Chapter 61 - Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Lifesaving Gourd_l (1/2)
Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Lifesaving Gourd_l
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Wen Hengyin also sensed something was wrong, chasing frantically behind the deer.
In the busy farming season, there weren’t many people in the village. People were either in the fields harvesting wheat or preparing meals at home to be delivered to the fields.
Youyou galloped swiftly, and soon saw a woman holding Xiaojie and Xiaowu, hurrying ahead in haste.
Xiaojie and Dawu were obviously not happy, struggling and crying desperately.
“Stop!” Yingbao shouted, urging Youyou to move faster.
The woman looked back, immediately dropped the more troublesome Xiaowu, and ran away holding Xiaojie.
Yingbao reached Xiaowu and glanced back to see Wen Henzvin trailing far behind, “Wen Hengyin, please take care of my brother!” she yelled, before pushing the deer to chase after the woman.
Wen Hengyin roughly understood the situation. He run over to Xiaowu and picked up the crying child, looking in the direction where Yingbao had disappeared. He knew he couldn’t catch up, so he turned around and started running back.
Sigh, he was just feeding Ahua, he never thought he would encounter a child thief. He had to quickly find an adult to rescue Yingbao and her brother.
Holding Xiaowu, he ran all the way, gasping heavily, when he saw a villager. He immediately shouted, “Auntie! Someone is stealing a child, go to the Jiang family to call for help!”
The person was Wang Ke’s wife, who was preparing to deliver food to the field. Hearing these words, she immediately headed to the Jiang Family,running and shouting, “Help! Someone is stealing children!”
Yingbao chased all the way to the Chuanhe river, and just as she was about to catch up, the woman turned and coldly laughed, forcefully throwing the child in her hand.
“Xiaojie!”
Yingbao’s eyes were bloodshot. She had no time to tangle with the woman, following Xiaojie downstream.
Because it had rained recently, the river flowed rapidly, taking Xiaojie far away in a flash.
Yingbao urged Youyou to chase downstream, watching Xiaojie’s red coat floating up and down in the water, her mind buzzing, but her heart was unusually clear.
No! She must get ahead of the current and stop Xiaojie. If they continued to chase this way, a wave could easily sink him to the riverbed.
Yingbao slapped Youyou fiercely, urging it to run faster. When she had passed Xiaojie, she jumped off the deer’s back, ran to the riverside, and jumped in disregarding the height difference.
As she fell into the water, Yingbao released a Gourd Vine linked with two large gourds.
Upon entering the water, she unconsciously held her breath and the small body was pulled out of the water by the Gourd Vine.
She grabbed the Gourd Vine with one hand and wrapped it around herself, swimming with all her might towards Xiaojie.
In her past life, she knew how to dog paddle, and she hadn’t forgotten it now. Finally, she managed to catch him.
Yingbao held Xiaojie tightly, letting his head rest on the thin waist of the gourd.
She wanted to have Xiaojie ride on the thin waist of the gourd, but the large gourd rolled in the water and couldn’t carry a person.
And she couldn’t control the floating gourd, only watching herself and her brother drifting downstream.
It was over, she and her brother couldn’t make it to the shore.
Looking back, she saw Youyou chasing after them, non-stop.
In the water, Yingbao holding her brother was being carried further and further away by the gourd, and soon she couldn’t see Youyou clearly.
The chest of Xiaojie in her arms was rising and falling with breath, his eyes tightly closed, not knowing if he was asleep.
Yingbao felt slightly relieved. With one hand holding him and one hand grabbing tightly onto the gourd, she didn’t let herself and her brother sank into the water.
She didn’t know how long they had been drifting for. The surface of the water began to widen and the current slowed down.
Catching her breath, Yingbao kicked her legs hard and swam towards the shore.