"Ahem, nothing. I just suddenly remembered that I forgot something very important. I'm afraid I can't stay in the village tonight. I have to go back to the commune first. I'll come back tomorrow morning."

As soon as Zhuo Wei finished speaking, Yu Xiaowei nodded promptly, as if he had remembered something important that he had not done.

He said quickly, "Captain Zhuo, you have reminded me. Kuang Wei and I are here to do business across provinces, but we haven't gotten the documents stamped yet! This is really life-threatening. If we are not careful, we will violate the procedures for organizing our work. No, we have to hurry back. I don't know if we can catch up with your director on duty to stamp our documents."

"Ah? You haven't stamped your documents yet? This is no small matter. Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's also my fault. I didn't remind you. I was so focused on seeing Village Chief Pei and his men at the state-owned restaurant that I made a hasty decision to follow them. As a result, I didn't even have time to complete the procedures for you."

"What are you waiting for? Go back quickly!"

"Yes, we have to go back."

The two of them finished talking back and forth, then turned around and left in a hurry without waiting for Pei Mingzhi to try to stop them.

Although Converse was a little worried and scared, he couldn't help blushing when he saw Zhuo Wei and Yu Xiaowei made up such a wrong and flawed excuse.

Seeing these two guys running away without even looking back, Converse didn't know what expression to make on his face.

"Ahem, Village Chief Pei, I'm sorry, my colleagues were too anxious, so -"

Pei Mingzhi was also a little dumbfounded. He couldn't understand why these three public security comrades suddenly wanted to leave as if they were possessed by an evil spirit.

But for Pei Mingzhi, it would be best if they left. In this way, it would not delay him from going into the mountains with the immortal to do business at night!

There is just one thing he needs to remind them of.

It was one thing not to want them to discover their family's secret in the village, but it was another to just let the three of them walk back to the commune at night.

Traveling on mountain roads at night is not a safe thing.

Therefore, seeing that the last Kuang Wei was about to leave, Village Chief Pei quickly stopped him and said, "Hey, Comrade Kuang, wait a moment."

When Converse was held by the village chief, his heart skipped a beat.

"Village Chief Pei, what else do you want?"

"I want to say that if you are in a hurry to go back to town, it will be too late for the three of you to walk. It won't be long before it gets dark. Once it's night, the mountain road will be difficult to walk on. You are not familiar with the roads in the mountains, so it will be terrible if you encounter any danger. How about this, I'll let Old Zhao and Ah Huang take you there."

Pei Mingzhi shouted to Zhuzi, "Zhuzi, go back and ask your grandfather to bring Ah Huang over, and then send Comrade Zhuo and the others back to the commune."

"Okay, Grandpa Village Chief, I'll go right away."

Zhuzi said this in a crisp voice and ran away quickly.

He had also heard Aunt Mo Yan say before that they would go into the mountains at night.

He felt that he was already a little adult of eight or nine years old and was old enough to go into the mountains.

But if the three uncles in hats in the village didn't leave, he was afraid that he would not be able to enter the mountains.

Now that the uncles in hats are going back to the commune, Zhuzi is so happy.

He decided to bribe Ah Huang and tell him to send the three uncles in hats away as quickly as possible. That way, who knows, Aunt Mo Yan might agree to let Ah Huang go into the mountains with her at night!

Zhuzi knows that Ah Huang is very good at flattering Aunt Mo Yan!

This is because Aunt Mo Yan prepares special meals for it and gives it good food to eat!

He's seen it several times.

"Hey, hey, hey! No, no need--" Before Converse could finish his words, Zhuzi had already disappeared.

When he thought about the cart pulled by the ox named Ah Huang on the way here, Converse felt his stomach, which had finally calmed down, begin to churn again.

As he spoke, he really preferred to walk and didn't want to ride the ox cart anymore.

"If you don't let Ah Huang take you, I really don't dare to let you comrades leave at night. If something goes wrong on the way, it will be difficult for us in Peijia Village to explain to the commune."

Pei Mingzhi is telling the truth.

But to Converse, these words had a different meaning. He felt as if there was something else behind the words, something a bit threatening.

It seemed to be telling them that either they had to let the cow named Ah Huang take them to town, or else they might not be able to get back to town at all and would get into trouble on the way.

