As soon as the police entered, they detained the three men in the Li family home and asked who Li Zhiyong was. Li Zhiyong and his wife were terrified, and Li Weijie, seeing so many police officers, assumed they were sent by the Huang family.

"Don't arrest me, I don't know where Huang Shaomin went." He hadn't done anything to Huang Shaomin, so he wasn't afraid.

"Why did you arrest my son?" Huang's mother was stunned for a moment before she spoke.

"Don't move!"

The three women, including the Li family member and the nanny, were only detained by the police and made to sit on the sofa and not get up.

"He is Li Zhiyong. You are not allowed to arrest my son. He has not broken the law," Huang's mother said, pointing at Li Zhiyong.

"Li Zhiyong, this is the search warrant. Please take a look. We will be conducting a search of the Li family's home."

One of the police officers came out with a search warrant and showed it to Li Zhiyong, then called seven or eight people to start searching Li's house.

After seeing the search warrant, Li Zhiyong's legs went weak and he couldn't stand up, so he had to be supported by two police officers.

"You can't search my house. Huang Shaomin isn't here. I want to see your bureau chief."

Wang Wanyu said, trembling, that she didn't know whether the police were after Huang Shaomin or the things in the house.

"Release my son immediately! We are not from the Li family. We are here to find our daughter; the Li family has hidden her."

"Comrade, we are on official business, please cooperate. The police will not wrong an innocent person. If the Li family's affairs have nothing to do with you, we will release you after we have investigated."

"Mom, don't say anything. We trust the police."

Huang Shaogang wasn't worried at all. He came from a clean family and hadn't done anything illegal. Besides, these police officers were clearly after Li Zhiyong. They came in and immediately questioned Li Zhiyong. This was still the Li family home, so the matter definitely had nothing to do with him and his mother.

Huang's mother listened to her son and didn't say anything more. Wang Wanyu kept talking, but no one paid any attention to her.

Li Weijie saw that his parents' faces were pale, but he didn't take it to heart. He had a clear conscience regarding Huang Shaomin.

Half an hour later, a policeman came downstairs and said, "Captain, we've found a secret room. There's a lot of money inside, as well as some jewelry and gold bars."

"Handcuff Li Zhiyong and keep an eye on him. I'm going up to check on him."

Li Zhiyong and Wang Wanyu thought to themselves, "It's all over. What they did has been discovered. What will happen to their son now?"

An hour later, the police carried eight boxes back to the Li family home.

Only at this moment did Li Weijie begin to panic. He had no idea why there was a secret room and so many boxes in his house. The thought of where these things came from terrified him so much that his legs went weak, and he was dragged into the car by the police.

At 8 p.m., the Li family's nanny and Huang Shaogang and his mother were released by the police.

"Officer, where's my daughter? Have they told me where they've hidden her?"

"Comrade Huang, please come back tomorrow to ask. We're a bit busy right now and haven't had a chance to ask for you yet."

Huang's mother wanted to say something more, but Huang Shaogang stopped her, saying, "Thank you, we'll come again tomorrow."

Huang Shaogang pulled his mother away. Now that the police had arrested the Li family, they would find out where his sister was sooner or later. He didn't believe the Li family would dare to kill his sister; at most, she would suffer a little.

"Shaogang, why did you drag me out here? I want to know where Xiaomin is as soon as possible!"

When Huang's mother discovered that her daughter was not at the Li family's house, she had a bad feeling and was really worried about not being able to see her daughter immediately.

"Mom, the police have already said that, there's no use waiting there. Maybe Xiaomin is in a bad mood and went to a classmate's house. Let's go home first. Did you tell my brother you were coming to see me today?"

"No, I told your older brother we wouldn't go to his house this morning, we'd go around noon."

Every time her daughter was mentioned, her eldest son and husband would get angry, so she didn't tell them she was going to see her daughter. She only told her eldest son that she had something to do in the morning and would go at noon.

"Then let's go to your older brother's house quickly. They must be very worried because you didn't go home at noon. You should always let your family know before you go out to do anything."

"Is it that I don't want to talk about it? Every time I mention your sister, your dad and brother get impatient and won't let me mention Xiaomin."

At Huang Shaosong's home, the father and son sat on the sofa in a daze, while Lin Xingyao had not yet come home from get off work.

Huang's mother didn't come home at noon, but Huang Shaosong and his father didn't think much of it. Huang's father simply told his son to go home after get off work and see what his mother was doing.

"Dad, Shaogang isn't at the scrap yard today either. Mom should be out with him. Don't worry."

"But your brother isn't such an unreliable person, why didn't he say anything?"

Huang Shaosong was also very worried; his father's health was poor and he couldn't afford any more stress. He could only try to comfort him and prevent him from worrying.

"Okay, I'll go back to my house and my brother's place again, just in case they come back."

"Okay, then take it slow."

Huang Shaosong had just been there, but seeing his father's concern, he had to go again. He had also been to the Li family's house, but the Li family's neighbors said that something had happened to the Li family; they had been arrested by the police, no one was home, and the Li family's house had been sealed off by the police.

He didn't tell his father about this, afraid that his father would worry about Huang Shaomin. He figured she should be fine. She had just married into the Li family, and the Li family's past had nothing to do with her.

"Brother, where are you going?"

Huang Shaosong had just pushed the car out when Huang Shaogang and his mother arrived at his house.

"Huang Shaosong, where did you take Mom today? You came back so late without saying a word. Dad and I were so worried at home, we looked for you for hours."

Huang Shaogang wanted to yell at his mother, but he was afraid she would cry again. His mother always looked gloomy, which made him feel bad.

"Brother, I..."

"Why are you taking your anger out on your brother? Take it out on me. Xiaomin is missing, you know that? Are you and Lin Xingyao satisfied now?"

"Mom, can you be reasonable? Huang Shaomin wants to marry Li Weijie, what does that have to do with Xingyao?"

Besides, how could she disappear? It wasn't our fault she disappeared; how could such a grown woman just vanish?

"Waaaaah... Shaosong, your sister is really missing! She might have been killed by the Li family..."

Huang's mother cried her heart out; she was terrified that something bad had happened to her daughter.

"What did you say? What do you mean Xiaomin is missing?"

When Mr. Huang heard the crying, he came out and heard what his wife was saying.

"Dad, please calm down, here's what happened..."

Huang Shaogang recounted their visit to the Li family that day. His mother was so worried, but he was actually alright and not that worried.

"Alright, stop crying. We'll go to the police station together tomorrow and ask."

Mr. Huang is not too worried now, wondering if his daughter might go to the provincial capital to find Su Jiahui.

In the morning, Huang's mother was urging Huang's father to go to the police station at seven o'clock. She hadn't gone home last night and had stayed at her eldest son's house.

"What's the rush? Let me finish feeding An'an first. Do you think anyone'll be at the police station now?"

"Definitely, they have staff on duty."

"Dad, hurry up and go, I'll feed An'an."

Although Lin Xingyao dislikes Huang Shaomin, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, she can only remain indifferent and will not stop other members of the Huang family from caring about Huang Shaomin, including her husband Huang Shaosong.

"Okay, An'an, Grandpa's going out for a bit, I'll be right back to take care of you."

"Old Huang, hurry up."

"I'm here! I'm here! What's the rush?"

Despite his complaints, Mr. Huang quickened his pace. The two went to find their younger son first, met at the intersection, and got into his son's car, heading straight for the police station.

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