Another few days passed, and with fresh gossip popping up in the Capital every day, the case of the children missing on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival quickly ceased to be the talk of the town.
Though the constables of Kaifeng Prefecture still carried out routine patrols every day, they gradually began to slack off.
The impoverished families who had lost their children dared not protest at the gates of the yamen, so they could only spend their own money to print portraits and go door-to-door making inquiries.
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