And just as Qi Qingchu was thinking hard about what kind of reason to use to go out and check on them. There was a knock on the door of the village chief's house.

The sound of "tuk tuk tuk" knocking on the door was very soft and rhythmic, and the village chief, who was immersed in the cheerfulness, did not notice that it was Qi Qingchu who heard the voice.

He stopped talking to the village chief, and then told the village chief that there was a knock on the door and if he needed to open the door and take a look.

The village chief said that Qi Qingchu didn't know the people in the village and didn't need to trouble him, he would open it himself.

So the village chief got up from the stove, and then slowly moved to the door to open the door.

After all, he was a little old, and his legs and feet were inconvenient, so the village chief walked very slowly, but the people knocking on the door outside didn't seem to be in a hurry.

When the village chief opened the door, he saw it clearly, and the people outside couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Village chief, it's me, I'm here to bring you bacon." Wu Mian and his wife saw that the village chief was a little surprised, smiled embarrassedly, and then unloaded the basket on her shoulder.

The village chief glanced at Wu Mian, the things in the basket in his mother's hand were covered with a layer of blue cloth, and then Wu Mian and his wife opened a corner and let the village chief glance at it.

"Have you eaten? The house has just been burned, let's come in first. The village chief beckoned his slandered wife to enter the door.

Originally, it was just a polite remark, and it stands to reason that he usually stuffed things directly to the village chief, and then turned around and left, but this time Wu Mian and his wife did not refuse the village chief because she had something in her heart.

With the basket in his hand, he stepped into the threshold of the village chief's house.

As soon as he entered the door, he walked into the courtyard, and Wu Mian and his wife couldn't help but want to talk to the village chief about their troubles.

But the village chief took the first step and said, "Is there something wrong?" Look at your face is not very good. ”

Wu Mian, who asked this question, immediately stopped her mouth and did not squeak.

And Qi Qingchu saw the scene outside through the kitchen window, it was a woman, and he hesitated and didn't rush out.

The two of them were in the courtyard, facing the woman who was facing Qi Qingchu, her lips squirming up and down a few times, not knowing what she was talking about.

The village chief seemed to hear what the woman said, and his expression seemed to be immediately restrained, and his expression became serious.

Do you want to go out and have a look? After all, it didn't seem good for him to be huddled in the kitchen like this.

But this is a matter between people and villagers, and it has nothing to do with him.

"Village chief, my family Wu Mian has been a little disobedient recently, and it is useless to persuade him, and I hope that the village chief will help me think of a way."

Wu Mian and his wife don't know how to describe it, and what happened in their family can only be used as an excuse to say that Wu Mian has been disobedient and unfilial recently.

The village chief couldn't help frowning when he heard Wu Mian and his wife say this, recently he felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the Wu family, including the mysterious woman who was hanging on the village chief's heart, and he felt a little curious.

But he forcibly pressed it down.

But I didn't expect that today, Wu Mian and his wife would take the initiative to come to the door by herself, and tell him such things under the pretext of giving him the opportunity to send bacon.

The village chief couldn't help but wonder if something was going on.

"Why do you say that Wu Mian did something wrong?" The village chief asked with a little curiosity.

In fact, Wu Mian and his wife regretted it when she asked what she said, she felt that she should not say such a thing, so as not to make the village chief suspicious. But when the village chief said this, and asked her why, she did not know how to describe what had happened in their house.

Is it to say that her son brought back a woman who was unidentified, and that her son abused the woman and even broke her leg?

If this was the case, Wu Mian and his wife had no doubt that the village chief would immediately rush to her house with the villagers and rescue the woman.

"Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that my son is disobedient and doesn't listen to persuasion."

"This disobedience, disobedience should also be manifested in one place, where is disobedience and disobedience?" Obviously, the village chief is not so easy to fool, and when he heard Wu Mian and his wife say this, he became even more determined to ask questions.

"Village chief, this, I really can't say this." The old lady who slandered him shook her head, sighed, and then put the basket directly on the ground, turned around and wanted to leave.

The village chief stopped her, wanting her to make it clear before leaving, otherwise she couldn't leave two sentences so inexplicably, and then leave so inexplicably.

Wu Mian and his wife hesitated, and never thought about what to say, so as not to make the village chief suspect their family and suspect that what Wu Mian was doing now was a bad thing.

After holding back for a long time, Wu Mian and his wife stomped their feet in resignation, and then said: "Village chief, seeing that the New Year is approaching, Wu Mian has been back for a while, and recently he said that he wants to go up the mountain."

You said that it must be bad to have a big winter, so I persuaded him to let him stay at home.