"Well, then we would like to thank Village Chief Pei. We are sorry to trouble you. Your village's Ah Huang has thanked you for giving us a ride again."

As Converse spoke, he didn't dare to run anymore.

Just wait patiently for Ah Huang's ox cart to come.

In less than 15 minutes, the sound of cow hooves began to come from far away.

Then it stopped suddenly in a cool manner, raising a cloud of dust, and stopped in front of Converse and the others.

Converse, who was almost blinded by the dust, turned his head and saw that Village Chief Pei had skillfully covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves and was not affected by the dust at all.

This is very——

"Okay, let's go up!"

Pei Mingzhi quickly pushed Converse.

Converse's face turned pale. Thinking of the thrill and excitement he had on the way here, he really didn't want to ride in this ox-drawn cart named Ah Huang.

But he has no choice!

I could only climb up.

"Ah Huang, please make sure you get the person back to the commune safely. On the way back, go slowly and don't rush. The mountain roads are dark at night and unsafe."

Niu Niu and Daxian both love Ah Huang, the old ox.

So in Pei Mingzhi's mind, something might happen to Kuang Wei and the others, but nothing must happen to Ah Huang.

Strangely, Converse actually felt that he understood what Pei Mingzhi meant.

My goodness, there is something weird about this village. Three grown men are not as precious as a cow?

Ah Huang seemed to think Pei Mingzhi was being too long-winded, and mooed impatiently to indicate that he understood. Then he pulled Converse to chase Yu Xiaowei and Zhuo Wei who had already run away.

*

"Can we just leave Converse like that?"

"Let's run out first, and then bring people back to rescue him tomorrow. Otherwise, as you saw just now, there is definitely something strange in this village. If something goes wrong, we will all be stuck."

Yu Xiaowei and Zhuo Wei ran out of Peijia Village panting, their eyes red.

There was a hint of fear and uncertainty on each other's faces.

Turning around and looking at Peijia Village which had been left some distance behind, although it seemed that he had escaped, that feeling of insecurity still followed him like a shadow.

There was always a voice urging them not to stay and to run further.

However, the guilt of not having the time to run with Converse still made them feel that their steps suddenly became so heavy. For a moment, they were so anxious that they didn't know whether to leave or stay.

"Why don't we wait a little longer, maybe he'll run out too."

"Why is this guy so stupid? He should have known something was wrong after hearing our conversation, so why didn't he run away but stayed to talk to the village chief?"

Yu Xiaowei was really anxious and disappointed with his friend.

"Don't blame him. It's not that he wasn't alert. He was afraid that if the three of us wanted to leave, none of us would be able to leave. He stayed behind to buy time for us to run!"

Zhuo Wei said with a heavy face.

The mood of both of them became extremely depressed at this moment, and they both felt that Converse might really not be able to escape this time.

I'll bring people back here early tomorrow morning. I don't know if I can still see him.

Thinking about Pei Mingzhi and the people in this village, how likely is it that they would dare to attack the police?

Just as I was daydreaming, I heard a violent sound of hooves. This, this is -

The two looked at each other, that cow!

Oh my god, that cow is chasing us!

Doesn't that mean the people in the village are chasing us?

The two of them didn't have time to think about it, they just spread their legs and ran as fast as they could.

"No, we can't take the main road. We have to go through the forest, where the oxcarts can't pass. That way, it will be difficult to find and catch us."

Zhuo Wei looked very experienced, and Yu Xiaowei also expressed his deep agreement. Then, the two of them jumped into the grass below the mountain road at the same time, and then struggled towards the direction of the woods where the ox cart could not possibly come down.

So when Converse and Old Zhao drove the ox cart past here, Yu Xiaowei and Zhuo Wei were no longer there on the mountain road leading to the commune.

Since he didn't see the two of them, Ah Huang didn't stop and ran all the way to the town where the commune was located.

At this time, it was just getting dark.

Old Zhao swung the whip in his hand in vain. Ever since Ah Huang understood human nature, the whip was just a decoration and he just held it in his hand for viewing.

"Comrade, I finally got you here. I'm going back now!"

