Du Shu looked at Mo Xingchen's legs and feet: "Young Master Mo, what's wrong with you? Bitten by a snake? But this shouldn't be..."
Mo Xingchen was shocked: "There are snakes here?!"
Du Shu: "Well... maybe."
Mo Xingchen immediately spread his hands: "Du Shu, I sprained my ankle, let's go back!"
Wen Bai: "..."
Wen Jue: "..."
Du Shu had no choice but to carry Mo Xingchen on his back: "Then we won't play here anymore, let's go back first."
Wen Bai said faintly: "Let's go."
Mo Xingchen's adventurous spirit was nipped in the bud halfway.
Du Shu carried Mo Xingchen and walked forward, with Wen Bai and Wen Jue following behind.
Slowly, Wen Jue fell to the back.
Wen Jue's gaze suddenly looked back, and stopped at a certain spot.
Then, Wen Jue tightened his little fox fur coat and glanced back at Wen Bai and the others' receding figures.
The small body stopped in place, no longer following forward.
When Du Shu and the others finally returned to the mansion, and he put Mo Xingchen in the warm room.
Mother Wen glanced at the injured person: "How did Xingchen get like this? Are you okay, Bao'er?"
Wen Bai shook his head expressionlessly.
For half a year, he still couldn't get used to this nickname.
Mother Wen looked around, puzzled: "Where is Xiao Jue?"
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At this time, Wen Jue was somewhere in the woods. A man in a black cloak stood in front of him.
Wen Jue's soft voice sounded: "What do you want me for?"
"She's not very satisfied with you lately."
Wen Jue stood still without speaking, he just moved his little feet, kicking a stone covered in crystal-like snow by his feet.
"She wants you to become the future master of the Wen family, to take over all of the Wen family's industries. Before that, you must first gain the approval of Wen Zhonghe and Mu Wanqing."
Wen Jue said proudly: "Daddy and Mommy like me very much."
The man was silent for a moment: "Daddy, Mommy, you call them affectionately."
The man said in a deep voice: "You need to get their approval, not just their liking. I've seen your current studies, and they are too poor! You should put the effort you put into those herbs into where it should be."
Wen Jue pouted and said righteously: "But those lessons are too difficult. I studied hard, and I don't know how."
The man felt the veins on his forehead bulging: "Write down everything you don't understand, and when you don't understand something, I'll come and teach you."
Wen Jue immediately changed his tune: "The teachers my mother hired are all very hard to invite. In fact, the teachers teach very well, it's just that I'm too stupid."
The man listened, and vaguely felt that this little娃娃 was questioning him, but he had no proof.
"Wen Jue, don't make excuses, understand? You are still too young, and you don't want to know what the fate of someone who is abandoned will be."
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Everyone then realized that Wen Jue had not followed them back.
Wen Bai frowned. Wen Jue had always been by his side, and he hadn't even noticed that Wen Jue was lost.
Wen Bai had not forgotten that when he and Wen Jue were abducted together, Wen Jue, that tiny little thing, could only be dragged around and thrown around, with no power to resist.
A strange feeling, a subtle unease, slowly rose in Wen Bai's heart, a feeling of his heart rising and not being able to land.
This feeling was too foreign to him.
He even asked System 001 to exchange for a removal of unfavorable factors.
But the feeling disappeared for less than a minute before it uncontrollably rose in Wen Bai's heart again...
Inside the house, Mother Wen instructed the servants to immediately search for Wen Jue in the back mountain.
Father Wen was treating Mo Xingchen's leg injury, as they had not brought a doctor.
Du Shu knew the way and led the servants with lanterns to rush out.
Wen Bai also slipped away in the crowd during the chaos.
"System 001, can you find his location?"
"Yes."
System 001 answered confidently, then expanded its coverage, with all life forms under its control.
However, System 001 did not expect that there were so many life forms on this snowy mountain!
It paused and said: "Host, this might take some time, we need to identify them one by one."
Wen Bai said crisciy: "I'll identify them, you guide me."
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Wen Jue stepped on the grass covered in fine snow, but accidentally fell into a small pit dug by a hunter to catch prey.
This was a pit that an adult could climb out of with a little effort.
But for Wen Jue, who hadn't grown tall yet, he could only see a small patch of sky through the top of the pit.
There was a small animal trap at the bottom of the pit.
This pit was probably dug so deep to catch small fur-bearing animals, and such a small trap was placed to avoid damaging the animal's fur.
When Wen Jue fell, his body hit the wall and he tilted, avoiding it.
But even though he avoided it, the sharp teeth of the animal trap still tore the small jacket of his trouser leg and scratched his calf.
After Wen Jue tried to climb up several times and fell back, he squatted down and stopped trying to climb out.
He found that his leg hurt a little.
Wen Jue took out his small pouch and swallowed a pill from it.
This was a medicine that Old Mr. Bai had given him and told him to always carry. In fact, he had a few other bottles, but he didn't bring them.
Old Mr. Bai had said this medicine could relieve pain, and it was a dose adjusted for a small child.
Wen Jue pulled up his trouser leg again and touched it. It was wet and bleeding.
He opened his small pouch and counted the contents one by one.
He found with dismay that he didn't have a habit of carrying wound medicine.
What he usually carried was medicine to take down anyone who bullied him.
Wen Jue realized for the first time that this was not a good habit.
He suddenly became unhappy.
No one noticed that he hadn't followed.
Although he had done it on purpose.
But that couldn't be an excuse for his brother not noticing that he hadn't followed.
If Mo Xingchen had been left behind...
Wen Jue's small hands clutched a small grass growing from the wall of the pit.
If it were Mo Xingchen, everyone would definitely have noticed.
It was very cold here.
The small Wen Jue, when he fell, his little fox fur coat was caught by the branches on the surface of the grass, and it hung on the edge of the pit, with half of it dangling into the pit.
The small Wen Jue hugged himself, trying to stay away from the muddy wall. For some reason, the closer he got to the dirt-filled wall, the colder it became...
The visibility in the mountains was not very good, and the sky was gradually darkening.
Wen Jue's stomach rumbled.
It was now dinnertime.
He should be sitting next to his brother and eating with him.
The cave gradually darkened, and Wen Jue tilted his little head up, looking at the opening of the cave, which was gradually engulfed by the night.
If it were his brother, he could definitely climb out of this hole by himself.
Even though his brother was as short as him.