"What do you mean......"
Wang Zhiyu stood up, his eyes widened, "Ji Yao was killed by someone?"
” "Whether it's or not, you have to cheer up, otherwise you'll be so sorry for the leg she broke for you."
Yan Niang sighed lightly, stood up and turned around and left the lake.
"Miss Yan, please stay for a moment."
Cheng Muyou followed behind and stopped her, he looked back at Shi Jin and Shi Fei, "Send Wang Xiucai home, and also, give him a piece of your token, let him think of something and come to me at any time."
After he finished speaking, he quickened his pace to catch up with Yan Niang, and walked slowly along the lake with her.
"I forgot, Lord Cheng came to the inn to look for me today, there is something to say."
Yan Niang put away the coldness she faced Wang Zhiyu just now, and replaced it with her usual smiling expression.
Cheng Muyou was far from being as relaxed as her, he said with a solemn expression, "Girl, Ming people don't say secret words, and now I regret that my life should be hanging by a thread, but I still don't have a clue about her whereabouts."
Yesterday, I heard the girl talk about Wang Mang's prophecy, and I always felt that the girl should know something about the affairs of Yuquan Town, so I came to look for the girl today, and I hope that the girl will not hesitate to give advice. ” Yan Niang listened to him quietly, she lowered her eyes and looked at the ground, and rubbed a small pile of mud on the ground on her toes, "I'm also very curious about the relationship between adults and Miss Jiang, adults care so much about her, I always feel that the two of you are not as simple as subordinates." ” "Why is the girl so concerned about Cheng's affairs?"
"Curious," Yan Niang turned her head to look at him, "I'm such a stinky person, my curiosity is too heavy, especially when I encounter something of interest, I can't wait to uproot it and take a closer look." ” Cheng Muyou shook his head helplessly, and said slowly, "It's true that it's not like my subordinates, she is more like a relative to me, because she was rescued by me from the chaos.
In order to avoid the Liao army, she jumped into the trap of catching wild beasts, with three animal traps on her thighs and arms, and the blood on her body stained the wild grass in the pit red, leaving only a trace of breath.
I rescued her back, and used all my life's learning to pull her back from the brink of death, and she stayed in the Cheng family in order to repay her kindness, nominally my personal maid, but in fact, our family treats her as a relative.
After Xun'er was born, she followed him and took care of him as a younger brother, if it weren't for her careful care, this motherless child might not be as smart and healthy as he is now.
I have been an official in various places in the past few years, and I have been following her, she has good kung fu and is smart, so I stayed by my side to do things for the government, and I have also solved a lot of strange cases," he looked at Yan Niang fixedly, "Regardless of public or private, I must save her, for so many years, I am also a brother and friend with her, and I have already formed a deep friendship, I regret that I was rescued from the war, and I will never allow her life to be taken away by others." ” After saying this, Cheng Muyou looked up at Yan Niang, but found that the look in her eyes was gone, and there was a layer of grief in those bottomless eyes that was not easy for ordinary people to detect.
"Miss Yan, did Cheng's words hurt the girl?"
Cheng Muyou asked softly.
"Isn't Miss Jiang's life experience worthy of people's feelings?"
The grief in Yan Niang's eyes was covered up by her, "Master Cheng, I am very satisfied with the answer you gave, let's say, what do you want to ask me as an embroiderer?"
” Cheng Muyou sighed lightly, "What I want to ask is Wang Mang's prophecy." ” "Didn't I tell that story to adults a long time ago?"
"What I want to know is not about the Han Dynasty, but about this place," he said, pointing to the center of Quanhu, where the clouds are steaming and the spring water is rushing, and even at night it is not as beautiful as the mortal world, "what happened in this town of Yuquan is contrary to morality. ” Yan Niang walked to the lake, her voice was calm and surprising, "Why are you so sure that there is an unbearable past hidden under Yuquan Town?"
” "I don't know," Cheng Muyou replied truthfully, "Maybe the matter of the Jing family is really unexplainable, maybe the girl's words reminded me, in short, I always have those cannibalistic scenes in my mind over and over again, and my emotions can't be ......calmed down for a long time."
"Your lord's intuition is right," Yan Niang still turned her back to him, but her tone became colder and colder, "Under this murmuring spring, there is indeed a past of cannibalism and white bones.
She turned her head and picked up the corners of her eyes again, "Do you know what a two-legged sheep is?"
” "Two-legged sheep?
Sheep have four legs, how can they ......"
Cheng Muyou stopped talking, he suddenly understood the meaning of these three words, so the whole person stood there stiffly, a little resisting but expecting her to tell this tragic story.
"There was a battle in Yuquan Town, which lasted for three months due to the easy and difficult to defend terrain.
The battle ended in a reconciliation between the two sides, both because there were few soldiers left, and because the town's food had been eaten by the soldiers, and the food had not been delivered.
The battle was over, and the remnants of the defeated army had left, leaving the town with only a few hundred empty granaries.
Panic spread rapidly over the town, and at first, the townspeople scrambled to pick and eat the fluffy grass in the mountains, which was like chaff, but the taste was bitter and astringent, and eating it could only be prolonged.
Later, the grass was also harvested, and the townspeople stripped the bark and ate it.
Only the bark of the elm tree could be swallowed, so they ate it with the bark of the elm tree mixed with the bark of other trees.
After a few months, even the bark of the tree was eaten, and people could only dig out the rocks in the mountains and eat, the stones were cold and smelly, and they would be full if they ate a little, but they could only eat so little, because if they couldn't eat too much, they would be bloated and fall to death.
Some of the townspeople were not willing to die like this, so they began to commit some robbery, and all the food they had saved in their homes was stolen and robbed.
There is no difference between the poor and the rich under this calamity.
However, the catastrophe is far from over. ” Yan Niang glanced deeply at Cheng Muyou, who was frowning, and said slowly, "A few days later, the townspeople found an abandoned baby at the foot of Qiu Xing Mountain, followed by the second and third, and since then, there are children abandoned at the foot of the mountain every day, some of these children still can't walk, and some of them are already in their old days.
What is even more terrifying is that the next morning, the children are gone, and at first it is unknown where they have gone, until one day someone smells the smell of barbecue coming from a farmer's house. ”