Yuan Wei's Quick Travel

"Do you know who did it?" The village chief was smoking a pipe, and the smoke from his exhaled pipe covered his face.

He hasn't smoked for a long time since he went to the hospital for a check-up and was told that his lungs were not in good condition.

I couldn't help but smoke again today.

"I don't know." Hu Laosi said weakly. He had no strength left and was trying hard not to faint.

He was afraid that he would never wake up after fainting.

"Village chief, when will the suspension bridge be repaired?" He wanted to go to the hospital. He wouldn't die just like that, would he?

"The people at the foot of the mountain haven't come up yet, but they should come up today."

Today was originally the day for people to go down the mountain. The people at the foot of the mountain didn't see anyone going down, so they should come up to ask.

Everyone else felt sympathetic when they saw Hu Laosi's miserable appearance. What had happened in the past two days?

Could it be that those women came back for revenge?

A gust of wind blew by and everyone shivered.

"Hiss, what is going on? Is this really a ghost's revenge?" Hu Qing's mother said with a pale face and trembling.

"Don't talk nonsense, there's no such thing as a ghost!" the village chief scolded. "If there is a ghost, it would come to me first. I'm fine, so how could there be a ghost?"

The village chief said so, but he was still afraid, and from then on he had someone accompany him wherever he went.

"Village chief, people from the foot of the mountain are coming up." At this time, the person guarding the suspension bridge ran over.

"Who's coming?" The village chief walked quickly towards the suspension bridge.

"It's the third brother, and a girl that the fourth brother brought up earlier."

When the village chief walked to the suspension bridge, he saw Hu Laosan holding Hu Sizhi and standing opposite.

Hu Sizhi looked badly, her clothes were torn a lot.

Having not eaten for two days, he looked very weak and haggard.

"Third brother, go down now and ask someone to repair the suspension bridge." The village chief shouted from here.

"Then what should we do with this woman?" Hu Laosan pointed at Hu Sizhi and asked.

"Push her down."

Hu Laosan pushed Hu Sizhi forward without saying a word.

"No, no." Hu Sizhi was terrified and struggled desperately, "I know who broke the suspension bridge! It was Yuan Wei."

Hu Sizhi shouted.

"Wait a minute." The village chief asked Hu Laosan to stop. Turning to Hu Sizhi, he asked, "Explain clearly."

Hu Sizhi was so scared that her legs went weak. If Hu Lao San hadn't held her up, she would have sat on the ground.

"It was the girl who came with me, her name is Yuan Wei. She was the one who cut down the suspension bridge."

Hu Sizhi had no strength left in her body, but she desperately shouted to stay alive, "I will be obedient. You can tie me up and gag me, but don't kill me."

Hu Sizhi suddenly thought of something and shouted again: "Also, and more, Yuan Wei didn't escape, she is still in the village."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, I dare not lie to you."

The village chief thought for a moment and said to Hu Laosan, "Listen to her. Tie your hands and feet, gag you, and lock you up in that little room over there."

"Can you let me eat something before that? I haven't eaten for two days." Hu Sizhi begged.

"Do you have anything to eat?" the village chief asked Hu Laosan.

"There's a steamed bun."

"Give her half and let her drink some water from the stream over there. Then tie her up and lock her up tightly," the village chief instructed. "Then go down and find someone to repair the suspension bridge."

"Okay." Hu Laosan agreed and left with Hu Sizhi.

"Everyone heard it. It's not a ghost, there's just a little mouse." The village chief turned around and said to the villagers.

"But, could a woman just beat the fourth brother like that?" Some people still questioned.

"We'll know once we find her."

While the village chief and the others were at the suspension bridge, Yuan Wei wandered around the village again.

This time she was looking for food. She put all the food she could find, as well as chickens, ducks and dogs, into the space.

During this search, she also encountered a girl chained up in chains.

Yuan Wei didn't communicate with her too much, just told her that now was not a good time to save her, asked her not to make it public, and that she would be saved later.

This girl has been locked up for so long and has not given up on escaping. She is also a person of strong will. Although she may not necessarily believe Yuan Wei, she did not shout loudly to expose Yuan Wei.

She had a hope in her heart.

The girl's name was Bai Wanxin. She told Yuan Wei that the village chief's money was hidden in a cave on the eastern mountain.

There is a big banyan tree next to the cave, and the entrance of the cave is basically blocked by the banyan tree.

Bai Wanxin knew so much because she was abducted by the village chief and then given to his third son, Hu Shitou.

Bai Wanxin never gave up on escaping, so she was often beaten by Hu Shitou.

Once, Hu Shitou came to her drunk, talking nonsense all the time, saying that his family was very rich and why she looked down on him and refused to live with him.

In order to prove that he was not lying, he also gave the detailed address where he hid the money.

Yuan Wei's eyes lit up when she heard this. She stuffed two steamed buns into Bai Wanxin's pocket and said, "Keep it a secret. Try to reduce your presence as much as possible these few days."

When Yuan Wei came out of the village, the village chief came back with his men to search the village. "Search carefully. It must be hiding in some corner."

Soon the searchers came back and said to the village chief in panic, "Chief, all the food in my house is gone."

“My house is gone too.”

"My family is the same."

"And my home."

People who came back one after another said that their food was missing from their homes.

"How could it be?" The village chief was incredulous. "Why would he disappear?"

After a final count, it was found that only one family had their grain hidden well, so it was not stolen. Their grain was hidden in a dry well.

There are only 20 kilograms of rice.

With so many people in the village, it can only feed them for two days at most.

You may not be able to eat enough.

Yuan Wei went to the mountain and searched for a long time before she found the banyan tree that Bai Wanxin mentioned.

She ran over and took a look, and sure enough, she saw a hole behind the banyan tree.

The entrance to the cave is quite small, only enough for a short person to enter by bending over.

Yuan Wei went in and saw a box, which she thought was the money hidden by the village chief.

Yuan Wei opened the box and found about 10 yuan in cash and 10 gold bars inside.

This was a lot of money in the 90s.

No wonder Hu Shitou said his family is rich!

I see...but all this money was probably obtained illegally through trafficking women and children!

Yuan Wei thought silently, her heart filled with anger and contempt.

She put the box into her own space, then bent down and walked out of the cave.

At this time, the village had been searched, but Yuan Wei was not found.

Everyone speculated that Yuan Wei was most likely hiding in the mountains.

However, at this moment, the villagers’ biggest concern was not how to find Yuan Wei, but how to solve the imminent problem of food and clothing.

After all, all the food in the village was gone, so how could anyone have the energy to chase after Pu Yuanwei?

The village chief then decisively gave an order: let the women in the village go to the mountains to find edible wild vegetables;

The other men were responsible for checking how much food was left in each household's vegetable garden and collecting it all for unified distribution.

The village chief has great prestige in the village, and everyone obeys his instructions very obediently.

However, the women who were about to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables seemed a little reluctant.

You know, this mountain is not an ordinary hill. There are many large wild animals hiding on the mountain, such as wild boars, wild wolves, etc.

If they encounter these beasts, they will probably have a hard time surviving!

No one would take the risk of going up the mountain lightly.

Of the women who tried to flee to the mountains, few ever returned alive.

Thinking of this, the women's faces turned even paler, their fear evident in their expressions.