Chapter 874: Xun Hui is Missing (2)
Yang Ruxin spent a whole day preparing over a hundred jin of meat, turning them all into sausages. Looking at the full racks hanging under the eaves, she couldn’t help but smile. In her past life, aside from her talent in battle, her greatest skill had been making sausages—everyone who tasted them said the flavor was exceptionally good.
"How long will it take to eat all this?" Gu Qingheng also smiled, "Aren’t you afraid it will go bad?"
"This stuff, once dried, has a particularly long shelf life; it won’t spoil," Yang Ruxin glanced back at him, "You just need to steam it when you want to eat it, it’s especially convenient to carry..."
"Miss... Sanni..." just then, Xu Shou rushed in frantically, "Something terrible has happened."
"What’s wrong?" Yang Ruxin frowned.
"The madam still hasn’t come back," Xu Shou gasped, "I only found this..." he said, handing over a silver hairpin, the very one Xun Hui had worn on her head that day.
"What happened?" Yang Ruxin took the hairpin, her face suddenly turned grim.
"Just before..." Xu Shou hurriedly recounted the events, "The madam said she was going for a walk. I offered to follow, but she wouldn’t let me. I thought she wouldn’t go far, so I went to chop firewood in the back yard. But when I came out, the madam still hadn’t returned, so I went out to look for her. Then, at the base of the mountain, I saw this..."
Upon hearing this, Yang Ruxin turned and ran outside.
Gu Qingheng also realized the severity of the situation, but knowing he was not in a position to move freely at the moment, he didn’t immediately follow to avoid adding to the chaos. Instead, he instructed the Feng Family to take good care of the children and the house, then ordered Xu Shou to push him in pursuit of Yang Ruxin.
"My mother must have been led to the foot of the mountain by someone she knew," Yang Ruxin said her conclusion when she heard Gu Qingheng catching up, "She went into the mountains..."