Ten minutes later, Xia Yichu finished her noodles, paid, and was about to leave when a crazy woman suddenly rushed in through the door.

Terrified, she clung tightly to An'an. The madwoman didn't even glance at her, picking up the bowl she had just used to eat noodles and drinking from it. There was only a little soup in it, no noodles or meat.

"Don't be afraid, she's just starving, she won't hit anyone."

"Boss, cook her a bowl of noodles, with plenty of meat. I'll treat her to it."

Xia Yichu saw that she was so thin that she was just skin and bones, and her age was about the same as her aunt.

"Okay, Ruhua, go sit by the door for a while. This kind girl wants to treat you to noodles."

The woman didn't say anything, but went outside and sat obediently on a chair by the door. The owner had also set up two tables and a few chairs by the door, and he was afraid that having her sit inside would discourage other customers from coming in to eat, thus affecting his business.

"Boss, what's wrong with her?"

"Her daughter went missing last year, and she became like this because of the shock. Sigh, she's a pitiful person. Her husband divorced her and remarried. I heard from others that she just had a son last month."

She frequented this area, looking for something to eat when she got hungry. She would wait outside restaurants until their customers finished eating before going inside to eat the leftovers.

Upon hearing this, Xia Yichu suddenly remembered something. In her previous life, she had seen a report on television about several girls who had gone missing near their county. They had been abducted to the mountains to have children with poor, elderly bachelors.

Although the traffickers were later caught, the girls were never found. The traffickers and the intermediaries didn't know each other, and they had no idea where the girls had been sold.

Xia Yichu was shocked. If Huang Shaomin was abducted, then she would not have to get her hands dirty with any lives, and Huang Shaomin would never appear in front of her sister again.

This is more painful than letting her die. She caused her sister so much suffering in her past life. In this life, she almost caused her sister to miscarry again. She married Li Weijie and might even be plotting against her sister. Selling her to an old bachelor in the mountains by human traffickers is the best revenge.

"Boss, how old is her daughter? Why is she missing?"

"Her daughter was around twenty years old, a freshman in college, and came home for the Chinese New Year during winter break. I heard that she went out with her classmates after dinner and never came back."

They reported it to the police, but they couldn't find him. He's basically disappeared without a trace.

The owner served the noodles to the woman, then came back in to continue chatting with Xia Yichu.

"Didn't her family look for someone themselves?"

"Yes, of course we've looked. We've searched the whole neighborhood, and friends and family have helped us look too. We've been searching for a month, but we still haven't found it."

"Isn't there any clue at all?"

The shopkeeper sighed and shook his head. Before the woman went mad, she sold vegetables at the market, and business was good. She only had one daughter, and he heard that she fell while giving birth to her daughter and hadn't been able to get pregnant again.

"Yes, who said there are no clues? Didn't someone say they saw Ruhua's daughter being taken away by two middle-aged men and women?" the proprietress said as she came out from inside.

"You believe what that drunkard said? Even the police don't believe him, saying he was drunk and misjudged the situation."

"What if it's true? Having a clue is better than having no clue at all."

"Don't believe everything you hear. If..."

"Boss, a bowl of noodles, please."

"it is good"

Customers started coming in one after another, and the owners didn't say anything. They got busy with business. Xia Yichu saw that the woman had finished her bowl of noodles and left. After paying the woman, she took An'an home.

"Sister, brother-in-law, is Uncle alright?"

Around 6 p.m., Lin Xingyao and Huang Shaosong returned together.

"It's nothing, the doctor said it was just a shock, and I can be discharged after two days of rest. Xiao Chu, have you eaten? Your sister and I haven't eaten yet, I'm going out to get some food."

Huang's mother and Huang Shaogang were at the hospital, and they told Huang Shaosong and his wife to come back and take care of the child, and not to go to the hospital.

Huang Shaosong planned to go home and get some sleep, and then go to relieve his younger brother in the early hours of the morning.

"Brother-in-law, I just ate."

Xia Yichu didn't know when her sister would be back, so she took An'an out to eat again. She had just finished eating and was about to give An'an a bath.

"Okay, I'll go get two meals."

"Sis, go inside and rest for a bit. I'll go give An'an a bath."

"it is good"

When Xia Yichu finished bathing An'an, Huang Shaosong and Lin Xingyao were already eating.

"Sis, I ran into a crazy woman when I went out to eat today. Her name is Ruhua. Do you know her?"

"I know her. Her daughter went missing last year, and they searched for her for a month without success. Her husband refused to look for their daughter anymore, and she couldn't understand it and became a little mentally unstable."

Her husband, seeing that she couldn't have children and had gone insane, divorced her and kicked her out. Then she sold the house, bought a new house in another county, and continued selling vegetables at the market.

"Then how did her daughter disappear?"

"I don't know, there are all sorts of rumors, it's all just people's wild guesses."

"Sis, I want to go for a walk."

Xia Yichu thought about it all afternoon. It seems that the TV said that human traffickers live near the People's Park in this area.

Young people, especially girls, like to stroll in the park every day when they have nothing to do, so they usually look for targets there.

She planned to try her luck sometime to see if she could find the human traffickers' hideout. She planned to knock Huang Shaomin unconscious and hand her over to the traffickers, then write a report after some time to have the traffickers arrested.

Once the human traffickers get their hands on Huang Shaomin, even the police won't be able to find her. The lack of surveillance makes it even easier for her to act. Besides, she has a spatial dimension; if she knocks her unconscious and hides her there, no one will discover that Huang Shaomin's disappearance is related to her.

"Okay, don't stay out too late, come back early."

"Um"

Xia Yichu went directly to People's Park. It was hot, and the park was crowded. There were mostly young people there, with men and women on dates.

She found a dark spot to stand and looked for suspicious people. She paid special attention to middle-aged men and women; there were several middle-aged couples, but they were all with their children, so they were definitely not the ones in question.

Xia Yichu wandered around for over an hour, her hands and feet covered in mosquito bites, but she hadn't found anything. She had to go back first; it was too late and her sister would worry.

In the morning, Lin Xingyao went to work. Huang Shaosong went to the hospital at 2 a.m. yesterday to take care of Huang Shaogang's father, and went directly to work from the hospital this morning.

Xia Yichu and An'an were left at home again. After breakfast, she took the children out for a walk. She didn't notice anything unusual today. In the evening, Xia Yichu went for a walk in People's Park as usual and returned home before nine o'clock.

Lin Xingyao didn't think much of it, assuming that Xia Yichu was bored taking care of An'an during the day and wanted to go out for a stroll in the evening. Huang's father could be discharged from the hospital tomorrow; she wondered if Huang's mother would be free to take care of An'an.

The next morning, Huang Shaosong happened to be off work, so he picked up his father early and took him home. His father said he missed his grandson, so Huang Shaosong brought him straight home.

Worried about her daughter, Huang's mother, seeing that her husband had been discharged from the hospital unharmed, made an excuse to leave. She secretly went to check on her daughter.

Huang Shaomin, a member of the Li family, was washing dishes at home when his parents noticed that their son had quietly arranged the marriage. Li's father didn't say anything; while the Huang family's social standing wasn't a good match for his son, it wasn't bad either.

Li's mother only told her to have a child for Li Weijie as soon as possible, saying that she wouldn't need to go out to work anymore and could stay at home to take care of her son.

Then, Li's mother fired the family's nanny, saying that she would take over the daily meals and housework. Huang Shaomin didn't dare to refuse, thinking that she could give Li Weijie a son and then gain status through her son.

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