Chapter 169 - 139: Going Home_1
Qian Yixiu, leading a monkey and a wolf, had barely left the large burial mound when she ran into Qian Manchuan, who was leading a group of people out of Xijing Mountain, preparing to search the vicinity of the large burial mound.
The group stared in astonishment at the one person, one monkey, and one wolf approaching from the direction of the large burial mound. The person was riding on the back of the wolf, whose eyes gleamed green and threatening. Under the brilliant starry night, the blood on their bodies was distinctly visible. People began to grasp their knives and sticks, ready to attack the wolf, when the White Wolf let out a long howl and prepared for battle.
Qian Yixiu immediately shouted, "Don’t hit the White Wolf, it’s the one who saved Xiu’er." Then she dismounted from the wolf and walked towards Qian Manchuan.
Qian Manchuan, bursting with emotion, shouted, "My goodness, it really is Xiu’er! Xiu’er, where did you run off to? You nearly drove everyone at home to their wit’s end. Are you hurt? Where are you injured?" He then dropped the axe in his hand and ran over to pick up Qian Yixiu.
When Qian Yixiu saw so many people on the mountain peak, she had already thought of an excuse.
Choking back tears, she answered, "I wanted to follow Monkey Brother further into the mountain to look for valuable flowers, but I didn’t find any flowers and got lost. Then the White Wolf found us, and it even helped us drive away wild boars and snakes, and led us back. I’m not injured; this blood is from the wild boar and the snakes." After speaking, she began to cry loudly, evidently terrified.
Hearing Qian Yixiu’s words, Qian Manchuan became enraged and roared, "You naughty child, how could you just run off into the deep mountains like that? Do you have any idea how worried your family was?" He really wanted to spank her soundly, yet he remembered she wasn’t his own daughter Qian Yiduo, so he held back.
Someone said, "Wasn’t there a rumor that Wan Dazhong, angered by the child’s scolding and bearing grudges, strangled her to death and threw her body into the back mountain?"
Another added, "So, it turned out she ran into the mountains by herself, she wasn’t killed by Wan Dazhong. Then who started that rumor?"
"Oh, if this child had died in the mountains and had an accident, Brother Da Zhong would’ve been wronged."
"Poor Wan Dazhong, beaten black and blue by Lady Wu and her daughter, he dared not fight back."
"Exactly, I heard that Wan Dazhong has already fled into the back mountains looking for people, and some say he’s fleeing from his crimes."