An Ye rushed all the way back to Laohuaishu Village on his bike.
As soon as I entered the village, I saw a figure standing in the rain. He was holding an umbrella and standing there like a wooden stake, motionless.
When he got closer, An Ye could see clearly that the man was Li Xu.
Li Xu also saw her.
Holding an umbrella, he stepped on the gurgling water on the ground and washed away An Ye.
He staggered and nearly fell, but managed to hold onto An Ye's bicycle handlebars, saying anxiously, "Why did you come back just now? Do you know what time it is now? It's raining so hard, why didn't you come back earlier!"
There was a hint of blame in his tone, and An Ye was upset. When Li Xu yelled at her like that, she felt a surge of anger.
Just as she was about to scold him, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and she clearly saw Li Xu's eyes filled with tears, anxiety and worry.
In an instant, she understood.
His annoyance and blame are precisely because of his concern and care.
"Why are you crying? I'm back, aren't I?" An Ye raised her hand to wipe the rain off her face, her voice softening unconsciously, "Why are you waiting at home in such heavy rain? Why are you running here?"
"I'm worried about you." Li Xu handed her the umbrella and went to take the bicycle from her hand.
When the two people's hands accidentally bumped into each other, An Ye felt his hands were icy cold.
"How long have you been standing here? There's such a huge thunderstorm, and you're still holding an umbrella. Aren't you afraid of attracting the thunder and getting struck? You want to die, but I don't want to be a widow."
Li Xu grinned and said, "How could that be? She hasn't even given birth to a child for me, and she hasn't even grown old with me, so I definitely won't die."
"You're such a chatterbox!" An Ye cursed, but he felt warm in his heart.
She didn't expect that Li Xu could wait here for so long without saying a word in such weather.
Li Xu heard a rare tenderness in his wife's words. He grinned and said, "By the way, why did you come back alone? Where's Ning Jia? Didn't she come back?"
When An Ye mentioned Ning Jia, her nose felt sore and tears burst out: "She...she disappeared. On the way back to the village, I fell down and when I got up, she was gone... I looked for her back and forth twice, but couldn't find her. I had to come back by myself..."
She is a strong and independent person, and rarely shows such vulnerable emotions.
On the way back just now, she kept holding back and didn't shed a single tear.
But facing Li Xu's question, An Ye couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
Ning Jia is her best friend and her only spiritual support in this book world.
She couldn't imagine what it would be like without Ning Jia.
She is the only one left living here. How should she live in the future?
Li Xu had never seen An Ye so fragile. She was crying and her shoulders were shaking, which was heartbreaking to see.
He hugged An Ye tightly in his arms and comforted her, "Don't cry, don't cry! Don't worry, Ning Jia will be fine."
"I'm worried. I can't be worried. Li Xu, there's something fishy about this matter. How can a person like you just disappear like that?"
"Maybe she's lost?"
"No, it's impossible! There is only one road from the town to Laohuaishu Village, and there is not even a fork in the road. Even a fool wouldn't get lost, let alone Ning Jia?"
Li Xu stroked her back to soothe her emotions.
Obviously, on a rainy night like this, everyone would rush home, and it would be impossible for them to turn around and go somewhere else halfway.
"An Ye, go home, give me the car, and I'll go find her."
"No, I have to go too."
"What's wrong with you? Go back and take a good sleep. When you wake up, she will be home." Li Xu advised.
"No, I have to go! I have to! Otherwise, I won't feel at ease. Even if I go back, I won't be able to sleep! Li Xu, you don't understand this kind of feeling! Ning Jia is closer to me than my relatives. If something happens to her, I don't think I can live like this."
An Ye had said so much, it was hard for Li Xu to refuse.
"Also, we can't just look for the person by the two of us. We have to mobilize everyone in the family. Your eldest brother, third brother, fourth brother, and seventh brother, if you're a man, you have to come out and look for the person!"
"I'm afraid they won't agree." Li Xu said worriedly.
"Why don't you agree? Even if it's not for Ning Jia, it has to be for Li Yao, right? What time is it now? How can we not find someone?"
An Ye doesn't care about that. One more person means more strength.
The sooner Ning Jia is found, the sooner he will be safe.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Li Xu had no choice but to agree.
"I'll go, you ride your bike first."
"T."
An Ye walked back one step at a time, and after entering the house, she knocked on the doors of the men in the house one by one.
The eldest and seventh were still very reluctant.
But for the sake of An Ye's face, he had no choice but to agree.
Even Old Lady Xu was alarmed by this. She came out of the house and warned her sons: "At critical moments, it's still your family! The weather is too dangerous. Can you sleep well if you leave the sixth son's wife outside alone? Go, all of you!"
All the men in the Li family went out, and Bai Jinfeng couldn't sleep anymore, so she put on a raincoat and went to look for someone.
She knew that there would be more and more people at this time, so she went to knock on Aunt Niu's door again and called Niu Qiushi out.
"Qiu Shi, find a few people who are on good terms with you and ask them to come out and look for her!" Bai Jinfeng pleaded, "Sister Ning Jia is a good person, especially to me and Zhaodi. Now that she's missing, I can't just stand by and watch. Please help me with this."
"Don't worry about that. I'll go call someone right away."
One person called another, and soon half of the village were called up.
Even the captain did not escape this.
When he heard that Ning Jia was missing, he was stunned for a while: "That's impossible? Our village is quite safe."
However, he soon recalled a meeting a few days ago, in which the commune mentioned that human traffickers were active everywhere.
Not only do they steal children, they even steal women's bodies.
Ning Jia is getting more and more beautiful, could she have been stolen by someone?
"Come on, come on, I'll make an announcement through the loudspeaker, everyone who can go, go!"
then.
On this rainy night, the entire Laohuaishu Village was ablaze with the light of flashlights, and the team set out on the journey to the town in a mighty procession.
…
Ning Jia insisted on dragging her legs and following Qin Ming to the town. The raindrops began to get smaller and the thunder became farther and farther away.
Qin Ming walked and stopped, and finally stopped at the door of the guesthouse in the town.
"Wait a moment, I'll go over and register." Qin Ming said, "We don't have a letter of introduction, so you have to cooperate with me when we move in later. No matter what I say, you just have to agree. Otherwise, we'll have to spend the night on the street."
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