Lin Shuyue was stunned. The previous task was completed when she went to see Hang Jiabai. She was rewarded with one year of life time, and nothing else.
Today, Lin Shuyue is no longer doing the tasks assigned by the system just to stay alive. She now has three years to live, and three years is not a short time for Lin Shuyue.
With the system mall, Lin Shuyue no longer cared about the lack of special item rewards after completing the task. But this time, when it was said that it was distributed in combination with all the previous tasks, Lin Shuyue became interested. But now is not the time to explore this, the most important thing now is to find the child.
Bai Wenhua had been a soldier and had traveled extensively throughout the country, so he had certain investigative abilities. With Luo Zhengjun as his translator, he quickly came to the same conclusion as Lin Shuyue after asking the parties involved a few questions.
Xiaofang's father was squatting by the pond and crying. When he heard that Xiaofang might still be alive, he immediately called his cousins to go with him to look for her.
Xiaofang's mother also raised her head: "Xiaofang in our family is very well behaved. She is only six years old, but she is very obedient. She said she had a stomachache this morning and wanted to go to the toilet. I was cooking pig food at the time and didn't pay attention. I didn't see her until I almost finished cooking the pig food. I thought she had gone back to sleep. As a result, I went to the room to check and she was not at home. I walked outside and saw the shoes I put on her this morning."
Xiaofang's mother cried as she spoke, her eyes swollen like walnuts. The toilet in her house was right next to the front door, and Xiaofang would go to the toilet by herself, often before dawn, so she was very relieved. She never thought that she could get lost just by going to the toilet.
The village party secretary has a good relationship with father Luo. He had dinner with Bai Wenhua last night at Luo's house. He felt that what Bai Wenhua said made sense. After all, no matter how naughty a child is, it is impossible for her to run to the water to play at dawn. Moreover, it was so early today. If a child fell into the water, the subconscious reaction would definitely be to call for help, even the youngest child would do the same.
This is a normal human instinct. Unless the child was taken away by someone, and the person who made her follow him without saying anything must be someone she knows.
"Everyone go home, grab your tools, and follow me to search." The village party secretary said, and the people gathered by the pond turned around and went home. Soon they came out with long sticks and hoes. Men and women gathered together.
Among them, the families who had lost their children or young wives looked particularly gloomy.
Lin Shuyue, Lin Shuxing, and Lou Fengqin also followed Luo's father and sister-in-law.
Lin Shuyue turned on the good and evil radar and deliberately led them to the place where the corner of the clothes disappeared in the morning.
This is a small path leading to the forest behind the mountain.
Lin Shuyue glanced at the person walking in front, and then asked Mrs. Luo beside her: "Sister-in-law, where does this path lead to?"
Mrs. Luo took a look and said, "Go straight ahead along this path and cross the pass in front, and you will reach the rice fields of our village. Going through the rice fields and further ahead, you will reach a Miao village. Their village has other roads leading to the outside, and they usually don't go through our village."
The pass that Mrs. Luo mentioned was not big, just a small hill, but the hill was covered with tall trees and mostly stones, and a small path meandered up the mountain.
Lin Shuyue looked around as she walked, and there was nothing unusual.
Lin Shuyue was sure that the person who kidnapped Xiaofang must be very familiar with the entire village.
After climbing over the pass, what came into Lin Shuyue's sight were neatly arranged rice fields. It was almost time for harvest, and the rice fields were golden yellow. A small river about one meter wide meandered through the rice fields. When the breeze blew, the rice fields were blown into waves like the river.
After looking at the rice fields, Lin Shuyue's gaze fell on the pear orchard on the other side of the pass.
"Sister-in-law. Is this forest the Third Grandpa's pear garden?" From this direction, Lin Shuyue saw the Third Grandpa's house, which she had visited yesterday.
"Yes, it's all over that area." Mrs. Luo pointed casually.
Lin Shuyue said: "Let's go and take a look."
Lin Shuyue took the lead and walked in front. Most of the people that Luo Dasao and her team came to look for were relatively young women who had a good relationship with Luo Dasao. Seeing Luo Dasao leading the way to the Pear Garden, they hurried to follow.
They didn't see anything unusual along the way. They thought that Xiaofang must have fallen into the underground river like other missing children in the village. It was just that two outsiders were causing trouble, and the village party secretary believed them. They all lived in the same village, and the reason they followed to search was just because they didn't want to offend the village party secretary.
Lin Shuxing glanced at the reluctant person behind her and asked Lin Shuyue: "Ah Yue, are you sure?"
Lin Shuyue glanced at the screen floating in front of her, and the good and evil radar did not show the murderer's location.
She said, "I'm not sure, let's see first."
The group of people soon arrived at the pear orchard, which was surrounded by a wooden fence. Two of the fences were not tied with wire. After removing two pieces of wood, they entered the woods.
Mrs. Luo and the others were extremely surprised that they could enter the pear orchard so easily.
"Why did Third Grandpa open a door here? Once the door is open, shouldn't it be easy to get in?"
"Yes, maybe someone came to steal the pears? We have to talk to Third Grandpa and ask him to repair the fence, otherwise there will be huge losses in the future."
