"I remember..." Haitang scratched her hair and said, "When I woke up, I was already in my father's arms, but I was still in a daze at that time. I heard my father talking to someone."
"Although I didn't see the person's face clearly, I remembered the voice. That person was the dean. The two of them talked for a while. When they saw that I woke up, my father hugged me and left."
"What happened next? Are the two people chasing you still there?" Shao Zilong asked.
Haitang was silent for a moment, "When I went back, those two people were no longer there. I asked my parents and they said they didn't see these two people, but..."
Having said this, Haitang's face turned pale and she bit her lips tightly.
"What's wrong?" We were both a little surprised.
"After I got home, I went to look for my neighbor's sister." Haitang whispered, "But...but the neighbor's sister disappeared and was never found again."
Shao Zilong's face darkened and he cursed, "Did he be taken away by those two people?"
"I...I..." Haitang hesitated.
This made Shao Zilong and I a little confused. The little girl Haitang was a little withdrawn, but after getting to know each other, she became very cheerful. It was rare to be like this, so I asked her what happened.
"Ever since my neighbor's sister disappeared, I haven't been able to sleep at night. One night I heard my parents talking outside. I was used to this situation, but that night I heard my mother mention the neighbor's sister, and I raised my eyebrows. Ears to listen.”
"My mother said, 'There is nothing we can do about it, so don't think too much about it. There are only two children of the right age in the village. How can we hand over Haitang? Besides, Haitang accidentally ran into the asylum. It was her luck to be locked up for three days.'"
"I don't remember it clearly, but it probably meant something like this. I was very surprised at the time and ran out to ask, but my parents said I heard it wrong and they never mentioned it at all."
Shao Zilong and I looked at each other in surprise when we heard this.
If it was according to what Haitang said, her parents should know something, and the two people who were suspected of being Liu Hao and Zhou Xiang came to Shimen Village with the purpose of finding a child with an exquisite heart.
It happened that the only suitable candidates at that time were Haitang and her neighbor sister.
When the two people entered the village, they accidentally discovered that Haitang and the others were the targets they were looking for, so they immediately started arresting them.
Later, Haitang was arrested and sent to a lunatic asylum on the way to escape, and then the two men took away their neighbor's sister.
Judging from Haitang's description, the two men had been chasing her for a long time. According to common sense, the neighbor sister should have been able to escape back to the village during that time.
But in the end she was taken away, which meant that someone in the village probably handed her over.
If we sum up all these things, we can make a guess.
Assuming that those two people were Liu Hao and Zhou Xiang, then when they came to Shimen Village, they must have been assigned by someone from the Cao family to find a child with an exquisite heart.
This means that the Cao family knows the secret of Shimen Village.
Because the villagers of Shimen Village are essentially kept in captivity, to the Cao family, everyone in the village is like a chicken in a chicken farm, which they can use as they please.
Because of this, when Liu Hao and Zhou Xiang came to Shimen Village, as soon as they saw a suitable candidate, they immediately grabbed them without any hesitation.
Later, because the little girl Haitang was too clever, the arrest of the two failed, so the other party found the secret guards of Shimen Village, maybe the midwife, or the coffin bearers, and secretly took the neighbor sister away .
But what is more surprising here is the reaction of Haitang's parents.
Judging from the conversation between the two, Haitang's parents should be different from ordinary villagers.
Most of the villagers in Shimen Village are basically numb and live here in a muddle. However, Haitang's parents are obviously insiders.
In addition, there is a very obvious difference.
In Shimen Village, except for the guards, everyone else was ordinary farmers, but Haitang's parents were experts in Feng Shui spells.
Recall that Haitang said that her mother was from the village and her father was an outsider.
I have always had some doubts about the origin of Haitang's father, and I also thought that he might be a passing Feng Shui master who, for some reason, got acquainted with Haitang's mother and settled down.
But now that I think about it, there is actually another situation.
Could Haitang's father be one of the guards of Shimen Village?
It's just that the other party chose to marry Haitang's mother and have a daughter, and later secretly taught Haitang's mother Feng Shui spells?
"What happened next?" I was thinking about it when I heard Shao Zilong ask.
Haitang turned over the grilled fish on the stove and sprinkled some salt. "I stayed at home for a while and told my parents that I wanted to visit the sister in the lunatic asylum."
"My parents didn't agree at first and said that place was not for children, so I kept begging them. In the end, my father couldn't help me, so he had to agree to take me there."
"But he made a stipulation with me that I couldn't tell outsiders about going to the lunatic asylum."
Hearing this, Shao Zilong smiled and said, "Yes, you can't talk to outsiders about this matter, but your brother Lin Shou and I are not outsiders, right?"
"Yes." Haitang nodded heavily and continued, "I specially baked sweet potatoes and grilled fish. I also brought a lot of delicious food made by my mother and went to the lunatic asylum with my father."
"After we got there, my father asked me to stand at the door and wait for a while. He went up and said a few words to the gatekeeper. After waiting for a while, the door opened."
"Then my father took me to find a person. Listening to his voice, I felt very familiar. He was the dean."
"He took a handful of candies from the drawer and stuffed them into me. He smiled and asked me to call him Uncle Dean. I don't know why, but I was a little scared. I was so scared that I hid behind my father and never refused to call him."
"Later, the dean called a nurse aunt over and took the two of us to find my sister. As soon as those people inside saw us, they surrounded us, but the nurse aunt drove us away."
I heard Haitang call the nurse aunt, but I still refused to call the dean uncle. I wondered what kind of person this dean was that could make Haitang reject him like this.
"When I found my sister, she was still sitting there facing the wall, motionless. She didn't respond when I called her. She occasionally muttered a few words to herself."
"My dad said it was getting late and it was time to go back. I didn't even talk to my sister, so I refused to go back and said I would wait here. My dad had no choice but to wait."
"I waited until midnight and my sister finally woke up. I quickly took out delicious food from the basket for her to eat. However, I found that my sister's favorite was grilled fish. Later, I often brought grilled fish to her."
"It turns out that she is the sister who loves grilled fish." Shao Zilong and I smiled.
"Yes." Haitang nodded, "From that day on, I went to the lunatic asylum with my father to visit my sister every half month. But the third time we went, as soon as we entered the door, we saw that my sister was locked up in the asylum. In a big iron cage, with chains on him!"
