Seeing me walking towards the kitchen, Beilin stopped me, saying that there was no need to prepare food, and that he would buy it on the road in a while.

"Shenjun, Mei'er is not in the house, she probably went to the kitchen." With that, I walked briskly towards the kitchen.

The kitchen of Tao Xingwang's house, half of which is filled with firewood and half of which is a stove, is not too big, and you can see at a glance whether there is anyone inside.

There is indeed someone in this kitchen, but that person is not Mei'er, but Tao Xingwang's wife Xiangxiu.

Xiangxiu has already lit a fire, and porridge is boiling in the pot.

When they saw me come in, they panicked.

"The porridge is already in the pot, and it will be eaten in a while." She thought I was here to make breakfast.

"No, Xiangxiu, I'm here to find my sister, the little girl you saw yesterday." I looked at Xiangxiu and asked her if she had seen Mei'er.

Xiangxiu shook her head: "No, I, I haven't seen that girl, isn't she in the house?" ”

"No, I'll look elsewhere." After I finished speaking, I turned around and was about to leave.

"Girl, the inner courtyard, you can't go, my mother doesn't like outsiders to go to the inner courtyard." Xiangxiu looked at me and reminded me.

"yes, okay." I thought that Mei'er would not go to other people's inner courtyards.

But after looking around in the front yard, I still couldn't see any trace of Mei'er, so I had to inform Mingbeilin and ask him to help me find it.

"Mei'er is in this house." Shen Beilin said firmly: "However, she dissected the demon pill, and the demon qi was almost completely gone." ”

Beilin squinted his eyes slightly, and could only feel that Mei'er was in this house.

"Shenjun, Xiyan, did you say that Xiao Mei'er left quietly to find her Zhuo Gongzi?" Floater looked at me with a worried look on his face.

I immediately shook my head: "Impossible, last night, I had already talked to her, and she chose it herself, after all, it was her life, so it was impossible for Mei'er to leave suddenly, even if she wanted to leave, she would tell us." ”

"Right?" Float frowned.

Beilin handed Xuan Ling to me, and he walked towards the main hall.

"Tao Xingwang, get out!" The tone of the Stygian Beilin was very unkind.

Tao Xingwang stumbled out of the inner courtyard at a very fast speed after he scolded Beilin angrily.

"My lord? What's wrong with this? He looked like he hadn't woken up yet, and his hair was still messy.

"What about people? The people around me, you dare to move? Don't want to die? The tone of the dark Beilin is low, but it has a sense of oppression, which makes people dare not provoke.

"Your Excellency, you, you, what do you say?" Tao Xingwang looked at Beilin in shock.

Judging from his reaction, it shouldn't be like a pretend.

However, knowing people and faces but not knowing their hearts is not easy to make decisions.

"Prosperous, Mei'er is gone, I searched all over the front yard, but I couldn't find her." I looked at Tao Xingwang expressionlessly.

Tao Xingwang's slightly bloodshot eyes turned around in a dripping circle, and then he slapped his head, and immediately said to us: "Wait, it must be my mother?" ”

After Tao Xingwang finished speaking, he turned around and ran towards the inner courtyard.

Standing in the main hall, Beilin raised his hand and patted me lightly on the shoulder, and said with relief: "It's okay, this Shenjun borrowed a hundred guts from him, and he didn't dare to move Mei'er." ”

"Hmm." I nodded.

Although Tao Xingwang is a liar, because we saved his life, he is very respectful and grateful to us.

However, his mother is very weird.

Yesterday, when I saw Mei'er, his mother's eyes were shining.

But Mei'er can't fight an old lady, right? Was he "caught" away?

"That old woman, she seems to like Xiao Mei'er a lot, wouldn't it be her pestering Xiao Mei'er and chatting with her?" Fuyou also thought of yesterday, Tao Xingwangniang's abnormality.

"What a girl, my mother hasn't seen her." Soon, the lady's voice came from behind the main hall.

Immediately after, I saw that she and Tao Xingwang stepped out of the threshold together and walked into the hall.

"What do you want to do? Are you bullying me? "The lady's drooping eyelids always give me the illusion that she seems to have her eyes closed.

"Auntie, did you let Mei'er chat with you? Now Mei'er is in the inner courtyard, right? When I asked her what to say, I deliberately looked at her reaction.

She immediately snorted coldly: "What Mei'er? I just got up and I haven't seen her, did she go out for a walk? ”

"No, it won't." I said and paused, this lady is suspicious at first glance.

"Tao Xingwang, I'll give you a cup of tea, if you don't hand over Huang Mei'er, you will bear the consequences!" Beilin stared at Tao Xingwang and said coldly.

"Mother, this is the adult of the Sacrifice Courtyard, you can't offend, if the yellow girl is really caught by you, you will let her go." Tao Xingwang prayed to his mother.

The eldest lady was also angry, raised her hand, and directly slapped Tao Xingwang.

"You actually talk to your mother like that? Unfilial things! The eldest lady was furious.

"Floating, take care of the child, sunset, come with me." After Beilin finished speaking, I handed Xuan Ling over to Fuyou, and walked towards the backyard with Beilin.

The lady screamed, and rushed over to stop us.

"Tao Xingwang is optimistic about your mother, otherwise, I can't guarantee that I won't hurt her." Beilin said coldly.

Tao Xingwang hurriedly hugged his mother, and then told us that his mother's house was the one in the inner courtyard where the white lanterns were hung.

"White lanterns?" I couldn't help but frown.

It is impossible for a normal person to hang a white lantern at the door.

The white lantern, in the village where I used to live, was only hung during funerals.

"Locust trees?" As soon as I entered the inner courtyard, I was stunned, because there were more than a dozen locust trees planted in this huge inner courtyard.

These locust trees completely block the light of the entire courtyard, and now the sky outside is already bright, but the inner courtyard is like night.

"The locust tree is a ghost, how can you plant a locust tree in the house?" I muttered.

Ming Beilin took me and walked along the corridor, and soon saw the room that Tao Xingwang said.

In this room, not only is it taboo to hang white lanterns at the door, but there is also a row of talismans pasted on this door.

"Divine Monarch? What kind of talisman is this? "I looked at this talisman, and the drawing was twisted and twisted, and it was extremely complicated.

"Here, there is an offering of yin things, this is a yin gathering charm." After speaking, he raised his finger, quickly drew a few strokes on my forehead, and then slammed the door in.

The moment the door was pushed open, I saw that there was a huge offering table in this room, and on top of the offering table, a row of candles was lit.

It is not a spiritual position enshrined on it, but a small clay figure.

These little clay figurines are completely pinched into the appearance of children, and they are all boys with "handles", pinched vividly, and each of them has a red thread wrapped around their wrists.