80s Military Accompanying: The Heirless Tycoon Pampers His Pregnant Wife

"Third Sister is timid; she doesn't seem like the reckless girl who would sneak out of the camp alone!" Shen Fenghe frowned and shook her head, then speculated, "Could she be hiding in some corner and not have heard you calling her?"

Luo Cancan pointed to the wide, high ground dotted with several sheds and tents and said to her, "There are no nooks or crannies here. The two places where people could hide have been used as men's and women's latrines."

"But she's just a little kid. Even if she slips out of the camp, she can't go far. Let's look around the camp first. If we can't find her, we'll report back to the leaders," she added.

Shen Fenghe pouted, not immediately agreeing, but thinking seriously.

Seeing this, Luo Cancan nervously rubbed her hands together.

"Alright, everyone's busy right now. Let Third Sister's family continue searching in the camp, and we'll go look around the surrounding area."

After a moment, Shen Fenghe nodded in agreement.

Luo Cancan was heartbroken. "I'll go tell my third sister's family first, so they don't think I've lost myself while searching for someone."

After saying that, she didn't even glance at Shen Fenghe, and turned to run towards the shed where the villagers were being housed.

She wandered around, making sure Shen Fenghe couldn't see her, then hid. After about five minutes, she ran back to meet up with Shen Fenghe.

Seeing her panting, Shen Fenghe didn't suspect anything. "Your fever has gone down?"

Luo Cancan touched her forehead; it was a little hot, but it shouldn't be a fever, but rather just heat.

"Apart from a dry throat and occasional coughing, I'm almost better."

"I'll get you another bowl of medicine tonight to help you consolidate your recovery. There have been a lot of people getting fevers and heatstroke lately," Shen Fenghe said.

Luo Cancan wrinkled her nose, barely managing to hold back her refusal.

After leaving the camp, she led Shen Fenghe down to the high ground, calling out Chen Sanmei's name all the way.

"Third Sister!"

"Chen Sanmei!"

Huh?

Shen Fenghe suddenly stopped in her tracks, looked around, and said, "If we keep going, it seems we'll be entering the mountain village."

She remembered that her group had passed through this place when they came from the military region, and she still had some impression of the surrounding environment.

Luo Cancan then said, "Why don't we go into the village and look for her? A lot of the little kids are clamoring to go home. Maybe Third Sister ran back to the village while we adults weren't looking."

Shen Fenghe had no doubts and followed her into the village.

The reason Chen Sanmei was wearing adult clothes was because her whole family was asleep when the mudslide hit the village. After most of the neighbors had evacuated, they hurriedly got out of bed. Chen Sanmei's parents casually put on an outer garment, then scooped Chen Sanmei, who was only wearing a vest and shorts, out of bed and ran away.

They carried nothing with them; the things they used were either borrowed from other villagers or allocated by the military region.

If Chen Sanmei really did slip out of the camp, she might indeed return to her home in Shanwowo Village to search for her clothes, personal belongings, and toys such as dolls.

So, after entering the mountain village, she took the initiative to ask a group of soldiers who were dredging the silt about Chen Sanmei's whereabouts.

"He looked about seven or eight years old, dressed in adult clothes, very thin, and not very tall, like a five or six-year-old child."

"We didn't see her. Besides, people outside the dredging team aren't allowed to come in here without permission, for fear of danger. If a little girl dressed in adult clothes had run in, we would have seen her by now," one of them said.

"Even if you don't see it with your own eyes, you can hear other people talking about it. Dredging is tiring and boring. Let alone a little girl running in, even if a bird flies by, we'll chat for half a day," another person said.

Luo Cancan hurriedly said, "She just ran in not long ago, you probably didn't notice... Oh dear!"

She was only halfway through her sentence when she cried out in alarm, "Has she fallen into the mud?"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers all turned pale.

"We'll help look too!" the leader immediately said.

"Let's split up and search!" Luo Cancan pulled Shen Fenghe and headed in the opposite direction. "I was here yesterday, so I know where the mud pits are."

Shen Fenghe stumbled a little as she was pulled, but her attention was entirely focused on her surroundings.

This was her first time entering a village nestled in the mountains. The disaster was more severe than she had imagined, because there were even more hollows within the mountains, creating an uneven terrain. The mudslide silt pits or temporary swamps formed after the mudslides were far more numerous than she had imagined.

Debris flow pits or temporary mudflats, also known as mud pits, are often covered with floating water or a thin layer of mud on the surface, and the bottom is unconsolidated soft mud. They have strong suction and fluidity. They may seem calm, but once you step in, it is very difficult to save yourself.

With so many mud pits, if Third Sister were to accidentally step into any of them, I'm afraid...

Shen Fenghe's delicate eyebrows furrowed more and more tightly.

I should have taken her to the shed where she was before leaving!

"Shen Fenghe, look over there..."

Luo Cancan suddenly stopped, released her hand, and pointed to the mud puddle beside them, "Is that Third Sister?"

Shen Fenghe quickly turned around and looked around carefully.

If it had only fallen recently, you would definitely see signs of struggle... Hmm?

Just as she leaned out to search intently, she suddenly felt a gust of wind behind her. Her mind reacted too quickly, and she dodged to the side. She heard a cry of "Ouch!" as a figure in military green passed by her and plunged into the mud, splashing mud all over her face.

I need to wash my face properly when I get home tonight!

"Sigh...sigh..."

Shortly after the chubby clay figure Luo Cancan was sent back to the camp, her fever, which had subsided, spiked again, this time reaching a fever of 40 degrees Celsius, and she kept whimpering.

Seeing that she was delirious with fever, and unlikely to get any information about Chen Sanmei's whereabouts, Shen Fenghe had no choice but to return to the tent and tell Ye Zhengting what had happened, along with her own guesses.

"His real intention in seeking out Chen Sanmei was to scheme against me!"

She has a mouth, and while she might not speak out when wronged, she will never hide when her personal safety is threatened.

The moment Luo Cancan tried to push her but fell into the mud instead, she saw through the other party's scheme.

only……

"If the whole thing was fabricated by Luo Cancan to scheme against me, then where did Chen Sanmei go? Her family still hasn't been able to find her."

Shen Fenghe still couldn't figure this out. "Could it be that she really did sneak out of the camp and was just spotted by Luo Cancan, which is why Luo Cancan came up with this trick?"

After listening to what she said, Ye Zhengting, who was lying on the bed, lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time.

Shen Fenghe paced back and forth by the bed. Thinking of Chen Sanmei, who had disappeared because of her momentary negligence, she felt extremely guilty, but even more worried.

If Chen Sanmei really ran back to the mountain village, she really didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

She then sat down on the edge of the bed, leaned closer to Ye Zhengting, and waved her hand in front of his face, "Commander Ye, say something!"