I wanted to stop the black shadow and ask, but I didn't have the strength.
I could only watch him disappear in front of me.
Just when I was about to go find my adoptive father and the others, another black shadow came straight towards me.
Then, Liu Yiran appeared in front of me with an anxious look on his face.
"Alian, hurry up, something happened over there at the ancestral hall!"
It’s really a wave of ups and downs.
The whereabouts of Bai Zimo and his adoptive father are still unknown, and something happened at the ancestral hall again.
But I definitely care more about my adoptive father and the others than the ancestral hall.
So he said to Liu Yiran: "You came just in time, a black shadow appeared again just now, my dad and Bai Zimo also disappeared for no reason, and those snakes are gone!"
Liu Yiran glanced at the overturned bamboo basket, but didn't pay much attention to it. He just comforted me and said, "Don't worry, as long as Bai Zimo is here, Yun Yan will be fine. Something big happened over there at the ancestral hall!"
I was so anxious that I didn’t want to care about the temple at this time.
But I also wonder if this is related to the disappearance of Bai Zimo and the others.
"What happened?" I looked at him puzzled. What could be bigger than Bai Zimo and his adoptive father disappearing.
Besides, he came to me as soon as he came, why not Bai Zimo?
Does he know that Bai Zimo is not here?
Liu Yiran did not answer, but directly hugged me and jumped into the air: "I don't have time to explain, you can just go and take a look first."
I was shocked by his sudden hug. When Bai Zimo hugged me before, I felt very at ease, but when it was Liu Yiran, I always felt that something was not right.
Although this is also an indescribably beautiful face, he feels like a brother next door to me. This behavior is too intimate and a little uncomfortable.
Before I could react to this discomfort, I had already arrived at a secluded place beside the ancestral hall.
Only now did I see that there were people outside the ancestral hall.
It seemed like he was quarreling with someone.
I looked at Liu Yiran in confusion: "Did you bring me here in a hurry just to watch people quarrel?"
Liu Yiran shook his head: "Go and have a look, someone seems to be looking for a child in the ancestral hall!"
child?
I immediately thought of the coffin of Yinhuahua. Could it be that I was looking for her?
What does this have to do with me? If I have this time, I might as well find the whereabouts of Bai Zimo and my adoptive father.
"Don't worry about the child, let's find Bai Zimo first!" I said hurriedly.
"Alian, this child is related to Bai Zimo's disappearance. You'd better go check out the situation first!" Liu Yiran said, pulling me directly into the crowd.
Only then did I see that everyone was surrounding the village chief and a young man. The young man was arguing with the village chief about something with his face flushed.
Seeing me coming, the village chief immediately said to me: "Alian, you came just in time. This is my son-in-law Li Hongbo, who killed Yinhua."
The man named Li Hongbo immediately jumped up and said: "Why did I harm her? It's because she failed to live up to her expectations and had difficulty giving birth to a child. It's my fault!"
The village chief looked at me with tears in his eyes: "Alian, you judge, he didn't save Yinhua when she was in labor, and now she's about to be buried. She came to ask me for a child, and even clamored to go to the ancestral hall to find it. What do you mean? What’s the point?”
I just don't understand. As the head of a village and a person involved in this matter, how can I be asked to make a judgment? This is unreasonable.
Don't say I'm a humble person. Even if I were a village official, I wouldn't be able to handle this household matter.
But what I don’t understand even more is Li Hongbo’s behavior.
He originally sent his wife back who died in childbirth and ignored her, but now he comes to ask for a child. What kind of peace of mind does he have?
Also, how did he know that Yinhua had given birth to a child after her death?
Why do we have to go to the ancestral hall to find it?
Just now Liu Yiran said that the child's matter was related to Bai Zimo's disappearance. Could it be that Li Hongbo was also a drama arranged by the black shadow?
But Li Hongbo didn't give me time to think. Instead, he pointed at the village chief and yelled: "You old man, who do you think is harming others?"
"It's obvious that your Yinhua is unruly and cheating on women. I found out that she was hooking up with others. I said a few words to her and she was about to die. In the end, she had fetal motility and had difficulty in giving birth. Do you blame me?"
"I don't care. Anyway, I'm here to ask for a child. You have to return this child no matter what, otherwise I will make trouble for the ancestors in your ancestral hall."
Li Hongbo said, still wanting to take action. If there weren't many villagers around who pulled him away, the village chief would probably have been beaten today. Seeing people who were supposed to be as close as a family making such a fuss made my heart feel uncomfortable. .
I don't want to know whether Yinhua has any unruly behavior, but I am disgusted with Li Hongbo's treatment of an old man who lost an orphan.
I walked straight up to him and looked at him angrily: "Since you like children so much, why didn't you treat Sister Yinhua kindly at the beginning? Now that everyone is gone, you still come to ask for children. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
But he looked at me fiercely: "Who are you? Why do you care about my family's affairs? If I want my own child, who am I in the way?"
"You don't care who I am, you can find your child yourself. If you think of causing trouble in our village, then you should consider it!"
I'm not afraid of trouble. If I really want to do it, I don't believe that the whole village can't beat a person from the neighboring village.
It would be difficult for an upright official to deal with such a trivial matter, but it was too much for him to do so because the dead person was the most important.
"Okay, very good, there are more of you and I am bullying you, right? Let's wait and see, I tell you, little girl, you will pay the price for your recklessness!"
