"What, the child is lost?"
"How can the child be lost?"
In various caves, the villagers climbed down quickly when they heard the noise.
The old people counted them one by one, fearing that their children were also missing, so they took the opportunity to look for where Gou Sheng'er was hiding.
Aunt Wu San and her husband had a hard life. When they were young, they gave birth to two children without stopping. They only had one child after they were in their thirties.
After the dog was born, another little girl was born, but she died at the age of two.
Gou Sheng'er is a real only seedling, and he usually pays more attention to it than his eyeballs.
If it had been before, we wouldn't have discovered that the child was missing all night. After all, the cave was small, with only two families and two children.
But last night the cave was changed, and Gou Sheng'er had been playing with several half-grown children again.
When it was time to go to bed, the couple thought Gou Sheng'er was too crowded, so they went to sleep with their little friend.
The only time they didn't take it seriously was to ask questions from cave to cave.
Unexpectedly, after dinner this morning, the two of them shouted a few words before the child came back.
After all, no one's family has much food, so it's not easy for their children to live and eat.
As a result, if I ask one cave, Gou Sheng'er is not there, and if I ask another one, he is still not there!
"Gou Sheng'er, Gou Sheng'er, where are you? Come out quickly, don't scare your mother!"
Aunt Wu shouted until her voice became hoarse, her eyes were red, and she was almost going crazy.
Uncle Wu also had a pale face, pricked his hands, and bumped around like a blindfolded fly. He wanted a son for everyone he met.
The villagers quickly gathered together and looked at the village chief and Uncle Zhao.
The village chief waved his pipe and pot and directly ordered everyone, "Everyone, spread out and search around. Even if you can't find the child, you still have to find something."
Everyone's hearts trembled, as they had a bad premonition.
In such cold weather, no matter whether the child is dragged away by wild animals or trapped in a snow nest, the end will be bad...
Except for the old people who are inconvenient to get in and out of the cave, and the children of various families, everyone disperses , all shouting to look for him.
Soon, a villager discovered a slingshot a dozen steps behind the shack.
Aunt Wu San rushed forward, hugged the slingshot and started crying.
"This is a dog's leftover, a dog's leftover! He hugged him even when he was sleeping! Mother's dog's leftover, where have you been? Something happened to you, and my mother is not alive anymore."
She cried and was about to run to the stone next to her. The villagers quickly stopped him.
The village chief frowned and was about to speak when an arrow suddenly shot from the forest in front.
Liu Biaotou wanted to find out first, and his quick eyesight and hands quickly pulled the village chief away, "Be careful!"
The village chief stumbled and fell, and the arrow flew past his shoulder and pierced directly into Sun Er's back.
Second Sister-in-law Sun was bending down to persuade Third Aunt Wu, but she never imagined that there would be such a danger.
She screamed in pain and fell straight to the ground.
"Back off, back off!"
Liu Biaotou yelled, pulling the village chief and Uncle Zhao next to him and pulling back.
The villagers also exploded and ran back, rolling and crawling.
Li Laosi and Jiayi each took one of them and brought Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu back to the shack.
Everyone was in shock and hid behind the shack, but there was no movement in the forest.
Tao Hongying half hugged Sun Er's sister-in-law and whispered, "There is a note on the arrow!"
Everyone looked around and breathed a sigh of relief.
The arrow was held in Tao Hongying's hand. It turned out that the arrow was inserted too shallowly, and it had already fallen off after just a few twists and turns.
Second Sister-in-law Sun's cotton-padded jacket was soaked in blood, but not much.
Li Laosi took the note and opened it. It was quite simple, with only four sentences.
"Thirty miles northeast, ten bags of grain, one hundred silver, and a baby tomorrow at noon."
Gou Sheng is... kidnapped!
Everyone was silent for a long time. They thought they were the only ones active in this deep mountain forest.
Unexpectedly, not only were there others, but their children were kidnapped so easily!
"We're careless. We settled here and lived in a cave, thinking we didn't have to worry about anything. We didn't have anyone on duty during the day and night, so someone took advantage of us!"
The village chief looked bad and blamed himself.
Uncle Zhao clenched his fists tightly, "I'm too proud. When Liu Biaotou mentioned that this is the waist of broad beans and is closest to the outside, I should remind everyone..."
Li Laosi also frowned and responded, " We've been out for so long in vain, but we didn't notice anyone else around here."
At this moment, Second Sister-in-law Sun was carried back and asked Miracle Doctor Zhang to give her some medicine.
Aunt Wu San had no tears left to cry and was filled with despair.
"Ten bags of grain, a hundred silver? My family doesn't have any. How can I save the dog?"
Uncle Wu squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, wishing he could hit him to death.
It's a good thing that his son is still alive. It's better than freezing to death or being carried away by wild animals.
But the whole village can't come up with what the kidnappers want. How can they save their son?
The villagers were all talking about it, and they were anxious to come up with ideas.
"If you don't have enough money, put rocks in the bag, and if you don't have enough food, stuff hay. Can you deceive these bandits and exchange the leftovers first?"
"You are blind to think of a bandit, they will definitely inspect the goods!"
"Everyone! Stop arguing," Li Laoer interrupted everyone loudly, and then said, "Listen to me and explain it from beginning to end, and then we decide how to save it."
He took a deep breath and continued, "First of all, these people should be Knowing that there are people here, we came to check. Maybe they saw that we were killing pigs for stew, and there were many people, so they did not dare to show their heads. If my guess is correct, I guess Gou Sheng went to pee or picked up a slingshot, and ran to the outside. He was caught by this Someone grabbed it by chance."
"It's possible! It was so busy yesterday. We were all down there, and we also had hatchets and the like. If there weren't many people coming, we would definitely not dare to take action." The village chief nodded, and the others also thought it made sense.
Li Laoer put his hands behind his back and said, "After they returned, maybe they heard from Gou Sheng that we were just people fleeing famine, so they didn't want to waste more time and sent a letter asking us to deliver the things. We have , they might leave us all to kill, and then come back to rob us completely. If we don't, then they have nothing to offer.
Just looking at them just shooting arrows and not avoiding the crowd at all, you can see that these people are not the same The common people or soldiers who fled into the mountains to take shelter should be ruthless bandits, the kind with countless blood on their hands, who don't take human life seriously."
The more people listened, the more their hearts sank. They thought that this place was extremely safe, but where could they? I thought that there was a man-eating tiger sleeping next to the bed.
They have always been neighbors with such ferocious bandits!
Uncle Zhao took a deep breath and said, "If the second brother is right, then we have no way out and can only be prepared to fight desperately. It's not just for Gou Sheng. If these bandits are not eliminated, we will always be there." It's dangerous."
"Yes, and be quick!" Liu Biaotou also said, "They don't take notice of us fleeing famine, thinking that we will tremble in fear and collect food and money. If this is the time, If we follow the people who just delivered the letter and touch their cottage, we can catch them off guard. At least we have a chance to secretly rescue Gou Sheng'er first."
"Then let's go, the sooner the better!" Li Laosi Suggestion: "Prepare both money and food, and pretend to be fake. If you are discovered, you can always deceive you for a while."