Chapter 115 Petrification
When he got up in the morning, Jiang Cheng took advantage of Chen Xiaomeng to wash up, ran to the bed and repeated his old trick, and then as expected, was caught by Chen Xiaomeng again.
But this time because he happened to be wearing a rope, Jiang Cheng was given a hard whip.
Jiang Cheng seemed to want to hide, but because of his position, he didn't. He was slapped on his forearm, and the area where he was slapped immediately turned red.
“I’m warning you,” Chen Xiaomeng held up the rope in her hand and threatened fiercely, “Don’t try to play any tricks, or I’ll beat you to death!”
Jiang Cheng immediately became honest.
After saying that, Chen Xiaomeng left. Hearing the footsteps, he should be going downstairs.
They agreed yesterday to meet on the first floor in the morning, and then wait for the village chief and his party to arrive and take them to Xiaoshijian Village.
After Chen Xiaomeng left, Jiang Cheng stood up unsteadily and went to the bathroom to wash up.
In the mirror in front of him, the red and swollen marks on his arms were very conspicuous. After staring for a while, his expression gradually became subtle.
Out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a rope hanging on the wall. Hanging on the rope was something unknown as a towel or a rag.
He stretched out his hand, untied both ends of the rope, folded both sides in half and held it in his hand, feeling that the texture and weight were just right.
Walking through a set of decayed wooden stairs, Chen Xiaomeng came to the first floor. Several people were sitting around a rough wooden table, with a pot of porridge on the table.
Her eyes swept over the people at the table one by one, and she realized that everyone was there except herself and Jiang Cheng.
The sitting position is also very particular. Pei Gan sat on the left, and Jiang Zhongyi and Yu Man, who supported him, sat next to him.
It was just the opposite at Zhou Rong's place. Li Lu was eating silently with her head down, and Penfolds was also there, but his face wasn't very good, and he was a little pale, as if he hadn't had a good rest last night.
She hesitated for a moment, walked over, filled a bowl of porridge first, and then sat on an unoccupied table next to her.
She took a brief sip. The porridge was different from what she usually drank. It tasted astringent. It contained mostly coarse grains and occasionally some particles that were too small for teeth to bite.
But just as she lowered her head to drink the porridge, she suddenly noticed a strange gaze directed at her from different positions.
This was the intuition she developed in crisis. She immediately raised her head and faced one of them.
It's Jiang Zhongyi.
He was staring at himself with a very strange look, but after being discovered, he seemed to have a guilty conscience and lowered his head to drink porridge to hide it.
At the same time, several other lines of sight suddenly disappeared.
Chen Xiaomeng was confused. She did not see any threat in Jiang Zhongyi's eyes. Instead, her eyes were full of doubts, weirdness, and even wonder.
I haven’t seen you all night. What happened to these people?
An unknown premonition slowly fermented in her heart. She vaguely seemed to feel something, but before she could dig into it, she heard intermittent footsteps on the wooden stairs.
She turned around and saw Jiang Cheng's figure slowly walking down the stairs, but his movements were very strange.
One hand is holding on to the stairs, while the other is holding on to his waist. His steps are shaky and his body is trembling from time to time, as if he has just recovered from a serious illness or is exhausted.
As more and more people looked at him, the expression on Jiang Cheng's face became more and more delicate.
He is pale, but unlike Penfolds, there is a trace of shyness in his paleness.
As if he was afraid of being watched, Jiang Cheng lowered his head and took small steps until he came to Chen Xiaomeng's side.
At this time, everyone no longer concealed the shock in their eyes, including Pei Qian. He looked up and down at Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng, with a trace of envy inadvertently showing in his eyes.
It feels so good to be young, to be able to still be interested in doing that kind of thing in a place like this.
Chen Xiaomeng never expected the expressions of the people in the three rooms downstairs during Jiangcheng's "nightmare" last night.
They all raised their heads high, staring at the violently shaking ceiling above their heads. The sound of the bed's heavy creak echoed in their ears. Their expressions were like those of mortals looking up to gods.
What impressed them most was that just now, in the morning, they heard the familiar "crunching" sound again.
Although it was not as long as last night, it was particularly intense.
At that time, Jiang Zhongyi was brushing his teeth. He almost bit off the toothbrush when he was so excited.
Penfold's throat couldn't help but roll up and down. He admitted that Chen Xiaomeng was good-looking, and he had had similar thoughts, but if he was asked to do such a thing in a nightmare, he would definitely be out of mood.
He cast his sights towards Jiangcheng, thinking that this brother Yin. Yin Zhiping was indeed extraordinary.
"Help me serve a bowl of porridge," Jiang Cheng looked at Chen Xiaomeng timidly, with a pure and pitiful expression, "Can you?"
Then before Chen Xiaomeng could recover, he answered in a low voice. He said: "I feel pain here, it was too hard just now." He held his waist and pretended to be out of breath.
Chen Xiaomeng's expression suddenly changed, and it was only then that she realized why everyone was looking at her like that before.
It turns out
The eyes she looked at Jiang Cheng were full of murderous intent. If eyes could kill, Jiang Cheng would have died several times.
However, Chen Xiaomeng's rage only lasted for a moment. After a few seconds, she suddenly smiled, a very charming smile.
She stretched out her hand and slowly arranged Jiang Cheng's clothes. At the same time, she moved the messy hair on his forehead back to the correct position, her movements were very affectionate.
"I told you not to let you show off," she raised the corners of her mouth, smiling innocently and cutely, giving people a different feeling between innocence and charm. In short, Benfu was stunned.
She continued to whisper and murmured: "You are not good at that, it's not just a day or two, why are you forcing yourself so hard?" She shyly punched the latter's chest, looked at him with squinted eyes, and blamed He said: "Aren't you afraid of sudden death?"
Everyone suddenly showed a look of realization, and then looked at Jiang Cheng with an expression that was either sympathy or disgust.
Chen Xiaomeng's hand slid down Jiang Cheng's cheek, which looked like intimacy between lovers to others.
But only Jiang Cheng, who witnessed it personally, knew that she pinched his ear hard from an angle that no one could see, and the force was so strong that it almost ripped off the ear.
Chen Xiaomeng looked at Jiang Cheng tenderly, but there was crazy mockery in her eyes.
Unexpectedly——
Instead of being annoyed, Jiang Cheng’s expression became more and more pitiful, and he said softly: “I also said, it’s not all your fault, I have to try new tricks every time!”
Chen Xiaomeng's hand movements paused.
Jiang Cheng groaned and said, "I'm shy and don't agree, so you try to force me in any way."
He rolled up his sleeves seemingly reluctantly, revealing the green streaks on his arms. Purple bruises.
“Look at the good thing you have done,” he sobbed softly, “Forget about the whip, you still have to burn me with a candle. Fortunately, I hid the candle first last night, otherwise I wouldn’t know. What are you going to do?"
Chen Xiaomeng was petrified on the spot. (End of chapter)