A few minutes later, in the yard of Old Yang's house.

"Wait..." Old Man Yang's face was filled with disbelief. He pointed at Ren Yangming and said, "You said my daughter Yang Yan eloped with your son?"

"You're missing your son so much, aren't you? Ugh, my daughter is fine. She even sent me money a few days ago, but she didn't mention your son at all."

Looking at his expression, he didn't seem to be lying. Ren Yangming felt indescribably bitter. Son, where are you? Why don't you come back?

Zhang Hui stared at the changing red line between his eyebrows and asked, "Uncle Yang, can you tell me when Yang Yan started sending money?"

"She hasn't come back since graduation? Are you guys okay with not getting married for all these years?"

Father Yang said nonchalantly, "She went to the south after graduation and sends us money at the end of every year. It doesn't matter whether she comes back or not."

"As for marriage, as long as she sends money back every year, she can do whatever she wants outside. It's up to her."

Father Yang, who only cares about money, really doesn't care about his daughter who left home. To him, his son is his treasure.

The red line between his eyebrows is black. Who has been sending him money in the name of Yang Yan all these years?

"address?"

Father Yang asked stupidly, "What address?"

"Didn't Yang Yan write down the address when she sent the money?" Chu Xingman asked him.

Old Man Yang muttered, "Who would still read that?" But he still went back to the house and took out two or three letters.

Zhang Hui took it and took a look. It was a letter sent from Shenzhen City. There were only a few lines of words in it, mostly saying "I'm fine, please don't worry about me", etc.

"You are so careless. With just a few letters, and not knowing where your daughter is, how can you sleep at night?" Chu Xingman really didn't know what to say.

"Is this Yang Yan's handwriting?" She deliberately asked Old Man Yang, who answered casually, "If it's not hers, then who is it?"

Chu Xingman was speechless. How could this man be a father? This was clearly cut out of a newspaper and pasted on letter paper, and he said it was his daughter's handwriting?

Did he never read the letter and just remember counting the money?

Her guess was correct. Every time a letter came back, Old Man Yang would open the envelope, take the money, count it and put it away, then throw the letter aside.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken out only two or three letters just now, because he had lost most of the letters long ago.

Zhang Hui had a preliminary conclusion, but decided to find Yang Yan first. She called Xiao Ding and told him to find a tool.

"Why does this seem so strange?" The village chief was full of doubts.

Yang Yan has been sending money home, but she never mentions Ren Jiadong at all. Could it be that Ren Jiadong is not with her?

"Come on, Old Man Yang, I'll take you to find your daughter." Zhang Hui invited him to go with him to look for her.

As for Yang's mother, she was in poor health after giving birth to her son. After she struggled to support her daughter's college education, she fell ill and never recovered.

Before leaving, she forced Old Man Yang to swear to support his daughter until she graduated from college, only then did she leave with peace of mind.

If it weren't for Yang's mother, I believe Yang's father would have asked his daughter to come back to work and earn money long ago.

Father Yang was stunned. Wasn't his daughter earning money outside? Why did he still look for her? If he went, it would delay his daughter's earning money. What if she stopped sending money home in the future?

No! I won’t go even if you kill me! Old Man Yang shook his head like a rattle and refused to go no matter how much we tried to persuade him.

Ren Yangming was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he wished he could beat him up to vent his anger.

"I'll go!" A deep young voice sounded at the door.

Everyone looked up and saw a young man in his twenties.

Old Man Yang stood up suddenly and shouted, "Go inside! What do you want?"

The young man ignored his anger and said, "Dad, you never thought about how hard it was for your sister to make money. You only remembered to take the money to drink."

"If my sister hadn't told me her address, I would have gone to find her and told her not to send money home anymore. I can earn money to support the family myself!"

"You bastard! I'm doing this for you! You go and earn money? How much can you earn?" Old Man Yang cursed and reached out to pull him into the house.

"It's okay if you don't want me to go, then you go. If you don't go, I won't get married in the future!"

Yang Wen and Yang Yan are siblings with a big age gap. He still remembers how kind his sister was to him when he was a child, but he never saw her again after he was eight years old.

He couldn't believe that his sister was such a heartless and ungrateful person. She hadn't even called him once in all these years.

The father and son were at an impasse for a while, and the head of Huaishu Village persuaded them: "Old Yang, no matter what, go find Yang Yan. It's been so many years, and the child hasn't come back once. Don't you miss her?"

Zhang Hui watched this farce and felt sad for Yang Yan. Her father only cared about money, and he childishly threatened his brother with marriage. And her mother, the only person who loved her, had passed away suddenly.

"Yang Yan has never come back to pay tribute to her mother in all these years. Have you ever thought about the reason?"

Father Yang's heart trembled. Yes, Yan'er had deep feelings for her mother. If she didn't want to come back to see an old man like him, he could understand...

But in fact, Yang Yan never came back once, whether it was the anniversary of her mother's death or the Qingming Festival every year.

He didn't dare to think about it, and only asked quietly: "Then why didn't she come back?"

"If you want to know the answer, I'll take you to find it." The father and son finally reached a consensus and followed together.

The answer is far more cruel than expected. There is a small forest on the side of the small road connecting Huaishu Village and Quyang Village.

Deep in the woods, there is a big tree that looks particularly vigorous and is thicker than the other trees next to it.

Everyone looked at Zhang Hui in confusion, thinking: Did this girl bring them here for a walk?

"Dig!" She gave the order, and Xiao Ding, who had been told to bring tools earlier, picked up the shovel and started digging carefully.

But in just ten minutes, Xiao Ding paused with the shovel in his hand and found something underneath.

Afraid of damaging something, Xiao Ding simply pulled it out with his hands, and a piece of finger bone suddenly appeared.

"Call Captain Yang." Chu Xingman didn't dare to delay as she hadn't bought a cell phone yet, so she made the call immediately.

Old Man Yang stared at the finger bone in a daze, an unknown panic spreading in his chest.

He absolutely did not believe that that was his daughter. Yang Yan clearly sent money home every year. Yes, that was not her!

Ren Yangming sat on the ground. Yang Yan was dead? Where was his son Ren Jiadong?

The silent woods welcomed a bustling crowd. After some exploration, a complete skeleton appeared in front of everyone.

Old Man Yang recognized it at a glance. It was Yang Yan’s favorite piece of clothing, a fashionable white coat.

The identity was confirmed, and it was indeed Yang Yan. No one expected that the missing person case would turn into a murder case.

And we have to start from the beginning to investigate. After all, the Yang Yan case must be related to the disappearance of Ren Jiadong and Tan Xiaozhu.

According to Yang's father, after Yang Yan graduated, she did not go home at all. She just sent him a letter saying that she was going to work in the south and she took a bus directly from the school.

He was a careless person and had no idea where he had thrown the letter away. Now if he was asked to recall the details of the letter, he couldn't remember them.

Ren Yangming sat on the ground in despair. Can Jiadong still find him?

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