He Nian felt a darkness before his eyes, and then the world started spinning.
He was very scared and didn't know how to escape.
Suddenly, he heard Sui Sui crying.
"Wow~Brother..."
He struggled hard and saw the little wooden horse in Suisui's hand through the gap in the sack.
He kept shouting: Don't come over here! Go home to your aunt, run!
But he could only make a "woohoo" sound, letting the tears blur his eyes, and he couldn't even wipe away his tears.
"Little girl, my little girl."
Yan Xiuqin ran towards Hesui crying, and picked up Hesui who was chasing her and crying.
The man walking in front fell back and grabbed her arm:
"Cover her mouth quickly. Do you want people to arrest both you and me, idiot?"
Henian stared, holding back tears, and looked for Suisui through the gap.
But he could only hear Sui Sui making the same "woooo" sound as him, and then he saw the grass and the man's feet moving backwards.
Soon, he felt dizzy again, followed by a pain in his body, and hit the wooden board hard.
Finally the thatch covered the gap that he could see through.
The man covered the thatch with a layer of sugar cane to disguise the ox cart, and then he shouted at Yan Xiuqin:
"Idiot, why don't you come up quickly?"
Without waiting for Yan Xiuqin to respond, he raised the whip to drive the cattle:
“Yo yo…”
As he kept whipping the old cow, it ran wildly and left the village via the mountain road on the left side of the Lu family that faced the village entrance.
After running for a while, the man saw that there was no one around, so he stopped the ox cart, pulled apart the sugarcane and straw on it, and took out He Sui, who was covered with fear on his face.
Yan Xiuqin held him back:
"Niu Dazhuang, what are you going to do?"
He shook Yan Xiuqin off and threw Hesui into the grass by the roadside.
"No one wanted the girl, she couldn't be sold, so she was thrown away."
Yan Xiuqin knelt on the ground and begged him, kowtowed to him:
"Da Zhuang, I owe this child. I have been restless for the past two years. Can you keep her? I will earn food to support her."
He turned around, grabbed Yan Xiuqin's arm, dragged her and threw her onto the ox cart.
He slapped the cow hard, shouted at it to run again, and then spat out a mouthful of phlegm:
"I can't even keep my own offspring alive, and you still want to take the wild girl I gave birth to back home?"
"Useless fool, if you have the strength, then earn some more work points, otherwise I will sell you out too. I mean what I say, and I won't joke with you."
Yan Xiuqin just wiped her tears, leaned against the edge of the ox cart, and secretly pulled away some of the sugarcane and straw covering Henian.
Perhaps, allowing her son to breathe more easily before being sold was the only kindness this woman had as a mother.
At the same time in Wangshan Brigade, Luo Qianyu got up and walked into the kitchen following the sound.
Lu Siman was waving a spatula to stir-fry sweet potato leaves. There were two dishes, eggplant and bitter gourd, on the stove. When he saw her come in, he thought she was hungry.
"Sister-in-law, are you hungry? The food will be ready soon."
"Today, while my mom gave me the opportunity to cook, I also picked some eggplants to add to my meal, hehe."
Luo Qianyu smiled:
"It's okay. I don't feel hungry. What about Nian Nian and Sui Sui? Don't they usually follow you?"
Lu Siman didn't care.
"If they didn't come into the kitchen to play, they must be in the yard or at the gate. They won't run around."
She scooped the sweet potato leaves out of the pot, brought some eggplant, and nodded at Luo Qianyu:
"Sister-in-law, bring out the bitter melon too. Let's eat it first. I'm craving eggplant."
Luo Qianyu picked up the bitter melon and followed her.
She called out again:
"Niannian, hurry up and bring Suisui over for dinner. We have to bring food to grandma and the others later."
However, after they put the dishes on the table, there was no sign of the two children, nor any response.
Luo Qianyu looked at her:
"Not at home? Could there be bad guys..."
Lu Siman waved his hand nonchalantly:
"No, at most he ran off to play somewhere and I didn't hear him. You look around the house and I'll go look outside the yard."
Luo Qianyu couldn't say that she wasn't vigilant.
She knew that there were no kindergartens or primary schools in the production brigade, and that children had to go to the commune to go to school. Children would not go to school until they were eight years old, or even older.
Children who don’t go to school usually take care of themselves most of the time, with the older ones taking the younger ones out to play.
When it’s time for dinner, the adults just shout at the door and the children will run home.
Therefore, adults would only remind us not to go to the river or the mountain and not to run too far.
Adults and children alike felt that it was impossible for human traffickers to appear in a peaceful production brigade.
But the two of them shouted inside and outside, but didn't see anyone, and they became anxious.
"Sister-in-law, what should I do? Sui Sui is still young, and Nian Nian won't take her out to run around. I'll just be in the kitchen cooking, where will they go?"
Luo Qianyu thought about what Henian said that day about taking his sister away from home, and regretted telling the truth to the child. He felt guilty and worried.
However, the more nervous she is, the calmer she is. This is a habit acquired through training.
She quickly made a judgment and caught Lu Siman who was spinning around:
"Go find the team leader first and ask him to help organize the search for the child. If you meet someone on the way, ask him to help you go to the field to call your mother and third brother."
"I'll look for any traces nearby. It's impossible for the two children to disappear out of thin air."
She spoke quickly and hurriedly, pulling Lu Siman out of the yard.
Lu Siman was assigned specific actions and finally knew what to do, so he ran away.
Luo Qianyu had just observed the yard and found signs of two children playing. Now he searched the place outside the yard where Lu Siman had been.
She did not miss the bent grass, the places with traces of footsteps, and even the footprints on the ground.
Fortunately, their family lived at the very end of the brigade and there were not many people walking around.
Behind us is Niuwei Mountain, to the right are all houses, and further ahead are the fields and crops of the production team, where people are working.
Excluding these two directions, only the left side is left. In some places the soil is relatively thick, leaving some footprints.
Luo Qianyu followed these traces and walked to the big tree where Henian and Yan Xiuqin met.
Not only did we see the little wooden horse that is often played with during the New Year, we also found cow hoof prints, traces left by ox carts, scattered dry straw and a few dried sugarcane leaves.
Fortunately, there was enough information left behind, so she ran out of the village along the road, raising a cloud of dust.
When the two children were captured, the only thing she could think of was abduction. The longer the time had passed since they were abducted, the harder it would be to find the people.
She was extremely anxious and chased after it. Soon she caught a glimpse of a flash of red in the grass.
That’s the little clothes that Suisui wears!
She stopped and turned around, her soles almost worn out, and rushed to the little guy.
"Years old."
As soon as she pulled out the rag that was blocking Hesui's mouth and untied the hemp rope, the little guy threw himself into her arms and cried loudly:
"Mom, mom...bad guy, brother..."
He Sui's cute little face was all red at this moment. Her heart melted and it ached even more as she kept calling out "Mom".
"Good Sui Sui, don't be afraid, mom is here, let's go save brother."
"Come, mom will carry you."
Her nose felt sore, she patted He Sui's hand and turned around.
He Sui obediently lay on her back.
In an instant, she felt a heavy responsibility on her shoulders and wanted to catch the human traffickers and cut them into pieces.