Cheng Muyou and the Shi brothers followed Miss Jing to an exquisite mansion, where the ancient trees are towering, the red walls and yellow tiles are gorgeous.
"The Jing family is worthy of being extremely rich, and even the guest rooms are built in such a grand style."
Shi Fei sighed.
"Miss Jing, do all the guests of Jing Mansion live in this mansion?"
Cheng Muyou pretended to ask casually.
Of course not, my father was a philanthropist and often provided shelter for the homeless, but they all lived in the compound on the south side of the house.
Lord Cheng is a distinguished guest of Jing Mansion, so he can't be in the same place as them. ” "I see," Cheng Muyou lowered his head and thought about it, "then ......"
He just wanted to ask something more, but saw Miss Jing walk to a laurel tree, gently caressing its rough trunk, the coldness in her eyes turned into a touch of tenderness, a clear tear.
After a long time, she seemed to remember the three people behind her, quickly wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said slightly apologetically, "Let Master Cheng smile, this tree was planted by my mother herself, and every time I see it, I will be sad." ” "Human nature, why apologize," Cheng Muyou walked up to her and looked up at the verdant leaves, "Who doesn't have inseparable memories in their hearts, and there are no old people who can't be forgotten." ” "Adults ...... too" Miss Jing looked at Cheng Muyou's side face, but suddenly squeezed out a scream from her throat, and she saw that behind the trunk of the tree suddenly appeared a miserable white face, with two black eyes embedded in the face, which were full of resentment.
Cheng Muyou suddenly stood in front of Miss Jing, he squinted his eyes and looked forward, but he didn't see anything, turned around, and found that the seemingly cold woman was clutching her sleeve tightly, her body curled into a ball.
"Miss Jing, what do you see?"
Cheng Muyou couldn't touch her arm, so he could only let her pull herself and ask softly.
Miss Jing mustered up the courage to raise her head, only then did she find that she was dragging Cheng Muyou's arm, she couldn't help but blush, and quickly let go, she turned her head sideways and looked behind the trunk again, and found that the face was gone, as if dissolved into the air, so she calmed down a little, "It's nothing, there was a big spider lying on the branch just now, which made the adults laugh." ” Shi Fei Shi rushed up when he heard the sound, and they asked one after another, "My lord, what's wrong?"
” "It's okay," Cheng Muyou said in a low voice, "let's quickly clean up and go to the barn."
The three of them said goodbye to Miss Jing and followed a few girls to the guest room.
Miss Jing did not leave, she stood under the laurel tree and laughed silently, laughing until tears welled up from the corners of her eyes, and then wiped them from her cheeks with the back of her hand.
"Hundreds of deniers of food were gone, and a few days later, Victorious died here again, leaving only half a skull and a few teeth."
Cheng Muyou looked at the dozens of empty barns, and for some reason the story he heard as a child came to his mind.
"Mother, mother, you see that my sister is dying of hunger, and there is only one skin left."
"Get some soup and pour it down for her."
"No, I can't get out of these grain soups after drinking them, I can't take them out, and my stomach is about to burst and I can't come out.
Mother, mother, sister is not good, mother, I am also hungry, hungry. ” "Eat......
Let's eat......"
"What to eat?"
"Take her......
Eat her. ” Cheng Muyou lowered his eyes, desperately squeezing out those images that violated human ethics from his mind, he looked at the Shi brothers who were lying on the ground behind him to investigate, and his voice became heavier and heavier, "After last night's heavy rain, there is no trace left around this barn, we have made marks all the way in Yuquan Town, unfortunately if it is still there, it will definitely be seen, but until now she has not come to meet us."
It can be seen that she disappeared in this town.
Now go to the rooms on the south side and ask the people if they've seen her before, and see if you can piece together her whereabouts before she disappeared. ” Shi Fei Shi Jin left, and several small servants of the Jing family stood by the gate of the barn from afar, and their figures suddenly became a little blurred in Cheng Muyou's eyes.
"Eat, eat."
"Meat, mother, this is meat......
Mother, why don't you eat, mother, why are you crying, sister, where is my sister?
Why is my sister's headrope on the stove?
” Cheng Muyou slowly stood up with his aching knees, his stomach was churning for a while, and his headache was about to burst, he didn't understand why this story came to mind over and over again, but who was the person who told the story?
It's Dad, that's right, his expression was solemn, and his words were sonorous, he said: "You'er, you have to remember these hardships, and you must remember that today's peaceful and prosperous era is what the people of the Great Song Dynasty exchanged for flesh and blood, and this world can no longer be chaotic, and it can no longer be chaotic." ” Cheng Muyou looked up at the sky and took a deep breath: "I remember, but, Dad, when did it happen?"
” "Have you ever heard of Wang Mang's prophecy?"
Yan Niang's crisp voice jumped out of his mind again, "Sanfu is hungry, cannibalism, the city is empty, and the white bones cover the wilderness......"
Cheng Muyou slowly said these words, his mind suddenly sobered up, and he shook his head and let out a sneer: "Yan Niang, how much do you know about this matter?"
” Yan Niang walked to the courtyard of the inn, and after making sure that there was no one around, she took out a handkerchief from her cuff, she gently stroked the embroidery on it, and after a while, only to hear a crisp cry, a small bird covered with dark blue feathers peeked out of her palm, and a pair of dark eyes stared at her without blinking.
"Jingwei," Yan Niang pointed at its head with her index finger, "Let's go to Qiu Xingshan, the smell is getting heavier and heavier, you go and find out where its nest is." ” Jingwei's eyes rolled a few times, then fluttered its wings and jumped to the edge of the wall, it screamed at Yan Niang, its blood-red claws snapped away, and it flew into the sky, towards the black mountain range.
The sky above Qiu Xingshan was shrouded in a white fog, which did not seem to flow, and a thick layer covered the top of the mountain, which could not be blown by the wind or penetrated by the sun.
Jingwei circled above the mist, then aimed at a thin spot and drilled headlong down.
The mist was filled with cold droplets, wetting Jingwei's feathers, and suddenly, those droplets turned into strange human faces, with empty eyes, but the eyeballs bulged abnormally, and they pounced on it with their mouths wide open.
Jingwei opened his small pointed mouth slightly, and spat out a fireball, which grew bigger and bigger, enveloping its entire body, breaking through the dense fog, and falling straight towards Qiu Xingshan.