Rebirth of the times, a top-level boss joins the national team

Chapter 303 Staying Overnight

Ling Yang was also forced to sit on the stretcher. Looking at Tu Shan's cheerful back, the corners of his mouth rose.

The child has been found. Now, as long as Tu Yi and the other two are safe, the Tu family’s disaster will be over.

As for the person behind the scenes, you can always find him.

The return journey was not fast, but not slow either.

Three days later, they arrived at the place where Bian Fan was kidnapped.

The original plan was to tie him up for three days, but now it has exceeded the time limit and Bian Fan is already dying.

If Tu Shan hadn't felt that he was still useful and had to be kept alive, and had left some room for him when tying him up, so that the vines could help prolong his life when he was about to die, he would have done it long ago.

Tu Shan didn't care whether he lived or died and just threw him behind the tow board.

When they arrived at the town, Tu Shan slowed down and Ling Yang stood up from the plank.

"We'll rest in the guesthouse tonight and continue our journey tomorrow. The child has been drinking porridge for the past few days, and his body can't handle it. You should also nourish him well. I'll go see if there's anything to eat."

In the border town, the ground was covered with yellow sand, the weather was freezing cold, and there was no one on the streets.

Snowflakes were falling, covering the ground with a thin layer of snow.

Tu Shan glanced at the three little ones, whose faces were pale from the cold even though they were wrapped up thickly, and nodded: "Okay, it's okay if you can't find them. I'll go find two rabbits in the desert later."

There was no point in her running into the desert to hunt rabbits, which made him seem useless.

"Don't worry, I can find one. There may not be a guesthouse here. Let's look for one first. If there's none, we'll have to stay here."

Fine.

Tu Shan, her companions, the three little ones, and Bian Fan, who was wrapped like a mummy, walked around the town but could not find any place resembling a guesthouse.

I had no choice but to knock on my fellow villager’s door.

The house of the person whose phone call was knocked on had a spacious room and the yard was fully furnished, so the conditions should be good.

But unfamiliar faces like theirs will make people more or less wary.

"Who are you?" The person who opened the door was a young man with red lips and white teeth, and he looked very handsome. He didn't look like someone from the northern desert.

The look he gave Tu Shan and Ling Yang was particularly timid and full of scrutiny.

Tu Shan: "We are from out of town, just got out of the desert, and would like to stay overnight. Is it convenient?"

"Want to stay overnight?" The young man frowned.

There are often archaeological teams, survey teams, and various other teams coming in and out of the desert, and the surrounding towns can also see outsiders from time to time.

They used to have an inn here, but it was destroyed by bandits and has never been opened since. There is no guesthouse either.

Outsiders would stay overnight at local people's homes.

But no one has ever stayed overnight at their house.

"We don't let you stay overnight at our house, so please go somewhere else."

Tu Shan raised her eyebrows and said, "Okay, we can't force others to do things."

Drag the cub out.

Three small, dark faces emerged from under the coats.

The young man frowned and said, "Wait."

Tu Shan turned around, what happened?

The young man looked at the board and asked, "Are these children yours?"

Don't make it too obvious that I suspect you are a human trafficker.

Tu Shan chuckled, "It's mine."

"How do you prove it?"

Tu Shan propped up her cheek and said, "How about we go to the hospital and I do a DNA test for you?"

"What dad?"

Tu Shan...she left.

"Stop, you can't leave."

The man stopped in front of Tu Shan with an unfriendly look on his face.

"Auntie," the three little guys were frightened and climbed up and hugged Tu Shan's legs tightly.

Ling Yang blocked the four people behind him and looked at the man coldly: "What do you want to do?"

Tu Shan patted Zizi's head and her eyes turned cold.

When the young man saw that Zizi relied on Tu Shan, he realized that he might have wronged the two of them.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I thought, I thought..."

Tu Shan was speechless: "He thought we were human traffickers."

The young man was a little embarrassed: "Well, I'm sorry, it's true that our town has lost four children during this period.

We haven't heard of any foreign teams recently, and since you're bringing children with you, I have to ask a question."

Tu Shan said with a forced smile: "You are such a good person."

Young man...

Ling Yang: "Can we go now?"

The man quickly stepped aside.

A cold wind whistled past, and the three cubs shivered with cold. Tu Shan quickly wrapped them up.

"Just sit still and don't be afraid. Your aunt is here."

The three little ones sat down obediently and huddled in the coat, like three little mice, thin, small and black.

Tu Shan's eyes hurt from watching this. Her three little cubs used to be so fair and tender.

The young man couldn't bear to watch: "It's getting dark. If you don't mind my house having a bad reputation, come in and stay for a night."

"What's your family's reputation?"

Man...

Tu Shan waved her hand: "It's not important, I'll stay at your house."

He glanced at Ling Yang, who had no objection and decided to stay at the young man's house tonight.

The man's surname is Jin and his given name is Ji.

He is only nineteen years old, so he should be called a teenager.

He is the only one at home, all his relatives are gone.

Tu Shan settled the cub down, and Ling Yang prepared to go out to find food: "Does anyone here raise chickens?"

Jin Ji: “There are people who raise livestock, but there’s no food after winter. Most families sell their livestock before winter, so there shouldn’t be much left now.

I don’t know the details, I don’t go out often.”

Jin Ji felt a little guilty, and Ling Yang didn't ask any more questions and went out to look for chickens.

Tu Shan let the kids stay on the kang, and when she went out she saw Jin Ji staring blankly in the yard.

"You mentioned losing your child earlier, what happened?"

Jin Ji turned around and smiled apologetically at Tu Shan.

"Our place is remote, so if there's an outsider here, everyone will know about it immediately, so it's rare for children to get lost.

But about a year ago, a child suddenly disappeared. Everyone looked for him together, but they couldn't find him after three days. Everyone thought he was taken away by a wolf.

A month later, another child disappeared and still had not been found. Everyone guessed that he might have been taken away by a wolf.

Two months later, another person disappeared.

This time everyone felt something was wrong. It was impossible for wolves, which had not appeared for three to five years before, to appear several times a year.

Until two months ago, another child went missing and everyone confirmed that it was human traffickers.

Because of this incident, our town has become very sensitive to outsiders, and no outsiders have come in the past six months.

You guys showed up suddenly, so I just…"

Tu Shan understood: "Then, how did the human trafficker incident end?"

Jin Ji: "It's nothing. There are no clues, and the child can't be found. It can only be left unresolved."

"Don't report it to the police?"

Jin Ji sighed, “Our town only has a public security team, and it’s privately run. The public security is only available in the city, which is a thousand kilometers away.

The security team went on a mission, but they called it off after three days of searching without any leads."

Tu Shan also sighed. In a border town like this with a vast area and sparse population, it was really difficult to investigate anything.

"Since there were no outsiders and the child wasn't taken away by a wolf, it's very likely that the crime was committed by someone you know. Didn't you investigate among yourselves?"

Jin Ji: "There are only a few hundred people in our town. We have lived together for generations and are very familiar with each other. If there is something going on in someone's family, we will know about it immediately. There is no opportunity to do evil."

Tu Shan didn't believe it. It was either an external or internal trouble. People couldn't disappear out of thin air. It was just that they were stupid and didn't notice it.

However, it disappeared out of thin air.

In such a remote place, this kind of unsolved case is most likely to be labeled as a supernatural case.