Jingwei landed on a large tree and shook its feathers, and the flames on its body fell in a torrent, igniting a few dead leaves under the tree.
It turned its neck to look around, and then focused its gaze on a few black footprints on the turf, which looked like a child of three or four years old, but everywhere it went, the grass was charred and the dirt was so deep that it didn't look like a child could do it.
Jingwei followed this series of footprints and flew forward, the deeper he went into the mountains, the lower the temperature, but the trees above him became more and more scarce, gradually revealing the thick fog above.
I don't know how long it flew, but it found that the footprints on the ground were suddenly gone, and there was only a towering spruce tree in front of it, its main trunk was straight, without a little bending, the branches and leaves were dense and thick, and the sharp tops of the trees were straight into the chaotic mist.
Jingwei let out a soft cry and flew to one of the spruce's slanted branches, and the moment its claws landed on the branch, its small body shook violently twice, almost falling off its branches.
It steadied itself and looked down, only to see a large hole beside the ground where the spruce tree had rooted, and the mouth of the hole was covered with a few wisps of white smoke, which was drifting towards the sky.
After seeing the white smoke, Jingwei's eyes suddenly brightened, his red claws embedded in the branches, and a series of sharp warning cries came out of his mouth.
The wisps of white smoke suddenly became thicker, and then a pair of black hands reached out from the hole and slowly climbed the thick trunk.
The spruce tree began to swing violently, and Jingwei spread its wings and flew away from the branch, ready to fly high, but at that moment, the black shadow suddenly jumped to the branch where it had just stood, as fast as a dart.
A smoky fishy breath spewed towards Jingwei, and with it, there were several strange sounds of "click", like the sound of several rows of teeth smashing together at the same time.
A few miles away in Yuquan Town, Yan Niang slowly opened her eyes, what was it she saw through Jingwei just now: evil scarlet eyes, like an unquenchable hellfire, protruding teeth all over the mouth, row after row, all sharp canine teeth, some of which still had foul-smelling blood stains on them.
But no, shouldn't it just be a child?
She held the empty handkerchief tightly in her hand, and whispered worriedly: "Jingwei." ” "My lord," Shi Fei Shi Jin walked behind Cheng Muyou, "We inquired, Miss Jiang has indeed been to Jingfu. ” Cheng Muyou walked out from under the laurel tree, "What do you say?"
” "There was a woman surnamed Yang who said that she came to Jingfu with a girl, but two days ago the girl said that she was in a hurry, so she left in a hurry, according to her description of the girl's appearance, it should be Miss Jiang."
"Why did she come to Jingfu with Xixi?"
"Because the peasant woman's husband disappeared in Qiu Xingshan, Miss Jiang had gone up the mountain to help her find someone, so there was a friendship between the two, I think Miss Jiang took this opportunity to sneak into Jingfu, but for some reason after leaving here, the person disappeared.
Oh, by the way, she said one more thing. ” "What?"
Cheng Muyou hurriedly asked.
"The woman learned that we were inquiring about the whereabouts of Miss Jiang, so she said to herself that there are inexplicable things happening in this Yuquan town every year, and the family used to report to the official, but then the people from the government came a few times, but they did not find the whereabouts of these women, and gradually, everyone stopped reporting to the government, because most of the women who did not see were not in harmony with their families, so they only said that they may have fled because they were dissatisfied with their husbands' marriage."
"And such a thing?"
Cheng Muyou pondered for a while, and then looked at the Shi family brothers, "It's a pity that the kung fu is so good, it is impossible for ordinary people to take her down easily, unless ......"
"Unless it's the same as last time, there's a demon?"
Shi Fei asked first.
Cheng Muyou didn't answer, he glanced at the brothers with a solemn expression, "Can you ask about the identities of those missing women?"
” She didn't remember very well, but there was one who remembered, because the woman was not married, and the person who was betrothed to her was a showman in the town.
After the woman disappeared, this Xiucai gave up the imperial examination and looked for her everywhere, but now everyone has been tortured a little crazy, but his fiancée has still not been found. ” "What's Xiucai's name?
Where to stay?
” "Wang Zhiyu lives in ......"
Shi Fei suddenly stopped, because Miss Jing's figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard, she walked over to them, and made a gentle gesture: "My lord, my father said that the three of them were tired and running all the way for the affairs of the Jing family, and they couldn't help it, so they specially set up a reception wine, please go to a gathering with the two Shi adults, please come with me." ” Shi Jingang wanted to refuse, but was stopped by Cheng Muyou, he pulled a smile on his face, "It's hard to be gracious, then please ask Miss to lead the way." ” Cheng Muyou and Jing Yunlai sat at the same table, Jing Chenjin accompanied Shi Fei and Shi Jin to sit at the table next to them, and Miss Jing stood behind her father to serve herself, taking the dishes from the maid's hands and placing them on the table.
"Yu'er, I'm familiar with the way here, so I don't need you, you can go to Lord Cheng's side to serve."
Jing Yunlai said to his daughter behind him.
"How dare Cheng let Miss serve herself."
Cheng Muyou hurriedly got up and refused, but was stiffened on the chair by Jing Yunlai.
"Why don't you dare, although Lord Cheng has only been in office for half a year, he has already managed all parts of Xin'an in an orderly manner, and Yunlai should thank you here for the people of Xin'an City."
After he finished speaking, he raised his glass with both hands, "I'll do it first as respect." ” Cheng Muyou didn't want to say anything more, he followed Jing Yun to drink the contents of the cup.
The two talked about the world, discussed the past and the present, and an hour had passed.
Cheng Muyou saw that the time was ripe, so he put down the chopsticks in his hand, "Elder Jing, in addition to stealing grain, Cheng has another thing I want to ask you about. ” "Lord Cheng, please speak, whatever Jing knows, he must be endless."
"That's the case, a few days ago, I asked my master to sort out the previous case files, but I didn't expect to find that there are several cases in Yuquan Town that have not been solved."
"Oh?
What is it?
Jing Yunlai raised his eyebrows and asked.
"There have been several cases of missing women, I don't know if Jing Lao has heard of it?"
Jing Yunlai thought for a while, "I've heard of it, but it is said that most of these women fled from their husband's house because of family disharmony, and the government also sent people to check a few times, but they didn't find any valuable clues, so it was gone." ” "Has something like this happened recently?"
"I don't know about this, I've been busy stealing grain lately, so how can I care about other things."