I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 106: Aunt Yuan Disappears

"Aunt Yuan has gone missing; she's probably in grave danger."

When Jiang Zhou said those words, Yuan Xiu almost couldn't believe her ears. "You mean, she might..."

Yuan Xiu clutched her chest and plopped down on the sofa.

The whole day was tense and chaotic. First, she and Comrade Xiaolin caught the human traffickers who had kidnapped Xiaohua on the streets of the city.

Then, based on the information provided by Jiang Zhou, the security department caught Master Cheng just before she could escape.

The soldiers went to the train station, but did not find Aunt Yuan there.

According to passengers who remembered Aunt Yuan, she had arrived at the station, but after buying her ticket, she left with a man wearing a straw hat.

Although Master Cheng's identity as a spy has not yet been confirmed, it has already been determined who took Xiao Hua'er out of kindergarten after she woke up.

That person was Aunt Yuan. She took Xiao Hua away when no one was paying attention and handed her over to the human trafficker Sun Dacheng.

Jiang Zhou had already discovered that Aunt Yuan and Master Cheng were getting very close when he was investigating Master Cheng before. With Xiao Hua'er missing, Aunt Yuan was the prime suspect. Someone who had no connections here wanted to quietly abandon a child, so someone must be helping her behind the scenes.

Jiangzhou connected the two events into a single thread.

Aunt Yuan's disappearance further confirms that Master Cheng's identity is not simple.

Master Cheng made excuses for his departure, but too many coincidences are no longer coincidences.

"If Aunt Yuan were here, we could get a lot of information out of her. Now that she's gone, it won't be easy to get Cheng Yufen to talk. So, Cheng Yufen's accomplices won't give her a chance to speak."

"They..." Yuan Xiu believed Jiang Zhou's judgment; she just hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

Aunt Yuan, who climbed to a better life by stepping on her in her previous life, can't even save her own life in this one.

Should we call it retribution?

That's right, but this retribution wasn't her doing. If Aunt Yuan hadn't wanted to abandon Xiao Hua, none of this would have happened.

The main reason is her greed and cruelty.

Jiang Zhou put his arm around her shoulder and said, "Don't go anywhere except the hospital and home. I'll pick you up every day."

Yuan Xiu was taken aback. "Are you afraid someone will retaliate against me?"

Jiang Zhou nodded: "It was because of Xiao Hua'er that they were all brought into this. If it weren't for Xiao Hua'er, even if we arrested Cheng Yufen, we probably wouldn't have been able to get anything out of her."

Sun Dacheng's mouth wasn't as sharp as Cheng Yufen's.

Because of their connection, Sun Dacheng has been transferred to the military security department.

Yuan Xiu nodded, her heart pounding, but she didn't regret it.

……

"I don't know, I really don't know, please don't ask me anymore."

Yuan Juan sat in a room with walls on all four sides. The lamp above her head made her face look sallow. Her hands were on the small table in front of her. If she moved her hands even slightly, she would be scolded!

She couldn't see the faces of the people opposite her, but she felt terrified. Their voices were too cold, like ghosts, and they kept forcing her to confess things she didn't know at all.

They also made her talk about her family members, especially her mother, in great detail.

"My stomach hurts, please let me go."

"Yuan Juan, get serious! If it weren't for your pregnancy, do you think you'd be sitting here unharmed? Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. What you need to do now is tell the truth!"

Yuan Juan began to sob.

"I don't know, I really don't know. I only found out that she sold Xiaohua when I saw my mom packing her things. I don't know why she sold Xiaohua..."

"My mom said she'd take me to see Aunt Cheng, saying she could tell whether the baby in my belly was a boy or a girl by feeling it. Aunt Cheng said I'm having a girl..."

"I noticed something was wrong with my mom. She kept staring at my belly. Once, she let slip that she could change the sex of the baby in my belly. I asked her how, but she wouldn't tell me, saying I must have misheard..."

The two interrogators exchanged a glance and wrote it down in their notebooks.

……

Zhou Lei came out of another interrogation room, signed the papers, and was then allowed to leave.

He went straight home.

Aunt Zhou was waiting for him at home with Xiao Hua in her arms. When she saw the beard that had grown on his chin overnight and his bloodshot eyes, Aunt Zhou sadly shed tears.

"Stone, what happened to you? Are you alright? Did the security guards say anything?"

Since Aunt Yuan had contact with spies, her daughter Yuan Juan couldn't escape, and naturally, neither could her son-in-law Zhou Lei.

Zhou Lei leaned on the table and sat down on the stool. "I'm fine."

How could nothing happen? If Cheng Yufen's identity is verified, then everything related to Aunt Yuan will immediately be subject to strict political scrutiny. As her son-in-law, he will be suspended from his post at best, and expelled from the military at worst.

Fortunately, the matter was not beyond repair.

"I need to thank Chief of Staff Jiang and Yuan Xiu. If Cheng Yufen's true identity isn't discovered, she will definitely infiltrate Yuan Juan later, and then..."

The thought of the consequences sent a chill down Zhou Lei's spine.

Why did Cheng Yufen help Aunt Yuan sell Xiaohua?

The main reason was to find something wrong with Aunt Yuan and Yuan Juan, and then control them.

Zhou Lei stood up, walked to the door, then turned back: "Mom, how can you change the sex of a child who's already pregnant?"

Aunt Zhou: "...What did you say?"

Zhou Lei repeated, "Yuan Juan said that her mother looked at her belly and said she could change the child's gender, turning a daughter into a son."

Grandma Zhou instinctively hugged her granddaughter tightly, trembling all over!