Chapter 83: The Disappearing Silent Girl
The next day, the pockmarked girl came to Tao Xiaoqian's pharmacy, Tao Xiaoqi explained the work content to her, and after a simple training, she let her get started.
The pockmarked girl is a little confused, is she going to work?
"What are you doing in a daze, working." Tao Xiaoqi urged, naturally as if the two of them had never had a suspicion and never had a holiday.
When the sister-in-law came over, the pockmarked girl was already busy with her work, and the sister-in-law glanced at her vigilantly, "Come so early?" ”
Miss Mazi smiled, "Sister-in-law Zhou Lan, I always get up early. ”
The sister-in-law was a little ashamed.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you bring it?" Tao Xiaoqi came over with medicine and asked.
"I let her be at home, aren't you afraid of getting in the way when you bring her here?"
"Can she be at home by herself?" Tao Xiaoqi was a little worried.
"Don't worry, it's okay, she doesn't play with others, just stays in the courtyard."
Tao Xiaoqi didn't ask.
However, before noon, Mrs. Li ran over in a panic, shouting that the Mo girl was gone.
"No, mother, she never runs around." The sister-in-law took off her apron as she spoke, and ran back.
Tao Xiaoqi told the pockmarked girl and went out with her.
Sure enough, she was not at home, she searched inside and out, and she didn't see the shadow of Mo Yatou, so the sister-in-law felt a little flustered and anxious.
"Let's look separately, sister-in-law, do you think where Mo Yatou likes to go on weekdays?" Tao Xiaoqi asked.
"No, no." The sister-in-law just muttered, "Mo Yatou doesn't know where to play at all, but I hope she can go where to play......
At first, everyone didn't think about it, thinking that the dolls were all playful, and they came back when they were tired of playing, but when the sun was slanting in the evening, it was going to be dark, and Mo Yatou still didn't find it, and the people in Mantou Village also followed to find it.
During the day, the people of Lao Li's family had already searched all over the village and outside the village, and the villagers of Mantou Village had searched again, and the strictness was no less than a carpet search, but they still found nothing.
"Where the hell can this go? A big living person disappeared like this for no reason! "The eldest brother held his head, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out.
The sister-in-law was tired of crying, and the clothes that would hold the Mo girl's head were pale, and she couldn't say anything, and she blamed herself very much, if only she had taken her with her during the day, if she didn't go ahead with this capable person, her Mo girl would not be gone.
Just when everyone was at a loss and couldn't figure it out, Sun Wangcai interjected, "In the morning, there seemed to be a person named Hanako who entered the village, and when he left, he seemed to be followed by a small dot. ”
"With whom? Is it a silent girl? The sister-in-law grabbed Sun Wangcai and asked eagerly.
"It's far away, I didn't see it clearly, I just remember that it seems to be a doll, didn't there be a doll in the past who followed Hanako to play? Who would have thought that it would be a silent girl, and she followed along, who would go with a normal child named Hanako. Sun Wangcai said.
The Li family glanced at him, "Why didn't you say it earlier?!" ”
"Didn't I just remember that?" Sun Wangcai looked at his wife Tao Xiaoqi in front of him, afraid that she would find out that he had been hiding in the medicine field for a long time, sleeping for a long time, and only when he woke up did he know that Mo Yatou was missing.
"Where did you see them going?" Tao Xiaoqi asked the key point.
"At the entrance of the village, I went out of the village."
"South or north?"
"I don't know, I haven't reached the fork in the road when I see it."
This is tricky, the south-facing and north-facing roads go to different places, one in the direction of the county seat and the other in the direction of the neighboring province.
"Big brother and sister-in-law, I suggest that we divide into two ways to chase after us, maybe we can ask." Peach Xiaoqi suggests.
The eldest brother and sister-in-law glanced at their father.
"Daddy, talk about it quickly." Tao Xiaoqi asked instead.
Li Laohan, who had never spoken, finally spoke, "Then let's go and find it, but it's been so long, it's hanging." ”
So the old Li family, plus some villagers who volunteered to help, divided into two teams and went to find them in two directions at the fork in the road.
The second brother and sister-in-law happened to be in a team with Tao Xiaoqi, and when they first set off, the second sister-in-law thought that the night was too dark, so she turned back and took a flashlight alone.
"What a bunch of fools." The second sister-in-law muttered, and was listened to by Tao Xiaoqi in front of her.
"Second sister-in-law, what do you mean by that?"
"It's not obvious enough, blue sky, who-"
"Stop babbling, look for it! Why do you still have time for small talk? The second brother scolded and dragged his daughter-in-law aside.
Tao Xiaoqi felt that something was wrong, the second sister-in-law seemed to have something to say, but she was stopped by the second brother and didn't let her say it, what could she not say to her?
Tao Xiaoqi couldn't figure it out.
Everyone found it in the middle of the night, couldn't stay up, still found nothing, slowly some people began to retreat, there was one, there were two, and finally everyone unanimously suggested to go home.
Tao Xiaoqi stood in the dark night when she couldn't see her fingers, she didn't feel afraid, she just felt sad, just like the fate of the silent girl, as if she had been unrecognized since she came to this world, full of tragedy.
She always felt that Mo Yatou's disappearance was a little strange, but it couldn't be someone did it on purpose, Mo Yatou was already very pitiful, who could be so ruthless? Tao Xiaoqi didn't dare to think about it, and she didn't want to think about it.
Back in the village, the eldest brother's team also came back, Tao Xiaoqi was very surprised, she thought that the eldest brother and sister-in-law would find Tianliang, but she didn't expect to come back.
"I looked for it, and I asked people along the way, but they all said they didn't see it." The eldest brother said in frustration.
Although Tao Xiaoqi still had many questions in her heart at this time, she kept silent when she saw that the rest of the Lao Li family had given up, especially the eldest brother and sister-in-law, they didn't have any hope and gave up, what else could she say?
When everyone went back, Tao Xiaoqi pulled her sister-in-law aside and asked her to think about whether there was anything wrong during the day, Mo Yatou or others, think about it.
The sister-in-law thought about it for a while, and shook her head again, "I didn't find anything wrong, I pity my silent girl, she disappeared like this, I was the mother, and I hurt her!" ”
The sister-in-law was crying, not even daring to cry loudly, Tao Xiaoqi looked at the panic in her heart, and patted the sister-in-law's back, "I think I still have to call the police." ”
The next day, she gave her eldest brother a holiday and asked him to call the police, and the eldest brother came back in less than two hours.
"Did you call the police? Has the Public Security Bureau filed a case? ”
The eldest brother shook his head, "It was said that it was less than twenty-four hours, and the case would not be filed." ”
"Then what are you doing when you come back, wait there." Peach Xiaoqi is in a hurry, this wooden man!
"There's still a lot of work in the medicine field, and it's a waste of time there, so I'll come back first." As soon as the eldest brother spoke, he went to the field.
Tao Xiaoqi hugged her full, and suddenly hugged her tightly, put her face on her little face, and murmured, "Mom will never lose you." ”