Chapter 128

Su Qingyue and Su Qingxi walked to the door, only to see Zhang Jun pushing the bull cart and looking straight at them.

His eyes looked very gentle, "Thank you for the bull cart. I'll help push it in!"

Su Qingyue raised her hand to stop him, "No need, just leave it there. We'll pull it back ourselves."

She didn't want Zhang Jun to enter her courtyard at all.

Zhang Jun's expression stiffened for a moment, and he said nothing more.

Immediately after, he gave Su Qingyue a smirk.

He walked toward the carrying basket.

Seeing the basket suddenly tilt over on the ground, Zhang Jun paused, then hurried over to shoulder the basket.

Perhaps it was too heavy; when he stood up, his body actually swayed before he stabilized himself.

It was too dark to see clearly, but Su Qingxi still saw that Zhang Jun looked very burdened as he stood up with the basket.

"How much grain did he buy? It's so heavy he can't even carry it!"

Su Qingxi knew this person wasn't a good man. She kept her eyes on Zhang Jun, and once he was far away, she whispered a few words to Su Qingyue and put the bull cart away under the shed.

She went to the backyard and shouted, "Stinky Zhuangzhuang, why are you taking so long in the outhouse?"

Still, no one answered.

In the dark vegetable garden, a black dog lay breathing quietly. Its black fur was hidden by the night, and Su Qingxi didn't notice it.

"Sister, did Zhuangzhuang go home? There's no one in the toilet, and the two dogs are missing too."

"Check the kitchen, and the west room; he likes watching TV."

Su Qingxi looked around, but there was no one anywhere, "He must have taken the dogs and gone home."

Soon after, Su Mingqiang arrived, and Su Qingxi asked hurriedly, "Dad, is Zhuangzhuang at home?"

"No, I'm the only one at home; your brother and sister-in-law are still busy at the factory."

"Then where did he go? He's nowhere to be found, and the two dogs are gone too."

Su Mingqiang's eyelid twitched, "Is he playing with some other kids? You go ask the children in the village, and I'll look for him again at home."

Su Qingyue also realized something was wrong by now, and she had Su Mingqiang bolt the main gate.

The two of them took flashlights and looked everywhere in the backyard.

"Dad!"

Su Qingyue suddenly screamed!

Su Mingqiang went over and saw Xiaohei lying in Su Qingyue's arms, foaming at the mouth. As if feeling Qingyue stroking it, Xiaohei whimpered twice.

Then its four legs twitched, and it breathed its last.

"Which god-forsaken bastard did this!" Su Mingqiang cursed loudly in anger.

"Look, there's a chicken leg here with powder on it. I'm afraid someone poisoned it on purpose!"

Su Qingyue said with a sobbing voice, bending down to pick up the chicken leg, but Su Mingqiang blocked her. He found a useless plastic bag and dug out the chicken leg and the surrounding soil.

Su Qingyue covered her mouth, crying until she was out of breath. These two puppies had been in their home for over half a year, growing from tiny things into chubby big dogs. Their family had taken such careful care of them; Xiaohei and Xiaobai were like family, and now they were gone just like that.

"Yue, don't cry; it makes Dad sad too." Su Mingqiang felt his heart tighten as he watched Su Qingyue sobbing uncontrollably.

Su Qingyue stopped crying, her voice becoming even more urgent, "Dad! Go quickly and call sister-in-law and brother back! Zhuangzhuang has likely been kidnapped!"

Su Mingqiang stumbled, barely steadying himself.

Su Qingyue's voice trembled, "Xiaohei is dead, Xiaobai is missing; there's something suspicious about this. Go call Captain Xiang too!"

Su Mingqiang suppressed his rage, "I'll go find them right now!"

He placed Xiaohei in the doghouse and rushed out the main gate.

Su Qingyue felt desolate. She stood at the gate, sweeping the flashlight back and forth. Only Zhang Jun had been here today!

Su Qingyue's alarm bells rang instantly!

Could it be that Zhang Jun kidnapped Su Zhuangzhuang?

She immediately returned to the room to write a note, preparing to go find Zhang Jun.

Just as she reached the courtyard, she had a second thought: she was pregnant, wouldn't going out be dangerous? She calmed down and decided to wait for her brother and the others to return first.

Just as she was thinking this, a stone was suddenly thrown in, wrapped in paper, with the words written on it: "Come to the Back Mountain alone, otherwise Zhuangzhuang will surely die!"

