After rebirth, I kidnapped the sickly Dugong

The next day, after waking up, they had a simple breakfast and then went out lightly.

Wen Baizhi was very worried about Si Jiu's injury.

After all, he has been constantly tossed and tired since he was injured.

But after checking, Rong Heng found that his wounds had healed well and he would be fine as long as he was not torn too hard.

Wen Baizhi was relieved.

Before leaving, Wen Baizhi specially packed a lot of steamed buns and other things to eat when she was hungry on the road.

Si Jiu always watched her busying around very gently.

Today they were going to the largest farm outside the city.

Go and see for yourself if the harvest there is really as reported.

In order to better hide their identities, they did not take a carriage when they went out, but instead chose to each sit in a sedan chair.

After walking for about an hour, we finally arrived at our destination.

The owner of this farm is surnamed Wang, and he is one of the largest families in Jinzhou.

But they didn't plan to go to Wang's house.

They planned to visit the nearby tenants' homes.

After all, the Wang family has hundreds of ways to hide what they want to hide.

When everyone passed by the farmland, they saw that there was no trace of any crops in the fields.

Si Jiu even got out of the sedan chair and checked it out himself, but found no useful evidence.

Farmers have always had the habit of burning straw. Even if there are some black marks caused by fire, they can be said to be burnt straw, and no other information can be found.

It seems that the only way to find out is to go to the tenant's house.

Normal tenants would live around farmland and live in groups.

Wen Baizhi and the others took the farmland as the center point and searched nearby.

Sure enough, there were about twenty or thirty houses forming a small village.

Wen Baizhi got off the sedan first.

She saw that the doors of every household here were closed.

It was almost lunch time when they arrived.

But there are very few houses with smoke coming out of their chimneys.

This is weird.

Wen Baizhi found a house with smoke coming out of the kitchen. After knocking on the door, she could clearly hear the sound of people moving around in the house, but the door remained unopened.

In this way, Wen Baizhi knocked on the doors of all the houses with smoke coming out of chimneys, but no one answered.

Si Jiu comforted him: "Maybe they are just afraid of strangers, so they didn't open the door."

But Wen Baizhi knew it wasn't that simple: "This is too weird, Zijin. It might be understandable if it happens to one or two families, but it's weird if all families do this."

Of course Si Jiu knew this, but he didn't want Wen Baizhi to feel too burdened.

After all, it was his job to come to Jinzhou to investigate.

"It's okay. There are still many families here. We can ask them."

Wen Baizhi nodded slightly. This was the only way.

Just when the two were looking back at a loss, they suddenly saw a woman holding a child rushing towards them.

Si Jiu instinctively reached out to block Wen Baizhi behind him.

The woman stopped three steps away from them.

Wen Baizhi stood behind Si Jiu, carefully observing the woman and the child in her arms.

The woman looked pale and thin, and her hair was very dull and simply combed behind her head.

The child in her arms was about four or five years old, with a flushed face and eyes closed, as if he had a high fever.

After the woman stood still, she immediately knelt down.

Si Jiu and Wen Baizhi both took a step back.

"Please, adults, save my child." The woman said in a shrill voice.

Si Jiu was also observing them: "Are you from here? Why are you waiting for us here?"

Indeed, the fact that this woman appeared here at this time seemed like she was waiting for them here on purpose, which made it hard not to be suspicious.

The woman explained in panic, "I heard from them that some important people will come to our place soon, and they told us not to go out and to hide. I wanted to do the same, but my little baby got sick and has a high fever. Now he won't wake up even if we shout. I really don't know what to do."

Si Jiu said: "So you are waiting here for us, right?"

The woman nodded. "I know you will definitely be here in the next few days. I am waiting and also betting. If our Xiaobao really...really can't make it, then I won't blame anyone."

When Si Jiu saw the woman's undisguised despair and then the sickly look of the child in her arms, he began to believe a third of what she said.

Although he still had many questions to ask the woman, the child's condition did not seem to allow him to wait any longer.

"There is no doctor here who can treat the disease. If the child needs to be treated, he needs to follow us. I know you will be worried about him, so you have to follow us, but can you leave here?"

The woman hurriedly said, "Sir, I can do it. I can go." She lowered her voice, "In fact, they all hope that someone can go out and tell the truth here, but they don't dare. But I am not afraid. For my little treasure, I am not afraid of anything."

When Si Jiu heard her say this, he raised his hand.

Soon, Ping An and three others came to them.

"Quickly take this mother and son back to Rong Heng for treatment."

"Yes."

The woman wanted to kowtow to Si Jiu again, but it was difficult to do so with the child in her arms, so she just kept saying, "Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."

Si Jiu waved his hand, and Ping An and the others took them away.

After they walked away, Wen Baizhi came close to Si Jiu and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"Don't you think it's a bit too coincidental?"

Si Jiu raised his eyes and saw her profile: "I think it's a coincidence too."

Wen Baizhi said her analysis: "We just arrived here, and there is a mother whose child is sick and on the verge of despair waiting for us. Although the mother's expression does not seem to be fake, and the child does look very bad, it is very strange. There is a strange smell everywhere here."

Si Jiu looked at her fair earlobe and said, "But if someone did it on purpose and sent this person to me, then I have no reason not to accept his favor. Good or bad, I will go on this trip."

Wen Baizhi is also such a person.

Good or bad, you have to face it yourself, and you have to grit your teeth and move on.

"Are we going back now?" she asked.

Si Jiu said: "Let's go back. We can't find any useful information here."

Both the fields and the tenants were cleaned thoroughly.

Wen Baizhi was a little frustrated: "Either there is nothing fishy, ​​or the truth behind it is so big that we can't imagine it."

Si Jiu blurted out, "Do you regret it?"

"What do you regret?"

"I regret following me to Jinzhou."

When asking this question, Si Jiu was unsure.

He was afraid of hearing her say she regretted it, but he was also afraid that she would say she didn't regret it.

"I don't regret it." Wen Baizhi answered naturally. "If I hadn't come with you, I would have regretted it. I can't even think of leaving you alone in such a dangerous place."

Si Jiu smiled.

Why am I afraid that she will say she doesn't regret it?

Because he was worried that he would become increasingly unable to let her go.

In the end, this stubbornness will become a burden to her.

He didn't want to see that scene.