Liu Hongi and Fang Peizhong returned from the brigade headquarters.
Just now, Brigade Leader Li Dahu held an ergency eting at the headquarters.
All the educated youths from the farms were gathered together. A plan requiring everyone’s action was announced.
It was windy in the morning, but now the wind has gradually died down.
The captain ntioned that Jiang Xiaoxiao, Song Moting, and the tractor driver are missing.
Preliminary exploration and searching have already been conducted.
There were no traces found on the way to the county, which ans they must have encountered danger while coming down from the mountains.
The educated youths and workers from the mountain forest have started searching along the way.
As soon as there’s news, the mountain forest will call.
Once the farm receives the news, all the young and able educated youths will form a rescue team to go up the mountain to save them.
Of course, the team will be divided into two parts: one will bypass these mountains and go to the bottom of the mountain to rescue them.
The other part will look from the top of the mountain to see whether they are midway up or at the bottom of the cliff.
Liu Hongi is still shaken.
She was supposed to take the tractor to the county yesterday as she was about to give birth soon.
The farm doctor already examined her; it’s twins. If she doesn’t give birth in the county, the farm doctor cannot guarantee Liu Hongi a safe delivery.
Yesterday she had a big fight with Fang Peizhong, so she packed her bags intending to take the tractor directly to the county.
Fang Peizhong didn’t want her to go to the hospital, nor did he allow her to find the tractor driver, saying it could wait a few days.
But she wanted to go to the hospital.
Going to the hospital costs money. She suspected Fang Peizhong was reluctant to spend the little money he had saved, perhaps thinking about returning to the city.
Liu Hongi wouldn’t accept it!
She felt Fang Peizhong wasn’t wholeheartedly committed to living with her.
If it weren’t for the driver stubbornly refusing to let her on the tractor yesterday, she might have joined the missing persons. Perhaps others might have survived injuries, but she, being a pregnant woman, could only imagine the outco.
And then there were Fang Peizhong’s words yesterday.
Calling her reckless.
He said it couldn’t wait, even until tomorrow would have sufficed.
Today wasn’t acceptable!
Fang Peizhong’s resolute look that day made her feel as if going ant becoming enemies with him.
He nearly broke her wrist.
The anxiousness in Fang Peizhong when he heard the news just now.
She, as Fang Peizhong’s partner, understands him well.
The determination when he stopped her wasn’t his usual character.
And the underlying implication, if she got on the tractor, it was like committing an unforgivable act. Today’s expression confird it.
Thinking it over, Liu Hongi realized Fang Peizhong must have done sothing.
The reason for Jiang Xiaoxiao and the others’ disappearance was probably tied to so unspeakable association with Fang Peizhong.
Fang Peizhong tried hard to remain calm, even calr.
Repeatedly convincing himself that he hadn’t done anything!
He only touched the tractor that day, did nothing else.
No one saw.
Even if soone asked now, he wouldn’t be afraid.
The driver didn’t see, and others certainly didn’t see.
Who can attest he did such a thing?
Deep down, he felt restless.
That day, hearing the tractor would pick up Jiang Xiaoxiao and Song Moting, he got heated, rembering Jiang Xiaoxiao ssing up his college entrance exam.
He held a grudge against Jiang Xiaoxiao.
If it hadn’t been for Jiang Xiaoxiao’s interference, she could have easily replaced him going to the countryside.
He wouldn’t be in today’s predicant, wanting to return to the city but couldn’t.
Confined in this rural area, even his last hope of returning to the Capital City through the college entrance exam was thwarted by Jiang Xiaoxiao.
Jiang Xiaoxiao is his enemy, not his sister, unrelated to him.
Indeed, she’s not his sister.
She’s his enemy.
The more he thought, the more anxious he got.
He wouldn’t admit this to anyone who asks.
Jiang Xiaoxiao has no relation to him, and her disappearance is unrelated to him.
Returning to their ho, Fang Peizhong closed the courtyard door, almost tripping over the threshold, darting into the house, collapsing onto the kang bed, pulling the blanket over himself. As if this could isolate him from everything else, the outside world unrelated to him.
Liu Hongi forcefully pulled the blanket away.
Fang Peizhong glared irritably at Liu Hongi.
"What are you doing? What do you want?"
"Want what? Fang Peizhong, you have no clue what you’ve done? Do I need to ask you about it? That day you resolutely refused to let on the tractor. When I went to find the driver, your gaze seed like you wanted to eat .
If it hadn’t been for the other educated youths around, you might have locked in the house that day, why?"
Liu Hongi lowered her voice, not wanting the matter to be known far and wide, if people around heard.
If Fang Peizhong faced troubles, she wouldn’t fare well either. She still carried Fang Peizhong’s children!
Upon hearing this, Fang Peizhong anxiously glanced outside the window where no one passed by, nor were there any sounds.
He tried to make himself self-righteous.
"What nonsense are you talking? I didn’t do anything. Truly don’t know what you’re saying."
Turning to face the wall inside the kang, as if avoiding Liu Hongi’s gaze could conceal everything he did.
"Fang Peizhong, even at this point, you won’t tell the truth. Do you realize I’m carrying your child? Twins no less, do you want the children born fatherless?"
Liu Hongi felt both anxious and furious, at this stage, Fang Peizhong was still here deceiving himself.
She was his wife. If he did sothing, it would have been better to discuss it together, figure out a strategy.
Two minds are better than one, would she report him?
Reporting Fang Peizhong wouldn’t benefit her!
"Stop overthinking, just give birth to the children. Tomorrow I’ll ask for leave and take you to the county hospital."
"At this point, Jiang Xiaoxiao and Song Moting have been missing for so long, and you actually want to send to the hospital? Aren’t you afraid of taking leave, others might suspect you? Such a serious matter, not focusing on rescue.
Openly attracting everyone’s attention here, are you brainless?"
Liu Hongi was full of anger.
Fang Peizhong remained silent.
Even facing his wife Liu Hongi, he couldn’t admit, this was his deepest darkest secret.
If exposed, how could he face being her husband, the father of their children?
And he well knew Liu Hongi’s character, once she seized his secret.
Separating from her later would be near impossible.
Liu Hongi calling him brainless was indeed to coax him into revealing those secrets.
They both shouldn’t criticize each other.
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