Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11837

Yang Yongqing's harsh words naturally drew a glare from Xiao Mo.

"Second sister-in-law is already in this state, can you please not say such spiteful things? The most important thing right now is to find Second Sister!"

Zhao Liuer, standing to the side, anxiously wiped the sweat from her face and said, "I have difficulty moving around, and Yongzhi isn't home. We don't have enough help..."

"Here we are!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Yang Ruoqing took the lead and entered the house, ignoring Zhao Liuer who stood up from the stool, as well as the surprised looks from Yang Yongqing and Xiao Mo. Yang Ruoqing went straight to Cao Bamei's side.

"Second sister-in-law, I just got home a little while ago, what happened?" she asked.

At this moment, Cao Bamei suddenly reached out and grabbed Yang Ruoqing's hand tightly. Her voice was choked with sobs, and her words were hoarse. She tried to open her mouth wide, but the sound that came out was very weak. Fortunately, Yang Ruoqing had good hearing and leaned down slightly, so she was able to hear clearly.

"Er Yatou has disappeared again, along with Sixi!"

"Are you sure? You went to Sixi's house?" Yang Ruoqing asked back.

The hands gripping them were icy cold, their palms damp with cold sweat. They held on tightly, as if grasping at a embroidered red lifeline.

Hearing Yang Ruoqing's question, Cao Bamei nodded vigorously: "I, I..."

She suddenly couldn't make a sound. She let go of her hands, clutched her neck, and made "ah ah" sounds, as if something was choking her, preventing her from making a sound. Her throat also hurt as if a knife was cutting into it.

She pointed to her throat at Yang Ruoqing, her eyes filled with terror and fear that spread across her face.

Her unusual behavior also caught the attention of the others nearby. Madam Mo frowned and asked, "What's wrong with Second Sister-in-law? Why did she suddenly become mute while we were talking?"

Zhao Liuer: "It seems to be a problem with my throat..."

The Sun family members exchanged bewildered glances, unsure of what was going on. The eldest Sun woman shouted at the top of her lungs, "Eighth Sister, Eighth Sister, what's wrong? What happened?"

"Stop asking. It's obvious she has a sore throat and can't speak." Yang Ruoqing saw the crux of the problem at a glance, then turned and went to the table.

There was a teapot and teacups on the table. She lifted the lid of the teapot and found that there was hot water inside. That was good.

"Let your second sister-in-law sit down first, and don't ask her any questions." Yang Ruoqing instructed everyone while pouring hot water into a bowl. "And second sister-in-law, try your best to stay calm and don't get too excited. Your continuous talking and crying have damaged your vocal cords. If this continues, you will become mute."

Yang Ruoqing's words instantly added tension and panic to the already anxious atmosphere in the room.

The most direct effect was that everyone suddenly fell silent. Even the voice of the person who had told Cao Bamei to sit down and not to rush became very soft and quiet.

During this process, Yang Ruoqing poured a bowl of water, found sugar in the small white porcelain jar next to her, put in two spoonfuls of sugar, and quickly made a bowl of sugar water, which she then served to Cao Bamei.

"Second sister-in-law, drink this sweet soup first. Even if the sky falls, we'll save your throat first," she said.

Cao Bamei quickly took the bowl, tilted her head back, and gulped it down. Da Sunshi, standing nearby, said, "That's right! If that brat Xiuhong really eloped with Sixi, she'd probably be long gone by now, she wouldn't care about a bowl of sweet soup!"

When Madam Sun said those words, Cao Bamei's hand holding the bowl of sugar water trembled, and the sugar water almost flowed into her nose.

She couldn't drink anymore. She put the bowl aside, buried her head, and coughed violently. Tears and snot mingled together. She took out a handkerchief to wipe the dirt off her face. She looked utterly disheveled.

Sun looked helplessly at Da Sun and gestured for her not to say such things.

Madam Sun, however, was indignant and said, "That brat dared to do such a thing, what else can't we say? I've been so angry with her these past few days!"

These past few days, Xiu Hong has been making a lot of noise. For the first two days, Yang Yongjin was still at home, but for the next two days, he had to go back to the restaurant in town.

So whenever Xiu Hong's side made a fuss, the Sun couple, who lived next door, would be the first to come and help find people, since they were Cao Ba Mei's brother and sister-in-law, and Xiu Hong's own uncle and aunt!

"Besides, what I said isn't wrong. Although it's unpleasant to hear, it's the truth. Since the two of them dared to run away together, it means they had planned it in advance and had already thought of an escape route. They couldn't possibly be running around like headless flies!" Madam Sun perfectly patched up her previous statement.

When the others in the room heard Madam Sun's analysis, not one of them refuted it; in fact, they all agreed with her analysis in their hearts.

After drinking the sugar water, Cao Bamei finally felt a bit better and began to talk to Yang Ruoqing.

"When I woke up this morning, she was still at home. She had even washed the clothes and cooked breakfast."

"After breakfast, she said she was going to the vegetable garden. I saw that she was perfectly normal. She was even chatting and laughing with Xiao Sanzi and Yongxiao while eating breakfast, so I didn't think too much about it."

"When it was almost noon and she still hadn't returned, I went to look for her in the vegetable garden, and all I found was an empty basket; she was gone."

“I was terrified. I was afraid she had encountered wild animals in the mountains or bad people. I quickly ran to the old house to ask Yongqing and the others for help. As it turned out, I met Sixi Niang on the way.”

"She also rushed out of the house in a panic, saying that her son Sixi had gone missing this morning, and the whole family had been searching for him all morning..."

"I was terrified. I thought to myself, 'Could these two kids have run away together?' But I'm the girl's parent, so I couldn't say that out loud. I could only search secretly. If I told everyone that the kids had been found, my reputation would be ruined..."

After hearing this, Yang Ruoqing speculated and said, "If it's true, Sixi definitely didn't leave the vicinity of the village before breakfast. He must have been waiting for Xiuhong somewhere nearby, and then Xiuhong would use the excuse of going to the vegetable garden to slip away, and the two of them would meet up and run away together..."

"It took about an hour in total. Even if we ran, we couldn't get very far. On foot, we couldn't possibly get out of Wanghai County..."

"Qing'er, stop calculating the time and let's get people to go look for it!" Yang Yongqing urged.

Yang Ruoqing glanced at him, somewhat displeased, "Even if you mobilize people to search, you need to have the right direction, otherwise you're just wasting other people's time."

"Besides, this time the escape was a joint effort by two people, not just Xiu Hong's individual act as before. If they had conspired together, we might have caught them this time, but we couldn't prevent it from happening again!"

“Our Yang family is so big, each branch has its own affairs. We can’t keep putting on a show of arresting people every few days, making ourselves a laughing stock for the surrounding villages, can we?”