Chapter 22: Disappearance

"Don't sell it, what's the matter?"

Ah Ying put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth, "Investigate the case of missing people in Jincheng, listen, a few people at that table are talking about the recent disappearance of people, you eat here, I'll go over and ask!"

Yu Nianyi looked in the direction that Ah Ying was pointing, there were indeed people drinking and chatting, but how did Ah Ying hear it so loudly.

Ah Ying walked to the table with a pot of wine in her hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I just seem to have heard you talk about the disappearance of people in the city, I am most interested in this kind of anecdote, can you also tell me, your wine money will be counted in my account!"

The three men looked at each other, thinking that this little girl was weird, but this girl was willing to have a treat, so it didn't matter if she was weird. One of the men immediately waved his hand and motioned for Ah Ying to sit down and talk.

"Girl, are you from Jincheng?" the middle-aged man asked.

"No, no, I'm passing by Jincheng, and I'm eating here and I heard you guys talking about something interesting, as if someone is missing. ”

The other man picked up his wine glass, clinked glasses with the other two, and took a sip, "Tsk~ Since the girl is so generous, it doesn't hurt to tell you." A few of us used to live in the south of the city, ten miles away, and there were some poor people there, and we didn't have a meal. My brother and I do some business in the center of the city on weekdays, and the conditions are a little better, so we go home occasionally. I didn't expect to go home this time, and I heard from my neighbors that someone had disappeared nearby recently. ”

The man pretended to say mysteriously, and Ah Ying's expression was also very cooperative, and he looked very curious, and asked, "Has anyone disappeared before?"

"Yes, it was three months ago, the son of the old Zhang Tou family went out to work, and he never came back, the old Zhang Tou specially reported to the city lord for this matter, and the city lord sent people to search all over Jincheng and didn't find it, in the end, they are all poor, the city lord can help you find it, it's already very good, there is one more poor person in Jincheng and one less poor person, no one cares at all. However, a few days ago, another person disappeared, this person is playing with us to the big two cows, originally two cows are ready to marry a daughter-in-law in half a month, we went home this time to congratulate him, but I didn't expect his father to tell us that two cows have been missing for three days!"

Ah Ying continued the man's narration and asked, "Then did you report the case?"

"It's been reported! The security in the city has not always been the head of the city, and the city lord has also sent people to look for it!"

The other man took over, and there seemed to be a little resentment in his tone, "I think this matter is probably over, how can the city lord care about you poor people's life and death!"

Ah Ying remembered what Xie Xuan said, the disappearance of people in the city was done behind the back of the city lord, how could he help you find someone, "Does the missing two have anything in common?"

The man took a bite of food, rolled his eyes, and muttered, "What do you have ......in common?" They probably don't have much in common except that they are all men and they are poor. After the man finished speaking, the other two agreed with him.

It seems that no matter how much she asks, she can't ask for any useful news, Ah Ying said goodbye to the three of them, returned to her original seat and sat down, Yu Nianyi had already finished eating, looking very impatient to wait.

"Let's leave after eating, go to the south of the city!"

Ah Ying greeted the guys, and after settling two tables of meal money, she led Yu Nian all the way to the south of the city.

When I arrived in the south of the city, I found that there was such a poor place in this huge Jincheng. The south of the city that the man said is located in the southernmost corner of Jincheng, unlike the prosperous area in the center of Jincheng, where there are all low and dilapidated tiled houses or thatched huts, and each house is dark and damp all year round, and the wall skin has long been peeled off, showing a dilapidated scene as a whole. People from other wealthy places in Jincheng often live in the room of the orchid and do not smell its fragrance, and it is probably torture for them to live here for a day.

Ah Ying informed Yu Nianyi of everything on the way here, and Yu Nianyi knew that the Chen family was more hateful than the Zhang family, and if Chen Ping was re-elected in the city lord election half a month later, the people of Jincheng would have to suffer a lot of crimes.

Yu Nianyi stopped and asked, "What are we going to do next?"

"Take a look around here and ask the families of the two missing. ”

Yu Nianyi and Ah Ying walked around this poor village, except for being poor, the villagers are very simple, nothing special, is it really because they are all poor people who have no money and no power, they will be targeted by others?

may be because someone is missing in the village, the people in the village are very wary of the two faces of Yu Nianyi and A Ying, and when they see the two of them walking around the village, they are far away, which makes the investigation of the two very difficult.

The two walked to the door of a person in the village, Ah Ying suddenly stopped, she raised her hand to stop Yu Nianyi, "Don't move, look!"

I saw a weasel in front of the house, with a chick in its mouth, and fled quickly.

"Wow, haven't you ever seen a weasel eat chicken, all the fuss!"

A-Ying grinned and motioned to move on. The two walked to the family's house and said, "Excuse me, is there anyone in the house?"

Hearing the voice, a middle-aged woman came out, and the woman was very surprised to see a young girl who had never met in the house, "Who are you looking for?"

"We are here to investigate the disappearance of people in the village, and we want to know more about the situation with you......" Ah Ying explained her intentions and said with a serious face.

"Why are you two little ghosts here to investigate, what can you find out Mingtang, and the things that are in power now are too irresponsible!" the woman raised her eyebrows disapprovingly.

Ah Ying didn't care about the woman's attitude, the top priority was to see if she could find some clues, and said, "Don't care how old the two of us are, we are kind." Originally, I was supposed to ask the family of the missing person, but in order to take care of their emotions, I went to your house. ”

The woman was silent, her eyes full of suspicion. Ah Ying said again: "Just now we saw that one of your chickens was taken away by a weasel, and we blamed us for being stupid and didn't catch the weasel!"

Yu Nian was stunned, thinking to himself that you are inflexible, you didn't plan to catch the weasel at all.

"We all have a headache here, there are too many weasels in the village, and in three days, the two heads are either a chicken or a duck in this family......" The woman believed Ah Ying's words, and her guard weakened a little.

"It's a real headache, why don't I find some people to help you catch the weasels in a few days, and smash their nests!"

The woman shook her head and said helplessly: "Little girl, I understand your kindness, we never thought of catching weasels, we can't catch them at all, they are hiding in the fields, woods, holes, there are too many dens, and we can't catch them all!"

Ah Ying also expressed regret, and then pulled back to the topic and asked: "Your village is too sinful, and it is a shame to lose chickens and people, there is no way to lose chickens, but it is a big deal to lose people, can you describe to us what characteristics the two people who disappeared?"

"You mean Erniu and Huzi, Huzi disappeared three months ago while working in the fields, as for Erniu, I heard his father say that he should have disappeared at night, and no one saw the specifics. ”

"Let me guess, do the two of them usually work very hard and are both physically strong?"

The woman was stunned and said, "It's exactly what you said!"

Seeing the woman's expression, Yu Nianyi was also surprised, and at this moment he had the same doubts as the woman, and finally couldn't help asking, "How do you know?"

Ah Ying didn't answer, but just told the woman that the truth would be revealed in a few days, and then pulled Yu Nianyi out of the door.

Yu Nianyi didn't know what medicine Ah Ying was selling in the gourd, so he was very curious, and kept asking Ah Ying why along the way, but Ah Ying didn't reveal anything, only one sentence.

"I'll talk about it later. ”