nucmednet Chapter 182 Captured
Chapter 182 Captured
After breakfast, the Fang family packed their things and went out. On the way, Fang Xiaoyu and Qian Yurou looked at each other.
"Oh, my stomach hurts." Fang Xiaoyu cried out, covering her stomach.
Fang's father and mother gathered around nervously.
"Mom and Dad, I need to go to the toilet. You guys continue picking wild vegetables here. I'll be back soon."
"I'll go with Xiaoyu." Qian Yurou supported Fang Xiaoyu.
"Don't go too far." Father Fang said worriedly.
They both responded obediently.
As they walked, Qian Yurou noticed that half of the people hiding in the dark stayed behind to keep an eye on Fang's father and mother, while the other half followed them.
Walking to the side, Qian Yurou suddenly held Fang Xiaoyu's hand and pulled her down. The lush grass, which was taller than people, completely covered their bodies.
"Xiaoyu, you squat in the bushes over here and go out. I won't go. If your uncle and aunt find out you're missing, I can tell them so they don't worry."
In fact, she had to stay and hold back the person who was following her.
Fang Xiaoyu was deeply moved, "Sister Yurou, you are so kind."
Qian Yurou, feeling guilty, dared not look directly into Fang Xiaoyu's clear and harmless eyes. "Go quickly, and be careful on the road."
"Hey, wait, Xiaoyu, come back quickly after you meet them. I'll be worried if you keep doing this for too long." Qian Yurou really wanted to say not to bring the person here or to take him back, but she couldn't say it directly, so she said it tactfully.
"Uh-huh!"
Under Qian Yurou's cover, Fang Xiaoyu left smoothly.
Half an hour later, Fang Xiaoyu, who had been running hard, came to the riverside cave out of breath. She wandered around looking for someone, "God, please, just let us meet!"
After walking around for more than two quarters of an hour, the disappointed Fang Xiaoyu was about to go back when a surprised voice suddenly came from behind her: "Xiaoyu, is that you?"
Fang Xiaoyu turned around, saw who it was, and smiled excitedly, "Brother Youmao!"
At noon, the sun was high in the sky, Fang Xiaoyu was running in the woods, and on the way she met Fang's father, mother and Qian Yurou who were also running.
"Xiao Yu!" Father Fang's expression was serious and his tone was heavy.
"Dad, I..." Fang Xiaoyu's eyes were bright and her excitement was visibly evident.
Qian Yurou guessed that Fang Xiaoyu must have met Chen Youmao, so she quickly interrupted him: "Let's go back first."
Fang's father and mother pulled their daughter over. They were anxious, but they also understood that it was not safe outside, so they decided to wait until they got back to deal with any problems.
They hurried back to the cave, and Fang Xiaoyu said happily, "I just met Brother Youmao!"
"I told him we had moved and took him here to have a look."
"What!?" Qian Yurou shouted in shock.
Ignoring the Fang family's puzzled faces, she ran to the cave entrance, gently pushed aside the weeds and looked out.
Gone. The stalkers are gone. They all went to catch Chen Youmao!
Qian Yurou turned around abruptly. She was facing away from the light and was completely shrouded in darkness. Her facial features were blurry and her specific expression could not be seen clearly.
"Sister Yu Rou, what's wrong?" Fang Xiaoyu asked.
"There's no time to explain. Hurry, get out of here and don't come back. Someone is watching you!"
Seeing that the Fang family was still in a state of surprise and confusion and did not move, Qian Yurou anxiously went forward to push them, "Hurry up, it will be too late when they come back!"
Qian Yurou pushed them out one by one.
Father Fang reacted the fastest. He pulled his wife and daughter over to protect them, staring at Qian Yurou with a fierce look, "What did you do to us?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I..." Qian Yurou looked sad and begged, "Go away, go away!"
"Sister Yu Rou, please come with us!" Fang Xiaoyu reached out to pull her.
Qian Yurou stepped back and dodged, her voice firm: "No, I can't leave."
"Hurry up!" Father Fang grabbed his wife and daughter, dragging them and running quickly towards the endless forest.
"I'm sorry, Xiaoyu, I'm sorry to you..." Qian Yurou squatted down weakly, buried her head in her knees, and sobbed in pain.
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Lee's Shelter.
"Youmao went out to use the toilet, why hasn't he come back yet?" Li Weisheng ran to the open-air cave and asked Chen Yuzhen and others.
Chen Yuzhen said: "We don't know if Youmao has gone out."
They searched but couldn't find anyone.
"Oh no, he went to look for Xiaoyu and the others!" Chen Dawei's face turned pale. "He has been acting a little strange these past few days, always staring at the cave entrance in a daze."
"I'll go get him back!" Li Weisheng said in a cold tone.
Li Weikang said: "Let's go together."
Finally, the two brothers Li Weikang and Chen Dawei were the only ones who went out.
That evening, the three returned dejected.
When Li Benfu and his wife saw that there were only three of them, they asked anxiously, "Where is Youmao?"
Chen Dawei remained silent, his eyes dull.
Li Weikang said: "They haven't found it. There is a group of strangers living in the cave near the river. The Fang family is nowhere to be found."
Chen Yuzhen's body swayed, and she was supported by Li Benfu and Li Weisheng on the left and right.
In the following days, the Li family went out every day to look for Chen Youmao and the Fang family in the mountains. They didn't find them, but unexpectedly discovered that the mountain stronghold was occupied and controlled by Guan Jianshan's gang. They also saw Qian Wentao directing people to do things in the stronghold.
Then, they returned to the shelter with heavy hearts, and all agreed that Chen Youmao was most likely captured in the mountain village.
"He's really a scourge that has been around for thousands of years. I shot him with several arrows, but how come he didn't die!" Li Weisheng punched down to the ground. At this moment, he regretted so much that he regretted not stabbing Qian Wentao a few more times that day.
"He was hanging out with Guan Jianshan, and I think he was after money and food. He saw what we looked like that day, so he took Youmao away." Li Benfu wiped his face with both hands, frowning.
Li Weikang said calmly: "Should we move the money and grain away? If they fall into the hands of those people, they will be finished. They are counting on Youmao to tell us where he is. His life is not in danger for the time being."
"When we parted that day, Qingyue told me that our hiding place was safe and there was no need to move." Chen Yuzhen did not clearly paraphrase Xia Qingyue's original words.
Xia Qingyue was afraid that the Li family would accidentally enter the formation, so she specifically told Chen Yuzhen that there were many poisonous creatures in that forest and it was easy to get lost.
Chen Yuzhen understood the implication of Xia Qingyue's words and did not ask any further questions.
"We have to find a way to rescue Youmao." Li Benfu's words made Chen Dawei, who had been hanging his head and looking listless, raise his head.
Chen Dawei moved his mouth, but in the end he said nothing.
After thinking for a while, Li Benfu said, "It's definitely not possible to force it. The enemy is outnumbered. Let's go to the area around the village to find out the situation first, and then rescue people when the time comes. No matter who it is, don't act alone rashly, otherwise you will be captured and others will be taken away."
After finalizing a preliminary plan to rescue people, the Li family members staked out the situation in different places outside the village.
Time flies, and it is already mid-August. The rain has stopped, the sun is shining brightly every day, and the temperature is rising.
Thanks to Xia Qingyue's unremitting efforts, the vegetable plots in the sinkhole are full of greenery, and the crops such as pumpkins and cucumbers planted earlier have begun to bloom and will soon bear fruit.