"Who are you?! What exactly do you want to do?!"

Su Qingyue clenched her hands, preparing to open the door.

Another stone was thrown into the courtyard, this time wrapped in Zhuangzhuang's denim overalls, with a note: "If you don't want Zhuangzhuang to die silently like the dog, come to the Back Mountain alone! If you dare to scream, I'll chop off Zhuangzhuang's legs!"

Su Qingyue was trembling all over, her face deathly pale!

"Don't hurt Zhuangzhuang, I'm coming right now!"

She opened the door, but there was no one around.

She returned to her room, took a small knife and several razor blades from the drawer, tied them to her body, and walked step by step toward the Back Mountain.

The uphill road was difficult to walk. She walked for a while and stopped for a while. Just as she reached level ground, before she could catch her breath, she was knocked unconscious by a club.

Before Su Qingyue lost consciousness, she only saw a pair of small red leather shoes.

On the other side, the Su family was in an uproar.

When Xiang Jianming brought Li Zilan and her husband home, they saw Su Zhuangzhuang sitting at the gate crying, a piece of his overalls cut off.

"Zhuangzhuang!"

"Mom! Woo-woo-woo!"

Li Zilan hadn't even been holding Su Zhuangzhuang for two seconds when she heard Su Qingxi scream, "My sister is missing! There's no one in the east room or the west room!"

Su Mingqiang almost couldn't breathe; he leaned against the wall, "She was still at home when I left."

Su Qingwu walked quickly to the east room, scanned everywhere, and saw the note on the table, "Call the police quickly! Zhang Jun kidnapped Zhuangzhuang!"

"I'll go call the police now. Captain Xiang, please organize people to help look for Qingyue; she's missing!"

Xiang Jianming looked at the note, his brows knitting together, "Could it be that borrowing the bull cart was all intentional, and it was actually to harm Qingyue?!"

He took a team of people directly to Qingshan Village!

He also arranged for his own daughter-in-law to go everywhere calling for people to look for Su Qingyue.

Many villagers awakened in the middle of the night were somewhat impatient.

"She's a grown woman, where could she go? She'll be back in a while."

"I'm not going; I want to sleep. I have to work tomorrow, and looking for people in the middle of the night doesn't count for work points!"

Liu Chunxing couldn't listen anymore, "Don't forget, if it weren't for Su Qingyue, who among you would be able to make money from vegetables and bean sprouts?!"

"You are all ungrateful; it's truly disheartening!" Widow Liu scolded loudly while carrying her three children.

"What are we looking for? Maybe she went to meet some wild man!" Liu San had been drinking, and the dirty words slipped out.

People around immediately started laughing.

Su Mingqiang was trembling with rage; he slapped him hard, and Liu San's nosebleed instantly gushed out.

"You ungrateful piece of trash! If you don't want this rotten mouth of yours, I'll tear it apart right now!"

Liu San was the man in the village who had been going around saying Su Qingyue was pregnant out of wedlock.

He hadn't learned his lesson after being confronted last time, and he was still spouting nonsense. Like many men, he secretly lusted after a beautiful woman like Su Qingyue.

But he couldn't even look at her? And he had been humiliated by Su Qingyue's family!

How could he swallow this anger!

After Pei Huaiye went on a business trip, he had secretly followed Su Qingyue several times. Even though he hadn't done anything, he was caught by Su Qingwu, who lifted him up and warned him, "A toad wanting to eat swan meat! Stay away from Qingyue, or I'll break your legs!"

He had also failed his application to be a team leader in the factory.

These grudges made him hate the Su family, and he hated Su Qingyue!

When he learned that Su Qianqian was spreading rumors everywhere that Su Qingyue's belly was big, he added fuel to the fire, saying Su Qingyue was pregnant out of wedlock and the wild seed in her belly wasn't Su Qingyue's.

He wanted to see the high-and-mighty Su Qingyue fall into the mud!

Liu San wiped his nose hard, "Pah! A slut pregnant out of wedlock, what's there to look for! I'm not going; I think it's dirty!"

Su Qingxi grabbed a stone from her side and threw it hard at Liu San's head!

"Murder!"

Liu San's father covered Liu San's bleeding forehead and cried out loudly!

"Su Qingxi is a poisonous woman at such a young age! Catch this murderer!"

Su Mingqiang's chest heaved violently; he was so angry he couldn't speak and suddenly fainted.