"What problem are you talking about?" Ruan Xianbei asked.
Tongchun said: "When the young monk went to inquire, he found that something was not right with him, so he used the Qingxin Jue when talking to him, but he only regained consciousness for a brief moment and returned to his original state."
"Are you trying to say that they might have been bewitched or threatened?"
"It's all possible." Tongchun didn't deny it but said with uncertainty: "But the person who can do this must not be simple."
After Tongchun finished speaking, everyone fell into silence. It could be seen from the villagers' wary attitude towards outsiders that there were some problems in this village. On the way there, Shen Xuan also told them again the news she had learned.
Continuous unknown deaths and injuries kept them in a state of fear. When they arrived, they found that the villagers' attitude towards outsiders was worse than they imagined. Although they wanted to intervene forcefully, the villagers' knives and guns were in front of them. It has no effect.
However, rushing in rashly will definitely cause nervous resistance and resistance from the villagers, and they may even take some drastic actions to protect themselves. They are here to solve problems, not to create them.
They cannot start a conflict with the villagers until the problem is found.
Shen Xuan packed up her things and said to them, "Let's rest here tonight and then observe."
It was getting late, and as the sun went down, all the villagers returned to their homes and closed their doors and windows. The windows were covered with curtains so that no one outside could see what was going on inside. Some young girls passing by secretly glanced at them, but they were quickly dragged home by their family members in low voices.
There was smoke from the kitchens, and every household was lighting a fire to cook, but it was so quiet that it was a bit eerie.
After a while, several young people came out to rotate the guard positions at the entrance of the village. They looked at each other and nodded. The taller young man who had talked to Tong Chun looked back at them, and finally just handed over the things. He passed into the hands of his companions and went home.
"Ganzi, what did those people say to you? You didn't talk to them, did you?" The woman who was waiting at home had been standing in front of the window to secretly look at the situation outside. When she saw the young man coming back, she opened the door a crack and pulled the young man in quickly.
"Mom, no, it's okay, don't worry." Ganzi comforted her. Seeing that the food on the table had not been moved, he took the woman's hand and sat down.
"Where's Sister? I told you not to wait for me and eat first." Ganzi asked.
"Come on, come on." The woman came out of the kitchen with soup and smiled at him: "Don't you feel sorry for me that you've been standing all day?"
The three of them sat at the table and ate dinner. The woman took two bites with chopsticks, but her face was full of worry.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Ganzi asked.
The woman put down her chopsticks and said, "Are these people coming recently because of...?"
Gan Zi paused and said, "Mom! Don't mention this again!"
"Your father is dead, and your sister was kidnapped by that thing again. The girl said she came to help us last time, but we betrayed her..." The woman's eyes shone with hope again, "This time, These people are also here to help us, right? Otherwise——"
"Mom!" Ganzi also put down her chopsticks and said with a cold face: "Do I want to be trapped here for the rest of my life? Since she is sincerely helping us, she was taken away voluntarily. If it wasn't her, it would be us. Is it possible that she would be taken away? Are we going to die?"
The woman saw that she was angry and quickly fell silent.
The woman consoled her: "It's normal for Mom to be worried. Ganzi, don't be angry with Mom."
Ganzi's face returned to normal and he said to the woman: "Mom, I don't blame you. Alas... let's eat. In short, we don't want to be the first person."
After finishing the meal, Ganzi put down the bowls and chopsticks and went into the house, leaving her sister and mother sitting outside.
This family's surname was Zhang. There was originally only one person. The man went out one day and never came back. He was found dead in the mountains a few days later. Only his mother, eldest sister and younger siblings were left in the family.
The mother is this Li family, the eldest daughter is called Pingguo, and the son is called Ganzi. The younger daughter is just learning to speak and has not yet been given a name.
One night when it rained, Li and Pingguo went to collect the clothes hanging outside. When they came back, their little daughter who was supposed to be in her infancy was missing.
At the same time, not only their family lost their children, but also the young children of several families disappeared, so there was a rule not to go out at night.
The young and middle-aged people who have not yet moved out of each household decided to take turns standing guard to protect their families.
Mrs. Li sat there crying silently. The palms and backs of her hands were full of flesh, so she couldn't say what her son said was wrong.
But as a mother, I can't help but think every night, if only she had not gone out that day, if only she had stayed in the house, her little daughter would not have been taken away, the child was so young... ....