Li Hongbo said a harsh word, pushed everyone away, and walked away.
I didn't expect him to really leave like this, but what he just said, it seems that the black shadow also said that it is the price I have to pay.
I don't know what price I can pay. Apart from this life, I only have my adoptive father as my only relative.
The reason why things have come to this point is probably because of the white snake birthmark on my body. To truly solve these problems, the only way is to clarify the connection between Bai Zimo and me.
When the villagers saw that Li Hongbo was gone, they became quiet and looked at me one after another.
I glanced at them, then turned to the village chief and asked: "What's going on? Why did Li Hongbo come to ask for a child? How did he know that the child was born?"
"I'm also very puzzled. No one in our village has mentioned this matter to the outside world. Li Hongbo couldn't possibly know about it, but he kept coming to ask for the child, and even forced open Yinhua's coffin to inspect it. It must be that we hid the child. !" The village chief said helplessly.
From what I saw, the way Li Hongbo acted just now, he probably didn’t come here to cause trouble on purpose. He probably did it because he was confident, but where does his confidence come from?
So I continued to ask: "Where is Yinhua's body?"
"It's still parked at my house. Is there any problem? How about I take you to have a look!" The village chief said, planning to take me to his house.
At this time, I had no intention of going to see Yinhua. I just wanted to go back to my adoptive father and the others as soon as possible.
I searched for Liu Yiran through the crowd, but he had already disappeared.
He definitely didn't bring me here to rescue the village chief.
Maybe it's because of the dark shadow appearing in my house.
I felt panicked, and fear had taken over my heart.
At this moment, I could no longer take care of the village chief’s family affairs, so I quickly said to him: “Village Chief, I still have something to do at home, so I won’t go see Sister Yinhua. You take care of your affairs first, and then figure out what to do with the children! "
The village chief seemed a little disappointed. He glanced inside the ancestral hall and said softly: "Okay, Alian, remember what I said. You are the only one who can enter the ancestral hall, so please find Yinhua for me." Soul!"
I was worried about my adoptive father's safety and just wanted to go back as soon as possible, so I responded casually: "Okay, if I go in, I will help you find her!"
After saying that, he ran away and ran home, praying all the time in his heart that nothing would happen to his adoptive father.
The village chief's caring instructions came from behind: "Alian, be careful, don't fall in a hurry!"
Sure enough, people still have to be useful to others, only in this way can they gain the recognition and attention of others, otherwise everything is empty talk.
But when I got home, I found my adoptive father sitting leisurely in the yard drinking tea, not looking like anything was wrong.
"Dad, where were you just now?" I ran over anxiously and looked at him carefully from top to bottom, fearing that he might have bumped into something.
My adoptive father took a sip of tea and smiled at me: "It's in the utility room in the backyard. Where did you go? You're so sweaty?"
My first thought was, this is impossible.
I've obviously seen the utility room. It was dark inside and there was nothing there.
Did the adoptive father lie?
Why?
I looked around and found no sign of Bai Zimo.
But since he's so powerful, he should be fine.
He sat down next to his adoptive father and said, "I just went to the ancestral hall. The village chief's son-in-law heard the news about the birth of a child in Yinhua coffin from somewhere. He came to ask for someone and even went to the ancestral hall to look for him. Isn't this a joke? ?”
After I finished speaking, I carefully observed my adoptive father's reaction.
But the adoptive father's expression did not change, and he just said lightly: "It is indeed a bit abnormal. Generally speaking, everyone avoids this kind of coffin, so why would you take the initiative to ask for it?"
"But this is the village chief's own family matter and has nothing to do with you. You don't have to run away to take care of it. You should make arrangements to go to Jiangcheng to go to school as soon as possible!"
My adoptive father and I have the same view on this point. Let’s not talk about Li Hongbo’s previous relationship with the village chief’s family. What he is doing now is contrary to common sense.
Death is a big deal, and there is always a reason for him to make such a fuss.
And I always felt that something was wrong with my adoptive father today. Just now he said he was in the utility room, but I clearly saw that he was not there.
Now he is anxious to ask me to go to Jiangcheng. There must be something wrong.
Where did he go and what did he do during the time he disappeared?
Where did Bai Zimo go again?
Thinking of the black shadow that appeared just now and what Liu Yiran said, I started to worry about Bai Zimo.
Although he is very strong, he is still just a shadow.
If someone cooperates with these shadows to deal with him, then he may also be in danger!
I don’t know where Liu Yiran died, and he couldn’t be found at the critical moment.
Anyway, let’s analyze the situation.
I was very upset, but I could only say to my adoptive father: "Dad, I listen to you, but tell me, did Sister Yinhua really give birth to another child after her death?"
Although Bai Zimo said this is true, I want to hear the adoptive father's explanation.
The adoptive father shook his head, fiddled with the tea cup in his hand and said, "Actually, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the countryside. Some women just lost their breath and did not really die. Later they woke up, gave birth to their children and then died of exhaustion."
In other words, this is likely the case with Ginghua.
But why did Li Hongbo go to the ancestral hall to find a coffin?
The village chief also said that Yinhua's soul is imprisoned somewhere under the ancestral hall, and only I can rescue her.
Are all these things just to lure me into the ancestral hall?
What else is there under the ancestral hall?
And what does that have to do with me...
