Time passed by, and five hours had passed since Tong Yan disappeared. During these five hours, soldiers kept coming to report, but there was no news about Tong Yan.
It was already dark, and in August and September, there were scattered stars hanging in the night sky. Because it was in the forest, the chirping of insects and birds around filled the silent night.
Fu Lingbo was walking outside the camp, feeling so anxious for the first time.
He knelt down and touched Xiaobai's head, and asked, "Do you still remember the smell of her body?"
Xiaobai stuck out his tongue and blinked his big round eyes.
Fu Lingbo understood, stood up and said, "Well, come with me to find her again. If you can't find her tonight, don't follow me again!"
Xiaobai followed Fu Lingbo aggrievedly. Before he had gone far, Tang Wanru's voice came from behind, "Lingbo..."
Fu Lingbo stopped and turned around...
Tang Wanru came over with food and handed it to him, "Eat something first. You haven't eaten anything from noon to afternoon today!"
Fu Lingbo's face was obviously gloomy and dark, "No, you can eat it!"
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Tang Wanru stepped forward to stop him, "You won't eat anything. What if you collapse from hunger? Didn't you send a company out to look for your wife's disappearance? I believe she will be very happy.
I will be brought to you soon."
"Okay, you don't need to say any more, I'll go find it myself!" After saying that, he strode forward without even a moment's hesitation.
He just believed that the soldiers could find her, so he waited in the tent. As a result, it was already dark, and he still found nothing.
People disappeared because of him, how could he just sit there and wait to die?
Tang Wanru was helpless, put down the things in her hands, and ran to catch up with him, "I'll go with you, multiple people will take care of you!"
Fu Lingbo didn't speak. Xiaobai smelled Tong Yan's breath and hurried forward. He also took a flashlight and looked forward.
The night was getting deeper. Fu Lingbo took a Tibetan Mastiff and Tang Wanru and walked in the dense forest. The mountain roads were rugged and the rivers were winding. It was inevitable that if you were blind, you would encounter some thorns and injure yourself.
But he didn't care about any of this. For the first time, in his eyes, in his mind, and in the whole world, he was thinking about Tong Yan. He was worried about her, afraid of her, and anxious about what might happen to her.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have treated her like that and persuaded her to go back, and she wouldn't have been so stubborn that she disappeared.
It's late at night now, where has she been?
If he were in the county town, he would never worry, but in this barren mountain, she had no sense of direction. He couldn't pretend to turn a blind eye, and suddenly there was a heart-wrenching emptiness in his heart, as if something was about to be taken away.
Same as empty.
He stood on a big rock with a flashlight and shouted into the dark forest at the top of his lungs, "Tong Yan, Tong Yan, where are you?..."
Growing up and experiencing so many ups and downs, Fu Lingbo had never been as worried about someone as he was tonight.
Worried that she would suddenly disappear from his life, worried that she would never appear in his world again, worried that she...
"Lingbo, let's take a rest!" Tang Wanru came forward and wiped Fu Lingbo's forehead with the tissue in his hand.
Fu Lingbo did not refuse her offer, and sat down slumped, his voice choked with sobs, "What should I do if she is in any danger? It's all my fault. If I hadn't treated her like that, she wouldn't have disappeared!"
"It's late at night. Where in the wild mountains has she gone?"
