Even if Xiao Chen didn't look at the gatekeeper of the ancestral hall with colored glasses, he felt that there was something wrong with him.
When Xiao Chen wanted to know more about the gatekeeper, someone suddenly came over in a hurry.
The people who came were a young couple from the village.
Like here in Miao Village, many young people get married before they are twenty years old, so by the time they are in their twenties, their children are already six or seven years old.
"Patriarch, my child suddenly felt unwell this morning. The old man said he was poisoned."
The child is uncomfortable?
It is summer vacation time now, and the children basically stay at home or play near the Miao village. It is because of the sudden death in the Miao village in the past few days that the children are not allowed to go out.
"Bewitched? What kind of poison is caught again?" Chief Long was surprised. Now it's really going on and on.
After Xiao Chen heard this, he and Sang hurriedly followed the young couple to their home. When they arrived at their home and entered, there were already many people surrounding the place.
When Xiao Chen went in to take a look, a six or seven-year-old child was lying there. It looked like something was wrong.
The boy said this morning that he heard the sound of a toad.
In July and August, you can see many toads in the countryside.
There are even some places where people secretly shine flashlights on the toads and then catch them to make medicinal materials. However, in many places now, toads like these are also protective and beneficial animals and can no longer be caught.
Here in Xitang Miao Village, it is normal to see toads.
However, the child's family heard about the toad and didn't pay much attention.
Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, I found that something was wrong with the child. His face was swollen, like a toad, and he looked very strange.
There were some experienced people in the village who could tell that the child must have been poisoned.
"Mr. Xiao, how is my child?"
"It's true that I've been poisoned, and it's been going on for a few days, and it started to show up today."
What?
Really bewitched?
The child's family suddenly became nervous.
"What kind of poison did the child have?" the child's grandfather asked.
"It's just the toad. When you are poisoned, you often have hallucinations and hear the cry of the toad. Moreover, I suspect that there is one where you live.
Let me look for such a dead toad."
Toad?
The people around were surprised.
Now the child still lives in a room with his parents. Xiao Chen first went to the child's parents' room and searched carefully, but did not find any dead toads.
However, when Xiao Chen looked aside carefully, he didn't expect to find it.
This kind of dead toad is hidden in a wall, and if you don't pay attention, you really don't know that something is stuffed here.
"it's here."
When Xiao Chen called out, Sang and others had already come over and saw Xiao Chen finding a wrapped bowl from the wall near the window of that room.
What was in the bowl was a shriveled, dead toad.
This dead toad is used to poison children.
Moreover, Xiao Chen knew that if he was poisoned by a toad, he would be able to find corresponding dead toads around him.
When everyone saw this, they were really surprised.
Unexpectedly, now even children are being poisoned.
Xiao Chen knew that toad voodoo, like other witchcraft voodoos, was difficult to treat, but now that the symptoms were confirmed, the child could be treated as soon as possible.
Xiao Chen wrote a prescription and asked people to rush to the town to buy the medicine and give it to the child.
As for the dead toad, Xiao Chen took it away directly.
Xiao Chen did not expect that now the elderly, middle-aged people, young people, and now children in the village would all become the targets of the poison.
When Xiao Chen returned to Patriarch Long, he specifically asked the child's birthday and horoscope.
Xiao Chen did the math, and what he didn't expect was that he was born in the lunar month of the lunar year.
In other words, the target of the poisonous murderer is the person born in the lunar month of the lunar year.
Who knows the birth dates of these people so well?
There are so many villagers. If someone hadn't seen the birth dates of these people, they would definitely not know clearly.
When Xiao Chen and Sang returned to Chief Long, Chief Long asked: "Mr. Xiao, is it true that someone has been poisoned?"
"It's true, he was poisoned by a toad."
Toad?
Chief Long had naturally seen this kind of poison before, but he didn't expect that someone could be so vicious and now start to attack children.
"This is the dead toad, where the child lives
I found it on the wall of my room.”
Chief Long looked at the dead toad and quickly took a step back.
Xiao Chen knew that this dead toad could not be thrown away casually, it was better to burn it.
"Mr. Xiao, who did this?"
"I'm not sure who it is, but I want the clan leader to call everyone in the Miao village out tonight."
"Call everyone out?"
"Yes, everyone must be called out, and they must be called to the foot of the mountain, including the gatekeeper of the ancestral hall. I want to stay here with Sang to investigate."
"Are you really sure?"
"It's not even 100%, but it's 80% sure."
Xiao Chen felt that this murderer was too rampant and inhumane. Now he was killing men, women, old and young. As for what the murder was for, Xiao Chen didn't know yet.
"Who are you? If you didn't go down by then, you're probably the murderer."
"Chief Long, you are really smart."
Although they were called out last night, not all of them were called out, but tonight was different. Xiao Chen hoped that Chief Long would inform everyone to come to the foot of the mountain.
Then by then, Xiao Chen and three others will be the only ones left on the stilt building on the mountain.
"I'll start informing you that there will be a meeting at the foot of the mountain at eight o'clock tonight."
After discussing with Chief Long, Xiao Chen returned to the room with Sang, and now Mo Xiaowan was taking a nap in the room.
Seeing Noila Mo's appearance, Xiao Chen looked out the window again.
In fact, the so-called poison is the same as other poisons. Is this existence used to harm people? Or is it used for self-defense? Xiao Chen doesn't know, but no matter what, it is still people who are controlled.
If this murderer had no intention of harming others, then this kind of thing would not happen now.
The problem is, the murderer wants to harm people.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Chen went to see the child who had been bitten by the toad again. After taking the medicinal soup, he looked much better and was already sleeping.
Originally, the Xitang Miao Village had been driven into a state of delusion, and they still didn't know who would die next. But now that Xiao Chen appeared here, the Miao Village villagers felt a lot more at ease.
They believe that as long as Mr. Xiao is here, they will be fine for the time being.
However, they know that in order to truly solve this problem, they must find the murderer.