nycdaug Chapter 983 Midnight Tracking
Chapter 983 Midnight Tracking
Yu Ziheng took a deep breath, composed himself, and then turned to the butler, instructing him, "Take Mother and Sister to rest first, and make sure they are safe."
The butler left in response, while Yu Ziheng walked towards Xiao Tian and Jiang Jiyun.
He stood in front of the two men, looking at their equally serious faces, one big and one small.
For a moment, the atmosphere was so heavy that it felt suffocating.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Tian was suddenly pinched by Jiang Jiyun, and then hesitantly asked, "Mr. Yu, what exactly is in your house that those Japanese devils are targeting?"
When Yu Ziheng heard that it was the Japanese soldiers staring at them, his eyes widened in surprise.
He asked in astonishment, "Are the Japanese really following us?"
This news was like a bolt from the blue for him, completely unexpected.
Jiang Jiyun quickly took out a small notebook, handed it to Yu Ziheng, and explained, "Brother Tian is right, this was found on the person who was following you."
Yu Ziheng quickly took the notebook and, using the car headlights, carefully looked at it.
After a long while, he slowly raised his head, muttering to himself in confusion, "My father took my eldest brother and the others to Suzhou. Logically speaking, if those Japanese soldiers wanted to find them, they should have gone to Suzhou to look for them. But why are they targeting us, the unfavored second wife?"
Jiang Jiyun stared intently at every subtle expression on the man's face, not even missing a change in his eyes, trying to discern from these details whether he was lying.
However, despite her focus, she still couldn't be sure whether what her cousin said was true or false.
Just then, Yu Ziheng suddenly spoke up: "The night before my father left Suzhou, he was actually with my mother. I'll go ask her now and see if she knows anything about it."
After Yu Ziheng finished speaking, he grabbed the Japanese soldier's identification document and ran quickly into the house.
Jiang Jiyun sighed helplessly, then turned his head and looked in the direction where his elder brother and the others were.
Looking into the distance, that direction was completely dark, with no flashes of light, which meant that the eldest brother and his men had probably not yet engaged the enemy.
Just as Jiang Jiyun breathed a sigh of relief, Yu Nian packed her things and ran out of the house, standing at the door and shouting, "Xiaoyun, come back and sleep with your sister!"
Jiang Jiyun turned around and saw Yu Nian standing at the door, waving to her with a smile.
"Brother Xiaotian, I'll go in first then." Jiang Jiyun greeted Xiaotian.
Xiao Tian smiled and nodded, patted Jiang Jiyun on the shoulder, and instructed, "Okay, you go in with her. Remember to take out your phone, in case your brother and the others need to contact for backup, we can be ready to provide assistance at any time."
Jiang Jiyun whispered "I know" and ran off.
Yu Nian was initially overjoyed to hold her younger sister as she fell asleep, but not long after Jiang Jiyun fell asleep, she began to be subjected to various "attacks".
Her younger sister would kick her one minute, slap her the next, and then suddenly yell at her, scaring Yu Nian so much that she couldn't sleep at all.
Yu Nian felt very wronged by her younger sister's antics, but she didn't want to wake her up, since her sister was still young and didn't understand.
Left with no other choice, Yu Nian had to hug her pillow and tiptoe to her mother's place to sleep.
Jiang Wenli, still half-asleep, saw her daughter approaching with a distressed expression and quickly asked with concern, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Yu Nian climbed into bed and lay down next to her mother, tears welling up in her eyes. She mumbled, "Mom, my cousin is so wild when she sleeps. She keeps hitting me, and my face is all red from her blows."
Jiang Wenli touched Yu Nian's face tenderly and comforted her, "Alright, don't cry. Your little sister is still young and doesn't understand. Just be more tolerant of her."
Although Yu Nian was still feeling a little uncomfortable, her emotions gradually calmed down with her mother's comfort, and she soon fell asleep.
Seeing that her daughter was asleep, Jiang Wenli shook her head helplessly. Her younger brother, Jiang Wenshan, was the same way when he slept; he was restless and even talked in his sleep.
She just didn't expect that her brother's daughter would be just like him, sleeping like she was in a war.
Around 3 a.m., Jiang Jiyun suddenly felt a bit bloated in her lower abdomen, so she got up to go to the toilet.
When she came out of the outhouse, she found that she was alone in bed. Yu Nian had gone to sleep in another room at some point.
Jiang Jiyun was a little annoyed. She pouted and turned to leave the room.
Just as she came out of the outhouse, she suddenly saw a figure flash past outside the fenced yard.
Why would anyone be walking around outside in the middle of the night?
Jiang Jiyun was instantly wide awake, her curiosity piqued.
So she secretly sent a message to Xiaotian, then easily climbed over the low fence and ran after the figure.
Jiang Jiyun stood at a distance, watching the man. He saw that the man skillfully avoided the patrol team, indicating that he knew the village's routes and patrol patterns like the back of his hand.
This made Jiang Jiyun's heart sink, and she immediately realized that there might be a traitor in the village.
Jiang Jiyun followed the person cautiously, keeping a certain distance to avoid being discovered.
When she discovered that the person was heading east, she left some marks along the way for Xiaotian so that he could find her easily.
Not long after, Jiang Jiyun saw the man sneak into a thatched hut at the very edge of the neighboring village.
She stopped and hid behind a large tree, observing quietly.
A few minutes later, the man came out of the thatched hut. Instead of going in another direction, he returned the way he came.
Jiang Jiyun hesitated for a moment, unsure whether she should continue following them.
Just then, the door of the thatched house opened again, and a dark figure that looked like a woman walked out.
Jiang Jiyun's curiosity was piqued, and she decided to temporarily abandon tracking that person and instead track this woman.
She quickly signaled to Xiaotian that the person had gone back and that he should be careful to avoid him on the road.
Without hesitation, Jiang Jiyun chased after the woman in the direction she had left. She ran for a long time until her legs were exhausted before she finally caught up with the woman.
Jiang Jiyun followed closely behind that person, her steps hurried, turning left and right.
A sense of unease gradually rose in her heart, because she had completely lost her sense of her surroundings and did not know where she was.
The sky was overcast, with no stars or moon to guide her, and the surrounding darkness made her sense of direction even more blurred.
She could only rely on the woman's frail figure to grope her way forward step by step.
Time passed by unnoticed, and finally, as dawn broke, Jiang Jiyun saw the woman walk to the outside of a large house.
The house was hidden deep in the mountains, surrounded by dense forests. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would hardly have believed that there would be such a large-scale building in this remote place.