He snorted softly and turned to business: "What did you find from the newcomer?" ”

Jiang Futing poured water on his empty bowl again and said, "The newcomer brought in is Zhou Qi. ”

Bai Tang took the fingertips of the bowl for a moment, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and confirmed it: "Is it the Zhou Qi I thought?" ”

Jiang Futing noticed his unnatural face and affirmed, "That's what you think." ”

Bai Tang really had to wonder if these two people either had some fate in their previous lives, or how could they catch up again.

He could only take another sip of water to relieve the depression in his heart.

However, the purpose of Zhou Qi's appearance here, you don't need to think much to understand, you must have found clues related to this, and last time you secretly revealed your identity, it is estimated that it will not interfere with them.

He tilted his head and looked at the person next to him, "What do you think?" ”

This kid will mention this to himself first, and he must have a lot of ideas in his stomach.

Jiang Futing looked at the pair of eyes that looked through him, put down the kettle in his hand calmly, and said directly, "I want to find someone, entrust it to him." ”

"You said this man." Bai Tang touched the cloth bag and took out the yellow paper that had been crumpled by him.

Jiang Futing nodded and said, "First, Zhou Qi knows more about the suspect than us, and he can find someone faster; Second, the united front, information sharing, and the arrest of suspects are completely handed over to the police, which can also help Ning Yuan get rid of a matter of his heart, and we can save a lot of time ourselves. ”

His words had already been drafted on the way back, and all aspects were taken into account, which was the most beneficial choice for them.

Bai Tang listened to his tirade, staring at his clear eyes, and whenever he made a suggestion, his eyes lit up like a glow.

He planned so well, and he had no reason to refuse.

Bai Tang smiled, pressed the yellow paper with his fingertips, and moved to him, "It's good to find a reliable help, we can also make it easier." ”

Jiang Futing took the yellow paper and folded it neatly before putting it in his pocket.

Bai Tang then asked, "I felt your energy fluctuate last night, who did you bump into on the mountain?" What did you find again? ”

"I didn't bump into anyone." Jiang Futing took the matter of Li Yu's mother in a very concise sentence, thought for a while and said, "However, the building on the top of the mountain is wrong. ”

Bai Tang had an impression of the building he mentioned, "That White Tower?" I've heard the people who accompanied me say that there is a temple and a shrine, and these people believe in the mountain gods, and they believe that the mountain gods are in there. ”

Although he only collected medicinal herbs for two days, he basically took advantage of various opportunities and terrain to explore all the mountains surrounding the village, and even did not let go of the dead ends.

Although Jiang Futing knew that there was a mountain god, because Li Yu's knowledge was too narrow, he didn't expect that place to be a temple.

He continued to recall what he saw last night, and combined what Li Yu said: "It seems that the ghost that ran rampant last night is most likely from the temple."

Bai Tang finally heard some different news, became interested, and pulled the stool to him, "What do you say?" ”

Seeing him suddenly approaching, Jiang Futing looked at the kettle in front of him, "The wind is rolling out of the temple." There is also this village, which has the habit of sacrificing living people on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar every month. ”

"Sacrifice?!" Bai Tang's eyes widened when he heard this, and his reaction was the same as last night.

After all, it's the 21st century, and it's not in ancient times, or when the folk customs are old-fashioned, and the word sacrifice is really rare in this era.

Or take the living!

He then remembered that the gang suddenly called him hunting today, Bai Tang calculated the time, today is the eleventh day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and it is only four days before the sacrifice time.

He guessed the purpose of the hunt.

Jiang Futing nodded, and continued to relay to him what Li Yu said last night, adding a lot of his own speculation by the way, and when the two of them chatted about the same, the sun had already passed.

Bai Tang digested what he said, and an interesting idea came up with an interesting idea.

Jiang Futing saw him smiling ill-intentionedly, guessed that this person must have some bad idea in his heart, and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Bai Tang smiled proudly, grinned and said, "You just said that the fifteenth night was calm because the sacrifice was well done. So what happens if the sacrifice is not done? ”

Maybe it's still calm, and maybe a hundred ghosts are rampant, and mourning is everywhere.

Jiang Futing frowned slightly, obviously disagreeing with this opinion, and persuaded very seriously: "No, you can't gamble with the lives of these people in the village."

Bai Tang immediately changed his loose and nonchalant smile, and said haha: "Oh, I'm joking, don't take it so seriously!" You see your face stiffen again. ”

"......" Jiang Futing didn't answer, and looked at him with a solemn face.

He always felt that Bai Tang seemed to be serious when he said that just now.

Bai Tang didn't look at him again, his eyes wandered around the room, and he immediately changed the topic: "What's that...... There's nothing wrong with your feet anyway, just go out with me for a spin at night, I found some clues about the Immortal Sect today. ”

This topic was really successful, and Jiang Futing directly asked: "What clues?"

"It's hard to be sure, but you'll know when you go see it." Bai Tang said vaguely, seeing that he still wanted to get to the bottom of it, he glanced at him, "What, you don't want to go?" ”

In a few words, he began to deliberately distort his meaning.

Jiang Futing didn't want to argue more, and was about to say something else when there was a knock at the door.

