Traveling through the mountains and farming

After a delicious meal, everyone took a short break and then rushed to their respective tasks.

Lin Wan took the two siblings and followed the farming team to reclaim the land on the edge of the cliff.

This piece of land is full of the elderly, the weak, women and children, bending over and working hard to clear the wasteland.

At first glance, why is there a pregnant woman?

When he turned to ask Li Chongle, he found out that it was Li Chongshan's wife Fang Yun, who seemed to be more than four months pregnant.

During the busy farming season here, women, girls and children all have to work in the fields.

When Lin Wan was in modern times, she often heard her mother say that Lin Wan lived in a happy era, unlike when they were young and had to suffer a lot.

At that time, many of them were still working in the fields on the first day after their children were born.

I wonder how her mother would react if she knew that her daughter is living in an era that is even worse than when she was young.

I guess first I feel gloating, then I feel distressed, and then I wish I could replace him.

Seeing Lin Wan staring at Fang Yun, Luo Fang at the side began to explain:

"Don't be surprised. It's very common to work while pregnant."

As Luo Fang spoke, she looked at Fang Yun's belly with envy.

They got married at about the same time, but she herself was still pregnant, and she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Lin Wan didn't notice Luo Fang's expression. After sighing inwardly, she was recalling what she had learned from Li Chongle about the situation of Li Chongshan's family.

Li Chongshan and Li Chonghai are cousins. Their fathers are brothers, but their fathers' generation has already separated from the family. The only elderly person in the family - their grandmother, Mrs. Zheng, lives with the eldest son, Li Chonghai's father.

In addition to his parents and wife, Li Chongshan also has a fifteen-year-old sister, Li Mei, and an eighteen-year-old brother, Li Chonggu, who was also conscripted.

When Lin Wan thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh: It's true that every household here has conscripts.

What an evil feudal society!

Well, she should just focus on clearing the wasteland.

I'll go back and find some sour jujube cakes and give some to Fang Yun. I just saw her retching.

At this time, my cousin Li Rou suddenly shouted in panic: "Has anyone seen Xiaohu?"

Uncle Li and Aunt Li heard their daughter shouting like this.

He immediately dropped his hoe, ran over and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with Xiaohu?"

Li Rou said in a tearful voice, "After lunch, Xiao Hu said he wanted to rest for a while, so I let him sleep on the floor. I saw that he had been tired and listless for the past two days, so I wanted him to sleep a little longer. I was just about to wake him up to help with the work, but there was no one in the cave. I looked around but couldn't find him."

When everyone heard this, they stopped what they were doing and helped look for Zheng Xiaohu.

Lin Wan also pulled the two siblings to join the search team.

Everyone shouted Zheng Xiaohu's name and searched the cave and the slope, but they couldn't find him.

Li Chongle pulled Lin Wan and suddenly said, "Sister-in-law, did Brother Xiaohu go to look for his grandpa and grandma?"

"Xiao Le, why do you ask that?" Lin Wan asked puzzledly.

"I guessed. He has been in a bad mood these past two days, and he asked other people about what's going on outside. When we came here last night, he even asked me about it."

The more Li Chongle spoke, the more he felt that he had guessed right, so he continued hurriedly:

"Could it be that he heard me say that the police in our village had withdrawn, so he wanted to go back to look for his grandparents? Sister-in-law, I think it's very likely."

After hearing this, Lin Wan hurriedly told Uncle Li and the others this guess, which had already alarmed everyone inside and outside the cave.

After listening to Lin Wan's analysis, Li Rou rushed out crying to find Zheng Xiaohu.

Uncle Li quickly stopped her and said, "Rou'er, don't worry, let's find a solution together. This is deep in the mountains and you are not familiar with it. It will be even more troublesome if you get lost."

Aunt Li was also wiping tears at the side: "This child, why is it so worrying? Don't worry, we will find a way to find him right away."

"Everyone, don't panic. This is a deep mountain. It's too dangerous for everyone to go out to look for him rashly. Uncle Dashan, cousin Chongwu, you lead the team to search in several directions. Maybe this way we can find Xiaohu faster." Lin Wan suggested.

"Yes, others should not make trouble and wait for news here. Don't let more people get lost when the time comes if the people are not found." Uncle Li said loudly.

So, Luo Dashan and Li Chongwu quickly organized several teams and set out in different directions to look for Zheng Xiaohu.

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It turned out that Zheng Xiaohu had been thinking about his grandparents and heard Li Chongle say last night that the police had withdrawn from the village.

In addition, when he was having lunch, he heard Luo Dashan say that the outer entrance of the cave would be sealed this afternoon.

He felt that it would be difficult to get out in the future, so he decided to go back to see his grandparents, then pretend to take a nap and sneak away.

However, he couldn't find the right direction when walking in the dense forest.

Looking around, there are tall trees and overgrown weeds all around.

Zheng Xiaohu began to feel scared and regretted running out on impulse.

He tried hard to recall the route he took into the mountains yesterday, trying to find some familiar scenes, but it was all in vain.

Worried that it would get dark in just an hour, Zheng Xiaohu couldn't help but quicken his pace, causing the dead branches and leaves under his feet to crunch.

Suddenly a bird flew over his head, giving him a fright.

After finding that everything was fine, he continued to move forward.

As he walked, he came to a stream.

He squatted down, scooped up some water with his hands and drank a few sips, which relieved his thirst a little.

After resting for a while, he continued to search along the stream to see if he could find a familiar place.

Because he seemed to remember passing a stream when entering the mountains yesterday, but he didn't know if it was this one.

Since the day before yesterday, he has been escaping on mountain roads every day. His feet have already developed blisters, and now they seem to have been rubbed again. Every step he takes is very painful.

Zheng Xiaohu gritted his teeth, held back his tears, and continued to move forward.

After a while, he heard a rustling sound coming from the left. He quietly moved closer, parted the grass and saw a huge wild boar foraging for food.

He was so scared that his face turned pale and he instinctively turned and ran.

His panicked behavior alarmed the wild boar, which roared and chased after Zheng Xiaohu.

Fortunately, he was some distance away from the wild boar, but Zheng Xiaohu looked back while running and saw the wild boar getting closer and closer, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

He ran as fast as he could, totally ignoring the pain in his feet.

But he was not familiar with this forest at all, and he was tripped by a branch on the ground before he ran far.

Seeing the wild boar getting closer, Zheng Xiaohu grabbed a stone and without thinking, he threw it at the wild boar.

The wild boar was hit on the head and paused for a moment.

Zheng Xiaohu took the opportunity to get up and continued to run away. In a panic, he dived into a bush covered with tiger thorns.

The sharp thorns cut through his clothes and skin. He grimaced in pain, but he didn't dare to stop.

The wild boar lingered outside the tiger thorn bush for a while, then perhaps felt it was troublesome, so it turned around and left.

When Zheng Xiaohu heard the sound of the wild boar going away, he breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, his body was covered with scars, he was tired and hungry, and he just collapsed on the ground and didn't want to move at all.

After an unknown amount of time, Zheng Xiaohu struggled to stand up and continued forward with heavy steps.

After a while, he saw a dilapidated wooden house in front of him.

He hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and knocked on the door.

However, there was no response from inside the house.

Zheng Xiaohu gently pushed open the door, and the room was filled with an old smell.

It looked like an abandoned hunter's cabin.