Chapter 30: Encountered

The police officer from Shengnan County, Comrade Li, asked, “Didn’t you know he was the strong child?”

“How could I not know? I’ve heard of him. But how could I have known he could lift a grown man like a chicken? He’s like a little monster. I thought he just had the strength to carry two buckets of water. If I had known he was so strong, I wouldn’t have bought him. I wouldn’t have enjoyed his strength, and I might have had to put up with him every day.”

The woman was furious. She had a daughter and needed a son to take care of her in her old age, and she couldn’t have any more children. That’s why she wanted to buy a child. If she had known it would make her husband sick, she wouldn’t have bought him for anything. She even borrowed money to buy the child.

Comrade Li asked again, “Where did he run off to?”

“It’s near the Dashui between the two counties, next to Crab Mountain. Hey, Comrade, why are you asking all this?”

The woman started to realize something.

Comrade Li glared at her, “The police are investigating a case, tell the truth!”

The woman shrank under his glare and mumbled that her husband had fallen ill after being rescued, otherwise she would have gone to Xiaoliu Village long ago…

After she finished her explanation, Comrade Li asked Ye Qinglan, “Comrade, what do you think?”

“Let’s ask her neighbors and other villagers. I’ll go around and check.”

“Okay.”

The police continued their questioning, while she wandered around the village, offering some candy to a few children to confirm whether the family had brought a child back.

When she returned, the police had finished their questioning.

Comrade Li told her, “Comrade, if no vehicle passed by, he couldn’t have run very far on his own. With no money or food, he most likely went to a nearby village for help. We’ll go ask around the nearby villages next.”

“Okay.”

As for the couple who bought the child, they were temporarily handcuffed and put in the police car by the Shengnan County police.

The villagers wanted to stop them, but they could only watch helplessly as the people were taken away in the face of the guns.

Near the Dashui, Ye Qinglan and several police officers went to the two villages near the foot of the mountain and asked every household, but no one had seen a strange child enter the village.

Just as they were about to leave, a little girl said she had seen a younger brother while picking wild oranges on Crab Mountain.

As soon as she finished speaking, her mother slapped her, “Little girl, what nonsense are you talking about?”

“Wah—”

The little girl cried.

Seeing this, Ye Qinglan took out a bag of cookies from her bag and gave it to the little girl, “Little sister, don’t cry, here you go. Thank you for telling your brother about this. You’re a good girl.”

She also said to the girl’s mother, “Comrade, your little girl helped us, you really raised her well.”

The girl’s mother suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

The comrade’s words were kind, but she had just scolded her child!

The little girl, however, took the cookies and burst into laughter.

The police from Pingxin County then said to Comrade Li from Shengnan County, “Brother, we need to trouble you to send some people up the mountain to search.”

Comrade Li whispered, “Finding the child is no problem, it’s our duty. But you have to tell your brother, what’s the situation with that kid? What’s the situation with this Comrade Lin? Why are you so respectful to him?”

Lin was the identity Ye Qinglan used this time.

“Hey, I don’t know the specifics. The order came down from Haicheng, asking us to do our best to help him find the child. Don’t ask so many questions, just do your best to find him.”

He sighed inwardly, even if they found the child, if the child’s innate supernatural strength was fake, it would be fine. But if it was real, they would all be criticized.

Such a genius, no one paid attention to him, what were they all doing?

That afternoon, a group of people went up Crab Mountain.

Crab Mountain is located in the south, and it was almost the end of November, with wild oranges everywhere on the mountain.

At the other end of the mountain, several people were also entering the mountain.

Xiao Hutou, the child Ye Qinglan and the others were looking for, was hiding in a big tree, holding a chicken that had been plucked clean, taking a bite, his mouth smeared with blood, and his dirty little face wrinkled up:

“Woo, it’s so smelly~~”

But he was so hungry.

He took another bite, thinking, “It’s so smelly without fire~~”

He simply threw it away.

He then took out the wild oranges from his pocket, peeled them and put them in his mouth, and just one bite made his tears come out.

But even so, he didn’t spit it out, he lay on the big tree and whimpered, “I miss Mommy, I don’t have Mommy anymore. Woo~~ Big Uncle is a bad guy, he’s a liar, no one wants Hutou anymore~~~”

“Mommy, Hutou is a good boy, don’t leave Hutou.”

“I miss Mommy.”

“…”

The child mumbled to himself and fell asleep.

At this moment, another group of people arrived nearby, the leader holding binoculars.

Suddenly, the man with binoculars said, “Over there! There’s a child in that tree, it should be him. Quick, quick, go over there.”

“…”

Soon, several people arrived.

Hutou also woke up, seeing several people standing under the tree, one of them smiling like a wolf grandmother, reaching out to him, “Little friend, you’re Hutou, right? I’m your father. Dad didn’t die, be good, come down, Dad will take you home.”

Hutou’s big eyes stared at him roundly.

He stared and stared, then suddenly said, “Wah, you’re a ghost! My father is dead, a dead person is a ghost. I can see you, so I’m also a ghost. Wah—”

Thinking about it, he suddenly cried out loud.

“I’m dead, I’ve become a ghost~ Woo~~”

“…”

For a moment, the child’s cry shook the heavens.

The man with binoculars immediately said, “Quickly carry him down, give him an injection. Don’t let his cry attract others, hurry!”

“Yes, boss.”

The wolf grandmother man immediately grabbed Hutou’s leg with one hand and a needle in the other.

Hutou was a clever little guy, seeing this, he stopped crying and kicked the man in the nose, the man immediately cried out in pain, his nose broken!

The man with binoculars saw this, snatched the needle from his hand and gave the others a signal, asking them to distract Hutou, while he himself took the needle and stabbed Hutou, after all, he was still a child, within two seconds, Hutou’s head drooped.

“Woo, Mommy, save me~~”

At the same time, Ye Qinglan also arrived.

The man with binoculars holding the child met her gaze.

“Damn, someone’s coming, run!”

Ye Qinglan saw this and ran as fast as she could, she also said to the people with her, “You guys chase from the other side.”

When she was close, she jumped up and kicked one man away, then turned around and kicked another man away.

The man with binoculars kept urging his men, “Run, run! Hurry!”

He took out a gun from his waist, just as he was about to turn around and shoot, he saw Ye Qinglan already in front of him, grabbing his wrist, the gun fired into the air.

Then she grabbed his wrist and fired two shots at his leg.

“Aaaaah—”

The scream echoed through the mountains! It was clear how painful it was!

The next second, the man with binoculars knelt on the ground, covered in sweat, “I’m your mother!!”