After finishing a cup of hot water, Xiao Yan suddenly asked in confusion, "Has Jin Yue not woken up yet?"
Jin Yue is the little girl's name.
Upon hearing Xiao Yan's question, Lin Leyao's eyes widened instantly.
Lin Leyao immediately asked, "Didn't the little girl leave with her grandmother and the others?"
“No,” Xiao Yan replied immediately, “Jin Yue was still sleeping in her room when Grandma passed away. Weren’t you with her the whole time?”
As Xiao Yan was speaking, she noticed the expression on Lin Leyao's face and realized something was wrong. She suddenly stood up.
Xiao Yan pushed open the bedroom door and found that the little girl who had been sleeping on the bed was nowhere to be seen. She turned around and asked Lin Leyao, who had also stood up and looked nervous, "Didn't you see Jin Yue when you woke up?"
Lin Leyao nodded emphatically.
The two women turned pale instantly, realizing something terrible had happened! A little baby had gone missing right under their noses!
There has just been a mudslide on the mountain. The mountain roads are uneven, with ravines and cliffs everywhere. It is extremely dangerous for a five-year-old child to walk outside like this. What if something really happens...
Xiao Yan grabbed her coat and was about to leave when she immediately told Lin Leyao, "Don't run around if you hurt your leg. Stay home and wait for us to come back."
After saying that, Xiao Yan hurriedly ran out.
At this moment, Lin Leyao was left alone in the house again. Unlike her previous feelings of surprise and fear, this time she was filled with panic.
Xiao Yan's voice could be heard from afar; she was calling Jin Yue's name over and over again.
Lin Leyao limped to the gate of the courtyard. Xiao Yan's voice was gradually getting weaker, indicating that she was getting further and further away from the house.
Time passed slowly, and without a clock, Lin Leyao had no way of knowing how long Xiao Yan had been gone.
Lin Leyao grew increasingly anxious as she waited, and finally, she couldn't help but drag her injured leg out of the house, searching carefully around it.
She went in the opposite direction from Xiao Yan to search. The sky was much darker than before, and the sky was gray. It was probably affected by a natural disaster. The mountaintop, which should have been very quiet, was now filled with something moving silently in the air and in the unseen corners.
There's no one here, no one here either, still nothing...
Lin Leyao grew increasingly anxious. She searched everywhere she could find a place to shelter the child, but to no avail.
Lin Leyao was getting further and further away from the house behind her. After walking for more than ten minutes, she suddenly stopped.
A faint sound rang out not far away, extremely soft and quiet.
Lin Leyao turned a corner and walked into the bushes beside her.
The bushes were knee-high, and branches and leaves fell all over Lin Leyao's legs. In no time, Lin Leyao's legs were covered with rainwater and mud.
Lin Leyao seemed oblivious and continued walking deeper into the bushes.
The sound grew louder and louder until Lin Leyao finally realized it was the little girl's sobbing.
Lin Leyao called softly, "Jin Yue, is that you?"
The crying stopped abruptly, and suddenly a dark figure rose from the bushes a few meters away. Lin Leyao met a pair of dark eyes.
It's the Golden Moon!
Lin Leyao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the child opposite her, whose clothes were soaked and whose face was covered in mud, her eyes immediately welled up with tears.
The little girl stood there motionless. Lin Leyao slowly exhaled, and at this moment she finally felt the stinging pain coming from the wound on her ankle.
The wound that had just begun to heal was torn open again, and blood stained his ankle once more.
Lin Leyao forced a smile, trying to relax. She smiled gently at the child opposite her and said, "Jinyue, come to Auntie."
The little girl shook her head: "Grandpa!"
Lin Leyao patiently explained, "Grandpa will be back soon, shall we go home?"
The little girl refused, and she crouched down, hiding her entire body in the bushes.
Lin Leyao had no choice but to take a few steps forward. As she got closer to the child, she gradually saw the scene where the little girl was.
The little girl was lying on a small mound of earth. The mound was very smooth and free of weeds. It was surrounded by bushes, making it look secluded and mysterious.
The little girl lay motionless on the mound, staring at the gray sky with her eyes open. No one knew what the five-year-old was thinking at that moment.
Lin Leyao squatted down next to the little girl and gently asked, "Why did you come here?"
"Look at Dad."
As soon as the little girl finished speaking those three words, Lin Leyao instantly understood something.
Buried in this small mound is the little girl's father. A five-year-old child ran here alone without anyone knowing, just to stay by her father's side.
Lin Leyao immediately softened her tone: "Now that we've seen Dad, let's go home and wait for Grandpa, okay? Grandpa's coming back soon."
After a while, the little girl finally agreed.
Lin Leyao didn't care that the little girl was all dirty; she scooped the child into her arms and held her tightly.
The journey there was extremely long, and the journey back was equally difficult.
Lin Leyao walked with a limp, and the wound on her ankle had reopened and was showing signs of worsening with her movements.
As Lin Leyao walked, she could clearly feel the excruciating pain of her skin tearing and splitting at her ankle.
The five-year-old child was heavy, and with every step Lin Leyao took, she could feel a saw cutting and rubbing against her wounded flesh.
The journey, which should have taken only ten minutes, was stretched out endlessly due to her foot injury. It was already quite dark when Lin Leyao looked up at the sky. She had been on this mountain for three days.
