After reading the mind of his wife, the officer husband blushed

Zhang Ninglan was clenching her fists at this moment, ready to fight with the intruder at any time.

Then the beggar's face came into view.

He was holding something unknown in his hand and was moving towards Zhang Ninglan with humming and moaning sounds.

Zhang Ninglan breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out to be a little beggar.

The little beggar came closer, and Zhang Ninglan saw clearly that he had a tattered bowl in his hand, and inside the bowl was...

soup?

The little beggar handed the bowl to Zhang Ninglan, still making some mumbling sounds with his mouth.

"Give me something to eat?"

The little beggar nodded.

"you made it yourself?"

The little beggar nodded again.

Zhang Ninglan took the bowl, which was still hot.

Is this little beggar making his own fire and cooking in there?

However, there were nothing but rocks in this cave. How did he get these vegetable leaves?

She had just asked the little beggar, and he didn't know where the exit was.

Zhang Ninglan finished the soup in the bowl and then returned the bowl to the little beggar.

She asked, "Have you always lived in this cave?"

The little beggar nodded.

Zhang Ninglan continued to ask: "Where did you get the food?"

Is there another world in this cave?

The little beggar pulled at the corner of Zhang Ninglan's clothes, motioning her to go with him and take a look.

Zhang Ninglan pointed at Ye Jinhong on the ground and asked, "I have another patient here, can I take him with me?"

The little beggar came closer and saw Ye Jinhong's bloody clothes. He was a little scared and hid behind Zhang Ninglan.

Zhang Ninglan comforted her, "Don't be afraid, he is a good man and won't hurt you."

The little beggar hesitated for a while, then helped Zhang Ninglan and moved Ye Jinhong to his "home".

It turned out that the other cave at the fork in the road was the "home" of this little beggar.

There was a stone bed with a thin quilt on it, and a stone table with some broken pots and pans on it.

There was a pot next to it, and further inside, there were vegetables grown by the little beggar himself. There was natural spring water flowing next to the vegetables.

The little beggar generously gave his bed to Ye Jinhong. He helped Ye Jinhong onto the bed and considerately covered him with a quilt.

Zhang Ninglan looked at the skinny little beggar with mixed feelings.

She didn't know how the little beggar got in there, nor did she know how long the little beggar had stayed in there.

But he is very tenacious. At least it is not easy to stay alive after falling into such a situation.

The little beggar came to a corner again and moved the things in the corner over.

There is actually a hole here.

Zhang Ninglan quickly squatted down to take a look, and found that this hole was actually the exit!

However, the entrance of the hole was so small that only one’s head could be poked out.

Zhang Ninglan looked at the little beggar in surprise and asked, "Did you dig this?"

The little beggar nodded proudly.

Zhang Ninglan immediately looked at the little beggar in front of her with new eyes.

However, she looked around and didn't see any axe or anything like that. Did he just dig with his own hands?

Suddenly, Ye Jinhong raised his hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Water..."

Zhang Ninglan walked over immediately, and then the little beggar took the bowl, filled it with spring water and handed it over.

"Thank you."

Zhang Ninglan took the bowl and carefully fed the water to Ye Jinhong.

After drinking the water, Ye Jinhong fell into a deep sleep again.

Zhang Ninglan touched his forehead and found that it was no longer hot.

She carefully changed his bandage again and applied the medicine to his wound.

There wasn't much medicine left in her medicine box, and she didn't know if she could survive until the day she was found.

The little beggar then noticed Zhang Ninglan's medicine box. He looked at Zhang Ninglan and then pulled her sleeve.

Zhang Ninglan turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

The little beggar pointed to the medicine box on the ground, then pointed to his throat.

Zhang Ninglan understood immediately.

He wasn't born dumb, was he dumb due to acquired factors?

"Have you been drugged?"

The little beggar was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily, with tears in his eyes.

Zhang Ninglan motioned for him to sit down, then reached out and felt his pulse.

Sure enough, someone had drugged him.

He was made mute by drugs.

She could cure the disease with the medicine, but she didn't bring any of the medicine in her medicine box.

but……

She brought acupuncture tools with her, and she could use them to expel the remaining toxins from his body.

Thinking of this, she asked the little beggar to lie down and she gave him acupuncture treatment.

……

Feng Pingping and his men dug the cave very deep, but still couldn't find an entrance.

He carefully recalled where Zhang Ninglan disappeared.

After thinking for a long time, he knocked around the rock wall.

Then he ordered his men to start digging around the rock walls.

Feng Pingping's men were digging a pit in this cave.

Shen Qingfeng and Lu Yuansheng took people to continue searching outside. As it was getting dark, there was still no trace of Ye Jinhong and Zhang Ninglan.

Some people were looking for someone while talking.

"Do you think there will be wolves on this mountain at night?"

"It's very likely that there are some. In this wild mountain area, there might be other creatures besides wolves."

"Don't scare people so late at night!"

"It sounds scary. Find someone quickly. I don't know how Captain Ye and Doctor Zhang are doing now..."

"..."

They met people along the way and chatted in low voices.

When he walked to the front, Lu Yuansheng found some footprints.

He motioned for everyone to be quiet.

Then he looked at the footprints on the ground. There were many of them, and they were all large men's footprints.

Lu Yuansheng reminded: "There are people ahead, we don't know if they are enemies or friends, so be alert and don't get ambushed."

When everyone heard this, they quickly tightened their guns and followed Lu Yuansheng forward.

They followed the footprints all the way and found that there were indeed more than a dozen people there. Those people were holding shovels and looked like they were digging the mountain?

Could it be that the secret passage is here?

Lu Yuansheng looked at those people and found that they were dressed differently from ordinary people.

Could they be the remnants of bandits?

It seems that they are also looking for the whereabouts of Captain Ye.

Lu Yuansheng asked everyone to hide nearby and not to act rashly. He asked them to dig a hole. After they dug the hole, they would go out and catch all the people in one fell swoop.

Feng Pingping did indeed gain something.

Digging towards the rock wall, we found it was indeed hollow, and there was indeed a secret passage underneath.

Feng Pingping was ecstatic. Would Zhang Ninglan and Ye Jinhong be down in this secret passage?

He ordered his men to continue digging until they found a hole that people could enter...

As a result, after the hole was dug through, his men exclaimed: "Political Commissar Feng, the hole is open!"

"only……"