Lin Ye found Wang Guangming and the others, and when they heard that Kun Kun was missing, they all suggested that they go and look for him together.
Kun Kun's father, Luo Jun, also panicked this time and looked at Luo Hao with pleading eyes.
Although Luo Jun is older than Luo Hao, he always prefers to listen to Luo Hao's ideas when problems arise.
"Let's go, everyone split into groups and conduct a thorough search around the peach grove," Luo Hao said.
Then, Lin Ye led everyone off. Those who had bicycles rode them, while those who were walking almost jogged.
At that moment, things were also a bit chaotic in the peach grove. One person was missing, and the teachers' mood for playing was immediately ruined. They could only organize the children to go back.
Du Wenbing repeatedly asked Xu Bowen and Zhou Xiaochuan if they had seen Kunkun.
When Kun Kun disappeared, all the teachers' faces turned ashen, and the two of them knew that this matter was serious.
Zhou Xiaochuan was terrified and stammered, "No, we found a place to pee ourselves and didn't see Kunkun."
Xu Bowen appeared much calmer. "Teacher Du, we are also very sad that Kunkun is missing, but you can't blame us just because we also went to pee!"
One sentence left Du Wenbing speechless, so anxious that he started pulling his hair.
Qi Wei also came over and said seriously, "Teacher Du, as the homeroom teacher, if a child in your class goes missing, you should look for the reasons within yourself, instead of pushing the blame onto the children."
Then, he told the teachers to take the children back to school quickly, while he stayed behind and pretended to look for someone.
After finalizing the spring outing plan, Qi Wei had An Jie find Xu Bowen and Zhou Xiaochuan, gave each of them ten yuan, and agreed that the two of them would lure Kunkun to a distant place and leave him there, so that Kunkun would get lost and lose himself.
Of course, he figured out how far the two children could take Kunkun, and that if he followed the direction in which he lost him, he could find him quickly.
When the time comes, he will shift the blame to Du Wenbing and Lin Ye, take all the credit for himself, and not worry about Lin Ye not being punished. In the end, the Luo family will also blame Lin Ye.
Now that Lin Ye has a stain on his record, he can find another opportunity to find fault with him and fire Lin Ye, thus eliminating this thorn in his side completely.
However, Qi Wei searched for half an hour but couldn't find Kun Kun anywhere, only some sweet potato scraps left by the roadside.
The area around Taolin is either tea plantations or mountains and forests.
Kunkun came from a barren mountain area where even adults could easily get lost, let alone a child.
After a while, Lin Ye and Du Wenbing also came over. After finding the sweet potato residue, they searched around and finally found a large pit that was more than two meters deep.
Ignoring the thickets, Lin Ye lay down and looked down, discovering boiled sweet potato peels in the pit. He happily called Du Wenbing to confirm.
“That’s right, it’s freshly boiled sweet potato peel. Kun Kun once stayed in it.”
"There's no one inside now. Could they have been rescued?"
The two discussed it for a while, their brows furrowing even deeper.
Logically speaking, Kun Kun has excellent communication skills. If he was rescued, shouldn't he be sent back to the peach orchard?
A bad thought gradually spread in Du Wenbing and Lin Ye's minds.
In this day and age, all kinds of crimes are rampant, and human traffickers are also on the move. Kun Kun just disappeared like this. Could it be that he encountered human traffickers?
Hearing this speculation, Qi Wei panicked. He only wanted to teach Du Wenbing and Lin Ye a lesson, not really want to lose them!
Soon, Wang Guangming arrived with his large group. Upon hearing that Kunkun might have been kidnapped by human traffickers, the air became heavy and filled with a low pressure.
Suddenly, Lin Ye seemed to have thought of something and said to everyone, "Since Kun Kun left sweet potato peels as a signal before, he must have left a secret code later. Everyone, search around and see if there are any clues."
Lin Ye's words reignited everyone's fighting spirit.
Even if human traffickers kidnap him at this point, he should fight back with all his might, just in case they haven't gone far!
Everyone sprang into action again, their eyes scanning the surroundings like searchlights, leaving no detail unchecked.
As the sun gradually set, Qi Wei became increasingly panicked. His legs felt like lead, and he walked like a walking corpse.
Lin Ye noticed his unusual behavior and pulled him aside to ask, "Principal Qi, did you already know that Kun Kun was missing?"
When they were in the peach orchard, Du Wenbing saw Xu Bowen and Zhou Xiaochuan return from urinating but not Kunkun. He said he was going to look for him, but Qi Wei stalled him by saying he was going to play a game soon and that he would be back soon, which delayed the best time to search.
Qi Wei, who was already flustered, became even more angry at being questioned. He glared at him and said, "Don't make false accusations. Before we left, I entrusted you with the task of looking after the child. You lost the child yourself, and now you're trying to shirk responsibility!"
"Who's shirking responsibility? The child is missing, and you, the principal, can't escape either. This has never happened before at the school. Since you came, all sorts of problems have arisen." Du Wenbing spoke up for Lin Ye, tears welling up in his eyes.
Lin Ye became increasingly uneasy, grabbed Qi Wei by the collar, and demanded with red eyes, "Tell me quickly, where did Kun Kun go?"
Qi Wei didn't know, so naturally he couldn't say. Lin Ye then gripped his collar tighter and tighter, watching as Qi Wei's face turned red and his neck thickened, unable to breathe. "I don't know... I really don't know..."
Just then, someone shouted from afar, "Found it! There are sweet potato peels here!"
Lin Ye quickly abandoned Qi Wei and ran in that direction.
Qi Wei took another breath and coughed violently, his face turning as red as a boiled shrimp.
However, no one paid him any attention, and everyone gathered around Lin Ye.
Following the clues, the group arrived at a tea plantation.
This place is covered with rows and rows of tea trees, rising and falling, covering dozens of acres. It would be easy for someone to hide inside.
The clues point here; no matter how difficult it is, we must search step by step.
If it were in later times, one could check the surveillance footage, but in this era, there was no electricity in the village, so there was no surveillance footage to begin with; one could only rely on people to investigate.
Suddenly, dozens of black dots appeared in the tea plantation, slowly moving upwards, occasionally calling out to the forest to indicate that they had not been spotted.
As the sun sets, the afterglow lingers on the horizon, about to disappear below the horizon.
On a small earthen slope atop the tea plantation, Kun Kun woke up, stretched, and stood up.
His stop here was significant; the surging crowd in the tea plantation immediately delighted him.
Grandpa Glasses was right; as long as he stood in a high place, everyone could easily find him.
He saw Lin Ye's figure, his father's figure, and the figures of the uncles and elders in the village.
He excitedly waved down the mountain, "Dad, I'm here!"
Luo Jun seemed to hear a familiar voice, looked up at the mountaintop, and saw that it was Kun Kun waving.
He was both surprised and delighted, and ran towards the top of the mountain.
Everyone looked up and, upon seeing Kun Kun, broke into big smiles.
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