"Don't remember what happened before?" Shen Cha and Shen Haolin looked at each other, "This... is expected. We have also thought before that if he is Mrs. Teng's lost brother, there is a possibility that he will not remember it. People or things from the past.”
"Oh?" Xuanyuan Liang looked at her with a smile, "Tell me what you think."
"It's very simple." Shen Haolin threw away the bones in his hand, "If he hadn't forgotten what happened before, then he wouldn't have delayed going to Yancheng so late. When he was picked up by Mr. Chi Ge, he was about six or seven years old. As we said before, he is already old enough to remember things. If he still remembers what happened, he will definitely try his best to contact his real relatives."
"But according to Chi Hong's own statement and Mr. Qian's testimony, it can be confirmed that he does not remember the place of Yancheng and the relative Mrs. Teng. Mr. Qian once said that the siblings initially Their relationship was...very reserved, and even within a year after their first meeting, the two had no contact with each other."
"Is this also what the old man Qian said?"
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, "He is asking for something from us, and he is in a camp that is at odds with Madam Teng. He should not be able to help Madam Teng. Moreover, we sent someone to ask Kuaiji, who often helps Chi Hong deliver letters. , he said that the young master of the Chi family started sending frequent letters to and from Yancheng two years ago. Calculating the time, it should be the time when he came back from Yancheng for the fifth time. "
"That is, they only recognized each other two years ago." Seeing Shen Cha nodding, Tantai Pingchuan thought for a while and then said, "There was some opportunity in the middle that prompted them to recognize each other. You can check it out."
"Yes, we will." Shen Cha nodded, "So, it can be basically determined that Chi Hong remembered the past at that time."
"What do you think caused him to forget the past?"
"This..." Shen Cha shook his head gently, "We are not sure yet, but we can make some inferences. Based on the testimony given by Mr. Qian, we can initially judge that Mrs. Teng's brother was abducted at the lantern festival. , In the next half month, Yancheng conducted a large-scale search, but found nothing." Shen Cha looked at Xuanyuan Liang, "At that lantern festival, it was not just Mrs. Teng who lost her child, there should be others who were more famous in Yancheng. Is that a shameless person? Otherwise, the government wouldn’t have ordered the city to be closed down at that time.”
"That's for sure." Tantai Pingchuan said for Xuanyuan Liang, "Human traffickers generally have two ways of kidnapping children. Children from poor families are basically sold by their parents and eldest brothers. He glanced at Shen Cha and found that his expression had not changed, and continued, "Children from rich and powerful families are basically abducted."
"What do you think will happen to these children after they are abducted?"
"Well, either the traffickers stay in the city with these children, hide these children in a particularly hard-to-find place, wait until the news outside passes, and then think of a safe way to take the people away from Yancheng. And the third The second possibility is that the traffickers had taken these children away overnight before the city was closed, and by the time the government's order came down, they were already far away from Yancheng. But..." Shen Cha looked at Xuanyuan Liang, "What if If I remember correctly, during the annual lantern festival, there is no curfew in the city, and the city gates can be freely entered and exited, right?"
"That's right." Xuanyuan Liang nodded, "Because many of the people who come to see the lanterns come from villages and towns outside the city. The lantern festival ends very late, almost all after the scheduled update. Only people from these villages and towns outside the city will come here. You two go home. Therefore, the city gate is usually kept open all night."
"I understand, what you mean is that if someone fishes in troubled waters and goes out of the city among the people watching the lights, it is impossible to be discovered." Tantai Pingchuan looked at Shen Cha, "So, you are more inclined to believe that they will go out of town that night." You’ve left Yancheng, haven’t you?”
"Yes, otherwise, with the Tantai family's search capabilities, the trafficker's ability to hide people would have been found long ago." Shen Cha nodded, "It should be very difficult along the way. No matter how strong a child is, he can't stand it. It is very common to get sick due to this trouble, and it is impossible for the traffickers to treat the children properly, and there may be a possibility that the children will die of illness during the journey."
"A few years ago, we captured several traffickers in Jiaping Pass. They used their families as a cover to sell stolen children bought cheaply to brothels in the south of the Yangtze River. According to their confessions, they transported them from the border gate to brothels in the south of the Yangtze River. After taking ten children, by the time they reached Jiangnan, only two or three survived, and almost all the others died on the way. However, the remaining children were not in particularly good condition and were easily frightened. , they would huddle together at the slightest movement." Shen Haolin sighed, "Those traffickers said that they were once hunted down by buyers because some of the children they bought died in less than a year. .”
"Human traffickers all over the world are the same, there is no humanity at all." Bai Meng yawned and put down the spoon in his hand, "I also arrested many human traffickers in Xijing. This kind of situation is very common, otherwise If so, His Majesty will not issue an order. As long as it is a human trafficker and the evidence is conclusive, there is no need to wait for Qiu Jue to kill him immediately." He shrugged at several people, "Chi Hong should be thankful that he is lucky. He just doesn't remember the people and things in the past, so his life is still saved. However, he should have remembered the past things by now. He knows who he is and where he comes from, but now he doesn't leave the Chi family and still treats Chi Ge as his old man. Father, you should repay Mr. Chi Ge and the Chi family for their kindness in raising you. Otherwise, you can leave Xijing and return to Mrs. Teng, where the love between brother and sister will be deep."
"There is another possibility." Shen Cha drank the last sip of the soup and stretched out a finger, "Mrs. Teng told Chi Hong her thoughts. Chi Hong happened to coincide with her and wanted to..."
"Wait a minute." Bai Meng interrupted Shen Cha, "Chi Hong grew up in Xijing, why does he agree with Mrs. Teng's ideas?"
"Probably because of His Highness Prince Ning." Xuanyuan Liang saw the three children opposite looking at her curiously and chuckled, "Chi Hong has always disliked His Highness Prince Ning, don't you know?"
"I know this." Bai Meng nodded, "Isn't it just jealousy? Isn't it true that His Highness Prince Ning is the only one who has humbled Old Chi in his life? Chi Hong feels that his status has been seriously affected. That’s why I am so hostile to His Highness Prince Ning.”
"It's so naive. If that's the case, why would you go out of your way to film an assassin's assassination?"
"Is there any other inside story?"
Tantai Pingchuan didn't say anything. He and Xuanyuan Liang looked at each other, and the two old men showed a strange evil smile.
