Chapter 25: The Reason

Lei Wuchen looked at the middle-aged woman who wanted to speak and stopped, he didn't rush to ask more, but waited for the middle-aged woman's answer, from her eyes, Lei Wuchen could sense that there must be some reason behind this matter.

"The mountain around the village is called Monkey Forest Mountain, all of us in this village moved here twenty years ago, when we first moved here, we had no contact with the night monkey beasts in the Monkey Forest Mountain, and we also collected herbs from the mountains and took them to the town's pharmacy to exchange money to make a living, but in the night fifteen years ago", speaking of this, the middle-aged woman lowered her head and choked softly, wiping the tears that were about to drip from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve.

"What happened that night?", Lei Wuchen asked with a grim face.

"At that time, Xiao'er's father and the rest of the village went to the town with herbs as usual, but they never came back"

"Didn't come back?", Qing'er said in surprise when she heard this.

"There were five of them when they went, but Wu Chang'an was the only one who came back, and when he ran from the mountains to the village, he was covered in blood, and he said that it was the night monkey beast in the mountains that attacked them, and everyone else had died in the mountains except him," said the middle-aged woman, trying to restrain the tears that were about to flow.

"What happened then?"

"That night, the whole of our village followed Wu Chang'an to the place where they were attacked by the night monkey beast, where there were traces of a fight, and there were a lot of blood stains on the ground, we searched for a long time in the Monkey Forest Mountain, but we didn't find any corpses."

"In other words, all four of them disappeared like this?", Lei Wuchen frowned slightly and asked suspiciously.

"We searched for a whole month, but found nothing, no one knew their whereabouts, since then, the people in the village are very hated for the night monkey beasts, they began to hunt the night monkey beasts in the mountains under the leadership of Wu Chang'an, and the village also stipulates that they are not allowed to enter the mountain after dark."

"Ding Xiao said earlier that a child will disappear in your village every year, what's going on?", Lei Wuchen asked in a low voice.

"Maybe it's the revenge of the night monkey beast," the middle-aged woman shook her head and said lamentingly, then got up, put away the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and turned to walk towards the kitchen.

"These night monkey beasts are really hateful, senior brother, is there any way you can deal with them?", Qing'er turned her head to look at Li Qing beside her, and asked angrily.

"When I confronted these night monkeys last night, I could feel their anger towards people, and I thought there must be something wrong with this."

"What can be the problem, those night monkey beasts have injured Lei Wuchen like this, if you don't kill them all, the people in these villages will definitely be attacked", Qing'er interrupted Li Qing's words and said angrily.

"The matter of the night monkey beast has nothing to do with you, you can clean the wound first in this basin of water, the medicine is almost ready", Ding Xiao put the basin on the table and said.

Qing'er wanted to argue, but looking at the sad look on Ding Xiao's face, she didn't say anything more.

"Thank you"

"It's okay, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back, I'm going to go to the town to sell the herbs I just picked yesterday, so I won't accompany you first."

"Go to town, I'm going too", Qing'er hurriedly responded.

"There is a mountain to go over to the town, far away, you can stay at home, if you are idle, you can go to the river at the entrance of the village, there are a lot of fish in it"

"Okay," Qing'er said reluctantly.

Lei Wuchen lowered his head and untied the cloth wrapped around his shoulder with his hand, and in an instant, a sharp pain suddenly came to his mind, he put the cloth on the table, and slowly took away the herbs that were applied to the wound, and the wound torn by his teeth gradually appeared in his eyes.

The blood on the wound had turned black and red, and those fine herbs had melted into the flesh, seeing this scene, Qing'er wanted to come to help, but was stopped by Lei Wuchen.

"It's okay, I'll do it myself", Lei Wuchen smiled slightly and said.

Lei Wuchen gritted his teeth, tried his best to restrain his hands that were trembling because of the pain, and then took out the towel in the basin and gently wiped it on the wound, slowly wiping off the black blood stains that had coagulated from the wound, and the flesh that turned out became extremely red.

Qing'er looked at the terrifying wound, her eyes were slightly red, if it wasn't for Lei Wuchen to resist this blow, maybe she would have died.

"The wound is recovering well, let's replace these herbs first", Ding Xiao put the mortar on the table, looked at Lei Wuchen's wound, and said.

"I'll do it"

"It's okay, apply this herb and change it again in three days, and the wound should heal quickly", Ding Xiao took out the mashed herbs, slowly covered the wound, and said.

"Thank you"

"It's just a gesture, I'll bring the boiled potion, you drink it first, it will help the wound recover", Ding Xiao rewound the cloth around the wound, and after wrapping it, he turned around and walked towards the medicine stove.

"You're going to the town later, can I go with you, and I'll have a good idea on the way back", Lei Wuchen looked at the cloth wrapped around his shoulders and asked slowly.

"You have an injury on your body, and it's inconvenient to travel long distances, so it's better to rest more", Ding Xiao put the black potion poured from the medicine furnace in front of Lei Wuchen and refused.

"It's okay, I just happened to be going to the town to buy something" Lei Wuchen picked up the bowl and drank the extremely bitter potion into his stomach, wiped the corner of his mouth, and pleaded.

"Since that's the case, let's go all the way", after saying that, Ding Xiao turned around and walked towards the house, and then walked out with a medicine basket on his back, which was full of turquoise herbs.

"No, I'm going too", Qing'er looked at the two people who were about to leave, and said very dissatisfied.

"If you want me to bring you something to eat, just stay at home with my senior brother obediently, otherwise..."

"I don't care, I'm going to go to town with you"

Li Qing looked at the insistent Qing'er, and persuaded her: "Qing'er, take advantage of this time to rest, there is still a long way to go."

After hearing this, Qing'er thought of the hardships of yesterday's rush, her face changed slightly, she shook her head and said, "Go ahead."

"Okay, then let's go first", hearing Qing'er's answer, Lei Wuchen breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"Then you should be safe on the road, come back early, if you can catch a fish in the river, I will make it for you myself"

"Uh-huh", Lei Wuchen looked at Qing'er's worried expression, smiled and nodded, and then walked out of the courtyard.

"Mother, then let's go first"

"Come back early," the middle-aged woman commanded as she came out of the kitchen.

"Got it"

Qing'er followed the two to the door, looked at them gradually disappearing, and after a long time, she turned around and walked into the courtyard.

"Senior brother, you said that Lei Wuchen and the two of them passed through the mountains and forests, it's fine, right?"

"People in our village often walk from that road, and besides, it's daytime, and the night monkey beast will only come out at night, so don't worry, girl."

"Mmmm", hearing the middle-aged woman's words, Qing'er nodded, then looked at Li Qing beside her, and said, "Senior brother, then let's go catch fish"

"Okay", Li Qing responded.