At noon on March 13, 2010, when the sun was warm and the spring breeze was warm, six-year-old Zhang Guoer wore a beautiful floral dress and two cute pigtails and jumped out of the house.

My mother's soy sauce for stir-frying was gone, so she was given 10 yuan to buy it at a commissary not far from home, and the rest of the money could be used to buy snacks. Zhang Guo'er likes this kind of errand the most, every time she can buy herself a favorite snack, and occasionally there is one or two yuan left, which she will put in the piggy bank when she goes home.

At noon, everyone was busy cooking and eating, and there were not many pedestrians on the road. Zhang Guo'er was bouncing and walking, wondering whether to buy herself a bottle of Coke or a bag of potato chips later, and did not notice that across the road, two pairs of malicious eyes were staring at her tightly, like hungry wolves waiting for their long-coveted prey.

When she came to the Xiaoxiao grocery store, Zhang Guoer pushed the door and walked in, and when she saw the proprietress watching TV while munching melon seeds at the door, she greeted the other party very politely: "Hello Aunt Sun." ”

When the proprietress saw that it was Guo'er, a bright smile immediately appeared on her face, "Yo, Guo'er is here, and you're here to help your mother buy things?" ”

"That's right." Zhang Guo'er replied with a smile, "Mom asked me to buy soy sauce." In addition to the six yuan, I want to buy potato chips for the remaining four, and I want tomato-flavored ones. ”

"Okay, wait for Auntie to get it for you." The proprietress replied with a smile. Every time she sees Guo'er, she likes it very much, not only her, but also the neighbors around her like this cute and well-behaved little girl very much.

After many years of marriage, she has always wanted to give birth to a daughter as smart and beautiful as Guo'er, but unfortunately she gave birth to two sons in a row, and one is more naughty than the other. She is simply envious of Zhang Guo'er's parents, and sometimes she wants to use her two sons to exchange Guo'er for her own family, but she knows that it is impossible, and she also knows that Guo'er is the legendary child of someone else's family.

After a while, the proprietress put a bottle of dark soy sauce, a pack of tomato-flavored potato chips, and two lollipops into a plastic bag and handed it to Guo'er, "Here you go, a total of ten yuan." ”

Zhang Guo'er took the plastic bag, checked it carefully, raised her little face and looked at the proprietress suspiciously, and said, "Aunt Sun, you miscalculated, plus the lollipop, it's a total of twelve yuan." ”

The proprietress smiled and touched Guo'er's little head, "Guo'er, the lollipop was given to you by Auntie, no money." ”

"But my mother said that children can't just take other people's things."

"Auntie loves you so much, is it someone else?" The proprietress asked with her hands on her hips and pretending to be angry. If it weren't for the fear that the child's mother would have an idea, she really wanted to fill a bag full of snacks for the child to take back and eat slowly.

Zhang Guoer also likes the proprietress very much, knowing that the other party dotes on her, so she stuck out her tongue embarrassedly and said, "Auntie is her own person." ”

"Then you can take it." The proprietress couldn't help but smile again, and carelessly took the ten-yuan bill that Guo'er held in her hand.

"Thank you, Auntie, goodbye, Auntie." Zhang Guo'er thanked her sweetly, opened the door and walked out of the grocery store.

She didn't go far before she saw a man in his thirties squatting on the side of the road, hurriedly picking up walnuts scattered all over the place, muttering something in his mouth while picking them up. She stepped forward curiously and said enthusiastically, "Uncle Li, I'll help you." As she spoke, she squatted down beside the man, stretched out her childish little hand and picked up the nearest walnut to her.

The man stopped what he was doing and turned his head to look at Zhang Guo'er, his face full of gratitude and relief. "Guo'er, you are so sensible, no wonder everyone likes you so much. If my son could catch up with you halfway, I'd wake up laughing in my dreams. ”

"Uncle Li, Brother Xiaoyu is also very good, he helped me when I was bullied at school."

"Really?" The man scratched his head and laughed twice, "My naughty son just loves to fight and show off, and he is so angry with his mother that he is half dead." ”

"It also made our teacher half angry." Zhang Guo'er laughed "giggles" as she spoke, as if she thought of the interesting things that happened at school.

At this moment, a pickup truck stopped by their side unexpectedly, and quickly drove away a few seconds later. And with the pickup truck leaving, it was not only the man who was squatting on the side of the road to pick up walnuts before, but even Zhang Guoer disappeared with them.

At 12:35, Zhang Guo'er's mother Tian Yufen walked out of the kitchen again, and glanced at the wall clock on the wall uneasily, Guo'er has been out for more than 30 minutes, and it stands to reason that she should have come back a long time ago, even if a six-year-old child walks slowly, it takes 20 minutes at most to walk back and forth, but why hasn't Guo'er arrived home yet? Could it be that something happened on the road?

Tian Yufen didn't have the patience to wait any longer, with her mother's intuition, she knew that she had to go out immediately to find Guo'er, and she could even feel that Guo'er was calling for her help in her heart.

didn't have the heart to change clothes, Tian Yufen wore an apron and slippers and hurriedly ran out of the house. She searched for the fruit along the familiar street, but found nothing.

A few minutes later, Tian Yufen opened the door and walked into the Xiaoxiao grocery store. The proprietress was stunned when she saw her, and then asked half-jokingly, "Did Guo'er buy the wrong thing?" You don't want dark soy sauce, it's light soy sauce, right? ”

Tian Yufen didn't seem to hear the boss's words, and asked urgently, "Sister Sun, when did my family Guo'er leave?" ”

"It's been more than twenty minutes, and it's almost half an hour." The proprietress replied, stunned for a few seconds before realizing that something was wrong. "What's the matter, hasn't Guo'er come home yet?"

"Nope." Tian Yufen shook her head, tears already beginning to roll in her eyes. The proprietress also became nervous when she saw this, but she still comforted the other party and said, "Yufen, don't worry, maybe the child is naughty somewhere to play." Look for it. After a pause, she felt that this was inappropriate, and immediately made a decision. Otherwise, I'll close the grocery store first, and I'll look for it with you. You wait for me to lock the door. ”

Subsequently, the two women left the grocery store and searched for Zhang Guoer's whereabouts all the way, asking for news from the people they met. However, the power of two people is limited after all, and there are very few clues that can be collected. After tossing for more than an hour, they searched all the neighborhoods of their home, but they never found out the whereabouts of Guo'er.

At around 2 p.m., the two men were desperate and came to the police station to report the case. The responsible director immediately sent a team of people to help find Zhang Guo'er. At that time, they had no idea that a catastrophe that had lasted for many years had just begun, and in this terrible catastrophe, nine people would lose their lives one after another.