Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 179 - 178: Accomplishing Something Big Tonight

Chapter 179: Chapter 178: Accomplishing Something Big Tonight

"Maomao, do you think sister-in-law ran away?"

"That couldn’t be. I went to the Educated Youth Corps, and sister-in-law didn’t take anything with her except her bike."

"Then where do you think sister-in-law went? She’s been missing for a day now."

"I don’t know."

"Should we call our big brother?"

"What should we say when we call? That we lost her? Our big brother would kill us!"

"Then... should we apologize to our big brother?"

"..."

At the entrance of the village, Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian squatted like a couple of loafers, staring at the sky filled with the glow of sunset, so forlorn they wanted to cry.

They couldn’t figure out why sister-in-law had disappeared while they were just gone to fetch some water.

The two novice hooligans had no idea how to handle this situation.

Until—

"Hey hey hey! Maomao! Look quickly!"

Cao Shijian suddenly jumped up, accidentally kicking Wu Genmao with his foot.

Wu Genmao was kicked to the ground, and before he had the chance to curse, he saw Lin Nianhe walking slowly towards them under the afterglow of the setting sun.

In that moment, they were moved to tears.

"Uh... Teacher Lin!"

Wu Genmao scrambled up from the ground using both hands and feet, and ran towards Lin Nianhe as if he had seen his own mother.

Before Lin Nianhe could speak, Principal Wu was the first to be stunned: "What’s going on? What happened?"

Wu Genmao wiped his face and chuckled, shaking his head: "Nothing, nothing. We just haven’t seen you all day and were worried!"

This excuse successfully made everyone feel nauseated.

Principal Wu pulled a face and let them push the bike, while he held Niuwa’s hand and said: "I’m going to say hello to Li Dahe first, you guys bring Niuwa’s luggage back, okay?"

"Okay."

Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian eagerly watched Lin Nianhe, wanting to ask her where she had gone, but felt it wasn’t right to ask with Wen Lan and Wang Shumei present.

Wang Shumei inconspicuously hooked her arm into Wen Lan’s, and quickened their pace silently.

Only after putting some distance between them did Wu Genmao, unable to hold back, whisper: "Sister-in-law, where did you go today?"

Lin Nianhe did not answer his question but said instead: "You two don’t go home tonight. Follow me after it gets dark."

"Huh?" Wu Genmao’s spirits instantly lifted, "Where are we going?"

His voice could hardly contain his excitement as he looked at Lin Nianhe with earnest eyes.

Lin Nianhe gave him a glance and replied sternly: "Don’t ask too much, just follow me."

"Oh oh!" Wu Genmao quickly nodded his head.

This familiar feeling was just like when their big brother was about to do something important!

But...

He still had to report to his big brother...

Wu Genmao pondered. He definitely couldn’t let sister-in-law know about the daily routine of reporting to his big brother by phone. And today was the first time sister-in-law was taking them on an important errand; he couldn’t delay it under any circumstances.

So he would just have to apologize to his big brother, who would have to anxiously wait by the phone.

After dinner, at 7:30.

The literacy class began on time. It wasn’t until then that Lin Nianhe leisurely strolled out from the village school, with Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian following three meters behind.

They were very nervous, swallowing saliva and looking around anxiously, afraid that dozens of men wielding knives might jump out from the dark forest.

They had only been the lowliest gatekeepers, the first ones to rush into trouble, and the disposable henchmen whose names Bai Bo couldn’t even remember, to be used at his disposal.

So, they felt that it must be a tough battle ahead when Lin Nianhe asked them to follow her out late at night.

"We’re not fighting, not competing for turf, no one will block our way."

Ahead, Lin Nianhe suddenly spoke.

She had to speak; the tension from the two behind her was almost becoming palpable, and she couldn’t ignore it even if she wanted to.

Wu Genmao exclaimed "Ah," pulled Cao Shijian to quicken their pace to catch up, and asked softly, "So Teacher Lin, what are we actually going to do?"

Lin Nianhe: "Move goods."

The succinct two words gave rise to even more questions for Wu Genmao.

Move goods?

So the sister-in-law went out for a whole day just for this?

But with just the three of them, what goods can they move?

Wu Genmao wanted to ask, but Lin Nianhe pushed back with a sentence: "Don’t ask what you shouldn’t, or you can go back to the provincial city right now."

Wu Genmao immediately shut up and also covered Cao Shijian’s mouth.

Lin Nianhe had walked up the mountain many times, especially at night.

She proficiently led the way with her flashlight on, while Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian were constantly startled, frightening themselves from time to time.

It couldn’t be helped, the psychological shadow this mountain cast on them was too great!

Lin Nianhe couldn’t be bothered with them, and they didn’t have the guts to complain to Lin Nianhe; both parties remained silent, moving through the pitch-dark forest.

When they were only a dozen or so meters away from the cave, Lin Nianhe finally stopped.

She turned her head and said to the two of them, "Wait here for me. Unless I speak, don’t come over."

"Okay, okay, okay." Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian nodded repeatedly.

Lin Nianhe made her way through the shrubs into the cave.

The cave was still the same cave, but it was much cleaner than before, apparently swept by Qian Guozhu and Sun ManCang beforehand.

Lin Nianhe quietly spread a tarpaulin she had prepared in her space on the ground, arranged the woolen material that would require them to go back and forth three or four times, and then turned to walk outside.

"You two, come over."

Lin Nianhe stood at the entrance of the cave, shaking her flashlight towards them.

Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian hurried over.

Seeing the hidden cave, both were somewhat dumbfounded, and even more so when they saw the neatly arranged cloth on the ground.

They had seen woolen coats before, not new ones, but ones that people had worn and, for various reasons, had been sold on the black market. They had seen only three or four in two years.

And now, the woolen material that appeared before their eyes was enough to make dozens of coats.

Wu Genmao swallowed hard: "Sister-in-law, this material... Oh right, you have connections at the textile factory..."

He recalled the times they went to the textile factory to collect scrap fabric, instinctively attributing those connections to Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe let him speculate and merely said, "You two will have to put in extra effort tonight. Move this material to the outside of the rear wall of the Educated Youth Corps before dawn. Two requirements: no harm to people, no harm to goods."

After stating her requirements, she took out two five yuan notes, handing one to each: "Take these, get to work."

Zhou Xu had previously heard from colleagues that the first time these two went to the post office to make a phone call, they had taken ten yuan.

From their pitiful state back then, it was not hard to deduce that the ten yuan must have been given by Bai Bo.

If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it; if you want to change the feed, then you have to offer a lot more.

Indeed, Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian were both shocked to see the five yuan handed to them, looking at Lin Nianhe as if she were their own mother.

Lin Nianhe held their gaze for a moment, then decisively turned her head and no longer paid attention.

She couldn’t turn them.

Even if they seemed easy to sway, she couldn’t take them.

Absolutely not!