Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 133 - 132 Suddenly Saying Dead While Searching

Chapter 133: Chapter 132 Suddenly Saying Dead While Searching

The old house at the Nine-miles Team is drafty in summer and cool in winter, and after yesterday’s rain, the whole room is unbearably damp, with rats frequently strutting around.

Wang Xue huddles in a pile of straw, hungry and exhausted, dizzy. There’s a patch of dried blood on her forehead from using ash to stop the bleeding, covering her entire face with a gray dust.

She’s been here since she woke up after Fu Aiguo knocked her unconscious yesterday, her mouth gagged continuously except during meals.

From yesterday to today, she has only eaten one ice-cold corn bun.

She feels like she’s about to die.

Fu Aiguo is not far from her, anxiously twisting a dry twig. He had an agreement with them to wait here, someone was supposed to come to pick them and Uncle Niu’s son up.

But the agreed time was last midnight, and no one has come yet.

Uncle Niu brought them two corn buns but had no idea when they would leave.

He can only wait.

They can only wait.

...

"...It was always just me, but when I left, I didn’t check the other rooms, so actually I don’t know if Wang Xue is really at the scrapyard or not."

Lin Nianhe leans on the pillow, speaking and then opening her mouth like an old man, waiting for Wang Shumei to feed her a jujube.

Wang Shumei slightly frowns, deep in thought, rolling the jujube between her fingers, finally subconsciously stuffing it into her own mouth.

Lin Nianhe: "..."

Wang Shumei doesn’t look at her, muttering to herself, "It doesn’t make sense, if Fu Aiguo abducted her, then it should have been at... Xiao Lan, do you remember how far did Fu Aiguo take us before he fell?"

Wen Lan pinches a half-eaten jujube, thinks for a while, and says, "It must have been more than ten minutes, we were in a hurry yesterday."

"Then he fell and had to return to the Educated Youth Corps, let’s say it’s twenty minutes after we left the Educated Youth Corps... Nianhe, were you already abducted by that time?"

Lin Nianhe was just reaching for the jujube when asked, she recalls and nods: "Definitely, I hadn’t even reached Uncle Team Leader’s house when they intercepted me, we must have been far from the team by then."

Wen Lan suddenly gets a bit curious, "They abducted you and you just followed them?"

"Yes," Lin Nianhe nods proudly, "They had more people."

Wen Lan pouts disdainfully, "Eh, you coward, couldn’t you have shouted for help?"

Lin Nianhe rolls her eyes at her, "All the labor forces were at work, what use would calling Li Hehua be? At most, there would be one more person abducted."

Sister Lan thinks about it, that makes sense.

But she still disdains, "What’s there to be scared of with a few more people blocking you?"

Lin Nianhe doesn’t want to argue with her about this "how to protect oneself when being targeted by a shotgun" survival issue, she finally manages to grab the jujube herself.

Wang Shumei pats Wen Lan to hush her, then looks at Lin Nianhe, saying, "So, by timing, if Wang Xue was also abducted to the scrapyard, you should know."

Lin Nianhe looks at the jujube brought to her lips and then at the somewhat anxious Wang Shumei, she can only answer her question first: "Theoretically, yes."

"So where exactly is Wang Xue..."

Wang Shumei raises her hand and taps her head, puzzled.

Lin Nianhe also frowns, pinching the jujube, pondering this issue.

According to her hearing, if Wang Xue was also abducted to the scrapyard later, she definitely would have heard something.

Of course, this excludes the possibility that Wang Xue was taken there after she left.

But in that case, the Public Security should have found her by now.

Lin Nianhe suddenly thought of the words spoken by the old man yesterday, about feeding the big black dog meat...

Wen Lan looked left and right, unable to resist saying: "Have you guys never considered that they might have eloped?"

Lin Nianhe: "...!"

Wang Shumei: "...!"

Lin Nianhe glanced at the red dates in his hand that he hadn’t eaten yet and handed one to Wen Lan. "Sister Lan, have a red date. Could you honestly tell me how you came up with that possibility?"

This was not the kind of insight Wen Lan should have!

Wen Lan snatched the red date from Lin Nianhe’s hand and then said, "How else would I think? There were two educated youths who ran away from my grandmother’s production team..."

"Then what happened?"

"Those two fools ran off into the Qinling Mountains."

"And then?"

"What else could happen? There are real wolves in Qinling!"

Wen Lan bit into the red date, and with the other hand, gestured towards Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei, "That’s why, if you two ever go to my place, don’t you dare walk into the Qinling Mountains. With your scaredy-cat demeanor, if you encounter wolves, there’s no way you’d escape..."

Lin Nianhe chose to ignore the latter part of what was said and looked at Wang Shumei to ask, "So, could it be that those two were also eaten by wolves?"

Wang Shumei answered very pragmatically: "It could also be a tiger."

After speaking, they all fell silent.

Some people, while being searched for, end up being declared dead by others.

At this moment, not only did the three of them feel that Wang Xue was already dead, but Zhou Xu and Feng Wei on the other side also thought that this female educated youth was gone.

Just then, the door of the ward was symbolically knocked twice before being pushed open, and Liu Jianjun stepped in.

He glanced at Feng Zhou and said with a jerk of his chin, "You two, step out first."

Then he approached Lin Nianhe’s bedside and said to Wang Shumei and Wen Lan, "Could you two ladies please step out for a moment as well?"

Feng Wei and Zhou Xu exchanged glances, exchanging thoughts.

’Brother Cheng told us to watch over Sister Lin, should we leave?’

’Uncle Liu wants to ask some questions, isn’t it inappropriate for us to stay?’

The two of them shuffled slowly towards the end of the bed, trying to drag out the time, hoping that the next second Su Yuncheng would come back.

The next second, Su Yuncheng didn’t return, but Wen Lan stood up.

She sized up the man in front of her and asked unkindly, "Who are you? Our Nianhe is just a young girl, why do you want to be alone in a room with her?"

Liu Jianjun was baffled.

He glanced at his Public Security uniform, and somewhat exasperatedly said, "Comrade, I am with Public Security, I just have a few questions to ask Comrade Lin."

Wen Lan, hands on her hips, said with a sound rationale, "You say you’re Public Security and that’s that? I haven’t met you before, don’t know if you’re good or bad. If you want to ask, just ask, but I need to stay here to watch over Hezi."

After saying this, she directly sat at the foot of Lin Nianhe’s bed.

Liu Jianjun turned his head to look at the two dawdling guys, "Tell me, am I not Public Security?"

Feng Wei touched his nose, "Yes... I guess?"

Liu Jianjun: "..."

Is the authenticity of his identity really a matter to be doubted?

Wang Shumei, still seated on a chair, suddenly laughed. She tilted her head slightly towards Liu Jianjun and said very sincerely, "Comrade, it’s not that we don’t trust you, but Nianhe was so frightened yesterday and has just come down with a fever. We can’t feel at ease leaving her alone here. Perhaps you could understand? We promise, whatever we hear today, won’t be divulged."