"Mom..." Pingguo knew that A-Niang was blaming herself. After that day, A-Niang's mental condition was not very good. Ganzi took turns to stand guard every half day. She was the only one left at home. She had to farm and cook every day. She also has to take care of grandma. She can't fall down and make grandma sad again.
Mrs. Li cried quietly for a while, not daring to cry out for fear of annoying her son. She wiped away her tears and said, "It's okay, I just think of your sister. I don't know if she is okay now."
Mrs. Li remembered something again and said to Apple: "Have you sent food to Xiu'er's house next door? Xiu'er is also very pitiful...she is so young, and her father abandoned her mother and ran away."
"Send it, give it away." Pingguo said hurriedly. The daughter of the family next door to theirs was only seven or eight years old. She had grown thin and small due to long-term malnutrition, which was heartbreaking. Her mother had been bedridden all year round and could not walk even two steps. Effortless.
Before the strange thing happened, the girl would go to various houses to help with some work. The neighbors knew about her family's situation and gave her some food as a reward. After that incident, the neighbors looked at each other as bad people, and they didn't dare to help even if they wanted to.
If it hadn't been for Li's help, they would have starved to death even if the evil spirits hadn't taken them away.
The news about the arrival of the guests had spread throughout the village. Every family secretly looked at the group of young people stationed outside the village. They hoped that someone could help them get out of this predicament, but they did not dare to contact them for fear of this. Bad surprises.
Ansui Village is now like a small boat swaying in the wind and rain. If there is another big wave, it will be completely wiped out.
...
Watching the lights in the village being turned off one after another and having a quick bite to eat, Cheng Suisui and the others were ready to rest.
Unexpectedly, they could not stay in the village, so they did not bring a tent. Ruan Xianbei and Cheng Suisui slept in the carriage, while Shen Xuan and Tong Chun slept outside. Shen Xuan gave his horse to the coachman and rode away, asking him to go by himself. The nearest town, then let the horse go and he will come back.
"Don't wander around at night." Shen Xuan warned.
"knew."
Xu Pei came here once in the evening, but he was called back without saying a few words to Shen Xuan. He never came here again, but he occasionally glanced here. I don't know if it was affected by the previous dream, but Ruan Xianbei always felt that he seemed to be looking at her, and felt a little strange in his heart.
Ruan Xianbei thought, no matter whether the man in black was him last time or not, if he did anything strange, he would be killed even if he risked his life.
Everything is silent, and everything in the world has returned to tranquility.
In the middle of the night, half asleep and half awake, Cheng Suisui woke up because he had to urinate urgently.
The two of them were covered with the same thin blanket, and Ruan Xianbei woke up as soon as she moved.
"Suisui?"
"I'm going to deal with a personal issue." Cheng Suisui said.
"Do you want me to go with you?" Ruan Xianbei didn't seem to wake up either.
"It's okay, I'm fast."
Cheng Suisui got off the carriage and looked for a place to solve his personal problems. He vaguely saw something flash by again.
She rubbed her eyes as if she saw a black cat running past. When she returned to the carriage, Ruan Xianbei was completely awake.
She didn't sleep deeply because she had something on her mind, but she was also afraid that something would happen to her in Sui Sui. Now she felt relieved when she saw Cheng Sui Sui come back.
etc--
"What is this?" Ruan Xianbei stretched out his hand, and Cheng Suisui seemed to have brought back something on his clothes.
"What?" Cheng Suisui was puzzled. He looked down at himself and saw a leaf sandwiched between the collars of his clothes.
"Leaves?"
Ruan Xianbei reached out and took it out. It was a piece of paper cut into the shape of a leaf. She felt it was a little uneven when she touched it. She lifted a little of the car curtain and used the hazy moonlight to read the words on it clearly.
"Find a way to get into the village and come find me."
Ruan Xianbei read it in a low voice, and Cheng Suisui instantly fell asleep.
"Who is it?" She had no idea when such a note was stuffed into her body.
Ruan Xianbei asked: "Did you just meet someone?"
"No." Cheng Suisui thought hard, "Does a black cat count?"
"Where did that cat come from?" Ruan Xianbei put the note into his chest, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Cheng Suisui asked: "Aren't you going to tell senior brother now?"
Ruan Xianbei picked up the blanket and covered the two of them, and said: "What did you say? Who to go to? We don't know anything. We can't even figure out the situation in the village. If we say it now, it will delay everyone's rest time. Take the time to rest, I don’t know who is pretending to be a ghost."
Cheng Suisui came closer to her, held her arm and said, "Ruan Ruan, I'm a little scared... Do you think this village is really haunted..."