When the two looked over together, Ning Yuan's voice came from outside: "Lunch is ready, hurry up and eat." ”

The atmosphere of today's lunch is very delicate, and according to the observations of the previous two days, Amin is a careful and quite understanding person. Talking at the dinner table and mediating the atmosphere are all up to her.

And she is gentle in her words, and she will also reject their more sensitive questions in a very tactful and nice way.

It's just that something seems different today.

She kept her head buried in the rice, and she didn't pick up the dishes on the table a few times, her eyes were distracted and quite careless.

"Dang!" The chopsticks accidentally poked the edge of the plate.

This is the sixth time that she has been empty in this meal.

Bai Tang really couldn't stand it, she had been looking like this for a long time, and the three of them had to think that something was wrong, worried and worried, and they didn't know what to eat.

He put the dishes in the bowl and didn't rush to eat, "Sister Amin, what do you want?" ”

Amin only felt that his soul seemed to be floating in the vast sky, and he was suddenly named, like a hot air balloon hanging from himself being punctured, and his body suddenly fell extremely fast.

Her hand shook, and even one of her chopsticks rolled off.

Ning Yuan sat close to her, grabbed before she bent over, and helped her pick up the chopsticks, Jiang Futing happened to hand over the tissue, he wiped it, and then returned the chopsticks to her.

When Ning Yuan handed the chopsticks back, he asked the same question as Bai Tang, "Yes, you're not uncomfortable, are you?" Was you distracted when you were cooking? ”

Amin took it in a little panic, with a messy smile on his face, and forced down the panic in his eyes: "It's okay, it's okay." Dine...... Dine. ”

How reluctant her smile is, even a fool can see it, not to mention that her state is completely different from before, and at first glance, she is hiding something big.

Jiang Futing didn't move his chopsticks again, and saw Amin bowing his head and gobbling up.

She kept stuffing vegetables and rice into her mouth like feeding a pig, and she didn't even chew it, looking at it for a long time, as if she was not eating vegetables, but unsightly secrets.

She is more like a robot with only one kind of mechanical action at the moment, unconsciously repetitive work.

Jiang Futing saw that she was so disgusting that she was retching and still stuffing, so he couldn't bear to stand up and go directly to grab the dishes and chopsticks in her hand.

Amin was so desperate that she didn't want to let go, her eyes were red, I don't know if it was because of retching just now, or because she was pressed by those complicated and heavy thoughts in her heart.

Seeing her struggling, Jiang Futing added a little force and forcibly dragged her over, and the dishes and chopsticks were directly thrown to the ground.

"Bang!"

The sound of porcelain shattering was like a bell, pulling Amin back from the dark tide of trance for a few minutes.

She sat there in disbelief, stunned for a long time, before she faintly recovered half of her distraction.

When she went out in the morning, the words that those people had given her were vivid in her mind, and they were like a whip full of spikes, whipping her only conscience all the time.

It's just that a large piece of her heart was hollowed out as early as last year when her son died. The only ones were insignificant, and she couldn't resist for long, but fortunately, she wasn't completely numb enough to be afraid.

Her hands were hidden under the table and trembled from time to time, and her yellow-skinned face was so pale that she couldn't see its original color, and she couldn't hide the obvious abnormality.

Jiang Futing felt that something was not right, so he got up and closed all the double doors of the living room facing the front yard and fastened the latch.

All light was cut off the moment the door closed, and the room fell into a complete gloom.

Darkness is a kind of medicine in the evil that is about to be exposed, and Amin loosens his tense nerves in the darkness that he can't see clearly, and the hidden melancholy suddenly can't be suppressed and poured out.

"I ......," she said with difficulty, because there was still food in her mouth, and her voice was slurred,

"I didn't...... I've hurt people, and I'm ...... I don't want to hurt anyone. ”

She said these words with great difficulty, her body was paralyzed a lot, and she could feel three pairs of eyes on her back, almost piercing her.

This sentence is not clear, but even the guess can be guessed eight or nine.

There are people in the village who can't wait and want to do something to them.

But the three of them can't live up to Amin's trust, and even if they know, it's not easy to point it out directly.

Bai Tang patted her on the back, relieved her mood, and induced: "If there is any problem, everyone can help solve it together, how uncomfortable it is to hold back like this."

It's just that such things are not so easy to speak, and Amin opened his mouth several times, but he couldn't say it as if he was being pinched by his throat.

What was she going to say, that the people of the village wanted to sell them?

Or did they say that after fifteen, they couldn't go back if they wanted to?

How ridiculous would it be for them to know that they had saved them, and then they were going to exchange them for money, and what would these young lads think?

She stopped talking several times, and sighed breathlessly, as if resigned to her fate, "You guys should leave here today, this place is not a good place." Eating is not good, living is not good, especially your feet. ”

Amin took advantage of the darkness in the room, and his emotions were no longer hidden, and he looked at Jiang Futing with guilt, "Tossing back and forth, I haven't seen any better." ”

It's just that her complicated and self-reproachful eyes were all taken into Jiang Futing's eyes.

But he can't speak now, and the words of comfort that just came to his heart can only be swallowed in his stomach and digested by himself.

(End of chapter)