The shiny candy made the little boy's eyes widen. He swallowed and looked at the candy in Jian Xingxing's hand eagerly.
You know, in a remote mountain village like theirs, let alone sugar with nice-looking wrapping paper, even if you want to eat white sugar, you have to wait until the holidays to get some.
The little boy pursed his lips and had red eyes, forcing himself not to look at Jian Xingxing's candies.
Want it, but can't have it.
The village chief's uncle said that the three people who came to the village yesterday could not be trusted, so he could not ask for this person's candy.
"Isn't one enough?"
Jian Xingxing hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and took out another one from his pocket.
"Is this enough?"
He looked at the two candies in his hand eagerly, swallowed, and said with reluctance on his face: "My sister usually doesn't let me eat candies. I saved these two candies through frugality. Really.
There’s not much left!”
Hearing this, the little boy's eyes widened and he looked at Jian Xingxing in disbelief. Is it true that there is such a shortage of candy in the city?
Do you really want to give such a precious thing to him?
The little boy looked at the two candies that were even more sparkling in the sun, and visibly swallowed, but he still pursed his lips, turned his head and spoke with difficulty: "You... don't give it to me, even if I eat it, it won't be enough."
I won’t say it!”
After all, I just want to eat it.
Jian Xingxing blinked, tore open the candy packaging bag, and stuffed the candy inside into the little boy's mouth.
The little boy's eyes were full of surprise, but he still couldn't bear to spit out the candy in his mouth.
So sweet.
He has never tasted such sweet candy, it is so delicious.
Seeing the little boy's confused look, Jian Xingxing said while the iron was hot: "How about we still have a chat?"
The little boy frowned, but this time he did not continue to reject Jian Xingxing.
Jian Xingxing approached and asked seriously: "Do you know what happened today?"
"have no idea!"
The little boy jumped away without hesitation and looked at Jian Xingxing warily.
He quickly realized that his reaction was a little too much.
"Huh... I just don't know anyway."
The little boy spoke hesitantly, with a hint of guilt in his voice. After all, eating people's mouths is short, not to mention that he hasn't finished all the food in his mouth, so it will be even shorter.
"Really? I just saw the old woman crying so sadly, and she looked so scary. I thought there was something wrong with the village."
Jian Xingxing's eyes were fixed on the little boy, and he stuffed another candy into the little boy's shabby clothes pocket: "Keep this one for yourself, I'm giving it my favorite thing
It’s all for you!”
Hearing this, the little boy bit his lip and hesitated for a long time. Then he made up his mind and said implicitly: "Don't worry about this matter. This is not something you should worry about."
"Then we also need to know why, right?"
Jian Xingxing sighed and shrugged: "Don't you ever know something like this and really want to know it?"
"That's true..."
The little boy clicked his lips, and the sweet taste made him a little confused.
He hesitated for a moment, then continued: "You may not believe it if I tell you. In our village, there have always been rumors about werewolves. My sister must have been kidnapped by werewolves."
Werewolf?
But wasn't the werewolf injured by his mother last night?
How can you still have the energy to harm others?
Jian Xingxing's mind briefly doubted, and then looked at the little boy: "Then what? Have you ever seen a werewolf with your own eyes?"
"No, I just heard it from my uncles and aunts in the village. How could I have seen a werewolf when I was so young?"
The little boy looked more serious: "Okay, don't continue to ask me. If you ask me again, the village chief uncle will definitely scold me if he finds out."
"Okay, okay, then I won't ask this question."
Jian Xingxing followed the little boy's words and asked calmly: "Then your sister was taken away, aren't you sad?"
The little boy gave Jian Xingxing a hard look.
His eyes are still red now!
How could it not be uncomfortable?!
Jian Xingxing blinked, realizing that he had said the wrong thing.
He stayed by the little boy's side for a while, asking a lot of questions overtly and secretly, but the little boy still kept silent. He really couldn't come up with anything to say, so Jian Xingxing left helplessly.
On the other side, Jian Anran and Chu Yan found a series of less obvious footprints next to the rag.
"This set of footprints is a little messy here, and then it went this way."
Jian Anran murmured in a low voice while following the direction of the footprints.
Chu Yan followed her, and the two of them pretended to be taking a leisurely walk, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the villagers.
The steps gradually extended towards the outside of the village.
"The villagers don't know what they are doing right now, and no one came over to look at us."
Chu Yan frowned and said with some vigilance: "Logically speaking, if they don't want us to know about this, they should send people to guard this place instead of letting us get close easily."
"I know what you mean, but this is the only clue we have at the moment. The whereabouts of Millennium Candle are unknown. The only thing we can know now is this line in front of us."
Jian Anran sighed, with a hint of melancholy in her voice.
I thought the task might be difficult, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome.
The two followed the footprints and chased them all the way to a place far away from the village.
"There is nothing in the wilderness, and the steps are broken even here."
Chu Yan squatted down, looked at his steps carefully, and frowned even more: "It seems to have been erased on purpose."
"We were erased when we got here. Was it because we left in a hurry and didn't have time, or was it because we were deliberately lured here?"
Jian Anran's beautiful brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
I never thought it would turn out like this.
The missing Azhen, the missing Millennium Candle, and the werewolf...
How many secrets are there behind Honglie Village?
"An Ran, come and see here."
Chu Yan's voice brought back Jian Anran's thoughts. She looked over following the voice and saw Chu Yan standing in the woods not far away. His voice was a little blurry: "Here... there is a grave."
"grave?"
Jian Anran immediately walked over.
What they saw in front of them was a very ordinary grave made of small mounds of earth. Apart from some weeds, there seemed to be nothing nearby.
"Look first, what if there are any clues?"
Jian Anran's intuition told her that there must be many secrets hidden here.
"good."
Chu Yan responded.
The two of them walked around the tomb and found no other clues. The only difference was that the tombstone... had no name.
