"Aunt Shen, I'm not a three-year-old child anymore, and I have some really important things on hand, otherwise I wouldn't just say I want to go out." Xiao Jinchu felt that time was too tight and he couldn't waste even a minute.

Shen Hongmei sighed helplessly: "If you really leave, what will happen to these herbs? You have to take them with you on the road."

"Yeah." This was Yan Shuhua's intention, and he would definitely keep it in mind.

Yan Shuhua and Song Yan were almost out of the village, but for some reason, she felt her right eyelid twitching, as if something was about to happen, and she kept looking back.

Song Yan noticed that she was absent-minded along the way, and she even sprained her ankle while walking: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Yan Shuhua smiled, thinking that she was overthinking it, after all, she was going on a long journey.

The early bus was at 7 o'clock. Yan Shuhua and Song Yan waited for a while until they finally got the bus. Just as they were about to get on, they heard a voice behind them: "Shuhua! Shuhua!"

Yan Shuhua had already boarded the car. When she heard the voice, she quickly stuck her head out of the window. Seeing who it was, she quickly got out of the car again. The driver couldn't help but ask, "Are you going or not?"

"Wait a moment, I'll be back soon." Yan Shuhua asked him for a while. The driver saw that Yan Shuhua was a very well-behaved child, so he shook his hand and reluctantly gave her some time.

Yan Shuhua saw that it was Li's mother who was calling her, but because she was old after all, she couldn't walk fast, so Yan Shuhua immediately ran over to ask her: "Auntie, what's wrong? What happened? Why are you running?"

"Shuhua, Sister Li... Sister Li is in trouble..." Mother Li bent down and almost knelt on the ground due to exhaustion.

"What?"

"Sister Li went to collect herbs yesterday afternoon and hasn't come back yet."

Yan Shuhua was about to leave when he heard this news. His eyebrows knitted tightly: "Have you looked everywhere? Are you sure you didn't see her?"

"Yesterday afternoon, she was still excitedly telling me that she was going to pick the herbs you needed most. Then I said it was a bit late and we shouldn't go. She said it would be easier to find them if we went at this time. Then she went. But when I prepared dinner in the evening, she didn't come back. I wondered if she had gone somewhere, so I waited for her."

Li's mother anxiously recounted the whole process: "But I waited for her all night and couldn't see her. Then I asked around but there was no news about her."

Upon hearing this, Yan Shuhua frowned even deeper, as if he could pinch a fly to death: "This shouldn't be the case. Sister Li picked them during the day, so why would she go to pick herbs at night?" Yan Shuhua thought about this matter, but it was too serious, so he quickly ran to the car and said to the master, "Master, we're not leaving, we're not leaving!" As he spoke, he called Song Yan, who was in the car, to get off.

Song Yan was puzzled, thinking that this woman might want to back out at this moment: "Did something happen? Didn't she say she was going to leave? Why didn't she leave all of a sudden?"

Yan Shuhua didn't have any extra energy to explain to Song Yan. Li Mei was the only one in her mind now.

"I don't know either. You say... Oh, what should I do?" Li's mother came running over, panting. In this cold winter, her forehead was covered with thick sweat. She was completely at a loss and terrified. "I don't know anyone, so I can only look for you..."

Yan Shuhua thought that since Mother Li was so old, he shouldn't let her run around anymore, so he temporarily entrusted her to Song Yan: "Auntie, don't worry, I'll go find her right away, right away! Song Yan, take care of Auntie, I'll go find someone!"

Before Song Yan could say anything, Yan Shuhua had already run away.

Yan Shuhua thought of finding Fan Zhiqiang as soon as possible. Fan Zhiqiang had just gotten up and was squatting at the door brushing his teeth and washing his face. Seeing Yan Shuhua in a hurry, he was also surprised to hear her question and almost knocked over the cup in his hand: "What, Li Mei didn't come back last night?"

Yan Shuhua was running very fast. She shortened the journey which originally took 20 minutes to 10 minutes. You can imagine how out of breath she was.

"Didn't you go to pick herbs with her yesterday? Didn't you two go down the mountain together?" Yan Shuhua thought that they always went to pick herbs together.

"I... I didn't go to pick herbs yesterday." Fan Zhiqiang said, touching his head.

"If you didn't go to collect herbs yesterday, what were you doing there?"

"Yesterday I was practicing martial arts with my master!" Fan Zhiqiang answered her question honestly.

"If Li Mei went to collect herbs by herself, she wouldn't have come back so late." Yan Shuhua saw that Fan Zhiqiang really didn't know anything, and Li Mei was very likely to go to the mountain to pick herbs at night. She didn't know why she picked herbs. What other herbs did Li Mei have to pick at night? There were no wild animals in the back mountain, but it was still dangerous. Yan Shuhua raised his hand and rubbed his aching eyebrows: "Zhiqiang, you let Li Mei go to the mountain alone so late!"

"Shuhua, I..." Fan Zhiqiang couldn't believe how she could just disappear like that. The production team was showing a movie yesterday, and he had invited her, but Li Mei refused to go. He had thought that maybe she didn't want to be with him, after all, he had already revealed his feelings to some extent.

That's why Fan Zhiqiang was so disappointed, and kept clinging to Xiao Jinchu, insisting that he learn some martial arts so that he could hold his head up high in front of others.

But now hearing Yan Shuhua's anxious tone, he felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart, hoping that something had not happened.

"Zhiqiang, you're making me so angry!" Yan Shuhua asked him, "Is your dad home?"

“Yes!”

When Fan Xiaofeng heard about Yan Shuhua, he quickly called on the villagers to look for her together. After climbing over a mountain, they finally found Li Mei in a dilapidated temple in the back mountain.

When Yan Shuhua heard that she had found him, he immediately went to tell Li's mother. When Li's mother heard that she had found him, she was so relieved that she kept muttering, "This damn girl, why hasn't she come back so late? I'll break her legs when I find her."

Yan Shuhua thought she had finally found it, but before she could breathe a sigh of relief, something happened that she would never forget in her life.