I didn't force Dong Feng to follow me, I asked him to wait for me there.
Dong Feng obviously felt like he had been granted amnesty.
The carriage stopped in front of the thatched cottage, and He Zhi and I got out of the carriage one after another.
The thatched cottage is not big, about two or three meters long and wide. The door is a wooden door, which I opened.
The whole house is ventilated and light-filled, and the light inside is not dim.
There were bedding neatly placed on a narrow bed, and dishes and chopsticks were placed on the table beside the bed.
Several pieces of women's cloth were hung on the grass wall, and there was a pair of embroidered shoes beside the bed.
It's just that these things are not old, but new.
Dong Feng also said just now that the thatched cottage disappeared many years ago and only appeared now.
I walked to the bed and sat down, looking down at the shoes on the floor.
The toe of the embroidered shoes faces the bed...
"Mom..." I murmured softly.
My hands subconsciously clenched into fists, but I felt a tight breath in my chest.
The existence of this thatched cottage not only means that my mother is back, but also means that...she is nostalgic? Do you miss her time in the thatched cottage? !
But for me, it only made me hate that "sir" even more!
My mother was just an ordinary, untouched girl back then, he must have lied to her!
Let my mother leave after getting pregnant... As a gentleman, who can force him to leave?
I sat by the bed for a long time, and He Zhi stood quietly beside me, looking around the room from time to time.
The sky gradually dimmed, and the sunset's rays of light filtered into the house.
The glow gradually dimmed over time, and finally, night replaced dusk.
I got up and walked out of the thatched cottage and walked to the river.
Just then Dong Feng came over, with a cloth strip wrapped around his arm to stop the bleeding.
He carefully pointed to the position under my feet and whispered: "This is it, the bamboo raft that was pushed down."
"Almost there, I saw Miss Li's living corpse." Dong Feng raised his head and looked into the distance, pointing to the center of the river.
"Do you want a boat? My corpse-recovering boat is not far away and will be here soon." Dong Feng asked.
"No need." I shook my head and lowered my head to check the things on my body.
I'm not worried about the danger of going into the water. My mother will definitely not hurt me.
The only thing I'm not sure about is whether she will be unwilling to come up?
"Be careful." He Zhi warned me cautiously.
I nodded and quickly checked everything on me.
The moonlight reflected on the water surface was sparkling.
I leaned down, pushed my hind legs on the shore, and jumped into the water!
The cold river water stimulated my body and made me particularly awake.
I kept swimming forward diagonally, and kept getting closer to the bottom.
The moonlight is very bright tonight and the visibility under water is better.
Not long after, I swam to the bottom of the water. My feet landed on the sand and stones. I held my breath and tried to stop my feet as steady as possible.
Under the deep water, the visibility was much weaker. At first glance, I didn’t see my mother...
All that can be seen are underwater rocks and slightly undulating gravel.
I took out the compass and looked down at its hands.
What stunned me was that the needle of the compass... didn't even move?
The turning I am pointing to is the turning needle of the evil spirit, and there are evil corpses and evil spirits here!
My brows were furrowed, and my face gradually darkened.
The needle is not turned, which means my mother is not here...
But there is a thatched cottage on the shore. My mother must be back. Is she just not here at this time? Did he go somewhere else?
The compass needle can cover a large area. As long as there is resentment in this section of the watershed, it will fluctuate, and I can get closer to the direction by relying on the speed of the needle.
There's just no reaction to needle rotation at all, so I can't find it...
Just when I was unwilling to give in and prepared to expand the range of swimming under the water, I suddenly found that the needle of the compass moved.
I held the compass with very small movements and turned it left and right.
To the west, the compass pointer range is slightly larger!
I felt happy and immediately moved my body slowly towards the west. The pointer moved even more!
However, it does not form a rotating needle, but the needle swings unsteadily and does not return to the center line...
And the position of the needle stopped at the Xunsi C position, moving back and forth.
I frowned and stopped at the point where the needle was shaking the most.
Below me is a slightly sunken pit of sand and gravel.
It is recorded in the Eight Methods of Strange Needles that after the emergence of this kind of acupuncture needles, there must be ancient artifacts nine feet below the feet. If they live there, there must be drunken women, wizards, lonely and poor people!
It is impossible to live in the river, so there is only one possibility left. There are ancient artifacts under nine feet...
I hesitated for a while, but didn't dig the sand.
Although the underwater sand and gravel are very loose and not as difficult to dig as soil, the nine feet has to be three meters deep, so it is impossible for me to dig.
I took out the pig belly and took a breath, and then swam around in an expanded area under the water. However, except for the slight change in the needle boring, there was indeed no needle rotation.
After a few final breaths, the air in the pig's belly was about to be exhausted, so I had no choice but to go ashore...
When I swam to the surface, where the moonlight was most concentrated, I took a big breath of fresh air.
The pheasants on the shore waved to me. I suppressed the unwillingness in my heart and swam towards the shore.
After landing, He Zhi looked at the water.
As for Dong Feng, he asked very cautiously: "Is there no way to "invite" the eldest lady to come up?"
I was silent for a while and then said, "My mother is not here."
"This..." Dong Feng's eyelids twitched slightly, and he said carefully: "Is it a mistake? She didn't come back?"
I frowned and looked back at the water.
I thought of one more thing, and my pupils narrowed slightly.
Mr. Miao also came upstream, but he was not there either...
I am definitely not mistaken. The situation upstream is still caused by Liu Tianniu's induction.
There must be something else going on...
Could it be that someone brought them ashore?
Suddenly, I thought of Wu Xianchang and Wu Rong who escaped!
However, I soon gave up this idea.
Not to mention that Miao Guangyang is a living corpse, he is also a master of Yin Shu!
Even the old watchman couldn't deal with my mother's ferocity. Even if Wu Xianchang came, he wouldn't be able to touch my mother quietly.
Last time, he also "took advantage of others' danger".
This means that there must have been other changes during this period that left my mother and Mr. Miao out of the water.
After my thoughts settled, I asked Dong Feng, had anything happened in Hongsong County recently? Has anything happened in Xuanhe?
Dong Feng hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "There are no changes in Xuanhe, but I really don't know about it in the county."
"Well water does not offend river water. What happens underwater must have nothing to do with it on the shore. Mr. Li, do you think it is what happened on the shore that attracted the young lady?"
I told Dong Feng that my mother was different from the vicious underwater corpse he thought.
Then, I asked him to take He Zhi and I back to his house to rest, and then asked him to inquire about recent events in Hongsong County.
Dong Feng nodded and said a good word.
We got on the carriage and left in the direction directed by Dong Feng. When we got there, I looked back.
But I found that someone seemed to be peeking at us from the side of the thatched cottage.
When I looked carefully, I couldn't see anything...
