Crime Committed by an Acquaintance
Everyone in the family who could go out has already left.
Su Sanyun also continued searching, while Sun Shi was at a loss, left behind by Su Li to wait for news.
"Third Aunt, has your family offended anyone recently?" Su Li thought for a moment, maybe it was revenge.
"Offended anyone?" Sun Shi lowered her head and thought carefully, "We, we haven't offended anyone. A while ago, there was some trouble with the Hua family, but it was resolved. Our two families reconciled, and Uncle Hua even drank with our third brother. It can't be the Hua family... Also, when selling vegetables in the city, there was a minor quarrel with a household, but it was trivial... And there was a fight with the Su family, but... the Su family is our own, they wouldn't kidnap Lanxiang."
Sun Shi rambled on, carefully recalling and listing everyone who had conflicts with her family, finding only small disputes, nothing that would lead to a deadly grudge over kidnapping someone's child.
Sun Shi couldn't figure it out and said, "Ali, could it be an outsider who took advantage of the darkness to come to our village?"
"An outsider? It can't be an outsider." Su Li shook her head firmly. "First, our Haizi Village is remote and poor; any stranger would be noticed by the whole village. Last night there was a big snowstorm; no one would risk coming to such a poor village in the snow. Also, your front gate was latched, and the latch wasn't broken, so it was obviously opened from the inside. This means Lanxiang opened the door herself. She didn't call for help, which means the kidnapper must be someone Lanxiang knows, enough to trick her into opening the door herself."
Sun Shi slapped her thigh, "Right, our yard is so small, if Lanxiang had shouted, we definitely would have heard. But we heard nothing until I came out to call her to bed and found she was gone. If it were a stranger, Lanxiang, being timid, wouldn't have opened the door; she would have called me or her father."
"A familiar person committed the crime. Who could it be?" Su Li frowned slightly, deep in thought.
Sun Shi also thought carefully, trying to figure out who among their acquaintances could have done it.
Yuanbao stood silently beside Su Li, listening quietly, then silently slipped out of the room. Su Li was so lost in thought she didn't notice Yuanbao leaving.
Yuanbao went to the backyard, snapped his fingers lightly, and Xiao Yun appeared, kneeling on one knee: "General Xiao."
"Assign people to watch the Su family, and have our undercover guards search the entire Qingmiao City, especially the city checkpoints," Xiao Zetian said coldly, standing with his hands behind his back.
"Su family? General Xiao, do you mean the Su family kidnapped Su Lanxiang?" Xiao Yun looked up in surprise.
Su Lanxiang is the legitimate granddaughter of the Sun family. If the Su family did this, how cold-blooded would they be!
"Su Sanyun's family has always been honest and never made enemies. Except recently they stopped showing extra respect to the Su family, which might have caused resentment and secret grudges they are unaware of. With the Su family's character, tsk, I think it's them." Xiao Zetian snorted lightly. Su Li and Su Sanyun hadn't suspected the Su family because their kindness limited their imagination.
After all, they are related by blood. They believed that blood is thicker than water, and no matter how much they argued, they wouldn't really do the despicable thing of selling out Su Lanxiang.
But Xiao Zetian is different. He grew up in family strife, seeing brothers destroy each other and kin kill kin. Those people have no mercy when killing brothers for profit, let alone selling a cousin.