Gu Yuan followed Zhan Nanqi back to the school gate. It was already dark by then.

Zhan Nanqi walked very fast and Gu Yuan couldn't keep up with him several times. He only stopped after calling Zhan Nanqi's name.

After finally catching up with him breathlessly, Zhan Nanqi was squatting on the ground looking at something.

"Nan Qi...what are you looking at so quickly? No, there's nothing here."

Zhan Nanqi was looking at the place where Xue Jiayu was held hostage by Li Minxue. He walked around it again and again and finally found something on the ground.

Gu Yuan came over to take a look after resting enough, "What is this thing that looks so good?"

Gu Yuan almost put his face to the ground before he could see clearly that it was a piece of eraser crumbs.

"Is this what you walked so fast to see?!" Gu Yuan really wanted to get angry, but Zhan Nanqi suddenly moved in one direction.

He stopped again and immediately chased after him.

"What are you doing? Wait for me!"

Worried that Zhan Nanqi might get into an accident alone, Gu Yuan followed him closely.

I thought he was just walking around, but Zhan Nanqi suddenly walked across two streets and turned to walk towards a bridge hole.

"Nan Qi, why are you going there? Didn't the teacher tell us to stay away from bridge tunnels?!"

Zhan Nanqi turned a deaf ear and ran straight into the bridge tunnel.

Gu Yuan had no choice but to keep up with a pout, feeling as tired as a dog.

Xue Wangjun returned home, and Xu Suzhen asked him, "Why did you come back so early today? Where are the children?"

Xue Wangjun shook his head and sat on the sofa in despair, "Xiaobao has been kidnapped."

"Kidnapped?!" Xu Suzhen almost had a high blood pressure attack when she heard this. "How could she be kidnapped? Who did it?"

"Li Minxue."

Xu Suzhen fell to the ground and cried, "I told you long ago that I can't help this family. No one listened to me. Now my precious granddaughter has been kidnapped. I will give my life to anyone who can rescue my Xiaoyu!"

Xue Wangjun was already irritable, and became even more annoyed when he heard his mother crying like that.

"Mom, please stop making trouble. Qiu Yi is still out there trying to raise money. Li Minxue wants 100,000 yuan. If we don't give it to her, she will kill Xiaobao."

Xu Suzhen wiped away her tears and rushed into the kitchen to get a kitchen knife. "Let her come to our house to get it! If she has the guts, she can take my life too!"

"mom--"

Xue Wangjun was about to speak when he suddenly heard a rapid ring.

Worried that it was Li Minxue calling, he immediately rushed to the phone and answered it.

"Hello?!"

"Honey, it's me."

Jiang Qiuyu has also arrived at the Jiang family. In order to avoid worrying the two elders, she just said that the factory needed the money for cash flow.

He Meiqin didn't suspect anything and immediately wrapped the money and stuffed it into her hand.

"Is this enough? Do you want some more?"

"Okay, just give me as much cash as Mom has."

He Meiqin frowned strangely, but didn't say anything, just muttered to herself.

Every time the daughter came back, she stuffed money into the old man's pockets, which was not enough. Whenever she asked for money, she would immediately ask the old man to open the safe and give all the cash in the house to Jiang Qiuyu.

"Have you been to your parents' house?"

"kindness."

Jiang Qiuyi lowered her voice and asked, "My parents can only get 15,000 yuan, how much can you get?"

"It's all collected. Peirong gave me fifty thousand."

When Jiang Qiuyu heard this, tears fell like rain.

Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. She truly realized this at this moment.

After He Meiqin packed the money for her, Jiang Qiuyu drove home immediately without even saying a word.

The old couple stood in the wind and watched their daughter's car leave, feeling uneasy.

After finally rushing home, Jiang Qiuyi immediately asked, "Did Li Minxue call?"

"Not yet." Xue Wangjun smoked four cigarettes and waited from dawn to dusk, but he never received a call from Li Minxue.

The police also came to the door and sat on the sofa in Xue's house, staring at the phone.

Jiang Qiuyu handed the money to Xue Wangjun, her hands were already cold after racing back.

"I hope Xiaobao is okay."

She could earn money again if she spent it, but she only had one little treasure and she couldn't lose it at all.

On the other side, at the entrance of the police station, Jiang Peirong was still waiting with Ying Huanyu for Zhan Nanqi and Gu Yuan to come back.

She regretted why she didn't chase after him at that time. Now Xue Jiayu was missing, and Gu Yuan and Zhan Nanqi were also missing.

Ying Huanyu was drowsy, "Aunt Jiang, how about we go back first?"

Jiang Peirong thought she had heard wrongly.

"Aren't you worried about Jiayu at all? I thought you and she had a good relationship."

Ying Huanyu realized that he had said something wrong and quickly tried to make amends.

"I'm worried about my sister! But, but mom and dad are still at home, I'm worried about them too."

Jiang Peirong finally dispelled her doubts and said, "Let's wait a little longer. We have to wait until Nanqi and Xiaoyuan come back."

"oh."

Ying Huanyu has learned his lesson and will not rush anyone no matter how impatient he gets.

The closer you get to the bridge tunnel, the fewer people there are.

There are no guardrails around the bridge, and people often come here to commit suicide. Gu Yuan heard Xu Huimei say this several times and was so scared that he couldn't sleep.

He swallowed and said, "Nanqi, let's go back. It's too dangerous here."

Zhan Nanqi seemed not to have heard anything and kept walking forward. Gu Yuan couldn't bear to leave his friend behind and walked away, so he could only bite the bullet and follow him.

When they walked completely under the bridge, they found that it was pitch black.

There was only a faint light near the river bank.

"This is?"

Zhan Nanqi glanced at him and motioned for him to speak in a lower voice.

They found a secluded place to hide and wait.

Gu Yuan didn't know what he was waiting for. The weather hadn't gotten completely hot yet, but there were already quite a few mosquitoes.

He had just slapped a mosquito to death when Zhan Nanqi pressed his head and forced him to hide behind a pillar.

There was a sound of footsteps. Gu Yuan was held down by Zhan Nanqi and couldn't lift his head. He didn't look until the footsteps passed.

It’s Li Minxue!

Li Minxue was twenty meters away from them. Gu Yuan had good eyesight, but he could only see Li Minxue's back and could not see anything else clearly.

"Nan Qi, how do you know she's hiding here?"

"This is a tip from Jiayu."

Zhan Nanqi answered calmly, his eyes never leaving Li Minxue.

Gu Yuan suspected that he had missed something, "When did Jiayu give the hint?"

"When that woman showed up."

The situation was urgent at the time. He kept staring at the knife in Li Minxue's hand, but inadvertently saw Xue Jiayu winking at him.

He then looked at Xue Jiayu's hand. There was a newly bought eraser in her pocket. It was bought by Jiang Qiuyu.

Xue Jiayu dug into his pocket with his hands and finally dug out a small piece and dropped it on the ground.

Later, Li Minxue took him under the bridge, and he kept looking for opportunities to throw erasers on the way.

Fortunately, Li Minxue was nervous and didn't pay attention to her hand movements.

When they walked into the crowd, Li Minxue hid the fruit knife in her sleeve and pressed it against Xue Jiayu's shoulder.

If Xue Jiayu dared to scream, she would stab him with a knife.

Only when they reached the bridge tunnel did she put away the fruit knife after tying Xue Jiayu up with a rope so that she could not move.

"You were obedient and didn't make a scene on the way. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see your parents."