I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 63 - Actions Faster Than the Brain

Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Actions Faster Than the Brain

Chapter 63 -63: Actions Faster Than the Brain

Qiao Qingyu rode forward in a daze for a while, but then she suddenly jumped off her bike, turned around, and looked back at the horse-drawn cart that was getting further and further away.

The cart was driven by a man in his forties; on the cart there was an elderly woman, and beside the old woman lay a blue quilt.

Could it be that her eyes were playing tricks on her?

She had only glanced at it briefly, but she thought she saw a pair of small red leather shoes under the blue quilt.

Qiao Qingyu had a good memory. She had seen those small red leather shoes on He Xuerong’s feet, as she had helped her put them on.

And at that moment, the horse-drawn cart was reduced to almost a shadow, and even though it was against the wind, the man driving the cart seemed to be incessantly cracking his whip.

Qiao Qingyu’s face turned pale, the color fluctuating uncertainly.

She tried hard to clear her thoughts.

There was a child under the quilt wearing red leather shoes. Could it be He Xuerong?

But that shouldn’t be the case; at this time, He Xuerong should be in He Xiuyu’s office; He Xiuyu took great care of her, always keeping her by his side.

Especially since that was a base, with strict security.

Suddenly, Qiao Qingyu’s eyes narrowed; no, it wasn’t just a pair of small red leather shoes, there seemed to be a pair of little sneakers as well.

There were two children inside the quilt.

Her first instinct was to think, could the child wearing sneakers be Xiao Hu?

Qiao Qingyu glared fiercely at the cart that was nearly a dot in the distance, suddenly let out several loud yells, “Xiao Hu, he should be in the family courtyard. He Xuerong should be in He Xiuyu’s office.”

How could they possibly be on the same cart?

But the next second, action overtook thought, Qiao Qingyu couldn’t care less, picked up her bike, and pedaled hard to chase in the direction the cart had gone.

Without a mobile phone, without a telephone, she didn’t even have the time to verify her slight suspicion.

Yellow Sand Road was not the only route; there were several side roads around, and if she didn’t catch up to that cart quickly to see for herself, by the time it disappeared into the vast desert, she would not be able to find it.

Qiao Qingyu faced the wind, gasping for air, “What is with this horrible weather? The wind’s getting stronger,” she felt as if she could be swept away by the wind at any moment.

She gave it her all, her primal strength.

Fortunately, the quality of the bicycle was excellent, so after a few minutes of riding, she saw the shadow of the cart.

The cart did not head towards Xiaxi Commune. The Commune was straight ahead, but there was a fork halfway, and the cart had taken the right side path. She had no idea where the end of that path led.

But the two pairs of children’s shoes she occasionally glimpsed kept dancing before her eyes. If the two children really were Xiao Hu and Rongrong, that would prove that the two were kidnappers, detested traffickers.

At this moment, Qiao Qingyu was completely devoid of prudence and weighing the pros and cons; she had only one thought: to chase them down and see if it really was those two children.

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If it wasn’t them, then no big deal, she would just apologize or compensate with some money if necessary.

Now that she suspected something, how could she possibly return to the family courtyard as if nothing had happened without seeing it with her own eyes?

As for what she might encounter next, Qiao Qingyu simply had no time to consider it at the moment.

Meanwhile, the old woman sitting in the cart straightened the quilt downwards, covering the two pairs of shoes and with slightly cloudy eyes, she swiveled around and reached out to tap her son who sat on the shaft, “Son, take a quick look behind, is there someone chasing us?”

Startled, the man driving the cart quickly turned to look back, then squinted his eyes; it seemed to be a woman.

He had a sudden realization, “Mother, it’s that pretty girl who passed us riding a bike earlier…”

The old lady wrinkled her brows and glanced again at the quilt on the carriage, tugging at the man driving it, “Hurry up with your driving, but also don’t be afraid, just take her along and tie her up, we’ll sell her off and make a tidy sum of several hundred.”

“Mom, we better be careful, we don’t want any slip-ups.”

“What’s there to fear? Old Mountain Eagle said, the deeper the waters of the base, the better to muddle them,” the old lady said ominously.

The man driving the carriage’s eyes flashed, and then he retracted the whip, deliberately slowing the speed of the carriage.

Suddenly, the old lady yelped, “Son, look again, how come that person suddenly disappeared? Could it be that my eyes are deceiving me?”

The man driving the carriage turned his head to look again, behind them was Yellow Sand as far as the eye could see, the wind was so strong it left no room to breathe, but still not even a ghost’s shadow was in sight.

The mother and son exchanged glances. Perhaps they had really seen a mirage? Oh no, let’s not dwell on it any longer, hurry up with the driving; this is like seeing a ghost.

By this time, a small village had appeared up ahead, with only Yellow Sand Road and no other fork in the road. The man driving the carriage cracked his whip, and the carriage sped up.

And the old lady sat on one corner of the quilt.

At that moment, both kids were unconscious.

They had waited several days already, having thought it would take a month or two to succeed, yet who’d have expected it to happen so quickly.

A smug smile spread across Elder Gai’s face.

The mission had been accomplished well; Old Mountain Eagle would surely reward her.

Qiao Qingyu had just come out from the laboratory space. The reason she hadn’t seen anyone was that she had noticed there was only one road ahead, and the carriage hadn’t turned in any other direction. Far in the distance, she could see the outline of a village, so Qiao Qingyu had to make some preparations for herself.

She knew nothing about the situation and couldn’t contact anyone, so she could only run forward with sheer courage and intuition. But she had to ensure her own safety as a prerequisite.

The laboratory space could hold a few things.

There was only one kitchen knife at home, which Qiao Qingyu couldn’t possibly place in the laboratory space. Beside the wooden box, there was an elm wood stick about a meter long and as thick as her wrist.

When she took it in, it was to test what this space could and couldn’t hold.

Next to the wooden box were two packs of matches.

These too could be taken in.

Qiao Qingyu held the wooden stick in her hand; she casually put the matches into her shoulder bag and left the laboratory.

She had placed her bicycle in the ditch on the side of the road just a moment ago, and now the carriage was nowhere to be seen.

Qiao Qingyu crouched in the ditch, thinking hard for a minute.

In the end, she resigned herself to placing the stick on the rear seat of the bicycle, and then she rode the bicycle towards the village where the carriage had gone, pedaling with all her might.

She had already ridden for nearly half an hour.

Her legs were both sore and aching.

If she took another half-hour to ride to the place she’d been before and then needed another ten minutes to get to He family’s compound or Xiaxi Commune, it would be almost fifty minutes altogether.

Fifty minutes! Who knows what could happen in that time?

Now it was such a long distance, she wouldn’t even know where to start looking once she entered the village.

Meanwhile, He Xiuyu’s face was ashen.

Rongrong was napping, so he had gone to the laboratory because he was analyzing some data. He was going to be stationed permanently at the experimental base soon, so he needed to complete these calculations as quickly as possible.