"Okay, thank you, grandma."

Jian Yuelan thanked him with great gratitude, then took out two large White Rabbit candies from her pocket and stuffed them into the old woman's hand. "Grandma, I'm leaving now. I'll come see you again when I have time."

Before she finished speaking, she ran away like lightning.

She was so fast that the old lady didn't have the chance to say anything to refuse. She could only look at her receding back and sigh. What a good girl, why did she end up with that Ma Pozi girl?

What a sin.

Shaking her head, she withdrew her gaze, went into the house and closed the door, doing the whole process in one go.

"Apricot tree, apricot tree—"

Jian Yuelan followed the old lady's instructions and kept walking.

Finally, an apricot tree came into view.

The apricot trees are now past their flowering season, and the branches and leaves of the trees are lush and green, and the trees are very tall.

She looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she rushed towards the tree without thinking, jumped up, grabbed a branch and climbed up quickly.

For children who grew up in mountain villages, climbing trees in mountains and fishing in rivers are basic skills.

She didn't rush to alert the enemy, but found a place in the tree and hid herself while looking inside.

There was someone moving around in the room, and faint sounds could be heard, but they were inaudible.

After a few minutes, the tightly closed door creaked open, and the pockmarked woman walked out with a smile on her face. She came to the gate of the courtyard, opened the door, stuck her head out to look around, and when she saw that there was no one there, she hummed a little tune and left in a good mood.

Jian Yuelan, “!”

Is it not enough to just take one turn? Should we go out and continue looking for the target?

She clenched her fists and looked at Wang Guihua's figure, wondering whether she should go down and knock her down with a punch. But then she remembered that there was someone else in the room, so after thinking for a moment, she chose to continue squatting and waiting.

Wang Guihua can be caught later, Yu Qinghe’s safety is more important.

Thinking of this, she unclenched her fists and turned her head to continue staring at the room.

After staring for about ten minutes, a tall and strong man wearing blue work clothes, covered in oil and with a mole at the end of his left eyebrow, opened the door and walked out, muttering something like "What a annoying kid."

Jian Yuelan immediately withdrew her gaze and observed his every move out of the corner of her eye, and found that he went to the house next to the main house.

Then the man brought a bucket of water from the house and returned to the kitchen.

Looking in through the window, Jian Yuelan found him squatting in front of the stove and making a fire.

Delighted, she quietly climbed up the wall along the apricot tree and entered the yard. She first ran to the main house and looked inside through the window, but saw no one. There was only a piece of green trouser leg and a small foot in cloth shoes behind the wardrobe in the left room.

It’s Yu Qinghe.

After confirming that Yu Qinghe was in the room, she clenched her fists, suppressed her anger and ran straight to the kitchen.

"Cooking."

Anyone?!

The man was startled and turned around to look. There was a dark-skinned woman in front of him.

"you--"

"Bang!"

The word "who" was stuck in his throat and before he could spit it out, the man suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower body.

His eyes widened instantly and his face turned pale as he looked at Jian Yuelan.

"You deserve to die for kidnapping children."

Jian Yuelan gritted her teeth and punched him in the chest. With a cracking sound, the man didn't even have time to scream before his eyes went black and he fell to the ground, losing consciousness.

There was a sag in his chest caused by the dislocation of his ribs.

It won’t kill you, but it will make you feel so painful that you’d rather die than live.