Chapter 173 Searching for Someone
The Party Branch Secretary saw Luo Qiao had just gotten out of bed and asked, "Luo Qiao, did you hear any noises last night?"
Luo Qiao pretended to think hard, "Noises, oh, that’s right, I heard a sort of ’ah’ when I was half-asleep, but it was just that one time. Afterward, there were no more sounds, and I fell asleep again. What happened?"
The Party Branch Secretary said, "This morning, someone went up the mountain and found Li Xiulan unconscious at the bottom of the slope on that small path."
Luo Qiao asked, "So where is she now?"
The person following behind said, "She’s been sent to the hospital. It looks like she fell there last night and wasn’t found until this morning."
Luo Qiao said, "No way, she didn’t come home all night, and her family didn’t look for her?"
As soon as these words came out, the others present exchanged glances. They all wondered how Li Xiulan could have ended up falling there in the middle of the night, and moreover, Gao Shunyi, her own husband, hadn’t noticed her absence all night, which sparked various speculations among the villagers.
After leaving Luo Qiao’s, the Party Branch Secretary knocked on Lu Yichen’s front door. Lu Yichen replied, "I went to bed early last night and didn’t hear anything."