Lin Wanyi didn't let Lin Jiajun carry her on his back.
She just paused to catch her breath; she wasn't that delicate.
It was just that the weather was too cold, the snow too deep, and the road too hard to walk on.
After a brief rest, she continued walking. "Almost there. Past the intersection ahead is Wang Family Village. Keep close to my steps.
"We'll hit the dirt path soon. In some places, it looks like snow on top, but underneath are ditches, pits, or fields.
"If you fall in, we'll be in trouble."
Liu Renzhi followed Lin Wanyi closely. Throughout the night, he felt nothing but pure admiration for her.
At first, he hadn't expected her to come, and then he certainly hadn't expected that she was actually pregnant.
Even more unexpectedly, she had persevered through the whole night, leading them across such a vast distance.
He thought to himself that once his sister was rescued, he would properly thank Lin Wanyi no matter what, and give her however much money she wanted.
The sky was just beginning to lighten. Wang Hao woke up early.
In truth, he hadn't slept soundly all night. He pricked up his ears to listen for any sounds outside the door.
No movement. Lin Wanyi wasn't up yet.
Great. Sleep, just keep sleeping.
If she sleeps in, she won't make a fuss.
He had absolutely no idea that Lin Wanyi had already arrived at Wang Family Village and was about to lay eyes on Chen Daniu's house.
Lin Wanyi rested her hands on her knees and told Liu Renzhi:
"That house, it's that one. Hurry up and go, Liu Siyue is right in there.
"Go, quickly."
After she finished speaking, she nearly collapsed, almost falling onto her bottom in the snow.
Liu Renzhi instinctively reached out to pull her up, but Lin Wanyi kept waving him off.
"Don't worry about me. Hurry up and find Liu Siyue, quick! I won't die, but she might!"
Lin Jiajun also chimed in, "You guys go. I'll watch over my sister, she'll be fine."
Steeling his resolve, Liu Renzhi turned around and led the two plainclothes officers to smash on Chen Daniu's door.
It took a long while before Chen Guanshan finally yawned and said:
"Who the hell is it this early? I already told you, you have to wait a few more days before you can play with that deadbeat woman.
"Why are you so impatient? She's covered in blood right now, how could you even do it?"
The door opened a crack. Upon seeing a few strangers, Chen Guanshan asked:
"Who are you looking for? You've got the wrong place."
Without a word, Liu Renzhi punched him directly in the face.
"Get the hell out of my way!"
Blood instantly gushed from Chen Guanshan's nose.
He clutched his nose and yelled:
"Who are you? Who on earth are you looking for?"
The two plainclothes officers shoved him aside and headed into the house to search.
He followed behind them, shouting, "This is my house! You can't just barge in, or I'll call the police!"
"Call the police?"
A plainclothes officer directly pulled out his police badge. "Call what police? We are the police.
"Where is Liu Siyue? Where is she?"
Hearing that they were police and looking for Liu Siyue, Chen Guanshan grew nervous.
He carefully looked at the two men in front of him:
"When were you rookies transferred here? How come I've never seen you before?
"Hurry up and go back. Your station chief is my eldest nephew, stop causing trouble here."
Liu Renzhi punched him again and grabbed him by the collar.
"Speak! Where is Liu Siyue? Tell me, or do you believe I'll beat you to death right now!"
In the room, Liu Siyue heard the commotion. She thought she heard her eldest brother's voice.
Thrilled, she tried to crawl out of bed, but she had absolutely no strength left.
She had been running a fever for days and hadn't eaten a thing.
She couldn't get out of bed at all.
She could only call out weakly, "Brother, Brother, I'm here. I'm right here."
Liu Renzhi couldn't hear her. Chen Daniu peeked out from the bedroom and hurriedly locked the door from the inside.
He dragged Liu Siyue into the wardrobe and hid her under a pile of clothes.
Liu Siyue now didn't even have the strength to shout.
She clearly heard Liu Renzhi searching everywhere for her, heard him shouting:
"Siyue, where are you?
"Siyue, your brother is here to find you. Your brother is here, hurry up and come out."
She heard it loud and clear, but she just couldn't get up or get out.
She was going crazy with anxiety, but she couldn't move a single finger on her body.
She could only scream in her heart:
"Brother, I'm here! Brother, I'm right here!"
Chen Guanshan kept following behind Liu Renzhi:
"You've got the wrong place. The person you're looking for isn't here. Hurry up and leave, don't stir up trouble at my place."
Chen Daniu was cowering, but Liu Renzhi suddenly grabbed him by the neck:
"Tell me, where is my sister? Where is she?"
Chen Daniu was so scared he almost wet his pants, but Chen Guanshan desperately shot him warning glances.
Finally, he bit the bullet and said, "I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't know any Liu Siyue.
"You really have the wrong person."
Liu Renzhi threw a punch at him, pointing at the women's clothes on the bed and shouting:
"Whose clothes are these? Find that woman for me right now!
"Otherwise, I'll tear the roof off your house."
The plainclothes officers who came with him turned every room upside down, but still found nothing.
Chen Guanshan was secretly making a phone call. He wanted to call his eldest nephew, the chief of the town's police station.
But before his call could connect, Liu Renzhi stomped on his phone and smashed it to pieces.
Chen Guanshan was terrified out of his wits, but on the surface, he still maintained an air of righteous indignation:
"You've searched my house from top to bottom. Where is this person?
"I'm telling you, you really have the wrong place. It's really not my house, you guys should leave immediately."
"Who says there's no one?"
Lin Jiajun supported Lin Wanyi as they walked in. He said loudly:
"Old man, what lies are you spouting? Liu Siyue is clearly in your house, what nonsense are you talking about?
"I have seen her myself, and my older sister has seen her too. You can fool others, but you can't fool me and my sister."
Chen Guanshan's vision darkened. He pointed at Lin Wanyi:
"You... you bitch! Why are you so meddlesome? Didn't you already run away? Why did you come back?
"Why must you stick your nose into my family's business?
"I'm going to find Wang Jianguo right now. I want to ask him exactly what kind of daughter-in-law he married into his family."
Lin Wanyi glared at him fiercely:
"Chen Guanshan, you've done every evil deed imaginable. Liu Siyue's family has come looking for her, and you still want to hide her?
"You can't escape. I advise you to release Liu Siyue immediately. Otherwise, if she loses her life, your whole family will be buried along with her!"
Chen Guanshan didn't believe it. He sneered:
"Lin Wanyi, I warned you. I told you this is a village, and the people here are very united.
"People only come in; no one leaves. Including you.
"Lin Wanyi, you chose to come back yourself. You threw yourself into the net, so don't blame me."
After he finished speaking, he ran to the front gate and blew a horn.
Lin Wanyi's heart trembled. She said to Liu Renzhi:
"This is bad. Chen Guanshan is notifying the whole village. You need to find Liu Siyue and leave as soon as possible.
"Otherwise, we might not be able to leave at all later."
Liu Renzhi wasn't afraid in the slightest. He and the two plainclothes officers he brought were no ordinary men, but he was surprised by Lin Wanyi.
From what Chen Guanshan said, she was going against the entire village.
There was no time to think too much. The most important thing right now was to find Liu Siyue.
Lin Wanyi told him, "She is definitely here. Search carefully."
The four of them split up to search every room.
Until Lin Wanyi pulled open the doors of the wardrobe...
