"Oh, right." Wanqing tapped her hands and said, "Goudan disappeared with his mother."
Lu Demin, who was standing by, said with a somewhat unhappy look on his face: "So they suspect we did it?"
"Last time Cui Ju disappeared, they said it was us. This time Goudan disappeared, they also said it was us. Why don't we just say we did it if any of the villagers are missing?" Bai An said angrily, "This is not fair."
"Bai An." Lu Demin sighed and said to Bai An, "Let's find Goudan first."
Bai An lowered his head and followed Lu Jinan reluctantly.
Along the way, Bai An saw large groups of villagers looking for Goudan and his mother all over the mountains and fields.
Seeing this scene, Bai An secretly leaned close to Lu Jinan's ear and whispered, "Why weren't they so anxious when Cui Ju disappeared last time?"
Lu Jinan chuckled, "You also think Cui Ju is missing?"
"Maybe."
Lu Jinan looked down at Bai An, the emotion in his eyes was hard to understand. He touched Bai An's head and said, "Don't think too much."
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Bai An said softly: "I don't know why, but I just feel that Cui Ju should be in a safe place now, otherwise why does everyone seem to be in no hurry?"
"Then follow your feeling."
Lu Jinan held Bai An's hand and followed the villagers without saying a word.
When it was dark, they still hadn't found Goudan and his mother. Gradually, they looked at Bai'an's family with more and more strange eyes, as if they were planning something. Lu Jinan also noticed the changes in those villagers, and gradually tightened his grip on Bai An's hand.
Just as the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, a villager's voice broke the silent smoke of war.
"The dog egg was found."
Bai An breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Lu Jinan. Lu Jinan nodded to Lu Demin, who was holding Wanqing's hand, and followed the villagers to the place where Goudan was found.
She didn’t know if it was Bai An’s illusion, but she saw regret and desire in the eyes of those villagers.
"Where did you find Goudan and the others?" Bai An asked Lin Zhixia beside him curiously, "We have been looking for them for a long time and couldn't find them."
Lu Jinan heard it and glanced at Lin Zhixia who was sitting on the stone, wondering what he was thinking. Lin Zhixia met his eyes without fear and smiled slowly.
Seeing that Lin Zhixia didn't reply and was still looking at Lu Jinan with a silly smile, Bai An couldn't help but frowned and said unhappily: "Why do you keep looking at my brother and smiling."
"Then I'll look at you and smile." Lin Zhixia said as she turned her head to look at Bai An, slowly raising the corner of her mouth towards Bai An.
Bai An watched quietly, and after a long while he continued, "You should still smile at my brother."
Lin Zhixia stopped laughing after hearing this. She stood up and walked to Bai An. Looking at the group of villagers in front of them who were trying their best to rescue Goudan and others in the pit, she asked slowly.
"Why do you think they came to such a remote place and happened to fall into that big hole?"
Bai An raised his head when he heard the voice, his eyes lifeless, and said coldly: "Since you asked me, then I suspect that it was you who got them into that hole."
When Lin Zhixia heard this, his face froze. He smiled at Bai An twice and whispered, "You can't say that."
Bai An saw that he was frightened, looked at him helplessly, and continued: "I was just scaring you, how could you be scared so easily."
Before Lin Zhixia could reply, Lu Jinan said leisurely, "Maybe you just said the truth and scared the bad guy."
Lin Zhixia slowly turned her head and looked at Lu Jinan on the other side, her face speechless.
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
They are both smart people and know what each other is doing.
Bai An pushed Lu Jinan aside and whispered, "Don't say that. What if those people hear it and take it seriously?"
Lu Jinan glanced at Lin Zhixia, and just met his complaining eyes. He chuckled, "What can we do? Let those villagers search his house too. Maybe they can find something for you."
Lin Zhixia looked at Lu Jinan who was smiling, her eyes full of darkness.
Bai An looked at Lu Jinan in confusion.
"Goudan's mom, why are you here? It's so remote." Goudan's dad finally pulled Goudan and his mom out of the pit, and asked Goudan's mom a series of questions.
Goudan’s mother wiped the dust off her face and hit Goudan hard. The sound reached Bai An’s ears and it hurt Bai An just watching.
"Damn, this son of a bitch, he kept pulling me to go this way, this way, look, he's going to fall down." Goudan's mother became more and more excited, her mouth moving like a machine gun.
Lu Jinan covered Bai An's ears expressionlessly, but the sound still came through.
Bai An was really impressed by Goudan's mother's vocabulary. She never repeated a word and kept scolding people so much that they couldn't even respond.
Others couldn't bear to listen any longer and asked hurriedly, "You didn't even see such a big pit?"
When Goudan's mother heard this question, she became even more excited. She pointed at the big pit and said, "Who knew there was a pit there? There was clearly no pit there when we walked there. But look what happened. It fell into the pit as soon as we stepped on it."
This is what Goudan’s mother said, but no one present believed her and thought that she did not see clearly what happened when she fell.
Bai An walked over and asked Goudan who was shivering behind him, "Why did you come to this place?"
Goudan shook his head and didn't want to tell others that he had been beaten by a stranger.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Bai An didn't think anything of it. He took Lu Jinan's hand and was about to go home.
Goudan's mother asked, "Why are you so slow?"
"How dare you say that? This is so remote, how could anyone find this place?"
"Who found me then?"
"The eldest son of the Lin family."
In an instant, everyone's eyes shifted to Lin Zhixia.
Facing everyone's gaze, Lin Zhixia smiled slightly and said, "I came here to look for some wild vegetables. I accidentally heard someone talking. I came over to take a look and saw them staying in the pit."
The others nodded, but Bai An frowned, feeling that there was something wrong with what Lin Zhixia said.
Seeing that nothing was wrong, Lu Jinan took Bai An's hand and said to his parents who were not far away: "It's time to go back and eat."
On the way back, Bai An turned around and looked at Lin Zhixia. He was smiling in her direction. In the light of the fire, his face in the light was gentle, but the half of his face in the dark looked like a devil from hell.
Bai An thought about this and quickly turned his face away.
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