Chapter 40: Li Xiaolu's Disappearance

  Mayor Yan sat down and started chatting with Han Qin about family matters, asking where his hometown was, how his parents were doing, and even probing to see if he had a girlfriend. Of course, leaders are leaders and wouldn't care about mundane things like the size of their house or salary!

  When Dad kept asking these questions related to blind dates, Yan Min felt embarrassed and didn't dare interrupt his topic. She made several gestures to signal him to stop, but the old mayor pretended not to see them and got up and went to his own room!

  When Han Qin stood up to bid farewell, Yan Min said faintly: "Han Qin, let your friend go to the Comprehensive Office of the Municipal Party Committee on Monday and register with the Housing Administration Section. As for how to handle the Huqingchi case, our department still needs to study it!"

  Looking at Yan Min's cold and charming appearance, Han Qin smiled and said: "I'll thank you on behalf of my friend first."

  Out of politeness, Yan Min sent Han Qin to the door and nodded as a way of saying goodbye. However, Mayor Yan saw Han Qin off all the way to the gate, laughing and saying: "Little Han, come visit my home often in the future."

  Yan Min shot her father a stern glance and said coldly, "Dad, don't interfere in my business! Are you that eager to drive me out?"

  The old man laughed and said: "How can it be driven out? You will still live here after getting married! I don't want you to move out!"

  Out of the unit door, Han Qin raised his head to look at the window on the fourth floor and didn't see any light. Song Wenfei must not have returned yet! After thinking for a moment, he took out his mobile phone and sent her a text message.

  The message had just been sent out, and Han Qin hadn't even put his phone away when it rang!

  The phone call was from Han Qin's father, Han Yuchun. He anxiously said: "Han Qin, hurry back home! Xiaolu has gone missing! Everyone is looking for her and your uncle Benjie is about to go crazy!"

  Han Qin didn't have time to ask more questions and hastily said: "Alright, I'll go back right away!"

  When we returned to the pharmaceutical factory's dormitory, everyone was gathered in Li Benjie's narrow room, guessing where Li Xiaolu might go. Li Benjie crouched in the corner, chain-smoking, his originally weak body looking even more haggard!

  Seeing Han Qin return, Li Benjie stood up, forcing a smile on his helpless face, greeted Han Qin, and fell into pain again. Zhang Juan pulled Han Qin to one side and briefly told her son about what had happened.

  Li Xiaolu was on her way to school in the afternoon when she ran into Zhang Juan at the entrance, who asked, "Xiaolu, you're not even taking Sundays off?" Xiaolu smiled and said, "Auntie, I'm a senior this year and the college entrance exams are coming up soon, so the school is being pretty strict. But this Sunday's make-up class was also super secretive, we were all sneaking around because we didn't want the education bureau to find out."

  Judging from Li Xiaolu's expression and demeanor at the time, there was nothing unusual. Li Benjie also said that everything was fine during lunch, and he and his daughter had no disputes or conflicts!

  Unexpectedly, Li Xiaolu didn't go home after school in the evening. When Li Benjie called Xiaolu's teacher, the teacher said that Xiaolu hadn't come to school at all that afternoon and was just about to call her parents to ask.

  As soon as the head teacher said that, Li Benjie panicked! His daughter is very well-behaved and easy-going, her grades are always among the top in school, she would never skip school without reason! Something must have happened!

  Li Benjie is also a student from the countryside, and in Dongfang City, he doesn't have any relatives. The only friends he can discuss things with are Han Yuchun and a few other colleagues. In his anxiety, Li Benjie hastily ran to Han Yuchun's home and discussed countermeasures with Han Yuchun and his wife. Zhang Juan also felt that the situation was severe after hearing about it, so the two of them pushed out the car and went out to search!

  Two people went to the school first and found Li Xiaolu's head teacher. The head teacher led them to check the surveillance video of the school security department, and Li Xiaolu indeed did not enter the school! Zhang Juan and Li Benjie ran through all the places they thought Xiaolu might go, but ended up with nothing!

  In such a big city, with so many people, it's really not easy to find someone!

  At this time, someone said timidly: "Will this girl go find her mother?"

  A stone causes a thousand waves! The people in the house began to discuss, some said it was possible, and others said it wouldn't be! Listening to the neighbors' gossip, Li Benjie also became bewildered! He could endure his wife leaving him, but if he lost this daughter too, he really didn't know what hope his life had left!

  Li Benjie was a college student in the late 1980s, after graduation he was assigned to work as a technician at Dongfang Pharmaceutical Factory. At that time, universities had not yet expanded enrollment, and the country implemented unified job assignment for university graduates, with most graduates going to government agencies and schools, and few university students were assigned to factories, so a college student was considered an intellectual!

  When looking for a partner, the workshop director of a pharmaceutical factory introduced his niece to Li Benjie. The workshop director's niece was named Lu Lihua and was a flower dan in the Oriental Lyric Troupe. Lu Lihua was a contract worker in the troupe and still had a rural household registration at that time. In that era, urban and rural household registrations were still strictly divided, and jumping out of the countryside to become an urban resident was still a dream for many people!

  Two people met, and it was both delightful and felt a little inadequate! Li Benjie was immediately attracted to Lu Lihua's charming beauty at first sight! He knew clearly that with his own conditions, it was impossible to find such a beautiful city girl, but Lu Lihua's peasant status made Li Benjie hesitate for a moment!

  Lu Lihua also thought so. A good-looking young man from the city would not marry a country girl, let alone an actress with a bad reputation! These people only coveted her beauty and played with her! Li Benjie may not be handsome, but he is a university student and a technician in the factory. At that time, as long as you were a state cadre, whether in government agencies or factories, your salary and benefits were the same, and there were bonuses in the factory, which was even better than in government agencies!

  After all, it's a girl's meticulous thinking, Lu Lihua herself is clear, if she wasn't beautiful, what qualifications does she have to marry a national cadre!

  Through the introduction of relatives, Lu Lihua began to actively pursue Li Benjie! Lu Lihua not only looks beautiful, but also has been trained in the drama troupe for many years, and is more aware of what men cannot resist! The introverted and taciturn Li Benjie could not withstand the attack of such a beauty as Lu Lihua. Before long, the two walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau's marriage registration office~!

  A few years of peaceful days have not passed, and the tide of reform has come. The strengths and weaknesses of institutions and enterprises are suddenly revealed! The first to be affected is the drama troupe. Lu Lihua is a rural household registration and was laid off after optimization. Dongfang Pharmaceutical Factory also lost miserably in the face of marketization! Leaders changed one after another, all of them were selfish and only knew how to benefit themselves, no one really cared about the future of the factory!

  At the most difficult time of Dongfang Pharmaceutical Factory, wages were not paid for several months in a row. Lu Lihua could no longer bear such a difficult life, and went into business by herself, but ended up losing all her capital to swindlers, and even ran away with another swindler!

  Listening to everyone's discussions, Han Qin had his own views. Li Xiaolu may have inherited her mother's beautiful genes, but in terms of character and personality, she was not the same as her mother at all. She was a kind-hearted girl with feelings and righteousness, and she would never abandon her father like that!

  A bad premonition rose in his mind, Li Xiaolu's disappearance must be related to Lü Hu, that little tyrant!

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