Chapter 57: The Crime of Gender 57
When Fang Zhongyi saw that Qin Shuangshuang was ignoring his words and looking everywhere for someone, his heart had already tightened. By the time Qin Shuangshuang asked him, his face had changed, "Shuangshuang, has something happened to Yaoyao?"
Qin Shuangshuang’s face was also grim, "It’s very possible. Our village had some vagrants break in, causing a commotion all night. When I helped catch them and returned, Yaoyao was gone. Sister-in-law Li from the village told me a girl named Xiao Xia took her away, and Yaoyao looked very pale when she left. I felt something was wrong, so I came to see if Yaoyao had come home."
Fang Zhongyi’s face was beyond description. Like Qin Shuangshuang, Fang Zhongyi knew that the reasons or people who could lure Fang Yaoyao away were very few, and he happened to be the most important one!
Moreover, he had stayed in the mountains for four or five days searching for food, and only returned home less than a quarter of an hour before Qin Shuangshuang arrived!
Forcing himself to calm down, Fang Zhongyi desperately recalled the girls his daughter had been close with, trying to remember if any were named Xiao Xia. But no matter how hard he thought, only two people, Qin Shuang and Qin Miao, came to mind as his daughter’s best friends.
While Fang Zhongyi was desperately recalling, Qin Shuangshuang was pacing around anxiously, very agitated. Qin Shuangshuang just felt that this matter couldn’t be unrelated to the people of Fang Family Village!
Qin Shuangshuang was even certain that Fang Yaoyao might very well be in one of the households in Fang Family Village right now! It’s frustrating that in her past life she hadn’t asked Fang Zhongyi about the cause of Fang Yaoyao’s death, leaving her completely clueless at this maddening moment!
Actually, Qin Shuangshuang had previously talked with Fang Zhongyi about going to the border city, and Fang Zhongyi was supportive of it. However, when Qin Shuangshuang invited him to join her family in moving there, Fang Zhongyi shook his head, because he couldn’t leave the villagers of Fang Family Village behind.
Fang Zhongyi was a skilled hunter. Even in times like these, he could still find something to eat in the mountains, albeit rarely, but at least he ensured the Fang Family Village people wouldn’t starve to death. Fang Zhongyi feared that if he left, they might die of hunger and then resort to cannibalism!