Chapter 857 - 185: Feint to the East, Attack in the West
Jiujiu always had guards following her whenever she went out, but even tigers doze off sometimes, and in a mere moment of distraction, she vanished, and the entire Liu’er Alley was enraged.
Pei Qian gritted her teeth, "Could it be the thugs from Old Pei’s House smashed it? I’ll kill them!" and prepared to lead her people in an attack.
"Hold on! Don’t rush!" Pei Yuan grabbed her, also looking panic-stricken, "Who could have suddenly kidnapped Jiujiu? There were always people with her when she went out; it was only a moment of distraction this time that she got kidnapped. This must be someone who has been watching us closely for a long time, waiting for the chance, and then they took Jiujiu."
Pei Qin took a deep breath; if there had been any suspicious people, Liu Feng and Cao Li couldn’t have failed to notice. So the kidnapper must be someone they often saw and didn’t suspect, otherwise, they couldn’t have stolen Jiujiu away in just a blink.
Someone they all knew...
There were only so many familiar faces they encountered frequently in town who could possibly be the culprit.
The more Pei Qin thought about it, the angrier she got, immediately mobilizing people to search for suspicious individuals, carefully inspecting anything large enough to hide a child, and also sent someone to the Government Office to get a warrant to conduct a house-to-house search.
When Jiang Benxin heard that Jiujiu had disappeared, he too was greatly shocked. How could someone dare to kidnap the daughter of Pei Qin when even the Junior Provincial Official was present!
The news of Jiujiu’s kidnapping spread, and all of Taiping Town was suddenly in turmoil, shocked beyond words. Mo Heng had just been transferred and promoted; who would dare to kidnap Jiujiu after his departure?
The Sun Quanliang family, Sun Tiezhu, Sun Dashun’s family, Zhang Dacheng’s family from Back Mountain Village, and the newly hired four brothers of Zhao family all turned out to join the search for Jiujiu.
Sun Lizheng also seized the opportunity to curry favor, organizing the villagers to search for Jiujiu’s whereabouts.