mtlumby2d Chapter 216
Chapter 216
The shouting was piercing, and Qi Yi was so shocked that he didn't dare to stop at all. He carried his mother to hide behind a rock.
The mother and daughter pulled each other to cover their bodies, and together they grabbed the branches of a tree to hide their figures.
The men in the yard must have seen the tragic situation in the house. The sound stopped for a moment, and after a while, there was a sudden uproar, as if hot oil was entering water, which was even more worrying than the boiling sound before.
"Qi Jing is dead!"
"died!"
"died!"
"The Qi family's wife and son ran away!"
"Ran?"
"Ran!"
"She must be unwilling to go up the mountain on her own initiative and kill her husband and escape!"
"Let's catch her! Let's catch them!"
"Catch them! To appease the mountain god!"
"Catch them! To appease the mountain god!"
The slogans echoed again and again in the countryside and mountains, as powerful and majestic as the celebratory songs of the past New Year festivals. As they walked through the mountains and fields, the tender stems of flowers and plants swayed and nodded their delicate heads tremblingly.
Qi Yi held his mother's hand tightly and gritted his teeth. Hearing the noise, some people kicked open the kitchen and woodshed, and a few people who were unwilling to give up went around to the backyard to look around.
The mother and daughter hid behind a rock with their backs to the courtyard, listening to the shouting and chaotic footsteps.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, when the sound gradually faded, a familiar voice suddenly shouted:
"There! They're hiding behind the rocks!"
"Let's go!" Qi didn't hesitate for even a second, and directly pulled Jing Xiaocui to climb up a rock. As long as they passed the gravel on this side, the forest ahead would be deep, and it would be easy to escape!
After all the running around just now, Jing Xiaocui's already big and swollen belly was causing her great pain. When she was suddenly discovered, her heart almost jumped out of her throat. At such a critical moment, she tried her best to hold up her child. When Qi Yi climbed up the stone, she found that the men in the yard were already running towards her in a hurry, each of them with a red face, thick neck, disheveled hair, and clothes covered in dust.
"Get 'em!"
"Don't let them get away!"
"Mom! Hurry!" Qi Yi hooked his foot on the tree trunk and reached out to pull Jing Xiaocui, but his mother shook his hand away and just lifted his sister in front of Qi Yi:
"Mom can't run away. My belly is too big and will only be a burden to you."
The tears in her eyes were finally drying up. Jing Xiaocui used up her last bit of strength to lean back, making the large rock where she was hiding precariously.
She shouted at the boy at the top of her lungs: "Run!"
"Run—"
The elongated sound was like the dying cry of a kingfisher. Qi watched his mother rolling to the foot of the mountain along with the rocks. The huge rubble slowed down the pace of the people chasing her. His poor mother was surrounded by the crowd as she was dying.
Amid the crowd of people, Jing Xiaocui's mouth was bleeding. She stared straight ahead and urged Qi Yi silently:
"run……"
Qi Yi's heart was broken.
The boy wanted to rush down recklessly and fight with everyone, but his reason made him clench his fist until it bled. The weak breathing of his sister in his arms made him harden his heart and turn around to escape into the dense forest behind the stone ridge.
"There's another one! There's another one! Qi Yi ran away!"
Li Mancang shouted to the men around him with red eyes, "He is a traitor to the mountain god, a traitor!"
Jumping and hopping like a squirrel waiting to be caught, the village chief came over, grabbed the young man by the neck, and said, "The mountain god will punish him personally."
The noise stopped abruptly, and everyone dragged Jing Xiaocui out of the dilapidated yard.