Chapter 403 Childhood Sweetheart 10
The two children found that the cave was quite clean, and they picked up a pile of leaves to spread on the floor and sit down.
Big Yellow whimpered, and used its head to rub against Chen Xiaopang’s hand.
Tang Cao looked at it, “It seems to be very uncomfortable.”
“Is the rope around its neck making it uncomfortable?” Chen Xiaopang touched the rope around Big Yellow’s neck, which was tied a knot tightly.
Tang Cao took out his all-purpose Army Knife, “I’ll cut it open for Big Yellow!”
“Woof woof woof!” As soon as the rope was untied, Big Yellow skipped a few times, looking very happy.
Dogs were different from people. They could not cheat. They would show their emotions very intuitively. Probably because of appreciating the help of Tang Cao and Chen Xiaopang to save its life, Big Yellow ran to the entrance of the cave and glanced at the two little boys again. It barked before running away.
“...Is it gone?” Chen Xiaopang was stunned.
Wasn’t it a little mate to escape with them? Why did it leave as soon as it was freed?
“It’s not like that.” Tang Cao wanted to say that Big Yellow was more reliable than you, but he was afraid that Chen Xiaopang would cry and changed the saying, “Maybe it goes out for a walk! Dogs like to run. I don’t know how long it has been chained by those bad guys. It must specially want to run.”
“Hmm!” Chen Xiaopang thought Tang Cao to be smart, and everything Tang Cao said was right.
Yu looked for the children around. Not to mention the two children, he even didn’t find the rural dog. He scolded and returned to the front of the yard, thinking that he would go to look for them together with his companions, because the children meant 40 million and they must be found!
“I don’t believe that they can run out of this mountain.” Yu spat and extinguished the cigarette, seeing a car driving along the mountain road in a distance.
Before the car parked well, Yu came close, ready to scold. But he suddenly saw that there were three more strangers in the car. He reacted quickly and ran away immediately, but unfortunately he couldn’t run faster than the police dog.
“Ah ah ah...” Yu seemed to be very afraid of the dog and started screaming after being bitten by the police dog.
The police overpowered him soon, and then the three kidnappers squatted to the corner with handcuffs.
“Captain, there are no children in it.” Several police officers had rushed in to look for the children earlier, but found nobody inside.
Two commercial cars parked over. Chen Qing ran out of the first car and asked, “Where are the children?”
“They are not inside.” The captain frowned frantically, “Interrogate them. Pry out children’s whereabouts from the mouths of the three!”
Bai Susu and Tang Yao got out of the other car and knew that there was something wrong when they saw no children.
“They said that the children ran away by themselves.” The captain was uncertain what expression he should have. According to Yu’s words, the dog had rescued the two children out? How could this be possible...?
“My son has a multifunctional Swiss tool knife.” Bai Susu said, “They should have cut the rope by themselves and run while nobody guarded.”
Tang Yao added aside, “They should have taken the dog away handily.”
“Is there any other road to get down the mountain?” The policeman kicked the kidnappers. Yu said with a sad face, “There is no other road except the one you come up.”
The police were divided into two teams. One team took the three kidnappers back to the police station, and the other went to the local fellow-villagers to prepare for looking for the two children in the mountain.
“I’ll go, too!” Chen Qing followed the captain closely. The captain glanced at him and estimated that Chen Qing wouldn’t be stopped, so he asked another police officer to keep an eye on Chen Qing, in case the adult got lost, besides not finding the children.
As for Bai Susu, Tang Yao refused to let her go, and he followed the police with a few bodyguards.
At this time, Chen Xiaopang and Tang Cao, who were hiding in the cave, felt that they had waited for a long time. Not to mention that they didn’t see anyone to arrive, even Big Yellow didn’t come back.
“Big Yellow is not a good dog!” Chen Xiaopang took a tree branch and waved at the entrance of the cave. He waved and wept, “It... It’s too bad. We’ve agreed to escape together and I will take it home to eat delicious food.”
It didn’t agree with you on that. You had been saying it yourself, hadn’t you?
Tang Cao sighed. He was trying to comfort his teammate but heard some rustling sound from outside.
“Oh my god!” Chen Xiaopang ran back in shock, and the two children stared nervously at the cave entrance. A dog’s head popped up a few seconds later.
Tang Cao and Chen Xiaopang were speechless.
“Woof!” Big Yellow barked, and a bunch of things fell from his mouth.
Chen Xiaopang took a look and shouted, “Sweet potatoes!”
“What’s this?” Tang Cao frowned as he looked at a couple of mud lumps hanging on a string of rhizome on the ground, “Sweet potatoes? Are you sure?”
Chen Xiaopang touched them a few times and confirmed, “These are the sweet potatoes, which are the same as those grown in my grandparents’ fields.”
“So Big Yellow went to find us something to eat.” Tang Cao patted the dog’s head, “Good job. When I go back, I will reward you with big sausages!”
Big Yellow happily turned two laps, and got down to stay still between the two.
“It must be very tired.” Chen Xiaopang touched Big Yellow, and then watched the few muddy sweet potatoes to worry, “The sweet potatoes can be eaten raw, but they are so dirty. How can we eat?”
Tang Cao thought about it, “Let’s go out and find out if there is water.”
“We are up in the mountain. How can we find water?” Chen Xiaopang thought it to be impossible.
Big Yellow that lay prone there suddenly stood up and barked, and then ran out again.
“Hurry up!” Tang Cao picked up the sweet potatoes on the ground, “We should follow it.”
It turned out that there was a ramshackle house not far from the cave. It should no longer be called a house, because there was only one side of the four walls left, which was actually only a half wall.
