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Chapter 297: Missing
Seeing the look on Zhao Youcai’s face, Su Qing quickly asked, "Director Zhao, has the Village Party Secretary run into some trouble?"
Zhao Youcai sighed. "He’s missing," he said.
"What!" Su Qing exclaimed in shock. "When did this happen?"
"It’s been over a month," Zhao Youcai sighed. "And there’s been no sign of him."
Su Qing quickly asked, "Director Zhao, what exactly happened?"
"After that incident with the Pang family last year, your Uncle Wang requested a temporary work transfer. It was partly because he felt he’d lost face, and partly because he didn’t want to get tangled up with them any further. He was actually already back during the time you were in Yun Province."
Su Qing had no idea. She’d thought Wang Xuehong hadn’t been back to the village for the last six months.
"Then why did the Village Party Secretary leave again?"
Zhao Youcai explained, "When your Uncle Wang came back, he planned to file for divorce from Pang Xiaofang. He just couldn’t accept the things she’d done. But Pang Xiaofang refused. She had been detained by the police for a while because of that incident, and after getting out, she went to live with the Pang family. When she heard your Uncle Wang wanted a divorce, she refused point-blank. She even kept pestering him to pull some strings and get her nephew out of trouble."
"In her dreams," Su Qing scoffed. "So that’s why the Village Party Secretary left again."
"Exactly." Zhao Youcai continued, "Your Uncle Wang went ahead and finalized the divorce with Pang Xiaofang, and then he wanted to resign as Village Party Secretary to go visit relatives down south. I wouldn’t approve his resignation, so I just told him to spend some time in the south to clear his head and come back when he felt better. Oh, and I haven’t told you this, but your Uncle Wang’s ancestral home is in Yun Province. He still has some cousins there. I figured he’s been so busy with village affairs all these years with no time to travel, so a change of scenery might do him some good."
At this point, Zhao Youcai sighed. "If I’d known he was going to disappear in Yun Province, I would have done anything to keep him here in the village."
"He went missing in Yun Province?" Su Qing asked quickly.
"That’s right," Zhao Youcai said. "From what I’ve heard, after your Uncle Wang returned to his ancestral home, he went into the mountains to hunt with his cousins one day and just vanished. The two cousins who went with him disappeared as well. The local police searched for a long time but found no one. Sigh, I’m completely tied up here. Otherwise, I would’ve gone to Yun Province myself to see what’s going on."
Speaking of Wang Xuehong, Zhao Youcai was deeply distressed. They had worked together for many years and were quite close. When he heard Wang Xuehong was missing, Zhao Youcai was so worried he couldn’t sleep at night. But with village affairs piled high, he simply couldn’t get away. All he could do was worry in silence and pray the police in Yun Province would find Wang Xuehong soon.
Lately, this was the main thing causing him anxiety, aside from all the work in the village. So when Su Qing asked about Wang Xuehong, he couldn’t help but voice his concerns.
"They haven’t found a single trace?" Su Qing frowned. ’Missing for over a month... Could he have gotten lost in the mountains? The mountains are treacherous; if he really got lost, it would be extremely dangerous, especially after all this time.’
Wang Xuehong had helped her in the past, so Su Qing naturally grew concerned as well.
"Speaking of which, I did hear a rumor, but I have no idea if it’s true," Zhao Youcai said, his brow furrowed.
"What is it?" Su Qing pressed.
Zhao Youcai said, "I heard there have been other disappearances in that area before. And they might be... connected to Xiangcheng."