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Jiang He was puzzled. Decades ago, Aunt Wang had already passed away, so how could the game's planner know about the conversation that Aunt Wang once had with Qiuju Niu? His mind began to race.
At that time, Zhao Xiulian was just a baby; she would have no way of knowing the conversation between her mother and Aunt Wang. Moreover, the villagers were unaware of this matter, so the game planner would know even less. Following this line of reasoning, it seemed that the information must have leaked from the mouths of two people.
One was Aunt Wang herself, and the other was Qiuju Niu.
However, Jiang He couldn't determine which person it was, so he shared his thoughts with Old Shao.
After listening, Old Shao immediately pointed to Aunt Wang.
Jiang He was somewhat confused, prompting Old Shao to explain further.
Old Shao, while looking at the wallpaper and leaning on the table, said, "Qiuju Niu's money comes from illicit sources; she wouldn't reveal what she did in her youth unless she wanted to go to jail. From that story, it's clear that Qiuju Niu is a patient and strong person. The fact that this story hasn't spread in the village shows that Qiuju Niu keeps her mouth shut."
Jiang He nodded in agreement.
Old Shao continued, "When a person is dying, they tend to reflect on their life, especially someone like Aunt Wang. The planner wrote about Aunt Wang because he likely didn't know her name. Aunt Wang lived through old China and experienced much; it's evident that she still held onto notions of good and evil."
"Informing Qiuju Niu about how to traffic people might be something Aunt Wang regretted most in her life," Old Shao said. "It's very possible that Aunt Wang told her descendants about it, and that's how the game planner found out. Jiang He, you need to contact Captain Ma immediately and have him look for Aunt Wang's descendants in that village."
Jiang He nodded and went to make the call.
Old Shao continued to examine the plan.
Even before fully reviewing it, Old Shao had already made a near-accurate guess. Since Qiuju Niu was a trafficker, the best way to deal with traffickers is to turn their own methods against them by abducting their children. However, Qiuju Niu's child was already thirty years old; her grandchild was only seven.
This grandchild had been living with Qiuju Niu for all these years. For the lonely Qiuju Niu, this child was her greatest comfort.
The plan indeed confirmed Old Shao's suspicions.
The core of this plan is to abduct Qiuju Niu's grandson, Zhang Wenhua. In the design, Qiuju Niu will discover that her grandson is missing. When she realizes this, she will call the police. The authorities will then check the surveillance footage from a nearby highway and find Feng Gaofei taking the child away. Consequently, the police will investigate who Feng Gaofei is, but any information they uncover about him will not be true.
Of course, it is not that the information about Feng Gaofei is false; rather, since the moment he registered his household, Feng Gaofei has become another person.
More than thirty years ago, Feng Gaofei was waiting outside a shop for his mother to finish shopping. However, when his mother came out, three-year-old Feng Gaofei had already vanished. At that moment, it was Qiuju Niu who had abducted him. Taking advantage of his mother's distraction, Qiuju Niu grabbed Feng Gaofei and covered his mouth tightly as she ran away.
From that point on, Feng Gaofei was separated from his mother, and they would not meet again until thirty years later.
Feng Gaofei's original name was Bi Shuwen, a name filled with literary elegance. Both of his parents came from scholarly families and hoped their son would become a scholar or professor. However, before they could even teach him basic arithmetic, he was taken away.
Feng Gaofei's adoptive parents were simple farmers. The husband was infertile, and the wife wanted a child, so they sought out Qiuju Niu to buy one.
When Feng Gaofei turned eighteen, his adoptive mother passed away. From that point on, his adoptive father changed completely towards him. The adoptive father had no affection for this child who was not his own; if it weren't for his infertility and if it were solely his wife's issue, he would have divorced her long ago to find a wife who could bear him healthy sons.
While his wife was alive, Feng Gaofei's adoptive father treated him poorly; after her death, he became physically abusive. Finally, during one drunken episode, Feng Gaofei's adoptive father revealed the truth about his origins. It was then that Feng Gaofei realized he had been bought from a trafficker.
Feng Gaofei finally recalled the recurring dream he had—a child standing at the shop's entrance.
At eighteen, Feng Gaofei ran away from home and spent the next ten years searching for his biological parents. Eventually, he found them. Before DNA testing could confirm their relationship, Feng Gaofei's mother recognized him immediately.
