Zhen Yu’s hands and arms were injured, and the lunch was prepared under her command with the cooperation of Han Mingyue and Zhen Yan.
Fu Yu and Bai Xue’s siblings ran away in a hurry when they heard that Zhen Yu was not cooking.
At this moment, the four of them sat around a table eating noodles with fried sauce.
Actually, the egg sauce fried by Han Mingyue wasn’t bad at all, and the noodles that Zhen Yan scooped out of the pot as per his sister’s instructions were cooked just right.
Hmm~ Maybe I can slowly train their cooking skills, so someone can take over my duties in the future.
Zhen Yu thought while eating.
After the meal, the Zhen siblings saw the Han brothers out.
It was the weekend today, and if it wasn’t for Zhen Yu’s inconvenience, the brothers should have gone home for the meal.
It was Han Mingyue who took the initiative to stay, wanting to help cook lunch, which turned out to be just as simple as frying some sauce.
As the four of them just stepped out of the house, they heard a commotion from the neighboring yard.
"Aunt! Please think of something!" Bai Xue’s crying voice passed over the wall into everyone’s ears.
"What can I do!" A thumping sound followed, the voice of Mrs. Fu sounded extremely anxious, "Your uncle and your granddad just happen to not be home, this this this!..."
Zhen Yu quickly jumped onto the stool by the wall, poked her head over, and loudly asked, "What happened?"
Bai Xue, with tear-stained face, looked up and ran to the wall, shouting, "My brother was taken away by the candied hawthorn seller!!!"
Zhen Yu swiftly jumped down, grabbed her brother, and ran, throwing a sentence to the Han brothers, "We’ll chase eastward! You two check the west."
The pairs sprinted off.
To the east was the route to the school, while to the west lay the direction of the train station, leading to the town center.
The reason why they had the Han brothers check was just in case.
But Zhen Yu guessed that the man would most likely not head towards the town center since the people there seemed to have a natural sense of superiority and almost never came to sell things on the east side of the train station.
This candied hawthorn seller probably lived around Siying School, which is why he would still go out to make money on such a snowy day.
Fortunately, it had snowed again last night. The snow from the previous day was compacted and covered with a new layer. Not only was it particularly hard to pedal a bicycle, but the ruts in the snow were also clearer.
Zhen Yu and Zhen Yan chased to Fangshan, then split at a T-junction, one heading south and the other north.
After running further, Zhen Yu, from a distance, spotted the black bicycle ahead with a straw pole tied to the back seat, and several unsold candied hawthorns hanging from the straw.
She couldn’t care less about her burning lungs, gathering her strength and chased after it.
It didn’t seem far, but Zhen Yu had to chase seriously for several minutes.
Until the man came down from the bicycle, pushing it and trying to turn into a small alley, Zhen Yu, with sharp eyes, spotted Xiao Baiyong sitting on the bicycle’s front bar.
Still in the same cotton-padded coat as this morning! Zhen Yu burst forth with all her might, charging directly from an angle.
Startled, the man picked up Bai Yong with one hand and fiercely pushed the bicycle towards Zhen Yu with the other, then started running.
Zhen Yu was so angry she cursed in her heart, still running! Grandma’s lungs are about to burst!
She dodged the charging bicycle, and while lowering her head, she glimpsed what seemed to be a bag in the basket.
Zhen Yu bent down to grab it; it was quite heavy. She felt it a couple of times, and it seemed to be apples?
She tore it open, and it turned out to be pears!
She pulled out one and started throwing them continuously, three in a row, missing each time.
Discouraged, Zhen Yu lifted her leg and chased again, ignoring the bag, keeping it in her hand all the while.
The man had already run about twenty to thirty meters ahead, Zhen Yu had just taken a few steps when he suddenly slipped, falling backward onto the ground with a solid thud.
Though it wasn’t a time to laugh, Zhen Yu couldn’t help but let out a snort.
The sound of the man’s back of the head hitting the ground was especially loud, making Zhen Yu wonder if he might have knocked himself out.
Bai Yong was thrown and ended up sitting on the man’s stomach, bursting into tears after being frightened.
Seeing the man push him to the snowy ground from his body, Zhen Yu quickly got up and tried to pick him up again.
But Bai Yong was gripping half a stick of candied haw and twisting left and right, stubbornly refusing to let him hold him again.
Zhen Yu hurried a few steps and reached the two, and when Bai Yong looked up and saw Zhen Yu, he immediately started crying for help pitifully: "Sister Xiaoyu~~~~"
The man tightly clutched Bai Yong’s wrist, preventing him from getting close to Zhen Yu, and glared at the little girl with a vicious look.
"Let him go!" the little girl said coldly.
"Mind your own business! Otherwise, I’ll catch you too!" the man viciously threatened.
Hah! Want to catch me? See if you’ve got what it takes!
Thinking this, Zhen Yu kicked after lifting her foot.
Gasping for air and kicking at the same time.
While kicking, she kept blurting out modern internet slang.
"Scumbag! Why don’t you ascend to heaven then?"
"Does your mom know you’re trafficking people?"
"Go have some tea, you!"
The man, perplexed, could see that the girl had run herself out of strength.
While holding the little boy, the man dodged easily, handling the situation with ease.
If it hadn’t been for his concerns that the little girl starts shouting and causing him trouble, he would have grabbed the boy and run away by now.
Compared with the girl, of course, the little boy could fetch a higher price, so he needed to hold onto him.
But the little girl who walked right up to him was so pretty, he didn’t want to let her go either.
The man’s gaze on Zhen Yu flickered non-stop, pondering how to knock this girl out and hide her, planning to handle the boy first and then come back for her.
Zhen Yu kicked a few times without hitting anyone, her anger growing more intense.
At that moment, the man’s gaze shifted, and she immediately sensed that he was up to no good.
The girl slowly straightened her slightly panting body, adjusting her breath and stance.
The man seemed to instinctively sense danger, though he couldn’t comprehend where this feeling of danger was coming from.
Strike first to gain the upper hand! The man let go of Xiao Bai Yong and reached out to grab Zhen Yu.
Zhen Yu gathered her strength, lifted her leg, and delivered a fierce spinning kick in place, knocking the man to the ground as fast as lightning.
Then, swinging a sack still filled with a few pears, she pounced on him, swinging it hard at the man’s face.
While smashing, she fiercely said: "Catch me, huh!"
The man, just having fallen and still dazed, was caught unprepared and Zhen Yu hit him right on the nose, causing blood to spurt immediately.
The man wiped it with his hand and then immediately covered his head with his hands to dodge.
"Dodge? Try dodging!" Zhen Yu said through gritted teeth.
This scumbag not only trafficks children but also wants to traffic women! Maybe he has done it before!
Thinking of the news reports about trafficked girls in her previous life, none had a good ending!
And thinking about why she had painstakingly learned female self-defense in her previous life, Zhen Yu was completely overwhelmed.
The violent emotions suddenly surged within her, truly beating the man ruthlessly!
After a few severe hits, the man very untimely started begging for mercy, but Zhen Yu seemed like she didn’t hear him.
She kept swinging her arms mechanically.