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Chapter 249: Chapter 239 They’re So Unprofessional at Being Thieves
Through the moonlight outside the window, Shen Yunfang saw someone bending over, doing something. Judging by the body shape, it should be a man, and from his position, he seemed to be rummaging through the pouch she had placed under the hospital bed.
She was secretly relieved, thankfully, this person was after money and valuables. As long as she kept playing dead, the person would leave after stealing. All she had to do was wait for him to go, then lock the ward door and call for help to catch the thief. As to whether the thief would be caught, it didn’t matter.
She glanced sideways and saw Dashuan’s wife sleeping soundly on the bed next to her. At this moment, she suddenly felt a bit envious. If she could sleep like that, completely oblivious to the world, would she not have to be so anxious and frightened?
While her mind was filled with these thoughts, the bending man seemed to have discovered something that made him crouch down entirely, allowing Shen Yunfang to see the situation on the bed near the door.
There was actually another person, smaller than the first man, holding something in his arms that appeared bulky. Shen Yunfang narrowed her eyes, trying to recall what in the room could be carried away like that... No, that posture, why did it look so much like holding a child?
Suddenly, it dawned on Shen Yunfang that the bed where the smaller man stood was precisely where the little girl Chunya was staying. Could it be that these people were not only here to steal things but also to kidnap a child?
With this thought, she wanted to immediately call for help. She might not care about losing some possessions or money, but she could not just watch indifferently as a little girl was stolen right before her eyes. Knowing the fate that awaited a small girl abducted by human traffickers, she could guess without thinking. If she just let it happen without intervening, her conscience wouldn’t allow it.
Shen Yunfang took several deep breaths to calm her racing heart and to regain her composure. She couldn’t act rashly; even if she wanted to save someone, she had to consider her physical condition. She couldn’t neglect her own children for the sake of someone else’s.
She listened carefully, and seeing that no one was paying attention, one intent on searching the bag, the other on stealing the child, she mustered up the courage to slowly turn her head a bit more...
Creak creak...
The sound of the iron bed.
For a moment, all sounds in the ward ceased.
Shen Yunfang froze, not daring to move a muscle. She swore she had been very careful; that noise absolutely did not come from her.
After a while, light footsteps sounded in the room.
Shen Yunfang felt someone approaching her, controlling the pace of her breathing to appear as sound asleep as possible from the outside.
She felt that person had stopped at her bedside, and then a hand touched right under her nose. Shen Yunfang was so frightened, she nearly jumped up, but she managed to suppress the impulse and understood what the thief wanted to do - he was trying to check her breathing and had touched her by mistake.
Shen Yunfang was inwardly furious at the unprofessionalism of the thief, daring to venture out, deserving to be caught a hundred times over.
After a short wait, the person at her bedside finally left, and she collapsed like a deflated balloon, drenched in cold sweat.
Hearing the soft footsteps stop again, Shen Yunfang couldn’t contain her curiosity and cracked her eyes open a sliver, just in time to see that man standing by Dashuan’s wife’s bed.
At that moment, the moon peeked out from behind the clouds just enough for Shen Yunfang to see clearly. The man was waving his large hand in front of Dashuan’s wife, and after a few swings, he also reached out to check Dashuan’s wife’s breathing.
He must have done the same when he was by her bed.
Suddenly, Shen Yunfang didn’t feel as scared anymore. For a thief to act like this was unheard of. Even an amateur like her could tell that this man was definitely not a professional; he might be a beginner or perhaps had acted on impulse, but he definitely was no veteran.
Smack!
The sound was particularly loud in the quiet ward. Shen Yunfang quickly gathered her thoughts and looked over again.
It was Dashuan’s wife who had struck the blow, hitting the man’s hand. She must have been checking for breath just like herself and had poked herself in the face.
"What are you doing?" came the groggy voice of Dashuan’s wife.
Shen Yunfang’s heart leaped once more, as she silently prayed, "Sister-in-law, better you don’t wake up, just keep sleeping, I’ll call you after they leave."
Although these thieves might not be professionals, judging by their build, they already overpowered the two women.
"Hey, who are you, what are you trying to do?"
Shen Yunfang’s prayers were in vain; Dashuan’s wife was awake anyway.
Dashuan’s wife, still groggy, just felt something on her face and thought it was a mosquito or something. She instinctively swatted at it, only to hit the man. She lay there for a while before realizing something was wrong, then she opened her eyes and came face to face with a pair of shining eyes in the darkness.
She instinctively shouted, "Hey, who are you, what are you trying to do?"
The thief standing at the foot of her bed remained stunned for quite a while before turning to run towards the door. After a few steps, he remembered something and turned back to Shen Yunfang’s bed, yanked her large bag from under it, and called out to another slim thief at the door, "Hurry up and run, what are you waiting for?"
Dashuan’s wife bolted upright on the bed, still unclear on what had just happened, but when she saw the person intending to run off with Yunfang’s bag and another person standing at the door with a bulging embrace, she realized instantly—they were being robbed. She yelled, "Quick, help! Someone is stealing things; there’s a thief here!"
Then she lunged at the man who was grabbing Yunfang’s bag closest to her.
Shen Yunfang knew there was no turning back, and seeing the petite figure carrying the small girl about to leave the ward, she too sat up and started shouting, "Quick, help! Someone is stealing a child!"
The ensuing chaos could only be described as pandemonium.
The shrill cries of the two women were like bombs in the silent night, awakening every ward on the floor at the very least.
As Shen Yunfang was putting on her shoes, she was considering whether to chase the thief with the child or to stay and confront the stocky thief with Dashuan’s wife.
It was clear to see that Dashuan’s wife was struggling to handle the man alone, and even with her strength, it was difficult. If Yunfang did not help her, she might get hurt. Of course, if she stayed, both of them might end up injured. But she definitely wouldn’t be able to just watch Dashuan’s wife struggle against the assailant alone.
However, if she stayed, the thief who took the child might get far away, making it difficult to find the child later.
As Shen Yunfang grappled with this dilemma, voices came from the corridor outside. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
"Hey, what are you doing? Whose child are you carrying in the middle of the night?"
