Hua Rujin raised her eyes and saw in the dim light, two giant pythons, one black and one white, kept shaking gently in the air, their big eyes flashing, and they were tightly holding each other.
She stared.
"I go."
Hua Rujin was so frightened that she stepped back.
Seeing two giant pythons, one black and one white, lowering their heads and heading towards the hole, she suddenly grabbed the realgar powder in her pocket and threw it out towards the giant pythons.
The cave was immediately covered in red powder, and the pungent smell made people cry.
Coughing sounds continued in the cave.
When the powder was used up, the red mist gradually dissipated. Hua Rujin held the dagger tightly and looked again, only to see two giant pythons paralyzed beside the girl in red.
His eyelids flickered feebly, and he was still struggling to lift his body.
Seeing this, Hua Rujin quickly pulled out her dagger and jumped directly towards the two giant pythons that were temporarily unable to resist.
Just as the cold light approached the black giant python, a high-pitched and harsh scream suddenly sounded:
"Don't hurt them, they don't want to attack you."
Then there were sad and sad cries.
Hua Rujin was startled when she heard this. She quickly stopped the dagger that was about to stab the snake's head.
He took a few steps back, wary of the two giant pythons and the girl in red, and glared: "In that case, why did you sneak into my house and scare people?"
"I didn't mean it."
The girl in red wiped away tears: "I just want to find some cooked food."
As she said that, she looked at the stone platform in the corner with blurred eyes: "My mother is dying and can't eat raw food. I want to find some food for her."
Hua Rujin looked around and saw a bare stone in the corner behind her covered with thick quilts.
Just as she was about to step over, she suddenly turned her head and looked at the two pythons again.
"They don't hurt people."
The girl in red choked and emphasized again.
Hua Rujin then moved closer to the stone platform.
But I was still a little worried and looked back at the python and the girl in red from time to time.
As I got closer to the stone platform, I heard faint twitching sounds: "It's cold. It's so cold."
"Aniang."
Hearing the sound, the girl in red crawled to the stone platform, pressed her hands on the thick mattress, and began to cry loudly: "Ani is useless, I couldn't find anything to eat for you."
"Nini. You. Want. to live."
A skinny arm stretched out from the quilt, trembling slightly in the air, but it fell straight down before it even touched the girl in red.
"Aniang, Aniang."
The little girl's hysterical cries echoed throughout the cave.
Hua Rujin bent down and sensed the woman's breath in the quilt, but found that she was no longer breathing.
"My condolences, your mother-in-law is dead."
Hua Rujin was still confused at this moment.
I thought there were some monsters hidden underground, but I never thought it was a miserable mother and daughter.
At this moment, a sound of rocks sliding suddenly came from a corner nearby.
When Hua Rujin heard the sound, she saw a figure emerging from behind the rock. She had unkempt hair and a dirty face. Through the light, she recognized it as the old beggar from Huangli Gang.
The old beggar held a few bags of things in his hands and walked forward with heavy steps. After taking a rough look at the situation in front of him, he lowered his head and sighed: "Your mother-in-law didn't make it through after all."
Then he put the things in his hands on the stone platform and said in a deep voice: "I bought the beggar's chicken that you like to eat. You should eat some, and you can't always eat raw."
When she heard that there was cooked food, the little girl quickly opened the package of the beggar's chicken, tore off a chicken leg and stuffed it into the woman's mouth. However, after working for a long time, there was no movement.
"Girl."
The old beggar shook his head helplessly: "It's a miracle that your mother can survive for so long. Just let her rest early. She has been worrying about you. You have to live well."
"What's going on?"
Hua Rujin looked at the old beggar confused.
"Why."
The old beggar sighed heavily again: "It's a long story, but you girl finally found this place. Old beggar, I tried my best but still can't make the two of them get what they want."
Hua Rujin listened silently, then saw the old beggar continue: "Two years, mother and daughter have been hiding in this tunnel for two years. I don't know when they started. They have been relying on those two beasts all day long.
I'm looking for some game in the mountains to satisfy my hunger, and I don't even dare to light a fire. I'm helpless, so I just want to let Ni Yatou go up there to breathe a sigh of relief and look at the sun in Jiangling City before she dies."
Hua Rujin suddenly realized: "So you are deliberately trying to bring bad luck to the owner of this house, in order to prevent others from renting this yard."
"But you girl still didn't believe it and moved in anyway."
The old beggar rolled his eyes at her angrily: "In the past two years, although I have made the owner of the house lose some money by talking nonsense, I can at least allow the mother and daughter to come up and breathe from time to time, even if it is
They can't go out, but the money I beg for can still keep them half full."
After hearing this, Hua Rujin finally understood everything.
It turns out that the old beggar was defrauding and abducting the mother and daughter in the busy city.
"Why are they hiding underground?"
Hua Rujin asked puzzledly.
"It's not like these dog officials in Jiangling City."
The old beggar was so angry that when he was about to speak, the little girl named Ni Ni quickly stopped him: "Grandpa Goupi, don't say any more."
"Grandpa Goupi?"
Hua Rujin wanted to laugh when she heard it, she might as well call her shit grandpa.
"Everyone who knows me as an old beggar in Jiangling City knows that I am a dog-skin plaster, so naturally I am called Goupi Grandpa."
The old beggar laughed at himself disapprovingly, and looked at the little girl solemnly: "Ni Yatou, you don't have to worry, the person in front of you is a poor person like you, and she also broke out of the cage, look at
You can trust her with some skills, and she has a close relationship with the new magistrate, so she might be able to help you."
"How come I have a life-long friendship with the magistrate? Old beggar, please don't talk nonsense."
Hua Rujin originally wanted to call him Senior Dog, but this title was really weird.
"The time we spent under the Dou family a few days ago was not a narrow escape from death. It was naturally a life-long friendship."
The old beggar said with a leisurely smile.
"Grandpa Goupi, I don't need anyone's help. I just want to wait peacefully for my father to come back."
The little girl kept choking and said with a cautious tone.
The old beggar coughed lightly: "The new county magistrate is a new scholar. Grandpa doesn't seem to be greedy for money. The person in front of you is not greedy for money either. Well, maybe they are willing to help without extorting money from you.
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"How do you know I'm not greedy for money?"
Hua Rujin rolled her eyes at him angrily.
It’s not that I’m not greedy for money, it’s just that I have no place to be greedy for money.
"Then the Shu family is much richer than the Dou family. The young master of the Shu family has been messing around with you all day long. You girl is really just for money. Wouldn't you have married into the Shu family a long time ago? You have a lot of money.
You are a foreigner."
The old beggar smiled sadly again.
"You old beggar has been asking me very clearly all day long."
Hua Rujin didn't want to talk to him anymore, and looked at the little girl who was still sobbing: "Since the person is dead, let's find a way to bury him. We can't hide him in this tunnel."
"I'm afraid I can only hide inside now."
The old beggar's expression changed, and his face suddenly became dull: "There are so many people outside, so if a new grave suddenly pops up outside the city, someone will definitely notice it."
Seeing that the old man and the young man were so cautious, Hua Rujin didn't say anything more.