Chapter 13: Thaumaturgy
Tonight is destined to be an extraordinary night, and if you look closely, you will see that the full moon in the sky is dyed with a layer of blood, and the natural vision will bring disaster. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Everyone stopped, Geng Daquan dragged his tired body to push open the door, the summer evening breeze blew into the room from the windowsill, and the documents placed on the desk had already been blown to the ground. Geng Daquan had no choice but to put down his sleepy body and plunge into the work of tidying up, and when he finally put the documents back on the desk, he was attracted by a diary on it.
Miss Hutton's diary had been sent by Bao La when he first arrived, and he had read it a few times before and was already familiar with it. However, at this time, this diary did not know whether it was unintentional or intentional, and the originally plain words suddenly seemed to be given some kind of meaning, a kind of warning hidden in it.
All the words are taken together, and they are arranged in a shape that makes up exactly three words; Don't look for me.
"Don't look for me?"
Geng Daquan didn't believe that there would be such a coincidence in the world, it must have been left by Miss Hutton on purpose, but this made him even more incomprehensible, if she wanted to tell others why she didn't tell her directly, why use this method that no one could understand?
Geng Daquan flipped through the back pages of the diary a few more times, but there were no similar coincidences. For this reason, Geng Daquan looked through all the things left by Miss Hutton with words, but he still found nothing, and he had no choice but to go to bed in doubt.
The next day, Geng Daquan remembered what he had discovered last night, and casually took the diary over to look through it, however, this time it made him feel even more incredible, the three words he had seen in the diary before had disappeared, and this reversal almost made him collapse, and he didn't feel why God teased him like this.
Such absurd and uninhibited things happened to him, and he felt that he had touched a world that he had never known. In fact, since he received the package that day, he has been taken to a strange world, this world is so real, and so ethereal. What happened in the diary here was like blowing a corner of the fog in front of him, and he could get a glimpse of the leopard, although he could not step into it in one step, but it had opened a side door for him.
"Mr. Daquan, what you asked me to do is already eyebrows." Fusheng knocked on the door and walked in.
"Oh, you've found it." Geng Daquan was a little surprised, it turned out that when he found out that the evidence of someone's disappearance of Miss Hutton might not be true, he targeted a servant, this servant was Miss Hutton's personal maid, and he had the best relationship with the young lady, but this happened for ten years, and the maid didn't know where to go, and it was impossible to ask her, so Geng Daquan asked Fusheng to inquire about her whereabouts with the intention of trying.
"I found the housekeeper and told him that you were looking for her, checked the list of people in the house, and found that she also had a sister in Xiping, a suburb of Shanghai, I went to Xiping to ask one by one, but I didn't expect to ask it."
"Let's go, let's talk as we go." Geng Daquan couldn't wait any longer, and pulled Fusheng out.
"By the way, how's Mr. Hurd's doing?"
Fusheng sighed and said: "The medicine is hanging, and now Young Master Evan is discussing with the British Embassy whether to return to China in advance." ”
"Go home early?" Geng Daquan wondered in his heart, returning to China at this time would undoubtedly push Mr. Hurd to a dead end, but at the same time, he also understood that Hurd's current body would not be able to survive for long if he didn't get ahead of time, and if he went back early, he might be able to die in Great Britain, which could be regarded as completing one of his thoughts.
"Mr. Big Circle, I beg you for one thing." Fusheng suddenly said seriously at this time.
"What's the matter with you?" Geng Daquan thought that Fusheng was in trouble and begged for help, but he still didn't know what his situation was, don't look at him now in front of the Robert family, he really has to wait until Hurd returns to China, he is nothing.
"Miss's life and death will be troublesome sir."
"Oh!" Geng Daquan didn't understand why he valued himself so much, he should have seen that Mr. Hurd was in danger and wanted to do everything possible to help fulfill Hurd's regrets.
"How did you and Heard meet?" Geng Daquan asked.
"When the master exterminated the long hair in Beiping, my whole family died in the war, and it was the master who saw me and took me in." Fusheng seemed to remember the tragic scene of the death of his parents, and his eyes were red.
"Don't think too much, who can escape death in this life, but after you say it, you must live better for those who want you to live."
Leaving the island, Geng Daquan and the two drove straight to Xiping, forty or fifty miles away from the Shanghai metropolitan area, they could only take the official road, and in the afternoon the car drove to a place called Xiping Ancient Town.
"Just the yard on the edge of the pond in front, when I came here before, I inquired about that family." Fusheng got out of the car and replied, pointing to the front.
"Let's go inside." Geng Daquan looked around the courtyard, there were only a few children playing by the trees, the house was very dilapidated, if it wasn't for Fusheng saying that there were people living in it, he really couldn't believe it.
When I entered the courtyard, there were tanning things on the wooden shelves, and some broken clay pots were piled up in the corners. At this moment, a woman walked out with a dustpan, and saw Geng Daquan and the two standing at the door, the things in their hands fell to the ground instantly, and a man's scolding came from the house: "The dead mother-in-law is a loser again, and your family is a loser." ”
The woman seemed to be accustomed to the man's abuse, and in a panic she packed up the things on the ground, looked at them unnaturally with her eyes, and said, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”
"Let's find a woman named Xiufen." Fusheng stared at the woman first, and then said.
"Yikes!" An expression of pain and remorse suddenly appeared on his face, but when he looked at Geng Daquan and the two of them, he seemed to be relieved, "You guys still found it." ”
The woman invited Geng Daquan and the two into the house, and the man who had spoken before was lying shirtless on a wicker chair with missing legs, and saw that the woman brought two strange men, and said sarcastically on her face: "I have a long ability, and I have stolen a man to the house." When he had finished speaking, he got up and drove the people out.
