Mu Yan and his party disguised themselves, traveled through mountains and rivers, drilled holes through forests...
Mu Yan found all the extremely secretive villages hidden in the mountains and dense forests. He went in and looked for them like they were rugs... but found nothing.
As time passed day by day, Mu Yan became more and more anxious. Every time he saw the sunset, his heart clenched into a ball, and he couldn't restrain himself from the pain.
There was a sudden noise in the forest, and everyone turned to look.
"Qian San!" Everyone was happy to see him.
"Is there any whereabouts of Madam?" Mu Yan hurriedly approached him.
"His Majesty, we followed the clues of the first batch of people who took away the lady, and found out that the lady had changed hands several times. The day before yesterday, we heard that the lady had been sold to some Boga people, so we followed the traces. Unexpectedly, I lost track of him in a valley. Zhufeng is still searching in the forest, I will report to the crown prince first."
Mu Yan raised his hand and pressed it on his chest.
There is Xi'er's Five Blessings and Longevity Jade Pendant there. He always takes it with him when he goes out. He misses her.
"Your Majesty, your hands!"
Li Yi hurried over, grabbed Mu Yan's hand, and pulled out the mountain leeches stuck to the back of Mu Yan's hand.
I don't know when the leech got on it. As Li pulled it out one by one, it became more and more firmly attached, trying to burrow into the flesh.
"You can't pull it out! Pull it out hard like this, and the more you pull it out, the harder it will be sucked in!" A passerby hurriedly came up to stop it.
Everyone gathered around and saw that Mu Yan had sucked a mountain leech on the back of his hand. As it sucked blood, it became more swollen and firmly attached to the back of his hand.
"Master, why didn't you see that I'm so fat from sucking?" Kan Er looked distressed.
The young master's heart was filled with his wife. He wandered through the mountains and forests without getting tired, and refused to rest even after the sun set. He lit a torch and searched for the caves in the mountain stockade as if they were rugs. He didn't even notice if he was stained by mountain leeches.
"It doesn't matter." Mu Yan glanced lightly.
The general manager found some grass blades that no one could understand, bunched them into a handful, and lit them. They were still green and moist, with no sparks, but thick smoke. The general manager took the grass blades and put them on the back of Mu Yan's hand. That leech at Chuxun...
Soon it twisted up and was easily pulled off by Kan Er.
Kan Er threw it to the ground, gritted his teeth and crushed it again and again with his shoes, "I want you to bite my young master!"
"Your Majesty, wait until I sprinkle some medicinal powder on it, otherwise it will become itchy and swollen."
Mu Yan watched their movements indifferently, wiping the blood, applying powder, and tying the wounds. She wanted to find Xi'er as soon as possible. The mountain forest was airtight, with little sunlight, it was difficult to walk in the humidity, and there were many snakes and insects, which she was most afraid of. That's all.
He waved his hand and told Gan San, "You lead the way from the front."
"Yes." A group of people went into the dense forest again.
"Your Majesty, we are almost at the border of Laos. If they take my wife out of the country, it will be even harder to find her."
"Your Majesty, should we send more manpower to keep an eye on the border passes?"
"If my wife looks like that, they will definitely be interrogated by the soldiers at the border with her. Besides, my wife doesn't have a customs clearance document, so how can they get out."
"Those border residents have been living in these mountains for generations. Do they still need to pass the customs clearance documents? If they have that thing, are there still private teas that have been banned all the time? And there are also the plundered and trafficked people who are reported missing every year?"
Many Yi people who have lived in the mountains for generations have not communicated with the outside world and are self-sufficient. However, they often encounter difficulties in marriage. Some people want to make profits, so there are many transactions, trafficking, and human trafficking. Here,
This happens from time to time in border areas where Yi and Han people live together.
Missing persons are reported every year, but in the end they are never traced.
How easy it is to hide a person in this vast mountain. How can the whole family find out their whereabouts if they hide it?
Mu Yan paused for a moment, "Send a message back and order more manpower to be sent to each place. This will be done in the light and in the dark at the same time. If you have any clues, report them as soon as possible!"
"Yes. I will send the message right now."
On the other side, although Huo Xi was a little regretful that the person was mute, it seemed that she could understand what she was saying, and she looked different from those Yi people, "Are you Han?"
The man lowered his head and said nothing.
"Do you know where they're sending me?"
Still no expression.
Huo Xi glanced at her and said, "You are about the same age as my mother. My parents loved me very much. When I was young, my family was poor and we couldn't afford meat, so they lived frugally to buy me meat and cloth to make clothes...
You also have children, right?"
The person lowered her head and remained silent, but Huo Xi noticed that the expression on her face was a little loose.
"When I grew up and got married, my mother gave all the money in the family to my father and asked him to prepare a dowry for me, because she was afraid that I would be looked down upon by others in my husband's family. My man regards me as my life, and often says that everything in the world is...
Only I belong to him. Even children will have their own lives in the future..."
The woman paused and turned to look at Huo Xi.
Huo Xi had a bitter look on her face, "He must be very anxious now. We also have a son who is less than four years old and can talk even before he can walk. He has a small mouth and is very talkative. He will arrive when he can't see us."
At the gate, sit on the threshold and wait for us..."
Huo Xi shed tears as she spoke.
He turned his head, glanced at his shoulder, and looked at the woman, "I miss them very much."
The woman buried her head and said nothing. When she saw the men in front of her turning to look at them, she reached out and took Huo Xi's arm, gesturing for Huo Xi to follow.
Huo Xi was a little desperate.
I closed my eyes and looked up at the vast mountains... There were trees in front and behind me, towering trees, towering into the clouds. There was not even a road under my feet, and not even a trace of grass was left behind.
Mechanically following the few people walking through the forest.
"What's the sound?" Several Yi people looked at each other and said, "There's someone!"
He glanced at Huo Xi and said, "Quick, there is a cave ahead!"
"Is there anyone?"
Although Huo Xi didn't know what they were saying, she vaguely heard the movement and felt a glimmer of hope. She turned around and was about to shout when the woman blocked her mouth and quickly pulled her to follow the three men.
They were pushed into a cave, which was either a hunter's nest or a large wild animal's nest. It was cramped and smelled bad. The few people covered the entrance of the cave with things and shrank into the cave. They didn't even dare to take a quick breath and were holding back their breath.
Several people were sitting so close that they could touch each other with their shrunken feet. One man suddenly reached out towards Huo Xi's face, and just as he was about to touch Huo Xi's face, the woman slapped him down.
The two looked at each other, and the man cursed and said something. But he didn't reach out to Huo Xi anymore.
Huo Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but she was worried and didn't dare to relax at all.
I don’t know how long it took, but several people pulled her out of the cave again and continued on their way.
Huo Xi felt that the shoes on the soles of her feet were probably worn out, she was in terrible pain, and her legs were so sore that she couldn't lift them up.
The feeling of despair came again.
I walked to a mountain stream with difficulty, and before I even got close I could feel the water vapor in the air.
The water from nowhere gathered in the small mountain stream in front of us, and rolled down the cliff, making a splashing sound. Listening to the sound of water, there must be a pool under the cliff.
Huo Xi's eyebrows moved, and the woman pulled her to the small pond to grab a drink of water.
