Chapter 349 Don't Say He Is Ruthless and Unrighteous
But Zhou Yong and Ma San and Cao Biao had already checked several nearby hills inside and out. If there were any signs of disturbance on the hills, they would have found out the clues long ago...
They also searched the bushes, and even when passing by larger trees, Zhou Yong would observe to see if there were any signs of anyone having climbed there.
As for caves, there are none nearby, so all that's left are dead trees.
Zhou Yong calmed down and glanced at a few dead trees. Ma San was confused: "Brother Zhou, what are you standing here looking at?"
"I wonder if the child is hidden in the dead tree."
Ma San sighed and said with a bitter face: "Brother Zhou, I have searched all the dead trees nearby. Only one dead tree can hide a person, but there is no one inside. I did find some mountain products in the tree hole below, but I don't know who stored them there..."
When people pick too much mountain produce to take home, most of them will choose to find a secret place to hide it and pick it up the next day.
Zhou Yong frowned: "Is there any mountain goods hidden in that dead tree?"
He checked several dead trees nearby but did not find any caves under them.
Ma San pointed to a dead tree not far away and said, "Brother Zhou, it's the dead tree in front. There is a small hole under the tree..."
Zhou Yong walked in the direction of Ma San's finger. He peeled off the covering on the entrance of the cave and reached in to feel around.
He touched wild vegetables and some other mountain products.
Zhou Yong retracted his hand and asked in confusion: "Normally, when people hide mountain products, they will hide them deeper to avoid being discovered. But the mountain products hidden here are actually piled at the entrance of the cave. Do you think this is in line with common sense?"
Ma San took a closer look and said, "It is unusual, why didn't I realize this before?
Zhou Yong pursed his lips and reached his hand into the hole again. Gradually he discovered that although the entrance looked small, the space inside was quite large.
"If I'm not mistaken, this was either a fox hole or a hunting pit dug by someone. Let's dig it open and take a look inside."
Ma San responded, holding a branch, he dug at the entrance of the cave. After a few times, he only loosened a shallow layer of soil.
After he squatted down and carefully peeled off the soil, he was surprised to see a wooden board in front of him.
Ma San slowly raised his head and looked at Zhou Yong, and the two of them hurriedly cleaned the dirt off the wooden board.
Soon a square wooden board appeared in front of them. Zhou Yong pursed his lips, asked Ma San to step back, and lifted the board by himself.
Zhou Yong thought the board would be very heavy, but it turned out to be surprisingly light.
Before he could remove the wooden board that blocked his view, Ma San exclaimed, "Brother Zhou, the two children are down there!"
The wooden board flew out of Zhou Yong's hand with a whoosh. He looked down and saw two children tied up, curled up in a corner and crying with their mouths pouting!
Zhou Yong jumped into the more than two-meter-deep pit without saying a word and took out the food from the child's mouth. Li Jing'an began to cry.
He hugged the two children with a heartbroken feeling, while Ma San called out to others from above.
Everyone who heard the noise rushed over and pulled them out of the pit.
"Son, are you hurt?"
Li Jingen was so frightened that she kept crying and couldn't answer Zhou Yong's words at all.
Ma Yuan's situation was the same as his. Ma San held his daughter and cried silently.
Cao Biao looked around and said to everyone in a deep voice: "This trap was recently dug. The other party obviously planned this kidnapping carefully."
Zhao Min frowned slightly, his eyes fell on some mountain products scattered beside the cave entrance, "They also deliberately put some mountain products there, intending to divert our attention."
Ma San gritted his teeth and said, "I was misled by those mountain products. I thought it was just a tree hole for storing mountain products. I never thought that there was no one hiding in the dead tree. There was a different world under the tree hole..."
Cao Biao looked at Zhou Yong and asked, "What do you think about this?"
Zhou Yong patted Li Jing'an's back gently, his tone seemed to be frozen: "Just do what you have to do."
Cao Biao understood: "Everyone, don't disturb the scene. Leave two people here to watch..."
Zhao Min and Li Ming stayed behind, while Li Hongjun went to inform everyone that the child had been found. Zhou Yong, Ma San, Cao Biao, Sun Qing and others went down the mountain first.
On their way down the mountain, they met Li Caiyun, Liu Juan, Li Baoshan and others.
Seeing that their son and daughter were safe and sound, Liu Juan and Li Caiyun cried with joy.
When Li Jingan saw his mother, he cried heart-wrenchingly.
Li Caiyun started crying out of heartache. Zhou Yong carried his son on his back and walked towards home step by step.
Liu Juan supported Ma San, and the couple followed Sun Qing. Ma Yuan cried and lay on Sun Qing's back.
When we reached the foot of the mountain, Chen Pingliang came to meet us.
"Has the child been found?"
Zhou Yong pursed his lips, and Li Jingan fell asleep on Cao Biao.
Chen Pingliang said: "Old Seven has gone up the mountain. We agreed that if you come down the mountain, I will install a loudspeaker to notify him..."
The three cars honked their horns at the same time. Regardless of whether Xing Laoqi heard it or not, Chen Pingliang and Cao Biao took them home.
When they got home, it was already past two in the morning. Zhou Kexin's four siblings and Jiang Yue'e were sitting in the living room with Zhang Guifang!
Their eyes were all red, and you could tell without any guessing that they had been crying over and over again.
When Zhou Kexin saw Li Jing'an coming back, she rushed forward and burst into tears. Not only her, but also Li Jingchu, Li Jingen and Zhou Kerou all cried.
Zhang Guifang gently touched Li Jingan's face, and Zhou Yong carried his old son into their room.
Li Caiyun, Zhang Guifang, and Zhou Kexin and her brother followed them into the house, and Zhou Yong quickly walked out of the house.
After a while, Ma San went home to settle Liu Juan and her daughter, and then followed Cao Biao to Li's house.
"I'm going to the Hongqi Township Police Station now. Zhou Yong, send someone to keep an eye on Zhou Gang and Zhou Qiang's families..."
Zhou Yong responded, Cao Biao turned and left, Chen Pingliang was confused: "What do you mean? Didn't you say that the child was lost in the mountains?"
"Brother Chen, do you think if a child was lost, a hundred people would be able to find him from this afternoon to now?"
Even if children like to play, they will go home when it gets dark.
If they get lost, they will call for help and even cry when they are anxious. When the people picking mountain products hear them, they will definitely take them down the mountain and send them home.
Chen Pingliang frowned: "Didn't he get lost?"
Zhou Yong pursed his lips and nodded slightly.
Chen Pingliang sneered and said sarcastically, "The people of Huaixi Village are simple and honest, yet such evildoers have sneaked in. They must be severely punished to serve as a warning to others, so that they will not continue to harm innocent people."
Li Baotian gritted his teeth and said, "Tell me, was this done by Zhou Gang and Zhou Qiang?"
He thought he had treated them well as brothers, arranging jobs for them early on without asking for anything in return. However, they actually murdered his grandson, which made Li Baotian very angry.
Zhou Yong looked calm. He said, "Dad, let the police handle this matter. We should not interfere."
Since Zhou Gang and Zhou Qiang had the courage to kidnap Li Jingan and Ma Yuan, they must bear the heavy consequences for their actions.
Don't say that Zhou Yong is ruthless and ungrateful. Originally, they could have lived together in Huaixi Village without interfering with each other, but their buddy wanted to die. It's no wonder that he was cruel and ruthless and didn't care about the relationship between brothers...
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