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Chapter 469 - Chapter 469 Chapter 458 Lets go check out Peng Mountain

Chapter 469: Chapter 458: Let’s go, check out Peng Mountain! Chapter 469: Chapter 458: Let’s go, check out Peng Mountain! Chapter 459

When everyone woke up early today, no one saw him.

Some said he might have gone to kill himself, while others claimed they saw him heading towards Peng Mountain Gully.

Su Shu immediately seized on the key point of the conversation, “Wait, did you just say he went in the direction of Peng Mountain Village?”

The person was caught off guard by the sudden question and looked somewhat uneasy, “I’m not sure, I just saw a figure from a distance that seemed to be him, but whether it was really him, I don’t know.”

Su Shu and Tang Zelin exchanged glances, each reading in the other’s eyes the thoughts that were going through their minds.

Whether it was him or not, they didn’t want to give up on any shred of a clue.

Moreover, when Su Shu initially wanted to accompany them to fetch the child, there was an important reason, which was to go to Peng Mountain Village to see if the peach grove was still there.

Yet, once they got to this point, the development of events didn’t seem to match what they had anticipated at the beginning.

Knowing Li Banzhai’s whereabouts, they decided to go have a look.

Neither Su Shu nor Tang Zelin were strangers to Peng Mountain Village, especially Tang Zelin, who had been there several times.

After the Peng Mountain earthquake, the villagers of Peng Mountain Village had already left their homes to stay in the safe areas of the city and county.

But after all, it was their homeland.

Peng Mountain Village still had elderly people who yearned for their roots.

With age, some did not wish to die outside in the future.

The city’s leaders also didn’t strictly prevent them; if they wanted to return to their hometown, they were allowed to do so.

And so, when Tang Zelin, Su Shu, and others entered Peng Mountain Village, they were startled to discover that there were still about a dozen households with kitchen smoke rising at dusk.

Where there’s smoke, there are people living there.

Tang Zelin slightly furrowed his brows.

“What’s wrong?” Su Shu asked by his side.

Tang Zelin, looking at a chimney in the distance puffing out smoke, said, “Old Peng has come back.”

“Old Peng?”

The image of a taciturn, stern-faced old man suddenly flashed in her mind.

She remembered that elder. He had come back too?

Tang Zelin said, “I’ll go and take a look.”

“I’ll go with you.”

“Alright.”

Tang Zelin said to Zhang Dongke and Wang Meng behind him, “You guys lead a team to search around nearby, check out the situation. If you encounter any local folks, ask if they have seen a half-blind old man.”

“Yes, group captain.”

The group split into two teams.

Tang Zelin led Su Shu to knock on Old Peng’s door.

But after knocking for a long time, there was no response from Old Peng.

Tang Zelin pushed gently, and the door opened. He shouted into the house, “Old Peng!”

Still no response.

“Let’s go in and take a look.”

Su Shu hesitated slightly. “Would that be alright?”

“It’s fine. When I used to come to see Old Peng, I treated it like my own place. Let’s go.”

Since that was the case, Su Shu didn’t question further.

The two of them entered the house one after the other.

To their surprise, as soon as they entered, they were greeted by a strong smell of blood.

Tang Zelin felt a sinking feeling in his heart and quickly went inside.

On the kang-bed in the inner room lay a person, and it was none other than Old Peng.

The ground was covered in bloodstains. Tang Zelin jumped in shock and rushed over, shaking Old Peng.

“Old Peng?!”

He checked all over Old Peng for wounds.

Finally, Old Peng, awakened by the loud yelling, groggily opened his eyes and the first thing he uttered reeked of alcohol, “Who’s there? Which little brat is hollering! Disturbing my nice dream!”

“Old Peng! You scared the life out of me!” Tang Zelin fell back and sat on the edge of the kang-bed with a thump.

His face turned deathly pale.

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(Finally caught up with the update…555, I wrote the wrong chapter number; this chapter is 459~)

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