Chapter 50: Mu Rufeng
After finally reaching the main road safely, Mu Yi’s left foot had already gone numb from the pain.
Her foot might even become permanently damaged...
The white-haired girl gasped for breath again and again. Her face was completely red, and sweat kept forming on her forehead.
She could feel her strength running out, but she still gritted her teeth and kept walking step by step. Her footsteps became heavier and heavier, and her body slowly started to sway unstably.
Honestly, being able to climb out of such a deep hole was already a miracle for her.
And still being able to walk this far was a miracle among miracles.
Mu Yi simply kept thinking that she had risked her life to save Gu Zhiren.
So Gu Zhiren and his family would definitely be very willing to repay her!
Yes, Gu Zhiren had also saved her life, but who said the two things could not be counted separately?
That way, maybe she could not only get her freedom back, but also receive a huge amount of money!
The kind she could never spend in her whole life.
Then she could finally just relax and enjoy life~
Losing one foot and suffering for a short time in exchange for a lazy and comfortable future…
That thought gave Mu Yi the motivation to keep moving forward.
She had heard stories about this before.
Some writers hit the lottery while writing novels and immediately quit writing.
Some writers got noticed by rich women, got married, and immediately quit writing.
Some writers got discovered by talent scouts while writing and entered the entertainment industry, then immediately quit writing.
And now it was finally Mu Yi’s turn to dramatically quit writing on the spot!
“Hey, Gu Zhiren, you absolutely have to stay alive. My happy future depends on you. If you uselessly die on me—”
She muttered softly, then coughed twice because her throat had become dry. She lightly licked her lips.
“Then from now on, I’ll steal all the food offerings from your grave!”
She did not know whether Gu Zhiren could hear her, but subconsciously she felt he could not.
Actually, she was not saying those words for Gu Zhiren to hear at all. She was saying them to herself.
Because if she did not keep talking like this, she did not know how many more steps she could continue walking.
Haa...
Mu Yi tilted her head and directly wiped the sweat from her forehead using Gu Zhiren’s sleeve. At the same time, she struggled to lift his legs higher on her back.
Hiss—
Gu Zhiren, you’re seriously so heavy! What the heck did you grow up eating, damn it?!
Mu Yi could not help cursing inside her heart.
She was so, so tired.
But luckily, she still had not run into those two men again.
Still, she might meet them at any moment, especially now that she was on the main road. And if that happened, in her current condition, she probably could only surrender helplessly.
Mu Yi was so exhausted that her brain could barely think anymore.
Just as her body began to sway, two bright headlights suddenly appeared ahead.
The harsh light pushed away the darkness before her and lit up the road.
But it also made Mu Yi frown painfully and narrow her eyes as she turned her head aside.
Who could it be?
An enemy?
Someone who could help them?
Or just another passerby who would drive away without stopping?
The headlights cut through the darkness as the car drove straight toward them. The sound of the engine entered Mu Yi’s ears like thunder striking calm water.
Her heartbeat instantly became wild.
Her instinct to survive suddenly exploded.
Her eyes widened immediately.
Her long pupils trembled slightly.
She could not afford to gamble.
Just as she was about to force herself to run away with all her strength, the terrifying thing she imagined did not happen.
The taxi did not drive past them.
Instead, it suddenly stopped. Following that, a strange yet slightly familiar deep male voice sounded out.
“Little girl, do you need help?”
Before Mu Yi could react, the taxi driver rolled down the window. The middle-aged man inside leaned his head out, and a face that felt deeply familiar entered her sight.
Her pupils shrank. She looked at him in disbelief and even forgot to breathe.
“Little girl?”
The middle-aged man sighed softly in his heart.
He had just dropped off a passenger and only planned to stop by the roadside for a short rest...
Who would have thought he would run into something like this.
The girl was covered in dirt, her clothes were torn, and she was carrying a tall grown man on her back. More importantly, the man seemed to have a head injury, with half his face covered in blood.
It looked far too strange. Maybe he should not get involved. What if he accidentally brought trouble onto himself?
What if it dragged his son into it too?
“……”
Many thoughts flashed through Mu Yi’s mind.
The man in front of her was her father, Mu Rufeng. There was no way she could mistake him.
Her father used to be an art teacher in the town. Later, after the town was developed into a tourist village, he moved elsewhere.
But her father clearly told her before that he used the money from the land development to start a small business and that life had been going pretty well.
So why was he driving a taxi now?
She wanted to ask, but after thinking for a moment, she gave up on the idea.
No matter what…
There was still a life on her back waiting to be saved!
“Mister, can you help us? My friend and I got into a car accident. He’s in a very dangerous condition right now, cough... cough cough!”
Mu Yi became anxious and suddenly coughed hard several times.
“I know you’re worried, little girl, but calm down first!”
As he spoke, Mu Rufeng quickly opened the car door and got out. He hurried over, took the unconscious man from her, skillfully opened the back door, helped place him inside the car, and then returned to the driver’s seat.
“When I came down earlier, I saw police searching the road ahead. It seemed there had been a car accident. Could it have been you two?”
Without wasting time, he quickly turned the steering wheel and drove toward the nearest hospital.
Hearing that, Mu Yi thought for a moment and clenched her pale fists.
“Yeah... probably.”
“It’s okay, little girl. Don’t worry. Your boyfriend will be fine. Uncle will take you both to the hospital right away!”
For some reason, Mu Rufeng strangely felt a sense of closeness toward the white-haired girl in the back seat.
How should he describe it?
It felt almost like seeing his own son.
Strange, right? She was clearly a girl...
Mu Rufeng glanced at the rearview mirror, only to see the girl suddenly lower her head and shake it as she denied it.
“No...”
Mu Yi almost blurted out the word “Dad.” She nervously pressed her lips together.
“He’s not my boyfriend, Mister. You misunderstood.”
“Really? Hahaha, then it seems Uncle got it wrong. Seeing how worried you were about that young man, I thought you two were a couple~”
Mu Rufeng joked lightly, mainly trying to ease the atmosphere inside the car.
The white-haired girl puffed up her cheeks, and her flushed face seemed to turn even redder. She tilted her head and glanced at the unconscious man beside her.
“No, it’s not like that. I’m not that worried about him. It’s just... if he dies, I’ll have a huge headache.”
As she said that, the girl blinked three times in a row and lightly bit her fingernail with her left hand.
“...Oh, so that’s how it is.”
Watching Mu Yi’s small movements, Mu Rufeng’s expression changed slightly, and he could not help thinking of someone.
Whenever his own son lied...
No, whenever his son lied to someone he cared about, he would make the same little gestures.
It really made him nostalgic.
“Yes, that’s exactly it.”
Mu Yi nodded firmly in reply.