Chapter 112 Scene Fourteen ? Caged Bird Pond Fish? Five
Chapter 112 Scene 14 Caged Bird Pond Fish Five
In the eleventh year of Yuansui, on the twenty-third of the first lunar month, spring finally arrived in the new year, the weak snow melted, and the earth revived. Thousands of red and white plum trees bloomed within a hundred miles of Yugu Lake, and fallen flowers almost connected the two states of Wan and Si. All the major thoroughfares were dyed pink.
The ice in the Yanjiang River also began to melt gradually from south to north. The cold snow water flowing from the top of Qinglan Mountain merged into the river, causing the water level to surge. The rapid river water rolled the ice down the river and merged into Yugu Lake. After night falls, the petals falling in the lake are frozen, which creates a wonder in Weiliang.
It was almost dusk, and in the quiet courtyard in Kunjie, Jingshu City, Ning Yue didn't know there was such a fun place. She just leaned in the corridor on the second floor facing the street as usual, looking at the gloomy sky outside in a daze.
Dark clouds gradually gathered above the head, and before you knew it, the sky where you could still see a few patches of sunset became as dark as midnight. Suddenly, a bright white light split the darkness in front of you, and thunder seemed to explode in the girl's ears. There was a loud sound, causing her body to sway involuntarily. Only then did she realize that unknowingly, it was already the beginning of the hibernation season when the spring thunder rolled.
Around the time of the Flower Festival, the streets were full of vendors selling sun cakes and colorful paper stickers. Amidst the lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured down from the sky. The crowds also ran away like ants in a frying pan. , in the blink of an eye, all of them had fled into the house.
If it had been in the past, Ning Yue would have laughed heartily at such a scene. But now she just held her cheek with her hands, not showing any interest at all. The reason was not just that Yan and Qi Ziyin were hiding from each other. There is still no news, especially because Kun Jie suddenly banned her from running around without permission recently because of the unrest in the city. Now she is bored in the yard and is almost getting moldy, but she does not dare to disobey the other party's order easily.
The red-haired girl let out a long sigh, as if this could relieve all the depression in her chest. At this moment, she suddenly saw a figure flashing out of the corner of the street. The man was pushing a car to look at. The wheelbarrow, which looked a little shabby, limped across the street under the girl's eyes, walking quickly against the rain.
Although the other person was wearing a bamboo hat on his head and a thick raincoat on his body, the way he walked suddenly reminded Ning Yue of the mysterious cripple he met a month ago.
After arguing with Kun Jie that day about the lame man, Ning Yue took the opportunity to go out several times to explore the vicinity of the mysterious mansion in the city, but found nothing unusual, let alone anything suspicious. People were coming in and out of the courtyard. A period of time passed like this, and she suddenly learned from Granny Cen that there had been a fire in the courtyard and it was burned into ruins, and the whereabouts of all the people in it were missing.
This incident made the girl unable to let it go for a long time, and she gradually forgot about it as time passed. But now she suddenly saw the cripple again, and the trace of doubt that had always existed in her heart was rekindled.
"This guy's rain gear is still on. He must have gone out specially when there was no one on the street. And he was walking in such a hurry that he wanted to run. He must not be doing anything good!"
Ning Yue could not help but have such thoughts in her heart. She felt more and more that this cripple must have some hidden secret. It happened that Kunjie and Granny Cen were not in the house today. Although she was not allowed to run around, she I have to find out clearly!
Thinking of this, the red-haired girl immediately lifted up her skirt and ran downstairs. The yard was noisy at the moment, and the servants were busy picking up the clothes hanging outside, crowding the yard. But the girl didn't even take care of the oil-paper umbrella. He picked it up, found the right moment, and plunged into the pouring rain curtain outside the door.
"Miss Ning Yue, Lord Kunjie said, you can't go anywhere!"
Her red hair was too conspicuous, and people in the courtyard immediately shouted to stop. However, the girl did not stop because of this, but instead quickened her pace:
"I am in a hurry and have to go out. If my mother-in-law comes back, she will tell me that I am sleeping in the room! If you don't help me, I will definitely make you look good in the future!"
Ning Yue said a few threatening words and ran away. Even if the servants in the courtyard tried to stop her, they could no longer catch up.
Along the way, the girl kept a certain distance from the cripple in front of her, and deliberately covered her eye-catching red head with a square scarf. The patter of rain covered her footsteps, but it also made it difficult to follow her. Several times The figure of the cripple had completely disappeared into the light gray mist. Fortunately, after turning a few corners at random, he reappeared in her sight by some strange combination of circumstances.
