Chapter 64: Widow Wang Arrested! Chu Feng and the Other Two Head Up the Mountain for Rescue

"What is going on in the middle of the night?"

Zhou Xiaoxiao hurried to open the door and took a look.

Chu Feng also stood up and walked outside.

Du Dahai's voice was very loud, and the sound of gongs and drums was extremely piercing.

Usually, Du Dahai would only beat the gongs and drums like this when something major happened in the village.

"What's wrong, Village Chief?" Chu Feng asked.

"It's bad! Widow Wang has been abducted!"

Du Dahai shouted loudly.

"Abducted? Who abducted her?" Chu Feng asked anxiously.

"Guo Wen, the one who set the fire in the town yesterday!"

Wasn't I the one who set the fire?

Chu Feng scratched his head awkwardly and immediately walked with Zhou Xiaoxiao toward the center of the village.

Most of the villagers had already gathered in the center of the village.

Huzi was there, weeping bitterly.

Ever since Chu Feng went up the mountain and found the medicinal herbs, Huzi's injuries had begun to improve.

Over the past few days, he had barely been able to get out of bed.

Widow Wang finally stopped tending to him personally.

Never had they expected that when she got up in the middle of the night to use the outhouse,

she would suddenly vanish, leaving behind only a scream.

Huzi rushed out in a panic and saw two men dragging his mother away.

One of them had his face exposed.

Huzi had seen Guo Wen in town, so he recognized him at a glance.

Left with no choice, Huzi rushed frantically to find the village chief.

Upon hearing the news, the village chief immediately started beating the gongs and drums.

"Hurry, we must rescue Widow Wang!"

After saying that, the village chief looked at Chu Feng.

Chu Feng frowned.

During the day, Liao Ziyang had asked him to capture this fellow, and now the man had delivered himself right to their doorstep in the middle of the night.

"When did this happen? How long ago?"

Chu Feng asked urgently.

Huzi knew that the only person who could help him was Chu Feng.

So he blurted out anxiously, "Not long ago, just now. I couldn't catch up to them. Brother Feng, help me, help me bring my mother back. She is the only family I have left."

With that, Huzi dropped directly to his knees in front of Chu Feng.

Widow Wang had helped Zhou Xiaoxiao quite a bit in the village.

Now that she was in trouble, Chu Feng certainly wouldn't stand by and let anything happen to her.

"Don't worry, Huzi, I will definitely bring your mother back!"

Chu Feng glanced at his two most loyal followers.

Wang Wei and Sun Can both nodded.

Then, they quickly dispersed.

As soon as they arrived home, Zhou Xiaoxiao stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Trouble. Widow Wang has been carried off."

"Ah? In the dead of night, how could she possibly be carried off?"

"The second son of the Taoyuan Village chief—the one whose older brother I killed."

Zhou Xiaoxiao instantly grew worried, afraid that this was targeted at Chu Feng.

Just like Guo Wu, Guo Wen relied on the fact that his father was the village chief of Taoyuan Village.

Over the years in the village, he had acted like a tyrant for who knows how long.

In the end, it completely unleashed their vicious and lawless nature.

Killing people, abducting people!

What incredible audacity.

If he killed people in the town, robbed people in the town, or even abducted people in the town,

Chu Feng wouldn't care all that much.

But anyone who dared to touch the people of Yulong Village should not blame Chu Feng for interfering.

Come to think of it, Widow Wang was thirty-two years old this year.

She was a native of Yulong Village herself.

Her late husband was also from the same village.

After he passed away, because of her son, Widow Wang

had never remarried.

Over the years, she had raised her son alone, making a living through silkworm raising and weaving.

Her figure and complexion had been exceptionally well-maintained.

No wonder Guo Wen had set his sights on her while fleeing.

He prepared a bow and arrows, a matchlock firearm, and an axe.

If he remembered correctly, Liao Ziyang and Liu Xi had mentioned that

this fellow Guo Wen possessed a matchlock firearm!

This time going up the mountain, he didn't prepare a bamboo basket.

Because there was no need for it.

When Chu Feng appeared outside, Wang Wei and Sun Can were already waiting for him there.

"Brother Feng, I think we can form a Yulong Mountain Patrol Squad."

