Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 617 Finding the Missing Child

"When did you take it away?" Ji Xun asked.

"I don't know. When I was having breakfast, I found that there was a child missing. I looked around and couldn't find it. That's why I was in a hurry." The aunt broke down in tears.

There are many children in the countryside, and every household is like this. Adults at the age of four or five let go of them, and eat and sleep on their own.

The man in her family got sick and passed away a few years ago. There are five or six children in the family.

The one who lost was the youngest Yao'er, who was just over five years old.

It was only when she heard that a tiger had entered the village, a pig was taken from someone's house, and a sheep was taken away from someone's house, that she paid attention to it.

"Mr. Ji, you are very skilled. I beg you to go into the mountains and help me find it. Maybe the tiger won't be able to eat it in the future, woo woo woo." Although these words are naive, which parent would not wish to have such a luck? The tiger is full of pigs and sheep, so why not let the children go for a while?
Village Chief Yao walked over with a solemn expression.

"Master Ji, tigers are much more ferocious than wild boars, you can't go."

"Aunt Sun, don't worry, I will organize the villagers to search for people in the mountains, and I will definitely find the child."

After all, Ji Xun is the son-in-law of the Jiang family, and he is not considered a member of the village. If something happens here, how will he explain it to his family?
"No, I have to go." Ji Xun affirmed, "The smell of blood in the valley is so thick, it must have attracted a lot of tigers, you can't deal with it without me. Village Chief Yao, can you find a knife that is more lethal? "

Village head Yao thought for a while, and asked the village butcher to bring his butcher's knife.

After finding the knife, he picked up a dozen strong young men and hurriedly followed Ji Xun into the mountain with all kinds of weapons.

"Aunt Sun, did the child leave blood when it was taken away? Can you take me to your house to have a look?" Shen Yuan walked up to Aunt Sun holding the snow ball.

Xiaoxuetuan has a keen sense of smell, so let Xiaoxuetuan take a sniff, follow the smell, and see if he can find anything.

"Okay." Aunt Sun took Shen Yuan to her house.

Aunt Sun's family lived on the outskirts of the village, a simple wooden house without walls outside.

"Auntie, did you hear any noise last night?" Shen Yuan asked while looking around.

"No." Aunt Sun shook her head sadly, "I harvested peach blossoms for a whole day yesterday, and I couldn't wake up after I fell asleep. It's all because I slept so deeply and killed my son.

There is no man in the house, and it is far away from the neighbor's house. There are old and young in the house. Even if there is any noise at night, no one gets up to take care of it. It's very pitiful.

Shen Yuan walked around, and Aunt Sun said that the child might have been taken away in the middle of the night when he got up to pee. The strange thing is that there is no trace of blood around, but a few tiger footprints were found 50 meters away from the house.

Looking at these tiger footprints, Aunt Sun burst into tears again: "My poor youngest son, you really fell into the tiger's mouth, woo woo woo."

Although they all saw the tiger's footprints, Shen Yuan always felt that something was wrong.

How sharp are the tiger's teeth? I don't know how much blood it will bleed if you bite it down, but it's really unreasonable that the neighborhood around his house is so clean.

"Auntie, please take a piece of your youngest's clothes and give it to my little ferret to smell, and let him follow the smell to find it."

"Okay." Aunt Sun hurried into the room and took out a patched dress, and handed it to Shen Yuan.

"Xiaoxuetuan, take a good sniff." Shen Yuan put the clothes under Xiaoxuetuan's nose. After Xiaoxuetuan smelled it, he jumped off Shen Yuan's body and began to sniff the ground.

"Don't cry, auntie. I just saw a hole in the back room of your house, so I quickly tried to fix it."

Shen Yuan reminded Aunt Sun and followed Xiao Xuetuan.

Children in the country run around, which corners of the village have not been visited? Xiaoxuetuan scurrying from here to there, it is quite messy.

"Don't you smell the smell of entering the mountain?" Shen Yuan asked strangely.

Xiaoxuetuan hissed a few times, and walked around the village just because he didn't smell it.

After sniffing around the village for a long time, Xiaoxuetuan propped his head up in a daze, completely losing his sense of direction.

Shen Yuan slapped his forehead, "Look at my brain? If the tiger bit the child's clothes and carried him into the mountain, and he didn't bleed or walk on the ground, where would there be any smell?" Xiaoxuetuan thought in this situation. Also powerless.

So he called Xiaoxuetuan back, and then asked about the people in the village who lost pigs and sheep, and went to inspect the scene.

There are a lot of bloodstains outside the pig pen and sheep pen. All the way to the mountain, there are at least three tiger footprints in a mess. It looks like it has been visited by a tiger. It is completely different from the scene of Aunt Sun's house.

After inspecting it, Shen Yuan went to Aunt Sun's house again.

Aunt Sun is rushing to repair the house, and she doesn't care about being sad. There are so many children in the family, and she can't live without another one.

After returning from Aunt Sun's house, Shen Yuan was a little surprised to find that Jiang Yingru's carriage was not outside the courtyard.

"Mother, where did auntie and the others go?" Shen Yuan walked into the courtyard, without them, the courtyard was quiet.

Mrs. Gu was picking vegetables, and there was a large pile of freshly picked cabbage on the table.

"I said I went around to see the scenery." Mrs. Gu said seriously to Shen Yu'an while picking vegetables, "Daughter, don't run around, stay away from the mountain, there are tigers."

"Well, I know, I just walked around the village."

Shen Yuan sat over, picked up a small cabbage, skillfully removed the yellow leaves and roots, and put it into the basin.

After a moment of silence, he asked Gu, "Where did they go? Is it worth driving a carriage?"
Gu replied helplessly, "Your cousin has a temper for a young lady, and she is afraid of getting her shoes dirty when she walks."

"Why do you come to the countryside if you're so particular? By the way, how many days are they here to play?"

"I heard from your grandma that you will live for a month or half a year, who knows?"

"Live so long? The business in the city is gone? What kind of business are they doing?"

"How do you understand? It is said that it is a seller, so it must be someone to take care of it."

The mother and daughter chatted, and the vegetables were picked, washed by the stream, and sent to the kitchen for the two sister-in-laws to cook.

After the food was ready, the people who entered the mountain did not come back. Even Jiang Yingru and his family didn't know where they went, and they didn't come back for lunch.

Until the beginning of Shen Shi, the men who had entered the mountain came back, and brought back two skeletons of pigs and sheep that had been gnawed to pieces.

The villagers had been waiting for the news for a long time, and they were relieved to see that no one was missing.

Village head Yao asked about the situation, and found out that after searching for a day, the tiger was nowhere to be found. The pigs and sheep were taken away by them and eaten in the valley, but where their nests were, they could not be found.

Looking at the gnawed pigs and sheep, Aunt Sun sat on the ground, crying loudly.

Five or six-year-old children, it is possible to be swallowed alive, but can the bones be left behind?
The village head arranged for Aunt Sun who fainted from crying to be sent home.

The men who had been hungry all day stayed at Jiang's house for dinner, and everyone talked while eating.

"This kind of beast is cunning. It doesn't move during the day, but makes a surprise attack at night. It's hard to guard against."

"Isn't it? Even if you have the ability to kill them, you may not be able to find their lair." Jiang Qicheng shook his head helplessly.

"What can we do? Can you find a way to drive them away?" Village Chief Yao frowned.

"You can try it, bring the gongs and drums and go up the mountain tomorrow."

The men hadn't finished their meal, Jiang Yingru and the others came back, and just stopped at the gate of the courtyard, Xiaoxuetuan rushed into the carriage with a 'swish' like lightning.

(End of this chapter)