Vol.3 Strange Tales in the Countryside (34)

Li Minghao looked around, this Youshui village didn't even have a street lamp in the middle of the night, it was like a deserted village, plus there was no family in this village with dogs, I'm afraid there weren't even a few livestock, it was so quiet that it didn't look like it was in a village, but it was like a closed dark space. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Qi'er, even if we go, there is nowhere to go, look around here, desolate, where can we go?" Li Minghao hugged his shoulder, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the surrounding environment was terrifying.

Meng Yi'er didn't know what the environment was, but she couldn't turn back, she didn't say anything more, she put on her backpack and walked forward.

Li Minghao knew that this girl had always been stubborn, and what had been decided would never turn back, he silently followed behind Meng Qi'er, looking at the surrounding environment from time to time.

The time is about three o'clock in the middle of the night, the coldest time of the day is this time, the temperature in the mountains is much lower than in the city, and sometimes the slight wind blowing in the mountains makes this summer day a little biting cold.

The village is small but very long, and it is basically built according to the topography. The dirt road that Meng Lier and Li Minghao walked was trampled on steadily, and at first glance it was the "main road" in the village. This "main road" is flanked by rows of mud houses, of various shapes and colors, old and yellow, this kind of purely stone-built houses are rare in the villages near the city, which are neither comfortable nor safe, and have gradually become obsolete by the times, but in this old village, such houses are still the mainstream.

A semi-circular moon hung high in the air, the moonlight was pale, reflecting everything around it very clearly, and instead of making people feel down-to-earth, it had a somewhat eerie feeling.

Li Minghao touched the rune paper he carried in his pocket, since he apprenticed, he learned a few tricks from the Taoist master in the past two days, and practiced drawing some rune paper, although it was only a low-level practice rune paper, but I don't know why, it was indeed more advanced than the other junior brothers in the same sect. However, he doesn't have any spiritual power at all, but he learned to sketch when he was a child, so his painting skills are not bad.

Fortunately, the rune paper that he carries with him is drawn by the Taoist chief, and it can't deal with powerful ghosts, so it's no problem to use it to deal with ordinary ghosts and self-defense.

"Wait a minute!" Li Minghao thought of this, and suddenly grabbed Meng Yi'er's sleeve.

"What's wrong?" Meng Qi'er had already regained her composure, acting as calm and arrogant as usual.

Li Minghao became excited, pulling Meng Meng'er's sleeves and swaying left and right, like a naughty child, he took out a few pieces of rune paper from his pocket, and said to Meng Meng'er: "Qi'er, I have a way to prove your innocence!"

Meng Li'er looked at the rune paper in Li Minghao's hand, and then suddenly remembered such a thing, as smart as she understood at once, and said: "Mouse, are you saying that each of us has this kind of rune paper on our bodies, and they are all kept close to our bodies, if Duan Qingqing was really ghosted just now, the rune paper on her body would change color or burn out directly?"

Li Minghao nodded desperately, looking very happy.

Meng Yi'er was very helpless, and slapped Li Minghao on the back of the head with a "snap" with her humble eyes.

"Ouch, why did you hit me?" Li Minghao covered the back of his head, and said in his heart that this girl's strength is really not small.

Meng Li'er was happy, she understood that Li Minghao was concerned about it, laughed, and said, "Mouse, are you helping me or harming me!"

Li Minghao pursed his lips and said aggrievedly: "Of course I helped you, if the rune paper is still new, won't it be able to prove that Duan Qingqing is pretending to be evil!"

"Duan Qingqing has always claimed that I dragged her to the yard to commit violence, not the evil spirit, but what I saw was that she disappeared in the middle of the night, but she called me out, I thought she wanted to wake her up with a slap, but she was framed and lied by her, saying that I dragged her to the yard to commit violence. If we use the rune paper as evidence that it is not burning, doesn't it just mean that there is no evil spirit, and I really dragged her out to commit violence?"

Li Minghao was speechless for a while, and said hesitantly: "But...... We're sure you're not lying......"

Meng Yi'er was very grateful, she paused for a moment before saying, "Mouse, I thank you for your unconditional trust...... However, Xiao Harmonic doesn't believe it, and the Taoist doesn't believe it......"

