TGDS Chapter 54.2

Good Dad System (Arc 7) Chapter 54.2: After Being Abducted (2)

That day, Grandma Pei took her grandson downstairs to play as usual. Because the weather had turned hot, most of the children around were holding a popsicle, a bowl of ice cream, or drinking canned drinks. Pei Yuanbo had always been strictly controlled by his parents, so he asked for permission in a coquettish manner. Grandma Pei had no choice but to go to the convenience store at the entrance of the community to buy something for him. She picked up a popsicle, put her grandson down and paid for it. But while she was paying, Pei Yuanbo disappeared.

 

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“Chapter 4: Home “Yuanyuan, where are you”

 

The weather that day was really hot, just like a steam engine, with the sun shining from above and the heat rising from below. A passerby walked by from a distance and saw an old lady. She was dressed very carefully, in a light purple short-sleeved shirt, and her face was full of sweat. Her hair, which had been carefully combed back, was now all scattered in front. She looked around, and her voice was shrill and hoarse, as she shouted, “Yuanyuan, where are you!” over and over again, without stopping.

 

The passerby could not help but stop. Somehow, he remembered a phrase – cuckoo weeping blood. He always felt that the old woman’s cry was quite pitiful. Before he had stood there for a while, the old woman ran up to him with a very pitiful look in her eyes. She trembled and said, “Have you seen our Yuanyuan? So tall, wearing a blue and white short-sleeved shirt, dark blue shorts, and blue sandals on his feet. The kind that glows when you step on it…”

 

“I haven’t seen him.” The passerby subconsciously took a step back, almost knocking the old lady down, and waved his hand hurriedly, “I just passed by, I don’t know.”

 

The mother-in-law did not delay and continued to run unsteadily. She was about to run away in the next second, but she didn’t fall down. She shouted, “Yuanyuan, where are you?” At this time, her voice was so painful to hear, as if it contained blood.

 

In the afternoon, a passerby passed by again. Seeing a group of people gathered at the door of the convenience store, he looked over curiously. The proprietress was slapping her legs and sucking with saliva flying: “…She just wanted to pay, but when she turned around, the child was gone. I called the police immediately. The police car came, but the surveillance camera didn’t capture it. I just saw a man in a hat running over, covering the child’s hand, and then he ran away! She just walked around in circles, calling their Yuanyuan, but there was no one to call. In the end, the daughter-in-law and son pulled her away while wiping her tears.”

 

Hearing this, everyone cooperated and sighed: “How pitiful!”

 

Yes, it’s really pitiful. Passersby shook their heads and left. In their minds, they could still vaguely hear the words – Yuanyuan, where are you?

 

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The joy and peace in the first few chapters of the novel came to an abrupt end here. With the disappearance of Yuanyuan, the family collapsed. Grandma Pei hated herself. Why did she have to buy that popsicle? Why did she put her grandson down to pay? Whether in a dream or awake, she was thinking about her grandson every moment. She cried until her eyes were swollen and she couldn’t speak. She was in a daze, no longer as dignified as before, and instead looked like a crazy old woman.

 

Yang Qiuping lost her son and suddenly collapsed. She restrained herself from hating her mother-in-law. She watched the surveillance video from the police station over and over again, swallowing her tears. The original body had always been the head of the family and the most rational one. He smoked one cigarette after another. The rational person in the past has completely lost his standard now. On that day, he even stepped on empty air and almost broke his leg.

 

The only consensus the family reached was to find Yuanyuan. In those days, Sky Eye had not yet been fully popularized. The other party was probably an old hand and was wrapped up tightly. There were many old residential areas around where they lived, and they turned left and right and there was no trace of him.

 

The original body confessed his difficulties to school and took two and a half year leave. Since it was difficult for Yang Qiuping to get the leave from the school, she simply resigned. The couple bought the same clothes that their son was wearing when he went missing, took photos, printed countless color papers, and started sending them out one by one from the surrounding areas of City B – this was what it meant to look for a needle in a haystack.

 

They also bought a lot of advertisements in newspapers and local TV stations, and even put them up in schools. At that time, the Internet was not very developed, but the couple did not miss any opportunities and updated information on their blogs from time to time. In the missing person advertisement, they directly marked the reward of 1 million yuan. As long as valid information was provided, they were willing to immediately give the other party 100,000 yuan as a thank you…

 

In fact, the missing person advertisementsand posters they sent out did bring them a lot of information, although most of it was useless – “Hello, on a certain day of a certain year, at the entrance of a square, I saw a child begging. He looked a bit like your son.”, “Yesterday on the bus, I saw a child who looked a bit like the one in the photo you provided. The specific location is XX.”… The couple ran around from here to there, all over the country, and when they finally got there, either the place was empty or they came back with nothing, and it was not their son.

 

Sometimes some related news would be broadcast on TV. In those two years, news of kidnapping began to emerge. For a period of time, Yang Qiuping would burst into tears every time she was quiet. She would grab her husband and cry bitterly. She hardly dared to think about where her son was and how he was doing.

 

For a long time, the couple were not in City B. In order to save money, they usually stayed in a place where it was cheap. On weekdays, if they went out to study or visit, they would at least stay in a non-star hotel. But along the way, they could be said to have slept with rats and cockroaches. They would move in as long as there was a cheap room, regardless of whether it was clean or dilapidated.

 

The couple didn’t feel that the conditions were harsh, but they couldn’t sleep every night. At that time, the couple communicated much less – not because they didn’t love each other anymore, but their hearts could not bear the mention of their son.

 

The couple tried almost every method they could think of, but there was no news.