Xing Ruyi used chopsticks to pick up a piece of liver tip and handed it to the fox's mouth. The fox hesitated, opened his mouth, and swallowed the tip of the liver. Xing Ruyi looked at the fox's cheeks with one hand, and saw that he didn't make a chewing movement, so he asked with some disappointment: "Isn't it delicious?" ”

"Delicious!"

The fox made a swallowing motion, reached out to Xing Ruyi, and removed the chopsticks from her hand.

"Anorexia in recent days, so I don't have an appetite."

"Anorexic?" Xing Ruyi raised his eyes: "But how can I look at the tip of the liver made by Manniang yesterday, you have eaten several pieces." ”

"Nope!"

"I saw it with my own eyes." Xing Ruyi stood up and pointed at the fox angrily: "Okay, you stinky fox, it's not much, I just want to see a different thought." ”

"Strange thoughts?"

"Isn't it? Who said before, only I cook the best food in the whole world. But look at it again, how many pieces of liver tip have you eaten? ”

"Madame, don't be embarrassed for Mr. anymore." Man Niang shook her head and walked out of the small kitchen on the side: "Where does Mr. don't like to eat the tip of the liver made by Mrs., I'm afraid that I ate what Man Niang made yesterday, and I will be sick to my stomach." So, when I saw what you made today, Madame, I couldn't eat it anymore. That piece alone is enough to prove that Mr. cares about you, Madame. ”

"Really?" Xing Ruyi tilted his head to look at the fox.

The fox tapped his chin and replied, "Yes." ”

"Didn't lie to me?"

"When did I lie to Madame?"

"You've lied to me a lot." Xing Ruyi snapped his fingers: "However, I don't care." ”

The fox frowned, and when he saw Xing Ruyi, he picked up the tip of the plate and fell under the small tree beside him.

"What Manniang said is right, it's really a little embarrassing for you to let you eat this plate of liver tips I made. I know in my heart that I don't make this dish as well as Manniang. Although I put my heart into it, I was just imitating a dish. ”

"Manniang is not as good as Madame said. Besides, Man Niang will only make this dish. Man Niang lowered her head slightly: "Xiaobao likes this dish the most, but at that time, I was always worried that it would be bad for him to eat too much, so I perfunctorily refused to cook it for him." Later, I made this dish every day, and it got better and better, but Xiaobao ...... I can't eat it anymore. ”

"He'll understand."

Xing Ruyi walked up to Man Niang and patted her on the shoulder.

Man Niang raised her head and squeezed out a smile, "When you went out that night, why did Madam stop Man Niang?" Also, what did the lady do to the county lord, and why did the county lord ...... him?"

"I stopped you because I didn't want you to die innocently. As for the county master, I didn't do anything to him, and he became the way he is now because of the things he did in the past. In this world, we still pay attention to cause and effect. ”

Man Niang's eyes dimmed: "Man Niang will also be responsible for the wrong things he has done." ”

Xing Ruyi nodded: "But there is a place to go?" ”

"The master of Jing'an Hall is willing to take in Manniang."

"Have you figured it out?"

"I've figured it out." Man Niang nodded his head: "What Man Niang wants to do, there are already results." Staying here any longer will only add to the sadness. ”

"In that case, I won't persuade you."

"Manniang also wants to thank Madame, thank Madame for saving Manniang, so that Manniang still has the opportunity to atone for the things she has done."

Man Niang said, blessing her body.

Xing Ruyi hurriedly stretched out his hand to support her and asked, "When did you start helping the county master?" ”

"After my husband went, the county lord sent someone to find me. He said that as long as I secretly helped him do things, he would help me find Xiaobao. ”

"Then when did you know that Xiaobao was taken away by them?"

"I knew before my husband was killed." Man Niang tugged at the corners of her mouth: "My husband used to be a person in the rivers and lakes, and many of the things he did were not innocent." It was only later that he met me and we had Xiaobao again, and he decided to wash his hands and say goodbye to the old days.

But I am used to licking blood at the knife edge, how to be content with the bland. Even if he wants to be content with the ordinary, he can't do the things that ordinary people do.

Actually, I don't know when he started to help the county lord. I only know that after helping the county lord do things, he became more and more preoccupied. The errands of the government are difficult to handle, especially because he is a dark difference that cannot be seen, and the difficulties and sadness are afraid that only he knows by himself.

Before my husband's accident, he came back to see me. He told me that Xiaobao's disappearance was related to the county master, and that nine times out of ten he was gone. He also told me about the strange illness of the county lord, and told me to be careful, because the county lord is a cannibal. ”

"And then?"

