Chapter 178 The Missing Pan Ruoyin
When Gu Yuehuai returned to the dormitory, only Tian Jing and Lan Tian were there. Pan Ruoyin had not returned yet and no one knew where he had gone.
She washed up and lay down to sleep. She was tired after experiencing too much today.
Tian Jing glanced at Gu Yuehuai, and a hint of coldness flashed across her eyes.
The blue sky served as the backdrop as always, curled up on the bed like a transparent person.
As time passed, Gu Yuehuai, who was sleeping in a daze, was awakened by a burst of discussion.
Tian Jing said in a serious voice: "We have to go find Guide Cui. It's so late and Pan Ruoyin hasn't come back yet. Something must have happened!"
Lan Tian shrank his neck, his face full of fear: "I...I..."
"Forget it, just stay in the dormitory, I'll go!" Tian Jing sighed, patted Lan Tian's shoulder gently, turned around and left in a hurry. When Gu Yuehuai sat up, he only saw her anxious back.
She pressed her eyebrows and looked around. There was only the blue sky in the room, and Pan Ruoyin had not returned.
This is really strange. Although she ran away in anger at noon, she also went to work in the afternoon. How come she disappeared again in the evening? With such a little girl's temper, could she have run around and got lost?
Gu Yuehuai frowned. This kind of thing had never happened in his previous life.
Lan Tian glanced at Gu Yuehuai, bit his lip, said nothing, then climbed onto the kang and covered himself tightly with the quilt.
Gu Yuehuai didn't talk to her. After thinking about it, he got dressed and went out.
Pan Ruoyin is Song Jinan's cousin. Her family is powerful. She suddenly disappeared during the first two days of going to the countryside. Although she is an adult and can take responsibility for herself, if something really happens, the Dalaozi Production Brigade cannot be separated from it.
She was well aware of how ruthless those people in the capital who wielded power were, and the Pan family was the best among them.
Dalaozi Production Brigade is her home, and she doesn't want it to be implicated because of Pan Ruoyin.
Gu Yuehuai pushed the door and left. Lan Tian heard the noise and poked her head out from under the quilt. Her big eyes were full of complexity. She was silent for a long time, and in the end she did not choose to get up and look for someone. Instead, she silently retracted her head and covered the corner of the quilt.
She had experienced too much of the warmth and coldness of human nature and really didn't want to cause trouble, but Pan Ruoyin was a troublesome problem.
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When Gu Yuehuai went out, kerosene lamps had already been lit in the dormitory of the male educated youth next door. Song Jinan, Huang Sheng and others had also put on their clothes and came out holding lanterns, all with anxious looks on their faces.
Cui Hejie had the ugliest expression. As the guide for the educated youth, he would be the first to bear the brunt if anything really happened to Pan Ruoyin.
Tian Jing stood beside Song Jinan, looking at his uneasy expression, and couldn't help but comfort him: "Song Zhiqing, don't be too anxious. Maybe Ruoyin just got lost. If we all go out and look for him, we will definitely find him."
Song Jinan nodded and led a group of educated youth away from the educated youth site.
Gu Yuehuai frowned, followed the educated youth out of the educated youth center, and ran all the way to the home of the branch secretary Wang Fu.
She didn't care about Pan Ruoyin's life or death, but since these educated youth had come to the Dalaozi Production Brigade, the brigade would naturally be responsible for them. There is strength in numbers, and everyone must be mobilized to find the person, and the sooner they are found, the better.
"Branch Secretary? Branch Secretary?!" Gu Yuehuai knocked on the door and called out to Wang Fu.
Soon, the wooden door creaked open, and Wang Fu came out of the room, wearing clothes and holding a pipe in his mouth. He shone a lantern, but it was too dark to see clearly, so he said in a hoarse voice, "Who is it? Who?"
Gu Yuehuai raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect that it was already the middle of the night and Wang Fu was still awake. He was probably worried about the situation of the brigade after the announcement of food shortage today, so he couldn't sleep late at night.
She said, "Secretary, it's me, Xiao Gu!"
Wang Fu was stunned for a moment, then he came over with a lantern, looked at Gu Yuehuai, and asked in confusion, "Little Gu? Why are you running out at this late hour when you should stay at the educated youth camp? You're a girl, you shouldn't dare to wander around outside at night."
Gu Yuehuai said, "Secretary, our educated youth group's female comrade named Pan Ruoyin didn't come back tonight. We don't know where she went. The educated youths have all gone out to look for her. Do you think we should gather the members of our brigade to look for her together?"
"What? Not back?" Wang Fu was shocked and put down the pipe in his hand.
Gu Yuehuai nodded and looked at the time on his watch. "Well, it's already one o'clock in the evening. She's a female comrade who just came to our team. I'm worried that she might get lost."
Wang Fu frowned, and without daring to delay, he went to the village entrance carrying a lantern.
Soon, waves of bell ringing began, lingering.
Kerosene lamps were lit in every household and tightly closed doors were opened. Everyone was already having trouble sleeping because of today's food shortage, and now the bell rang, and everyone had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Family-oriented.
Gu Zhifeng put on her clothes, and Gu Tinghuai and Gu Xihuai also put on their clothes with serious expressions.
Gu Zhifeng twitched his eyebrows, feeling a little panicked: "What's going on? What happened in the team again?"
Gu Tinghuai was the first to push the door open and go out: "Let's go take a look."
Gu Zhifeng slipped on her shoes and followed Gu Tinghuai out, closing the door as she said, "Old Third, you stay in the room. Be careful that Shaotang wakes up and no one is home."
Gu Xihuai nodded, walked around to the door of Gu Yuehuai's room and looked. Yan Shaotang was sleeping soundly and was not woken up.
The members came to the village in twos and threes in the cold wind.
Wang Fu said, "Comrades, a female educated youth from our brigade did not come back tonight. Has anyone seen her? She is a female comrade, and she did not come back so late at night. This is a very serious matter. You can't hide it!"
Speaking of this, Wang Fu's hair turned a few grayer with worry.
He already couldn't sleep every night because of the food shortage, and now these educated youth were not peaceful and were always looking for trouble for him!
These educated youth were not ordinary people. They all came from the capital. They were all rich and powerful young men and women. Could he be held responsible if one of them was missing? The more he thought about it, the more troubled he became.
After Wang Fu finished speaking, there was a burst of discussion among the members below.
"We lost an educated youth? What's the big deal? The food shortage is what our team should consider solving right now. The educated youth have legs. They can't just not go home and ask us to look for them, right? It's the middle of the night, and you're looking for trouble!"
"That's right. Who knows what a lesbian is doing when she doesn't come back home so late at night?"
"Secretary, what should we do about the food shortage in the team? When will work points be exchanged for food? Is there a first-come, first-served basis?"
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The original intention was to wake up the members in the middle of the night because of Pan Ruoyin's matter, but the conversation went off topic. Instead of asking them to go find an educated youth, it would be better to consider solving the food shortage problem first. This is a matter of life and death, and if it is not solved one day, everyone will make a fuss.
Wang Fu got a headache after hearing this and his back became even more hunched.
Gu Yuehuai stood beside him, looking at Wang Fu's dejected look, and felt a little uncomfortable.
Wang Fu is a good branch secretary. While other branch secretaries in the village are bullying and treating the entire brigade as their own "one-man show", Wang Fu is actually working for the welfare of the people and never uses his power to do anything reckless.
Such an honest and upright person should not be treated like this by the common people.
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