However, what Ning Yue didn't expect was that the other party did not stop somewhere in the city as she expected, but went straight north out of the city gate and walked all the way towards the deserted suburbs.
The rain gradually weakened. Ning Yue looked up at the sky. The dark clouds had slowly dispersed, and a pair of twin moons had risen from the horizon. Now that the girl had followed the cripple out of the city for more than half an hour, she couldn't help but feel a little scared. .However, the desire to win finally prevailed. She gritted her teeth and followed boldly.
The other party didn't light a torch along the way, and I don't know how he could see the direction clearly, but he was still moving quickly on the muddy road. Finally, Ning Yue lost him again, and could no longer find the other party. Under the weak moonlight, she had already begun to think about retreating, but she suddenly saw vaguely that there were several ruts of different depths on the ground in front of her.
The rut turned into a small village at the end of the road not far away. There were no lights in the village, and I don't know whether it was because of poverty or because the villagers had gone to bed after working for a day. The girl stood on the roadside and hesitated. Time cannot decide whether you should continue to move forward.
The frogs in the fields on the roadside seemed to be croaking endlessly as if they were never tired. Ning Yue was just about to turn around and leave, but she vaguely heard something moving in the grass behind her, and then several living creatures jumped out from around her feet. She was so shocked that she almost screamed.
"Quack, quack."
Then a few wild ducks chirped, but the frightened girl quickly calmed down. She chuckled somewhat self-deprecatingly, then untied the square scarf on her head, and smoothed her already soaked hair with her hands:
"Really, what are you trying to do by scaring yourself? The cripple didn't notice me all the way, and now he has followed me here. If he retreats halfway like this, I'm afraid he won't even be able to explain his soaked dress, right?"
Now that she had made up her mind, Ning Yue plucked up the courage to walk towards the village. The ruts on the ground disappeared in front of a farmhouse. The wooden door of the farmhouse was ajar, and there was a faint smell of unpleasant smell coming from the crack in the door. The red-haired girl boldly pushed the door open and went in, only to find that no one was in the room. There was only an oil lamp that was about to bottom out, dancing silently in the corner with a flickering flame.
In addition, there are more than a dozen freshly slaughtered pigs hanging on the beams of the farmhouse. However, these pigs are a little different from what the girl usually sees in the market. Not only do they have no limbs, heads and necks, but even the skin on their bodies. It has been stripped off a long time ago, and I don’t know what it is going to be used for.
The blood on one of the pigs had not yet solidified. When Ning Yue raised her head, two dots of bright red gently fell on her face. The girl immediately shuddered and stepped back, but unexpectedly stepped on the ground. Place it on a large copper basin next to the door.
What the basin contained was the stinky blood water released from the pigs' bodies, which immediately splashed all over the floor. The greasy filth made Ning Yue unable to maintain her balance anymore, and she leaned back and fell heavily.
The girl's heart trembled, and she stretched out her hand to pull a large basket made of bamboo strips beside her, intending to use her strength. But with a tug, the bamboo basket was also turned over. The basket rolled out. He saw a few things stained with blood, and when he took a closer look, he found that they were actually several human heads with painful expressions and ferocious faces!
What made her even more frightened was that the deceased were not ordinary people on land, but were compatriots of her own race with fair skin and fine scales who came from the seabed of Chanying!
Ning Yue felt her stomach churning, and she knelt on the ground and retched on the spot - it turned out that the dissected corpses she had seen hanging from the beams were not pigs, but living creatures like herself. Man! She finally realized that following the cripple out of the city was an extremely stupid decision. Even when she turned around and tried to escape out the door, her limbs became weak and she fell several times in a row and was unable to get up.
At this moment, a figure slowly walked up to the girl from outside the farmhouse. The clothes on the figure were almost stained red with blood, and he also held a sharp bone-picking knife in his hand. It was the cripple from before!
After seeing Ning Yue, the other party did not show the slightest surprise. Instead, she showed an evil and sycophantic smile:
"Girl, do you think you can still leave now that you're here?"
"The car you pushed before was actually filled with corpses, right? The purpose of transporting the corpses on rainy days was to allow the rain to wash away the blood dripping from the car without attracting anyone's attention!"
The red-haired girl tried her best, but still couldn't suppress the trembling in her voice. At this point, she seemed to have no way out, so she wanted to ask the question clearly in one breath.
