The four of them were talking and laughing along the way, with longing for the future, but Meng Li was deliberately excluded by them.
Guo Liujun also glanced at Meng Li with a slightly proud look, but Meng Li ignored them.
Guo Liujun just thought that Meng Li was pretending not to care. After all, being deliberately excluded by his peers would make him feel uncomfortable.
Little did he know that Meng Li didn't take it seriously at all and was still happy to be clean.
Really tired, Guo Liujun's face turned red and he suggested to stop and take a rest. Looking at Meng Li's face as usual, without a trace of tiredness, he secretly cursed that with his physical strength, he must be a fierce wife.
Everyone found a big rock and sat down. Meng Li took the child on his back and fed him some water.
I secretly added a little bit of nutritional supplements to solve the problem of inconvenience for the child to eat.
Guo Liujun looked down at the shoes that were already covered with dust, and said with a somewhat nostalgic look:
"There are trains and trams outside, so you don't have to get dusty if you sit inside."
Added:
"It's pretty quick."
"There are also transportation options such as bicycles and cars."
Zhang Qi's eyes burst with longing:
"These things are really magical. When you come to Haicheng, you must go and see them."
Meng Li fed the child and put the child on her back. She wanted to find a wooden stick. She used her mental energy to search and found a good one. It looked strong, straight and smooth.
It can also be used as a dog beating stick in your hand.
Meng Li said to Zhang Qi:
"I'm going to find something. I'll come back as soon as I go."
Zhang Qi nodded, Meng Li stood up and left.
Zhang Qi looked at Meng Li's back and his eyes flickered. It was only more than two hours away from home now, so she must be able to find her back.
Zhang Qi thought for a while, then was in a daze for a while, and then said to Bao Xingfa:
"Why don't we go first? It's just this road. She can catch up with us if she walks fast."
Bao Xingfa was slightly surprised, but then he understood and asked:
"What if you can't catch up with us?"
Zhang Qi said:
"It won't get dark if we can't catch up and go back the way we came. It won't affect us."
Ji Hongyi and Guo Liujun also understood it all at once, thought about it, and said pretentiously:
"That's not good?"
Zhang Qi hardened his heart and said:
"There's nothing wrong with it. I told you she can catch up with us."
The few people didn't say anything else, they all stood up, took their baggage and left.
Meng Li used a dagger to scrape the pimples on the wooden stick. Naturally, he saw them leaving and just smiled faintly.
Follow them leisurely.
The road is not straight, and I don’t know why my luck is so bad. I didn’t encounter a donkey cart along the way. It was almost dusk when the sun was setting.
If you can't find a place to stay after dark, you will most likely have to sleep outside.
In fact, the three men knew clearly that if they followed their pace, they would have reached the county seat by now, even if they walked instead of taking a car.
But because Guo Liujun is a girl and her steps are small, and in order to take care of the girl, they have to stop to catch their breath from time to time, so it has been delayed until now.
But no one blamed Guo Liujun.
And only in this county can you take a boat to another place. You can't take a boat in the county that you will pass through in the afternoon.
Bao Xingfa said to the other three people:
"The sun has set, so the possibility of encountering donkey carts is even smaller if you follow the main road, and the main road goes around a lot further."
"I know a small road. If we take a shortcut, we should be able to reach the county seat before it gets completely dark."
Guo Liujun asked:
"Is this trail safe? There are many bandits and thieves now."
Bao Xingfa said:
"I walked through it once, it should be fine."
Guo Liujun was a little worried. As a woman, it was naturally inconvenient for her to spend a night in the wild. She was very hesitant about taking the path and thought for a long time with her brows furrowed.
Zhang Qi said:
"Actually, Mr. Liu, don't worry. We three men can't protect you as a woman."
"I think it's okay to take a small road. When we get to the county town, we can have a good night's rest and then we can continue our journey the next day."
Guo Liujun's brows relaxed a little, and then he said:
"That's okay."
Several people walked into the path, followed by Meng Li. The child on his back suddenly cried out loudly, echoing in the mountains.
Guo Liujun stopped and said:
"Why did I hear the baby crying?"
She suspected that someone deliberately abandoned their children in the mountains to fend for themselves. Nowadays, the world is not good, and there are many people abandoning their children.
Zhang Qi also said:
"I think I heard it too."
"Then let's go and take a look." Ji Hongyi also thought of this possibility, and a trace of unbearability flashed on his face.
They walked back following the child's cry.
Meng Li could only stop, put the child down, opened the diaper and saw that it was yellow.
Forehead…
Meng Li felt that his experience in raising children was still not rich, and he forgot that the baby also needed to solve personal problems.
"Chunrong?" Zhang Qi looked at Meng Li in disbelief with wide eyes.
They looked at each other in confusion, why was it suddenly behind them? It felt as scary as a ghost suddenly appeared.
Meng Li said:
"Bring the bag here, there are diapers in it."
Zhang Qi was stunned for a moment and handed the baggage on his body to Meng Li. Meng Li changed the child's diaper, then wrapped the dirty diaper in oil paper and left it there until it could be used again after washing.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Qi asked.
Meng Li said with a smile but not a smile:
"What do you think?"
Several people stopped talking. Their thoughts had been seen through anyway.
Zhang Qi simply didn't understand how this person had been following him for so long. Fortunately, he was still happy, thinking that he had gotten rid of him.
Seeing that the child had been taken care of by Meng Li, he pursed his lips and said:
"Then let's go, it's getting dark."
Meng Li stood up, put the child on his back, and followed. The few people were not as chattering as before, and the atmosphere was silent for a while.
How embarrassing.
The small road is not as wide and flat as the main road. Several gentlemen are very concerned about Guo Liujun and are afraid that Guo Liujun may sprain his feet.
Guo Liujun is a native of Haicheng. He has received a foreign education and his family conditions are not bad, but not the best. However, in the hearts of these men, she is a goddess.
Meng Li didn't pay much attention and followed silently. Suddenly, a few people jumped out from the roadside in front of him. Meng Li looked back and saw a few people jumping out from behind.
It was blocked from the front and back.
The person at the front was holding a gun in his hand. He looked at the other people with unkind expressions, looking at them like lambs, making them feel cold all over.
Everyone's heart skipped a beat, and they secretly lamented why they met such a person by chance.
His body tensed, Zhang Qi summoned up the courage to ask:
"Brothers, what are you doing?"
The person holding the gun at the head of the other party replied proudly:
"Can't you see?"
Zhang Qi felt panic and fear.