PNB Chapter 168 Running away from home
Chapter 168 Running away from home
"Sigh, I just don't understand your daughter at all. We agreed to find a reason to go up the mountain, but she just left without saying goodbye," Xu Dazhu sighed.
"Isn't that the reason?" Lin Cuiniang rolled her eyes at Xu Dazhu. "Stop standing there like an idiot and hurry up and pack your things."
They said they were packing up, but in reality, they had already secretly sent their extra bedding up the mountain. All they could pack were the few clothes they would wear in the next few days.
Xu Dazhu frowned. "Leave tonight or tomorrow morning?"
Lin Cuiniang quickly packed two bundles, "Tonight, I should be able to catch up with Yingying."
Xu Dazhu sat on the bed, looking at the house where he had lived for more than 30 years, with a look of reluctance on his face.
"What's wrong? You don't want to leave? Then Chunsheng and I will go first," Lin Cuiniang said.
Xu Dazhu silently scanned the room again.
I had planned everything perfectly, but at the crucial moment, I still softened my heart.
He really didn't want to leave.
His parents and brother are still alive, how can he possibly remain unscathed?
Lin Cuiniang knew what he was thinking, so she didn't try to persuade him. She pulled Xu Chunsheng out the door and said, "Xu Dazhu, you useless thing, Yingying is missing and you don't even look for her. Fine, if you won't look, I will! I won't come back until I find her."
Xu Dazhu's thoughts were pulled back, and he chased after her, "Wife, where are you going to look?"
"I don't know, but we'll find it eventually!"
Ignoring the surprised looks from the Xu family, Lin Cuiniang led Xu Chunsheng into the night.
"Brother, are you just going to watch my sister-in-law take the child away?" Xu Erzhu asked in surprise.
"What can I do? Let her go if she wants to. She'll come back once she finds the child."
"Coming back? I've heard that your good daughter is going south with that jinx Yang to escape the famine! It's hard to say whether she'll ever come back," said Erzhu's wife, who seemed to thrive on chaos.
"What? Fleeing from famine?" Xu Dazhu immediately took off after her. "Wife, come back, wait for me, I'll go with you to catch that brat!"
He had just run out when he turned back, went inside, rolled up his bedding, threw it into his basket, and ran out again.
Xu Dazhu heard Old Lady Xu's voice coming from the courtyard behind him.
"Go, all of you, go and don't come back! You're a family of lazy good-for-nothings!"
Xu Dazhu paused in his tracks.
The guilt in my heart vanished, and I turned to look at my home in the darkness before quickening my pace and running towards the village entrance.
The stars twinkled in the sky, but they couldn't illuminate the path.
"Wife, wife," Xu Dazhu called softly.
Walking alone on the road, he felt increasingly panicked. In such a short time, what if his wife and children had run into refugees?
"Wife, wife!" Xu Dazhu raised his voice.
It was estimated that everyone in Qingshui Village could hear it, but Lin Cuiniang did not answer.
Xu Dazhu's voice trembled slightly, "Wife, don't leave me alone, sob sob..."
"Look at your pathetic self!" A familiar voice rang out beside me.
Xu Dazhu was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly. The weight of the blanket pulled him back, causing him to fall to the ground.
Then, under the starlight, two dark figures, one large and one small, slowly stood up.
Xu Dazhu recognized Lin Cuiniang and Xu Chunsheng at a glance, and he hurriedly got up from the ground.
You scared me to death!
"I thought you were going to live with your parents and brothers."
"I must stay with my wife and child," Xu Dazhu said shamelessly, sticking close to her.
"Let's go."
The group of people walked hand in hand down the path and across the clear water river.