After my stepmother was shot, I took my brothers to the countryside

Chapter 55: Eyelid twitching, bad things are coming

"I'm not a fool. We've been with her for two days. How many more days do you want to follow her?"

Tie Sheng frowned and yawned as he looked at Shen Nian who was picking up firewood not far ahead, muttering to himself.

Er Laizi scratched his head and said helplessly, "Tie Sheng, can you be a little patient? We have to find out Shen Nian's whereabouts clearly."

Tie Sheng sighed and complained dissatisfiedly, "This is really too much trouble. She's just an educated youth, and we're two grown men. We can just go for it."

Er Laizi glanced at Shen Nian who was picking up firewood in the distance and spoke slowly.

"Don't underestimate this young woman. Have you forgotten what the team members said? She once killed a wild boar!"

The last time Shen Nian killed a wild boar, Er Laizi ran out to fool around and it took several days for him to come back.

I just heard from the team that a few days ago a new female educated youth in the team killed a wild boar, and the team also had a big pot meal.

Although he saw the wild boar meat pickled with salt by his mother and hung on the beams of the house when he returned home, he still didn't believe it. He preferred to believe that the wild boar was caught by the men in the team together.

Unfortunately, Tie Sheng had also gone out with Er Laizi last time, and he didn't believe that Shen Nian, a female educated youth, could kill a wild boar.

"Don't you believe she killed the wild boar? There's nothing for us two to be afraid of!"

Tie Sheng complained dissatisfiedly that they had been following Shen Zhiqing for two days. Every morning she either went up the mountain to collect firewood or stayed at home in the afternoon.

This man went out to collect firewood earlier than others. He and Er Laizi were unable to get up, and by the time they got up, others had already come down the mountain.

The reason they were able to catch up today was because they stayed up all night last night and were able to follow them into the mountains.

It was really a bit suffocating for two grown men like them to follow a female educated youth all day long.

Er Laizi glared at Tie Sheng and warned him, "Keep your voice down, don't let her find out. If she finds out, all our efforts will be wasted."

Tiesheng yawned again and curled his lips in dissatisfaction, but still lowered his voice.

"I don't believe that a young woman like her could find us. Besides, even if she did, what would it matter? Why would two men like us be afraid of a woman like her?"

Er Laizi shook his head and sighed, "Tie Sheng, Tie Sheng, think about her bicycle, think about her house, she must still have some money."

"Although her figure isn't great, she has a nice face. Once we've taken good care of her, won't those things be ours too? We just have to be a little patient, okay?"

At the end of the speech, Er Laizi had a wretched look on his face, as if he had already seen the scene after they succeeded.

After hearing Er Laizi's words, Tiesheng's eyes flashed with greed.

"You're right, idiot. Let's follow her and find a chance to take action. I don't believe that two grown men like us can't deal with a female educated youth." Tie Sheng said viciously.

So, the two reached a consensus and continued to lurk in the dark, watching Shen Nian's every move, looking for an opportunity to strike.

However, they did not realize that their greed and evil had led them down a path of no return.

At present, Tiesheng and Erlaizi are still immersed in the fantasy of gaining both wealth and life, and have not anticipated the upcoming turning point in their lives.

In the next few days, Tiesheng and Erlaizi still followed Shen Nian every day, but Shen Nian had begun to go out less frequently.

As the weather gradually turned colder, Shen Nian had already stockpiled enough firewood and coal from her previous trips. She simply stayed home and focused on making winter clothes.

Ye Jiaojiao would occasionally come to Shen Nian to relieve her boredom. While sewing clothes, the two of them would chat about gossip in the Youth League compound in front.

"Hey, Sister Nian, do you know?" Ye Jiaojiao approached Shen Nian mysteriously.

"Zhang Fengfeng has been hanging around Shi Zhiqing a lot lately. And even Comrade Zhou, who took Shi Zhiqing to the cowshed last time, keeps hanging around Shi Zhiqing too."

Shen Nian kept pedaling on the sewing machine while curiously asking, "Oh? What are they going to do with Shi Shengxia?"

"I don't know! Every time I went to the front to look for Zhao Gaoxuan, I could see Zhang Fengfeng and Zhou Jindong when I passed by Shengxia's house. They were talking and laughing, and they looked so close!" Ye Jiaojiao described it vividly.

Shen Nian was a little surprised. Are these three people getting together?

"Did Shi Zhiqing, Zhang Fengfeng, and Zhou Jindong go together?" she asked Ye Jiaojiao.

"Of course not. I feel like their relationship is a bit messy. Is Comrade Zhou dating Shi Zhiqing?"

Ye Jiaojiao was puzzled. "But every time Comrade Zhou comes, Zhang Fengfeng comes too. Who is he dating?"

The direction of this plot is a bit confusing, Shen Nian thought secretly, looked up and saw Ye Jiaojiao frowning, and smiled helplessly.

"Okay, okay, stop imagining things. We still have a long way to go. Sooner or later, we'll know what their relationship is."

"Hmph, I just think it's weird that they're doing this." Ye Jiaojiao muttered, but didn't continue the topic.

The two chatted about some other topics before Ye Jiaojiao left Shen Nian's house contentedly.

In the evening, the Shen Nian'an brothers entered Shen Nian's room and looked at the neatly folded quilt on the kang. Shen Nianle asked in confusion.

"Sister, why do you make so many quilts? Don't we have enough quilts at home?"

Shen Nian looked up at Shen Nianle and said, "These quilts will be useful to me."

"By the way, Xiaoan, Xiaole, did you notice anything unusual on your way to school?"

Shen Nian stopped sewing and stared at the Shen Nian and An brothers seriously.

"No, sister, we go to and from school together with Erwa and the others, and we didn't notice anything wrong." Shen Nianle thought for a while and shook his head.

"What's wrong, sis? What happened?"

Shen Nian'an stared at Shen Nian. Did his sister discover something?

"Nothing happened, it's just that my eyelids have been twitching these past few days, and I always feel like something is going to happen."

A few days ago, Shen Nian went up the mountain to collect firewood and always felt that someone was watching her. At first, she didn't think much of it. But after she killed the wild boar, the villagers stared at her wherever she went.

She always felt something was wrong these days, as if someone was secretly watching her, but she had not gone out these days, so she asked the Shen Nian'an brothers.

Looking at the two brothers' confused looks, Shen Nian sighed softly. It seemed that the other party was coming towards her.

Shen Nian pondered for a moment and forced a smile: "You two should be careful recently. It's always better for us to be careful. Don't go to remote places when going to and from school. Try to go with Erwa and the others."

Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle looked at each other. Although they didn't understand why their sister suddenly said that, they still nodded obediently.

"I understand, sister. We will be careful." Shen Nian'an replied.

Shen Nianle also quickly agreed: "Yes, sister, don't worry, we will be careful and won't go alone."

Shen Nian decided to put aside her worries for the time being and focus on the task at hand. So, she turned on the sewing machine again and continued sewing winter clothes.

However, the feeling of being spied on still lingered in Shen Nian's mind, preventing her from completely letting go.

Shen Nian knew that he had to remain vigilant at all times until he found the source of that feeling.

Tiesheng and Erlaizi waited outside for a few days and found that Shen Nian had not gone out, and they couldn't help but feel anxious.

They didn't know what Shen Nian was doing at home, but their intuition told them that it was time to take action.

So the two of them discussed it and decided to wait until tomorrow night and sneak into Shen Nian's house after dark.