31. Chapter 31
The celebrity retweeted her Weibo.
"If it is true, I hope that more people will pay attention to the missing girls and let them return home as soon as possible."
Yan Yu's previous Weibo posts have been turned out, and the abduction and trafficking in Qinghe County has finally been exposed to the public.
I have to turn it over again, and suddenly there is no signal service on my mobile phone.
It is not easy for mobile phones to have a signal for such a period of time in the mountains.
Yan Yu held his mobile phone and squinted at the mountains outside the window.
She will not be alone forever, and the darkness in this mountain will be exposed.
The retraction has been in a state of no signal.
Arrive at Cigarette Butt Village at half past four in the afternoon.
Cars can't drive into the village, the road is too narrow.
Several of them got out of the car, and Yan Yu observed the terrain.
You can't see Qinghe from here, but there is a village near Qinghe in Liuzhai, so how big is Liuzhai?
Cigarette butts are halfway up the mountain, a very small village, and the road is very poor.
They walked for more than ten minutes before entering the village.
The dog barked, and the man in gray leeked his head to look at it.
Strangers suddenly appear in the village, and it is inevitable that they will be curious.
Yan Yu took out the dagger and held it in her hand, it was not that she was guarded, she had suffered too many losses in this kind of place.
The local youth is called Poplar, and his name does not match his appearance. He was thin, dark-skinned, and had small eyes.
"Don't walk around when you enter the village, they are very taboo."
Naturally, these words were said to Yan Yu and Zhang Wei, only the two of them were foreigners.
"We understand."
Poplar led them into the village, and Poplar shouted in the local dialect.
"What did he say?"
"Where is the village chief's house?" Fang Tong tilted his head and said to Yan Yu, "In the local area, the authority of the village chief is very great. β
Yan Yu nodded.
The mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the officials can't control them.
It is generally self-contained, led by the village head.
"Who has the most people here?"
"Yi." There was mud sticking to his feet, and Fang Tong stepped on the stone and scraped it off, "The whole village is of the Yi nationality." β
The village is not accessible, if Shi Miaomiao is here, it is a separate abduction, maybe sold here.
If the abduction gang did it, the place that the red cuckoo chose before would at least be connected to the road.
When it comes to human trafficking, it has to be secretive. Like drug trafficking, it must be kept unnoticed, and the chances of stealthily transporting it into the village without a vehicle are very small.
Chen Zheng said in Liuzhai.
First stationed at the cigarette butt, she went to Liuzhai in the evening.
Explore the path.
They went down again, and the village was scattered.
Standing here, you can see that there are quite a few houses below.
Fang Tong turned around, "Reporter Yan, the road is a little slippery." β
"Call me Yan Yu." Yan Yu smiled, "We are about the same age, peers, there is no need to be so polite." β
"Then I'll call you by name."
Fang Tong is a very cheerful person.
"Where are you from?"
"City B."
Fang Tong has a very good impression of Yan Yu, a very powerful reporter.
He rarely saw a reporter go into battle in person, and that day he was in a hurry to save people and glanced at it.
Yan Yu is a person who went to stop the trafficking gang, a kind of Cheng DΓΉ, he can come today, partly because of Yan Yu.
In Qinghe, trafficking is not uncommon.
The mountain is too big to be saved.
The state has no specific criminal law, and we have never known how to deal with trafficking.
The method they are taking now is that you come to the police, I will take care of it, whether it can be managed thoroughly, I don't guarantee it.
A few years ago, when I first went to the mountains to search for missing women, the villagers fought directly with the police. The law does not hold the people accountable, and the police can't put those villagers who don't understand the law in prison, right? Not so much power.
Prisons can't be closed.
They climbed over a stone slab and saw one of the most decent courtyards in the stockade.
Yan Yu took out his mobile phone, but there was no signal.
At this time, the sun is setting in the west, and the scenery is infinitely good.
Yan Yu took a photo with his mobile phone, the mobile phone has its own sound effect, and the poplar in front of him glanced back at Yan Yu. His eyes were a little gloomy, and Yan Yu held his mobile phone to meet his gaze.
"What? Can't I take pictures here? I have a good view...... If I can't shoot it, I'll delete it. β
Poplar's lips were thin, pursed into a line, and he withdrew his gaze.
