novelweb Chapter 125 On the first day of the new year of that year, Xiaozhen mysteriously disappeared
Chapter 125 On the first day of the new year of that year, Xiaozhen mysteriously disappeared
After a pause of more than a minute, An Weiguo's hoarse voice came out from the palm of his hand: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year that year..."
"The old man took Xiaozhen to play on the pedestrian street. There was an acrobatic performance in the commercial plaza in front of the department store. The three of them gathered around to watch."
"Not long after watching, Xiaozhen said she wanted to eat candied haws, so your grandpa went to buy candied haws."
"Grandpa hasn't come back yet. Xiaozhen saw a child playing with balloons next to her and said she wanted a balloon."
"The place selling balloons is only ten meters away from them. Your grandma thought it would only take a few minutes to walk back, so she asked Xiaozhen to stand there and wait while she went to buy balloons..."
Basically, the direction of this story is expected.
And the atmosphere of sadness and pain has gradually spread.
An Yuan closed her eyes, her heart slowly sank, and she prayed silently, hoping it wasn't what she thought...
An Weiguo's voice was choked with sobs, revealing endless pain: "When your grandpa comes back from buying candied haws, Xiaozhen is nowhere to be seen..."
He is enduring.
Hold back from crying or collapse.
Anyuan's nails dug into the palm of her hand, and she felt a bone-chilling pain.
It took An Weiguo another two or three minutes before he said: "The two old men were going crazy. Dragging their sixty-year-old bodies, they stumbled around looking everywhere, asking everywhere, and even knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the people around them. Please help them find their children..."
"There are surveillance cameras in shopping malls, but surveillance at that time was not as common as it is now, and there were many blind spots."
"The surveillance of the mall showed that Xiaozhen seemed to have discovered something after her grandma walked away. She walked towards the side of the mall alone and disappeared into the blind spot of the surveillance..."
"We tried our best, posted missing person advertisements everywhere, cried on TV and websites, asked relatives and friends to help, and the media, police and citizens in Nancheng also helped to find her, but Xiaozhen... just disappeared out of thin air, and then Didn’t show up either.”
Anyuan closed her eyes, not knowing what to say.
For any family that loves and cares about their children, losing a child is devastating.
"Your mother, grandfather and grandma cried every day and fell ill one after another because of this incident. Your grandma's eyes were not very good to begin with and she almost went blind from crying..."
"What's even more terrifying is..." An Weiguo's voice was trembling.
"The matter was very big at the time, and the whole city was looking for Xiaozhen but there was no clue. Many people said..."
"Let's just say that your grandfather and your grandmother favor boys over girls. They deliberately took their granddaughter alone to crowded places during holidays and deliberately abandoned her."
"Some people say...your grandfather and your grandmother sold their granddaughter, and they have arranged human traffickers on the scene a long time ago. If we want to investigate, we should start with your grandparents."
"Your grandfather and your grandmother were greatly stimulated after hearing these rumors. One suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into coma on the spot. The other fell down the stairs and broke his leg..."
"Although the rescue was timely, your grandpa still suffered from symptoms of slow reaction and difficulty in moving. Your grandma is not only partially blind, but also has to sit in a wheelchair."
"This disaster has also depleted the family's savings."
"We sold the three-story building we originally lived in, moved to the staff dormitory area, and rented a house in the same dormitory building. The family lived in two apartments."
"The old man doesn't want to hurt us, so he insists on moving to the countryside. He plans to grow some vegetables and raise some chickens to support the family."
"Of course we don't want them to live in the country, but when they live here, they will always get emotional and think of Xiaozhen, and then they will cry non-stop, falling into self-blame and worry, so your mother plans to go back to their hometown with them and take care of them ."
An Yuan's eldest brother An Jingwei was already 15 years old at the time and was about to take the high school entrance examination in half a year.
But he couldn't bear to see his parents separated and his brothers unable to see their mother for a long time, so he proposed that he go to the countryside to take care of his grandparents. Then he transferred to the county's junior high school and passed the county high school exam. He studied in school during the day and spent the evening Go back to live with your grandparents.
After An Jingwei was admitted to college, his second eldest child, An Jingrui, was transferred to a high school in the county and was responsible for taking care of his grandparents.
After An Jingrui was admitted to college, he went to the county high school in his eldest son, An Zhengming.
In this way, several brothers took turns going to the countryside to take care of their grandparents, and they have survived until now.
An Weiguo recalled the most tragic period: "Half a year after the incident, Xiaocao took Taozi back to his hometown."
"Then it happened that Taozi was sold by her biological father to be used as a child bride, and we ran to adopt Taozi."
Having said this, An Weiguo seemed to calm down a little. He finally lifted his face from his palms, picked up a glass of water, and drank it slowly.
After finishing the drink, he whispered: "For 13 years, we have never given up looking for Xiaozhen. Every year, we regularly pay a sum of money to professional tracing agencies to let them find people."
An Yuan nodded silently, understanding why the An family's economic conditions were not very good.
An Weiguo continued: "The reason why we decided to adopt Xiaojiu so quickly during the summer vacation two years ago was because Xiaojiu reminded us of Xiaozhen."
"Having Xiaojiu here can more or less make up for the pain of losing Xiaozhen."
Anyuan poured a glass of water for her father and asked in a low voice: "Dad, what kind of girl is Xiaozhen?"
Speaking of his lost baby daughter, An Weiguo's eyes were both sad and gentle: "Xiaozhen... is very cute and very smart. Everyone who has seen her said that she will be something terrible when she grows up."
"She has only been in kindergarten for two years, and her family has not put any pressure on her to study. She can write more than 1000 Chinese characters correctly, communicate with foreign teachers in simple English, and masters double-digit multiplication and division. No matter what she learns, she can She can master it after watching it a few times, and the teachers all say she is a genius and the smartest child they have ever seen."
"An IQ test was conducted in kindergarten, and her score was 150. The test teacher said that she might be deliberately controlling the score, otherwise the score would be higher."
When An Yuan heard this, his eyes flashed slightly.
As expected of twins, there shouldn't be much difference in IQ between Xiaozhen and her.
An Weiguo murmured: "Xiaozhen is so smart and has never made us worry. We usually pay attention to teaching her how to protect herself."
"For example, when she is outside, if there is no adult watching her, she cannot leave her original position. She must pay attention to the surveillance cameras around her and make sure she stays where she can be seen by the surveillance cameras."
"She knows all this."
He looked sad and shook his head: "We can't understand how such a smart Xiaozhen could leave the place where her grandparents asked her to wait alone that day, and how she could go to a place without surveillance cameras."
His voice was full of regret: "We even suspected that maybe Xiaozhen was being targeted because she was too cute and smart."
"The other party may be a gang. They have been secretly observing Xiaozhen for a long time and have been looking for opportunities to take her away..."