Chapter 499: The Witch Helps
Chapter 499: The Witch Helps
The Banggeng incident had a bad influence. It was originally just a matter between the yard and the street office, and its influence was limited to a corner.
But as several people from the alley came out to help look for the person, the news eventually got out and spread more and more widely.
Finally, the incident of Banggeng's abduction, coupled with other cases of children being abducted in other places, was reported to the higher authorities.
When the higher-ups learned about this, they ordered a thorough investigation and a house-to-house search.
For a time, the whole city was in a panic, but this was actually a good thing for the human traffickers and the general public.
the next day.
They were supposed to go to work, but everyone in the yard asked for leave to continue helping the Jia family find trouble, including Li Kailang.
Since the relationship has been severed, Li Kailang will naturally not bother to help. After all the effort to sever the relationship, what will it mean if he helps?
He was trying to get along well with the Jia family. If Jia Zhang knew about this, she would definitely make a fuss about it, saying:
"Look, so what if he's a college student? When something happened at home, Li Kailang was just like a dog slave, running around looking for him."
"What do you mean by breaking off relations? That's all lies. Li Kailang is just taking this opportunity to build a relationship with my Jia family. How can it be so easy?"
It would be ok if Jia Zhang just said that, but what's even worse is that she would treat Li Kailang as her own Jia family member, allowing him to come and go as he pleases.
No one else is so shameless as to do this, but Jia Zhang is.
I searched for another day, but still couldn't find the good one.
When Li Kailang returned to the yard, the atmosphere there was still very depressing.
"How is it? Still haven't found it?" asked an old man.
Everyone was silent and no one spoke.
After a while, Yan Bugui said slowly: "We still haven't found it. We have tried our best."
"Oh." Liu Haizhong sighed.
"Let's look for it again tomorrow. If we still can't find it..." Yi Zhonghai hesitated to speak, his meaning was self-evident.
"Oh, uncle, I have classes at school tomorrow and I really can't take a leave." Yan Bugui said hesitantly.
As soon as Yan Bugui finished speaking, other residents also spoke up.
"Uncle, it's not that I don't want to help, I just took a day off and I still have work to do in the factory."
"Yes, uncle, we have already invited you for a day, it would be inappropriate to invite you again."
It's already very good that everyone has taken one day off out of help. If they can take one day off today, and then again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, then do they still have to do their work in the factory?
Everyone has a family to support. If you don’t work, how will you get the money to support your family?
There are several mouths to feed at home. It is impossible for me to give up my job for someone else's child.
In the current situation, if I take a long vacation, my position will be filled by someone else, and it will be difficult to go back then.
"Oh!" Yi Zhonghai saw the situation. He didn't find it today with so many people, and it would be even less likely to find it tomorrow, but there was nothing he could do.
"Okay, everyone go about your business. If you have time, please pay more attention to me."
"Don't worry, uncle. The stalks belong to our yard. We won't ignore them."
"Yes, after work, I'll help you find it when I'm free."
Everyone spoke nicely and went home, and the central courtyard was suddenly empty.
Today, the three uncles were looking very hard.
One is his godson.
One wanted to use this to get promoted and let the street office see it.
Seeing that both were working so hard, the other one had to work hard as well, lest others would say that he was just taking up a position and not working hard, and would pull him down.
The three of them were looking for someone around the yard. Yan Bugui obviously had a bicycle and could have searched farther, but he refused to ride it.
"I'm just looking for someone. It would be so tiring to ride a bike to look for him. I'd rather ride my own bike. If it breaks down, whose bike will it be?"
Thinking of this, Yan Bugui would rather stand on his feet and tire himself out than ride a bicycle.
"With so many people looking for good jokes, how could we not find any? Even if we can't find any, even if we don't get any credit, it's still hard work. It's already very respectful for everyone to take a day off to help find them."
Thinking of this, Yan Bugui worked without putting in any effort and looked slowly, but there was no hope of finding anything.
"My awesome stalk!"