"No, you can."
Yan Yu stared at his back and put the phone back in his bag.
This aspen is weird.
Bai Yang took them to the village chief's house, where Zhang Wei sat on the stone and gasped for breath, and he rarely walked the mountain road.
The body lì poor.
Yan Yu really can't look down on Zhang Wei, what is he doing here?
The village chief is a young man in his fifties, with very thief eyes and a shrewd face.
The two of them talked in the local dialect, Yan Yu couldn't understand it, and approached Fang Tong.
"Do you speak the local dialect?"
Fang Tong shook his head, "I'm from J City." β
This is also from the city?
"I just understand."
Bai Yang suddenly looked back at Yan Yu, "Do you have a photo?" β
"Zhang Wei!"
"Huh?"
"Photos, photos of Shi Miaomiu."
Zhang Wei hurriedly took out his mobile phone from his bag, flipped out the photo of Shi Miao Miao and handed it over, "You show him, it's this girl, it's this girl who is lost." β
Poplar took his phone and showed it to the village chief.
The village chief looked at Yan Yu and Zhang Wei, and shook his head after half a ring.
Bai Yang came over and returned the phone to Zhang Wei, "I haven't seen it, he said he doesn't know." β
"Can we stay here for the night tonight? Ask him. After Yan Yu finished speaking, he added, "We pay for accommodation, I want to inquire around here and stay for one more day." β
Bai Yang set his gaze on Fang Tong, "Brother Fang? β
"You ask, and look again. Since clues appear around here, there must be a reason for them, right? β
Fang Tong's fingers moved for a moment before he nodded, turned his head and continued to communicate with the village chief.
The village chief was reluctant, Yan Yu hurriedly took out five hundred from his pocket and gave it to Bai Yang, and said, "You sue him, stay for one night, take care of a meal, how many of us have a total of five hundred lines?" β
There was no income in the mountains, and five hundred was not a small amount for them.
Some people barely earn more than 1,000 a year.
The village chief really looked at the money in Yan Yu's hand, he said a few words, and suddenly waved his hand and said a large amount of local words to Yan Yu. Yan Yu listened to the clouds and fog, and there were differences between the dialects of the village and the village.
Yan Yu really doesn't have that language talent.
"The village chief agreed, we can stay here for five hundred a night."
"Thank you." Yan Yu hurriedly smiled and nodded to the village chief, and hurriedly handed over the money, "Thank you very much." β
Bai Yang glanced at Yan Yu again, and he walked to the other end of the courtyard.
"It's not too late, I want to ask the people in the village if they have seen Shi Miaomiao. Officer Bai, can you lead the way? β
"Just call me by name." With one hand in his pocket, Poplar turned and walked outside, "Let's go, then." β
"Zhang Wei, give me your phone, you wait here, don't go too many people."
"Then I'll be with you two." Fang Tong was just about to sit down, but when he heard the words, he stood up again and sorted out his police uniform, "Let's go." β
Zhang Wei really couldn't walk, the village chief brought water, he said thank you, hugged the cup and drank it, and said vaguely, "Then you pay attention to safety." β
Poplar's hand in the right trouser pocket was taken out and placed on the left.
The three of them walked up, and Yan Yu said, "What do you live by living in the mountains?" Growing crops? β
"Hmm."
"Is the income high?"
Bai Yang pursed his lips and didn't answer, along the way, Yan Yu observed that because of the topography in the mountains, there were no particularly good crops. The amount of food that can be grown is also limited, right? Although there are not many places to live in the mountains and spend money, you have to buy clothes and shoes now, right? There is also the tuition fee for the child's education.
"It's not high, and the land can't grow any good crops. You may not know it, but most of the fields are potatoes. β
Yan Yu really doesn't know her, she was born in the city since she was a child.
Is it a tough environment here?
I have no money, and my life is very poor.
Yan Yu had been to a particularly remote city in the north, and they were also poor, and when they saw outsiders, they immediately gathered to see monkeys. I don't know a cell phone, I don't know a TV, I don't know a camera, I haven't seen it.
But the locals are no strangers to this.
When outsiders entered the village, they only observed curiously, but did not watch.
So they've seen too much?