Meng Yi'er's eyes darkened.

Li Minghao saw her negative emotions rising, and hurriedly comforted: "Qi'er, don't think like that! Everyone is just trying to save face, and Duan Qingqing is relatively fragile, so he temporarily comforted her, but no one completely trusts her......"

Meng Yi'er felt uncomfortable, but she really had no one to rely on except herself.

Of course, she Meng Yi'er doesn't want to rely on it.

"Eh?" Li Minghao didn't know what he thought of again, and asked again: "Yi'er, do you think we should go and see her rune paper? If it is burned, won't it also prove that she is really evil? At that time, it can also prove your innocence!"

Meng Yi'er pursed her lips and shook her head slowly.

"Really, Qi'er! Since she said that she didn't fall for evil, wouldn't it be better to look at the rune paper? What if it burns?" Li Minghao suggested with wide eyes.

Meng Li'er said: "Mouse, I'm too sure she is pretending, not to mention that I also had rune paper on me at the time, if she burns it, I guess mine will not be spared." Another point, she kept saying that I had raped her, but there was no evidence, and she rushed out to say that I lied and took out the bruises and swelling on her arms as proof. This is really too clumsy!"

"Oh, what do you say?" Li Minghao's curiosity was aroused.

"Hmph......" Meng Yi'er sneered and said: "Although I didn't wake up at the time, and my mind was not too clear, but in hindsight, the play she directed and acted in was simply full of loopholes!"

Meng Qi'er did not pause, and quickly analyzed: "There are at least two points that are really unreasonable. First, you heard Duan Qingqing's cry at that time, so you rushed out as soon as possible, right?"

Li Minghao nodded.

Meng Yi'er curled the corners of her mouth and said mockingly: "You have also seen the wounds on her arms that she showed when she came out for the second time, so many and such complex scars, can you get them out at once? Although she has a low IQ, she is not a fool at all, is she? A mature ^ year old person was dragged to the yard and violently committed violence for so long and did not say a word, and did not cry until she was slapped in the face, isn't it?"

Meng Yi'er learned to scold Duan Qingqing from the northeast, which made Li Minghao "poof" and said with a smile: "That's true, with her character of crying a little sesame mung bean as big as a small thing, she must have been aggrieved and cried when she was touched, can you wait so long to cry? I have always been late and return early, and I have the habit of staying up late, so I slept very lightly at night, and when I heard her voice, I came out as soon as I heard it, at that time she had been slapped in the face, if you had been violent to her before, she would never have been able to hold back her silence." ”

"Okay!" Meng Yi'er narrowed her eyes and continued: "If this is the relatively superficial but not enough evidence that you can deduce out of your understanding of her, then she has absolutely nothing to say about the next evidence. ”

Li Minghao listened very carefully, and he very much hoped that Meng Li'er would find evidence to prove his innocence as soon as possible.

"Mouse, do you remember what you saw her in the scene?"

"Huh?" Li Minghao recalled carefully and said: "At that time, a few of us rushed out and saw two figures standing in the middle of the courtyard in the moonlight. She has her back to us, you face us, she blocks most of your body, we can only see your hand near her face, and by the time we get closer, she is already on the ground crying, and you just stand there dumbfounded......"

"And what about her clothes?"

"Clothes?" Li Minghao didn't understand why Meng Yi'er asked this question, but since he asked, he thought about it extremely seriously and described: "At that time...... She fell to the ground, and the back of her clothes was a little dirty, but it was neat, nothing strange......"

"That's right!" Meng Li'er smiled with relief: "A person who claims to have been abused by me doesn't even have a pleat on her sleeve, can I still roll up her sleeves before committing violence? Moreover, why didn't I commit violence to her in the house and pull her into the yard? And tell a lie that there is no evidence at all that she has fallen into a ghost?"

