Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11208

Wanghai County, grassland.

The news of Huansheng's father's mysterious disappearance in the middle of the night soon reached the ears of Luo Fengtang and Yang Huazhong in the village.

There was an uproar among the men there.

  No one could accept that in such a clear and bright world, in such a village with such simple folk customs, such a thing as stealing a living old man could happen!

In the words of the village head Yang Huazhong, if the thief this time was a seriously ill old man, wouldn't he steal a virgin girl next time? Or a fat boy?

People are people, not animals. You can go to someone's chicken coop and steal two chickens to eat or sell.

  You stole someone's life, what do you want to do? What's your purpose?

If Huansheng's father is not found and the bad guy is not caught, how can the other villagers live? Wouldn't every household be in fear?

Yang Huazhong discussed this with Luo Fengtang and several villagers. Yang Huazhong suggested that villagers be transferred back from the village's post-disaster reconstruction team to help find Huansheng's father.

This group of villagers mainly consisted of Yang Ruoqing's transport team and herb-collecting team, and the rest were a dozen or so men from the village who signed up voluntarily.

These twenty or so men, together with the more than thirty people under Yang Ruoqing, formed a post-disaster reconstruction team of nearly sixty people.

Among the remaining twenty or so people, ten were servants that Zuo Jinling brought from Zuojiazhuang, and the other ten were guards under Luo Fengtang.

  Yang Huazhong meant that the post-disaster reconstruction work should be slowed down for the time being and handed over to Zuo Jinling, Luo Fengtang and their subordinates to handle, and the other sixty or so people would all be transferred to help Huansheng's family find his father!

But this decision was opposed by Luo Fengtang.

In Luo Fengtang's words, "Use your strength where it counts. If you take away 60 people, there is very little that the remaining 20 people can do in a day. If you want to find someone, then just put all your strength there to find them together."

"After all, compared to post-disaster drainage, finding people is definitely more urgent and must be the top priority!"

However, Yang Huazhong and several villagers were thinking about leading the villagers to move back to the village as soon as possible and did not want to completely stop the drainage work in the village. As a result, the coordination between the two sides was temporarily deadlocked.

Yang Ruoqing soon learned about this matter and immediately gave her own opinion: "Anyone who knows the business and has experience in this area knows that there is a golden 36 hours for saving lives and disaster relief."

"That is to say, within these 36 hours, the chances of survival and finding the target are both the highest."

"Once it exceeds 36 hours, the chances of finding the person are slim. Continuing to search is nothing more than doing one's best to have a clear conscience!"

"So, in this matter, I agree with Tang's arrangement. If we want to find him, we should stop everything we are doing and mobilize all the villagers, except the elderly and children, and all other men and women. Let's dig deep into the ground to help Huansheng's family find his father!"

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As a result, not only the village's post-disaster home reconstruction team was suspended for three days, but also the corresponding women's kitchen team was suspended for three days.

All the forces that could be mobilized in the village were mobilized, and even many villagers from Zhengjia Village and Yujia Village who had come to the grassland to avoid the disaster spontaneously joined the search team.

A large group of three or four hundred people started the mission to find Huansheng's father.

Yang Huazhong and Luo Fengtang redeployed these hundreds of people and divided areas for each small team.

After three days of searching day and night, they had almost turned the hillside centered on the grassland, the woods, the fields, and even some black holes on the slopes of the mountains upside down.

But still nothing was gained! As the 36 Golden Hours drew to a close, everyone's despair grew deeper and deeper, and hope became increasingly slim.

Many people were very worried and dared not close their eyes at night, for fear that if they closed their eyes, their family members would be stolen from their tents.

Especially someone like Tan made Yang Huamei even more nervous, to the point that she even suffered from insomnia.

Yang Huamei said that every night, Tan would hold her arms tightly. Yang Huamei couldn't sleep on her side and felt very uncomfortable, so she sent Tan to sleep at the other end of the bedding roll.

As a result, when Yang Huamei was about to turn over in the middle of the night, she found that her feet had already been held in Tan's arms and tied tightly, leaving her no room to move freely.

There are many other families with similar situations.

In short, as Huansheng's father disappeared, the villagers' anxiety and tension increased day by day. Everyone felt that there was a dark cloud over their heads, and there were mysterious eyes behind the dark cloud staring at them and their families. They didn't know when a hand would reach out from behind the dark cloud and steal them and their families away...

The fear of the unknown is the most tormenting and what consumes the villagers' energy the most.

As a result, many people in the village fell ill one after another.

"If it doesn't work, report it to the police!"

When Yang Huazhong was discussing with several villagers, Yang Huazhong made a proposal.

However, two villagers disagreed. They said: "Only our village and a few people in the two neighboring villages know about this matter. Villages farther away don't even know about it."

"If we report this to the authorities, we won't be able to cover it up anymore. When it gets out through some exaggerated mouths, I don't know how our village will be demonized!"

"It doesn't matter to me, I'll just live my life as usual, but it has delayed the marriage of a group of young men in our village!"

"This concern really needs to be carefully considered. If the bad reputation gets out, who in the outside villages would be willing to marry their daughter to our Changping Village?"

"Those who are engaged may cancel their engagements, which would be a huge loss!"

The village man who said this has a youngest son who is almost 22 years old. He is already quite grown up and just got married last year, with a girl from the neighboring town.

During the marriage proposal period, the girl's side secretly came to Changping Village several times to inquire about the boy's family background, character, personality of his parents-in-law, whether he was easy to get along with his sisters-in-law, etc.

If word gets out that there's an evil spirit stealing people in the village, wouldn't this marriage be ruined?

Therefore, the villager who spoke was firmly opposed to Yang Huazhong's decision to report to the police.

In Changping Village, the ancestors have their own rules. Even though Yang Huazhong is the head of the village and has the final say, he cannot completely ignore the suggestions of several core villagers and cannot act on his own.

Even if the children of Yang Huazhong are ambitious, become high-ranking officials and have money, everyone must respect the rules passed down from generation to generation. If the order collapses, it will not be good for anyone. The current court governs the world with filial piety, and things like rites and etiquette are obvious constraints.