"So clever."
The lame man raised the knife in his hand to his mouth, stretched out his tongue and licked it, as if he was enjoying the process of teasing the prey.
"Who are these dead people? How did you find them? And why did you kill them?!"
"Do you feel like you are about to die and want to know better? You guys just don't want to live a good life, so why do you want to meddle in other people's business?"
Ning Yue was thinking hard in her mind, trying to delay as much time as possible to find a way to survive. However, the cripple in front of her was unwilling to say any more. He raised his eyebrows and pointed behind the girl. Indicate.
Only then did Ning Yue realize that there was another person hiding in the house. But before the girl had time to react, a gust of cold wind blew up behind her head and knocked her unconscious on the spot!
In a daze, the girl felt that her body had become very light, as light as a feather on a wild goose's wing, flying in the sky with the wind. And not long after that, she vaguely felt that her body had become very heavy, as heavy as It was filled with lead and fell straight to the ground.
The moment she landed, Ning Yue's heart beat violently, as if her soul had been pulled back to her body by a force. In extreme fear, she couldn't help but shout:
"Little stammer, Ziyin—help me—"
"Don't be afraid, miss, you are safe!"
A familiar voice slowly floated to her ears. A warm current gradually emerged from the limbs of the red-haired girl, allowing her to open her eyes with all her strength.
At this time, she was no longer in the farmhouse, and the ferocious face of the cripple had been replaced by Granny Cen, who was full of worry. Ning Yue sat up from the couch with excitement, and firmly held the old woman's hand:
"There is really something wrong with that cripple! He has personally killed several of our compatriots, and it seems that he has already targeted us! Even now, is it possible that Kun Jie still refuses to investigate?"
"Miss, who do you think launched the manned search inside and outside the city last night and finally rescued you from that farmhouse? Lord Kunjie already knows about the cripple, so don't worry about it. This time you ran out of the city without permission and made the adults very unhappy!"
"If he had believed me before, he wouldn't have sneaked out..." The girl suddenly felt a little aggrieved, lowered her head and retorted in a low voice.
"You're still blaming my lord, aren't you? He has a lot of things to do, and he has to prioritize everything. No matter what the reason is, Miss will never act willfully again next time, do you hear me!"
When the old woman saw this, she couldn't help scolding her. Ning Yue couldn't bear to see the other party worried about her, so she finally nodded lightly and agreed, then asked again:
"Did the mother-in-law find out who the clan members were who were killed by the cripple?"
"The people who died were all the old subordinates who were brought ashore in their old age. Many of them have been promoted to executive officers. However, after each of them lurked on land for a period of time, there was no news from them. It's just that I never thought that they would die here silently!"
Grandma Cen nodded. Speaking of those subordinates who died tragically, she couldn't help but feel a little moved.
"But how can the cripple know their true identities?"
Ning Yue felt more and more that things were not as simple as they seemed, and continued to ask, "I heard from my father that the ranks in the rebel party are divided into four levels, namely the first deacon and the second deacon. , the three elders of Law Enforcement and Staff-holding, and then there is the Executive, and the lowest level of Fire-Execution. How can a person who can sit on the Executive take his life so easily by a land man? Mother-in-law, don’t you? Are you planning to study further?"
"Since you know the hierarchy within the organization, you should also know that the three elders of deacon, law enforcement and staff do not know each other, and the things they govern are completely different. If you want to understand today's matter in depth, you must be the executive. Mr. Kunjie dispatched the law enforcement elders to investigate. As the man holding the staff, I cannot make the decision on my own."
This is how the old lady explained.
"In that case, has Kun Jie started arranging an investigation now? I suddenly had a feeling that the cripple took me to that farmhouse on purpose. Maybe he knew that I was following him from the beginning. But I died with these How did he know that we are members of the same clan? Why did he let me go?"
The red-haired girl did not give up, muttering to herself like a man possessed. But the old lady in front of her shook her head and did not speak again.
"Oh, many people have died, mother-in-law, why are you so indifferent?"
Ning Yue couldn't help but become anxious, but her face suddenly changed, as if she suddenly remembered some details of the attack in the farmhouse the night before, "By the way, there should have been another person in the farmhouse at that time. He was the one who attacked me from behind and knocked me unconscious. Yes! Could this person be the traitor in the clan that we have always wanted to find but have never had any clues about? Could he be someone hiding around us in Jingshu City!"
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