"Then ......" Man Niang raised her eyes and looked into the distance: "I heard a commotion outside the door, my husband shook my hand, and left in a hurry." After a few hours, he was carried back, covered in blood and dying. After that, there were accidents in the village, and only I knew where the source of these strange things was. ”

"If you know, why don't you say it?"

"Scared!" Man Niang said bluntly: "I am just a woman, a woman who has lost her husband and children, I am afraid, afraid of what will happen after the truth is revealed." ”

"Then why do you still have to help the county master? You know that Xiaobao has ......"

"Probably because I don't give up. I always think that my husband is doing things for him, no matter how ruthless he is, he will not take my Xiaobao's life. Besides, he was still threatening my little treasure's life, and I thought my child was still alive. ”

"Then when did you know that Xiaobao was really gone."

"It was Wang Huzi who told me. After the accident of the youngest son of the Wang family, Wang Huzi found me and told me everything that happened. ”

"Is Wang Huzi stupid? He was the one who stole Xiaobao. ”

"He came to me because he wanted me to kill him." There was a hint of fierceness in Manniang's eyes: "Wang Huzi is a coward, he is subject to the county lord but does not dare to resist, and he sees his child have an accident, but he can't do anything." Even if he died, he didn't have the courage. So, he came to me in the hope that I would hate him and that I could kill him with my own hands. ”

"If it were me, I would probably actually do it." Xing Ruyi touched the tip of his nose.

"I've thought about it too, but killing people is worth their lives." Man Niang whispered, sighed after speaking, and looked at her hands: "I used to be unwilling to stain my hands with blood and carry my life. But now, although I didn't bear my life, I was still stained with blood. ”

"Those liver ...... for the county lord"

"After Wang Huzi approached me, I made a decision."

"Those who come to eat are all people who are involved in this matter, right? This courtyard of yours is obviously a small restaurant, but it is actually for you to discuss things. The fox and I were really diners who came in by mistake. ”

"It's not just Mrs. and Mr. who came in by mistake, but others came to taste something new and stopped coming, but because of these people who came by mistake, it made the county lord relax a lot for us. As for those livers, they were all sent by the person next to the county lord, but I added some things to them. I was thinking that he would get weaker and weaker day by day, and then ...... after I found my little treasure Seriously, although I knew that this county lord had a strange disease, I didn't expect his illness to be like that. ”

"Have you seen anything on the county lord?"

Man Niang nodded: "Once, I went to deliver something to the county master, but after the housekeeper took it, he didn't cover the door easily." I was thinking about my little treasure, so I quietly followed in, and the result was ...... Although I have heard my husband describe it, I still feel scared when I see it with my own eyes. The day my wife and husband came, it was the day when I consulted with my neighbors. ”

"Then do you know where the county lord's strange illness came from?"

"I heard my husband say it, but I didn't ask in detail. Countrymen are still a little taboo about this kind of thing. County lord, is it possessed by ghosts, right? Although he may not be an innocent good official, if he didn't have this strange disease, he wouldn't have the idea of eating people's hearts and livers. ”

"Whatever his reason, he did eat human liver, and he deserved what he deserved now."

"The county lord ......"

"He is trapped by demons, addicted to cannibalism, and now that things are shaken out, even if he is not killed as a monster, he will be imprisoned to death." Xing Ruyi shook his head, thinking of the appearance of the county master locked in a cage, he couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, this ending was also something she didn't expect.

That night, Man Niang went to the county government with the fried liver tip as promised, but was stopped by Xing Ruyi when she went out. When Manniang saw Xing Ruyi, she was first surprised, and then wanted to hide the door to dodge, but the next moment she relaxed as if relieved. Without waiting for the punishment to speak, he said to himself: "I have a human liver here. ”

Xing Ruyi only replied lightly: "I know." ”

The rest of the matter, Manniang didn't know, she only knew that when Xing Ruyi took the basket in her hand and left with her husband, she felt that the things that had been in her heart were put down. Leaning against the door, she screamed and cried, but she covered her mouth tightly, trying not to make a sound.

Man Niang knew that the haze covering her heart would eventually disperse.

Naturally, the man who was killed by the county lord was not really Manniang, but the fox conjured up with something else. Xing Ruyi also really helped the county lord see a doctor, and the person's face was really dug up. It's just that the county lord has eaten too much human liver, and he has already planted a demon, but this demon is not something that she can cure as a little woman.

The face that was dug up, Xing Ruyi found a crystal bottle and filled it up. That face, stuck to the bottle all day long, kept cursing Xingruyi. Xing Ruyi felt noisy, so he asked the fox to cast a spell, so that the person's face could only open his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound. After a few days of scolding, the man's face stopped.