After my stepmother was shot, I took my brothers to the countryside

"Sister Nian! Sister Nian!"

After dinner, Shen Nian took Shen Nianle and Shen Nian'an, who were full, to the yard to leisurely digest their food.

The tranquility was broken by Goudan's anxious voice, and he rushed into the yard with an anxious look on his face.

"Goudan, what happened? Why are you running in such a hurry?" Shen Nian asked in confusion, looking at Goudan who was sweating profusely.

Goudan's eyes had begun to turn red, and he cried, "Sister Nian, I...my mother is missing. Did she come to your house?"

Shen Nian was stunned. "Your mother is missing? She hasn't been here. I saw her after work today. When was the last time you saw your mother?"

Goudan was so anxious that tears were about to fall. He thought for a moment: "The last time I saw my mother was in the chicken farm that afternoon. Xiaole and I were feeding earthworms to the chickens, and my mother came over and said she was going to the back mountain to collect firewood. I wanted to go with her, but she wouldn't let me and asked me to stay in the chicken farm. After feeding the chickens, I went home. No one was home, so I didn't think much of it. When I finished cooking, my mother still didn't come back. I went out to look for her, but couldn't find her, so I thought of asking if my mother had come here."

Shen Nian frowned. She knew this because Goudan's mother had come to the chicken farm after work, and she had chatted with her for a while.

It had only been a few hours, how could such a good person suddenly disappear? A sense of foreboding welled up in her heart again.

"Goudan, don't worry, I'll go with you to look for it."

Shen Nian comforted him, then turned to Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle and said, "Xiao'an, Xiao'le, Aunt Goudan is missing. You two should go find the captain and tell him what happened."

When Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle heard this, they quickly nodded and ran out, "Okay, okay, we'll go right away."

Before leaving, Shen Nianle still cared about Goudan: "Goudan, don't worry. My brother and I will go find the captain to help us find him."

In the cowshed opposite, Su Dingyi, who came out to look for something in the yard, happened to see the Shen Nian'an brothers who were hurriedly running to find the team leader.

Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, thinking that something had happened to Shen Nian.

She quickly put down what she was holding and walked quickly towards Shen Nian's house across the street.

Before they arrived, they saw Shen Nian and Goudan hurriedly getting ready to go out. Su Dingyi hurriedly asked:

"Xiao Nian, what happened? Where are you going in such a hurry?"

Shen Nian stopped and looked at Su Dingyi: "Aunt Su, Aunt Goudan is missing. I asked Xiaoan and Xiaole to find the team leader, and I was about to take Goudan out to look for her."

Su Dingyi was shocked when she heard this: "How could Goudan's mother suddenly disappear? I'll go back now and ask your Uncle Gu and the others to go out and help look for her."

Su Dingyi hurried back to the cowshed to find Gu Jianhua and others, while Shen Nian took Goudan's hand and began to look for Goudan's mother.

They walked along the road to the chicken farm, and then searched along the road from the chicken farm to the river and the back mountain.

"Auntie! Auntie Goudan... can you hear me?"

"Mother...Mother! If you hear me, answer me!"

The two men's cries echoed in the empty forest, but there was no response from Goudan's mother, and the two men did not find any trace of Goudan's mother.

Goudan became more and more anxious, tears welling up in his eyes.

Just then, Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle arrived with the team leader and a group of villagers.

As soon as the team leader heard what Shen Nian'an and the others said, he immediately organized the villagers to search separately.

"Don't panic, Goudan. The captain has already sent people to look for her separately. They will definitely find your mother!" The captain whispered to comfort Goudan.

Upon hearing this, Goudan nodded with tears in his eyes. Although he was still worried, he felt a little more at ease with so many people around.

So, everyone divided into several groups and began to search the entire village. Some went to the hillside, some to the riverside, and some to the fields.

The captain led a group of villagers along the riverbank, their flashlights casting streaks of light in the darkness, illuminating every corner, searching for every possible clue, searching for Goudan's mother.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the sky had completely darkened. Shen Nian's heart was in his throat, fearing that he would find bad news.

At this moment, a cry of alarm came from the riverside. Everyone immediately ran towards the direction of the sound, only to see several villagers gathered by the river with terrified looks on their faces.

"What's wrong? Have you found the person?" the captain asked anxiously.

"Is that... that?"

The person who had just screamed shone the flashlight into the river again.

Everyone looked in the direction of the flashlight and saw a corpse floating quietly there.

That was Goudan's mother. Her body was half immersed in the water in a strange posture. Her feet seemed to be tied by something, making her float gently on the edge of the river with the current.

"It's Goudan's mother! I saw her today!" someone exclaimed.

Shen Nian and Goudan quickly ran to the river. Everyone's faces were filled with shock, and the atmosphere by the river suddenly became solemn.

Goudan recognized his mother at a glance. He broke away from the crowd and wanted to jump into the river, but was held tightly by Shen Nian.

"Goudan, be good! Don't be impulsive!" Shen Nian shouted, "The captain will rescue your mother! Don't be impulsive!"

"Quick, let's get her out first."

The team leader was the first to react. He called a few strong villagers to go down to the river to salvage Goudan's mother's body. At the same time, he sent people to the public security bureau to report the crime.

However, when the villagers tried to drag the body to the shore, they found that Goudan's mother's feet seemed to be tightly entangled by the water plants at the bottom of the river, making it difficult to move.

After great efforts, everyone finally separated the body from the water plants at the bottom of the river and successfully pulled Goudan's mother ashore.

Goudan threw himself beside his mother's body and burst into tears. His sobs were so heartbreaking that they pained everyone present.

The team leader and the villagers gathered around, silently comforting him, but at the same time they also felt puzzled and sad about the death of Goudan's mother.

"Oh, maybe he accidentally slipped and fell into the river."

The captain sighed, "The river water is so cold in April. Even if you fall in and get out right away, you might catch a cold. It's been such a long time..."

Everyone was silent, they all knew what the captain meant by what he had not finished saying.

Seeing Goudan crying, Shen Nianle started crying with him. He didn't know what he was thinking about, but his cries were even louder than Goudan's, and their cries echoed in the night sky.

Some soft-hearted aunts couldn't help but wipe away their tears secretly.

They all knew that this night would become the most unforgettable moment in Goudan's life.

Shen Nian stood in the crowd, feeling heavy-hearted. She looked at the body of Goudan's mother, and vaguely remembered the ending of Goudan and his mother in the book.

The book describes the Shuangxi Brigade in late March from Shi Shengxia's perspective, where a crazy woman and her son drowned in the icy river.

This incident caused quite a stir in the brigade. For a while, no one in the brigade dared to go to the river after dark.

And now, this tragedy seems to be happening in reality, but in this life, only Goudan's mother drowned in the river.

Shen Nian couldn't help but feel a little confused. It was already the end of April. If it was according to the original plot, Goudan's mother's ending would have been rewritten. How could she drown in the river again?

Shen Nian felt a pang of palpitations. She couldn't imagine how Goudan would face this cruel reality as although he survived, he lost his beloved mother.