"Hey, old man, wait a minute, I haven't seen my two colleagues along the way, are they okay?"

Conway didn't want to ask, but he had to ask. Zhuo Wei and the others left the village before him, so how come he didn't see them along the way?

You have to know that there is only one mountain road leading to the commune, and they were only a dozen minutes earlier than me.

Thinking of what Pei Mingzhi said, Converse's heart sank. Could something have happened to them?

Old Zhao didn't know that the other two people had left first.

Anyway, Zhuzi came back and said that the village chief asked him and Ah Huang to send someone off. When he went to the village chief, he saw Kuang Wei.

He thought he was just being sent away alone, so how come there are now concerns about two other people?

"Your other two colleagues have also left the village?"

"Yes, they left about a quarter of an hour earlier than us. They were walking, so we should have seen them along the way, but I didn't see them all the way here. Are they okay?"

"Hey, comrade, why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier that there were two colleagues ahead, I would have asked Ah Huang to run slower and keep an eye on you. But you didn't say a word. Now that we're in town, you're just wasting time, aren't you?"

"It's already dark, it's not convenient to go back and look for people." Old Zhao slapped the shaft of the cart angrily and glared at Kuang Wei, "Are you sure your two colleagues left a quarter of an hour earlier than our ox cart?"

Converse nodded quickly, "I'm sure. If you don't believe me, go back and ask Village Chief Pei."

"That's not right. If they had just walked a quarter of an hour earlier, we would have definitely seen them. You've seen how fast Ah Huang is. A person with two legs can't outrun our Ah Huang. But we didn't see them along the way, so there's only one possibility."

As he spoke, Old Zhao's face looked serious and gloomy.

Converse's heart almost fell to the bottom, and an ominous feeling arose, "What, what is possible?"

Is there really an unknown terror ambushing them outside the village?

Have both of them met with misfortune now?

"Do I need to ask? It must be your two colleagues. They didn't take the main road. They must have taken a shortcut through the forest, thinking that this way they could get to the commune faster."

"Humph, isn't this nonsense? You are not from our Peijia Village. People from our village don't dare to go through the woods easily. But they dare to go through the woods when it's dark. It's simply-"

Old Zhao was so angry that he was fuming.

It’s all hats, how can you be so ignorant!

Is this forest so easy to wear?

What to do now?

Should I go back to the village and mobilize all the villagers to search the forest with torches?

Just like the last time we went into the woods to search for Weng De?

Thinking of Weng De, Old Zhao suddenly came to his senses, "No, that's not right. I remember there was a comrade with you who had been to our village before and had been to the forest where we rescued Teacher Weng. He should know better than anyone how dangerous it is to go into the forest at night. Why did he go through the forest?"

These words left Converse speechless.

He was always embarrassed to say that the three of them suddenly felt that Peijia Village was like a giant monster that would eat people, and they didn't dare to stay in their village, so they decided to escape on the spur of the moment?

Now seeing Old Zhao's anxious and angry look, Converse suddenly felt that it was very likely that they were overthinking it, and Peijia Village was not what they thought.

Converse felt paralyzed when he thought that it might be a complete mistake that put them in danger.

"Uncle, I, we have to turn back now. I, I have to find them."

The wild boars in Peijia Village will not harm people when they come down the mountain, but that doesn't mean Yu Xiaowei, Zhuo Wei and others are lucky enough to encounter animals that don't harm people.

If you encounter a large wild animal in the forest, it would be like delivering food to others!

"Why don't you come up? This is really ridiculous! It's best that they didn't go in too deep so that we can find them. Otherwise, I will tell the village chief not to allow you ignorant comrades to come to our village in the future. You are causing trouble for our village!"

Old Zhao was really angry.

He didn't care whether they were public security comrades or not. He only knew that these young people were too reckless. Aren't they playing with their lives?

It also wastes the time of the people in their village. Zhuzi has said that everyone could have followed the immortal into the mountains tonight.

The wild boars came down the mountain together to report the news in the mountain to the immortal. Everyone was looking forward to going into the mountain with the immortal!

Now things are bad, maybe no one in the village can go into the mountains today.

Thinking of this, Old Zhao wanted to throw away his Converse and told Ah Huang to go back without even looking back.

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