Chapter 43 The Plot Will Kill You

Jiang Jianni stumbled in, crying, "Lu Xiangyang, what happened to Lu Xiangyang?"

The firefighters all turned their heads.

One of the young men couldn't help but shout, "Butt-slapping Hero?"

The people next to him changed their expressions drastically. One reached out and grabbed his neck, another covered his mouth, one pulled him backward while holding his waist, and the other bowed and scraped with a fawning smile.

"Sister-in-law, please don't mind him. He's young and speaks without thinking. Please don't mind him."

Jiang Jiani patting Lu Xiangyang's butt has become a long-standing joke in the fire brigade.

Privately, everyone gave Jiang Jianni the nickname "Butt-Slapping Hero," admiring her courage to slap Lu Xiangyang's tiger butt.

Of course, no one dared to tell Lu Xiangyang, that smiling tiger.

Jiang Jianni had no time to care about the "butt-slapping hero" or "butt-kicking hero," and asked directly, "Where is Lu Xiangyang?"

"I just heard you say that Captain Lu hasn't returned?"

Where are the others?

As she spoke, Jiang Jianni's eyes reddened, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Is he... is he..."

She wanted to ask if they had perished, but she couldn't bring herself to say the word "perish."

The young man who had just said 'Captain Lu is missing' was terrified and shook his head repeatedly: 'No, no, Captain Lu is fine, really, he's perfectly fine.'

Jiang Jianni questioned, "Where is he? Why didn't he come back? Didn't you just say he was missing?"

The captain was also very anxious: "Xiao Liu, tell me slowly, what exactly happened? How did Lao Lu disappear? Wasn't he just here a moment ago?"

Jiang Haibing handed Xiao Liu a bottle of mineral water, the cap already unscrewed: "Have a sip of water to soothe your throat first."

These people hadn't eaten breakfast, and now that they'd just stopped, they hadn't even had a sip of water. Their voices were hoarse, as if they'd been scrubbed with sandpaper.

The young man gave him a grateful look, took the water and gulped down two mouthfuls. The burning sensation in his throat eased somewhat, and he quickly said:

"Just now, Captain Lu and I were in the back. Captain Lu said that something was lost and he had to go back to look for it."

"When I turned around, Captain Lu was gone. Boss, you were calling for assembly, so I... I ran over here first."

The captain was so angry he wanted to kick him to death: "You, you..."

Jiang Jianni's vision went black, and her body swayed involuntarily: "Where? Where did he disappear to?"

The captain roared, "What are you all standing there for? Get back to finding someone right now!"

Dozens of young men who were drinking water or had just taken a sip of water turned and ran away.

Jiang Jiani ran after her.

Li Guoqing was dumbfounded: "Hey hey hey..."

Jiang Haibing kicked him irritably: "What are you yelling about? Watch the stuff, I'm going with them."

Jiang Jianni followed the young man, stumbling and running, before stopping at a section of riverbank with dense reeds: "Captain Lu just said here that he was going back to look for something that was missing..."

Jiang Jianni put her hand to her lips and shouted, "Lu Xiangyang—"

The others joined in, shouting, "Lu Xiangyang—"

"Team Leader Lu—"

Five or six minutes passed, and forty or fifty people had almost completely searched the area, but Lu Xiangyang was still nowhere to be found.

Jiang Haibing looked at the river and said, "He...he didn't fall into the river, did he?"

Jiang Jianni replied without hesitation, "Impossible!"

Winter is the dry season, the river is very shallow, and the riverbed here is not deep to begin with.

Even if a person falls, they'll only reach their knees at most.

If there were someone in such a shallow river, there would be no way they wouldn't have noticed.

Jiang Haibing hesitated, then stopped himself from saying anything discouraging.

Just then, someone shouted in surprise, "Here! Here!"

A group of people rushed over in a swarm.

Jiang Jianni pushed through the crowd: "Where? Where?"

As soon as she squeezed in, she saw a young man pull himself down a rope.

Jiang Jiani's heart immediately jumped into her throat.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that a large hole had appeared in the flat ground.

The hole was about half a meter in diameter, surrounded by thatch, a few stones, and some broken branches on both sides.

No one would know there was a pit underneath unless they looked closely.

Soon the young man shouted from below, "It's Captain Lu, but Captain Lu is injured."

"The person is currently unconscious, and it appears that their leg is broken."

Jiang Jianni's mind went blank. She was frozen in place, unable to move, staring blankly as the captain methodically directed how to pull the people up.

The young men were very helpful; working together, they quickly pulled Lu Xiangyang up and gave him a basic check-up.

They discovered that he had accidentally fallen and broken his leg. When he fell, the back of his head hit a rock. Although there was a large bump on the back of his head, the wound was not big and only bled a little.

Jiang Jianni was in a state of shutdown until she heard the captain say "it's not a big problem," and then she gradually regained feeling in her limbs.

The captain glanced at her almost imperceptibly, and sighed inwardly, "The most important thing now is to get her to the hospital as soon as possible."

Ah, newlyweds are just so clingy.

Jiang Haibing quickly replied, "We came by car, use our car."

Jiang Jianni came to her senses: "Yes, yes, take them to the hospital, quickly take them to the hospital."

One of them is Lu Xiangyang's wife, and the other is Lu Xiangyang's brother-in-law; they are extremely close relatives.

The captain arranged for someone to go back to the city with them, while they would come later.

However, they left Jiang Haibing's friend, Li Guoqing, behind.

I sped all the way to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital in about ten minutes.

After taking her to the emergency room, Jiang Jianni fell to the ground against the wall.

Jiang Haibing pulled her to a chair: "What are you doing? We're already at the hospital, and besides, Lu Xiangyang's problem isn't serious. Don't act like this."

Jiang Jianni shook her head, her expression a mixture of tears and laughter: "You don't understand."

There's a phenomenon in novels called "plot-driven death."

It advances the plot by killing off characters.

As the female lead's ideal man, Lu Xiangyang is clearly just a plot device that needs to be killed off.

In this situation, Lu Xiangyang is doomed.

Time ticked by, and just as Jiang Jianni was about to be overwhelmed by despair, a nurse came out: "Where are Lu Xiangyang's family members?"