The moon was as dark as water. Tomorrow they would have to cross mountains and rivers. After dinner, the villagers went to bed early.
Only when there was no movement in the village did Wang Laowu and his family sneak out.
Wang Laowu and Wang Yongchang secretly led out the horses from Su Man's family and Wang the blacksmith's family.
The four of them hurriedly put the tied luggage on the horse. Wang Laowu and his aunt rode on one horse, and Wang Yongchang and Qin Wanru rode on another horse.
Doing such a sneaky thing made them extremely nervous. They were so focused on escaping that they didn't notice that Wang Yongchang and Qin Wanru's horse were walking a little unnaturally.
It started raining again at night, and the sound of the rain covered up the sound of horse hooves.
The sound of rain was soothing, and with a roof over our heads to protect us from the rain, everyone slept soundly.
Early the next morning, Su Man was awakened by Zhou Anan's crying.
"Aunt! Oh no, our horse is missing!"
"The horse is missing?"
Su Man put on her clothes and went to see, and sure enough, the horse they had tied in the back room was missing.
At the same time, Wang Tiedan's shouting was heard outside.
"Who stole my horse?"
“…”
After searching for a while, everyone found that only Wang Laowu's door was closed.
When they went in, they found that Wang Laowu's family had long disappeared. Only Daya and Erya were left with their hands and feet tied and their mouths gagged, and a bag of food thrown on the kang.
"My daughter!"
Xiaolan quickly untied the ropes on them, and the two children hugged Xiaolan and cried.
"Dad, grandpa, grandma and the others left and left us here."
...
After finding out the reason, all the villagers were angry.
"These beasts actually stole the horse and ran away, leaving the child behind. They are really inhumane."
"That's right. Xiaolan served them for so many years, but she actually took Qin Wanru away. She is so heartless."
Zhang Fengxi cursed directly, "People like them will get their comeuppance sooner or later!"
As soon as he finished speaking, heart-wrenching cries for help echoed throughout the village.
"Someone come!"
"Help!"
The sound was so shrill that it frightened the gathered villagers.
"What's going on? Who's shouting? Are the bandits coming?"
The village chief and several men plucked up the courage to go out. When they looked closely, they saw a man like a water ghost rolling and crawling towards them.
"Village chief, please save us!"
The person who shouted for help turned out to be Wang Yongchang. He was soaked and dripping with mud, looking extremely miserable.
Seeing his miserable state, Zhang Fengxi rolled his eyes and said, "This is really retribution in this life."
The village chief looked puzzled. "Didn't you steal the horses and run away? What happened to you?"
Wang Yongchang cried and said, "We met a group of soldiers on the road last night. They said our horses belonged to the government. My father was mistaken for a bandit and stabbed through the chest. And Wanru... Wanru..."
Widow Song in the crowd was anxious. She rushed out and grabbed his collar, "What happened to Wanru?"
"Wanru fell off her horse, and I don't know what happened to her... The soldiers wanted to arrest me, and I was so scared that I ran back..."
"Wanru, my Wanru!"
Widow Song cried and wiped her tears.
Su Man always felt that something was wrong. "Aren't you riding horses? Couldn't you have escaped?"
Wang Yongchang was both scared and sad, and he even got angry at Su Man. "It's all your horse's fault. It threw us off halfway through the race! Dad saw us fall off the horse and stopped to save me. Otherwise, Dad wouldn't have died!"
Seeing him turn the tables, Zhou Pingping, who was eager to protect her aunt, also got angry. "How can you be so shameless? It was obviously you who stole our horse!"
Wang Xiuxiu also said angrily, "How do you know it's not retribution?"
"Shut up! All of you shut up!"
Wang Yongchang, who had experienced such a huge change, cried like a child. He crawled to the village chief and said, "Village chief, please find someone to save my parents!"
The village chief was also confused by this matter, and he could not care about the fact that they stole the horses. After all, they were from the same village, so he found a few people to look for them in the place Wang Yongchang said.
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Su Man always felt that something was wrong, so she called Wang Tiedan to ask.
"Tiedan, has your horse been injured these days?"
"No, I was riding it yesterday and I wasn't hurt."
Speaking of horses, Wang Tiedan was a little depressed, "I will never be able to ride one again."
Su Man touched his head and said, "A blessing in disguise. If we had run into soldiers, we would have been in great danger. Nothing is more important than your life and your father's, right?"
"Um."
Wang Tiedan nodded heavily, "I understand, aunt."
Looking at Wang Tiedan's back, Su Man narrowed her eyes.
The bandits' horses naturally didn't come from any good sources.
It is really shocking that the officers and soldiers killed them without verifying whether they were good citizens.
It seems that in today's world, whether it is the government soldiers or the bandits, they all eat each other and cannot be relied upon.
It's just that Qin Wanru and Wang Yongchang fell off their horses...
Su Man always felt that this matter was a bit strange. Both horses were obviously fine, so why did something happen as soon as they rode out?
Just when she was about to go back and ask Zhou Anan if there was anything unusual with the horse in the past few days, she suddenly saw Qin Mosheng comforting Widow Song.
Widow Song was crying her heart out, and Qin Mosheng was whispering something to her.
Seeing her looking over, Qin Mosheng hurriedly supported Widow Song and left.
Seeing this, Su Man had some guesses in her mind.
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noon
The villagers brought back the three members of the Wang family, two of them were lying down and one was sitting.
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