Li Minghao suddenly realized and said: "In this way, when she rushed out for the second time, her clothes were also very neat, and there was no dust on her front body, and that kind of pajamas were indeed not easy to wrinkle, but if the violence became like that, it is estimated that the clothes were torn, how could there not even be a big one? Besides, if you really want to be violent to her, why do you have to beat her up in the middle of the yard, and then push it to the ghost? There are so many variables in the yard, what if she yells at the beginning? What if somebody gets up to go to the bathroom? What if she doesn't go out with you at all, and you can't drag her out?"

"Ah...... If you say this......" Li Minghao suddenly gasped and said in shock: "The wound on Duan Qingqing's body ......"

Li Minghao didn't dare to go on, he never thought that Duan Qingqing would be such a scheming girl, and besides, he could do it to himself!

Meng Qi'er sighed and said, "Mouse, I didn't expect that Duan Qingqing would be so ruthless that she could do anything to herself...... I thought she was just a little woman who got carried away for love, but now it seems that even this little woman should not be underestimated!"

Li Minghao was so angry that he said indignantly: "Poor little harmony, she is still kept in the dark by this dead girl! I already knew that she was not a fuel-efficient lamp! This little harmony is really an idiot! Two fools!"

Meng Li'er smiled slightly, turned around and said: "Mouse, it's okay for the two of us to know about this matter, don't make a noise, after all, if she is exposed, none of us will get along well, just let me be angry alone." ”

Li Minghao retracted his anger and was stunned for a moment, would Meng Li'er even know how to endure humiliation in front of a woman like Duan Qingqing? This is really very different from Meng Li'er in her cognition. Li Minghao replied with an "oh" in a daze, and then asked, "That...... So where do we go now?"

"Sit down and rest!" Meng Li'er said concisely, and after finishing speaking, she took the lead in taking off her backpack, put it on the wall of a house, and sat down against it.

Li Minghao is not very accustomed to such a dirty environment, but there is no other good way, so he simply sat down with Meng Meng'er, the time was close to half past three in the middle of the night, and the biting cold made Li Minghao feel pierced all over, he tried to get as close as possible to Meng Meng'er, afraid that she would be cold.

"Mouse, actually, you can go back and don't have to accompany me to suffer here. Meng Qi'er felt very embarrassed, she shrunk her clothes, and leaned her body as close to Li Minghao as possible.

"Hehe, silly girl, how could I leave you here......" Li Minghao leaned against the stone courtyard wall, looking at the semi-circular moon in the sky, and the stars twinkling around, such a night sky has not been seen in the city for many years, either the neon is too bright or the haze is too heavy, there is no clean and clear sky, how can you see the stars.

Meng Yi'er smiled, she didn't make a sound, and looked at the sky like Li Minghao. Meng Li'er is a royal otaku girl, and she can't see the sun, let alone the stars.

"Click...... Click...... "Li Minghao and Meng Yi'er were looking up at ......the sky, when suddenly a strange sound came from the other side of the village!"

The two men looked at each other, then nervously looked into the darkness at the same time, looking for the source of the strange sound.

"Click...... Click......"

The voice was not hurried or slow, it sounded regularly in the dark, it seemed to be approaching, but he couldn't see the figure at all, and the night became the best protective gear for his hidden posture, and it also became the thickest barrier for Meng Yier and Li Minghao to see through the truth.

Meng Li'er leaned against the wall, supported her body with her hands and slowly stood up, Li Minghao also followed her example, and stood up quietly, the only way now is that the enemy does not move, after all, I don't know what is approaching them.

Meng Li'er picked up the backpack and took out a flashlight and a Swiss Army knife from it, she regretted a little that she didn't buy a bigger knife, but if the controlled knife was really carried on her body, it was hard to say whether it would be found by the police, of course, it mainly depended on luck.

Meng Meng'er stuffed the flashlight into Li Minghao's hand, but she was holding a Swiss army knife, Li Minghao glanced back at her, Meng Meng'er just looked nervously into the darkness, and did not have any communication with Li Minghao. Li Minghao's heart warmed, such Meng Meng'er didn't say anything, but kept the safest to her teammates, she was always like this, she rushed up when she was in danger, and treated herself as a guinea pig regardless of it. Holding that small Swiss Army knife is useless, at most it is a psychological comfort, but the flashlight can be the most important prop on the way to escape.