If Tiantian were willing, she could still find a way to bring the person out, but since she wasn't willing, there was no forcing her.
However, it was a pity for this child to be in a patriarchal family; she didn't know what she would face next.
This was not the time to dwell on this matter. Only after leaving Gui family village would she have the extra energy and ability to manage it, otherwise, she wouldn't even be able to protect herself.
Just as she was thinking about this, Tiantian tugged at her sleeve with her hand, looking at Chen Lishu curiously and asking, "Step-mom, didn't you say you needed my help just now? Go ahead and tell me."
"I need to leave this place, but a man will come looking for me later. Can you tell him to send more people to search for me in the woods?" Chen Lishu looked at Tiantian with expectation, hoping not to miss Gu Xingdong.
Without her phone, she couldn't inform Gu Xingdong of her location in real-time. She could only relay through a message that she was still in the village and that he absolutely shouldn't give up and leave just because he couldn't find her.
Hearing this, Tiantian nodded, the corners of her mouth curving upwards slightly. She smiled and replied, "Of course, leave this to me!"
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Night soon fell, and after dinner, a group of people returned to their rooms.
Chen Lishu had to wear her mouth out to get the request for her own room granted.
The door was locked with several locks. Wang Yuhua said that the locks would only be opened when the two truly consummated their marriage and she conceived her great-grandson.
Chen Lishu lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling. She endured it until midnight. Just as she got up to pry open the door lock and leave, a commotion suddenly erupted outside the door.
Could it be that Xu Teng was not giving up and wanted to make a move on her in the middle of the night?
If that were the case, the situation would be dire. Regardless of whether she resisted or not, she would find it difficult to escape her fate on someone else's turf!
Chen Lishu gritted her teeth, propped herself up onto the wheelchair, and fixed her gaze on the direction of the door. If it really came to that, she might as well break the pot and smash it, going down with someone.
The door slowly creaked open. Chen Lishu gripped the wheels of the wheelchair, her eyes filled with determination.
However, when she saw who it was, her tense body completely relaxed.
"Tiantian?"
Seeing Chen Lishu's ashen face, Tiantian was also startled. Fortunately, she was quick-witted and covered her mouth with her hand, preventing any sound from escaping and attracting the attention of the people in the other two rooms.
She walked over to Chen Lishu and whispered into her ear, "Step-mom, I stole Grandma's key while she was sleeping and came to let you leave.
And these cucumbers were picked by me from the vegetable garden this afternoon. I don't know where you'll be going, but you'll need something to eat, so these are for you to eat on your journey."
"Good child, I'll come back to see you after I leave this place."
Given the current situation, she would have to return even if she didn't intend to. Tiantian letting her go privately would surely incur the blame of Xu Teng and his family. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that lives could be at stake. She would have to take the child with her.
Knowing the urgency, Tiantian didn't discuss it further with Chen Lishu but urged her on, "Step-mom, hurry and go! Great-Grandma doesn't sleep soundly and has the habit of getting up frequently. If she hears any noise from this direction, you won't be able to escape."
Chen Lishu didn't stand on ceremony. She nodded, then pushed the wheelchair towards the outside of the courtyard.
She had previously tricked Wang Yuhua into pushing her around outside, so she was still familiar with the surroundings. She knew that not far away there was a dense forest where she would surely not be found.
After she left, Tiantian didn't rush back to her room. She sat outside for a while before tiptoeing back into the house and lying down on the bed.
Before she could fall asleep, she heard Wang Yuhua get up to use the latrine.
The outhouse was outside, and Wang Yuhua had to pass by Chen Lishu's room to go to the latrine. When she saw the door wide open and the room empty, she couldn't help but swallow.
Thinking she was still half asleep and dreaming, she pinched her arm hard. The pain made her grimace. She truly realized this was not a dream; Chen Lishu had indeed escaped!
Upon realizing this, Wang Yuhua almost couldn't catch her breath and collapsed on the spot, "Teng'er, Teng'er!"
She weakly called out Xu Teng's name and scrambled to Xu Teng's room. Seeing Xu Teng sound asleep on the bed, she impatiently slapped him across the face, "What time is it, and you're still sleeping! Your wife is gone."
Wife? Xu Teng couldn't react immediately and just stared blankly at Wang Yuhua.
Wang Yuhua reminded him with frustration, "The wife I bought for you! She's gone!"
The woman who had hundreds of thousands in the city?
Thinking of this, Xu Teng suddenly sat up from the bed, "What? How did she escape when everything was fine! Didn't you lock her room?"
"When I got up to use the latrine, I saw the door wide open, and the lock seemed to have fallen off intact!" Wang Yuhua mumbled, then, as if she had thought of something, she slapped her thigh hard and cried out loudly, "The key was always with me. Someone stole my key and let her go!
Good! I guarded against everything, but I couldn't guard against someone in the family. I knew that brat was betraying us. I should have sold her earlier to subsidize the household expenses. Now, not only did I not get any money, but I also lost years of food expenses and a future granddaughter-in-law. I'm going to kill her!"
"Grandma, the most urgent thing now is to find her quickly. You know your own sleep quality. If there's the slightest movement beside you, it might wake you up. If that brat really did it, you wouldn't have been unaware. I think that wretched woman must have escaped using some special method!" Xu Teng said as he put on his clothes and headed out the door.
Wang Yuhua cried, "Then what should we do? The wedding is tomorrow, and I'll have a great-grandson within a year. Now that she's run away, what will happen to your lifelong marriage? Our family doesn't have the extra money to find another woman for you."
"I'll notify the villagers now to help look for her. That wretched woman's legs are injured, so she can't have run far. When we find her, I will execute that wretched woman on the spot. I will absolutely not give her a chance to breathe!" As he spoke, a fierce look flashed in Xu Teng's eyes.