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Chapter 137: Inquiring into the Situation at Gou Village

[Gou Gui, 923 years old, ID number: *****, dropped out of school at the age of , now farming in Goujia Village.]

There wasn't much news, just a few short lines, but it made Xu Mei cry.

She cried so hard that she was out of breath. She threw her cell phone onto the front seat in panic and cried alone with the quilt covering her head.

Not only did his son drop out of school at the age of 15, he was also forced to be trapped in a small mountain village for the rest of his life.

The reason why she and her child's father worked so hard was to create good conditions for Lele.

But when they finally built up everything, their son was lost and abducted to an even more remote place. Now he hasn't even finished junior high school.

Why is her Lele so miserable? She should have had a superior growing environment, but everything was ruined by human traffickers.

Damn the human traffickers, it's all their fault. If it weren't for them, Lele wouldn't have become like this, and their family wouldn't have been separated for twenty years.

Xu Mei's nails dug deeply into the palm of her hand, and she wished she could take a knife and kill her enemy right now.

She will not let the traffickers go, never.

As they were almost at the highway toll station, Guo Shengming was finally able to stop the car. He took the time to take a look at the content sent to him, and his face instantly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.

He was so angry about the contents that he gasped and almost threw the phone out of the window.

If Lele can go home with them smoothly this time, he will definitely bring all those human traffickers to court and make them stay in jail forever, even at all costs.

Eager to find his son, Guo Shengming drove all night after a 30-hour drive and managed to arrive in Luo County five hours ahead of schedule.

In Luo County, the local police had not received any news. Only Police Officer Xie, who provided the information, arrived first.

He was waiting at the highway intersection and rushed straight to Goujia Village without even having time to talk to the two men.

The map could only navigate to Luo County, and they had to grope their way along before they could find the exact location of Goujia Village.

The road became more and more remote, and there were fewer and fewer roads. The three of them stopped in disbelief at a place far away from the village. It was hard to imagine that in the 21st century, there would still be such a remote place.

Besides, how could a place that can’t even be found on a map be found by human traffickers?

The three of them have been searching for their relatives for many years and have witnessed too many accidents. They also know that the more remote the place, the lower the cognition.

They didn't dare to alert the enemy, so they could only disguise themselves casually, hide the car, and walk to the village, speaking awkward Mandarin, stopping and starting.

The time they arrived was when everyone was doing farm work. There were strangers in the village, and the people of Goujia Village were on high alert.

Especially the families with children, each of them covered their children tightly, for fear that the three men would come up and snatch their children away.

Because he had seen Guo Lele's current photo, Guo Shengming was afraid that he and his wife would be recognized, so before coming in, he painted his face black and put on a fake beard, and kept his mouth shut the whole time.

Only Officer Xie spoke in the front, and he and Xu Mei only had to nod or smile in agreement from time to time.

Xu Mei's physical weakness also came in handy. She had been in poor health to begin with, and her condition became even worse after the long journey.

Now she didn't even need to learn how to pretend to be sick. She just walked around the field twice until her face turned pale, then she leaned on Guo Shengming, holding her chest and panting.

After some communication, the people in the village learned that the three people came to visit relatives in a nearby village, but they had not been there for many years and accidentally took the wrong road and came to Goujia Village.

It was getting dark now, and the three of them wanted to stay in the village for one night.

After hearing this, the people of Goujia Village let down their guard and, seeing that the three men did not look very rich, agreed to let them stay overnight.

However, Goujia Village was not very rich, and most people's homes did not have enough rooms, so only the village chief's house could accommodate people. The village chief, a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, knew the situation and took the three people back to his home.

The village chief's house is a small two-story blue brick building with electrical wiring, refrigerators, televisions and other home appliances.

The three of them were placed in an empty room on the second floor. When they opened the window, they could see a small fenced courtyard next door.

It was getting dark now, and even though the family next door had closed the door early, Guo Shengming and Xu Mei still locked their eyes on the slightly plump man working in the yard.

Even though it was just a back view, the two of them still matched him with Guo Lele in the photo.

The two almost screamed out loud, but fortunately Officer Xie coughed in time to interrupt them, so that the three were not exposed.

Guo Shengming and Xu Mei covered their mouths and waited for a while to make sure that the dark figure standing outside the door had left. Then they opened their mouths in fear and typed on their phones to communicate.

I was so excited that I almost forgot that the poorer the village, the more serious their bad habits would be.

Sometimes, a village can be very clique-bound. If they rashly said that Lele was abducted, the three of them might be driven out by the villagers.

If they were kicked out, it would be difficult for them to carry out any subsequent work, and the possibility of bringing Guo Lele back would be slim.

Although Guo Lele is an adult and we live in a society ruled by law, when facing a village full of people, the three unarmed people will not be able to leave the village unless they use force.

I waited like this until late at night.

In order to prevent anything from happening to Xu Mei, Guo Shengming had to stay in the house with her, leaving Officer Xie to act alone.

Officer Xie had planned ahead, and he had already taken note of the terrain before he arrived.

The yard where Guo Lele lives is filled with a lot of corn, which needs to be threshed immediately after being harvested.

Officer Xie had lived in the countryside before. The sun had been very hot these days, and the villagers basically got up early to work before the sun came out.

From the information he learned, Guo Lele should not be favored in this family, so he wanted to bet whether Guo Lele would get up early in the morning to work.

If he really gets up, he can find a chance to ask Guo Lele out alone.

Officer Xie opened the window, jumped down from the second floor with nimbleness, ran to the outside of the fenced yard and waited patiently for a while.

At about four in the morning, when it was just getting light, there was a noise in the yard.

Gou Gui, wearing a yellowed vest, came into the yard with a palm-leaf fan. He placed a kerosene lamp on the yard and sat in the yard rubbing corns together.

The yard was very quiet, with only the sound of him shelling corn.

A cool breeze blew, and a stone suddenly fell from the wall. Gou Gui paused and looked over vigilantly.

The haystack in the corner moved, and a few small pieces of debris fell from the top of the fence. Seeing that it was not a weasel, he buried his head and concentrated on shelling corn kernels.

However, just as he lowered his head, he heard another sound in the corner. This time it was not a stone falling, but someone outside banging on the door.

Gou Gui instantly thought of a thief coming to his door. Although there had never been a thief in the village and no one had told him that there would be a thief, he still couldn't help thinking about it.

Just when he wanted to wake up his family, the words that were about to come out of his mouth suddenly stopped.

He stood there for a while, looked at the corner and hesitated for a moment, but finally walked towards the door.

(End of this chapter)