In the hospital, Qin Huairu was lying on the hospital bed. When she heard Jia Dongxu say that no one had found Dabanggeng, she screamed and fainted again.
"Alas!" Jia Dongxu felt sad as he looked at the pale-faced Qin Huairu.
When Qin Huairu woke up this morning, she was eager to find Banggeng, but she fainted again not long after. She has been lying there until now, and then she fainted again after hearing the bad news.
Until Banggeng is found and the human traffickers are caught, every family will not dare to let their children go out alone.
One more day.
Qin Huairu woke up slowly from the hospital bed and stared at the book on the ceiling in a daze.
Since normal methods can't find the root of the problem, why not try some folk remedies? Maybe, just maybe you can find the root of the problem.
"It would be great if someone could find the person just by counting. Who has such ability?"
Qin Huairu racked her brains and thought hard, and finally came up with something.
"Yes, now she is the only one who can find it."
Qin Huairu got off the bed swiftly, not caring about her messy hair, and ran straight to a place where there was a witch.
Not long after, Qin Huairu arrived at the place and knocked on the door heavily.
"Grandma, is Grandma here?"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, why are you rushing me? Has someone died in the family?" A dirty and vulgar curse came from the room.
"Have you thought about it? Or do you think your life is too long and want to die?"
'Squeak—'
When the door opened, an old lady with messy hair and an old and haggard face appeared in front of me.
His teeth were in poor condition, with one front tooth missing, but the other one was a gold tooth.
The witch was still cursing as she saw Qin Huairu appear in front of her.
"Grandma, please help me find my son!" Qin Huairu fell to her knees and grabbed the grandma's arm.
"Hey, hey, hey, get up, you've got the wrong person!" The old lady immediately shook off Qin Huairu's hand.
"Grandma, I didn't make the wrong choice. You are the only one who can find my son. Please help me. I only have this one son. If he doesn't come, I won't live anymore!"
The witch looked at the crying Qin Huairu without any sympathy. Instead, she grinned and said, "I won't work for nothing!"
Qin Huairu heard this and knelt down excitedly and grabbed the witch's arm: "I will give you as much money as you want, please help me!"
When the witch heard this, her eyes lit up and she raised her thumb: "I want 100 yuan!"
"Okay, I'll give it to you. As long as you can find my son, I'll give you any amount!" At this time, Qin Huairu no longer cared about money, and would give you even 1 yuan.
“Hehehe~” The witch laughed, “Bring me the money first, and then bring me your son’s personal belongings. Once you have the things, I’ll perform a ritual for you!”
"I'll go home and get my things now." Qin Huairu stood up quickly and ran home immediately.
"Don't forget to take the money!" the witch shouted from afar.
When Qin Huairu got home, she packed up all the Banggeng-related things and took them away without even looking for them.
Then go back to the fortune teller’s house.
"Grandma, are these things okay?"
"Okay." The witch nodded calmly and stretched out her hand.
Qin Huairu immediately handed the thing to the fortune-teller.
"Where's the money?"
"Here, here." Qin Huairu hurriedly took out a stack of money and handed it directly to the fortune-teller without much thought.
Holding a stack of money, the fortune teller didn't know if it was enough, but it didn't matter.
"Okay, go out and wait. I need to perform a ritual. Don't let anyone disturb me. Otherwise, if I can't find your son, it will have nothing to do with me!"
"Hey, hey, hey." Qin Huairu nodded like a chick pecking at rice, standing guard at the door.
The witch took the money, picked up a piece of clothing, picked up the bag, walked into the house and started to set up a magic circle.
If this were discovered, it would inevitably be accused of promoting feudal superstition.
At this moment, the situation is still very serious. The witch has not been caught. I guess she has some tricks up her sleeve.
Another thing is that he must have some strength. If he doesn’t have the strength, he will be reported and sent away.
After a while, the door opened, revealing a fortuneteller with a weak face.
"Grandma, what's wrong?" Qin Huairu looked at her expectantly.
