And just when they were all on edge. But there has been no movement in the village.
Until Peng Liang came back again.
Just as Gong Shiba breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Peng Liang say quickly: "Sir, the whole village is gone."
Di Ying: "..."
He quickly opened the door and walked out of the house, heading towards the main room.
The door was bolted, so Di Ying asked Peng Liang to open the door.
"Silence." He said softly.
Peng Liang, who was about to raise his foot to kick, withdrew his foot in time.
Then……
Holding the door panel with both hands, he removed the door panel with a clever move.
The door latch with the rope slid down silently and knocked on the other door panel.
Di Ying grabbed it with quick eyes and hands.
He originally thought that Peng Liang would use the technique of "slipping through the door" and slowly unlatching the door with the blade of a knife, but it turned out that Peng Liang was so... tigerish?
But it's quite effective.
Di Ying loosened the latch and stepped in.
In the side bedroom, the bed curtain was well placed, but when it was lifted, there was no one on the bed.
Gong Shiba, who was in charge of the search, also shook his head and said that Granny Ju was gone.
The doors and windows were closed, the charcoal in the charcoal stove was still slightly red, and under their noses, Granny Ju's people disappeared.
Di Ying raised her hand, lifted the quilt on the bed, pressed the bed board, and tapped it lightly.
solid.
He glanced again at the footboard in front of the bed.
There are no shoes there.
He walked around the room twice more, then walked back to the bed and looked at the bed frame inside.
Usually there are several quilts stacked on the inside of a bed. But Grandma Ju’s bed doesn’t have it.
You can sleep directly next to the inner bed frame.
But the back of the bed frame was empty.
That is, there are no vertical columns.
There are only three long wooden horizontal bars.
Di Ying moved to the back of the bed.
He stepped on the ground between the back of the bed and the wall.
Then he turned back to the bed.
He looked at the four bedposts. Then he left.
As he walked, he said: "Go to other people's homes and have a look."
Gong Shiba hurriedly followed and couldn't help but asked: "Aren't you looking for Grandma Ju?"
Di Ying shook her head and did not answer.
He quickened his feet and walked towards other houses in the village.
This family's yard is neatly kept, but they don't have any livestock, and they still have a few more rooms that can accommodate people.
After going in and looking around, I found that most of the houses should be occupied by male members of the family.
There are more than a dozen farm tools leaning against the wall outside the main room, all of which are sharpened.
Entering the main room, there is a calligraphy hanging on the front wall: chivalrous and righteous.
Nie Bo, who rushed over and followed the adults around, muttered: "Is there anyone in this family who can read and write? I wonder what he got in the exam?"
"At least it's for lifting people, right? Look at the furniture and furnishings in this house, it doesn't look like a poor household."
Zhao San replied, and then continued: "Actually, Xingjiazhuang doesn't look like a poor village as a whole, right? But it hasn't reached the level of a wealthy household. At most, it just has enough food and clothing?"
Xu Size "tsk-tsk" twice and sighed a little. "This house is really clean. It doesn't look like villagers at all. Look at the cloth shoes in this shoe cabinet. The ones that have not been washed are not stained with much mud."
"Huh? That's strange, have you noticed? This means that you have at least one family, right? Why don't you have a study room and the Four Treasures of the Study Room? Not even a book?" Qian Wu called out.
Nie Bo glared at him, "What are you talking about? It's so late at night, I don't mind waking up the mice. Okay, okay, let's go check out the next house."
The adults of their family have already arrived at the next house and are looking at a portrait of Zhong Kui hanging on the wall in the middle of the main room, lost in thought.
The index fingers of the hands behind the back are pointed in pairs.
Nie Bo and the others didn't bother the adults, so they went around each house.
The family didn't tidy up so neatly, but their farm tools, such as hoes, cloves, sickles, and axes, were also sharply sharpened.
No gold, silver or silk was found in any of the houses, and not even a scrap of more expensive clothing material was found.
However, a bloody short coat was found.
Di Ying looked at it and motioned for the people he found to be put back to their original positions.
Then I went to the third house.
There are couplets on both sides of the main hall door of the third house.
The night is vast without the light of candles
Silence and stillness, firelight in my heart
Hengpi: I’ll do it myself
A hint of interest arose in Di Yan's eyes.
This was the first time he had seen such an illogical, straightforward couplet.
But he thought it was very interesting.
It is much better than those esoteric and literary poems, and it is suitable for hanging in the countryside.
It's just...
Di Ying twirled her fingers again and walked around the other room.
There is still no study room, no four treasures of the study room, and not a single book.
Instead, I picked up a gold ring under a chair in the main room.
It seems that it was accidentally dropped here without being discovered by the "owner", so it was left behind.
After Di Ying read it, he put it back on the table.
Went to the next one.
The next couplet is more straightforward.
If the road is unfair, someone will step on it
The road is uneven and someone is plowing it
Hengpi: Who doesn’t have it yet?
Di Ying: "..."
They're all quite individual.
As for the village chief’s house, there are no couplets. There is a portrait of a person hanging in the middle of the hall.
Amidst the floating fairy air and the shrouded clouds and mist, there was a man standing in the air holding an umbrella.
It's just that the color of the sky is relatively dim, as if there are heavy dark clouds rolling in layers, making the man's back look a little rickety.
But the man still stood there. It's like fighting against the wind and rain, but also like going back to heaven.
"It looks like... this person is trying to become an immortal despite all the pressure?" Nie Bo said.
Zhao San nodded, he felt that it looked like the same thing.
Xu Si said: "It's quite normal for rural people to believe in those gods and ghosts."
"Yes, it's quite normal. It's the back of the person in this painting... Why do I look like an adult in our family?" Peng Liang touched the handle of the knife and blinked.
Di Ying: "...Don't talk nonsense."
He didn't want to get involved with these gods and ghosts, so after saying that, he turned around and walked out.
In the yard, there were brothers standing there holding torches. Di Ying turned around and faced those torches, reflecting his figure.
Peng Liang, Nie Bo and others who were still in the room looked at the adults and then at the paintings on the wall...
I compared it back and forth several times.
They all gave Peng Liang a thumbs up.
"After all, you are the one who has always been with you, Mr. Peng. That look in your eyes is absolutely amazing."
This is really like it, but the adult is missing an umbrella in his hand at this time.
Di Ying: "..."
He quickened his pace and went to the next house.
In this way, I visited one house after another. Until after viewing more than a dozen of them.
Di Ying left the village directly. After shouting "Dark Cloud", Nie Bo and others, who were still confused, continued to fall two miles away.
this……? ? ?
