Chapter 50: Inquiry
At this time, Yun Li was sitting in the plane pointed by Aunt Fang, about to rush back to Xiaolu Mountain. Half an hour ago, he was still sitting in the seat outside the passenger passage with Aunt Fang, waiting for Lily to appear, but he happened to see a flight about to the southwest on the big screen in the hall, so he temporarily changed his mind, immediately bought a ticket, quickly checked in, and boarded the plane.
The previous call was made by Shen Hong, she told Yunli, this morning Lu Ci's house was demolished, fortunately Lu Ci was not at home at the time and was not injured, but she had no place to stay. Shen Hong looked for her for a long time, but she didn't see anyone, and she didn't go to the wholesale store, so in a hurry, she thought of calling Yunli.
On the phone, Shen Hong explained the cause and effect of the incident, but simply explained that it was someone from the town's construction office who came to demolish it, saying that Lu Ci's house was a dilapidated house. After the house was demolished, Lu Ci packed up some baggage and left, as for where she went, she didn't know, these were also heard from nearby people, when she arrived, Lu Ci was no longer there.
Except for Yunli and Shen Hong, Lu Ci doesn't even have any friends here, plus he is a black household, he doesn't have an ID card, it's inconvenient to go anywhere, and there is no phone contact, which is really worrying. There are only a few places where Lu Ci can go, but Shen Hong has not found it after going all over, worried that something will happen to her, although she knows that Yun Li is out, she still calls to report the situation.
After that conflict between the two, they haven't seen each other again, and it's been almost three months since now, Yunli has never thought about it, let alone heard anything related to Lu Ci. He thought he had forgotten about her, and even when he first heard the news, he told himself that it was her own choice and that she should stop meddling in her affairs.
The more he tried to escape, the more Lu Ci's voice lingered, and he struggled for a long time before he made up his mind and caught the plane. Outside the window, the white clouds are churning, the water vapor is condensed, and under the sunlight, many colorful halos are reflected, which makes people fascinated.
The whole flight took less than two hours, but the process of boarding and disembarking was too much, and a lot of time was delayed, as soon as Yunli got out of the airport, he immediately took a taxi back, and when he returned to Luzhen, the sun was about to sink to the western horizon, and the time was already more than six o'clock in the afternoon.
Yun Li rushed to Lu Ci's house as soon as possible, as Shen Hong said, the small bungalow had been demolished, there was only a pile of broken stones and rotten bricks on the scene, and the small yard full of vegetables in the past could no longer see the slightest appearance of the past.
Back at Xiaolushan, Shen Hong was already waiting at the intersection, and when he saw Yunli appear, it was as if he had found the backbone, so he immediately stepped forward and explained the truth of the matter in detail.
The cause of the incident still starts with the hail disaster. After that incident, the county sent an inspection team to the countryside to understand the disaster, and the inspection report mentioned not only the damage caused by the hail, but also the problems of some dilapidated buildings in the township.
Linshan County is planning to participate in the selection of national civilized counties and districts, just take this opportunity to rectify the dilapidated buildings, do a good job of face engineering, and then the leaders will come to inspect, and the impression will be a little better, so each town below has received the index, how many dilapidated buildings to be demolished.
Other people's houses, even if they are dilapidated houses, you can't say that they will be demolished, so the town has made an assessment, starting with those with small costs, subsidizing those who can be subsidized, and those who are willing to relocate are willing to make up for the land. Like Lu Ci's family, it is a black household, the owner of the house and land has passed away, and there is no heir, so it should be owned by the village collective, so it has become the first batch of targets to be demolished.
Ten days ago, the town sent a notice to Lu Ci to let her move away in Kuài, but Lu Ci had nothing to go at all, she could only see walking, but she didn't expect that as soon as she went out in the morning, her home would become a ruin when she came back.
"Didn't she go to the wholesale store today?" Yun Li sorted out his thoughts for a moment before asking.
Shen Hong shook her head, but soon nodded again, and hurriedly said: "I heard from the people in the store that I seemed to have seen her nearby at noon, but everyone was eating at the food stall outside at that time, and I didn't see her clearly, and I didn't see her until I went back to work at noon." ”
"There must have been people in the store when the door is open to do business, who is watching the store at noon time?" Yunli's thinking was very clear, and he grasped the key point of the problem at once.
"Oops, I didn't ask clearly, I went back and asked again, the store didn't close so early, I'm really stupid." Shen Hong slapped his thigh heavily and blamed himself.
"Give me the key, and I'll go with you." Yunli asked Shen Hong for the key to her women's motorcycle, skillfully got into the car and started, and drove Shen Hong towards the direction of the town. The sun had sunk below the horizon, it was dark, and night was about to fall.
Whenever she has an income, the first thing Lu Ci does is to go to the savings house to save the money to pay off the debt, except for leaving some small money necessary for life, she has no savings, so she doesn't have to think about whether she will go to a hotel or something, because she can't afford it at all, and with her character, she won't be willing to do it.
