Chapter 24: Trouble!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Uncle Yaoguo, you’re finally back!”

A young man in the crowd noticed the ox cart and immediately shouted, his voice filled with anxiety.

Yan Yaoguo put down his bull whip and got off the ox cart. He asked, “Qiang Zi, what happened?”

Qiang Zi walked over. “Uncle Yaoguo, there’s bad news. Brother Ze is in trouble!”

Yan Yaoguo frowned. “What happened? What exactly happened? Tell me clearly.”

Qiang Zi hastily said, “Yesterday, we split into groups and went hunting in the mountains. Half an hour ago, my brother and the others came back, but they said that Brother Ze had gone missing. They had searched the mountains for an entire afternoon but couldn’t find him.

Seeing that the sky had turned dark, they were worried that something might have happened to Brother Ze deep in the mountain, so they decided to leave first as they wanted to get more people to the mountains to help find him, but some people were unwilling to go, so everyone started arguing. “

Actually, the villagers were usually pretty harmonious and united. If it were still daytime, everyone might have been willing to go up into the mountains to help look for him. But now that it was already dark, entering the remote mountains at this time would be risking their lives.

This was a matter of life and death, so it was understandable that some of them weren’t willing to go.

Upon hearing this, Yan Yaoguo immediately objected. “Impossible, how could anything happen to Ah Ze? No, I’ll find out for myself.”

As they spoke, he seemed to have completely forgotten that there was another person on the ox cart too. He ran directly to the ancestral hall in the center of the village because whenever anything happened, the villagers would gather in the empty space in front of the ancestral hall to discuss the matter.

Qin Yiling, on the other hand, couldn’t just stay seated obediently on the ox cart. The moment she had sensed that something was amiss, she had carried her suitcase and gotten off the ox cart.

She stood silently at the back of the crowd, listening quietly and attentively. Just as she was piecing the details of the incident together, she saw Yan Ze’s uncle running hurriedly in one direction. Without a second thought, she followed after him.

Since this man was the uncle of the person was looking for, it couldn’t be wrong to follow him.

If she hadn’t heard wrongly earlier, Yan Ze, the man whom she was searching for, seemed to be in trouble.

She had just been sighing about her good luck earlier, but who knew that the moment she entered the village, she would hear that the person she wanted to find was in trouble? If something really happened to him, how was she going to complete the task that the deceased woman had entrusted to her?

Right now, the area in front of the ancestral hall was already filled with villagers. As the chief of the village, Yan Zhongqing was inquiring with the other members who had gone up into the mountains to hunt.

Since entering the mountains the previous morning, everything had been going smoothly until this morning, at around ten o’clock, when their team came across a bear that was particularly tall and large.

Then, someone suddenly shot an arrow at the bear, instantly angering it. Becoming agitated, it charged towards the team.

Everyone fled immediately. Even though they were also tempted to hunt the bear, staying alive was more important.

Therefore, the team had completely dispersed.

“Village Chief, could Ah Ze have gone after the bear?”

“That’s possible. Ah Ze has the best reflexes in our village and he’s gutsy too.”

Village Chief Yan Zhongqing frowned and asked, “Did no one else follow them?”

“…” Everyone fell silent. At the time, everyone was focused on saving themselves. No one had the time to take note of someone else’s situation.

Suddenly, someone in the group said timidly, “Village Chief, I think I saw Dog chasing after him..”