Chapter 506 Wei Xin stumbles
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After leaving the family compound, Wei Xin looked around the military gate but did not see any sign of the contact person.
She felt a little depressed. What was wrong with these people? With such an important matter today, no one came to the army to check on the situation? What if they didn't leave?
However, her expression remained calm, and she turned to Lin Cuicui and smiled, "Sister, it's getting late. I know a way. If we follow that way, we can get to the pier faster. This way we don't have to rush." Lin Cuicui nodded in agreement without any doubt.
As they walked, they turned into an alley. Not far away, they arrived at the familiar grocery store.
In the morning light, the grocery store owner had already set up his stall and was banging on the shelves with a feather duster, raising clouds of dust. Wei Xin glanced at the owner casually, then suddenly stumbled, his left foot tripping hard on his right, and he was thrown forward.
"Ouch!" Wei Xin exclaimed, hopping on one foot to avoid a few times, complaining: "This is such a shabby road. I don't know who paved it. It's full of potholes."
Wei Xin's outburst was so sudden that Lin Cuicui didn't react. She quickly stepped forward and looked at Wei Xin, "Sister-in-law, are you okay? Is your foot hurt?"
Wei Xin rubbed her ankle while glancing towards the grocery store. She stomped her foot hard on the ground a few times and felt it. "Yeah, it hurts a little."
The grocery store owner paused with the feather duster in his hand, then continued cleaning as if nothing had happened.
Lin Cuicui didn't know what Wei Xin meant, but she had a feeling something was up. Why? She hadn't brought Xixi with her. Was she changing her mind and not going?
"Sister-in-law, can you still go? Otherwise, let's go another day?" Lin Cuicui didn't want to delay any longer. The troops had already been deployed, and she didn't want to give up this opportunity.
Wei Xin frowned and stomped his feet on the ground a few more times, and Lin Cuicui's brows furrowed even more.
Wei Xin stamped her feet and turned around twice on the ground. She looked up happily and said, "Oh, it's nothing serious. I'll just try to dodge it and it won't hurt so much. Maybe it was just a slight force, it will be fine after it passes."
While Wei Xin was dodging and turning around, he secretly stretched out three fingers and waved them in the air, then pointed in the direction they came from - the three fingers represented the "family compound", and pointing to the way they came was a signal to arrange for people to kidnap Xixi.
The boss swept the dust more vigorously, and the duster slammed heavily on the counter with two muffled "bang" sounds - this was a response to confirm that he had received the order.
Hearing the boss's response, Wei Xin felt relieved. She pretended to be relaxed and said to Lin Cuicui, "Sister, it's okay, let's go quickly. It's not easy to arrange time to come out, and we can't be delayed by such a small matter."
Lin Cuicui asked with concern: "Sister-in-law, are you really okay? We don't have anything important to do. How about finding a clinic to check your feet first? Don't delay it."
Wei Xin quickly waved her hands: "No, no, it's really okay. Don't I know my own feet? I just tripped suddenly and didn't react. I'll just watch the road carefully later."
She stomped her feet again, and after making sure that her "foot injury" was not serious, she urged Lin Cuicui to continue on her way.
As the two walked further away, the grocer watched them from behind, a sinister look in his eyes. He put down his feather duster, fished out a crumpled piece of paper from under the counter, and quickly wrote a few words. Then he called over a child playing on the street and whispered something in his ear.
The child took the note and ran happily into the depths of the alley.
"Hey, sister, hurry up, we finally caught up. It's all my fault. If my legs weren't so weak, we would have arrived earlier."
Wei Xin had just tripped, intending to feign it, but she had actually tripped. She had originally intended to pretend her foot hurt to buy some time, but now her foot really hurt.
She could clearly feel her feet were a little swollen. But for the land she loved, what did this little injury matter? She could persevere. She didn't dare take Lin Cuicui to the destination too early. What if Lin Cuicui noticed something was wrong and didn't get on board?
Although she believed in the strength of their companions, she knew that there were spies from other countries involved in this operation. She didn't know whether they were professional or not.
The dock's planks creaked underfoot, and a salty, damp sea breeze, tinged with the stench of fish, blew in his face. Sweat dripped from Wei Xin's palms as he clutched his ferry ticket, and the Type 14 Nambu pistol hidden beneath his blue shirt pricked his ribs.
