Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Zhan Jinhua and her gang used to act in the dead of night. But today she felt uneasy and wanted to move the goods in the store as quickly as possible.

So she called her accomplice who was in charge of transporting the goods and asked them to come as soon as possible and move the goods away when there was no one at the back door.

Sun Aimin was lucky, as this group of people used to send goods back to the store every three to five days. However, these days, they received more orders and became a little too busy.

After all, when the higher-ups take action, they have insiders who can tip them off in a timely manner. So although they are more cautious, they are not that scared in their hearts.

Sun Aimin and his companions waited at the intersection for about two hours before the suspicious van appeared.

Sun Aimin immediately perked up and whispered to the others, "Here we come!"

Several people stared at the van that entered the alley and watched it stop at the back door of the noodle shop.

The man in the passenger seat came down and knocked on the door gently and rhythmically, as if giving some kind of secret signal.

Soon, Zhan Jinhua opened the door from the inside and handed over a large suitcase in her hand: "Hurry up, you go first, and be careful."

The man didn't say much. He quickly put the box into the car, got in, closed the door, and the driver turned the car around and drove away.

After Zhan Jinhua locked the back door from the inside, she began to clean up the kitchen and wipe out any traces, just in case. After everything was cleaned up, she hurriedly left the noodle shop and returned home.

Sun Aimin and his companions watched the van turn out of the intersection. Then Master Chen started his car and followed the van at a suitable distance.

After turning left and right several times, the van got on a provincial road. There were a lot more vehicles on this road than in the urban area, and the speed was also faster. There were villages next to each other on both sides of the road.

Sun Aimin and his friends guessed that their destination should be in a village. Such a place is highly concealed, not easy to be discovered, and more convenient for transactions. If it is a village where there are many child traders, they may spontaneously protect the kidnappers.

At this moment, several people were at a loss. If they got into a conflict with those people later, would they be able to escape unscathed and rescue the kidnapped children? If there were only one or two children, it would be fine, but if there were many children, it would be really difficult to deal with!

About an hour later, the van turned at a T-junction and entered a village. On the village monument at the intersection was written "Victory Village", but it was unclear whether it would be Sun Aimin and his group who won, or the group of human traffickers who won.

The optimistic Master Chen looked at the village stele and said with a smile: "This is a good name, auspicious, we will surely be able to win the first battle later!"

However, they followed the van into the village so blatantly, which could easily arouse the other party's vigilance. Moreover, based on Wu Xing and Zhao Hongjun's experience, many villagers are not very welcoming to outsiders. They had also been beaten out by villagers for going to look for their children.

Zhao Hongjun said with some concern: "Brother Chen, are you familiar with this village? If we drive in like this, won't we be too conspicuous?"

Master Chen said casually: "Don't worry, this is not ten years ago, it's not uncommon for a car to enter the village. I have never been to Shengli Village, but people from nearby villages have taken taxis. We are new faces, so we will be more conspicuous if we get off the car and walk in!"

Sun Aimin thought for a moment and said, "If someone stops the car and asks us, we can just say we are here to visit relatives."

Master Chen replied, "That's fine. I know there are many people with the last name Cao in this village."

After a brief discussion, the few of them watched the van enter the village and disappear at the turn of the second alley before Master Chen drove into the village.

It is not September yet, the afternoon sun is quite strong, and the temperature is estimated to be around 37 or 38 degrees, so the village seems a bit deserted.

Now the crops are not yet ripe and there is not much work to do in the fields. Most people are staying in the house, fanning themselves and watching TV. Some villagers like to play cards and mahjong, which are currently the most common forms of entertainment for rural people.

So no one actually cared about the sudden appearance of a taxi in the village.

Master Chen drove slowly, which made it easier for them to find the van. But after searching almost the entire village, they didn't see any van parked in front of any house.

Could it be that they were not hiding in this village, but had gone through the village to go somewhere else? Or had they driven the car into the gate instead of stopping at the door?

Sun Aimin said, "I think we should focus on those families with wide gates and closed doors this time. I remember in my hometown village, if there were people at home, the front and back doors would be basically open, and they would only be closed at night when there were no one visiting. The only exceptions would be those who don't like to interact with the villagers, but there aren't many families like that."

Wu Xing and Zhao Hongjun also echoed, "Yes, yes, our village is basically the same. Let's do as Brother Sun said and identify the key targets first. If we don't find anything, we will look for other ways out of the village."

Sun Aimin continued, "There is one more thing. The places we just passed are all densely populated areas, but in some villages, some people's houses are built in more remote places. I saw that we did not encounter any obstruction when we entered the village just now. It should be that the villagers are not wary of outsiders. If this is the case, I think our business will be smoother."

Wu Xing nodded and said, "That's right. In the villages we've been to before, if there were many cases of child buying, the villagers would be very disgusted with outsiders entering the village. Even if they didn't drive the person away directly, they would still question them thoroughly, and someone might follow them all the time, making it impossible for us to do anything. The villagers in this village behaved quite normally."

After several people analyzed it this way, they felt a little relieved.

However, they still attracted the attention of the villagers as they drove around the village.

Someone came over and knocked on the car window. After Master Chen lowered the window, the villager glanced inside the car and asked, "What are you guys doing?"

Sun Aimin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, replied, "Brother, we are here to visit relatives. My mother has a cousin named Cao, who is also my uncle. Our two families live too far away and we haven't been in touch for many years. This time, I happened to be here on a business trip, and my mother asked me to come and visit him."

The villager asked, "What's your cousin's name?"

Sun Aimin continued to make up lies: "I think his name is Cao Guofa or Cao something. My mother can't write and speaks with a heavy accent. I just heard the general sound. I only know that he is in Shengli Village and should be over 80 years old now."

Before entering the village, Master Chen gave them some "popular science" about the generations of the Cao surname. The "Guo" generation is now considered a relatively old generation, and most people are older. In their accents, they are used to pronouncing "Guo" as "Guo". So Sun Aimin had an idea and made up a story.

The villagers outside the car nodded thoughtfully and replied, "Oh, you are talking about Cao Guohua. His house is the first one at the end of this road."

The villagers enthusiastically pointed the way to the few people. After they thanked him, Master Chen quickly started the car and drove along the road, looking in the rearview mirror to see if the villager had left.

The villagers stood there and watched the car stop in front of Cao Guohua's house before it turned around and left.