The two men who rushed to the foot of the mountain were pinned down by rocks on one side. After struggling to climb out, they found themselves in a cave.
"Thank goodness, we didn't die!" Xu Ying cried and laughed, enduring her leg injury.
Li Yulan wasn't in much better shape; she was covered in dirt, and a stone had hit her back, soaking her clothes with blood.
"Don't get agitated, sit still and conserve your energy. This place is too well hidden, it'll be hard to find us," Li Yulan said weakly, leaning against the cave wall.
Xu Ying felt remorseful. Why did she come here to join in the fun? The cave was pitch black, with only a small opening through which she could see the light from outside.
"It's not dark yet, they'll surely find us, right?" Xu Ying asked timidly.
Li Yulan said confidently, "When Liu Jie and the others are attacked by wild boars, it will definitely attract everyone's attention. When they find out that we are missing, they will naturally come looking for us."
Just as the two were talking, a commotion broke out outside.
The villagers who had just caught the wild boar were carrying it past the cave, and the vibrations caused the soil above the cave to fall down in a flurry.
Xu Ying hurriedly stood at the edge of the cave and shouted into the small hole, but unfortunately, because the collapsed soil outside was too thick, and the team members were happily humming songs, they did not notice that there was someone under their feet.
Only Snowball, who was following behind, had amazing hearing and heard the shouts from below.
Snowball jumped onto the collapsed soil and crawled into the small hole.
Only then did they realize that the two former educated youths had lived with the owner.
Both of them are bad guys, I'm not going to save them!
However, if they treat this little cutie well, they might consider going out to call for help...
Just then, Snowball was lifted into the air and grabbed by Xu Ying.
Xu Ying grabbed it by the collar and waved it in front of her eyes: "Isn't this that bitch Lu Wanqing's dog? Great, it's fallen into our hands today. Let's teach it a lesson!"
This time, Li Yulan did not refute her, but reminded her, "Don't let it escape. If we stay in the cave for a long time, we can skin it and eat its flesh."
Snowball turned and bit Xu Ying's hand. Xu Ying cried out "Ah!", quickly dropped it, covered her wound, and glared at it with malice.
"You wicked thing, you're about to die and you still bite me. I'll beat you to death."
The cave wasn't big; there wasn't much space left after the two of them. She thought she could easily catch the snowball, but to her surprise, the snowball lightly leaped and landed on the small opening of the cave.
"Luckily, I didn't have the heart to save them!" Snowball walked away without looking back.
Li Yulan then realized that Snowball could go out and call for help, and hurriedly chased after it at the cave entrance, calling out, "Little dog, go back and call for help!"
"If I go and call for help, I'm not a dog!" Snowball wagged its tail and thought bitterly.
After it left, several small mice suddenly emerged from the hole, squeaking and circling around them. Li Yulan was so frightened that she lost her composure, clung to Xu Ying and wouldn't let go, and the two of them cried and screamed together.
As evening approached, Snowball returned home.
Lu Wanqing was cooking when she saw that only it had returned. She felt very nervous and quickly squatted down to stroke its fur.
She breathed a sigh of relief after knowing that Lin Ye was alright and taking Luo Hao to the county hospital.
"Go take a shower, you're all dirty, why did you get so much dirt on you?"
Xueqiu then told them about Xu Ying and Li Yulan being trapped.
"Hey, Snowball, I think I can't hear you anymore. What did you say? Go take a shower!" Lu Wanqing pretended to send Snowball away and went back to the stove to cook.
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When Su Dazhuang was sent back to the educated youth settlement, he was still in a state of terror. He didn't care that his pants were wet with urine. He covered his head with the quilt, huddled on the bed, and dared not get up again.
The group shook their heads and left, completely unaware that the two female educated youths had also gone to look for someone.
It wasn't until the next day that Zhou Changsheng remembered to ask about the situation of the educated youth, and then he remembered that the two female educated youth had also gone out and had not returned.
What a nuisance!
He quickly organized his team to go up the mountain to search...
In the early hours of the next day, Lu Wanqing, still half asleep, touched the person beside her and found that Lin Ye was not there, feeling a pang of disappointment.
Yesterday, Lin Chunlei came and gave me a letter saying that Lin Ye would be staying at the hospital to keep an eye on things and wouldn't be coming back tonight.
She initially thought it was nothing serious, but she tossed and turned all night, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Normally, she likes to curl up in Lin Ye's arms to sleep, feeling warm and cozy, which is especially comfortable.
Without Lin Ye's embrace, she felt empty inside.
She got up listlessly and then started cooking porridge.
With Lin Ye away, she had to take good care of Zhao Xiaolan.
Suddenly, they heard a commotion next door. Wang Xiuqin was blaming Lin Jianguo for not going with Lin Ye to take Luo Hao to the county hospital. She said that Lin Ye could get ten work points in one go, and that he was stupid!
Lin Jianguo was also unconvinced, "Why send so many people? His own brother wanted to go, but he was persuaded to come back. Only his father was allowed to go. They said if he wanted to go, he had to go today, so as not to cause trouble for the hospital."
Lu Wanqing's eyes suddenly lit up. She could go with Aunt Luo and the others!
With that in mind, she found the energy to cook. She made lean meat porridge and egg pancakes. After she and Zhao Xiaolan ate a little, she packed everything into an aluminum lunchbox, put it in a cloth bag, and prepared to bring it to Lin Ye.
As she was about to leave with Zhao Xiaolan, she saw Lin Gou Dan looking over with a sly eye. After a moment of hesitation, she went back inside and put all the money, supplies, sewing machine, and various semi-finished fabrics into her spatial storage. She even put the jars containing the cured meat into it.
As expected, not long after she left, Lin Gou Dan secretly headed towards the west room.
After the harvest season ended, he removed the cast from his foot and was finally able to run around freely, which is how he set his sights on Lin Ye's house.
Just thinking about the abundance of supplies in his home, and the money Lu Wanqing earned from making clothes, made him chuckle to himself.
Both of them went to the county town and won't be back for a while. This time, he's going to empty his house!
Upon arriving at the door, I found it unlocked and opened with a gentle touch.
He was overjoyed, his little eyes gleaming as he searched around for something.
But the room was empty, there was nothing there. When I opened the cabinet, it was empty too, and there wasn't a single grain of rice in the rice jar.
There was also a biscuit tin on the table. He had seen Lu Wanqing put things in it before, and when he opened it happily, he found it was dark inside.
He reached his hand inside and groped around, suddenly touching something cold. The next second, his hand was caught in a mousetrap. He jumped up in pain but dared not make a sound.
That damned woman Lu Wanqing actually put a mousetrap in the cookie tin, as if she knew in advance that he was going to steal something.
Holding his hand, which was pinched red, he slunk away.
Meanwhile, Lu Wanqing had already met with Aunt Luo and they boarded a tractor heading to the county town together.
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