Chapter 290 is related to Li Si!
Fang Jin has only this one child, who she raises like a precious baby in the palm of her hand. Something happened to her before, and this time the child is lost right under her nose. How can she not be heartbroken?
"Xuan'er, Xuan'er, please come out quickly. The wolf has been chased away. Come out quickly and don't scare your mother..."
Unexpectedly, the heart-wrenching call received no response at all.
Ran Qingxuan's eyes moved slightly and he began to look around. Xiao Wenmei, who was beside him, was still in shock and murmured, "Could it be that it was taken away by a wolf?"
"What?" Madam Gu's face turned pale when she heard this. Fang Jin was horrified and was about to chase in the direction the wolves retreated.
Ran Qingxuan pulled the man back and shouted to Bu Wei with a sullen face, "Where's Li Si?"
Everyone looked in the direction of the Li family. Zhao Chunxiu had just emerged from the bushes and was startled to see everyone looking at her.
"Why are you looking at me?"
"Where is Li Si?" Bu Wei asked coldly.
Zhao Chunxiu looked at Li Xinyuan: "Isn't Sisi with you?"
"Bullshit, who knows where she is hiding? She even ignored her parents when she saw the wolf. How unfilial..."
Bu Wei had a bad feeling when he heard this, and shouted to his men with a dark face, "Gather everyone together quickly to see if anyone else is missing."
Gu Yanzong said calmly, "Everyone in the Gu family is here except Xuan'er!"
Li Ping also said: "The Xiao family is all here."
No one was missing from the Chen family either. After searching for a long time, only Li Si and Xuan'er were missing.
Bu Wei was shaking with anger. The Li family had run away once before, but he didn't expect that Li Si would dare to do it again. Not only would he seek death, but he would also implicate them, the officials.
"It's only been two quarters of an hour since the wolves attacked. Hurry up and spread out with torches to search. Even if you have to dig deep into the ground, you must find the person for me."
"Yes." The officers responded and immediately made torches and dispersed to look for people.
When the women of the Gu family anxiously asked whether Xuan'er was really taken away by the wolf, Gu Yanchen whispered in Ran Qingxuan's ear.
"Xuan'er is afraid of mice. If she was taken away by a wolf, she would definitely not stay still..."
"You mean...it's related to Li Si?"
"Yes, it is very likely that Li Si took advantage of the chaos to kidnap Xuan'er. You and I both know why!"
Ran Qingxuan clenched his fists and his face turned cold in an instant.
After all, the question Li Si asked most along the way was how she would be treated when she arrived at the place of exile, and the answer she got was almost always the same.
And with Xuan'er as a witness, she had no way of escaping.
Once she thinks that she won't be identified without Xuan'er, she will probably do something crazy...
Having found their purpose, the two men came to Bu Wei without hesitation.
"Boss Bu, I think you know the situation of the Gu family better than anyone else. Xuan'er is the only thing my fifth brother left behind, and nothing can happen to her."
"My wife and I want to go find someone in person, I hope you can..."
Bu Wei's thugs interrupted Gu Yanchen with a wave of his hand: "I know that you two will not abandon your family."
"But no matter whether we can find the person or not, we must return before dawn."
The two were also a little surprised. They thought it would take some time to talk, but they didn't expect that he would agree to find someone without hesitation.
Ran Qingxuan thanked them and walked with Gu Yanchen to the place where the Gu family had just stayed. It happened to be a low slope, and the middle was cluttered with footprints, but there were still some traces to be found.
The low slope was only about ten to twenty centimeters away from the ground. Looking down from above, the two men immediately saw a trace similar to that of a slide and roll.
At the bottom of the low slope was a large bush. When the two arrived, they saw a row of shallow footprints spreading outward. After comparing the sizes, Ran Qingxuan concluded that they were definitely Li Si's.
"The snow melts quickly, and the footprints are gone here..."
The two men chased for more than ten meters with torches in their hands. The dry grass on the ground covered their footprints. The two men could not tell the direction in which Li Si escaped, but they were in the right general direction.
"There are officials and wolves ahead. Li Si can't go in front."
At that time, Bu Wei only left four or five people at the camp. While guarding the prisoners, they also had to deal with the wolves that could attack at any time. They had no energy to care where they were hiding.
The remaining few families were also fighting with the wolves, and in the chaos their vision was probably blocked by the tents, so they did not notice Xuan'er rolling down from behind.
But the place where the Li family was hiding was in the bushes behind the tent, and that direction just happened to be visible below the low slope.
It was easy to avoid the sight of the officials and the Gu family.
They chased for about two hundred meters through the bushes, and all the way, Ran Qingxuan and Gu Yanchen never took their eyes off the places around where people could hide.
After walking forward for more than a hundred meters, they found a fork in the road.
One side leads to the surrounding mountains, while the other side is an overgrown slope.
When the two were wondering which way to go, Gu Yanchen noticed something unusual in the dry grass on the right slope.
When she brought the small gloves, which were half the size of her palm, in front of Ran Qingxuan, she immediately recognized that they were the ones she had sewn onto Xuan'er's clothes some time ago.
The string connecting the gloves was broken, most likely accidentally dropped by Xuan'er when she was struggling.
The two looked at each other and immediately knew where to look.
At the same time, Li Si, who was running alone, could not see Xuan'er at all.
Time goes back to two and a half quarters ago.
Li Si huddled together with her parents. She had originally thought that with Gu Yanchen and Ran Qingxuan's skills, they would be able to wipe out all the wolves.
As a result, she underestimated the number of wolves, and she only felt relieved when her mother took her to hide in the bushes behind the tent.
After the fire circle disappeared, the wolves indeed attacked other people. When Li Si was feeling lucky that they would not be discovered hiding in this place, she saw Gu Jinxuan accidentally falling down a short slope in the distance.
At this time, the Gu family was driving away the wild wolf that was biting Old Madam Gu's leg, and did not notice Xuan'er who was about to get up and climb up.
Li thought that as soon as he arrived at the place of exile, he would be killed by this little girl whose hair had not even grown out yet. He suddenly felt evil in his heart and bravely sneaked out of the bushes.
He covered Xuan'er's mouth with his hand and stepped back. The two of them were immediately shrouded in shadow.
The route she took to escape was basically the same as what Ran Qingxuan had observed, but she had underestimated Xuan'er's weight...
She had been eating coarse food and vegetables all the way, sometimes hungry and sometimes full, and was even beaten from time to time. She had no strength at all.
Xuan'er has never lacked food and clothing in the Gu family, and her weight has only increased with everyone's feeding her.
In addition to covering Xuan'er's mouth to prevent her from making any sound, she also had to use her other hand to hold the struggling person, which was extremely difficult.
Originally, she wanted to take the road leading to the mountain, but after realizing from the faint light of the fire stick that the road was difficult to walk on, she decisively chose to walk down the slope.
Just when she was struggling about which way to go, Xuan'er began to struggle, trying to break free from Li Si.
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