After thanking the teacher, Yun Su took a taxi to Gu Yan’s uncle’s house.
She had to confirm Gu Yan’s current situation.
All the way there, she was anxious and kept urging the driver to speed up.
“Driver, step on the gas… Now, yes! That car ahead, hurry, overtake it!”
“Hurry up and pass it, driver, why are we slowing down again?”
The driver now had a splitting headache, his ears buzzing.
How could this seemingly quiet young girl be so aggressive when it came to driving?
He really felt like throwing the steering wheel aside and saying, “Come on then, you drive.”
But of course, that was impossible. He was a professional driver, safety came first.
Helpless, he said, “Miss, I’m already driving as fast as I can. Any faster and I’ll be speeding.”
Yun Su knew rushing wouldn’t help, so she reluctantly compromised.
“Alright… just be careful, but please try to go a bit faster. I’m begging you.”
Under the balance of safety and speed, they finally neared Gu Yan’s uncle’s house.
Before getting out of the car, Yun Su saw from a distance through the window that Gu Jian’an and his wife were talking to a middle-aged man.
From her angle, she could only see the man’s back. He handed something to Gu Jian’an before turning to leave.
The moment he turned around, Yun Su saw his face clearly. He looked somewhat familiar, but she could not immediately recall where she had seen him.
At that moment, the taxi stopped. Yun Su got out and saw the man walking to the roadside and driving off in a van.
She walked to the gate of the courtyard and suddenly remembered where she had seen him.
It was the man from the bus stop yesterday who had tried to talk to Gu Yan. He had a scruffy, unshaven face, easy to recognize.
Something felt wrong.
Why would he know Gu Yan’s uncle?
What were they talking about? Could it be related to Gu Yan?
She quickly knocked on the iron gate.
Gu Jian’an immediately came out, followed by his wife. Both of them looked tense.
When they saw Yun Su, their expressions turned puzzled, since they had never seen her before.
As they opened the gate, Yun Su was also confused.
Why were two people coming out just to open a door? Their reaction only made things stranger.
Gu Jian’an opened the gate and looked her up and down. “Who are you looking for?”
Yun Su immediately put on a signature smile and said clearly, “I’m a teacher from Huayang Kindergarten. I’m here for Gu Yan. You must be his uncle, right?”
Gu Jian’an frowned. “I just met one of his kindergarten teachers today. I’ve never seen you.”
“I’m from the finance office,” Yun Su replied smoothly. “You might not have met me. There are still some unfinished procedures for Gu Yan’s withdrawal. We need to discuss them properly.”
She assumed Gu Jian’an never paid attention to Gu Yan’s kindergarten matters and would not know every teacher there.
Gu Jian’an became increasingly impatient. “What procedures? Forget it, he’s not going anymore. Just leave.”
He reached out to close the gate.
Yun Su quickly pushed it open and squeezed inside through the gap. “It’s about a tuition refund. There’s still more than a month left this term, you can apply for a partial refund.”
The couple froze at her words.
But the moment they heard “refund,” hesitation appeared on their faces.
Yun Su knew they would not want to lose money. She had already prepared this excuse on the way, and it worked perfectly.
“Then how do we apply?” Gu Jian’an asked quickly.
“Where is Gu Yan? Let him come out too.”
“Gu Yan!” Without waiting for their answer, Yun Su called loudly toward the house.
But the house was small, and the gate was open. There was no response from inside.
“Why are you shouting? Gu Yan isn’t here,” Gu Jian’an’s wife quickly interrupted, looking visibly nervous.
“Not here? Where could Gu Yan have gone?” Yun Su’s expression changed completely. She already felt that something was wrong with this couple.
Gu Jian’an started pushing her out. “None of your business. I’m his legal guardian. Leave now. We don’t want the money anymore.”
The two of them forced her out, locked the iron gate, and went back inside.
Standing outside, Yun Su quickly reviewed everything in her mind.
The middle-aged man she had seen talking to Gu Jian’an at the gate was suspicious. When she saw him at the bus stop yesterday, she had already suspected he might be a trafficker. In this era, traffickers were rampant.
Now it was confirmed that Gu Yan was not at home. Combined with the couple’s reaction, it was very likely that he had been sold.
She felt a surge of hatred toward Gu Jian’an. How could someone be so inhumane as to sell his own nephew?
But she also remembered that this had not appeared in the original book. Perhaps her arrival had changed the original course of events.
Or perhaps Gu Yan had indeed experienced something like this, and the book simply did not detail his childhood.
She recalled news she had seen before, where traffickers sold children for organs or forced them to beg after crippling them.
She did not want to think further about what might have happened. She had to find Gu Yan immediately.
The man had already driven off in the van for quite some time. She had not noted the license plate, and surveillance was not widely available in this era.
Worried about Gu Yan’s safety, she forced herself to calm down.
Right, she had a cheat.
The communication wrist device had a tracking function. She could locate Gu Yan’s real-time position.
Hurrying, she activated the tracker. On the holographic screen, a flashing red dot was moving. That dot represented Gu Yan.
It was currently traveling along a county road at high speed.
Based on distance and timing, Gu Yan was definitely inside the van she had just seen.
She had watched him being taken away right in front of her.
Regret surged in her heart, but she still immediately called the police and reported child abduction, providing the current location of the van.
After hanging up, she knew she could not rely solely on the police. Only she knew Gu Yan’s real-time location.
She had to go save him herself.
And she had promised that when danger came, she would protect him.