Fifteen years old is considered an adult in this dynasty, and many fifteen-year-old boys are already married.
When Shen Ning heard this, she was surprised.
The reason why the fifteen-year-old boy stayed away all night was much more complicated.
She was about to continue the interrogation, but when she glanced at it, she saw that the expressions on the faces of the people around her were very strange. They didn't seem to have any sympathy, anxiety or worry because the woman's son was lost.
Could it be that when someone's son disappeared, the neighbors and fellow villagers were so indifferent
Shen Ning felt that the people would not be so cold and heartless, but why did everyone look so strange.
"Sister-in-law, what's your son's name? I'll ask someone to help you find it." Shen Ning suppressed the doubts in her heart and asked patiently.
"His...his name is Huang Mao." The middle-aged woman said with sobs.
"Huang Mao?"
This name is really very rustic, but Shen Ning doesn't mind it because country people like to give their children very rustic and vulgar nicknames. The more vulgar and vulgar the name, the more likely it is to keep them safe.
"Okay, Xiaosi, you immediately send someone to find this young man named Huang Mao. They will search carefully within a ten-mile radius without missing any place. Also, have any outsiders appeared here recently?"
Shen Ning's last question was about the government officials.
She also has the biggest suspicion that there are human traffickers here, otherwise a boy as old as fifteen would not disappear overnight.
It's very possible that you met a trafficker.
The government officials thought to themselves, of course there are foreigners, aren’t they just you
But how dare they say this.
Everyone shook their heads like rattles.
"Shen... Master Shen." A yamen servant seemed to want to say something, but hesitated.
"Huh?" Shen Ning looked at him.
"Well, that Huang Mao..." The way he hesitated was very suspicious.
But before he could say anything, someone next to him coughed twice, causing the man to shrink back what he was about to say.
Shen Ning frowned, looked into the yamen servant's eyes, and asked directly: "If you have anything to say, just tell me."
When the yamen officer caught her gaze, he suddenly felt awe-struck and lowered his head involuntarily, not daring to meet her eyes.
"Yes, yes, the one named Huang Mao is... actually not... not a boy." He stammered.
"Isn't that a boy? Is that a girl? But the sister-in-law clearly said that her son is missing?"
Although Shen Ning was extremely smart, she was confused at this time.
The yamen officer's face turned red, and he finally said, "Huang Mao is... a yellow dog."
They were all from the same county. The government servants knew exactly what the middle-aged woman's family was like and how many people there were.
When they saw the middle-aged woman talking about her son, and Shen Ning's serious face, they felt very ridiculous, but they didn't dare to laugh.
The people also knew it well and wanted to explain the situation, but they dared not.
The middle-aged woman's husband died not long after she got married. She had been a widow for more than ten years and had no children. She only had a big yellow dog to depend on.
When she got married, the dog named Huang Mao was just a newborn puppy. In the blink of an eye, fifteen years later, the big yellow dog turned from a puppy into an old dog without teeth.