Lying neatly on their bodies were two villagers with pale faces and sunken cheeks, as if their popularity had been sucked dry by some mountain spirit ghost.
They are the confidants of the village chief's family, the two middle-aged men who disappeared last night.
The two people were lying in a particularly regular posture, with their hands placed in front of their stomachs and their eyes closed tightly. Even though their faces were pale and lifeless, they still revealed a sense of tranquility.
The village chief sighed when he saw this.
"If I hadn't asked them to stay last night, maybe this wouldn't have happened."
"Sooner or later you will die."
Xu Shuo looked calm.
The village chief didn't say anything else, and stepped forward to check on the two of them. However, at the moment when they were about to make contact, he suddenly got excited and jumped back two meters away!
Xu Shuo, who was stirring the mortar, was also stunned by his sudden behavior and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
The village chief took a breath: "It's such a rich and deep...yin energy!"
The village chief did not see the dormant abyss above the cemetery, but he felt it from these two peaceful people, and he was almost entangled in the darkness!
That's it?
Xu Shuo shook his head indifferently and walked towards the cemetery.
And as he moved, the rolling darkness in the sky was slightly turbulent, like a waterspout about to form, and an inverted triangle shape emerged from the dark clouds.
Seeing this, Xu Shuo paused with his right foot just half a step into the cemetery, and then slowly took it back.
Then the dark clouds that were falling in the sky stopped.
After thinking for a while, Xu Shuo took another tentative step.
The black clouds in the sky immediately dropped a little.
Xu Shuo took his feet back.
The black cloud did not move upward, but it stopped its falling momentum.
According to this trend, if he tests it a few more times, this huge darkness will probably completely subside!
Xu Shuo: "..."
you are vicious!
He turned away from the cemetery entrance.
It seems that before the end, he probably won't be able to go in and look for the bride's grave. After all, the abyss is glaring at him.
And if you end the script now, the reward you can get is estimated to be approximately zero.
He has not benefited from the bride yet.
The village chief stood nearby and felt a little confused as he watched him repeatedly jumping around the edge of the cemetery.
"Is there anything in here?"
"The yin energy is too strong." Xu Shuo sighed.
"Indeed, it seems that the real situation in this village is more complicated than we thought." The village chief nodded seriously.
"By the way, you said last night that you still have something to tell me?" Xu Shuo suddenly turned to look at him.
"You...so you heard me shouting?!"
The village chief looked at him with wide eyes. After receiving Xu Shuo's affirmative signal, his expression suddenly became sad, angry and aggrieved!
What he shouted on the mountainside last night was at the top of his lungs!
As a result, this guy clearly heard it, but he just ignored him!
The village chief grinded his teeth angrily: "Don't wait until it's too late!"
When Xu Shuo heard this, he just said "Oh" and didn't dwell on this matter anymore. He turned around and walked back - the rice flour in the mortar had been mixed by him, and now it was time to set it up and steam it in the pot.
As a result, looking at his back as he left without hesitation, the village chief felt that his breath was stuck in his throat and he could not go up or down.
You ask!
Why don't you continue to ask?
Didn’t you look very interested last night?!
The village chief followed him angrily. Halfway there, he suddenly turned his head and glanced at the gloomy cemetery and the villagers lying at the entrance of the cemetery like two door gods.
What these two people look like now.
Why does it look a bit like Lao Li from last night?
Last night, after the bride slapped the hatchet monster away with her sleeve, the village chief and Wang Fuhu, who were hiding in the alley, bravely came out to check on the hatchet monster.
At that time, Lao Li was pale, his cheeks were sunken, and his figure was straight.
It looked as if the essence had been sucked dry.
It's completely different from Lao Li during the day.
The village chief stared at the two corpses on the ground thoughtfully for a while, then took out two silver bullets and planted them one on the left and one on the right in front of the entrance to the cemetery.
After putting away the things, the village chief quickly caught up with Xu Shuo.
…
In front of the courtyard gate.
When Xu Shuo walked back with the mortar in his arms, he saw another person poking his head at the entrance of the courtyard. It was Ergouzi who was sent by the village chief to look for him yesterday evening.
