Stealing Your Heart Chapter 673


    The first forty-eight hours were almost up. Could a person even survive that long, or would we end up


    with a corpse?


    Captain Song took his hat off and sighed deeply.


    “Don’t lose hope, dad.” That was all one could muster to say like that. Despite saying those words, she


    still couldn’t help sighing when she saw the sun rising from the East.


    They reached a crossroad soon after. The route to the West was broader and would be further split into


    different routes down the road. It would be more difficult to search that region.


    Su Zhan offered, “I’ll take some men and take that route.”


    Captain Song nodded before assigning extra men to Su Zhan. That didn’t discourage Su Zhan from


    walking down that route several times and exhausting himself. Heter sat on a nk with his feet bare


    while water dripped down.


    Zong Jinghao headed over when morning rolled by. He asked Su Zhan if thetter found any clues.


    Su Zhan shook his head and braced himself for the worst. “Maybe…”


    “No,” insisted Zong Jinghao, “We haven’t found his body yet, but that doesn’t mean that he drowned.


    Someone could have rescued him. When we pull the car out of the water, we saw that the window was


    intact, and the door was closed. As I’m sure you know, the pressure of the water would’ve kept the door


    closed. His corpse wasn’t in the car, so my guess is that he jumped out of the car before it fell into the


    water. I don’t think he ever sunk with the car in the first ce.”


    Zong Jinghao’s words made perfect sense, but there was still one question that was bugging Su Zhan.


    “If he had survived, why haven’t we found him despite the fact that we’ve expanded our search to this


    extent and covered so much ground?”


    His question left Zong Jinghao speechless.


    Su Zhan was right. If he had survived, why haven’t we found him?


    Just then, the phone in Su Zhan’s pocket rang. He fished it out and saw that the call was from Qin Ya.


    Su Zhan picked it up. “Hello, Ya.”


    “Have you found him?” asked Qin Ya.


    Su Zhan was in a hurry when he returned, so he never went to see how Qin Ya was. He simply called


    her to tell her about Shen Peichuan’s issue. She must be calling because she’s worried sick.


    “Not yet,” replied Su Zhan.


    “Maybe I should head over…”


    “Don’t. You won’t be able to help, anyway. I’ll call you once I have any updates. Don’t worry. We’ll do


    everything we can,” said Su Zhan. She’d just end up worrying with the rest of us, anyway, so it’s better


    for her to keep her distance.


    “Okay. Remember to call me as soon as you have any news,” said Qin Ya.


    “I will,” promised Su Zhan, whoter tilted his head down. “I probably won’t be able to visit you for the


    time being.”


    “It’s fine. There’s no need to visit me. Just focus on the search.”


    Su Zhan murmured a reply.


    On the other end of the call, Qin Ya gripped her phone before adding, “I better hang up now so that I


    don’t disrupt anyone.”


    With that, she ended the call as soon as she finished speaking.


    Su Zhan put his phone back into his pocket. After that, he got up and walked to Zong Jinghao before


    asking, “This is going nowhere. We have to find another way.”


    Just then, Zong Jinghao scanned the surroundings and saw a boat by the river. “What’s that boat for?”


    Taking a look at where Zong Jinghao was looking, Su Zhan shook his head and replied, “I don’t know.”


    Without another word, Zong Jinghao had the men pull the boat ashore. Meanwhile, Su Zhan followed


    closely behind and asked, “What’s on your mind?”


    Zong Jinghao didn’t answer because he wasn’t sure if his guess was right.


    Heter had Su Zhan get into the boat with him before getting the other men to continue the search.


    The boat floated down to a reimed farm. An elderly man was harvesting the vegetables on the farm


    when Zong Jinghao walked over.


    The elderly man ced his harvest in his basket. When he stood up, he saw the two men walking over


    so he asked, “What are you two doing here?”


    “I saw a boat by the river. May I know why it’s parked over there?” asked Zong Jinghao.


    “Why are you asking?” asked the elderly man suspiciously.


    Su Zhan lied, “We’re here to inspect the river and make necessary arrangements to prevent floods.”


    Only then did the elderly man answered, “Old Man Li used to keep geese there. The authoritiester


    banned him from doing so, and the boat had been abandoned since.”


    “This boat was for keeping geese?” blurted Su Zhan.


    The elderly man pointed at the blue some distance ahead, then said, “Yeah. See thoses in the


    middle of the river over there? They are fixed in ce. Old Man Li had to toss the geese’s food there,


    so he got a boat to do just that. However, the head of the vigeter said that it’d pollute the river and


    banned Old Man Li from raising geese. Everything was abandoned after that.”


    “And no one has ever used this boat since?” asked Su Zhan again. At that point, he had more or less


    guessed what Zong Jinghao had in mind.


    Shen Peichuan was nowhere to be found near the river. Could it be that he happened to get ahold of


    the boat and got on thend? Or maybe someone stumbled upon him and rescued him?


