As Cheng Baidong came out of Fang Qiao's room, his third aunt came up to him and asked worriedly, "Baidong, is the child alright?"

Wang Qiuju stood to the side, looking at him with a worried expression.

Cheng Baidong replied, "Third Aunt, the child is fine, she was just frightened. Please make her some steamed egg custard when she wakes up, she likes to eat that."

"Good, good, it's good that the child is alright." Auntie San breathed a sigh of relief.

God knows, when she heard people talking about it in the fields, she was terrified, fearing that her child had encountered someone who specializes in kidnapping children.

Seeing that it was Su Chen's mother, he calmed down a bit. After all, she was his grandmother. Even if she had been taken away, at least he knew where she was and could bring her back.

This grandmother is truly heartless. The child was crying so hard, but she still insisted on dragging him away, even though her knees were bleeding from the stones on the ground.

No matter how sweet the words are, whether it's genuine love or just a facade, one glance is enough to tell.

Cheng Baidong then said, "Third Aunt, I'm going out for a bit. You don't need to cook lunch for me. I might not be able to make it back in time."

Third Aunt nodded to indicate that she understood.

Cheng Baidong rode his bicycle out of the house and passed through the back alley. In the distance, he saw a group of people gathered in front of Cheng Yajun's house.

He glanced at it expressionlessly, then looked away, turned ahead of time, and took another route out of the village.

Once you leave the village, you'll find yourself on a main road heading west.

It's called a main road, but it's still a dirt road, just a bit smoother than a country lane. Riding a bicycle on it still leaves you with a bumpy ride.

The little Vermilion Bird flapped its wings and landed on Cheng Baidong's shoulder, asking him, "Are you going to take revenge on that Su family?"

Cheng Baidong's face was stern, his lips tightly pressed together. He didn't answer Xiao Zhuque's question, but instead asked, "Aren't we going to the Great River today?"

"It's too far, flying all the way there would be exhausting, it's not worth it for that little bit of spiritual energy. I'll rest for a couple of days."

The origin of the great river is on the southwestern plateau, not far from the location of the world rift. The overflowing spiritual energy merges with the space, the air condenses, and the rain falls to the ground, gathering into mountain streams. Eventually, these tributaries converge into the great river.

However, as the river flows from its origin through the upper, middle and lower reaches, the spiritual energy in the river water has been diluted to a pitiful amount.

When the little Vermilion Bird first discovered it, it was overjoyed. After all, it had finally felt the existence of spiritual energy in this world. How could it not be overjoyed and cry tears of joy!

However, after struggling to refine it all night, it found that the spiritual energy content was not as high as that of a sip of water that Fang Qiao casually gave it. It lost its energy and found it too much trouble and not worth it.

Why not cling to this couple and enjoy the shade under their big tree?

Little Zhuque stood on Cheng Baidong's shoulder and headed into the city.

He used his spiritual energy to ride his bike, making him faster and more effortless than ordinary people.

There's only one main road leading from Chengzhuang Village to the county seat that's the shortest. Other roads also go that way, but they're much longer and more circuitous, so you basically end up taking the same route.

Cheng Baidong had just passed the town on his bicycle and traveled another two or three miles when he encountered Su Chen's mother's donkey cart near Panzhuang.

The donkey cart moved slowly, while Cheng Baidong rode his bicycle quickly, and the two groups inevitably met on the road.

Su Chen's mother, sitting on the back of the donkey cart, spotted Cheng Baidong from afar and immediately began to curse him as a robber, accusing him of stealing her granddaughter and not wanting to return her! She even threatened to report him to the police station.

But if Cheng Baidong was afraid she would sue him, she wouldn't have returned defeated from Chengzhuang Village. So when she rode her bicycle past the donkey cart, she ignored it completely.

Less than a minute after he rode past, the donkey cart suddenly went out of control.

The donkey charged into the dry ditch beside the road as if it had gone mad.

Despite the son-in-law of the Su family pulling the reins and shouting "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" incessantly, it was all in vain.

As the donkey cart was about to overturn into the ditch beside the road, Su's son-in-law's pupils contracted sharply. He quickly weighed the pros and cons in his mind, and finally, a second before the donkey cart overturned into the ditch, he decisively threw off the reins and jumped off the cart.

After landing, he rolled twice on the ground. Although he bumped and fell a couple of times and got covered in mud, he was not seriously injured.

The old lady, however, did not possess his skill level.

She was an old woman, no younger than her son-in-law, and quite agile. She could only sit helplessly on the donkey cart and watch as the crazed donkey tumbled headlong into the ditch.

The donkey cart overturned, and with a scream, the old woman fell into the ditch and was run over by the back of the cart.

Although the soil in the dry ditch was loose, it was still enough to make the old lady suffer, not to mention that the donkey cart's cargo box was made of wood.

These days, the wood is solid wood, heavy and thick; it's no joke to have it pressing down on your legs.

The old lady felt as if her leg had been broken, and she was in excruciating pain.

She cried out in pain, covered in cold sweat, complaining about how her son-in-law had managed to drive the carriage, and also blaming the Cheng family for being so unlucky! She was sure to encounter anything bad whenever she ran into someone with the surname Cheng!

"Mother! Mother, are you alright?"

The son-in-law hurriedly apologized to her and tried to rescue her from under the truck bed.

However, the cargo bed weighs several hundred kilograms, making it difficult for one person to lift it.

"Ask, ask, ask! What's there to ask? Do I look like I'm alright?" The old woman, in pain, couldn't help but scold, "What are you doing? Hurry up and get me out of here!"

Her son-in-law struggled to lift it for a long time, but the cargo bed didn't budge.

"Mother, wait here, I'll go to the nearby villages to find someone to help me."

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