Tie Niu wanted to say more, but Lin Yi made the final decision: "Alright, do you still want me to pick up your aunt? If you keep dawdling, it will get dark and the road will be difficult to walk at night."
The crowd in front noticed the changes here after Ling Shuang's cart stopped. There were many friends of Tie Niu in the crowd, and they all tried to persuade Tie Niu.
In the end, it was Lin Yi's words that made the difference: "If your aunt can't walk anymore, I can still find a stroller to push her, or carry her on my back. But if I bring you along, I can't guarantee that I can push you both."
Tie Niu looked at his own little arms and legs, and finally stopped clamoring to go along. However, he awkwardly reminded Lin Yi, "Uncle, you are my uncle, right? Uncle, don't tie up Auntie. Auntie's wrists are red just now. Please persuade her and bring her here quickly. What if...what if Auntie still doesn't want to...otherwise, I should go with you, okay?"
Tie Niu was also in a dilemma. He thought that if his aunt still disagreed, he would give her some sleeping pills. After he picked her up, he would find a way to persuade his aunt. But Tie Niu couldn't say it. Medicine was not something that tasted good. What if his aunt got sick after taking it? Oh, he was in such a dilemma.
Chu Tianjiao covered her face and sobbed twice at the right time, and Tie Niu finally calmed down completely: "Oh, okay, it's okay if I don't go, please stop crying." Women are troublesome.
A sly smile appeared on Chu Tianjiao's lowered face, but it quickly disappeared.
Lin Yi ignored him and walked to Ling Shuang and whispered a few words. Then he turned around, bent down, and picked up Chu Tianjiao like a princess, which made Chu Tianjiao exclaim in surprise. The crowd in front also heard noisy whispers.
Chu Tianjiao was carefully placed on the cart by Lin Yi. Her heart was beating wildly, and a blush spread across her slightly swollen, but still delicate face. As she watched the man walk away in the opposite direction, she couldn't help but shout, "Tianyi, come back soon."
Also, be sure to stay safe.
Lin Yi just waved his hand and disappeared on the path in the woods without looking back.
After he left, Ling Shuang asked for everyone's opinions. This group of tenacious women and girls were really strong. They all said that they could still hold on and asked to continue the journey. They felt that this place was still too close to the village, and they were still very nervous and insecure in their hearts.
Ling Shuang put the child in Chu Tianjiao's hands and asked Tie Niu to sit in the cart as well. However, Tie Niu shook his head and walked to the front of the cart to help his grandmother push, pull and drag it. He was not a little girl, he was a man.
The group walked for more than two hours and finally felt hungry and tired. It was getting dark. When Ling Shuang came, he remembered that there was a cave more than half an hour ahead.
This group consisted entirely of women and children, and traveling at night through the mountains and forests posed many safety risks. She planned not to rest, but to have everyone persevere and rest at the cave, which was also the first meeting point she and Lin Yi had agreed upon.
Women with children carried the younger ones on their backs and pulled the older ones. Those without children also voluntarily helped their sisters who had heavier loads to carry their dry food bags. The crowd formed a line and walked silently on the quiet mountain path. Everyone was gritting their teeth and persevering.
Chu Tianjiao asked many times to get off the cart and walk. Pushing the cart on the mountain road, whether uphill or downhill, was not an easy task. She saw that her mother's hair had turned a lot whiter, and her age was there. How could she bear to sit in the cart and let her elderly mother push it?
However, Ling Shuang disagreed, repeatedly stating that pushing was easy for her and not forcing herself. "Look, I'm pushing you and talking without even breathing. I'm not sweating and I'm not tired at all. Just sit still. I'm not trying to show off. I'm in great shape."
Chu Tianjiao was skeptical. In fact, she was not very comfortable sitting there, but she could not persuade her mother, and her body really could not bear it anymore.
She had just given birth today, and her little daughter in her arms hadn't cried or made a fuss. She was worried that she couldn't keep the child, and she was reunited with her relatives, so her emotions were fluctuating too much. Right now, she was relying on a strong force to hold on and not collapse.
"You'd better lie down for a while, otherwise your waist won't be able to take it." Ling Shuang advised her.
Just as she finished speaking, she noticed that the team in front had stopped: "Why aren't you moving?"
At the front of the team, a clever little girl ran over to report: "Grandma Tieniu, there seem to be a lot of people coming towards us with torches. Are my dad and the others chasing us?" The little girl said this tremblingly.
Tie Niu rubbed his nose and said, "Jin Di, you're so stupid. If they were chasing us, they would have come from behind us. How could they have run to the front? Besides, when we came out, they were all 'asleep'. My grandma said they must have slept for at least a day or two. It definitely wasn't your father and the others. Don't worry."
Jin Di was instantly convinced and grinned at Tie Niu with her gapped teeth showing: "Tie Niu, you are so smart."
Tie Niu was also happy: "That's right, my aunt said that I am the smartest child in our village."
Ling Shuang asked everyone to rest where they were while she went to check out the situation ahead. The torch was actually still quite a distance away from them, but there were no other buildings on the mountain except for grass and trees, and it was dark, so she could only see it clearly and thought it was very close.
After walking more than a hundred meters, she took out a handful of small paper figures from her pocket, and then took out a strange red pen, and dotted a few times on the ears, eyes and mouths of the three small paper figures. Then she opened her palms, and the small paper figures shook their legs and stood up in her hands.
Ling Shuang ordered: "Go and see what's going on over there."
The three little paper figures nodded, jumped, and landed on the ground. Then they flew towards the torch at an incredible speed and disappeared in an instant.
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