"Hello, I'm looking for Su Yuncheng. My name is Lin Nianhe."
Lin Nianhe fulfilled her promise to Wang Shumei and actually made the call.
"Sister Lin?" Feng Wei's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Brother Cheng has gone to Uncle Liu's place. I'll ask him to call you back when he comes back."
Lin Nianhe frowned and said neatly: "No, tell him that several people from the provincial capital kidnapped Zheng Shan and Niu Wa. One of them was a fat bald man named Zhang Changjiang. The exact number of people is uncertain. Zhang Changjiang appeared in our brigade about half an hour ago, and the location of the others is uncertain. You ask him to arrange for someone to guard at the train station, and I will look for someone here in the brigade. If we find someone, we will call each other. "
Feng Wei: "...!"
"Did you hear that clearly? Do you need me to repeat it?"
"Listen, listen clearly."
When Feng Wei came to his senses, Lin Nianhe had already hung up the phone.
He rubbed his face, turned around and ran to Liu Jianjun's office.
He didn't even knock on the door. He pushed it open and said to Su Yuncheng, "Brother Cheng! Your brother-in-law has been kidnapped!"
…
Lin Nianhe was a little panicked, but not too panicked.
She believed that Niu Wa's little head was enough for him to protect himself for the time being, and she also believed that these two children were important to Zhang Changjiang, and it was impossible for him to reject them.
She did not dare to ask the villagers to look for someone together, lest they make too much noise and irritate Zhang Changjiang, making the situation develop in a worse direction.
Lin Nianhe first went to Uncle Guan's house.
Because Zhao Zhuangshi sprained his foot today, Uncle Guan had to take care of the cows and chickens in the cowshed, and there was no one at home. The pot is cold and the stove is cold. There is a strip of pork belly on the stove. The room seems a little deserted.
She went to the hut where Zheng Shan lived. There were messy footprints scattered on the ground. She didn't know whether they were left by Zhang Changjiang's younger brother or when Cao Shijian was looking for someone.
A pencil fell on the ground, and the tip was broken. There are two open homework books on the kang table, and Chinese textbooks are also there. The two children should be doing their homework at home.
Lin Nianhe suddenly walked over and took one of the homework books.
On the field grid, a very shallow "4" is scrawled at the end.
4?
four people?
Looking at Niu Wa's familiar handwriting, Lin Nianhe almost gritted his teeth.
No matter how smart he is, he is only a seven-year-old child. He must be scared to death when encountering something like this...
"Don't be afraid, Sister Hehe will definitely find you."
Lin Nianhe clutched Niu Wa's homework and muttered to himself.
She didn't waste any more time and quickly left Uncle Guan's house.
She chose the path without thinking and walked all the way towards the mountain, searching everywhere, trying to find any traces or clues.
In fact, she didn't have much hope. There were too many people coming and going at the foot of the mountain every day, including those who collected firewood, those who collected pig grass, and those who picked wild animals... There were countless messy traces. She wanted to find out who they were from those messy footprints. The climb up from there is extremely difficult.
But Lin Nianhe still found it, and was very sure that Niu Wa and the others were taken up the mountain from here.
Because she bought the only piece of navy blue plaid hanging on the branch in the village.
At that time, Niu Wa had just been brought back to the Shili Brigade, and she had almost no complete clothes. She bought the cloth, Wen Lan made the clothes, and Wang Shumei ironed them flat before putting them on Niu Wa.
Lin Nianhe clutched the cloth tightly and went up the mountain without hesitation.
…
After wandering around the educated youth spot for several times, Wang Shumei still couldn't help knocking on Wen Lan's door.
Wen Lan was happily working on her sewing machine. When she heard the knock on the door, she said "come in" without raising her head. When Wang Shumei came in, she rolled her eyes: "I am becoming more and more careful every day."
Wang Shumei frowned and said to her: "Xiaolan, please stop for a moment and I will tell you something."
"Just tell me," Wen Lan continued to step on the sewing machine, "even if the sky falls, it won't delay my work."
Wang Shumei could only say: "I saw the fat man who came to see Nianhe today... Nianhe went out just now and said he wanted to make a phone call, but he didn't come back for so long. I really can't let go."
Wen Lan shook her hand and drew a semicircle on the woolen cloth.
She stopped what she was doing and stood up suddenly: "You little girl, why didn't you tell me about this big thing earlier! Hezi's little arms and legs, she will be beaten to death again!"
With that said, Wen Lan took a step and ran out.
Wang Shumei quickly grabbed her arm: "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to find her!" Wen Lan said, "You said she hasn't come back for so long, so she was probably taken away by someone else! I'm going to go find the captain and ask the villagers to help find her."
Wang Shumei pulled her hard, so anxious that sweat broke out on her forehead: "Are you crazy! What did we do? Don't we squat on the fence if others know about it?"
Wen Lan retracted his feet nonchalantly and frowned: "Then what do you think we should do? What should we do if something happens to Hezi?"
Wang Shumei also felt that she was being abrupt now. She should think of a way and then go directly to Wen Lan to implement it instead of trying to analyze the problem with her.
The situation forced Wang Shumei to be decisive. She said, "I think the fat man went up the mountain. Let's look for him in the village now. If we don't find him, we will take the sickle and go up the mountain to have a look."
"OK!"
…
Lin Nianhe felt more and more familiar with this road as he walked.
Halfway through the journey, she was almost certain of her destination.
"It's a good thing I dug a vegetable cellar... Sure enough, hidden places will eventually become popular attractions..."
Lin Nianhe looked at the cave and heard the laughter of chatting and spanking.
She walked lightly, took a few steps forward, and hid behind a tree.
She took a deep breath, held it, and closed her eyes to carefully distinguish the sounds coming from the cave.
One, two, three, four... five...
There were at least five people, all of them probably men.
But she didn't have to deal with five.
Lin Nianhe opened his eyes, and without waiting any longer, stepped on the fallen leaves and walked towards the cave.
"...Tonight I will take Xiaoliu away, and you guys will take these two brats into the mountains and kill them in two days. After finishing the work, you follow the car back to the provincial capital, and stay at home and don't come out."
"Okay, big brother, we all know what's going on, we're just going to follow the car to buy the goods!"
"Well, keep your hands and feet clean and don't make any mistakes."
"Don't worry, there are wolves, tigers and blind bears on this mountain. All the bones have been chewed by them."
"Hmm...hahaha..."
Zhang Changjiang looked at his four younger brothers and smiled with satisfaction. He puffed on the smoke and the smoke blurred his eyes. After blinking hard twice, he suddenly saw a slender figure at the entrance of the cave.
Lin Nianhe crossed his arms across his chest, looked at Zhang Changjiang coldly, and said calmly: "We are chatting."
Zhang Changjiang never expected to see Lin Nianhe here. A puff of cigarette smoke choked his throat, causing him to cough and shed tears.
"Cough cough cough..."
After a long while, he patted his heart and finally regained his breath, and asked suspiciously in a hoarse voice: "Why did you find me?"
Lin Nianhe didn't answer and asked instead: "Isn't it appropriate that you are doing things under my nose without even saying hello?"
She said, stepping into the cave.