"Who would dare to come when you say that?"
Everyone started talking at once.
Lin Shuyue guessed what they said. She first glanced at the wood that she had pulled up easily, and then set her eyes on the pair of footprints under the wet pear tree. The footprint on the right was obviously much deeper than the left.
Before Lin Shuyue could take a closer look, a dog barking was heard. Mrs. Luo and others raised the wooden sticks in their hands as a defensive gesture, and Lou Fengqin suddenly stood in front of Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing.
Lin Shuxing was most afraid of dogs and held Lin Shuyue's hand tightly.
Mrs. Luo swallowed her saliva and said, "Third Grandpa has raised many big wolfhounds in the orchard. His dogs are very fierce. Ah Yue, why don't we leave already?"
No one in the entire village dared to come to this orchard alone for this reason: the dogs raised by third grandfather were too ferocious.
"Yes, yes, Zhengjun's wife, let's go quickly. These dogs in Third Uncle's house can really bite people to death!" Someone advised Lin Shuxing in Mandarin with a strong rural accent.
Lin Shuxing held Lin Shuyue's hand and walked out of the room. Lin Shuyue looked at the endless fruit trees and the barking of dogs getting closer and closer, and took a deep breath: "Let's go back."
As soon as the group left the woods, several sturdy black dogs came to the fence, scratching the ground with their front paws and barking at Lin Shuyue and the other uninvited guests with their teeth bared.
Lin Shuyue took a deep look at the Pear Orchard and followed everyone out of the Pear Orchard.
If, before entering the Pear Orchard, Lin Shuyue's suspicion that there was a child hidden in the Pear Orchard was only 20%, then after entering the Pear Orchard, her suspicion became 70%. The remaining 30% would only be confirmed after she went deep into the Pear Orchard.
They went down the mountain and returned to the pond. Soon, Bai Wenhua and others also led a team. They found nothing. The faces of the people who followed them to find Xiaofang were not very good. They felt that Bai Wenhua was just messing around. It was clearly said that there was an experience of a child falling into the pond and being washed away by the underground river. Bai Wenhua, a person from another village, insisted that there was a problem. As a result, they searched the whole village, even the tree holes on the mountain, but still found nothing.
Especially those families who had followed them to find their children with anticipation, now one of the young men squatted on the ground and started crying.
Mrs. Luo saw this and said, "He married a wife two years ago and had a very good relationship with her. But within two months of the marriage, his wife died. His father-in-law and mother-in-law rushed to his house and smashed it up. The two families have not had any contact with each other since then."
"Yeah, poor thing."
Lin Shuyue was silent.
The young man's cry and Xiaofang's mother's cry, who looked at the crowd expectantly and turned pale, ignited the anger of the villagers. In order not to offend the village party secretary, Luo Zhengjun's uncle looked at Bai Wenhua sarcastically: "Father-in-law, you said the child didn't fall into the water. Now I walked around the village with you and searched all the places we should look for, even the rat nests, and we didn't see any big rats, let alone the child!"
"Are you kidding us?"
As soon as Uncle Luo finished speaking, several people started to agree: "Yes, yes, you are a foreigner, you don't know anything, and you are giving orders blindly. It's simply nonsense!"
Bai Wenhua glanced at the people who were talking, and then set his eyes on the skinny old man next to the village party secretary: "Who said we have dug all the rat holes? Isn't there still Third Uncle's pear orchard that we haven't search yet?"
Hearing Bai Wenhua mention the pear orchard, the skinny old man looked up in surprise, then smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes, there is still my pear orchard that we haven't search yet. Let's go now? But after entering the pear orchard, you must follow me closely. I have a few dogs to watch over the pear orchard, so don't get bitten."
The skinny old man led the way in front without any guilt. The good and evil radar screen in front of Lin Shuyue showed that his sin value was 25%. Uncle Luo was the person with the highest good and evil value except for the third grandfather, reaching 15%.
Putting aside Third Uncle for now, this Uncle Luo must not be a good person in the village. With such a high value of good and evil, I'm afraid he must have done a lot of sneaky things in his daily life.
The village party secretary glanced at Bai Wenhua, then followed him, apologizing to the third grandfather as he walked. The third grandfather was very easy to talk to, and didn't seem angry at all.
Lou Fengqin walked over to Bai Wenhua and glanced at him. Bai Wenhua patted her hands and said to her, "Ah Xing is afraid of dogs. You follow Ah Xing and wait for the police in the village. Ah Yue, come over to me. Pingping, you two stay at home."
Bai Wenhua made some simple arrangements and followed the pace of his third grandfather and the village party secretary.
This time, they entered the Pear Orchard and heard the sound of dogs barking one after another. Third Uncle shouted, and the barking stopped. Everyone dispersed and searched inside.
When searching to the southeast corner, a clear male voice rang out: "Grandpa, why did you come in? Are you going to pick pears so early?"
As the male voice became clearer and clearer, a fourteen-year-old boy appeared in front of everyone. Lin Shuyue's good and evil radar clearly showed that the boy's good and evil value was eighty percent.