The witch nodded: "There is a general direction."
Then he pointed in a direction: "Northeast, no more than 10 miles away from your home."
"10 miles." Qin Huairu thought about it and realized that it was still in the city, but very close to the outside of the city.
"Thank you, grandma."
"Okay, take the things away." The witch nodded, asked Qin Huairu to take the sticky things away, and then closed the door.
Qin Huairu took the things and went home first, and then quickly walked to the approximate place.
This is a shantytown surrounded by dilapidated houses, which shows how difficult life is for the people living here.
Many of them live in houses without roofs, and they barely get by by building a makeshift roof out of wood and tiles.
"There are so many houses, how can I find them all?" Qin Huairu looked at so many houses and had no idea which one it was.
It would take at least two or three days to check them one by one, and you might not even be able to go into the house to check.
Qin Huairu had no choice but to call the police. Only by calling the police could she find Banggeng. The police would never agree to such a thing without any evidence, but Qin Huairu was the mother of the abducted son, so she reported the matter to the higher authorities.
The higher-ups have issued orders to do their best to help abducted families find their children, so even if it was just one sentence from Qin Huairu:
"Someone saw my son being abducted in here. My son must be there. Please send someone to find him."
With just one sentence, the police station had to dispatch a large number of police officers to the shantytown to look for someone.
It was also because they searched for two days and found no clues at all, which greatly damaged the image of the police station in everyone's mind.
If they can't solve the case, it would seem that the police are too incompetent.
If something similar happens again in the future, who will believe them?
As a result, the police station chief lost more of his already balding hair.
So even if it's just one sentence, the police station is willing to spend manpower to find it.
When the chief of the police station brought his men to the shantytown, he was very troubled by the large number of houses. He wondered how he could check them all.
The abducted child must be hiding in one of the families, but it is hard to say which one.
But things have come to this point, now that we are here, we have to investigate even if there are not enough people.
"Search, search every house, don't let go of any clues!"
"Xiao Sun, go to the nearby street office and tell them to send someone to help."
"Yes!" Xiao Sun took the order and immediately went to the street office to call people.
"Start the search!"
"Yes!" The policemen took the order and began to search and question one by one.
"Comrade, have you seen a white, chubby little boy come here? He's about this size."
The characteristics of the Bang Terrier are very obvious, it is white and plump, and anyone who has seen it will be more or less impressed.
After all, when no one else can get enough to eat, a child who can eat his fill stands out from the crowd.
"A little boy, I really saw one. I remember someone brought one here a few days ago."
"Really? Where did he go? Where exactly?"
"I know where it is. I know he was going this way." One person pointed in the direction.
With a direction, the search scope was greatly narrowed, which made the police very happy.
"Did you see it right?" a policeman asked again just in case.
"You're right. There's no other kid living here who eats as much as he does."
"Okay, okay, search in this direction!" The police station chief gave the order and immediately searched and inquired in that direction.
In a house, two people were plotting something.
"Boss, the police are here to investigate. What should we do?"
"Don't be afraid, it's okay, they won't find it." The boss was very calm, "As long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, they will definitely not find it."
"The children's mouths are sealed, so they can't scream. As long as we don't panic, we will be absolutely fine."
Seeing the boss so calm, I felt relieved.
Soon, the police came to the house to inquire and search. The two men were talking normally and nothing unusual was found.
The whole morning passed.
"How could you not find it? Impossible, did you not search carefully enough?"
"Captain, we have searched every room. We have recorded everything."
The police took out the records and compared them, and found nothing was missed and they had all been checked.
"Could it be that the child is not in this direction, and the man said the wrong place and deliberately deceived us." The director guessed.
"Captain, he didn't make a mistake. He is still following us to investigate. If he had made a mistake on purpose, he would have run away long ago."
At this point, everyone's suspicion of him decreased, "Could it be that he was secretly taken away?"
Everyone else guessed the same. "Damn it! We've been looking for him for so long, and he actually flew away!"