The atheist said firmly again: "There is no such thing as a ghost. They are all meant to deceive children."
Under Ruan Xianbei's comfort, Cheng Suisui hugged her arm tightly and gradually fell asleep.
Ruan Xianbei lifted the curtain and took a look at the village in the night, as if it was shrouded in a layer of darkness. What she didn't say was that she didn't know why there was always a bad feeling lingering in her heart this time... It was as if the alarm in her brain was reminding her...
Twenty taels of silver was a bit too small, but in modern times it was still around eight thousand to ten thousand yuan.
At present, an ordinary soldier in the Yu Dynasty can only earn one tael of silver per month at most, and a centurion can earn three taels of silver per month.
Maybe he will accept it.
In addition, Qin Hu is also planning to draw a big pie for Li Xiaokun. After all, Qin Hu used to have money.
Now it depends on whether he and Qin An can survive the night.
"Little Marquis, I may not be able to survive. I'm so hungry, my hands and feet are frozen with cold." Qin An said in a daze.
"Xiao Anzi, Xiao Anzi, hold on, hold on, you can't stay still, get up and run, that's the only way you can survive."
In fact, Qin Hu himself is in trouble. Although he was a special soldier in his previous life, this body is not what he used to be. All he has now is a perseverance.
"Wait!"
Qin Hu's eyes were like cold stars, and he suddenly shouted in a low voice. A reflection and a rustling sound that appeared just ten meters away from the camp aroused his alertness.
With the professional sense of smell of a special scout, he felt that it was the enemy.
But should we notify Li Xiaokun?
Qin Hu hesitated a little. What if he saw it wrong? You know, his current physical condition is completely different from before.
If a false alarm causes night terrors or camp roars, and someone gets a handle on it, they will be killed without mercy.
"Xiao Anzi, hand me the bow and arrow."
Qin Hu crawled under the carriage and whispered.
But Qin An's next words scared him so much that he almost jumped up.
"Bow and arrow, what are bow and arrow?"
What, there are no bows and arrows in this era?
Qin Hu looked around and found a wooden stick with a sharpened top placed under the wheel. It was two meters long. It was thick at the handle and became thinner as it went up.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a weapon.
Wooden gun, this is the iconic building of the cannon fodder.
"Come closer, come closer..." After a few breaths, Qin Hu was sure that he was right.
The other party may be the enemy's scouts, called scouts in this era. They are trying to enter the camp and enter.
Conduct investigation.
Of course, if conditions permit, you can also poison, set fire to, or perform a beheading operation.
"one two three……"
He and Qin An lay motionless on the ground until then, he suddenly jumped up and threw the wooden spear as a javelin.
"puff!"
It was impossible for the scout to wear armor because he had difficulty moving, so the shot pierced his chest directly.
Following Qin Hu, he picked up the wooden gun belonging to Qin An, jumped out of the carriage, and chased in the opposite direction desperately.
For the reliability of intelligence, the scouts are required to monitor each other and are not allowed to act alone, so there are at least two.
After a few moments, Qin Hu threw another black shadow to the ground.
Then he strangled his neck with a wooden gun. There was a crisp sound and the man's head hung down.
"Hoo, hoo!" Qin Hu was sweating profusely and almost collapsed. He lay on the ground gasping for air. His body was really too weak.
Just to break the enemy's neck, before he could just use his hands, but just now he had to rely on the power of a wooden gun.
"Qin An, come here and help me search you."
Qin Hu is familiar with the rules of the battlefield. He must collect all the trophies from these two guys as quickly as possible.
"Two daggers, two horizontal knives, a level, seven or eight taels of broken silver, two grain bags, flags, kettles, two sets of cotton-padded clothes, two pot helmets, bacon..."
"Qin An, brother, hurry up, hurry up, eat something quickly, you are saved..."
Qin Hu tremblingly grabbed a handful of fried beans from the grain bag and stuffed it into Qin An's mouth, then filled him with water and put on the captured cotton-padded clothes.
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Before dawn, Qin Hu cut off the scout's head before the sentry on duty arrived, carried it into Shi Chang's camp, and reported what happened yesterday.
This was done to prevent others from taking credit, and he knew what kind of environment he was in now.
"Thirty taels of silver for one head, you are rich."
The chief's name was Gundam. He was a tall, muscular man with a beard.
At first, he didn't believe it until he saw the trophies captured by Qin Hu and the two corpses.
At this moment, his eyes were full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
"It's not me who gets rich, it's everyone who gets rich. This is the result of the ten of us."