Looking at this weathered old woman reminded him of his adoptive mother who had passed away when he was eighteen; both were mothers to him—kind yet suffering mothers.
In front of his biological mother, he should be called Bi Shuwen.
When his biological mother saw him, she suddenly appeared much older. Within the following year, Bi Shuwen's mother passed away. Neighbors said that after her husband died, she had never been well but held onto one belief: she must find her son in this lifetime; without finding him, how could she dare to die?
When the game planner found Feng Gaofei, he agreed almost without hesitation to help execute the game plan.
If Qiuju Niu discovered that Feng Gaofei was the child she had once trafficked, then all she needed to do was go back to Feng Gaofei's previous village to find her grandson. However, if Qiuju Niu could not recognize that Feng Gaofei was the child she had sold, then naturally she would not think to search for her grandson Zhang Wenhua in Feng Gaofei's village, and Zhang Wenhua would end up living his entire life in a remote mountain village.
This is the process of the third game; Qiuju Niu would significantly influence the outcome of the game. Whether she saved her grandson or lost him forever depended entirely on her.
But the question remained: which village had the child been sold to?
The trafficking of Feng Gaofei happened thirty years ago. After Feng Gaofei's adoptive mother passed away, he left the village and had not returned for over a decade. The planning document for the game did not mention where this village was located at all, and Feng Gaofei's situation was dire, making it unlikely that he could be rescued. Thus, finding this village would be nearly impossible.
Old Shao wondered if Huang Zhengqing was aware of this situation; everything depended on Wang Chao bringing Huang Zhengqing's wife and child before they could continue interrogating him.
However, after reviewing the information about Huang Zhengqing and Feng Gaofei on the paper, Old Shao became more resolute in his thoughts.
Because Old Shao finally understood why Huang Zhengqing resorted to robbery.
Huang Zhengqing turned to robbery because he had been scammed, losing nearly all of his family's money. The con artist was Han Liqun, who deceived several partners under the pretense of a business venture, stealing their funds. Huang Zhengqing thought he had boarded a train to wealth, but in the end, he realized it was all a trap.
Huang Zhengqing had mortgaged his house, but what he received in return was merely a worthless piece of paper from Han Liqun. He had been completely duped from start to finish; the contract clearly stated that he had walked into the trap himself. Huang Zhengqing had no way to seek legal help and was left in despair.
Huang Zhengqing's wife did not understand what had happened or why they suddenly found themselves without a home.
Their family had been struggling for some time; Huang Zhengqing's son cried every night from hunger. While Huang Zhengqing and his wife could manage with just two buns each along with plain water, their son was at an age where he needed more nourishment—two buns were simply insufficient.
After contemplating for several days, Huang Zhengqing proposed a divorce, and his wife agreed.
The child was awarded to Huang Zhengqing's wife because he explicitly stated that he did not want custody, while his wife clearly expressed her desire for it.
Everyone could see that poverty brought sorrow to couples; Huang Zhengqing seemed ready to abandon his family and children.
A month had passed without a trace of Huang Zhengqing.
Then, one month later, Huang Zhengqing suddenly appeared at the rental apartment where his wife lived. He left behind one hundred thousand yuan and said to her, "From now on, you live your life, and I'll live mine. According to the ruling, I will provide for our child's living expenses every month. Take this one hundred thousand for now, and that's it."
From that moment on, Huang Zhengqing's wife never saw him again. She could never have imagined that in a desperate situation, Huang Zhengqing resorted to robbing a wealthy woman. He stole a pearl necklace worth one hundred thousand from her and exchanged it for cash, which he then gave to his wife.
Afterward, Huang Zhengqing went to the police station to turn himself in and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Four years later, Huang Zhengqing was released. After his release, he struggled to find stable work. He did whatever he could, sending money home each month while living on whatever food he could find—eating when there was food available and going without when there wasn't. When the game planners approached him, he joined them as well.
Thus began the planning for three games.
This is all the information that could be gleaned from the paper.
If it weren't for Jiang He, the project team would never have found this place.
Old Shao opened the drawer of the table and discovered it was filled with numerous mobile phones, seemingly prepared long ago with different SIM cards to carry out these plans.
A detective reported back: "On the way to the hospital, Feng Gaofei has died."
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