Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 645: Chapter 645: Two Days and Two Nights of Life and Death (Part 2)

Looking at the letter again, this situation probably wasn’t caused by Di Yelei’s political enemies.

Who exactly was targeting YingEr? She couldn’t figure it out.

Di Xuan was in the corner on his own, quietly listening to people’s discussions, trying to curl himself into a ball to reduce his presence.

He regretted more than once!

If he had known this would put YingEr in danger, he would have chased after her no matter what and taken her away by force!

But there’s no medicine for regret in this world.

“Third Sister-in-law, it’s pointless for everyone to wait here idly. What do you think we should do now? Give us something to do, so we can help out.”

Xiao Feng suggested.

Liu Sisi shook her head: “Now there’s only one thing we can do: wait!”

Wait for news from the other side or new developments and discoveries.

She sent people from the Li Sect last night, but no one has brought any news back yet. Has the Li Sect’s information really fallen behind?

“By the way, has anyone informed the Zhang Family?” Ms. Zhao casually asked, causing everyone to fall silent.

“Let’s not inform them for now. Even if the Zhang Family knew about it, it would be too late by the time they rushed over.” Elderly Mr. Di hesitated.

He also had a private thought, hoping to solve this issue before the Zhang Family arrived.

Liu Sisi naturally understood the meaning of Elderly Mr. Di and sighed.

“We probably can’t hide this from the Zhang Family. Besides, Brother Zhang is a constable. With him joining us, our chances of finding YingEr will be greater. Dad, what do you think?”

Elderly Mr. Di was also in a dilemma: “What you said is true. But what if…”

“YingEr is only six years old, and children are generally not considered for mischief until they are seven. YingEr has not reached that age yet. Besides, we haven’t found the person yet, so discussing all this now is unnecessary. If the Zhang Family really blames us for this, we can still find room to maneuver when YingEr is young.”

Liu Sisi considered more in the end.

Everyone understood what she meant by finding room to maneuver.

After a long silence, Elderly Mr. Di finally nodded: “Alright, let someone send a letter to the Zhang Family, saying…”

“Just say there is an urgent matter to discuss. If anyone asks further, just say you don’t know anything. Understand?”

Lui Sisi took over the conversation.

“Yes, Madam!”

The man hurriedly went to carry out the order.

Liu Sisi sighed: “Send another person to the governmental office to find Brother Zhang. He should be there at the moment.” It’s also possible that the other party already has the news.”

Hopefully everything will pass without a trace!

Liu Sisi really guessed right; Zhang Peng had already found out about the matter at the moment.

He received news that Di Xuan had disappeared, and couldn’t help feeling worried. Di Xuan was already so old, and it wouldn’t be good if there was a conflict or something else happened. Although the moat was not very deep, it was still easy for one or two people to drown.

Especially when he heard that Di Family’s servants had dredged near the moat yesterday, he became more worried.

A nearby constable also greeted him, “I heard that Lord Di’s Second Young Master fell into the water last night. Your status is different from ours. Anyway, you are in-laws. Won’t you go and take a look?”

Zhang Peng thought about it: “It shouldn’t be that he fell into the water, right? If it were true, they should have sent someone to notify me.”

“Maybe they were too busy there, and didn’t have time.”

The colleague seemed like he had seen Di Xuan falling into the water with his own eyes.

“No way! Xuan’er doesn’t seem to be…” someone with a short life!

“This is all speculation, right? That’s why I suggested going and taking a look.”

His colleague couldn’t believe how stubborn Zhang Peng was, even after a long conversation.

Just as Zhang Peng was hesitating, a servant from Di Family arrived.

Then, the two hurriedly rushed towards the Di Family.

At the moment, Di Yelei was searching step by step along the edges of the bush, spreading out a large net to search the hillside.

Last night, they found traces of a bonfire burned on the mid-hill’s windbreak. The bonfire hadn’t completely gone out yet, and there were scattered pieces of meat and rice, as well as a half-empty iron pot. These signs indicated that someone had spent the night here last night.

Moreover, Di Yelei noticed that the location of the bonfire made it easy to see the main road to the City God Temple. This meant that when he led the soldiers to this place last night, he alarmed the people, and they quickly put out the fire and hurried to the hill.

It was night, and the mountain roads were rugged and they couldn’t light torches for illumination, so the group of people definitely couldn’t have run far.

So, they searched the mountain overnight, not daring to slack off for even a moment.

“Your Honor, what if the bandits have moved somewhere else?”

Da Niu quietly approached and whispered.

Di Yelei looked at the mountain top: “No! The person who confessed earlier said that the one who delivered the letter was a lame man. It wouldn’t be easy for a lame man to carry a child and move far. Besides, going up from here is a dense forest, which is the easiest place to hide. If I were that person, I would definitely hide in a place where I could see the surroundings and stay informed.”

As he spoke, he kept a close watch on both sides with his eyes.

“Then why should we wait for anything? Let everyone search up the mountain with full force and catch this person directly!”

Da Niu got fired up as soon as he mentioned it.

“You’re oversimplifying things!”

Di Yelei’s gaze became even more solemn, looking back at the people behind him.

“If you were the bandit and saw so many people searching the mountain together, forcing you into a corner, what would you do?”

“I would…” be like a cornered dog jumping over the wall!

Da Niu suddenly thought of this phrase and paused, mumbling, “Then… what should we do now? Retreat directly?”

“It’s too late to retreat now. If we retreat, they might attack YingEr as soon as we leave. What we can do now is to delay time and seize the right opportunity to capture the enemy at once!”

In a cave a short distance away from everyone, a pair of vigilant eyes were sweeping outside.

With disheveled hair on his head and extremely dirty clothes that revealed no original color, his face ravaged by the weather was covered in crisscrossing scars.

Seeing that the people were getting closer and closer to the cave, he couldn’t help cursing softly before slowly retreating back into the cave.

“Damn it! How did they get here so quickly? It shouldn’t have happened!” n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Behind him, there was a faint sound of struggle.

“Mmm…”

The hemp bag squirmed continuously, as if there was a person inside.