Chapter 14: We Will Find It
"Big baby, second baby, third baby, come out quickly. Mommy has brought you some delicious food."
Xu Miaomiao put the bought oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the kitchen. Erbao ran over happily and called "Mom" softly. Xiaobao followed beside her and used sign language, making the shape of a heart to Xu Miaomiao.
Xu Miaomiao handed the pastries to them, and did not see Dabao inside or outside the house.
He squatted down, looked at Erbao and said, "Erbao, where is your brother?"
Erbao shook his head: "I don't know."
Xiaobao blinked his eyes and gestured with sign language: It seems like he went out in the morning.
"Gone out?" Xu Miaomiao was a little confused and knocked on Song Weiwei's door.
"Xu Miaomiao, what's wrong?"
Song Weiwei opened the door impatiently and looked at her unhappily.
"Have you seen Dabao today?"
Song Weiwei snorted disdainfully, "I don't know. I was in the room after dinner."
Xu Miaomiao frowned, having a bad feeling in her heart.
"Haha." Song Weiwei chuckled twice: "Dabao is sensible at an early age. He probably sees through your black-hearted mother and can't stand it anymore."
Xu Miaomiao glared at her and left in a hurry.
Thinking that Dabao had gone to chop wood again, he hurried to the front mountain to look for him, and ran into Wu Zhuang who had just returned.
"Hey, what happened to Madam Song?"
Wu Zhuang looked at Xu Miaomiao's anxious expression and spoke curiously.
Xu Miaomiao steadied her breath and said, "Mr. Wu, have you seen my Dabao?"
Wu Zhuang shook his head and said thoughtfully: "Come to think of it, I haven't seen him for a long time."
"Thank you." Xu Miaomiao lowered her head and walked in a daze: she always had a bad feeling in her heart today.
"Madam Song, wait a minute." Wu Zhuang stopped the woman and said, "I'll call my brothers to look for it together."
"Then I'll trouble you."
Xu Miaomiao looked at him gratefully. Wu Zhuang smiled foolishly and touched his head: "You saved us last time. This is what we should do."
Having said that, he went and called on everyone to search around the village.
Wang Xing'er listened to the noise outside the door, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "It's what you deserve. You've done so many bad things, and now you're getting your retribution."
"Shut up!" The village chief scolded Wang Xing'er and glanced at her with disgust.
Everyone searched every corner from the front mountain to the village, but found no trace of Dabao.
The sky slowly darkened, and Xu Miaomiao felt embarrassed to annoy everyone: "I'm sorry, everyone. I've annoyed you today. It's getting late, everyone should go back and rest early."
Seeing that she was somewhat distraught, Wu Zhuang put his hand on her shoulder and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, Madam Song. Maybe the little guy has already gone home by himself."
Xu Miaomiao forced a smile and hurried home.
When they opened the door, only Erbao and Xiaobao were inside, looking at each other in bewilderment.
The girl blinked and stared at Xu Miaomiao: "Mom, haven't you found your brother yet?"
Xu Miaomiao sighed and patted Erbao's head to comfort him: "Don't worry, mother will find him."
"Madam Song! Madam Song!"
Hearing an anxious voice outside the door, Xu Miaomiao hurried out to check, only to see that it was a matchmaker named Li from the village.
"Matchmaker Li, what's wrong?"
Xu Miaomiao was very nervous, hoping that it would bring news about Dabao.
"Madam Song, I just suddenly remembered that I saw your Dabao coming down the mountain today. I forgot about it because I was in a hurry."
The woman sounded apologetic, but Xu Miaomiao didn't have time to pay attention to her. After comforting Erbao and Xiaobao, she hurried down the mountain.
It was late at night, and the autumn night was getting even cooler. Xu Miaomiao couldn't help shivering.
Every household locked their doors and the once bustling market was now deserted.
Xu Miaomiao was wandering around the streets like a ghost, looking for traces of Dabao in every corner.
Dabao opened his eyes dazedly and found himself in a forest.
The two men in front of him lit a bonfire and put a pheasant on it.
Seeing that he woke up, she tore off a piece of meat and handed it to Dabao, who took it tentatively.
"Kid, do you remember who you are?"
Dabao's mind flashed through what they had said during the day. He frowned and pretended not to remember.
"I just remember there was a big tree, and there was a lot of gold under the tree."
"Gold?" The man stared at Dabao with his eyes wide open.
The man on the other side also stopped what he was doing and looked at Dabao seriously: "Do you remember who you are?"
Dabao shook his head, and the man finally felt relieved and walked over to discuss in a low voice.
"Brother, can you believe what this kid said?"
"It should be possible. After he smells the psychedelic incense, he will forget everything unless it is something that he remembers very clearly."
The man nodded half-comprehendingly.
"Let's first trick this little fool into taking us to find gold, and then sell him."
After discussing a plan, the two men came to Dabao and said that they were his father and uncle, and asked him to take them to find gold.
Dabao snorted coldly and took them on the road as soon as the sun rose.
As I walked, I ended up back at the market.
"Brother, why is he back again? Is this little guy lying to us?"
The man shook his head: "You are stupid, we kidnapped him here. It is normal to look for gold here."
"oh."
As they said that, they followed Dabao's steps: "It seems to be the tree inside."
Dabao pointed to a tree in the courtyard and the two looked at each other and climbed over the wall to go in.
As soon as he landed, he ran head-on into a patrolling soldier.
The soldier raised his knife and fork and looked at the two men: "Who are you? Come over the wall and come to the government office!"
"Haha." The man realized that they had been deceived and said quickly, "Gentlemen, we two brothers just took the wrong path."
"Yes, yes, we went the wrong way."
But the officers and soldiers did not give them a chance to escape and brought the two men to court.
"Sir, these two men were spotted sneaking around in the yard."
The soldier pointed at the two people and said.
The two brothers quickly explained: "No, sir, we two brothers really took the wrong path."
"No," Dabao said, "Sir, I was looking for my mother in the market when these two people knocked me unconscious and tried to kidnap me."
The two brothers looked at each other and said tremblingly: "My lord, this child is our nephew. He said this because he had a quarrel with us."
Dabao sneered: "Then tell me how old I am, what's my name, where's my home, and what do I like to eat!"
The two looked at each other, and the county magistrate understood what was going on, and immediately arrested them.
"You're quite a smart kid."
The county magistrate smiled and touched Dabao's head and said, "Do you remember the way home?"
Dabao nodded: He hadn't been home for a day and a night, and Erbao, Xiaobao and she were probably worried sick.
"Go home early and don't let your parents worry."
Dabao thanked the county magistrate and hurried home.
(End of this chapter)
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