Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 2730: Chapter 2666: Never Heard Of

What?

Someone died in the fire?

Jiang Xiao’s heart suddenly clenched again.

Among the people who died, could Qingshuang be one of them?

At this moment, she realized that in all her previous assumptions, she never considered the possibility that Qingshuang might already be dead.

Now, upon hearing that several people died in the fire, she thought of this possibility, thought that Qingshuang might no longer exist in this world.

”Yes, it was tragic. That big fire back then was reportedly started by a few children playing with fire. The children themselves died in the blaze, and no one knew who to blame. You could say it was all just bad fate for them.”

Jiang Xiao’s tone was taut, ”Excuse me, Big Master, were all the people who died children?”

”Not at all. There were also several staff members there, mostly women, as at that time, it was usually women helping care for the children.”

Most of those who died were women!

Jiang Xiao felt a bit faint.

She took a deep breath and asked again, ”When was that big fire?”

”When, you ask? About two and a half years ago, around that time. The place was a bit far from the pond, so it was difficult to put out the fire, and it burned for a full day and night before being extinguished. However, since so many died there, nobody dared to live there anymore, and it wasn’t cleaned up either. If you go there now, it still looks like it did after the fire.”

”Miss, are you looking for someone? A child?”

”No, I’m looking for a woman. Big Master, did you know everyone there back then?”

”We knew a few, just people from our town. There were also some who were brought from elsewhere to help, and we didn’t know them well.”

Another elder said, ”Not really. There were a couple of outgoing ones who often came to town, and I recognized them.”

Jiang Xiao took another deep breath and asked, ”Do you know a woman named Qingshuang?”

”Qingshuang?”

The elders looked at each other, thinking.

Guan Tiezhu saw the bystanders and asked, ”Has anyone heard of the name Qingshuang?”

The spectators started discussing.

”I don’t think I’ve heard of her.”

”Indeed, I’ve never heard of her either.”

”Well, I used to go there often, but I’ve never heard of her.”

Apparently, no one present had heard of this name.

Jiang Xiao asked again, ”Well then, what about the name Shi Xiaoching?”

”No.”

”Never heard of it.”

”Miss, do you have a picture of her? Show it to us, maybe we’ll recognize her.”

Jiang Xiao took out the portrait of Shi Xiaoching.

The portrait passed around among the townspeople.

Many praised how pretty the girl in the portrait was, but after circulating, no one recognized her.

No one has seen her!

Jiang Xiao’s disappointment was indescribable.

Could it be that this Qingshuang isn’t the Shi Xiaoching she’s looking for?

Even though she knew it could just be a stranger with the same name, she didn’t know why, maybe because Qingshuang painted too, her subconscious felt that this Qingshuang was indeed Shi Xiaoching!

Now finding out that no one had seen her, no one knew her, her throat felt dry, almost making her too disappointed to speak.

”Miss, we might not know, but you could find our former town mayor, he might know. Because back then, at Luofeng Institute, the former mayor was very involved, often visiting. He knew everyone there, even reportedly could name all the children at the institute.”