After understanding the meaning expressed by Liang Yuanque, Zhuang Youjie immediately turned his head, exhaled sharply and blew out the candle.
The room suddenly fell into darkness, with only the huge street lamp on the square outside the window shining through the thin window paper.
Sitting in the darkness, Zhuang Youjie's heart was beating nervously. Slowly, he felt Liang Yuanque sitting up behind him.
Liang Yuanque's movements were very gentle. When most people sit up, as long as their buttocks are not completely naked, there will always be some sound of clothing being rubbed, but he did not make any sound at all.
If Zhuang Youjie hadn't been so close to him, he probably wouldn't have noticed his movements.
After he sat up, he took Zhuang Youjie's hand and started writing on his hand.
After writing a few strokes, he would bend his fingers and flick his palm gently, as if to indicate that he had finished writing a word.
Zhuang Youjie tensed his nerves to feel what he was writing. Although not every stroke could be clearly sensed, he judged from the strokes that Liang Yuanque was writing,
"Have ears".
Have ears? What has ears? Zhuang Youjie thought he felt wrong at first, but after Liang Yuanque repeated it again, he suddenly realized.
What Liang Yuanque meant was that the walls had ears, and someone was listening to what was going on on their side.
For a moment, he was so scared that he even held his breath. He almost spilled the beans just now. No wonder Liang Yuanque refused to wake up.
He looked at the staircase he had just walked through. There was chaos and darkness there, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
Maybe if there was a person hiding in the dark, he wouldn't be able to find it.
It seemed that although Mu Su kept them and was willing to treat Liang Yuanque, he was not completely convinced by them.
Is it possible that the recent death of Wang Ming did have an impact on Shuizhai? Therefore, even the reformists who are willing to contact the outside world have to be wary of outsiders.
Zhuang Youjie couldn't help but have a more terrifying idea emerge in his mind. Could it be that the entire water village was responsible for Wang Ming's death?
Or to put it another way, it is unreasonable for everyone to do it together, but it can still be done if everyone knows and agrees that everyone must keep the secret.
If this is the case, the investigation of this case may be extremely difficult.
Once their true purpose of entering the water village is exposed, let alone finding out the real murderer, they may never leave the water village again.
Maybe they won't be as lucky as Wang Ming and can be brought up by the water of Luo Chuan River.
Regarding things like killing people and silencing them, the people in Shuizhai might be familiar with it once and twice, and they handle it more cleanly every time.
After all, the two of them could cut it as they pleased, dig a hole and bury it in such a closed village, so that even if the Jade Emperor came, they wouldn't be able to find it.
Zhuang Youjie's thoughts wandered further and further, and his random thoughts became more and more intense. He even started to help others think about how to deal with his body.
As he thought about it, the image of his head, hands and feet being cut off appeared before his dark eyes, and he trembled with fright.
At this moment, Liang Yuanque came up from behind him, frightening him so much that he subconsciously screamed. Before the first syllable rushed out of his throat, Liang Yuanque covered his mouth.
"People are gone."
Liang Yuanque clung to his ear, his voice was particularly soft.
Feeling the vivid Liang Yuanque, Zhuang Youjie gradually relaxed his mood. He nodded in the darkness to indicate that he understood.
Liang Yuanque added, "Speak lower later."
When he felt Zhuang Youjie's nod, he let go of his hand.
"What's going on?" After Zhuang Youjie was let go, he immediately approached Liang Yuanque and tried to lower his voice.
"The uncle has been sitting at the stairs, and he just entered the house." Liang Yuanque answered him.
That's why Liang Yuanque didn't wake up immediately because he had already sensed Mu Su hiding at the top of the stairs looking over.
Zhuang Youjie breathed heavily, as if he wanted to use this method to dilute the tension just now, "Are you always awake?"
"No," Liang Yuanque shook his head, and then thought that Zhuang Youjie probably wouldn't notice it in the dark, "I woke up when you were telling a story."
Zhuang Youjie felt a little proud when he thought of the story he made up at the extreme. This was one of the few things he did that was very successful.
It can be said to have turned the tide.
"How do you feel?" Zhuang Youjie asked Liang Yuanque, like a child asking for praise.
"It's great, I was almost moved to tears." Liang Yuanque patted his shoulder.
"Then you heard all the stories Uncle Musu told you, right?"
Since Liang Yuanque woke up at that time, he should have heard everything that happened next.
This saves Zhuang Youjie the trouble. He doesn't have to repeat the story of Shuizhai and Heerza to Liang Yuanque.
"Well, judging from Mu Su's story, the old guard is very suspicious, but Mu Su's behavior makes me think that the entire water village is actually very suspicious."
It seems that Liang Yuanque and Zhuang Youjie want to go together.
Regarding Wang Ming's death, Shuizhai was absolutely inseparable from it, but what Liang Yuanque couldn't figure out was, if someone from Shuizhai killed him, for what reason?
It was difficult to say that it was because of his status as an outsider. Liang Yuanque had already inquired that Wang Ming was not the first outsider to enter the water village.
As long as there are people from the Shuizhai tribe who lead them, they can enter the village after it is reformed, and they can even live in it for a period of time.
Before Wang Ming, people from Luo Chuanshui Town had gone in, including businessmen who wanted to do business, as well as young people who were simply curious.
The reporter was beaten by people in the village simply because he forced his way in. Conflicts caused by illegal intrusions would also happen in other areas.
Liang Yuanque had a vague feeling that Wang Ming must have done something in Shuizhai that was intolerable to the people of Shuizhai tribe, so he was silenced.
According to Wang Ming's friends, Wang Ming is a positive, polite and moral person who will definitely not do any criminal behavior.
Maybe he was in the water village and did something that ordinary people thought was normal and people in the water village felt offended.
Liang Yuanque has traveled to many places in his life, so he knows that people of different ethnic groups in different regions have different taboos, which are usually caused by religious beliefs.
For example, he once encountered a tribe that respected fire. He spit into the fire, which aroused the tribe's anger.
In the end, he apologized and lost money, and then left without hesitation until he gave the tribe leader an expensive copper-shell lighter.
When Zhuang Youjie saw that Liang Yuanque had stopped talking, he felt a little guilty and quickly touched him, "Hey, what do you think?"
Just as Liang Yuanque was about to open his mouth to speak, he heard a strong knock on the door of the wooden building.
There was a young man outside the door, knocking on the door and shouting,
"Hey, Uncle Mu Su, I heard that you have two outsiders here? How can you keep outsiders here!"
Judging from the tone, the person coming is not good.
Liang Yuanque immediately grabbed Zhuang Youjie's wrist and put his whole body on alert.
