Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 89 - 89 89 Disappearance

?Chapter 89: Chapter 89: Disappearance Chapter 89: Chapter 89: Disappearance “Dad! That’s it? We’re just letting Han Dazhi off the hook?” Li Chunmei ground her teeth in rage, hating the entire Han Family to the core for ruining her daughter’s life, making it difficult for Liu Hong to ever marry into a good family again.

Her child’s life was basically destroyed; no family would want to accept a woman with such a past.

Liu Baoguo was silent.

The suppressed sobs of Li Chunmei filled Liu Baoguo with suffocation; he had never felt so stifled in his life. His wife couldn’t even cry out loud, for fear of being overheard. They’d rather swallow their own teeth and blood than let outsiders know—this village was the lifelong home of both their families, where countless knotted family ties existed. If word of this disgraceful business got out, it wouldn’t just affect them; it would become something for which countless people would be gossiped about by the villagers.

He could not mention his own shame, but what about his siblings? They would have to endure the whispers and pointing fingers too.

“Are you just going to do nothing for your daughter?” Li Chunmei wished she could butcher Han Dazhi with a knife.

Liu Baoguo glanced at Liu Hong’s room, “Don’t say any more. The child is already distressed enough. Let’s get her to abort the baby in the next few days! Get her body back in shape first. I’ll deal with Han Dazhi slowly. We’ll take our time. A gentleman’s revenge is not too late even after ten years. As long as the Han family is in the village, I will one day make them kneel down and admit their wrong to us.”

Li Chunmei cried even harder at the thought of Liu Hong’s miseries.

That evening, Liu Hong was nowhere to be found. Li Chunmei panicked at the thought of what Bai Xiao had mentioned.

If Liu Hong really went to those small clinics, she might as well be throwing her life away.

Liu Baoguo and Li Chunmei called relatives and friends to start searching. Bai Xiao entered the village just as Li Chunmei, looking dejected with her sister, was returning. They had been searching for a whole day and still hadn’t found her. As the day was about to turn into night, where could Liu Hong go in just one day and one night?

“Aunt, what happened to you?” Bai Xiao couldn’t help asking, seeing Li Chunmei age a decade in just a few days, her wrinkles at the corners of her eyes impossible to hide, and her hair, which used to be well-cared-for, as Liu Baoguo was the village chief and they lived a better life than most. Li Chunmei’s hair, though belonging to someone in her forties or fifties, still looked glossy black. But what Bai Xiao saw now was Li Chunmei with gray hair mixed throughout, aged considerably.

Li Chunmei nearly burst into tears when she saw Bai Xiao, who had warned her in the beginning. Why hadn’t she been more careful? Tears poured down as she grasped Bai Xiao tightly, as if clutching a lifeline.

“Xiao, Liu Hong is missing! How am I supposed to live?”

Li Chunlan, standing beside her, supported her sister, fuming on the inside.

The daughter of a village chief shouldn’t be bullied to such an extent, “I’m telling you, if anything happens to Liu Hong, I will take those boys and make sure the Han family pays with their lives. Han Dazhi wants to enjoy the life of a worker, but does he think we’ll let him? Does he think the Liu and Li families are without people?”

Bai Xiao immediately understood; Liu Hong had taken the same path as in her previous life, but hadn’t she warned Li Chunmei?

“Aunt, don’t panic. Where did Liu Hong go? Have you found her yet?”

Li Chunmei shook her head, nearly fainting. If not for Bai Xiao’s quick reflexes to catch her, Li Chunmei would have fallen to the ground. After days of exhaustion, Li Chunmei finally could take no more.

“I didn’t know, yesterday the Han Family came causing trouble, wanting to marry Liu Hong without spending a penny. We had a big argument, and as a result, Liu Hong disappeared last night, and she still hasn’t been found. Xiao, your aunt is frightened something might have happened to her, and if something really did happen, your aunt wouldn’t want to live either.” Li Chunmei truly had lost the will to live; humans cannot withstand too many blows, and everyone knew how much she treasured her only daughter.

Bai Xiao looked at Li Chunmei, and together with Li Chunlan, they helped her back to the village chief’s house. Li Chunmei had collapsed onto the kang bed, and it was an illness she wouldn’t rise from.

The entire household was now in complete disarray.

Li Chunmei’s two sons had already received the news, but they couldn’t come back; they were in the military, where you can’t just take leave whenever you wish—it had to be approved.

After Liu Baoguo received the news, he hurried back. Seeing Li Chunmei lying on the kang with a wet towel on her forehead, delirious with fever and constantly calling out Liu Hong’s name, the grown man squatted in the courtyard and cried.

Bai Xiao sighed. A family can be broken and lives lost in the blink of an eye, from a single incident. No one could have foreseen the hardships that Liu Baoguo’s family would have to face in this lifetime. If he had known before that he couldn’t change any of this, maybe he shouldn’t have spoken at all.

Liu Hong must have gone to the small clinic by now. According to the timeline from his previous life, it seemed that Liu Hong was supposed to die tonight because the Liu Family was preparing for a funeral, which meant that tonight was the night of her death.

As long as he could find Liu Hong, there would still be a glimmer of hope. If she was with him, she wouldn’t die. She wouldn’t die from excessive bleeding as she had in his previous life, which would mean that Liu Baoguo’s family wouldn’t completely fall apart.

So there was still hope.

Bai Xiao racked his brain; in his previous life, he seemed to recall someone mentioning that Liu Hong had sought treatment from an unlicensed doctor at Shili Shop, who did private work at home.

Yes, Shili Shop!

There was a crooked neck tree in front of that house; people always said that such feng shui was not good.

Bai Xiao rushed out, grabbed Liu Baoguo’s arm, “Uncle, let’s go! If the tractor’s available, we’ll head to Shili Shop. When I was coming back, I heard people from the neighboring village say they saw Liu Hong heading towards Shili Shop. She should be there; we need to hurry.” This reasoning was actually not sufficient and didn’t stand up to scrutiny. Liu Hong had disappeared last night, and if anyone had seen her, it wouldn’t have taken until now to be noticed.

But it was the only excuse Bai Xiao could come up with.

However, clearly, Liu Baoguo wasn’t in a state to think about such things. Hearing Bai Xiao’s words, he quickly called out to Li Guoqing, “Youngest brother, find the tractor, we’re going to Shili Shop.”

Li Guoqing didn’t know what they were going to do but still immediately set out to find the village tractor driver. In less than two minutes, Liu Baoguo, Li Guoqing, Bai Xiao, and Liu Baoguo’s two brothers-in-law were all sitting in the vehicle, heading towards Shili Shop.

Night had fallen, and only the clattering noise of the tractor’s engine roared menacingly through the darkness. Everyone was silent, hearts heavy with unspeakable misery. The occasional jolts tossed people about, and Bai Xiao gripped the tractor’s handrail tightly, desperate and hoping to make it in time.

A parent burying their child could lead to the complete downfall of a family. Since she had already started this, she had to see it through to the end. Whether they called her kindhearted or a busybody, the situation had come to this, and of course, she had to rescue the person to the very end.