She pretended to casually glance at the passengers on deck: a man in a bamboo hat was carrying salted fish into the cabin, his movements were quick but revealing a stiffness that didn't belong to fishermen;
The old lady selling sweet soup at the bow of the boat rang a copper bell, and her pronunciation, with the tip of her tongue touching her teeth, was always subtly different from the standard Austronesian dialect;
The tall and thin man leaning against the mast had an old scar on his calf that looked like a shrapnel scratch, with his trouser legs rolled up and exposed.
Wei Xin observed calmly. She felt there was something fishy about these people, but she wasn't sure which ones were hers. After all, she had never dealt with them before. She would wait until they were aboard.
"Sister, get on board quickly." Wei Xin pulled Lin Cuicui's sleeve and squeezed towards the cabin door. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the old lady ring the copper bell three times in a row - this was the signal to start the action.
Lin Cuicui suddenly stopped. In her eyes, the boat was like a ferocious beast that was about to devour her. How could she get on it easily?
Her eyes swept over the bamboo tube floating beside the boat. The newly engraved symbols on it bore a striking resemblance to the mysterious patterns her son, Xixi, had been fiddling with. She calmly touched the object at her waist. The cool touch made her heart beat faster, yet also brought a sense of relief.
These should be prepared by the army, right? Are they accomplices? Lin Cuicui didn't dare to decide. This could also be a threat.
"Sister, what's wrong with you? Get on the boat quickly, it's about to sail." Wei Xin was a little anxious. The long journey of thousands of miles was over, and this was the last step left. She would never allow Lin Cuicui to retreat.
Lin Cuicui smiled as she boarded the boat, saying, "Sister-in-law, this boat reminds me of when our family first arrived here. Time flies by so quickly."
Wei Xin didn't have time to chat with her right now, so she replied perfunctorily, "Isn't it? We came here to follow the army, and we're all far away from home. As long as we have a good life, it doesn't matter where we are."
Lin Cuicui responded with a smile and stood at the railing with Wei Xin. Behind this side was the sea, so there was always a safe side.
The boat slowly left the shore, and Lin Cuicui leaned against the mottled railing, counting buoys. They couldn't just start fighting the moment they got on board. They had to stay away from South Island, so that the troops wouldn't arrive quickly.
Lin Cuicui calmly glanced at everyone around her. Many people showed goodwill towards her. However, Lin Cuicui didn't know whether they were human or ghost. She knew she didn't have sharp reconnaissance skills and didn't know who the truly good people were.
So, she decided to rely on herself as much as possible. If she couldn't be trusted, she would just rely on her intuition and choose who to trust. Ultimately, her goal was to return home. After finding those bad guys, she could go home peacefully.
Lin Cuicui tried to absorb spiritual power while counting the floats. When she counted to the 179th, the old lady selling sweet soup suddenly staggered, and the brown liquid in the copper bowl splashed onto her skirt.
"I'm sorry!" The old lady apologized in the Austronesian dialect, but her skinny fingers quickly scratched the hem of Lin Cuicui's skirt, leaving three dark red fingerprints.
Lin Cuicui lowered her head and caught a glimpse of half a piece of indigo cloth hidden between the other person's fingernails - it was exactly the same color as the cloth that fell when the owner of the grocery store they had just passed was dusting.
Lin Cuicui was shocked. Could it be that Wei Xin had just tripped to pass on a message? This was too unbelievable. She felt something was wrong at the time, but she really didn't know what Wei Xin was doing.
Could tripping be a form of communication? What message was she trying to convey? Shouldn't their plans have been planned in advance?
Lin Cuicui lowered her head in thought, but the old lady didn't give her a chance. "Oh, girl, I'm so sorry for you. This dress looks new. I'm so sorry about my legs."
"It's okay." Lin Cuicui just took half a step back. The old lady tried to grab Lin Cuicui, but Lin Cuicui turned sideways. "Auntie, it will be done in a while. It's okay."
The old lady grabbed nothing and said anxiously, "How can this be? Girl, I have another piece of clothing in my bag. It was a bit cold this morning, so I took an extra one. Come with me to the cabin and change."
It's so cold, and if your clothes get wet you'll catch a cold."
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