Novel Full Chapter 1728 - 1721: He Ultimately Favors Women
Chapter 1728 -1721: He Ultimately Favors Women
Lin Yu struggled to pick up the child, handed them over to a soldier, and immediately rushed downstream to search for Yang Xianhui.
Fu Yuan and Ye Hongru worked together to relocate the villagers, and after settling them, brought some supplies to support Lin Yu and Yang Xianhui.
She saw that the floodwaters had subsided, and the soldiers under Lin Yu and Yang Xianhui were methodically handling the aftermath, so she assumed nothing major had happened.
Dragging her weary body, she found a soldier and asked, “Where are Deputy Lin and Deputy Yang?”
The soldier looked troubled, as if he dared not speak.
Fu Yuan immediately sensed that something was wrong. Grabbing his wrist, she shouted coldly, “Speak! Where are they? Did something happen to them?”
After hesitating for a moment, the soldier finally said, “When we were redirecting the water, we came across three children trapped between the cliffs. Deputy Yang and Deputy Lin went to rescue them, but Deputy Yang was swept away by the floodwaters!”
“What?!”
Fu Yuan’s eyes widened as she frantically led the group downstream.𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Lin Yu had been searching with her team for half a day. The torrent had surged through the village, leaving it in ruins, and parts of the tributary had gushed into the moat.
Her legs were soaked in the mud-filled water, so cold and numb that she could no longer feel them.
Fu Yuan rushed over, her eyes red as she asked, “Did… did you find her?”
Lin Yu’s face was smeared with mud, her appearance disheveled. “No, I couldn’t hold onto Sister Hui. I only managed to save the children…”
Her hands trembled uncontrollably, completely numb to the pain.
Fu Yuan clasped her hands, seeing her sleeves torn and her palms covered in wounds. Trying to hold back tears, she choked out, “You should go back and rest for a while. I’ll continue the search.”
“No! It’s my fault for failing to hold onto Sister Hui. I have to find her.”
Lin Yu explained the situation to Fu Yuan: she was searching along the current, while Fu Yuan should check by the moat.
Yang Xianhui was highly skilled in martial arts; nothing too terrible could have happened!
They had to find her!
Fu Yuan sent someone to report the matter to Ye Hongru. Ye Hongru was already aware there were injuries among the troops, but he had no idea that Yang Xianhui had been swept away.
When he rushed to the scene, he furiously scolded Yang Xianhui’s soldiers, “What were you doing? Deputy Yang was swept away, and you all just stood idly by?
Don’t you know how to save her? She’s still a woman! Why didn’t you act to rescue her?”
A group of armored men stood with their heads down, too ashamed to meet his gaze, all deeply dejected.
It was their fault!
They couldn’t even compare to a woman, failing to protect her!
“General Ye,” Fu Yuan stood to the side, her eyes rimmed red but her tone resolute. “From the moment we joined the army, there has been no distinction between men and women. Deputy Yang’s duty as a soldier is to protect the people.
Her soldiers are not at fault for failing to ‘protect a woman.’
What she did was merely her responsibility!
Right now, the most important thing is to organize the search for her!”
Ye Hongru’s eyes widened suddenly, his face full of astonishment.
He had admitted women into the ranks, yet deep down, he had never truly considered men and women equals. Women were inherently less strong than men; this was an undeniable fact.
But Fu Yuan’s words filled him with a deep sense of shame.
He shouldn’t have underestimated them out of a misplaced sense of protectiveness.
“I’ll deploy more people to search immediately. We must find Deputy Yang.”
Ye Hongru spoke in a low, determined voice.
The news of Yang Xianhui being swept away spread like wildfire, stirring heated discussions among both officials and commoners.
The Yang Mansion was in chaos, like ants on a hot pan. The Old General personally mobilized people from the mansion to search everywhere beyond the city for Yang Xianhui.