"It's someone from the Miss's house." The woman scolded.
"What bullshit......." As soon as the words came out, he saw the woman's cannibalistic gaze, and suddenly sat back like a frosted eggplant, posing as if it was none of his business.
"Ask if you have anything."
Geng Daquan thought that he still needed to interrogate her, but he didn't expect her to admit it neatly and directly, so he didn't have to worry about it, and asked directly: "Is Miss Hutton still alive?" ”
"I don't know, Miss was going to leave with my sister by boat, but she said that there was one more thing to investigate before leaving, who would have thought that something happened at the dock, I had to send my sister away first, it's all my fault, if it weren't for my miss, I wouldn't have participated." Xiufang had nothing to hide at this time, and 1510 had to help explain what happened that day clearly.
"Something happened to Miss, I was so scared that I didn't dare to say it, so I could only lie."
It turned out that a month before Miss Hutton's accident, Xiufang learned from a fellow villager that her sister had been abducted while rushing to the market, and their parents were anxious about it, and she could not help but pray for God's blessing. Miss Hutton's absent-minded expression was discovered by Miss Hutton, and she asked her if something had happened at home, and Miss Hutton could only tell the truth, and Miss Hutton only comforted Xiufang a few words, but a few days later, Miss Hutton suddenly told her that her sister might have a whereabouts.
Xiufang didn't believe it much, Miss Hutton almost didn't go out, and she rarely cared about the affairs of the house, only when she was for her own safety.
Five or six days had passed, and Miss Hutton mysteriously called her into her room, saying that she did not want to stay in the house any longer, and that she wanted to leave the house.
It was almost impossible for Miss Hutton to leave alone, and his father, Hurd, would send someone to follow her every time she was going outside, so he wanted Xiufang to help her cover up. Where would Xiufang agree, if the master knew about this, she would definitely be beaten to death. However, Hutton threatens her sister, saying that if he helps her escape from this place, he will help find her sister.
Xiufang had no choice but to agree to Miss Hutton's request, but the request must be prepared, in fact, she wanted to stabilize Miss first, maybe Miss didn't want to leave after a few days, and at the same time, she could also let Miss help find her sister, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In the next few days, Miss Hutton would go out every day, and once she went out in the morning and came back in the evening, for which she was scolded by the master, and the young lady went back to the house without saying a word, and shut herself in the room without eating. I went to look for her in the lady's room, found her alone wiping her tears, and asked me what I would do if her father had done something wrong.
I thought that Miss was losing her temper and didn't think much about it, but in the middle of the night, I was sleeping in the house, when I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and when I opened it, I found that Miss was standing in front of the door, her face was full of blood, and there were many scratches on her body, so frightened that I couldn't speak.
The young lady looked depressed and said, "I will put your sister in the bamboo forest, and you will send her away tomorrow, and no one can tell me about this matter, I will leave with you." ”
When Geng Daquan walked away, he saw Xiufang's sister, who was already crazy, and could only take medicine every day to be a little quieter, and heard her say that when Miss Hutton brought it out at night, she was so thin that she had a layer of skin left, and she couldn't eat meat, and she vomited a lot when she ate meat.
It was no longer obvious that Miss Hutton's last thing she wanted to say to her father was to ask him if he knew about the kidnapping case released by the Tiande Church, but she didn't have the courage to accept the result after all, so she could only choose to leave.
At the same time, Geng Daquan was very strange about how she rescued Xiufang's sister, the most important thing is whether she escaped from the island, and missed the best opportunity to leave, how she hid for ten years.
As the investigation of the case deepened, the truth seemed to be getting closer and closer, but Geng Daquan was attracted to it even more, and he felt that there was always an invisible hand pulling him towards the mysterious world.
"Did you say that Mr. Hutton knew about the kidnapping of women and children in the Tiande Church?" Geng Daquan knew that asking Fusheng this question was equivalent to not asking, but he still couldn't help but want to know.
Which people who were kidnapped in the iron prison of Tiande Church are not a day or two, if you want to hide from everyone's ears and eyes, no one will believe it, there must be someone to help the inside and the outside, but who will this person be? Qinxin Garden belongs to a small island surrounded by a lake, and it is not easy for people to be secretly transported to the island, and even Gordon, as the archbishop, does not have such great ability.
At night, Geng Daquan returned to the island, and miraculous things happened again, and "Who are you?" appeared in the diary. Three words, which made him want to scream with joy, oh my God! There is such a wonderful thing in the world.
Geng Daquan didn't care whether it was useful or not, and left his name in his diary. It didn't take long for the ink to slowly light until it was gone, as if some strange force was devouring it.
"I don't know you."
Geng Daquan held back the excitement in his heart and wrote tremblingly: "You are Miss Hutton? ”
"Oh? It seems that not only do you appear in my diary, but you also know that I mean, what are your intentions? ”
Geng Daquan replied: "It doesn't matter what my intentions are, I'll ask you first, where are you now?" ”
This time, after a long time, the text did not appear again, and Geng Daquan hurriedly wrote again: "You don't know? Or are you afraid that people will find you? ”
"What am I afraid of, as long as you can come, I will come out to meet you?"
Geng Daquan didn't expect Miss Hutton to be hooked for so long, and he was overjoyed, and wrote: "You name a place, I'll see you tomorrow?" ”
"Tiande Cathedral."
Geng Daquan suddenly had the feeling of being teased by Miss Hutton, and he didn't understand what she was thinking.
"What? Don't know about Tiande Cathedral? ”
Geng Daquan turned his heart and wrote: "A word is a certainty. ”
"It's a deal."
After that, nothing changed in the diary, as if it hadn't happened at all.