Ye Yunniang tried to kick it a few times, but couldn't get it off.
The other person gripped her very tightly, as if her feet were her only hope.
"Quickly, push harder," Wen Nuan said.
"Okay." Chunyan said forcefully.
With the help of the three of them, Ye Yunniang crawled out of the dog hole, and the people behind her were also pulled out.
"Sister Taohong!" Chunyan exclaimed in surprise.
"Hurry up, someone has spotted us," Tao Hong urged.
"Come with me."
Warmth ran forward, with the three following behind. Behind them came shouts, "They're there! Chase after them!"
Ye Yunniang covered her head and ran after them, with only one thought in her mind: she wanted to escape from here.
They were not as fast as the men and were about to be overtaken.
"There's a river ahead, let's jump in." Warmth heard the sound of water.
"You bitch, don't run away." It was Jin Laoliu's voice behind him, along with the voices of Monkey and others.
"Stop yelling, hurry up and chase after them."
Ye Yunniang ignored him and just ran as fast as she could.
Faster, faster...
With a splash, Wen Nuan, who was at the front, jumped into the river without hesitation.
The swallows stopped by the river.
"I can not swim."
"Drowning or being tortured to death, which do you choose?" After saying that, Ye Yunniang jumped into the river.
Peach Blossom jumped in without hesitation.
Seeing the people behind her, Chunyan gritted her teeth and jumped into the river, walking into the water.
He quickly started splashing around, crying out, "Help! I can't swim! Help me!"
A piece of wood as thick as an arm was stuffed into Chunyan's arms.
"Hold on and swim." After saying that, Ye Yunniang plunged into the water and swam forward quickly.
"Damn it, they jumped in!" Jin Laoliu, who was at the front, shouted and jumped in as well, quickly swimming towards Chunyan at the back.
"Don't come any closer!" Chunyan cried out anxiously, kicking her legs forcefully.
Her efforts did not cause the wood to spin.
Her hand slipped, she screamed, and fell into the water. Jin Laoliu caught her and brought her ashore.
The monkey looked thin, but it was incredibly fast, catching up with Ye Yunniang who was swimming with all her might ahead.
Ye Yunniang struggled, kicking the monkey hard with her feet.
The monkey got angry, grabbed Ye Yunniang's hair, and forcefully pushed her underwater.
Glug glug...
After several attempts to grab and press down, Ye Yunniang's strength waned, and her breathing slowed.
She felt like she was about to die.
With a loud boom, the surging river water rushed in.
"Quick, go back!" The monkey screamed when it saw what was happening, and grabbed Ye Yunniang to swim to the shore.
Human speed can never match the speed of water.
The group was swept forward by the water. Faced with the rushing river, people seemed so small and powerless.
A wave crashed in, and the monkey released Ye Yunniang.
Ye Yunniang's body rolled with the waves.
Am I about to die?
Die here, in the cold river.
She was so unwilling to accept it; she was just one step away from escaping the human traffickers.
Then I can go home and see my mother?
I saw Pan'er, I saw An'an, I saw Pingping.
...
She opened her eyes, and a chest appeared in front of her.
Ye Yunniang closed her eyes and then opened them again.
"Are you satisfied with what you see?" A deep laugh brought Ye Yunniang's muddled mind to a clearer state.
Looking up, Jiang Mingzhe's face came into clear view.
What are you doing here?
"I dreamt that something happened to you." Jiang Mingzhe hugged Ye Yunniang tightly, feeling relieved that he hadn't ignored the dream.
"I almost lost you."
Ye Yunniang hugged Jiang Mingzhe, "I thought I was going to die too. I was so unwilling to accept it, not being able to see Mother, Pan'er, and Shushu. Ah,"
Ye Yunniang felt a pain in her shoulder, wondering why Jiang Mingzhe had bitten her.
Jiang Mingzhe licked the teeth marks. "Did you miss me?"
No.
The shoulder pain reminded Ye Yunniang that she shouldn't say that.
Feeling guilty, he gave a guilty "hmm".
Jiang Mingzhe was well aware of his place in Ye Yunniang's heart.
"You heartless little brat."
"I didn't," Ye Yunniang retorted, feeling utterly heartless. How could she have given birth to Pingping, doted on him, and loved him?
Ye Yunniang felt wronged and struggled to get out.
"Don't move." Jiang Mingzhe's suppressed breathing made Ye Yunniang realize what was happening.
"I'm hungry," Ye Yunniang said, her stomach rumbling.
Ye Yunniang blushed instantly and buried her face in Jiang Mingzhe's chest.
Jiang Mingzhe smiled and released Ye Yunniang.
Ye Yunniang stepped out of Jiang Mingzhe's embrace and picked up her clothes to put them on.
I lifted the tent flap and went outside, my eyes wide open.
"Baise, what are you doing here?" Ye Yunniang was surprised. Wasn't Baise supposed to be going to the frontier with the Tie family uncle and nephew? How come she's with Jiang Mingzhe?
"Try my grilled fish." Baise didn't answer, but instead invited Ye Yunniang to try her grilled fish.
Upon getting closer, Ye Yunniang saw Baise's protruding belly.
"You're pregnant?"
Whose child is it in her belly?
Tie Yi and Jiang Mingzhe flashed through Ye Yunniang's mind.
"Jiang Mingzhe's." Baise's answer left Ye Yunniang with only Tie Yi's face in her mind.
Where is Uncle Tieyi?
"You trust your man that much?"
"Be serious."
“If I were serious, your Uncle Tieyi wouldn’t have fallen into my hands.”
"Yes, you're amazing." Ye Yunniang smiled as she took the grilled fish, took a bite, and found it tasted good.
"Yunniang." Wen Nuan came over carrying a bowl.
As expected, her intuition was correct; she had been rescued because of Ye Yunniang.
"How are you? What about Chunyan and Taohong?" Ye Yunniang asked with concern upon seeing Wen Nuan, who had shared life and death with her.
"I don't know." The warm reply made Ye Yunniang's smile fade.
"We're both fine, so they'll definitely be fine too." Ye Yunniang didn't know whether she was comforting Wen Nuan or herself.
"Yes, she will. That woman Tao Hong won't die easily." Wen Nuan handed the mutton soup in her hand to Ye Yunniang.
Ye Yunniang took it, took a sip, and found that there was no gamey smell at all, only the fragrant aroma of mutton.
"Your lamb cooking skills are really good."
"It's not that I'm good at cooking, it's that the sheep here are good." Wen Nuan looked at the flock of sheep not far away.
Warm words made Ye Yunniang look around.
Vast grasslands, flocks of sheep.
"Is this the State of Yan?"
“Yes, we are now on the border of the Yan Kingdom. Ahead is the Pearl River, which you jumped into last night. After crossing the river is the Daqing Dynasty,” Baise explained to Ye Yunniang.
"Can we go back?"
"Of course," Baise replied affirmatively.
"My intuition tells me we'll be back soon," Wen Nuan said, then got up to get busy.
Ye Yunniang ate a few bites of fish and drank a small bowl of mutton soup, and then she was full.
During the month or so that she was arrested and went hungry every day, Ye Yunniang's appetite shrank.
After eating her fill, Ye Yunniang felt sleepy and couldn't help but yawn.
"Go back home when you're tired; your man is waiting for you."
Thinking of Jiang Mingzhe inside the tent, Ye Yunniang instantly lost her sleepiness.
To distract herself, Ye Yunniang asked about Baise. Why was she in such a hurry to leave on the second day of their marriage?
"It's all your man's fault."
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