Chapter 69: Escape
"Dashan, go and bandage the wound first. You're delaying our digging here. You want to save Yue'er, and so do we. Go and bandage the wound first." Li Haoran said without allowing any room for argument. Li Dashan went to bandage the wound reluctantly.
"Dad, I'll go check out the situation first before digging." Ziyi said.
"Okay! Watch out for rock collapse!" Li Haoran didn't even raise his head.
"I know!" Ziyi called Chen Fugui and asked, "Which direction is your newly dug hole?"
"This way. Big brother and big sister also said they wanted to dig another passage for the cave, just like your house, with two exits." Chen Fugui sobbed. The child was terribly scared, especially since his sister, who loved to joke the most, was buried. He didn't know how to help his sister, so he just kept crying and crying.
"Don't cry. If you want to save your sister, don't cry. Tell me, has the tunnel been dug?"
"Yes, it was my eldest sister who dug it secretly. She said she wanted to give my eldest brother a surprise. But before she could dig it all through, my eldest sister, wuwuwuwuwu..." Chen Fugui cried and pointed in the direction.
"Didn't you tell your father?" Ziyi asked with a frown.
"No, I forgot and my father didn't ask. I, I'll go tell my father now." Twelve-year-old Chen Fugui was terrified at the time. He saw his sister being buried and thought she was dead. He was scared and sad. He never expected these things.
"Be good, you don't have to go. I will tell him. Go and see if your mother is awake. If she is awake, talk to her. Don't go anywhere, okay? You are a man, you have to protect your mother!" Ziyi sent Chen Fugui to her mother, gave her a few words of advice and left. These rocks may collapse at any time, so children should not run around.
"Uncle Chen, Dad, stop digging. I know a place that can be dug through quickly. Come with me." After saying this, Ziyi turned around and walked towards the place Chen Fugui pointed.
"Ziyi, are you serious?" Chen Shengli quickly caught up with Ziyi and asked. "Really, you'll know when you see it later." Ziyi didn't want to explain either. It was a waste of time.
"Ziyi..." Chen Dawang also wanted to ask. Before he could ask, Ziyi immediately said, "Don't you want to have two exits? Your sister dug one for you."
Chen Dawang's red eyes suddenly lit up, and he ran quickly towards the exit location that he and his sister had discussed.
Although Li Dashan, who had bandaged his wound, didn't understand what they were talking about, he knew that Yue'er was saved when he saw Dawang's expression, so he ran over quickly, and everyone else followed silently.
When they reached the other side of the mountain, Chen Dawang moved a large rock from the mountain wall, and a cave appeared in front of everyone.
"When was this dug?" Chen Shengli asked in surprise.
"I don't know. I told my sister at that time that I wanted to open an exit here, just like the cave in Ziyi, but I didn't expect my sister to come and dig it secretly." Thinking of his sister whose life or death was uncertain, Chen Dawang burst into tears.
Upon hearing this, Li Dashan immediately went in, and Chen Dawang followed closely behind.
Ziyi sighed and had to stop the people who wanted to go in: "Uncle, use wood and sticks to support it. What if it collapses again?"
"Yes, yes! We can't act recklessly, otherwise the more chaotic it gets, the slower it will be." Li Haoran said.
"I'll get the planks."
"I'll get some wood."
"I'll go in and help dig."
"I used the dustpan to carry the dirt and rocks."
So both adults and children took action, some carrying wooden boards, some dragging wood, digging and supporting with wood. Chen Yue'er had already dug the tunnel almost to the cave. The most fortunate thing was that the mountain on this side did not collapse, so they reached the cave in a short time.
The tunnel was not very wide, only wide enough for one and a half people to enter and exit, so everyone took turns digging. When they were close to the cave, it was Li Dashan's turn. He dug and dug until he dug through it. While digging desperately, he shouted, "Yue'er! Yue'er!"
"Hurry! Hurry!" Chen Dawang kept urging from behind.
“It’s working! It’s working!”
“Found it!”
"The Moon is Found"
Everyone started shouting at the same time. When the people outside the cave heard it, they excitedly told each other the good news.
"Let me do it! Let me do it!" Chen Shengli squeezed forward, snatched Li Dashan's tools, and in a few seconds he enlarged the opening.
"Let me pass!" Chen Dawang wanted to go behind his father, but Li Dashan was no longer willing to give up his position as he wanted to be the second one to see Yue'er.
"Uncle Chen, you have to dig carefully and don't dig up Yue'er." Ziyi reminded.
After Ziyi said this, Uncle Chen didn't dare to dig anymore. He dropped his tools and started digging with his hands. Li Dashan also leaned sideways to help dig at the hole, and the hole became bigger and bigger.
"Yue'er!" Li Dashan screamed hoarsely when his hand touched Li Yue'er.
"Hurry! Yue'er is over here, use the tools to dig over there, quickly!" Chen Dawang quickly asked his father to use the tools.
The passage was dug through, and Li Dashan crawled into the collapsed cave. Chen Yue'er leaned against the mountain wall of the passage with her back. In the collapsed cave in front of her, there was a small hole. That should be where she wanted to dig out, but she had no tools. She moved stones and soil with her hands, and her hands were bloody. She couldn't dig a passage until she fainted.
