smoke rise from their chimneys.
Only at home was it quiet and deserted, with no sound coming out.
Liu Junlan and her son Lin Weiming exchanged glances, both sensing that something was amiss.
"I suddenly remembered... I heard when I went to work in the fields today that Uncle Yu and Aunt Yu went to Aunt Yu's parents' house again, and they couldn't even take care of the work in the fields." Lin Weiming recalled the gossip in the village while he was working today, and now he felt his throat tighten as he spoke of it.
"You mean..." Liu Junlan's face tensed even more, "Damn it! That damned woman Zhang Cuihong said before that she wanted to spend money to buy our Wanwan, could it be that she still has ulterior motives and actually did it?"
Of course, their family wouldn't sell Wanwan for a few coins.
But no one would believe that Zhang Cuihong would give up so easily.
"Whether it is or not, shall we go and take a look?"
"good!"
Lin Weiming knocked on the Yu family's door.
The people who opened the door were Yu's two grandsons, named Yu Guangzong and Yu Yaozu.
Upon seeing Lin Weiming, the two brothers involuntarily took a step back in fright, stammering, "What...what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing much, I just came to ask if Uncle Yu and Aunt Yu are home?" Lin Weiming's gaze swept around the Yu family's house, but he didn't see anything.
Lin Wanyue is definitely not here.
"No, we don't know...we don't know anything." The older Yu Guangzong looked flustered and reached out to close the door and stop the people outside.
"Then where did your grandparents go?" Liu Junlan used his tall stature to push the door open with one shoulder.
How could two small children possibly stop an adult?
Yu Yaozu immediately shouted, "What do you want? Are you trying to steal from our house? If you dare to come any closer, we'll call for help..."
"You're stealing! You're hitting people! I'm going to tell the village head that your whole family will be locked up in jail!"
"You two must know where my sister is? Hurry up and let her out." Lin Zheyun wasn't afraid of the two of them at all, and raised her hand to push them aside and go inside to look for her.
The brothers Yu Guangzong and Yu Yaozu both shouted at the top of their lungs.
Liu Junlan and Lin Weiming both felt that there must be something wrong, but they couldn't really rush in to check amidst the two children's shouts, so they had to give up.
"Weiming, you stay here and keep watch. I don't believe those two old geezers will never come back!" Liu Junlan left her son behind and was about to take her two grandsons to go look for them again.
Suddenly someone shouted, "Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened at the village entrance... Guangzong, Yaozu, you two go quickly, something terrible has happened to your grandparents!"
"Impossible, my grandparents are perfectly fine. You must be conspiring with them to deceive people." Yu Guangzong and Yu Yaozu naturally knew what their grandparents had been up to when they went out. At this moment, they stared intently at Liu Junlan and Lin Weiming, refusing to back down even a step.
"What's wrong?" Liu Junlan stepped forward and asked, "What exactly happened?"
"Oh, it's good that you're here too! It saves me the trouble of running around." The person who came to deliver the message wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "This... we don't know what happened either, but Yu Dong and Zhang Cuihong are like madmen, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing frantically. Their daughter Yu Zhaodi and your little granddaughter are also here. It was terrifying!"
Hearing that Lin Wanyue was at the village entrance, Liu Junlan and the others no longer wanted to break into the Yu family to find out what was going on. The four of them ran as fast as they could towards the village entrance.
Yu Guangzong and Yu Yaozu were both speechless as they watched their family of four running wildly.
"How about... we go take a look too?" Yu Guangzong said with some concern.
“No, no, it’s definitely a scam! They’re all in cahoots to cheat us, and they want to steal our things after we leave!” Yu Yaozu said firmly.
The person who came to deliver the message: "..."
Those two little idiots!
I felt like my good intentions were being taken for granted. I meant well and was afraid they wouldn't know, but they treated me like a thief trying to steal something.
"Pah!" The man spat at his doorstep. "Your family is so poor, yet you're afraid of being robbed? You must have a guilty conscience and see everyone as a thief."
After saying that, he ignored the two little kids and ran back to the village entrance to watch the excitement.
The village entrance is bustling with activity!
...
Several hardworking people returned a little later than the others. As soon as they got back to the village entrance, they saw Yu Dong and Zhang Cuihong kneeling on the ground, competing to kowtow. Their heads were bleeding from the kowtows, and they were desperately hitting themselves, as if they were possessed.
Yu Zhaodi, kneeling to the side, also stared blankly, terrified of everyone she saw.
Lin Wanyue calmly ate a piece of candy, seemingly unaware of anything, and even flashed a sweet smile with dimples when she saw people.
"Wanwan? What are you doing here?" When Liu Junlan saw Lin Wanyue, her eyes were only on her little granddaughter. She hugged her tightly and said reassuringly, "You scared Grandma so much today. You're not allowed to run around like this anymore."
“I didn’t run away…I didn’t run away! I didn’t take her away. Grandma told me to bring her here. Grandma told me to do this! Grandpa and Grandma will beat me…they will beat me to death! I can’t take her away. I have to come here. I didn’t take her away.” Yu Zhaodi covered her ears and shouted desperately, as if she had heard something terrible.
The villagers were wondering how these seemingly unrelated people had gotten together, especially since the actions of Yu Dong and Zhang Cuihong were rather frightening.
Who knows what they're bowing to?
Upon hearing Yu Zhaodi's words, everyone instantly understood that Yu Dong and Zhang Cuihong were up to no good and actually wanted to abduct the child.
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