    The elderly man sounded certain when he answered, “Nope. Didn’t you see the moss growing amuck


    on the boat? No one used it in a while. Hell, it’s been idling for so long that it can’t even stay still


    anymore. No one in their right mind would use a boat under these circumstances.”


    Zong Jinghao shifted his gaze. He saw a small vige at some distance ahead. Despite its small size,


    the houses there were mostly three to five-story buildings.


    “Are there any strangers who dropped by your vigetely?”


    “Almost everyone is a stranger. Quite a few vigers rent their ce out to foreign workers,” said the


    elderly man.


    Zong Jinghao was disappointed to hear that. It seemed that Shen Peichuan wasn’t rescued.


    However, what Zong Jinghao didn’t know was that his judgment and guesses were right. It was only


    that he found the wrong ce.


    It was true that Shen Peichuan had jumped out of the car before it crashed into the waters. He didn’t


    get dragged underwater with the car, but the water was running too quickly. He wanted to save Aunt


    Wang after he fell into the water, but the water pressure made it impossible for him to open the door. As


    he struggled, he identally slipped, and the running water washed him downstream.


    After traveling for a long distance, he stopped when some weed tangled his feet. He drank and choked


    on the water a lot. In fact, he almost drowned at the bottom of the river, but fortunately, he broke free of


    the weeds before that happened. He was exhausted by then, and in his daze, he saw a boat. Although


    he didn’t know what the boat was for, he swam earnestly towards it as if his life depended on it. The


    man on the boat never noticed Shen Peichuan. Hence, when the man turned the boat around, he


    ended up knocking on Shen Peichuan’s head, and thetter fainted.


    When Shen Peichuan came around again, he saw that he was in an unfamiliar room.


    The small room was dark and humid.


    He could hear others talking.


    The one who spoke was the man who identally knocked into Shen Peichuan. The man was tall and


    a little plump. His skin was tanned, and his facial features showed that he was a rather crude man. He


    collected scrap metal and harvested ms for a living. Never in his life would he thought that he’d


    identally knock into someone else in that river. Thus, he was tempted to flee when he first knocked


    into Shen Peichuan, but he was worried that Shen Peichuan might die from that incident. And because


    he didn’t want anyone to find Shen Peichuan’s body and trace his death back, the man took Shen


    Peichuan home. The former was stupefied when he saw the blood on Shen Peichuan’s head.


    The manter sat on the ground and hesitated for a long while before reaching out to check if Shen


    Peichuan was still breathing. After confirming that Shen Peichuan was alive, the man hurried to get a


    doctor over. He didn’t want Shen Peichuan to die because he didn’t want to be a murderer.


    A doctor from themunity clinic went over and examined Shen Peichuan. After a while, he


    suggested that they take Shen Peichuan to a proper hospital.


    “I don’t have the money for that,”ined the man, who was unwilling to pay for the medical fees.


    Heter asked, “Can he survive without going to the hospital?”


    “I can’t say for sure. He hurt his head, so it’s best if he goes to a proper hospital and does an x-ray,”


    answered the doctor.


    “It’s fine as long as he survives.”


    The doctor couldn’t force the man to get Shen Peichuan to the hospital and could only leave after


    giving his medical advice. Still, when the doctor reached the door, he turned around and asked, “By the


    way, who is this guy?”


    The man stiffened. He shifted his gaze away and lied, “He’s my cousin.”


    The doctor nodded before turning around to leave.


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    At the same time, Shen Peichuan had a splitting headache, but he could still make out what the men


    said. He leaned against the wall and walked out of the room before asking, “Are you the one who


    knocked into me?”


    Shen Peichuan remembered how he lost consciousness after a boat knocked into him.


    “Y-you’re awake?” blurted the man as his eyes bulged with fear.


    Shen Peichuan scanned the house. He saw countless pails of different sizes on the floor and several


    stic bags all around. Water and mud were all over the floor, and there were a few pails filled with


    scrap metals.


    “Do you have a phone?” asked Shen Peichuan. He needed to make a call, and his mobile phone was


    long gone.


    “What are you trying to do? You can’t pin this on me. You’re the one who suddenly showed up in the


    water,” insisted the man nervously. He was worried about being held responsible, so he was quick to


    deny everything.


    “I just want to make a call,” informed Shen Peichuan weakly and wearily.


    “Hah, you can’t fool me!” said the man, who obviously didn’t think that Shen Peichuan was simply


    making a call. The man was certain that Shen Peichuan would call the authorities andin.


    Shen Peichuan could tell that there was no talking to the man, so the former decided to leave on his


    own. He needed to find someone else to help him because he needed to get back as soon as possible.


    He had to warn Zong Jinghao about how Gu Bei had escaped. Gu Bei intends to seek revenge by


    harming Zong Jinghao. I have to warn Zong Jinghao.


    Unfortunately, Shen Peichuan had just reached the front door when he felt a sharp pain in his head. He


    turned around to see the man holding a wooden nk in his hand. The man was trembling at the time,


    but he forced himself to seem calm and red over. “I know you’re trying to make a fool out of me.


    You’re leaving toin to the authorities, aren’t you?”