The gossip started changing tone as they chatted.
At first, they were just worried about Gu Qingya's safety, guessing she must have offended someone to be dragged off. They even listed people Gu Qingya might have ticked off in the past. But counting this way and that, nobody in the village held that kind of grudge against Gu Qingya. The only one, Liu Erliu, was still laid up in the hospital and hadn't returned; word was he couldn't even walk, so how could he pull off such dirty work? As for the villagers, every single one of them had come to work today, and nobody was reported missing.
In the end, they concluded it couldn't be a local.
Chapter 160