Chapter 36 The Disaster of Toon

Wen Jiajia was really confused at this moment.

She was afraid that someone would come, but also afraid that no one would come. This had probably never happened to anyone in the family compound before, and there was no greater social death than this.

Wen Jiajia cursed inwardly. She slapped the tree with her palm, but the tree didn’t budge. Instead, her palm went numb from the pain.

This place was not close to the vegetable field, so even if she wanted to ask for help, she would have to shout at the top of her lungs.

If no one was in the vegetable garden at this moment, it would be useless to shout. The family building was very busy, and her cries for help couldn’t be heard.

It had rained heavily the night before, and it might continue to rain today.

In this season, it’s sunny and rainy. The more Wen Jiajia thought about it, the more scared she became. What if it rains?

It didn’t matter if she got soaked like a drowned rat; she was just afraid that a thunderbolt would strike her and turn her into charcoal.

Help… Wen Jiajia was trembling.

She tentatively stretched out her foot again and pushed, but it was still very slippery.

The sky was blue, but the sun had not appeared.

Wen Jiajia raised her head and looked carefully at the clouds above. They were not pure white but a bit gray.

A strong wind blew by, rustling the nearby trees. The bamboos in the distance bent collectively, and even the one under her butt was shaking a little.

Wen Jiajia was scared, really scared. She didn’t care whether she would die socially or not, because social death was better than physical death.

“Ahem!” She cleared her throat.

Taking a deep breath, she gathered her strength and shouted:

“Is anyone there?”

“…”

Another gust of wind blew by.

Wen Jiajia grabbed onto a tree branch and shouted, “Is there anyone here? Help!”

“Save me, save me!”

She shouted so hard that veins popped out on her neck and her voice became hoarse. In the end, she was so hoarse that she even retched.

In the distant family area, the busy day started early, and the family members only had time to go to the vegetable fields after finishing their housework. There was hail the day before, and they had to clean up the smashed vegetables as well.

“Did you hear that?” Zhang Fangshu suddenly stopped and looked around in confusion.

“What did you hear?” the person behind asked.

“I heard someone shouting,” she said.

“No, no one is shouting. Let’s go faster; the road is so slippery. We need to dig the mountain road deeper.” The person behind grabbed the tree next to him and urged.

Zhang Fangshu suppressed her doubts and walked on. She really felt that someone was shouting.

“Ugh.”

Wen Jiajia almost vomited out everything she had eaten in the morning but managed to hold it back.

Getting stuck in a tree while picking wild vegetables and being unable to move was socially devastating enough, but if she vomited at the same time, it would be even more socially humiliating.

Wen Jiajia was breathing rapidly. She touched her throat and felt it was like dry land in urgent need of water.

“Help…ah, is there anyone who can save me?” Her eyes turned red, and she continued to shout.

Really, the sky seemed to have darkened, and Wen Jiajia was scared to death when she looked up.

She closed her eyes and shouted again: “Help!”

The sound was so loud that it startled the birds perched on the trees. They flew up, flapping their wings and almost dropping some white bird poop on her head.

“No, there really is someone shouting.” Zhang Fangshu suddenly straightened up and pricked up her ears to listen carefully.

“I think I heard it, too.”

“Really? What are they yelling for?”

“It’s those naughty kids shouting.”

“No, it’s someone shouting for help.” Zhang Fangshu was stunned for a moment, then threw away the vegetable leaves in her hand. “Oh my god, is there a wild boar, or did someone fall down? Someone really shouted for help.”

“What are you waiting for? Go find them.”

“But the mountain is so huge, where can we find them? And the road is so slippery…”

Before she finished speaking, another cry of “Help” came.

Zhang Fangshu’s hearing was naturally more developed than others’. She stood there and listened for a while, then called out to others and walked straight towards the wild vegetable slope.

Everyone had been to the mountains to do farm work, so it was easy to tell that someone had walked here not long ago.

“Look, there are footprints!” Someone pointed at the ground and said, “The grass on the side of the road has been stepped on, and there is mud on the grass.”

As they spoke, the sky seemed to darken a little.

“Is there anyone there?” Wen Jiajia kept an eye on the sky and prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in the four directions, just hoping that it wouldn’t rain.

“I finally got the resurrection card; please don’t play tricks on me!” Wen Jiajia kept muttering in her heart, tears almost coming out.

But… she seemed to hear voices.

“Hey, who’s in trouble?” A voice came from not far away, “Who’s shouting for help?”

Wen Jiajia sat up in shock from her panic!

She raised her hands and shook them wildly, shouting, “It’s me! Over here, in the tree!”

As she spoke, she shook the branch with all her might.

Zhang Fangshu’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Oh my god, who is this? Why are you up in the tree?”

“I don’t know.”

“I can’t see who it is.”

As they spoke, several people ran over quickly.

Wen Jiajia waved weakly. “It’s me, Wen Jiajia, who lives in Beishan.”

“…”

“Are you Wei Dai’s wife?”

“Yes.”

“Why did you go up the tree?”

“I was picking Chinese toon and got stuck. Sister, can you help me? I’m afraid it’s going to rain soon.”

“…”

That’s it? How can a grown person get stuck in a tree?

Then they found that it really worked.

“Tsk! You’re stuck really tightly. I can’t push it up. I need a ladder.”

The tree was so slippery that she was lucky to hold on and not slip down. There was no way to help Wen Jiajia from here.

“What are you thinking, Comrade Wen? How did you end up sitting on that tree branch?”

“No, no, don’t let yourself fall. It looks like we need to call for help. I’ll go get support.”

