They didn't even have time to eat; everyone in the Lu family rushed off to find the child.
"Sister Jiang, I'll go help too." Xie Ziang was fourteen years old, the oldest among the group of children that Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan brought back.
He clearly understood how much of a burden these children were to the Lu family.
"No need. You take Xiaolei and the others with you, make sure they don't get lost too." Jiang Tangtang's expression was heavy as she communicated with the system in her mind, trying to see if she could find Lu Chenyan through the system.
She had never experienced the pain of childbirth like other mothers, and since she was single before she transmigrated, she had never thought about getting married and having children.
Therefore, she didn't have much of a sense of being a mother.
She usually spends most of her time pestering the little fairy.
But after discovering that the little one was missing, she was suddenly overcome with a panic she had never felt before.
This emotion brought tears to her eyes, and she felt sad and wanted to cry.
Lu Shiyan felt a tremor in his heart as a familiar pain surged through him. This time, the pain was more intense than ever before.
He turned around and saw that Jiang Tangtang was already in tears.
He walked over, reached out, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips, whispering, "Don't cry, I will find him."
Jiang Tangtang had just communicated with the system, but the system rejected her on the grounds that her character value was not high enough and she could not use the intermediate search system.
Lu Shiyan's words were like a lifeline for a drowning person. She looked at him through teary eyes, "Really? Husband, do you have a way?"
Lu Shiyan said, "Yes, there is a way."
He quickly carved a tracking talisman on the wooden block with his spiritual energy, and then used the talisman as a guide to lead Jiang Tangtang to find Lu Chenyan.
At the same time, Liu Chengfeng, Li Shi, and others were also helping the Lu family search for people everywhere.
Even the three members of the Xiong family, father and sons, spontaneously joined the search team.
Village Chief Song, along with the enthusiastic villagers, went around asking people in the village if they had seen Lu Chenyan today, and when the last time they saw him was.
“Village chief, why don’t we ask the Fang family?” Chen Chunxiang suggested. “Today, we all went up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables, but the Fang brothers were lazy and slept in the valley. Maybe they saw where the Lu family’s children went.”
The other villagers nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, ask the Fang brothers and Lu Cuilan. She lost her son and was on the verge of death. She might have noticed."
A group of people hurriedly ran to the Fang family's temporary encampment.
Before he could even open his mouth, Fang Mulin shouted, "Why are you asking me? The Lu family didn't ask me to look after their child. What does it have to do with me if the child is missing?"
Lu Cuilan's eyes darted away, but she quickly straightened her back and said, "That's right, he's just a mute idiot. Who knows if he just wandered off and fell into the water and drowned? Don't come asking us."
“Liu Cuilan, what you’re saying is wrong. Putting everything else aside, just look at Lu Sanlang and his wife. They helped you find your child today, so you should be grateful to them, not curse their child to die. If you keep doing this, who will dare to help you in the future?”
"Exactly, that's too cruel."
"To be precise, she's actually that child's great-aunt! We outsiders are all helping to find the child, and not only does she not help, she also curses the child to die. I now understand that the Lu family is cutting ties with her. I'm heartbroken by someone like that, and I won't associate with her anymore."
The villagers who came to inquire disapproved of Lu Cuilan's actions and criticized her.
Lu Cuilan was initially a little guilty, but when the villagers criticized her, she immediately started cursing.
Finding the child was the priority, and the villagers didn't want to get entangled with him. Except for one person who couldn't stand it and exchanged a few words with him, the other villagers went to inquire elsewhere.
Fang Mingming watched the villagers' backs, hesitated for a moment, and then followed them.
"Mingming, what are you doing? Come back here!" When Lu Cuilan saw her son following her out, she immediately forgot about arguing with the villagers and quickly grabbed him.
She finally found her son and now cherishes him like the apple of her eye, watching him almost every moment and never letting him out of her sight.
"I'm going to find my cousin Yan," Fang Mingming said.
“You’re still a child yourself, why are you looking for him?” Lu Cuilan coaxed, “Be good, you’ve just come back from a near-death experience, so don’t go running around. Just stay home.”
Thinking about how so many people in the village helped search for the missing Lu family child, while everyone acted as if they hadn't seen her own child, she couldn't help but feel a bit sour. She said sarcastically, "Your third cousin and his wife are both very capable people, and you have so many uncles and elders helping you. There's no need for us incompetent people to worry."
Fang Mingming was too young to understand his mother's sarcastic tone, but he felt that this was wrong. "Mother, whether we can find it or not, we should at least do our part."
“With so many people doing their best, they don’t care if we join in the fun.” Lu Cuilan forcefully pulled her son back.
Fang Mingming was just a child, how could she possibly compete with an adult? In the end, she could only sit back down helplessly.
Seeing that the Lu family was busy looking for their child and no one was eating the food that had been cooked, Fang Mulin swallowed hard and nudged Lu Cuilan, saying, "Go and get some food."
"Where can I get it?" Lu Cuilan looked at her husband's cowardly and lazy appearance, feeling disgusted.
“Go back to your parents’ house and get some.” Fang Mulin was shameless and didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. “You can’t let Mingming go hungry, can you? Giving it to Mingming is better than giving it to outsiders.”
Thinking about the group of children that Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan had brought back, Lu Cuilan suddenly realized that her husband's words made a lot of sense.
Rather than giving all those good things to outsiders, it's better to give them to Mingming. Mingming still has half of the Lu family blood in her, and even if the Lu family ancestors knew, they would side with her.
With these thoughts in mind, Lu Cuilan walked towards the Lu family's temporary encampment.
Zhou Qiongniang had kept in mind the recipe for stir-fried banana blossoms with pork ever since Jiang Tangtang told her about it.
Today, after Lu Shichang returned from looking at the banana trees, she picked banana blossoms to stir-fry with meat.
In addition, I also used freshly dug yams to stew a pot of pheasant soup.
Lu Cuilan couldn't remember the last time she had touched oil; just the smell of it made her mouth water.
She lifted the pot lid and was about to reach for the meat when a rough, hoarse voice suddenly rang out behind her, "What are you doing?"
Lu Cuilan was startled. When she turned around and saw that it was the wild child that Lu Shiyan and Jiang Tangtang had brought back, she immediately scolded, "What business is it of yours if I take my things?"
"This is food from our benefactor's family, not yours," Xie Zi'ang said coldly, though he was thin. "Leave now."
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