Chapter 294: Weak Mother and Son Suddenly Disappeared

As the sun sets, the sky gradually darkens, and there is only a glimmer of light left in the western sky.

The county seat of Lin'an County. Ding's compound. Backyard main house living room.

After Qiuyun knocked on the door gently, he pushed the door and tiptoed into the living room with the kettle, turned on the light, walked to the coffee table, went to the teapot to fill it with boiling water, and then turned around and left the living room.

Ding Ruxuan got up and picked up the teapot and poured tea into Ding Wenqian, Liu's mother, Fang Jiren and his own teacups.

In chronological order, Liu's mother talked about the past more than 20 years ago.

Cuiyu carefully prepared all kinds of items and clothes that she needed to bring back to her hometown in Mizhi, Shanxi, and planned to set off in a day or two. Ah Mei helps Jade in the North Courtyard to come up with ideas about what to buy, sifting through the items she has already bought, or taking care of Bao Gen. Liu's mother took the time to come to the north courtyard to have a look, hugged Baogen for a while, and intervened to help Cuiyu bathe Baogen, change diapers, and wash diapers. Changing diapers is something that Amei won't do at all. Everything in the Ding family is as usual, and there is nothing unusual.

On the fifth day after Ding Wenqian left Lin'an County, Cuiyu told Ah Mei and Liu's mother that she would take Baogen to the streets again to buy some candy for the children in her hometown. Liu's mother wanted to accompany Cuiyu to the street, but in the past two days, Ding Wenqian's mother coughed and wheezing, and she couldn't do without her care. Amei said that she was so tired these days that her back and legs hurt and she couldn't accompany Jade to the street. Jade said that you don't need to accompany me to the street, I'll be out for a while and I'll be back soon.

Cuiyu walked out of the south gate of the Ding family's compound with Baogen, who was more than five months old.

Liu's mother, who returned to the middle courtyard, took out a few silver dollars from her savings bag, and hurriedly chased out of the south gate to hand over to Cuiyu, but Cuiyu had already walked out more than 200 meters away, and the two guys brought by Amei from Shanghai followed Cuiyu not far away. Liu's mother was about to pull her legs to catch up, but she was stopped by the maid who came out closely, saying that her wife was coughing badly again, and she should go back to decoct the medicine quickly. Liu's mother had to hurry back to the middle courtyard.

After more than an hour, it was dark. Ah Mei was still sleeping in the west room of the north courtyard, and her two men came back from outside drunk and drunk. The whole family was waiting for Cuiyu to eat, and Liu's mother came to the north courtyard several times to look for Cuiyu, but she and Baogen didn't come back.

Mother Liu instantly panicked and frightened, she had a premonition that something bad was wrong and something was wrong, so she immediately ran back to the middle courtyard to report to the lord and wife. The old man couldn't help but be awe-struck in his heart, and immediately ordered all the men, handymen, and servants of the Ding family to go out to the four cities to look for them, and they must find Cuiyu and Baogen and take them home. However, everyone found the jade mother and son late at night.

Three days have passed, and still not found. It was as if the jade and the treasure root had suddenly evaporated from the world, without any trace or clue. The Ding family fell into chaos and grief.

It's getting colder. Amei, who didn't bring autumn and winter clothes and didn't plan to stay at Ding's house for a few months, couldn't stand the weather in Lin'an County more and more. So, she asked Ding Wenqian's parents to go back and forth to Shanghai. The old couple, who had been in a sad and grieving mood, felt that since they were divorced, there was no need to spend time in the Ding family, nodded and promised Amei to leave the Ding family and return to Shanghai, and repeatedly said that their granddaughter would always be the child of the Ding family, and let her go back to Lin'an County to see her grandfather and grandmother when she grew up. Amei happily agreed.

Early the next morning, Ah Mei left Ding's house with two men and a maid to return to Shanghai.

Ding Wenqian, who had not yet finished handling the business in the northeast after receiving the telegram, rushed back to his home in Lin'an County day and night, and Ding Wenqian, who had not been washed, physically and mentally exhausted, and in a trance, listened to Liu's mother and his parents tell the whole process of Cuiyu and Baogen's sudden disappearance, unknown whereabouts and could not find any clues.

After nearly a month of recuperation and careful and thoughtful care and service from Liu's mother, Ding Wenqian's body slowly improved, but he was not energetic and depressed. repeatedly asked Liu's mother about the whole process and all the details of the disappearance of Cuiyu's mother and son. This reminded Liu's mother of the situation on the day of Cuiyu's mother and son's disappearance, and told Ding Wenqian 1510, and raised the suspicion that it was very likely that Amei was plotting behind the scenes out of jealousy that Ding Wenqian and Cuiyu had a son and that the two guys she brought brought to get Cuiyu's mother and son to an unknown place. Ding Wenqian woke up like a nightmare, and he concluded that this was the case. Immediately go to the middle court to report to your parents.

Early the next morning, Ding Wenqian went to the telegraph office to send an urgent telegram to his second brother Ding Wenli, who was in Shanghai, briefly explaining the situation and asking him to immediately take someone to Amei's house to investigate. After lunch and a simple packing up, Ding Wenqian took Liu's mother and six young and strong men to leave, left Lin'an County in a hurry, and rushed to Shanghai day and night.

When he arrived at the second brother's house in Shanghai, Ding Wenli told the third brother Ding Wenqian that after receiving the telegram two days ago, he immediately led people to Amei's house. But the building has been emptied, and there is no trace of Cuiyu's mother and son. I just heard from the next-door neighbor that Ah Mei took her daughter and followed a British merchant out of Shanghai by ship to a place called London. The big house of the Amei family has been sold, and some say that Amei's father opened a daily department store at the east end two blocks later. Subsequently, Ding Wenli rushed to the department store, and searched carefully inside and out, but did not find Cuiyu's mother and son.

Amei's father lay on the hospital bed with a snort, panting and intermittently telling Ding Wenli that Amei, the disobedient and unfilial bastard daughter, secretly took most of the family's money and took her daughter away to England with the British. In desperation, he closed the trading house, sold the big house, paid off the debts and payments, and bought this small yard with the remaining money, rented a house and opened a department store. Amei's mother sat on the edge of the bed, crying and beating her chest, cursing her daughter who lacked virtue and cruelty.

After listening to Ding Wenli's narration, Ding Wenqian asked the second brother to take him and Liu's mother and others to Amei's parents' house again to have a look. Immediately the people got up and went. When I came to the gate of the small courtyard, I saw a young man squatting on the ground boiling Chinese medicine. Mother Liu recognized this person at a glance as one of the two guys that Amei brought to Lin'an County. When the man saw that there was Mama Liu among the few people standing outside the courtyard gate staring at him and pointing and talking to each other, his expression immediately changed greatly and he panicked, and immediately got up and walked quickly to the courtyard wall to escape over the wall. Ding Wenqian waved his hand, and the two guys pounced on him like hungry tigers, pushed him to the ground, and dragged him to the corner of the yard. Ding Wenqian asked him in a low voice where is Cuiyu's mother and son now? The man was silent. Ding Wenqian pulled out a sharp dagger and pressed it heavily on the man's heart, and asked sharply. The man was so frightened that his face was pale and trembling, and he begged for mercy, saying that if he didn't kill him, he could tell everything.