Chapter Seventy-Three: Discovery
As Liu Feng expected, it is still strikingly similar, and even the so-called village chief and rich family have not found one, it seems that this village is very equal. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Everyone stood in front of the door of the last house, watching the more than ten young people working in the field, and several old people did not notice everyone's actions at all, and worked on their own.
Suddenly, Liu Feng was startled, "Wait a minute, you count the number of villagers, we should have forty-eight households in the village just now."
When Wang Ping heard this, he looked at the village where he was working and counted, "Thirteen young people and seven old people, exactly twenty people, no one in the village seems to be here."
Liu Feng nodded: "Every household I checked looked like there were people living in it, even the stove that seemed to have not been touched for a long time was also lit with a locked door."
"And I didn't find any children that the little Taoist priest had said," Wang still said.
After everyone finished speaking, they turned around and looked at the village behind them again, which was indeed a little weird, and unconsciously goosebumps rose up all over their bodies.
Xiao Ya touched her arms, obviously a little timid, revealing "You don't mean that the rest of the houses are inhabited by ghosts, right?"
Liu Feng smiled bitterly, these are really hard to say, "Although we didn't get up early today, we only saw the old man going to fetch water alone, and there didn't seem to be the old man in the field, let's go to the house where the old man disappeared to have a look, maybe there will be a discovery."
When everyone heard this, they could only do this, and the old man carried the water to the middle of the north side and entered, and everyone came to the door, and looked at the wooden door with a sense of nervousness.
Liu Feng looked at the lock on the door and hesitated, "Why don't you smash the lock open, if it's really dangerous, it's better for everyone to be safer together."
Wang Zhuang didn't talk nonsense when he heard it, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the lock and pulled it hard, but he didn't expect the lock to be very strong, but the wooden door was a little bad, and the chain with the fixed iron plate was dragged down.
Wang Zhuang looked at a large piece in his hand and scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "Hehe, how did I know that it was so unstrong."
Liu Feng smiled bitterly, "Don't worry about this, hurry up and go in and have a look, I will definitely go back to the village to cook at noon."
Everyone's nervousness disappeared a lot at once, and they followed Liu Feng with a smile and walked in.
The same empty yard, with nothing but straw huts and barns.
Wang Ping looked at the livestock shed and frowned, "Have you seen any livestock sheds in other households?" ”
Everyone was stunned and said that many households have livestock sheds, but some of them seem to have not been used for a long time.
Wang Ping nodded and pointed to the livestock shed and said, "You see that there is still a lot of forage here, and the water in the trough does not seem to have been left for a long time, and we also heard the cries of the cattle when we came last night, and there were roosters crowing this morning, but now we don't see a single one."
Liu Feng pondered Wang Ping's words, "Yes, the villagers didn't see any livestock when they were working, and even the most common domestic dog in the village didn't have one, so it was more and more wrong."
"You see that although this lock is old, it is obviously new, it seems to have been used recently, the screws are all new, and there is no trace of rust" Wang Zhuang seems to be addicted to the lock, and at this time the door lock in his hand is actually the door lock of the main house.
Liu Feng smiled bitterly, but he also saw that what Wang Zhuang said was true, could it be that the villagers found out that there were outsiders who used it? So is it when the little Taoist priest is found or when everyone is discovered?
"Let's go inside the house first, everyone be careful," Liu Feng said and walked in first.
The house is not big, but it is enough for a family of three, the stove seems to have not been used for a long time, the bottom of the pot is a little rusty, and the wooden bucket where the old man fetched water is placed next to the stove is empty.
The room on the left is fully furnished, although it has been a long time but it is still clean, some bottles and cans on the red wooden cabinet are all empty, and a trace of musty smell wafts out of the cabinet door, there are only a few old clothes and a new set of quilts inside, it seems that it is reluctant to use it.
"Let's go to another room," Liu Feng said and walked out.
Behind him, Xiaoya fanned with her hand, "I'm dying of hunger, what else is there to offer, this house smells so big."
Liu Feng was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at the offering table, "Yes, every family has such an offering table, all of which are newly added incense, what is it offering?"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the red cloth, and at this moment he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps outside the courtyard, and it seemed that the villagers had returned.
Seven or eight villagers rushed in, and when they saw Liu Feng reaching out to grab the red cloth, they shouted, "Stop!" Where did you come from, thieves, to steal while we were working"!
As he spoke, he was about to rush in, but Liu Feng put down his hand when he saw it, "Don't get me wrong, there was an uncle in the morning who said that this village was closed, and we wanted to help everyone find the reason, not to steal things."
"Hmph, different things will smash locks? Who believes it". The leading youth said.
"We didn't smash it either, we just wanted to see if the lock was a little harder, who knew that your broken door was so unsturdy," Wang Zhuang said honestly.
When the young man heard this, he was even more angry, "Damn, stealing things is still suspicious of people's doors, tie them all up, don't even think about running away."
As he spoke, the young man behind him didn't know where the hemp rope came from, so he rushed towards the willow wind.
Wang Zhuang snorted coldly, "I really treat us as soft persimmons," he said, pushing out with his hand a young man who had just entered the door.
How could the young man have thought that Wang Zhuang had so much strength, and this time he fell backwards, pressing the crowd behind him out of the door.
The young man in the lead was stunned at first glance, it seemed that the big one didn't use much force, but just pushed it casually, but it was so powerful.
Liu Feng saw that there was no such village, and he definitely didn't feel good, so he shook a burning talisman seal in his hand, and the villagers were stunned and retreated unconsciously.
Liu Feng smiled and slammed the fire talisman to the ground with a flick of his hand, and the seemingly thin piece of paper did not expect to hit the ground with a thud and dust flew up.
Liu Feng also didn't expect to have such power, but this effect is better, looking at the timid villagers and said, "We are not ordinary people, we are here to solve your problems, we know that you can't get out of the village now and the food is almost gone."
The young man in the lead heard Liu Feng's words, and then looked at the villagers around him, as if he had some confidence, "Hmph, we have no difficulties, you should leave quickly, you are not welcome here."
Liu Feng frowned, no difficulty? "In the morning, we saw an old man who went to fetch water and said he needed our help, why did he change when he came to you?"
The young man was stunned, "Old man, what old man, which one did you point out?" The young man looked at the old men beside him.
Liu Feng had already seen these villagers who had come over, and exactly twenty of them were all there, "The old man is not here, he is an old man of fifty or sixty years old, wearing a blue dress, an old man with a slightly hunchback, who is carrying this bucket."
When the villagers heard Liu Feng's description, their faces turned white.