And Lu Ci is a stubborn person, she will never ask for someone unless she has to, since she didn't come to find herself, and she didn't go to Shen Hong, if she really wants to find someone to help, it can only be someone in the wholesale store, and the biggest possibility is the proprietress in the store.
Yun left very quickly, and Shen Hong's car was too old, and the throttle handle was twisted to the end, which didn't seem to be able to satisfy Yun Li's eagerness, but he was very focused, the car drove fast and steady, and Shen Hong sat in the back and was worried for a while, and then he got used to it.
Yun Li's thinking is very clear, and he is not thinking nonsense, the only task now is to find Lu Ci himself, and the other ones will wait until they find her.
When I came to the wholesale store, there was only one young man inside, who was lying on the long table playing with his mobile phone, and when he saw Yunli and the two rushing in, he was so frightened that he jumped up from the stool and almost fell off the mobile phone.
"Xiao Ming, why are you alone, the boss lady?" Shen Hong gasped, grabbed the young man's hand, and asked urgently.
"Da, Da Shen, the old and the boss went back to her parents' house early this morning." The young man named Xiao Ming was obviously frightened, and while patting his chest, he replied, even stuttering a little when he spoke.
"What about the boss, why isn't he here and gone to deliver the goods?" Shen Hong frowned and asked, the scope of the store is very small, you can see it at a glance, and Xiao Ming is the only one in the store.
"The boss... The boss was not there all afternoon, I don't know where to go, but I called in the afternoon to let me look at the store in the evening, and I didn't say when I would be back. Xiao Ming shook the phone in his palm and explained to Shen Hong.
"At noon, did Ah Ci come to the store?" Shen Hong continued to ask.
"Didn't you ask before, we were eating at the intersection at the time, and we didn't pay much attention to it, but it seems that a cyclist came, and I can't be sure if it's Aci." Shen Hong had asked the same thing before, and Xiao Ming had to repeat it again.
"Who stayed here at noon?" Yun Li saw that Shen Hong couldn't ask anything, so he stepped forward and said coldly.
"Ping、Usually the boss lady is there.,Today、Today is... Right! Today is the boss in! Xiao Ming was shocked by Yun Li's cold air, and his heart, which had just calmed down, was beating rapidly again, and his stuttering became even stricter.
"Call him." Yun Li said in a commanding tone.
Shen Hong was the first to reflect, and immediately took out the phone to call the owner of the wholesale store, but the other party's phone prompt was turned off.
"This grandma's broken phone, I should have thrown you away from me a long time ago, you came to call." The phone couldn't be dialed, Shen Hong was so anxious that she even scolded the swear words, and asked Xiao Ming to call instead, but the result was the same.
"There's no reason, the boss usually doesn't turn off his mobile phone when he sleeps, and sometimes there will be business in the middle of the night, it can't be that the mobile phone is out of battery, right?" Xiao Ming said suspiciously.
"If Ah Ci is really with the boss, it will be bad, that old pervert, he usually likes to be hairy, and the boss lady is not here, let's go to his house to find out, if he dares to do something to Ah Ci, I will knock his bald head." Shen Hong scolded angrily.
"Don't say it so loudly, be careful of being ...... Ah, I remember, just the night before yesterday, Ah Ci was on the night shift, and the boss pestered her, saying that she would be introduced to a job as a waiter in a guest house, and I happened to come back to pick up the car that night, and I heard it. Xiao Ming was going to remind Shen Hong and let her be quiet, but suddenly thought of something and hurriedly said it to the two, and her voice was even louder than Shen Hong's.
"Waiter? It wouldn't be his fat cousin's hotel, or else? Shen Hong wondered.
"Go to his house first, and then go to the hotel." Yunli listened carefully to the conversation between the two, and soon had a plan, then turned around and walked out quickly.
"What's the news here, call me immediately." After Shen Hong left a word, he immediately followed, and the two set out on the road to find Lu Ci again.
As expected, the doors and windows of the boss's house were locked, and there was no one, but Yun Li's eyes were sharp, and in the alley downstairs, he found Lu Ci's dilapidated bicycle, and his heart sank, and he immediately set off again and hurried to the hotel.
The hotel was opened in a neighboring town, a considerable distance away from Luzhen, but fortunately, Shen Hong knew the road and was also familiar with the surrounding environment, so the two of them took the shortcut and moved forward at full speed. On the way, Shen Hong also told Yun Li about the owner of the wholesale store and the situation of his fat cousin.
The owner of the wholesale store has no ability, and he is a strict wife, although he is lustful, but he usually has a bad wife by his side, and he is quite restrained, in fact, Yun Li has also seen him once, that is, when he went to the wholesale store to find Lu Ci, he met the bald driver at the door. And his cousin, who runs a hotel, is not so simple, not only runs a hotel, but also has some other businesses in the town, which is quite powerful.