Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s
Chapter 173 Searching for Someone

Chapter 173: Chapter 173 Searching for Someone

The Party Branch Secretary saw Luo Qiao had just gotten out of bed and asked, "Luo Qiao, did you hear any noises last night?"

Luo Qiao pretended to think hard, "Noises, oh, that’s right, I heard a sort of ’ah’ when I was half-asleep, but it was just that one time. Afterward, there were no more sounds, and I fell asleep again. What happened?"

The Party Branch Secretary said, "This morning, someone went up the mountain and found Li Xiulan unconscious at the bottom of the slope on that small path."

Luo Qiao asked, "So where is she now?"

The person following behind said, "She’s been sent to the hospital. It looks like she fell there last night and wasn’t found until this morning."

Luo Qiao said, "No way, she didn’t come home all night, and her family didn’t look for her?"

As soon as these words came out, the others present exchanged glances. They all wondered how Li Xiulan could have ended up falling there in the middle of the night, and moreover, Gao Shunyi, her own husband, hadn’t noticed her absence all night, which sparked various speculations among the villagers.

After leaving Luo Qiao’s, the Party Branch Secretary knocked on Lu Yichen’s front door. Lu Yichen replied, "I went to bed early last night and didn’t hear anything."

By noontime, when people were off work, the village was abuzz with the news that Li Xiulan’s face was badly scraped up and one of her legs was broken. Since she was taken to the hospital so late, they feared she might end up crippled.

The villagers were all guessing what on earth Li Xiulan had been up to.

Some said she was sneaking off to meet a man, others thought she was trying to steal the bonus from Luo Qiao’s house, until Feng Xiaojuan, the Gao Family’s eldest daughter-in-law, stood up and said, "Ladies, let’s not talk nonsense.

My mother-in-law went out to look for my brother-in-law. She didn’t see where she was stepping and slipped, that’s why she fell."

But with these words, while Li Xiulan was let off the hook, Gao Rusen, the Gao Family’s youngest son, became the hot topic among the villagers.

Where had Gao Rusen gone so late at night, and how did Li Xiulan know where he was?

Then some people started saying that Li Xiulan must have gotten what she deserved.

When Gao Shunyi returned to the village, the members surrounded him, asking all sorts of questions. Someone even asked him, "Shunyi, you didn’t notice your wife wasn’t in bed last night, and if it wasn’t for the people who got up early to go up the mountain, she could have lost her life."

Gao Shunyi could only vaguely say, "Before I went to sleep, she said she was worried about our youngest and went out to find him. I was so tired from a day’s work that I fell asleep."

Someone else asked, "Where is your son Gao Rusen now?"

Gao Shunyi, without answering, hurried a few steps back to his own courtyard and saw his eldest daughter-in-law feeding the chickens.

He asked, "Xiaojuan, has Rusen come back?"

Feng Xiaojuan turned her head to see her father-in-law standing at the gate and replied, "No, he hasn’t come back. How is my mother? Why did the collective members who helped take her say that my mother’s leg can’t be healed?"

Gao Shunyi didn’t reply to his eldest daughter-in-law but turned around and walked toward the home of Brigade Leader Gao Jiefang.

It wasn’t long before Brigade Leader Gao Jiefang organized a search party to go up the mountain to look for the Gao Family’s youngest son. Just before the midday break was over, they found Gao Rusen, who had just come to, by the edge of a pool.

Gao Rusen was still confused about the situation when Gao Shunyi, fearing he’d say the wrong thing, began scolding him and even kicked him several times. As a result, Gao Rusen cried out with an ’ow’, startling all the villagers who had come to help with the search.

Seeing that he didn’t seem to be faking his pain, with beads of sweat forming on his forehead, and not caring about anything else, the villagers quickly helped him down the mountain.

Doctor Gao at the health station examined him and said he needed to be taken to the clinic because he had broken two ribs. Hearing Doctor Gao’s words, everyone looked towards Gao Shunyi, thinking about how much force it would take to kick someone so hard they broke ribs.