But he refused to live or die, and had to go up the mountain under the pretext of going up to hunt or something, and I couldn't stop him. So I just wanted to tell you about it. “

Wu Mian's old lady's face was extremely red, she had never lied, in the face of the village chief's inquiry, she couldn't resist it at all, the village chief's stern eyes, as long as he looked at her, he would feel trembling in his heart, his heart was empty, and he was uncomfortable.

"What must be the reason for this? You can go back and talk to him about it, if you can't say it accurately, I'll go back and talk to him, don't worry about it first. ”

When the village chief heard that Wu Mian was going up the mountain, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, the people in the village did not have the habit of spending the winter on their bodies.

Not to mention that there are many wild beasts on the mountain, and they all live in caves on the mountain, which is also inconvenient, First of all, heating has become a problem, if there is a small illness or something in this winter, who can run to the mountain to find him?

I went to the mountains to spend the winter, and there were some problems.

The village chief's scrutinizing eyes fell on Wu Mian and his wife, but Wu Mian and his wife were unwilling to say anything more.

For the village chief's words, Wu Mian and his wife just nodded affirmatively, and then bowed to the village chief and turned to leave, and when he left, Zizi carefully took the door and didn't dare to look at the village chief from beginning to end.

The village chief also watched the direction of the slandered old lady leaving from beginning to end, and his heart was full of suspicions, maybe he really should have gone to Wu's house in person.

As the head of the village, Li Yin has a certain responsibility to the villagers in the village, even if it is good or bad, he should take care of it.

After Qi Qingchu saw the woman leave, she came out of the kitchen and stood in the corridor at the door and watched the village chief without saying a word.

The village chief stood in the courtyard and thought alone for a while, and then noticed that the eyes of others were looking at him, and he unconsciously looked over and saw that it was Qi Qingchu standing there.

The village chief smiled at him, then bent down, picked up the basket on the ground and walked towards him.

Qi Qingchu glanced at the village chief, carrying a basket in her hand, knowing that the woman had actually come to deliver something to the village chief just now.

"Alas, Cao Cao Cao arrived, didn't he tell you about the Wu family yesterday? Today's people are from the Wu family. ”

The village chief shook his head and said, seemingly very worried about the affairs of the Wu family.

"Did something happen?" Qi Qingchu consciously took the initiative to take the basket in the village chief's hand and asked as if unintentionally, in fact, he cared about his life in his heart.

"Actually, it's not a special thing, it's just ......" The village chief stopped halfway through it, and his head was still thinking hard, so he didn't talk to Qi Qingchu so attentively.

"Let's not talk about the rice in the pot first, let's eat first." Seeing the village chief standing in the courtyard, thinking about it, Qi Qingchu was not in a hurry.

"Okay, well, eat first, eat first." The village chief himself is also hungry, anyway, he is alone here, and it can't play a role, if the people of the Wu family come to find him again, let's talk about it then.

The village chief completely uncovered the cloth inside the basket, and saw that it was also prepared, and the rice and vegetables had added two small dishes to them at noon, and the bacon was quite good, and he picked it up and hung it on the wall outside the kitchen, hanging it high. As for the twenty eggs, they were put together in a basket.

If he wants to go to Wu's house another day, he will use the excuse to return the basket, and then one will be fine.

At the dinner table, Qi Qingchu slowly introduced the topic, pretending to be a very general chat and said: "It's a little strange, the village chief just said yesterday that the people from their family came over to look at the woman today, and they were afraid that they had encountered something difficult to deal with." ”

Qi Qingchu actually wanted to know if the woman in the Wu family was Li Jicai, if it was, it was worth staying here, if not, he would have to leave as soon as possible.

"Yes, it's really strange to talk about going up the mountain, I don't know what that Wu Mian is doing now?" The village chief said unsuspectingly, he saw that Qi Qingchu in front of him was not defended at all, because he felt that from his face, he didn't look like a bad person, like a person who could come and go.

Mountain!?

As soon as he heard the word "going up the mountain", Qi Qingchu's heart immediately tightened, what does it mean to go up the mountain? It means that the other party is likely to want to abscond.

They are now at the foot of the mountain and in the village, which is good to say, once they escape to the mountain and take Li Jicai with them, whether this person lives or dies cannot be controlled.

In the past, Qi Qingchu had heard that some cases happened in the deep mountains and old forests, and there were many corpses in one place for some reason, and so far there is no trace of any name or surname, and not even a piece of clothing has been left.

Even though the state of Chu is now extremely safe, many people still disappear every year, and many people disappear quietly.

Even if the government sends people to look for it, to investigate. But there is no progress, after all, the deep mountains and old forests are vast, and it is not so easy and simple to find someone, if the other party is familiar with the terrain, it will be even more troublesome.

"If you propose to go up the mountain when the New Year is approaching, you must be very familiar with the mountain, so I don't have to worry."