Everyone was talking at once, surrounding the tree and looking at Wen Jiajia from all angles.

Wen Jiajia was so sad she wanted to cry but had no tears left. Once the logistics support arrived, she would really be doomed.

The person sent to look for support was an aunt named Chen Xueniang. She hurried down the mountain and said as she ran, “Everyone should be careful when picking Chinese toon trees these days. Wei Dai’s wife is stuck in a tree and can’t get down.”

“What? What? What?”

“Wait a minute, Snowgirl, what are you talking about? Who’s stuck in the tree?”

“Wei Dai’s wife, the smiling, quiet girl from Beishan, the one with the tender face.”

The crowd laughed. Most of them came from rural areas. They never imagined that an adult could get stuck in a tree and need help.

“Really? I have to check it out then.”

“Where?”

“How long has she been stuck? I was wondering. I saw her carrying a basket up the mountain when she was hanging out the laundry this morning. It’s almost noon now…”

In fact, this was absolute nonsense.

Wen Jiajia had been watching the time all the while. She had only been stuck for a little more than half an hour, so how could it suddenly be noon?

She didn’t admit it, absolutely not!

Chen Xueniang was surrounded so tightly that there was no way out.

“Hey, let’s get out of the way, let’s get out of the way.”

“I need to find support. It’s going to rain soon, and people are waiting for help.”

This was very true, and no one dared to delay any longer.

Those who loved to watch the excitement ran up the mountain first. Others who went with Chen Xueniang to the logistics department followed her example and spread the news while running. Suddenly, the crowd of people watching the excitement grew larger and larger.

Logistics.

The logistics department had a section specifically for the family area.

Early in the morning, after cleaning and organizing documents, Xiao Wang was about to make himself a pot of tea when he saw a group of people running towards the logistics department.

“Oh my goodness… what’s going on?”

Could something horrible have happened?

Xiao Wang from Logistics stood up with shaking hands and ran to the inner room to find his leader.

“The leadership is bad!”

Leader Lao Wang: “Speak clearly. What’s wrong?”

“Look, look, more than a dozen family members are running towards us.” The last time there was such a commotion was when the rooms were being allocated.

At that time, the quarrel was so intense that it was almost violent.

When it comes to housing allocation, the leader is terrified.

“It shouldn’t be. Nothing has happened recently,” he said secretly. Could it be that the plan to build the sixth and seventh floors has been leaked?

No, it hasn’t been confirmed yet.

Maybe an insider let it slip?

He covered his chest and said, “What a disaster! Who is so big-mouthed? If I knew, I would have to chop him to pieces.”

Xiao Wang had seen the power of family members, and there was no way to calm them down without inviting the senior leaders of the logistics department.

Some of them had been in the army much longer than many soldiers. If you were a rookie, they would not be afraid of you at all.

Just as the two were frantically thinking about how to handle the situation, a large group of people swarmed in.

“Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang, go and save her.”

“Old Wang, oh my god, our family member is stuck. You logistics people need to bring a ladder to rescue her.”

Lao Wang and Xiao Wang: “…”

Lao Wang was confused, then woke up and was overjoyed!

“Stuck?” He almost laughed. It’s good that he’s not here to fight for the house.

“Wait, who? Who is stuck? Where are they stuck? Is their life in danger?” He came back to his senses and asked hurriedly.

Chen Xueniang said anxiously, “Wei Dai’s wife, the one named Wen Jiajia, climbed a tree to pick Chinese toon and got stuck on a branch. Zhang Fangshu tried to save her, but the tree was too slippery, and there was no way to get her down.”

She hurriedly said, “Oh, hurry up, Comrade Wen is still young. She must be scared. She keeps talking about thunder and says she’ll die.”

Wei Dai finally got his wife back, so he must not scare her silly.

Lao Wang instructed Xiao Wang: “Call two people to go with you to rescue her. You need to bring a ladder, right? Also, bring a rope and an axe. We really need to be quick; the weather is not good today.”

Xiao Wang nodded and set off immediately.

So the family members swarmed away again.

The excitement was just like pork—equally attractive. After all, such a big commotion was rare in the family compound.

They came and went in a hurry, and their presence was so grand that they attracted quite a few people to watch, and the team grew much larger in a short time.

On the mountain.

Wen Jiajia was silent, and as the noise got closer, she became even more silent.

People came one after another and surrounded the Chinese toon tree, looking at it from all angles.

“That’s strange, why didn’t I find this Chinese toon tree a few days ago?”

“Haha, if you had found out, you’d be the one stuck today.”

Wen Jiajia closed her eyes and didn’t say anything. She felt like a monkey.

She was now extremely thankful that there were no mobile phones in this day and age that could take photos anytime and anywhere, so she wouldn’t have to leave behind such an embarrassing scene.

More and more people arrived, and some of them were smart enough to start picking wild vegetables.

Someone even shouted, “Comrade Wen, can you look to the left? There’s a Chinese toon seedling on the tree to your left. Help me pick it.”

Wen Jiajia stretched out her hand politely: “Sorry, sister, my arms are too short.”

“Oh, okay. What a pity, it’s me who’s stuck. I’m sure I can pick it.”

Wen Jiajia: “…”

She secretly raised her middle finger in the dark and said, “Don’t just say it—come up if you dare.”

Another ten minutes passed, and the group that went to the logistics department for reinforcements finally arrived.

The moment Xiao Wang and his companions appeared, Wen Jiajia burst into tears, so moved that she almost cried.

Gods and Buddhas are not as good as our soldiers and helpful aunts.

Xiao Wang exclaimed, “Wow!” He felt that half of the family members in the compound were here.