"Go up the mountain and take a look. Don't let anything happen!"
The captain strode out. The flashlight in his hand was very weak and could not shine very far.
"Third uncle, take this!"
Tang Niannian took out a flashlight from the house, it was very bright.
"Bring these torches!"
Pig food was being cooked on the stove, and there was a fire in the stove. Mrs. Tang made a few simple torches. In order to burn brighter, she even poured some kerosene extravagantly.
The captain led a few people up the mountain. Dots of bright lights in the distance moved towards the mountain.
Mrs. Tang suppressed the involuntary raised corners of her mouth and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. She prayed again in her heart: "God, you must be more courageous. You'd better kill these bad things!"
You haven't come back for so long, maybe you were struck to death by lightning!
An hour later, the captain and the others came back, all wet and with ugly faces.
They searched for most of the mountain, but couldn't find Zhou Siming or the others. It rained heavily and all the footprints were washed away. There was no clue at all.
"I have to call the commune to report that something big has happened!"
The captain had a dark face and went to make a phone call.
"It won't be picked up by wild wolves, right?" a villager whispered.
"Impossible, those people are all practitioners, there are seven or eight of them, and I even saw them bringing robbers!"
One villager's voice was even lower and he gestured with his hands.
Zhou Siming had two men living in his house. What he accidentally saw made him break out in a cold sweat.
"What are these people's backgrounds? How can they be robbed while inspecting historical sites?"
"Who knows, hush, stay out of the business above!"
"Go to bed, we have to work tomorrow!"
Several villagers discussed it for a while, and then they all went back to their homes. They were not captains, so they didn't have to worry about such trivial matters.
After they left, Mrs. Tang closed the door and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. From the looks of it, there was a high probability that something had happened to those bad things.
"The spirits of the sky and the spirits of the earth must not come back with all their hair and tail!"
Mrs. Tang prayed silently, and after returning to her room, she bowed to the sky a few times, very piously.
That night, Tangcun was extremely lively, and there was no silence all night.
Not only did the commune send people, the county also sent people, the public security, the armed forces, the tail-cutting association and other departments all sent their key personnel to gather in the back hills of Tangcun to look for people.
Wei Zhangcheng was also there. He was called by the director and called out from his wife's warm and fragrant nephrite. He was very angry. When he learned that he was looking for the eldest son of the Zhou family, he became even more angry.
It's none of his business that the Zhou family went to the mountains to commit suicide!
However, the Zhou family was also miserable. Zhou Siliang was dead, Zhou Siren's whereabouts are still unknown, and Zhou Ming disappeared again. The Zhou family only had a few grandsons in total, and more than half of them were lost.
When Wei Zhangcheng heard from the director that he was missing in Tangcun, his first reaction was Tang Niannian.
He was at least 80% sure that Zhou Ming's disappearance had something to do with this girl.
But what does it have to do with him? He is just an ordinary police officer who only investigates cases and doesn't care about the bullshit above.
The people in Tangcun didn't sleep well all night. There were footsteps and voices outside the window, which was extremely noisy.
At dawn, the rain stopped, and the entire Tang Village was shrouded in mist, like an ink painting.
There were messy footprints on the ground. The captain accompanied Wei Zhangcheng and the others and stayed on the mountain for most of the night. His eyes were dark and he was yawning constantly, which made him sleepy to death.
"Captain Tang, please find the villagers. I want to ask them one by one." Wei Zhangcheng said politely.
"Hey, I'm going to speak on the loudspeaker right now!"
The captain agreed and trotted off to broadcast.
"Hey, hey, hey... After hearing the broadcast, all the elderly and children, except those who can't get up, go to the village committee office and line up. The police have something to ask you!"
The captain made the broadcast three times, and the whole village heard it.
The villagers were all furious.
"Why are you asking again? What happened in the village again?"
"It seems that those people in the capital have disappeared!"
"It's none of our business if they don't see it. Is asking questions considered as work points?"
The villagers reluctantly went to the village committee office, where they stood in several rows and chatted without hesitation.
Wei Zhangcheng was the temporary leader of the search team. He arranged for three groups of people to ask the same questions.
"I didn't see them. I was working in the fields yesterday. I wonder where they went?"
"I work in a sock factory and I haven't seen them. Don't they go to the mountains every day?"
"I know they asked the captain to borrow a hoe and dustpan. Did they go dig a grave?"
"Leader, it has nothing to do with me. My family is a poor peasant for eight generations and is innocent!"
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Although the villagers said different things, they all had the same meaning. They said that it was a coincidence that they did not see Zhou Siming and the others. Normally there would be people on the mountain, chopping firewood, pulling bamboo shoots, or hunting pigweed, but yesterday there was really no one on the mountain. nothing.
It happened to rain again, so the villagers were even less likely to go to the mountains. I really don’t know where Zhou Siming and the others went.
But there is also a little gain, which I got from the children.
"An uncle asked where the beautiful stone came from, and Jiujin said it was picked up on the mountain. The uncle gave him a lot of candies and asked Jiujin to lead the way." A child said.
"Jiu Jin led them the way and played hide and seek with us when they came back. Then it rained and we went home!"
"The candies given by uncle were very delicious. Nine kilograms were divided among us."
"The beautiful stone is very beautiful, but it's a pity that it fell and can't be found."
The children who played with Tang Jiujin that day all mentioned the beautiful rocks and Tang Jiujin leading the way.
But the stone was gone. When it rained, they ran down the mountain to take shelter. There was a hole in Tang Jiujin's pocket, and the stone leaked out. They didn't find it until they got home. When they went back to look for it, they couldn't find it. Either it had fallen into a ditch. Or it was picked up by someone.
Wei Zhangcheng and the others found Tang Jiujin. The little girl was brave and not afraid at all. She looked at them openly.
"Uncle said the candy was called chocolate and it was delicious. I took them to a place where they picked up stones. The stone fell and couldn't be found..."
The little girl's thinking is very divergent. She talks about one thing and another.
Wei Zhangcheng listened patiently, but the others were no longer so patient. His tone became impatient and shouted: "Where did you take Director Zhou and the others? Take us there now!"
"Be nice to the kids!"
Wei Zhangcheng's face darkened. The person he yelled at was not the police, but someone from another department, someone who pretended to be powerful.
Tang Jiujin also darkened his face, put his hands on his hips and cursed: "Why do you yell at me? My parents didn't yell at me. It's not like I asked them for the chocolate. They gave it to me themselves, so I won't give it to them." You lead the way, who are you?"
The question was asked in a small room and could be heard outside. Mrs. Tang was chatting with someone. When she heard her little granddaughter's roar, she immediately darkened her face and ran over.
Xu Jinfeng and Tang Manjin also followed, as well as Xuan Zhenzhu.
Tang Niannian happened to go to the toilet and didn't hear it.
