Chapter 24 Unknown
Because it was cloudy and the light in the maple forest was very dark, Yan Niang simply released Jingwei, and she stroked its dark blue feathers. "I didn't find it here last time. The Blood Maple Forest was transformed from Chiyou's head and it is also the birthplace of the earth. Jingwei, go and find it to see if its nest is here."
Jingwei screamed, spread his wings from her hand, and flew into the depths of the dense forest in the blink of an eye. Yan Niang walked slowly in the maple forest. Every time she went, she raised her nose and carefully sniffed the smell of the air and the soil. But she was disappointed. There was no odor here except for the smell of grass leaves and the smell of earth. She simply sat down next to a big tree, waiting for news from Jingwei. It was a spirit bird and was good at reconnaissance at high altitudes, and might be able to find out the whereabouts of the earth.
Sure enough, after a while, the forest above shook twice. Yan Niang raised her head and saw Jingwei diving like an arrow, gently waving his wings, and stopping on her outstretched palm. Its mouth was holding something red.
"What is this?" Yan Niang frowned and took out the thing from Jingwei's hard little mouth. She looked at the red insect between her fingers, "Moth? No, this is Zhu Moth."
Jingwei was chirping beside her, as if she was seeking credit, and as if she was praising her agile reaction.
The red moth was not dead yet. When it touched the temperature of the human body, it was like a hungry wolf who smelled the smell of blood. It moved its head twice and suddenly pierced the long thorn on its butt towards Yan Niang's fingers and stomach.
When he was about to pierce, his body was squeezed and thick green juice splashed on Yan Niang's snow-white fingers with a "cracking" sound.
Yan Niang took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands, "Zhu Moth is a bug in hell, like a moth and a bee, and has toxins, but how could it appear in this blood maple forest?" She turned to Jingwei, "Did you find it in this forest?"
Jingwei cried twice and gave a positive answer.
Yan Niang shook her head in confusion, "Will you find the trace of that rusty?"
Hearing this, Jingwei flapped his wings and screamed louder, as if he was shaking his head and sighing.
"It seems that there is no," she lowered her head and thought, "I didn't find it when I came over with my right ear last time. I brought you here this time, and I was thinking of discovering it, but it turned out to be a bamboo basket to get water. It seems that the beast is not in this maple forest, but where will it be? What does this Zhumo have to do with it?"
She walked forward while thinking. Jingwei stood on her shoulder and closed his eyes to rest. After walking out of the maple forest, Yan Niang took it back into the handkerchief and walked alone on the road in the rain.
"Girl, this rain has poured you through. Buy an umbrella. The umbrella is strong and durable. I will ensure that you will not regret buying it." A hoarse voice with vicissitudes came from the side. Yan Niang looked at the side of the roadside with a squint eyes and saw an old lady wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat sitting there. There was a bamboo basket in front of her, full of blue cloth umbrellas.
"I just like to get wet in the rain and don't like to hold umbrellas." Yan Niang replied to her and continued walking forward.
"Hey, young people nowadays wear pretty decent clothes, but they are so stingy that they can't even bear to buy an umbrella. They rely on their youth to dare to ruin their body like this. After a few years, they will have a child. Then your legs hurt and your arms will be sore, but you will suffer." She saw Yan Niang walking away and muttered for a long time.
Yan Niang listened to all this in her heart, but she didn't mind, but after walking a few steps, she turned back and squatted in front of the old lady, her eyes narrowed into two beautiful bends, "Mother-in-law, the rain is getting more and more anxious. I'll buy an umbrella too, otherwise I'll be scolded to death by my parents when I go home."
Grandma Zhong suddenly had a smile on her face, which was completely different from the past. "My umbrella is of great quality. Why not buy a few more and bring one for both parents and brothers, that's great."
"What my mother-in-law said is, then you can pick a few good ones for me, I'll take one, and cover all other troubles."
Grandma Zhong agreed while quickly helping Yan Niang pick up umbrellas and wrap them.
Yan Niang saw her laughing so hard that she couldn't see her eyes. She pretended to be careless and asked, "Mother-in-law, have you always sold umbrellas here?"
Grandma Zhong nodded, "I have lived here for the rest of my life and sold umbrellas here for the rest of my life. My life is miserable."
"Have you seen a strange sheep appearing nearby recently?"
Grandma Zhong stopped the work in her hand and raised her eyes that were concave into her skin, "Strange sheep? What a strange way?"
"For example, there are four horns"
Grandma Zhong handed the umbrella to Yan Niang, "Miss, you look very clever, why do you say stupid things? I haven't seen sheep before, but the four-horned sheep are laughable when you say it out. Where is this monster?"
Seeing that she was speaking firmly, Yan Niang lowered her head and smiled, "I thought it was strange to hear others say it, so I asked casually, so my mother-in-law should not laugh at me."
Cheng Muyou raised his head from the piles of cases and looked at Jiang Xixi and the Shi brothers standing solemnly beside him, "Hasn't the person been found yet?"
Jiang Xixi took a step forward, "Sir, we have been searching for several days in a row and searching Lingyun Mountain and the surrounding area, but we still haven't found the Cuiyu girl."
Cheng Muyou bit his lips lightly and pondered for a while, "Xixi, go and bring me the document before Xin'an took office."
Jiang Xixi was puzzled, "Sir, do you want a copywriting? Not a case file?"
Cheng Muyou nodded to her without hesitation. Jiang Xixi received the order and quickly walked out of the study. After a while, she came back and had a blue booklet on her hand.
She put the booklet in front of Cheng Muyou and said softly, "The copywriting records of the previous few people were extremely simple. There was only one booklet in total. It was nothing more than some ordinary events related to the changes in Xin'an City. I wonder what the adults want to do?"
Cheng Muyou ignored her. He opened the booklet and carefully checked it page by page. Halfway through, he stopped, frowned slightly, and carefully studied the contents of the recorded page. About a quarter of an hour later, he raised his head and looked at the three people in front of him, "This page is a record of Bulao Tun. A few days ago, when you said there were only two families there, I was already suspicious, because there are mountains and rivers in that place, which are suitable for farming, why is the population getting smaller and smaller? Now it seems that there are reasons why the people in the village move one after another."
"What's the reason?" Jiang Xixi couldn't help it anymore and asked anxiously.
Cheng Muyou pointed to the words at the bottom of the page and whispered them, "This place is unknown."
Chapter completed!