Wang Wei seemed rather excited and made the suggestion.

"You aren't paying them, are you? Hurry up and get up the mountain. Maybe we can still find them," Chu Feng retorted irritably.

"Huzi, get back here!" Du Dahai's voice rang out.

Wang Hu also appeared in front of Chu Feng.

He could barely walk.

Yet he was still clutching a firewood chopper, determined to join them.

"Huzi, get back inside right now!"

As a fellow clansman of Wang Hu, Wang Wei stepped forward and pushed him back with a shove.

Du Dahai stepped up to hold Wang Hu back.

"Brother Feng, let me go with you guys. You know I'm great on the mountain!"

"I know you're great, but Huzi, have you ever thought about the fact that you're still recovering from injuries? If we run into those bandits, should we save you or your mother?"

"Save my mother!"

"Then what about you?"

"Never mind me!"

Chu Feng slapped him directly across the face.

Faced with such an irrational adolescent, sometimes a slap in the face was the most efficient method.

"Are you putting us in an unrighteous and heartless position, damn it? You tell us to save your mother, but your mother would definitely tell us to save you. What are we supposed to do then? There are only three of us; we can't split our focus! Stop causing trouble, and we will only have to focus on saving your mother—don't you understand that? What else can you do besides cause trouble if you follow us? Get back inside!"

After scolding the young man twice, Chu Feng stated bluntly, "Let's move!"

Originally, Du Dahai and Du Cheng also wanted to come and help.

However, Chu Feng did not want a fourth person to know about his matchlock firearm and the animal skin scroll.

The more people who knew, the greater the risk they faced.

Besides, the three of them were more than enough to deal with a fellow like Guo Wen.

Tracking someone in the deep of night was a fairly difficult task, even for Chu Feng.

They had only the simplest torches in their hands.

Other than that, there was no other source of illumination.

They had not gone far yet.

Zhou Xiaoxiao suddenly walked over to Chu Feng leading a dog.

"Husband, take Benben with you."

Zhou Xiaoxiao was panting heavily in the dark, her face obscured by the night.

Yet the worry in her eyes was crystal clear.

Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't want Chu Feng to go.

But she knew that at this moment, Chu Feng had to go.

"All right!"

Thus, the three men and one dog officially set off.

Yulong Mountain was pristine—so pristine that footprints could be spotted immediately.

Moreover, the people of Yulong Village never went up the mountain.

The three of them hadn't come up the mountain for a long time either.

Therefore, a fresh trail of footprints was instantly discovered by the three men.

"Brother Feng, these guys don't look very smart. Running like this—aren't they just blatantly telling us which way they went?"

"Yeah. But with snow this deep, there's no way for them to cover their tracks."

"Looks like there are quite a lot of them."

Wang Wei counted the footprints on the ground; there were a full six sets.

Yet there were only three of them, so actually dealing with them might prove rather difficult.

Sun Can sneered, "You big fool, there are five people. Don't forget they abducted Widow Wang. You can't carry a full-grown person the whole way; they definitely made her walk on the ground at some point. There's a footprint here—one of them belongs to Widow Wang. Widow Wang isn't one of them, so she doesn't count."

"To be precise, there are three of them," Chu Feng added.

"Huh?"

The two of them looked at Chu Feng in surprise.

Chu Feng explained, "Three of the footprints here are very steady, slightly larger in size, and belong to men. This indicates that when they were walking, their direction was very clear. But the other three sets of footprints are smaller and erratic, their directions shifting from time to time, even occasionally turning backward. This indicates that these people were abducted."

"Brother Feng is amazing, you can even tell that." After hearing Chu Feng's analysis, Sun Can immediately gave a thumbs up while simultaneously letting out a sigh of relief.

Dealing with five people would be a bit difficult, but dealing with three would be much simpler.

"I learned this from Liao Ziyang and the others. That fellow Guo Wen took the blame for us regarding the arson, and he also committed murder and abducted women. I reckon two of these women must have been abducted by them from the town. In any case, we need to catch up to them quickly and rescue these people."

The pace of the three men quickened, but after walking only a short distance, all three of them abruptly stopped.

Right in front of them, a human figure suddenly drifted before the three men.

Wang Wei and Sun Can tumbled straight to the ground on their backs, startled out of their wits.