Chapter 20 Auditory Hallucinations
Although the missing villagers have been found, the danger in Changle Village will still exist if Tianyi is not eliminated.
Furthermore, the bodies of the old people who were frozen to death have not been recovered yet. No matter what, they must give an explanation to the villagers.
After some discussion, Lu Hua decided to personally lead the team and take Xuan Yu and the three of them to capture Tianyi.
Jiang Nan had a legitimate reason to stay in the village and mess around because his leg injury had not yet healed.
However, the display of garbage was not really a display of garbage. She did not forget the main purpose of going down the mountain this time: to collect medicinal materials.
Changle Village is not big or small. There is only one medicine shop in the village. Jiang Nan found an excuse and told the village chief that he wanted to buy some medicinal materials to treat leg injuries. He asked the village chief about the medicine shop. address.
It’s just a harvest but not much.
After asking the owner of the drug store, I found out that most of the medicinal materials in his drug store are collected from nearby mountains. Most of the varieties inside are mainly therapeutic drugs. As for the raw materials that can be used to refine poisons, there are also There are not as many varieties as Jiang Nan picked herself.
But it was not all without gain. She also found out from the pharmacy owner about the surrounding places where herbs could be collected. After running back and forth for two days, she actually found one of the raw materials for her.
After returning from collecting herbs on the third day, it was already evening when I returned to the village court.
The people who went out to capture Tianyi haven't come back yet. According to Jiang Nan's guess, Tianyi is hard to find, and they probably won't gain much in three to five days.
Whether they come back or not has nothing to do with her anyway. It would be better if they never find Tianyi and have no return date.
In the afternoon, she passed by a pastry shop while collecting herbs. She exchanged the herbs she collected with the owner of the pastry shop for a box of pastries, planning to make do with it for dinner.
As soon as I unwrapped the layer of oil paper on the cake and prepared to eat it, I heard a low wailing coming from outside.
Although the sound was not loud, Jiang Nan could still clearly distinguish the sound of a kitten's cry.
Hearing the cat meow one after another, she was confused and didn't care whether she was hungry or not. She opened the door and walked out directly.
The yard was empty.
I searched around but couldn’t find the cat’s shadow. Could it be an auditory hallucination?
After dark, it was freezing cold in the yard. She did not continue to struggle, turned around and quickly returned to the house. Unexpectedly, the bag of pastries placed on the table was missing half.
Jiang Nan subconsciously scanned around the room.
“Who, who stole my sweet-scented osmanthus cake?”
Who opened a small crack in the previously closed window, and the cold wind slowly flowed in along the crack. Drill.
Thinking of the cat meow I heard earlier, I hurriedly walked to the window and took another look outside.
I didn’t see the shadow of the cat, but I saw a few cat paw prints on the snow beside the window sill.
There are real cats!
And it’s a cat that only steals food.
Somehow, when Jiang Nan found out that the cat eating her food was actually a cat, Jiang Nan didn't feel angry. Instead, she had a strong intuition: Could it be a cat monster?
Thinking about this, she quickly opened the window and peeked out.
Not far away, a figure walked slowly towards the house through the snow.
Seeing clearly who the visitor was, Jiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief, walked around the door, and said hello first: "Village Chief Wu."
"Xiao Zhenren, you are back."
While talking, the village chief walked up to him with a food box, "I brought you some food. When I came here just now, I saw that your door was closed, so I thought I would try my luck later, but I didn't expect it. I got lucky this time." It was rare that the other party was still thinking about him. Jiang Nan smiled happily: "Thank you, village chief, for these two days, otherwise I would have been hungry."
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"You're welcome, you found the villagers for me. I'm grateful that you all didn't have time. It's nothing to give me some food."
After the village chief finished speaking, he handed over the food box in his hand, "The weather is cold. Xiaozhenren, you are so thin, you have to eat more, otherwise how will you resist the cold?"
It was Xuan Yu's credit for finding the villagers, but he After all, that person did not need these things, so she took the food box with peace of mind, "Okay, thank you village chief for your concern."
It felt heavy as soon as I took it over, and I could vaguely smell the smell inside. The fragrance comes out.
Thinking of the footprints I saw on the windowsill before, I asked: "Village Chief Wu, does anyone in our village keep cats?"
"The environment in the village has been in recession in the past few years. It’s hard for people here to feed their families, so where can they find enough food to feed cats?”
The village chief sighed as he spoke, "But there are no domestic cats, but there are a few wild cats. As soon as night comes, they come out to look for food. It may be because of the cold weather recently, they often cry and howl in the middle of the night."
"Oh." It turned out to be a wild cat.
The village chief saw her solemn look and was curious: "What? Did the little real person meet the cat?"
"Yes."
Jiang Nan pursed her lips. , feeling regretful, "But it seems to be very afraid of me, it doesn't dare to show up, it just takes the things and leaves."
"It's normal. Wild cats are very vigilant and avoid people." After the village chief finished speaking, he reminded her, "If you have food in your house, just remember to close the doors and windows when you go to bed at night."
< br>"Okay, I got it."
After seeing off the village chief, Jiang Nan returned to the house with the food box.
After locking the door and getting ready to eat, I suddenly thought of something, so I walked over to the window and gently opened the bolted window.
She was not afraid that the cat would come and steal it. Instead, she left a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the table before going to bed, waiting for the cat to take it away.
The village chief fed me, and my belly was warm, so I slept very peacefully that night.
I woke up early the next morning and heard some movement outside.
The foursome who went to arrest Tianyi came back and recovered the body of an old man.
I don’t know what they have been through these past few days. The dust sweeper Lu Hua carried with him disappeared, and he sat in the hall feeling regretful and sighing, unwilling to say a few words.
Xuan Yu had probably fought fiercely with someone. There were several holes in the corners of his clothes, which looked like they were torn by huge claws. However, there were no injuries visible on his body, and his face still looked calm and composed, as calm as the breeze and bright moon.
Qing Xin and Liu Shui are the worst.
The two figures seemed to have crawled out of the quagmire. There was no dirt on their bodies. Even their heads and faces were covered with many black stains, leaving traces wherever they walked. There was a strong smell of corpses.
The person who most hoped that he could not come back would suffer the least harm. Although Jiang Nan felt a little regretful, seeing the disgraced and embarrassed look of Qingxin and Liushui, she couldn't help but feel secretly proud. Ichiban.
"Senior Brother, have you caught Tianyi?" Jiang Nan asked, why did he end up like this? Hahaha.
“No, it ran away.”
After she finished speaking, Xuan Yu noticed a flash of schadenfreude on her face, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why, Tianyi ran away, are you happy?"
(End of this chapter)