The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 343 - 314 Escaping by Climbing the Train (5/6)_1

Chapter 343: Chapter 314 Escaping by Climbing the Train (5/6)_1

I didn’t expect the rumors to be true!

Wang Shuilian was startled and quickly reminded, "You should hurry and ask the villagers to search for her. Sitting at home cursing won’t bring her back!"

Upon hearing this, Old Man Hu realized she was right and quickly went to find help. They couldn’t let Liu Lingli, that wretched woman, get away!

So Old Man Hu asked people in the village to help look for Liu Lingli.

That’s when you can see the power of a village.

With such an incident, everyone came out to help search for the missing person!

Secretary Hu divided the searchers into several groups to look in different areas.

In the village, when a sent-down youth disappeared for no reason, Secretary Hu couldn’t explain it either!

The Snake King awoke inside the barrier and, out of habit, searched for some external information, discovering that Liu Lingli had stolen something from the Hu household and fled.

"Liu Lingli has escaped, she headed towards the direction of the county town," the Snake King said, warning He Tiantian.

He Tiantian was taken aback and said, "Her scandal has been exposed, she can no longer stay in Hujia Village, so of course she had to flee! Where has she escaped to now?"

"She is about thirty li away from Hujia Village. If she goes any further, I won’t be able to sense her," the Snake King said. "That woman has been on the run with her belongings since this morning, when Hu Damao and Old Man Hu left the house."

He Tiantian put down the sickle in her hand, asked Aunt Liu for leave, and went to find her father, He Jingyu.

When He Jingyu heard that Liu Lingli had run away, thinking back to her having previously poisoned their family, he secretly seethed, "I’ll just borrow Village Chief Qi’s bicycle, and we’ll go after that malicious woman."

The father and daughter went down the mountain and borrowed a bike from Village Chief Qi.

He Jingyu rode the bicycle, taking He Tiantian to chase after Liu Lingli.

Actually, He Jingyu didn’t even know where to chase her, he had just heard from his daughter that she was heading to the county town.

After riding for a while, He Jingyu said, "Tiantian, how did you know Liu Lingli would go to the county town?"

"I guessed," said He Tiantian. "Liu Lingli is pregnant, and she can’t survive hiding in the mountains. No one would take her in if she went to another village, so she must be heading to the county town. Either she finds a place to settle down or she’ll hop on a train to go somewhere else!"

"What you’re saying makes sense, let’s go to the county town and have a look," He Jingyu agreed. Along the way, they also encountered some people who were heading to the county town to look for Liu Lingli.

However, by the time He Jingyu and He Tiantian were halfway there, the Snake King lamented, "That woman has already climbed onto a train car and left with the cargo."

He Tiantian sighed in her heart, Liu Lingli had still managed to escape.

"Then do you know which train it was?" He Tiantian asked. She wanted to know where along the route Liu Lingli might get off.

"Train number 512," answered the Snake King. Liu Lingli was just too clever and bold, it’s just that her smarts weren’t used in the right way.

Now that Liu Lingli had left, she would inevitably become an archenemy to He Tiantian!

The people from Hujia Village had already gone to the police station in the county town to report the case, but since the disappearance hadn’t exceeded forty-eight hours, no case was filed.

After forty-eight hours, they had no idea where Liu Lingli could have run off to, so the people from Hujia Village continued their search.

"We can’t catch up now, can we?" He Tiantian asked, quite regretfully.

"Yes, she’s already beyond my sensory range," the Snake King confessed guiltily. "Once I achieve great mastery in cultivation and my Divine Sense becomes stronger, I will be able to know where she is!"

He Tiantian could hear the guilt in the Snake King’s voice and said, "It’s okay like this! Snake King, you’ve already helped me a lot. You don’t have to feel guilty, I’m not blaming you."

The Snake King’s breath hitched; in fact, it was blaming itself!

"I need to cultivate," said the Snake King, and then it sealed the barrier.

That night, He Tiantian went to find Niu Lili, and they squeezed in together for the whole night.

He Jingyu, on the other hand, was taken by Niu Lili to Niu Dajun’s place, to stay for the night.

The next morning, He Jingyu bought some daily necessities, and, taking He Tiantian with him, returned to Qijia Village.

Wang Shuping, seeing her husband and daughter back, asked, "Did you find Liu Lingli?"

"No, with so many people looking, and us having things to do, we just came back home," He Jingyu answered. The first response that came to his mind yesterday upon hearing that Liu Lingli had run away was to go look for her. But in the vast sea of people, finding one person was not so easy!

Wang Shuping felt uneasy and finally sighed, "Ah, I still can’t understand why Liu Lingli would poison us..."

"Yes, I can’t understand it either," said He Jingyu. "We don’t have any enemies, who would do this to us?"

He Tiantian was listening on the side; she knew that, despite her ability, even with the help of the Snake King, she might not be able to find out who was behind it.

Suddenly, a bright idea flashed across He Tiantian’s mind. If there weren’t such capable people on her side, what about on Huo Yingjie’s side?

The last time, there was a woman who had pretended to be Huo Yingjie and written her a letter!

Right, He Tiantian thought more and more that it made sense. That night, she wrote a letter to Huo Yingjie, asking him to help her investigate.

Compared to the He Family, a family of scholars, the Huo Family had more sources and channels for various pieces of information.

In the past, when facing problems, He Tiantian always thought of solving them herself, but now, with this matter that she couldn’t handle, she would let Huo Yingjie take care of it.

Moreover, Huo Yingjie had said, if there was anything, she should come to him.

If she didn’t go to him, he would be angry and unhappy!

He Tiantian’s letter was taken away by the postman who happened to come to the village to deliver mail.

He Tiantian received a letter from Qi Xiaoyan, along with a picture of Qi Xiaoyan in uniform.

Such bold and vigorous handwriting, a woman as courageous as any man!

Pointing at the photograph, He Tiantian said, "Mom, this is Xiao Yan, Chief Qi’s daughter, she got into the performance troupe this year."

"This girl is pretty," Wang Shuping praised, knowing well that this was her daughter’s good friend.

"Yes, she has a great temperament too," He Tiantian smiled and said, "Working away from home, who knows when she can come back to visit her family!"

Wang Shuping gave a smile and said, "Probably she’ll be able to come back during Chinese New Year."

"Oh right, mom, how about those peach trees?" asked He Tiantian, as her parents had been quite busy recently.

At the mention of those peach trees, Wang Shuping’s eyes lit up with excitement: "They’ve all survived, no need to worry anymore. The hills behind Qijia Village are truly a place with excellent Feng Shui. If it was somewhere else, surviving eighty percent would have already been pretty good."

"That’s great, next year I’ll be able to eat juicy peaches," He Tiantian laughed and said, "But I also want to eat persimmons from home."

"All you know is eating; your Aunt Lifang will help us pick some persimmons and send them over to us," Wang Shuping laughed and said, "Our home’s persimmons are the hard kind, they won’t turn soft no matter how long you keep them, only more and more delicious."

"Mhm," He Tiantian nodded. The persimmons from that tree were delicious, but more importantly, they held beautiful memories.

The sweetness of family togetherness and the joyful play with Huo Yingjie.