There were also a few broken stool legs and a jar which had been broken into pieces.
“This can be used to get water!” Chen Xiaopang offered a rare suggestion. He picked up the largest piece, which was as large as a washbasin.
Tang Cao held the sweet potatoes and said, “Well, now we only have to find water and we can eat.”
Led by Big Yellow, they climbed over another small hillside. There was a small puddle on the back of the hillside, and the water flowed down from the stone wall of the hill. The flow was not big. But over the years, a puddle whose size was of half a human being had also been formed.
“Wash the sweet potatoes! Wash the sweet potatoes!” Chen Xiaopang threw the sweet potatoes into it happily. Tang Cao washed more carefully than Chen Xiaopang did and washed them clean.
Having seen those sweet potatoes washed by Chen Xiaopang be like not being washed, Tang Cao took and washed them again.
“Okay, you hold the sweet potatoes, and I’ll carry the water.” Tang Cao used the broken jar piece to take water.
Chen Xiaopang glanced at it and said, “It’s so dirty that we can’t drink it, can we?”
“...What if the police won’t find us when it is dark and we are thirsty?” Tang Cao still carried the water back.
Of course, he didn’t want to drink it. He thought that even if they were slow, the police could find them before it was dark.
There were five big sweet potatoes. The two children chewed one per person and gave Big Yellow one.
The sweet potatoes tasted crisp and very sweet.
Chen Xiaopang had eaten it before, so he didn’t feel it delicious.
Tang Cao tasted it carefully, and felt that it was a bit like a pear when he chewed, but it didn’t taste as good as a pear, for it was less watery, and less sweet...
However, when he saw Chen Xiaopang chew it with relish, he felt it to get delicious.
“Oh!” Chen Xiaopang hiccupped, “My grandma said that this was not easy to digest, but it could make people feel full.”
Tang Cao rubbed his belly. Indeed, he was not hungry at all.
Two children and the dog sat idly in the cave. It was unknown when they all fell asleep. The temperature in October was not high, let alone in a cave like this. Soon the two children started shaking, but they were too tired and continued to sleep while shaking.
“Woo woo woo...” Big Yellow licked their faces a few times, and then lay prone on the two.
Dog’s hairy fur was a natural warming material. Chen Xiaopang and Tang Cao instinctively leaned towards the heat source. At last the two children hugged Big Yellow tightly. Big Yellow shook its tail and also closed its eyes.
The adults searched along the mountain road, and the police dog ran in front. The local fellow-villager had been paid a thousand yuan by Chen Qing, so he was particularly exerting to his utmost to guide the way.
“It stands to reason that children running along the road will definitely reach the side of the cliff, because the other side will also go up!” The fellow-villager said, “But... They ran really fast.”
Chen Qing had no time to care about the dirt on his body. He wiped his sweat and asked, “Are you sure this is the right path?”
“Oh, I’ve said that the other way is to climb over the mountain. Not to mention the two children, we will be unbearable to climb over it.”
The police also felt that there was something wrong. The police dog hadn’t responded after walking so long. These two kids couldn’t have run so quickly...
“We need to hurry up!” The fellow-villager suddenly said, “It’s going to rain.”
“Xiaopang! Xiaopang, wake up soon!” Chen Xiaopang was drooling and dreaming of eating a lobster but was woken up.
He drowsily called, “Mom, where is my lobster?”
“...Your lobster is in the sea.” Tang Cao pinched his face, “Don’t even think about eating. It’s raining outside!”
Chen Xiaopang looked at the heavy rain outside. The whole mountain forest became to be in a green mist, which looked like a fairyland, very beautiful.
“If it keeps raining so heavily, I don’t know when the police will find us.” Tang Cao said somewhat listlessly.
Chen Xiaopang turned his head and looked at him. The pretty kid who had appeared to be a graceful young childe in the school at ordinary times was very dirty all over, with sweet potato skin on his hair. He found that Tang Cao’s eyes were red, apparently about to cry.
“Don’t be afraid!” Chen Xiaopang wasn’t afraid instead at this moment, “You think! If the police can’t find us, the bad guys can’t find us, either!”
Tang Cao glanced at him, “If the police start looking for us, the bad guys must have been caught.”
“That will be better!” Chen Xiaopang was completely at ease, “We just regard it as camping and we shall wait for the adults to pick us up.”
Tang Cao thought about it and also thought so.
So the two children were inexplicably excited and felt that they could do whatever they wanted without any adult supervision. Of course, they had nothing to do...
“Let’s get to know each other!” Tang Cao said, “When we go back, we will be good brothers.”
After all, they had experienced life and death together, and the two children had recognized that they had already become brothers to each other.
“Let me say it first!” Tang Cao cleared his throat and said solemnly, “You must know my family, so I won’t say much. I will mainly introduce my sister to you. My sister is the first beauty of Yanjing, who is very beautiful! Super beautiful!”
Chen Xiaopang said, “I think that my sister is also pretty, but she is only five years old. When she grows up, she will compete with your sister then!”
“She must be inferior to my elder sister! None of the stars are as good-looking as my elder sister.”
“Really? Then how old is your elder sister?”
“My elder sister is 12!”
Chen Xiaopang thought that Tang Cao might have had some misunderstanding of the concept of beautiful women. What kind of beautiful woman could a 12-year-old girl count? Zhao Ying must be more beautiful.
“My elder sister is good-looking!”
“My younger sister is good-looking!”
“My sister and I both are good-looking!”
Chen Xiaopang thought, “I was defeated. How unhappy I was!”
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