She is brighter than the stars

After saying this, the woman seemed to realize that someone else was there.

She immediately looked at Cheng Nian with embarrassment, showing a very helpless expression, "Hey, this child is stubborn by nature, I really don't know how to deal with him. It's not my own, he won't listen to anything he says."

Li Shubai didn't rush after the black lights and he didn't know the way in the village.

Cheng Nian never felt that Yuan Chang was stubborn, and really admired this duplicitous woman.

She looked at the direction Yuan Chang ran away, and said in surprise: "Do you just ignore him like this?"

The woman waved her hand and smiled indifferently: "It's okay, there is a bridge hole under the river in the east, he slept there for one night, and he will be back tomorrow. Don't look for it, there are a lot of mosquitoes there."

Cheng Nian frowned and said, "But he's only five years old."

The little girl in the room yelled, and the woman hurried back to hug her up, and said impatiently, "Don't worry, there are no bad people in the village."

Cheng Nian didn't know what to say, and wanted to reason with the woman, but was stopped by Li Shubai.

"It's useless to tell her so much, let's go, let's go find it."

Cheng Nian squeezed his fist angrily, but he didn't have an attack.

Li Shubai said goodbye to the woman, and pulled Cheng Nian away.

The woman was busy coaxing her daughter, and after a few words, she quickly closed the door.

Cheng Nian was about to die of anger, turned around and complained angrily to Li Shubai.

"How can there be such a person, even if he is not his own, he can't be treated like a puppy."

Li Shubai was relatively calm and comforted Cheng Nian.

There are no street lights in the village, and the two can only distinguish things in the dark with the lights on their mobile phones and the moonlight.

The two of them had just arrived here and were not familiar with this place. When the woman said that Yuan Chang was on the east side, they walked eastward.

When I came to an intersection, the gatehouse of a family was lit, and there were a few old men and women sitting below to enjoy the shade.

Cheng Nian and Li Shubai wanted to ask how to get to the river, but as soon as they approached, they heard one of the old ladies speak with a strong local accent.

"Hey, what a handsome girl and boy, why haven't I seen it before?"

Cheng Nian showed a polite smile, briefly introduced their background, and then asked them anxiously.

"Grandma, have you seen a five-year-old child passing by here?"

Thinking that Yuan Chang was originally from the village, Cheng Nian hurriedly said his name again.

When the old ladies heard Yuan Chang's name, they showed angry expressions on their faces and started discussing in a hurry.

"Yuan Chang ran out again."

"Wang Qi must have hit him. Why is this woman so cruel? Deng Min gave her 3000 yuan when she left, and she didn't even buy clothes for Yuan Chang."

"Hey, it's not easy for anyone these days. Yuan Chang has nothing to eat and drink and spends money on weekdays."

"Wang Qi is not a good thing if a child can spend a lot of money on food and drink. Let me tell you, her man is not at home all year round..."

Seeing that the old ladies were chatting more and more heatedly, Cheng Nian interrupted a little embarrassedly: "Well, grandma, do you know how to get to the river to the east?"

An old lady with a blue towel on her head said, "Go straight down this road, and when you see a cabbage field, turn left and you will reach the river."

The two thanked each other, walked in the direction the old lady said, and soon reached the river.

The riverbed is very wide, and one can imagine what it looked like before.But now there is not much water in it, it is more like a relatively large stream.

There was a ding-dong sound when the water passed by, and it didn't sound very deep.

Cheng Nian and Li Shubai walked along the bank and saw a stone bridge without much effort.

The stone bridge seems to have been around for some years, and there are mottled traces everywhere you look.Many of the ligers used for decoration on the fence have fallen off, looking precarious.

Cheng Nian took a photo with his mobile phone under the stone bridge, and called out tentatively, "Yuan Chang? Yuan Chang, are you here? Come out."

No one responded to her.

The river bank was not high, so Li Shubai groped along it directly.

Cheng Nian also wanted to go on, but was ordered by Li Shubai to stay on the shore.

After Li Shubai went down, he turned the light on his phone to the brightest, and looked for Yuan Chang in the bridge hole.

When I saw the third bridge hole, it was obviously much cleaner than the first two.

There was a small black shadow in the corner, who else could it be if it wasn't Yuan Chang?

Li Shubai moved the light down a little to avoid shining on Yuan Chang's eyes, then he lowered his body and walked towards him.

As he got closer, Li Shubai found that Yuan Chang still had a stack of old newspapers and a few wild fruits beside him. It seemed that he planned to sleep here tonight.

Yuan Chang raised his slightly red and swollen face, looked at Li Shubai pitifully, and whispered, "Are you here to arrest me?"

Li Shubai looked at him without saying yes or no, and said softly, "It's not safe for you to stay here."

Yuan Chang's lips pursed lightly, involving the wound, causing him to let out a "hiss" in pain.

Enduring the pain, he turned his face away and said stubbornly, "I won't go back."

Thinking of Wang Qi's ferocious face, he would rather sleep on the cold and painful stone.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Nian's shout came from outside.

"Have you found him?"

Li Shubai responded, looked at Yuan Chang again, and said in the tone of talking to an adult: "She will worry about you."

Yuan Chang also heard Cheng Nian's voice, and his expression became a little complicated.

While he was still hesitating, Cheng Nian outside suddenly let out a short and sharp cry.

The two people in the bridge cave glanced at each other and walked quickly outside.

Like a little monkey, Yuan Chang poked his head out all of a sudden, looking nervously at the light on the shore.

Li Shubai was too tall to move easily, so he got out behind him and asked loudly, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Nian held up his mobile phone, looked at the two people who ran out of the bridge hole in a panic, his eyes widened innocently, and he said in embarrassment.

"Um, I was scratched by weeds."

What scratched Cheng Nian was a common weed in the village. Its scientific name is Humulus, but it is called Lalacao in many places.

The stems, branches, and petioles of this plant are covered with barb thorns, and it still hurts to be rubbed.

Faced with such an answer, Li Shubai smiled helplessly.

God knows that when he heard Cheng Nian yelling, his heart almost jumped out of his throat, who knew it would be such a thing.

Li Shubai pulled Yuan Chang, carried him to the shore first, and then climbed up himself, "Didn't I tell you to stand still? How could you get scratched?"

Cheng Nian caught Yuan Chang, laughed and said, "There are too many mosquitoes here, so I just swayed around twice."

Li Shubai shone the light on Cheng Nian's leg, "Let me see where I'm going."

Cheng Nian hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Oh, it's okay, it's just grass, and it can hurt me. I just thought I was bitten by a snake, so I was startled."

As she spoke, she looked at Yuan Chang beside her, and said with concern, "What are you doing here alone? It's so dangerous."

Yuan Chang glanced at Cheng Nian, then moved his gaze to the bloodstain on the outside of her calf, and suddenly burst into tears, sobbing.

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me."