"There must be some place we haven't found. It's impossible for so many kids to fly away."
"Then where else can it be?"
"If it can't fly away, then it must be underground. Yes, there is still underground that we haven't searched."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone suddenly understood.
"Which family has a basement and a well?"
“A few houses had wells, but not in the basements.”
"Now go to the house with a well. There may be someone in the basement. He must be hiding. Go get the rope and look for him in the well."
Immediately, someone went to look for ropes and flashlights.
Soon, the corresponding tools were found and everyone flocked to the house with a well.
Not every household has a well, and there are only four households in this area.
The first one, the well has water, but it can’t hide anyone.
The second house was empty, with nothing in it.
The third family hid some food at the bottom of the well.
Wait until the fourth one.
"Still here!"
At the bottom of the well, the policeman shouted.
"Oh no! Run!" The two brothers immediately ran away.
"Run? You can run away. I've been looking for you for so long. Where would my face be if I let you run away?" The police station chief was furious and pointed at them angrily.
"Capture them for me. I want them alive. It doesn't matter if they are disabled or crippled, I want them alive!"
As soon as the police station chief spoke, all the policemen, with anger in their eyes, attacked them without holding back.
Kidney shot.
Flirting the vaginal feet.
Insert a ward.
A heartwarming kick.
After a few blows, the two thieves fell to the ground and wailed, but no policeman sympathized with them.
They trapped the two men roughly and tied them up, leaving them no chance to escape.
"Run? You can run away!" One policeman was so angry that he kicked him in the crotch again.
The two men were beaten so hard that their eyeballs almost popped out.
The police found four children at the bottom of the well. Their mouths were blocked and their hands were tied. They could not scream.
Of course there are some good jokes among them.
"Hurry up and pull the child up!" As soon as the director gave the order, several more policemen went down the well.
The child was untied and placed in a bucket, and the police immediately pulled him out.
"My son!" Qin Huairu saw Banggeng, who was starving and skinny, and had no energy at all, and she burst into tears immediately.
"Mom!" Banggeng saw Qin Huairu, and the mother and son snuggled together and burst into tears.
"Go back to the police station first and get some food delivered." Following the director's order, the people from the subdistrict office rushed into action.
I immediately cooked porridge for the four children. They had been hungry for two days and were not allowed to eat too much at once.
The four children were obviously hungry for a long time, and they wolfed down the porridge without caring how hot it was.
The parents of the other three children learned the news about their children and immediately came to the police station.
"Oh my son!" When the parents saw their children who had become thin due to hunger, they hugged each other and burst into tears.
People also came to the yard, including Jia Dongxu, Yi Zhonghai, Sha Zhu and others who were related to the Jia family.
As soon as Jia Dongxu saw Banggeng, he hugged him and burst into tears.
Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui were very happy when they saw this, as they finally got Rene back.
"Mom, I want to eat braised pork!" Bang Geng said miserably.
"Yes, I'll make it for you when I get home. Whatever you want to eat, mom will make it for you!" Qin Huairu burst into laughter, touched Banggeng's head and agreed without thinking.
Let alone braised pork, even dragon meat, Qin Huairu would agree to it.
"Mom, I want to go home." Banggeng said again.
"Okay, let's go home, it's good to go home!" Qin Huairu immediately took Banggeng away and went home.
The police station caught two human traffickers. There was no need to force the kids to give statements. They could leave whenever they wanted.
The police conducted a "gentle" interrogation and forced confessions from the two traffickers, and finally found out the whole story.
Banggeng and his friends are really lucky.
First, it has not been sent out of the city and sold immediately.
Second, many buyers do not plan to have children.
Thanks to the current food shortage, every family is short of food. Unless you are rich or noble, no one would want to have children during this time of food shortage.
One more child means one more mouth to feed. No one can afford to feed the more than ten kilograms of food a month, so everyone plans to have a child during this period.
The Banggeng kids just kept the products and couldn't sell them for the time being.
This is really a blessing in disguise.
(End of this chapter)