I don't remember how I got out of it, on the way back, Lin Liding's last expression kept dangling in front of my eyes, and the story of the Eight Banners Guards also lingered in my ears over and over again, the whole person was in a trance, Shen Muhan was not in a good mood, we were just walking silently along the way, and no one spoke.

When I walked to the village, the madman was standing at the head of the village, remember to scratch his ears and cheeks, and when he saw me and Shen Muhan, he immediately ran over.

"Where have you been all night? Why do you look so unmotivated? The madman ran in front of me and suddenly found me and Shen Muhan listless, and asked with a puzzled face.

I waved my hand at him, said I was fine, and I was ready to go to the courtyard where I lived. The madman grabbed me and whispered with a serious face, "Wood, something is wrong!" ”

"The village chief is gone, but nothing happens." I thought that the madman was talking about Lin Liding, so I casually answered and prepared to continue walking. At that time, I just felt physically and mentally exhausted, and I had no desire to explain at all, and I had forgotten that it was impossible for a madman to know about it so quickly.

The madman paused for a moment, and then said, "What village chief? What's the matter with the village chief? It's Ah Yun! ”

"Ayun?" I muttered, but I didn't react to who the madman was talking about. Shen Muhan reacted much faster than me, and as soon as the madman finished speaking, he anxiously grabbed the madman's shoulder and asked Ah Yun what was wrong, I guess the reaction, Ah Yun was the little girl who took us to the village chief, and I still watched her walk back to the village at the door of the cabin last night.

"Ayun...... He's dead. The madman looked at Shen Muhan, who was a little overreacting, and his speech was a little hesitant.

He's dead? As soon as I heard the news, I felt a shock in my heart, when we parted last night, the smile she left me, I still remember, could it be that something happened after we were separated?

"Where?" Shen Muhan already cried when he asked, I don't know how long Shen Muhan and Ah Yun got along during the time I was in a coma, but because of the relationship between lonely and miserable since childhood, Shen Muhan's feelings are particularly fragile, even if a random person dies, Shen Muhan will be sad, not to mention that Ah Yun is such a cute child, and he also shared the secret of eliminating his troubles with Shen Muhan, for Shen Muhan, Ah Yun must be more than just acquaintance.

"Holy Spring." The madman looked at Shen Muhan with a little worry, he knew better than me the process of Shen Muhan and Ah Yun getting along, and he could understand better than me what Ah Yun's death meant to Shen Muhan.

"Holy Spring again." I silently repeated the name in my heart, the Eight Banners guard is here for the Holy Spring, and Ah Yun's death is in the Holy Spring, what is this Holy Spring?

"Madman, do you know that the Holy Fountain is there? I want to check it out. Shen Muhan raised his head and asked the madman, his eyes were already full of tears.

"Let's go." After the madman finished speaking, he turned around and walked in front to lead the way.

Before we could reach the holy spring, we saw that it was already full of people, and everyone saw us coming and made way one after another, but there was a hint of unkindness in their eyes when they looked at us. There was a person squatting in the center of the crowd, and it turned out to be Li Jingyao from the back.

"Why is she here?" I asked the madman with some doubts.

"Oh, I woke up when I came back after the ceremony last night."

I walked up to Li Jingyao and squatted down, and in front of me was Ah Yun's body. The clothes on his body are still the same as the ones we wore when we parted last night, his face has been blistered white, and he seems to have a hint of a smile, his hands are stacked on his abdomen steadily, there is no trace of struggle, and there is water flowing out from under his body. It seemed that under Ah Yun's corpse was the holy spring.

"How?" I turned my head and asked Li Jingyao, she came earlier than me, I don't know if I saw any clues.

"It's him." Li Jingyao raised her hand in front of me, and I realized that she had a token with a very special shape in her hand, and there was a word written in the middle of the token, but I didn't know it.

"Who is he?" Listening to Li Jingyao's meaning, she seems to know this thing.

"I don't know." Li Jingyao shook her head.

Although Li Jingyao said that she didn't know, it didn't look like she didn't know, and it was not good to continue to ask now. I looked around the area around the corpse again, but I didn't see any obvious traces, and even if there were, the constant spring washing would not have been preserved. The most important thing now is to transport Ah Yun's body back to the village first, it is not a matter to always soak in the water, as for how Ah Yun died, if he was killed, and who the murderer is, these can only be investigated slowly.

Thinking of this, I stood up and walked up to the onlookers and said, "Let's transport Ayun back to the village first." "Originally, I thought that a cute child like Ah Yun should be liked by everyone, but now that people are gone, they should always take a hand, but I didn't expect that as soon as I finished speaking, everyone looked at me without saying a word, and the few people closest to me actually took a step back, looking very frightened.

"Can you understand me? Hand in and transport Ah Yun back. "I thought they didn't understand me, so I repeated it again, and finally a voice came from the crowd.

"She can't go back to the village!"

