The Real Heiress Has an Appraisal System

Afterward, Gu Shengsheng casually opened Weibo. She saw she still had over 99 unread DMs, and her follower count had already hit one million.

The comments were all about her buying the second-hand car.

"Streamer, I totally have to eat my words. I used to think, ’what’s the point of a used car?’ but I never expected your little clunker to net you forty million. Oh my god!"

"How did you even get involved in a police investigation? You were so quiet about it that day, we really thought you just liked the car."

"Holy crap, you play your cards way too close to your chest. Now even us die-hard fans don’t know what to believe about you. You’re a sly one!"

Gu Shengsheng read through the messages one by one, finding the netizens’ comments genuinely amusing.

Then she saw a few specific ones:

"Streamer, when’s your next stream? I saw the Beijing City police say you’re going to live stream with them today to look for that missing kid."

"So pitiful. That case was a huge sensation ten years ago; we all followed it. But after so long, people started to forget."

"Yeah, we still remember it. That girl was so cute. The boy should be eighteen and an adult by now."

"..."

As the discussion continued nonstop, Gu Shengsheng replied, "I’ll start the stream once we get to the village."

"How much longer, Captain Zhang?"

Zhang Lianqing said, "Just over ten minutes. We’ve already been driving for six hours."

Soon, they arrived at the entrance to Dahe Village. The road inside was nothing but a narrow mud track, impossible for the car to drive on.

Everyone had to get out and walk.

Chen Yufan took Gu Shengsheng’s phone and had already started the live stream.

The group walked inward, with Gu Shengsheng and Zhang Lianqing at the front. The village had many tall, towering bamboo stalks planted throughout, obscuring the surrounding houses. They could barely see anything but the path.

Everything else was hidden from view.

The surrounding mountains were high, giving the impression that the village was cut off from the outside world.

Gu Shengsheng said, "We need to be careful."

If this village could turn human trafficking into a whole industry, then the people in it were definitely not going to be pushovers.

"Right. There are about twenty-odd households in this village. We’ll enter from here and try to gather some information first."

They passed several houses, but saw no one at the doors.

Then, Gu Shengsheng spotted an adobe house in a low-lying area.

She said, "How about over there? I see smoke rising. Someone must be home."

As the group walked over, Gu Shengsheng called out, "Is anyone home?"

Soon, a middle-aged woman with an apron, half-gray hair, and dark, leathery skin came out. She was stunned by how beautiful Gu Shengsheng was.

Her eyes lit up.

She hurried over and grabbed Gu Shengsheng’s hand. "Dearie, where did you come from?"

"Are you alone? How about staying at our place?"

Just as she finished speaking, she followed Gu Shengsheng’s gaze and saw the several tall, broad-shouldered men behind her. Her expression soured instantly.

She let go of Gu Shengsheng’s hand. "Outsiders, huh? You should leave. Get out of the village."

She wasn’t even trying to hide it. Anyone could tell something was fishy.

The group stepped forward.

Zhang Lianqing looked at her with an interrogating gaze. "Ma’am," he said, "we’d like to ask you a few questions."

"..." With that look, Zhang Lianqing didn’t seem to be asking questions so much as applying pressure.

But this woman was no pushover either.

She said bluntly, "Go away, go away. I don’t know anything."

"There aren’t many people here, and it takes forever to get to the county town. What are you all doing here?"

"You’re up to no good! I don’t talk to strangers!"

As she spoke, she moved to grab a broom to hit them.

But just then, a big young man ran out of her house. "Mom! Mom!" he yelled.

"The key for that woman is gone! I don’t know if my little brother secretly took it!"

"That good-for-nothing!"

"You clearly said you were raising her to be my wife!"

After shouting those three sentences, he was slapped across the face by the middle-aged woman. "Shut up! Can’t you see there are outsiders here? Making such a racket, are you trying to get yourself killed, you damn fool, you little devil!"

Seeing the outsiders, the young man was startled too.

He immediately tried to run back inside.

Zhang Lianqing reacted instantly, grabbing him by the neck and pulling him back. His voice was cold. "Explain."

The woman was now scared to death. ’What are these outsiders trying to do?!’

She yelled, "Stop! Stop!"

"I’m telling you, you outsiders, coming to our home and grabbing my son by the neck! What are you trying to do, bully us country folk for being ignorant?"

"We’re going to call the police! I’m not saying another word until the police get here!"

While saying this, she started shouting, "My husband! My husband!"

Then, another officer put her in handcuffs.

Zhang Lianqing took out his badge. "I am the police."

"You are suspected of trafficking women. Please cooperate with our investigation."

In just a few sentences, her story was already full of holes. There was definitely something wrong with this person. Combined with what the young man had just said, trafficking a woman was a strong possibility.

With people like these, the most important thing was to cuff them and seize the opportunity.

Although the man being held by the neck was fully grown, he acted like a child, only knowing to cry for his mom when trouble started.

"Mom, Mom, what do we do?!"

"They’re here for us, they’re here for us."

The officer who had gone inside to search came out, his expression grave. "Found nothing unusual. No woman inside."

The woman grew even more smug. "You should be sure before you arrest someone, shouldn’t you?"

"We’re just a family trying to get by. My son is a simpleton, he doesn’t know what he’s saying or doing. And you treat us like this?"

"And now you’re trying to pin these crimes on us. Is it just because I didn’t let you stay here? Is that why you’re doing this?!"

"Fine, fine, you can stay. That’s all you wanted, right?"

"In any case, we haven’t done anything!"

She said this deliberately loudly, as if trying to summon someone.

Gu Shengsheng looked at Zhang Lianqing and said, "Everyone in a village like this sticks together. Things could get ugly for us soon."

"Don’t worry, I have a backup plan."

The woman was still desperately denying everything, insisting that she only had two sons at home and nothing else.

Just then, the cellar door opened, and a chubby, greasy-looking man emerged, looking disgustingly satisfied. A key was dangling from his hand as he hummed a tune.

Gu Shengsheng placed one hand on Zhang Lianqing’s arm, using it for leverage to kick the fat man over and smoothly snatch the key.

Then she ran down into the cellar.

Chen Yufan stood guard at the cellar entrance, the phone’s camera still live streaming the scene.

The netizens:

"I’m floored... I think I have to start calling her Sister Gu from now on. She’s so badass."

"Look, look! That woman is losing her mind. It’s like she wishes her eyeballs could jump down into the cellar with Gu Shengsheng."

"There’s definitely something wrong with this family."

"That fat man definitely just ’did the deed.’ So disgusting!"

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