"Is there anyone here for a tourist?"
Fang Tong smiled all of a sudden, "Don't be naΓ―ve, this place is not open to traffic, what do you want, how can anyone come to travel?" Travel to Qinghe, the scenery on that line is beautiful. What can I see here? A mountain lump that you can't see at a glance? β
Yan Yu also smiled, "Indeed." β
There was a socket on the side of her backpack, and Yan Yu stuck the dagger in it.
Poplar walked in the front, and he didn't speak again.
The people in the village were not friendly, Yan Yu knocked on the door with the photo, she had already heard the sound of talking inside, but no one came to open the door.
Then the second house, without a courtyard wall, Poplar took a photo and communicated with people in the local dialect.
The woman with the child on her back shook her head, but she was not curious about the phone with the photo on it.
Yan Yu followed behind Bai Yang and walked to the next house.
I visited eleven houses, and only five of them were willing to talk to them, and the content was that they had never seen them.
"Go back, it probably won't be here."
"Is there a signal in the village?"
Yan Yu took the mobile phone and put it back in his bag, and they turned back and walked to the village chief's house.
"Nope."
"Is there a landline in the village?"
"I didn't see a phone line, probably not, and there was no electricity in this village." Fang Tong saw that Bai Yang's expression was not very good, so he explained to him and Yan Yu instead, "Did you come in and find the wire?" β
No.
By the time we got downhill, it was already dark.
Night falls, enveloping the valley.
In the silence of the mountains, there is an occasional bird cry, which is a little harsh.
Yan Yu looked at the dim mountains in the distance, and was gradually swallowed up by the darkness.
From the first day she came to Qinghe, her goal has been firm.
Fight human traffickers and find Lin An.
But now, she is a little uncertain.
"And how do they know the phone?"
Fang Tong paused as he walked forward and looked back.
"Huh?"
Yan Yu chuckled, "It's nothing, let's go." β
They're not curious about their phones at all? But the mountains are very poor, and many people may have never been out of the village in their lives, so they are not curious about these novel products? Yan Yu was observing their demeanor, not surprised and afraid of the unexpected feelings, did he say the past?
The village chief's house made potato rice at night, and Yan Yu was afraid of extraneous branches, so he pretended to have a stomachache after eating two bites.
When everyone finished eating, Yan Yu took two mouthfuls of rice and hurriedly put down the bowl.
The village chief's family is quite large, but the village chief's family is not so prosperous. He has only one son in his family, and it seems that there should be a bit of a problem with intelligence, and when Yan Yu was eating, he kept sitting next to him and looked at Yan Yu, and all the words he saw flowed out, and the village chief scolded him before he moved the bench back to the room.
Candles were lit in the room, and Yan Yu was arranged to the wing. The village chief's house is a three-room house layout, one where the village chief lives with his wife, and the other where the village chief's son lives with four men from Qinghe County.
In the end, there is a difference between men and women.
Yan Yu didn't go back to sleep immediately, she sat in the courtyard and watched the stars.
The unpolluted sky in the mountains, vast and empty, full of stars, seems to be at hand, within reach.
"Yan Yu." Zhang Wei came over with a small bench, glanced left and right, and whispered, "Have you been here before?" β
"No, it's the first time."
Zhang Wei was a little scared, this place made him feel bottomless.
"Do you think Shi Miaomiu will be here?"
"I don't know."
Yan Yu really didn't know, and without evidence, she couldn't make a judgment.
Speculation doesn't count, she needs solid evidence.
Zhang Wei sighed.
Fang Tong and Poplar also walked out, Fang Tong stood aside and lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.
"If there are no clues tomorrow, we will go back, don't waste any more time, we shouldn't be here."
Yan Yu took out the cigarette case from his pocket, mumbled, and was about to light the cigarette.
His eyes fell on Poplar at the door, and he walked out of the yard when everyone was not looking.
Yan Yu stuffed the cigarette back into the cigarette case and stood up.
"The restroom is outside, isn't it?"
"Well, there's a little wooden shed on the right turn when you go out."
"Then I'll go to the bathroom." Yan Yu walked out of the courtyard, and talked to Zhang Wei in a low voice behind him, chatting without a word.
It was pitch black outside, and the aspen was nowhere to be seen.