After seeing Xu Shuo's figure, Ergou's originally suspicious expression immediately turned to surprise, and he quickly ran over and shouted: "Tiezhu! Tiezhu! Where did you go just now?"
Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows: "What happened again?"
Ergou had a stern look on his face: "Lao Li was just found dead at home, and everyone was thinking..."
"Let's see if it was me who killed him?"
"……Ah ha ha."
Ergou scratched his head in embarrassment and looked at him with twinkling eyes: "Tie Zhu, where were you just now? Where are the hatchets at home?"
This question made Xu Shuo pause.
Seeing that he couldn't answer for a while, Ergou's expression immediately became nervous and he calmly took two steps away from him.
Xu Shuo reacted and looked behind him: "I just went to the cemetery with the village chief to look for someone. Then, my hatchet was also taken away by the village chief last night."
This answer made Ergou stunned: "Huh?"
Could it be that the village chief was also involved in the killing?
At this moment, the seventy-year-old village chief ran up from the back hill panting. He leaned on a cane to catch his breath and looked at the two dogs standing at the door of the courtyard in confusion.
"Ergou, what are you doing here?"
"Old Li was hacked to death in his own home. The villagers asked me to come up and see what Tie Zhu was doing." Ergou quickly repeated what he had just said.
"What? Old Li is dead too?" The village chief was confused.
"Yes." Ergou nodded stupidly.
Xu Shuo looked at the two stupid people standing at the entrance of the courtyard, shook his head and walked into the kitchen.
He poured out some of the previously pounded osmanthus powder and mixed it evenly with the rice flour, then poured the soft and glutinous rice flour into the cage and spread it out, then spread a layer of osmanthus powder on top to make a filling, and then poured a layer of rice flour to top it off.
.
This is the simplest way to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Xu Shuo found after searching a hundred ways last night.
As for whether it tastes good or not...
This is not something he needs to control.
After all, these spawned osmanthus flowers themselves are abnormal.
If it doesn’t taste good then, just put the blame directly on the bride!
Surely she won't blame Wang Tiezhu?
Xu Shuo secretly planned in his mind, put the installed baskets on the steamer, poured water in and started the stove to light up the fire!
…
Xu Shuo was busy making sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
In the yard, after sending away the two dogs who came to deliver information, the village chief walked into the kitchen with a heavy heart, and then looked at Xu Shuo, who was busy, lost in thought.
The atmosphere was silent, one person was busy fanning the flames, and the other was sitting on a small bench, frowning and thinking, and time passed by bit by bit.
No one can fight against Xu Shuo!
In the end, it was the village chief who spoke first: "I actually had a story I didn't tell you last night."
Xu Shuo: "Hmm?"
The village chief gave it away: "Do you know why the people in the village are so hostile to you?"
Xu Shuo did not cooperate.
The village chief was helpless: "Because your name is Wang Tiezhu."
Xu Shuo turned to look at him: "What next."
Who did the name Wang Tiezhu offend?
Although he always received no cooperation, the village chief was still addicted to selling off: "For sixty years, the whole village has been living in the shadow of the bride. You have to know, this is a full sixty years! Most of my life! Half of it.
Century! After sixty years, the villagers have accumulated as much grievances as the original bride!"
Xu Shuo sneered: "Are they worthy?"
The village waved his hand: "Whether they are worthy or not is another matter, but the bride is taking revenge, and the villagers now also want to take revenge."
Xu Shuo fanned the stove and accepted his words in a calm tone: "However, because the bride is an outsider, she has no one close to her in the village to take revenge on, so the villagers can't find anyone to vent to. But it doesn't matter.
, Wang Tiezhu has some relationship with the bride, and the villagers, whose sanity is about to collapse, want to take revenge on the bride by running against Wang Tiezhu."
The village chief updated: "You...you know everything."
"Is it hard to guess?"
"..."
The bride's attitude towards Wang Tiezhu was not that intense, and she was even a little partial, and the village chief of Osmanthus Village tried every means to protect Wang Tiezhu. All the clues were thrown directly at his face, so——