"Yue'er! Yue'er!" Li Dashan shouted loudly, regardless of the difference between men and women, and reached out to hug Yue'er.
“Don’t hug me!” Ziyi growled, mainly because he was afraid that Li Dashan would pick me up. “Put me on the board, don’t hurt me again.”
So Li Dashan raised his head, Chen Shengli lifted his feet and carefully placed them flat on the wooden board, and the two of them walked out carrying the board.
Chen Yue'er was carried out of the cave. At this time, Chen Yue'er was not only pale and bloody, but her hair and clothes were also covered in mud, especially her hands, which were covered in blood. Although she was carried out of the cave, she was unconscious.
"Uncle Hao, can you please check what happened to Yue'er?" Li Dashan asked anxiously.
"Brother..."
"Okay, okay, it's good to rescue him. He is unconscious due to the lack of air in the cave. Put him here quickly, it's flat here." Li Haoran said.
"Spread out a little, don't crowd around. Dawang, lift your sister's feet a little higher, but not too high. Yes, just like that. She has been in the cave for too long and is lacking oxygen. Unfortunately, there is no oxygen mask." Li Haoran gave the orders. He was the only one who understood these things here.
"What about me? What should I do?" Li Dashan asked anxiously.
"Go feed her some water, little by little, don't feed her too quickly."
"Da Wang, bring some cold water over here and wash your sister's hands so she can apply the medicine later."
"Shengli, go pack your things too. We can't live here anymore. Let's go to Brother Youcai's house to rest first. Yue'er won't wake up that soon. I just took her pulse. She's alive. It depends on how long it takes for her to wake up. The sooner she wakes up, the better. We can only wait. It's too far from the hospital. Otherwise, it would be faster to send her to the hospital for oxygen."
"Go to Youcai's house to see if he has any herbs. If not, come to my house and get some." Li Haoran gave instructions in an orderly manner.
"Uncle Hao, you write the prescription and I'll go to your house to get it. I can run fast." Li Dashan said immediately.
"Let's go to your house first." Li Haoran understood Li Dashan's anxiety. Anyone would be anxious if they saw their future daughter-in-law's life hanging by a thread.
"Da Wang, you can put your sister's feet down. Her breathing is stable now. Fortunately, it seems that she was not unconscious for too long."
"These hands must have been injured from digging in the mud. What a brave girl. She thought of a way to save herself in desperate situations. She must have noticed that the air was getting less and less, so she stopped digging. Fortunately, there are some hemostatic herbs nearby, and I just found them. Otherwise, I would have no way to treat your hands." Li Haoran said as he bandaged the wound. "Brother, everything is packed. How is Yue'er?" Chen Shengli said.
"It shouldn't be a big problem. If he can wake up tomorrow, everything will be fine." Li Haoran didn't dare to guarantee it. It was hard to say if he was in a coma caused by lack of oxygen. As long as his brain was not injured, he would wake up soon. But if his brain was injured, it would be hard to say.
"Let's go to Youcai's house to rest first and discuss what to do next." So Chen Dawang and Li Dashan carried Chen Yue'er, and Chen Shengli and Li Youcai carried Chen Shengli's wife Tao Xiu'e. Others helped to take out what was not buried in the cave. There are still some buried ones, and we will clean them up after the women and children are arranged.
When they arrived at Li Youcai's house, Chen Shengli's wife Tao Xiu'e also woke up. Seeing her unconscious daughter, she burst into tears in grief.
"Sister Xiu'e, Brother Li Haoran just said that Yue'er is fine. She just fell into a coma due to lack of air in the cave. She will wake up soon. Don't be sad. Yue'er will need your care when she wakes up. Don't cry and hurt yourself." Li Youcai's wife Shen Hongmei comforted.
Tao Xiu'e cried for a while, wiped her tears, and said to Shen Hongmei with gratitude: "Hongmei, this time it is all thanks to your help, thank you so much! Yue'er has a family like you who truly love her, she is blessed for several lifetimes."
"Our two families are relatives, so it would be polite to say these things. We really have to thank Ziyi this time. That kid is very careful. As soon as he arrived, he learned another exit from Fugui, and later Yue'er was rescued from that exit. So, it was Ziyi who really saved Yue'er. Your family should thank him very much!" Shen Hongmei told Tao Xiu'e about the situation at that time. She was afraid that Tao Xiu'e was unconscious and didn't know what was going on.
"Ah! There is another entrance? How come I didn't know about it?" Tao Xiu'e said in surprise.
"Yue'er is a good child!" Chen Meihong couldn't help but sigh, "She, just because her brother Da Wang said that she envied Zi Yi and Yi Ke's caves for having two entrances, she secretly dug a passage leading to a new cave, preparing to give her brother Da Wang a surprise. This is what good deeds will be rewarded with."
"This child even hid it from me. Alas, it's all because of my and the child's father's incompetence that the children have to suffer." Tao Xiu'e pressed the corners of her eyes with her hands and forced back the tears. She couldn't keep crying in someone else's home. It was not good.
Chen Hongmei couldn't help but persuade them again: "We are not good at hunting. Whether we have other skills or not, we have done our best to raise the child safely. Think about the life we lived before we came here. This is already good. We should all be more open-minded."
The two women comforted and persuaded each other...
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