A fluttering object slipped from Yun Ying's waist, and everything in front of her suddenly disappeared, including the spiritual seat she held in her hand.
Yun Ying lay on the ground and gasped for breath for a while, before she picked up the thing on the ground tremblingly and took it in her hand to look at it carefully.
It was a veil embroidered with a small bird standing on a branch, its feathers dark blue, as translucent as sapphires, and a pair of blood-red claws slightly hooked, as if it were about to spread its wings and fly into the air.
With a "bang", Yun Ying's head suddenly hit an extremely hard thing, she opened her eyes suddenly, only to find herself prostrate on the ground, and the little girl next to her was still leaning on her and snoring.
It turned out that everything just now turned out to be a strange dream.
But if it was really a dream, why did he really hold a silk handkerchief in his hand, just like the one in the dream?
Yun Ying stared at the handkerchief for a long time, and then remembered its origin, today during the day in Xin'an Mansion, when she was grieving and guarding the small scarf, a person handed a handkerchief from behind, at that time she did not see the person's face clearly, only faintly felt that it should be a young woman, because the hand was thin and white and slender, and it also exuded a good fragrance.
Yun Ying closed her eyes and stared for a while, put away her absurd thoughts, she opened her eyes, and saw that the morning light was leaking into the window bit by bit, so she stuffed the handkerchief back into the placket, woke up the girls one by one, and arranged what she had to do today.
The two ladies are gone, and the old man is sad that he can't get out of bed, she has to bear the burden of Huo Mansion, and she can't let this business be completely messed up.
The right ear brought a bowl of white porridge to Yan Niang, then leaned on the stool on the side, and said casually: "I heard that the child of the Cheng family returned to Xin'an Mansion last night, and he was injured. ” Yan Niang put a spoonful of porridge into her mouth, but she shrank her neck violently because of the heat, and she smashed her mouth, "I know he's back, the movement is so big, the people in the whole alley are woken up." ” "And do you know how he got hurt?"
"That child was born with intelligence, and must be able to see things that ordinary people can't see."
Yan Niang blew the bowl of hot porridge seriously, as if this was the most important thing in the world.
With an "oh" sound in his right ear, he jumped down from the stool, he shook the rag in his hand and walked towards the door, but his foot stepped over the threshold and retracted it, he looked back at Yan Niang and asked, "Won't it be because of what you did yesterday that the kid ......"
Yan Niang raised her eyebrows, put another spoonful of porridge into her mouth, and said vaguely, "Maybe, but it's all his life, who is to blame." ” Seeing Cheng Muyou coming out of Xun'er's bedroom, Jiang Xixi, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried up, "How is Xun'er's injury?"
Her voice was shaking, so shaky that it didn't sound like her own.
Cheng Muyou's face was no more relaxed than Jiang Xixi's, but he still barely squeezed out a light smile, "It's just a little skin injury, but he seems to have been greatly frightened, and he hasn't fallen asleep until now." ” Jiang Xixi smashed his fist on the pillar beside him, "It's all my fault, I should have gone to the old mansion with him, the child was already unstable, and he saw Xiao Zhen's body yesterday, so he ......"
Cheng Muyou waved his hand a little tiredly, "This thing is not entirely Xun'er's imagination, I asked Shi Fei, although he didn't see anything at the time, he also felt a damp and cool thing standing behind him, according to him, that thing seemed to have just crawled out of the ground, lingering with rancid corpse gas."
And Xun'er's nurse also packed up her things and left overnight, no matter how Shi Fei asked, she never said a word, as if there was something that made her avoid. ” Jiang Xixi suddenly had a layer of fine goosebumps on her body, and she pursed her dry lips, "But why did that thing find Xun'er?"
” "When Xun'er was born, someone once calculated a hexagram for him, and that person said that he had six pure roots, deaf ears and eyes, or could see what people did not see, and heard what no one had heard of, but I never found any difference between him and other children," Cheng Muyou lowered his eyes, and after a long time, he stared at Jiang Xixi intently, "Xin'an City is in an eventful autumn, I can't take a break, Xun'er, I'll leave it to you, take care of him for me." ” "I will."
Jiang Xixi agreed, and silently read it a few times in his heart, I will, no matter who is in a strange way, I don't want to move Xun'er again.
Cheng Muyou hurriedly walked out of Xin'an Mansion, and the two brothers Shi Fei and Shi Jin followed closely behind him, their expressions were solemn, and their faces were a little more gloomy than the dark clouds in the sky.
Yan Niang stood under the willow tree and looked at them, she found that Cheng Muyou's gaze swept towards the place where she stood, seemed to stay on her for a while, and then took it back.
Yan Niang took the eyes that were mixed with scrutiny and suspicion frankly, she played with a strand of messy hair on her sideburns without a match, and watched Cheng Mu's hurried back with interest, and after only a while, several of them turned a corner at the end of the road and disappeared.
"Lord Cheng went on a night patrol in person?"
"No, I heard that two more children left last night."
"But this is an epidemic, is it useful to watch the night?"
"It seems that something is wrong, let's disperse, let's disperse, take the children, go back to their respective homes, recently, if there is anything to do, try to go out as little as possible, this Xin'an City, it's messy."
The neighbors gradually dispersed, and Yan Niang glanced at the vermilion gate of Xin'an Mansion again, and also turned around and walked towards home.
It was late at night, the sky was dark, as if it had just been stained with ink, and everything on the earth was shrouded in a blurred cloud of moonlight, as silent as a time jam, except for the occasional strange shredding sound.
The night in Sin'an was supposed to be peaceful and quiet, but now, this tranquility is mixed with a few traces of panicked dead silence, which seems to be contagious, and it shuttles from house to house, erasing the vitality of the city and turning Sin'an into a tomb where the living are buried.
Zhu Wu'er was awakened by the urge to urine, he pushed Zhu Xiaosi, who was sleeping on the side, and said softly: "Sister, I want to solve it." ” Zhu Xiaosi snorted in a daze, and scolded in his mouth: "How old a person, do you want me to pee for you." ” Zhu Wu'er swallowed her saliva, "Daddy said that Xin'an City now has monsters that specialize in eating children, so he didn't let me go out, and he also said that Sister Ling next door was captured by the monsters last night and ate ......."
Xiao Si pulled the quilt up, the warm and cold weather made her bare arms feel cold, "That's all nonsense to lie to children, if you want to go, you can go by yourself, anyway, I won't accompany you."
With that, she fell into a deep sleep.