Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 660: The Person Behind the Band of Robbers (1)_1

Chapter 660: Chapter 660: The Person Behind the Band of Robbers (1)_1

In the main hall of the Wu family’s house, a dozen large tables were laid out with various delicious dishes, which were gradually cooling off and losing their original flavor, as no one was sitting down to enjoy them. The people gathered there looked at Yang Bao with grave expressions, hoping he could come up with a plan to quickly find the twelve missing children.

No one had expected that on such a joyous day, Liu Yang Village would suddenly lose twelve children. The oldest of these children was ten, and the youngest was only four. One and a half hours ago, after they walked out of the Wu family’s courtyard, they had not returned, including the child who had drunk all of Mo Yan’s bowl of sugar water in the morning.

The relatives of the children had frantically searched the entire village and turned over every nook and cranny where the children used to play several times, but not a trace of them was found. It was as if the dozen children had vanished into thin air.

After communicating with Xue tuanzi in the Space, Mo Yan, who already knew where the children had gone, saw that Yang Bao was indecisive for the moment and reminded him, "Village chief, everyone in the village says they haven’t seen those children, and since the Wu family lives at the edge of the mountain, could they have gone to play in the mountain together?"

Upon hearing this, the villagers who had lost their children became agitated. A sturdy man slapped his thigh and said with widened eyes, "Right, right, right, a dozen children disappeared all at once, and not a single person saw which direction they went. Where else could they have run off to if not into the mountains?"

"Exactly, my son was still talking about going to the mountains to pick chestnuts and roast them to eat last night. Maybe he really went to pick chestnuts."

"My youngest is the same. A couple of days ago, when his dad went to chop wood in the mountains and was lucky enough to find a wild fruit tree, he brought back a few wild fruits for him, and he has been clamoring to go into the mountain with his dad ever since, making me give him a beating."

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Others also felt it was very likely that the children had gone into the mountain and echoed the sentiment. Everyone knew the dangers of the mountain, so the adults, out of concern that the children might sneak in, often twisted their ears and admonished them never to enter the mountain without an adult present.

All the children had grown up listening to stories about wild animals eating little kids, and with the recent event where a party from the Mo Family had been bitten by a wild animal while hunting in the mountains, even with the draw of all sorts of fruits there, they did not dare to venture in. Hence, when the children disappeared, these people did not even consider this possibility.

"Then let’s go into the mountains and look for them. If we find them, we’ll set off a chain of firecrackers to notify everyone else." After asking for the opinions of Mo Qingze and the village elders and seeing that they were inclined to believe that the children had gone into the mountains, Yang Bao immediately made a decision. He then divided the people present into several teams to search the mountain through different paths.

Villagers who hadn’t lost children also spontaneously joined the search parties, spreading out towards the mountain.

Yuhua Mountain was vast, and not only was there the danger of encountering wild animals, but it was also easy to get lost. Even adults who frequently went into the mountains would only dare to wander around the fringes and never venture deep inside.

But what did children know? Once they were engrossed in play, who would remember the adults’ warnings? If they encountered wild animals or got lost deep inside, even if the whole village entered the mountains to search, it would be like a drop of water entering the sea, finding the missing children would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Right now, the more people there were, the more hope remained. Mo Yan and Mo Qingze could not just stand by and watch. After sending Xin Er and others back to watch the house, they also followed the crowd, heading into the mountain.

When passing by her own house, Mo Yan found an excuse to go back home for a moment and let Little Flower out of the Space, bringing it along into the mountain.

With Little Flower as a cover, even if she found the children immediately following Xuetuan’s guidance, no one would suspect anything.