I glanced into the crowd and couldn't see who said it, so I continued to ask the crowd why.

The nearest woman, who looked to be in her forties, hesitated for a moment before whispering why.

It turned out that when Ah Yun was born, Ah Yun's mother had a mental problem, and she always said that Ah Yun was a scourge and wanted to kill Ah Yun, and even threw Ah Yun into the water tank once, but fortunately, Ah Yun's father came back early from working in the field, which saved Ah Yun. For this matter, Ah Yun's father beat Ah Yun's mother, and Ah Yun's mother ran away in anger and never came back.

The road to the outside of Baqi Village is only one waterway except for the cliff we came into, and that waterway has to pass through a very long and low water hole, and it is impossible to get out without a boat. But the only boat in the village was still there, and Ah Yun's mother disappeared mysteriously, and after that, the whole village searched all around here and found no body.

Originally, this incident slowly faded out of the memories of the villagers, but in the second year after Ayun's mother disappeared, Ayun's father suddenly suffered from a very special disease, and the village doctor tried his best to not even know what the disease was, and finally could only watch him lose weight and die slowly. Since then, Ah Yun has been regarded as an ominous thing by the villagers, and everyone is unwilling to take her in, and in the end, there is no choice but to be the village chief, that is, Lin Liding adopted her and has always taken her with her, and when she grew up a little, she acted as the village chief's microphone, and slowly the villagers began to accept her when they saw that she was not abnormal.

However, now that Ah Yun died here in such an unknown way, and the expression on her face still had a hint of weirdness, the villagers remembered what happened to Ah Yun's parents, and regarded Ah Yun as a bad omen, so they did not agree to take her back to the village.

After listening to what happened, I shook my head helplessly. I didn't have any contact with the people in the village before, and I never imagined that there would be such a stupid place in this era. Ah Yun's unfortunate background since he was a child was regarded as an outlier by the villagers.

The sun has risen, the temperature has slowly begun to rise, Shen Muhan squatted next to him and held his clothes to block the sun for Ah Yun, but after all, it is not a long-term solution, so I have to continue to do the work of the villagers.

"Don't say it, since you came, the whole village has begun to be abnormal, and even the ceremony that has been stopped for more than ten years has started again, I don't know what your origin is, and the village chief won't tell us." A middle-aged man in the crowd shouted loudly, and there was a discussion around him.

"Huh? What about the village chief? Have you ever met the village chief? Someone in the crowd finally found out that Lin Liding was not there and began to ask the people around him. This question instantly hit a lot of discussions.

"The village chief disappeared since last night, does it have anything to do with you?" In the midst of the discussion, someone finally asked out loud.

I don't know how to answer, Lin Liding has spent so many years guarding a secret of the Eight Banners, no matter what, I can't reveal this secret after he leaves, I can only watch the crowd in front of me remain silent. But I overlooked one issue, and my silence seemed more of a tacit acquiescence to them.

"You see that he stopped talking, the disappearance of the village chief must have something to do with them, and maybe, Ah Yun was also harmed by them!" The crowd suddenly pointed the finger at me.

"You can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense!" The madman finally couldn't help but be angry when he saw the crowd, and came over to me and stood beside me, pointing at the few people who were shouting loudly in the crowd and said, "Why do you say that the disappearance of the village chief has something to do with us?" Besides, we weren't the ones who found Ayun's body, right? If you want to talk about suspicion, the first person to find the body is the most suspicious. ”

After the madman finished speaking, he turned around and leaned in my ear and whispered, "Wood, you didn't really go to see the village chief last night, did you?" I nodded slightly, and the madman stared at me for a while, trying to ask something, but finally held back, turned around and continued to reason with the villagers.

"Don't listen to him, he's just scolding us, even if they didn't kill him, he definitely can't get out of them and arrest them!"

With this voice in the crowd, the whole crowd began to stir, and some sturdy men began to slowly gather around us, as if they were ready to rush up.

"Look for death!"

As soon as I heard Li Jingyao's voice from behind, I secretly said "not good" in my heart. Li Jingyao: I have seen it, and the last time I heard her say these two words was when I confronted Wang Chuan in the cave. Li Jingyao can make Wang Chuan so jealous, if she really makes a move, these villagers will either die or be injured.

I quickly turned to stop her, but it was too late, and a sword flew against my shoulder, stuck in the ground, no more than a centimeter away from the nearest man's foot.

Seeing the sword in front of him, the man turned around and ran back into the crowd with a "mom", and the whole crowd exploded. Li Jingyao walked past me with a gloomy face, and I was afraid that she would really do something to these villagers, so I quickly stretched out my hand to stop her. Although these villagers are a bit excessive, they are just a little ignorant, and they are not some heinous people, and they can't take their lives for this.

Li Jingyao didn't continue to move forward, leaned over and pulled out the sword in her hand, pointed at the ground diagonally, raised her eyes to look at the crowd, and said coldly: "If you don't want to die, get out!" ”