She was forced to stay on the mountain because of a foot injury and was unfortunately caught in a mudslide, but luckily she escaped the disaster.
The child she was taking care of suddenly went missing, but luckily she found the child alive and well.
She encountered many unfortunate things these past three days, but fortunately, she managed to overcome them all. Perhaps she's just naturally lucky; the god of fate seems to be on her side.
After laughing for a while, Lin Leyao sighed softly. She was truly lucky, but the wound was also really painful.
Lin Leyao lifted the little girl up and gritted her teeth to continue walking along the mountain path despite the pain.
The little girl had probably been running around outside for a long time and was a bit tired. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep in Lin Leyao's arms.
As Lin Leyao walked, she hummed a tender tune softly, while the child nestled in her arms, sleeping soundly.
As she got closer to the house, Lin Leyao finally stopped humming the music, and she stopped after taking only a few steps.
She walked and stopped several times. She sensed something in the air around her, but when she turned around to look, she didn't find anything.
Lin Leyao temporarily suppressed her vigilance and walked back the way she came.
Behind her, a black figure, about the size of half a human arm, lay prostrate on the ground, its pair of eerie green eyes staring unblinkingly at the figure in front of it.
As the mountain road reached a bend, Lin Leyao's ankle trembled with pain. She stopped to catch her breath, and just then, a dark figure suddenly pounced on her from behind.
Lin Leyao sensed something behind her and turned around abruptly, but it was too late; she was knocked backward by the impact.
The baby who had just fallen asleep in her arms was startled awake. She fell to the ground with a thud and burst into tears. Lin Leyao, who had been holding her, had fallen into the bushes and disappeared completely on the mountain path.
The little girl cried loudly in fright. The culprit was walking lightly a short distance away, and a sleek and agile lynx was staring straight at the little girl who was lying on the road crying.
Just as darkness was about to reduce visibility to almost nothing, the rescue team finally reached the mountaintop. At the same time, Iris and her grandparents, who had gone out that day, also returned home.
The moment the mountain road was cleared, Xin Ying rushed up immediately.
Arriving at the mountaintop farmer's house that Lin Leyao had mentioned in the previous video call, Xin Ying was filled with mixed emotions. She looked around at everyone in the yard and found that Lin Leyao was nowhere to be seen.
Xin Ying stared straight at Xiao Yan and asked, "Where is Le Yao?"
Xiao Yan bit her lip, staring intently with her reddened eyes without saying a word.
Xin Ying instantly realized something and immediately turned and ran outside the house.
It was already dark, and there were many mosquitoes and wild animals on the mountain, making it very unsafe. When everyone saw Xin Ying running out unarmed, they immediately wanted to pull her back.
Xin Wenwen witnessed everything. Her hands and feet went numb as she stood to the side, her voice trembling as she said, "What the hell are you doing? If something happens to Lin Leyao, our family is finished again!"
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Author's Note:
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 2022-05-25 14:03:18 and 2022-05-26 22:39:36!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the landmine: 55157345 (1 landmine);
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 113
Several kilometers from the summit, along the winding mountain road, shrubs and thorns grow in abundance.
It all happened in an instant when Lin Leyao was suddenly attacked and knocked to the ground, rolling into the bushes.
But the excruciating pain from hitting her lower back on the rock clearly told her what had happened during that time.
The little girl, who had just been in her arms, fell down on the mountain path. The little girl was terrified and was crying her heart out.
Lin Leyao tried to get up, but the wound on her lower back was pulling violently, and her limbs wouldn't obey her commands.
Lin Leyao struggled to sit up, but as soon as she moved, her body suddenly slid uncontrollably to the right and downward. To her right was the edge of the bushes, and next to her was a steep cliff. If she made the slightest movement, she could fall off the cliff.
She immediately tensed up, maintaining her original position lying on the bushes. A few seconds later, her body, which had been sliding downwards, gradually stabilized.
After a long while, Lin Leyao finally caught her breath. Her tense body gradually relaxed, and her back was soaked with cold sweat.
Lin Leyao felt herself getting closer and closer to the edge of the cliff, and she dared not turn her head to look at her predicament. There was a slope here, and if she made any sudden movements at the edge, she could easily slide down, and once she started sliding, she would get closer and closer to the cliff. If she wasn't careful, she could fall off the cliff and be smashed to pieces.
Lin Leyao's head was buzzing, and her entire limbs were numb. Not far away, on the mountain path, the little girl was still wailing, each cry stimulating her temples.
Lin Leyao closed her eyes, and droplets of water fell on her eyelids. It started to rain.
Mudslides are inextricably linked to torrential rain. Lin Leyao suddenly opened her eyes: "Jin Yue, hurry home!"
As soon as Lin Leyao finished shouting that sentence, she suddenly slid down and landed on the edge of the cliff, with half of her shoulder exposed.
Lin Leyao suddenly grabbed the bushes next to her.
She felt like she might fall if she said just one word. Lin Leyao held her breath and dared not make any further movements.
The little girl, who had been wailing, immediately scrambled to her feet when she heard someone calling her. She looked around but found no one was there.
The little girl walked towards the bushes where Lin Leyao had fallen and found no one in the area where the sound had come from.
The little girl looked at it in confusion for a long time before finally looking away and retreating step by step.