All the young and middle-aged men from the six villages of Zaoziling, Caotouling, Lijiacun, Meijiaji, Wanghewan and Liujiawan went out to help. Even villagers from other nearby villages who heard the news came spontaneously to help find people.

We searched for a whole day and night, all the way from Liujiawan to Qingshui County, and found the carriage but not the person.

There were all kinds of speculations at once.

"Impossible! My elder sister is so powerful, she will be fine!"

Ruan Shiping was unwilling to believe that something had happened to Ruan Qingqing.

After Wang got the news, she cried all the way from the county town to the place where Ruan Qingqing had the accident.

"Da Ya, you have the ability to make your father turn over a new leaf, to feed our family, and to help us survive disaster after disaster. You should also be able to protect yourself from getting hurt, right? Da Ya, come back soon! Don't joke with me, this joke is not funny at all. I can't stand you scaring me!"

There was nothing on the mountain road except the cold wind and the voices calling Ruan Qingqing everywhere.

Wang knelt on the ground with a look of despair, crying bitterly and miserably. "Daya~ my Daya!"

She slapped the ground with a frantic look on her face. "Daya, how can I live if you disappear without a word? How can I live? Daya!"

"Don't cry, Fourth Brother! Qingqing is a very lucky child! She will be fine! Let's look carefully to see if we missed anything. Ah!"

Old Mrs. Ruan, who had been waiting for any news at home, also rushed over. Seeing Wang crying heartbreakingly, she pulled her and tried to persuade her while wiping her tears.

"Fourth brother's wife, don't be sad! Qingqing is a child who is favored by God. Which child can know as many things as she does? She will definitely be fine!" Liu and Old Lady Ruan also pulled Wang together.

"Mother, sister-in-law, my heart aches! It aches! She was so foolish before, I don't know how many times she got looked down upon and how much she was bullied.

After finally getting the hang of it, the ten-year-old child was busy running around like a strong laborer. She didn't even have a pair of proper shoes, and in order to find some food for her family, she ran barefoot to the mountains to find food.

Seeing her holding a pheasant and smiling with satisfaction, my heart ached! You don’t know, her body was covered with blood scars, and the few rags of clothes she wore were covered with thorns. There was not a single good spot on her body.”

Wang's arms were held by Old Lady Ruan and Mrs. Liu, and she kept patting her chest with her hands.

"I was such a good girl! When she cooked mud lumps mixed with water soaked in stove ash for everyone to eat, I even thought about dying as soon as possible. Those hard days were really too hard to endure!

But during those extremely difficult days, Daya was like a mouse, scraping things home a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow. Slowly, I began to have hope for the future.

On the night when I had my first full meal, I cried bitterly. I never thought that the fullest meal I, Wang Chunya, had ever had in my life would be earned by my ten-year-old girl.

Old Mrs. Ruan also kept wiping away tears, "We all know Qingqing is a good person!"

"Mother, Daya has a hard life! She worked so hard to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. Who would have thought that a ten-year-old child could open up wasteland so quickly and well, even more skillfully than an experienced farmer.

As life got better and better, natural disasters came one after another. I don't know how she, a little person, managed to lead everyone through it.

It was hard to have a few days of peace, but she was attacked and disappeared again."

"Old Fourth's family, they say good people will be rewarded, God will not treat Qingqing badly! Don't worry! Qingqing will be fine! Get up quickly, don't freeze yourself! Don't wait for Qingqing to come back, you will be sick again!"

Old Mrs. Ruan couldn't wipe away her tears, so she simply gave up and grabbed Wang with both hands.

"Fourth brother's wife, don't just say that your family has no worries about food and clothing because of Qingqing, but aren't we also able to have enough food to eat, build a big house, and marry a daughter-in-law thanks to Qingqing?

Look at all these people who came from all over the country to help find someone. Which one of them didn't receive the kindness of Qingqing? In the past, who could have mobilized so many people to brave the cold wind to come out to look for someone? Moreover, they all came here on their own after hearing the news!

I have never heard of such a good fortune in my life, let alone seeing it before! "

"Mother, sister-in-law, I feel so bad! It hurts! How can God be so blind! My poor Daya!"

"Fourth brother's wife, don't say you feel bad, we all feel bad too. Qingqing is such a good child, I think even God wouldn't want her to get into trouble! Don't be sad, cheer up, and look for her with everyone. They are rough men and careless, maybe they missed something. Let's look for her carefully again."

While Liu was trying to persuade her, she worked together with Old Lady Ruan to pull Wang up.

Liu's words were like a reassurance, calming Wang's panicked heart.

"Okay, I'll listen to mother and sister-in-law, and I'll look for it carefully."

"Hey, what are you guys doing here?"

A loud shout suddenly rang out on the mountain road.

"Sir, we are looking for someone!" Mr. Ruan and Village Chief Li, who happened to be standing nearby, heard it and hurried forward to reply.

"Is it necessary to have so many people to find someone? Disperse quickly, otherwise you will be charged with treason!" Shen Zhizui sat on his horse and gave the order condescendingly.

"Sir, you can't be unreasonable! We lost a child on the mountain road. In this cold winter, if we don't find him quickly, won't he be in danger? You are our parents, you can't ignore the lives of us ordinary people!"

Mr. Ruan accused with tears in his eyes.

"It takes thousands of people to search for a lost child? Who are you kidding?" Shen Zhizui retorted impatiently.

"Sir, it's not that we intentionally gathered so many people, it's just that the lost child is too important to us. The villagers all came here spontaneously after hearing the news. It's so cold, and we all want to do our part to find the child as soon as possible."

Mr. Ruan explained anxiously.

Village Chief Li stepped forward and said, "Sir, the lost child is from the family of the fifth-rank Sinong Doctor in our village. Please help us find him. I believe that Sinong Doctor will be grateful to you when he finds out!"

When Shen Zhizui heard that the missing person was the child of a fifth-rank Sinong doctor, his eyes flickered slightly.

"Okay, we got it! I'll go back and ask the county magistrate for instructions."

After saying this, he rode his horse at full speed to the county government office.

"Old Yuan, Old Yuan..." He rushed into the county government office like a gust of wind.

"What's so urgent?" Yuan Pingzhang put down the letter in his hand calmly and looked at Shen Zhizui.

"Old Yuan, where are the people you arranged to teach Ruan Qingqing a lesson? What did they say when they came back?" Shen Zhizui asked anxiously after wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"They just said that the matter was done and didn't say anything else." Yuan Pingzhang said indifferently.

"Old Yuan, please call the people you assigned here quickly. I have something to ask them."

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