Liu, who followed closely, didn't have time to stop her son. She watched Gu Zhaoming jump into the pool to save people and became extremely anxious.

At this time, the sound of girls laughing came from not far away. Liu turned around and saw several little girls coming towards her.

Fortunately, there were many weeds on both sides of the path, which temporarily concealed her figure.

Liu didn't want to be discovered following her son, so she hid in the bushes.

Shen Yuan felt the icy spring water instantly enveloping her whole body, and the chill that penetrated her heart made her shiver involuntarily.

It’s so cold!

If she had known it was so cold, she would not have chosen this place.

Fortunately, the pond was not big, and Gu Zhaoming quickly fished her out of the pond.

At this moment, a group of girls on the path saw Gu Zhaoming carrying Shen Yuan out of the pond and immediately exclaimed.

"Ah! What's going on? Why are you all in the water?"

Shen Yuan woke up at the right time, "Taohua, I accidentally fell into the pond when I was fetching water, and it was Brother Gu who saved me."

It would have been fine if Shen Yuan didn't explain. As soon as she did, everyone looked at her with a strange look.

Taohua looked at the two of them with a puzzled look on her face. "Yuanyuan, the water is so shallow, you can just paddle a few times and get up by yourself!"

Shen Yuan looked at Gu Zhaoming pitifully and said, "Brother Gu, I didn't mean to do that. The water in the pond was too cold. My legs cramped as soon as I got in and I couldn't use any strength. If it weren't for Brother Gu, I would have definitely lost my life."

This statement is well-founded and no one can refute it.

Liu hid aside, her gums almost bitten off.

If she still can't figure out Shen Yuan's thoughts at this point, then she has lived in vain at this age!

Thinking of the ginseng that Shen Yuan mentioned and the family’s current financial situation, Liu had no choice but to accept reality.

This Shenyuan, she'd better bring that hundred-year-old ginseng into the Gu family, otherwise...

Shen Rong's second sister-in-law's maiden name was Ma. Majia Village was twenty miles away from Taohua Village, more than half an hour's walk.

Shen Rong knew that her second sister-in-law's mother, Ma Wang, would die tonight.

This time, she persuaded her second brother to stay at her second sister-in-law's parents' home.

Take your nephews and nieces back home yourself.

In her previous life, after her second sister-in-law's family had finished a funeral, she met Ma Laitou from Ma Village on her way back and was dragged into the woods, destroying her innocence.

But that’s not all. From then on, Ma Lai Tou became dependent on his second sister-in-law.

If his second sister-in-law disobeys, he will kill his nephews and nieces.

The second sister-in-law had no choice but to give herself to him.

As a result, this matter somehow got known to the villagers and spread widely in the village. The second sister-in-law was too embarrassed to face anyone, so she jumped into the river. When she was fished out, she was already dead.

The death of his second sister-in-law made the second brother lose his mind. He took an axe, sneaked into Ma Laitou's house in the middle of the night, and stabbed the man to death while he was sleeping.

Later, the second brother was arrested by the government and sentenced to exile. He never returned to Taohua Village since then.

My parents suffered a series of blows, and their spirits were declining.

This time, I hope that with my second brother following me, my second sister-in-law can avoid the fate of being entangled with Ma Laitou.

Shen Rong had a good idea, but she didn't expect that when she walked out of Majia Village with her one-year-old nephew and five-year-old niece, she saw a sloppy man walking towards her from a distance.

When Shen Rong saw who was coming, she suddenly felt cold all over.

That person is the bald man!

She will never forget what he looks like even after she dies!

Ma Lai Tou was from Majia Village. He was in his thirties and had no children. Because he had a patch of bald spots on his head, everyone called him Ma Lai Tou. Few people remembered what his original name was.

Usually, he would have a wretched look on his face when he saw people, with a pair of cloudy eyes rolling around. Whenever he saw a woman, his eyes would stick to her, scanning her over and over again.

He didn't dare to seduce women in Majia Village, but he persecuted young girls and wives in several nearby villages.

When Ma Lai Tou saw Shen Rong, he quickened his pace.

Shen Rong didn't care about anything else. She immediately picked up her nephew and pulled her niece into the woods.

"Yier, let's play hide and seek, okay? There are bad guys outside, we have to hide now."

Shen Rong couldn't run fast with his niece, so for the sake of his life, he had to hide in a pile of grass with the two children.

Yier seemed to sense her aunt's nervousness. She took her short legs and followed Shen Rong into the haystack.

The little nephew opened his big round eyes and started giggling when he saw his aunt and sister squatting in the grass.

Just as Shen Rong was about to cover her nephew's mouth, Yier covered her brother's mouth.

"Shh... We are playing hide-and-seek, don't make any noise, brother." Yier said in a low voice.

The little guy's eyes lit up and he nodded. It looked like he had played hide-and-seek with his sister a lot.

Just as Shen Rong breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of Ma Laitou came from the entrance of the forest ahead.

"Little girl, why are you hiding? Come out and play with your brother!"

The old man chased into the woods, but when he looked up, he didn't see anyone. He knew in his heart that the girl must have hidden somewhere.

When Shen Rong heard this, her heart suddenly tightened and she subconsciously hugged her nephew and niece tightly.

Yier and her brother hid tightly in Shen Rong's arms, not daring to raise their heads.

The heartbeats of the three people were beating wildly in Shen Rong's ears.

How to do?

What should I do?

How could she escape?

The string in Shen Rong's heart was tightly stretched, not daring to relax even a little.

Ma Laitou was still searching, shouting and pushing away the piles of weeds beside him.

"Little lady, don't hide. If I find you later, I will throw you to death. If you come out on your own initiative, I will spare your lives."

Ma Laitou was shouting unscrupulously.

Shen Rong thought of her second sister-in-law. She was threatened by Ma Laitou in the same way in her previous life.

Shen Rong was angry and scared, her eyes turned red, and her hatred for Ma Lai Tou instantly exceeded that for Shen Zhaoming and Shen Yuan.

Ma Lai Tou was getting closer and closer to her. Seeing that the distance between them was less than two meters, she and her nephew and niece were about to be exposed. Shen Rong made up her mind, hugged the two little ones, and covered her niece's eyes.

She thought about the foggy space and silently said: We all have to go in.

As soon as this thought came to her mind, she, along with her nephew and niece, entered the foggy space.

As soon as she entered the space, Shen Rong's whole body relaxed and she immediately collapsed to the ground.

Before she entered the space, she didn't know whether her nephews and nieces could come in, but for the sake of their lives, she had no choice but to give it a try.

Fortunately, God still favors her.

The niece opened her eyes wide and looked at everything in front of her curiously. "Aunt, where is this?"

Shen Rong blinked, "I don't know either! Could it be that the mountain god saw that we were in danger and helped us hide?"

"That must be the case!" Yier's tense face suddenly relaxed.

Shen Rong felt a pang of pain in her heart. It was her fault for not thinking things through and she almost put her nephew and niece in danger.

She thought that by bringing her nephew and niece home in advance, she could prevent her second brother and his wife from being threatened by Ma Lai Tou, but she didn't expect...

Shen Rong suddenly remembered something and made a decision instantly.

"Yier, let's play hide-and-seek, okay? You and your brother close your eyes, count to twenty, then open your eyes and come find me. If you find me, I'll buy you candied haws, okay?"

Children have short memories. As soon as they heard that there were candied haws to eat, they forgot their previous fear.

Yier nodded, closed her eyes, covered her brother's eyes again, and began to count: "One, two, three, four..."

The one-year-old nephew didn't cry even though his sister covered his eyes. Instead, he clapped his hands happily and smiled.

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