Chapter 37: Clearing
When we returned to the village chief's house, the food was already cold, and when they saw that my hair was wet and had frozen ballast, they guessed the idea, and the village chief asked excitedly, "Master, have you been there?" β
I nodded, "Not only that, but there is still a little bit of gain." β
Everyone immediately gathered around and asked me what I had found.
I smiled secretly, "To deal with the ghosts, the mountain people have their own tricks. β
Only Zhou Yi pouted disdainfully on the side, probably trying to expose me just to take a bath......
The next day, I went to the east of the village again accompanied by the village chief, and changed into a diving suit in front of everyone, Zhou Yi opened his mouth in surprise, probably seeing a big gossip map printed on the front and back of the diving suit, but the village chief was happy when he saw it - the master is the master, and the "Taoist robe" is so chic.
They wanted to use a rope to carry me down, but I plunged into it, and while there was a burst of cheers from the well, I knew that I had pretended to be too big, and I was pushing too hard, and my back was rubbing against the wall of the well, and it hurt hotly.
I dived to the bottom, the hotter and more turbid I went, and I could see the large pile of stones and broken bricks at the bottom of the well by the headlamp, and I felt the vent of the spring, and I stayed underwater for nearly two minutes before returning to the well.
The village chief looked at me expectantly, and I smiled and said, "It's done, tomorrow will definitely give you a clean village!" β
Everyone was very excited, and asked me if I wanted to go and see the bear child of the roe deer, and I said no, the child must be fine, I wanted to go and go around the cave where he found him.
Someone volunteered to lead the way, and we climbed two hills, and finally stopped at a halfway point of the mountain, and the hole was very large, but there was nothing in it, and I knocked on it, but found nothing.
Back at the place where he lived, Zhou Yi closed the door and whispered to me, "When you went up the mountain just now, did you notice anything wrong?" β
I looked at her with a smile, and she said, "Footprints, there are so many new footprints in the snow!" β
"So what?" I asked.
"The snow has only stopped for two days, and it is clear that someone has just been to the cave." Zhou Yi analyzed.
"Maybe it's someone who went up to the mountain to collect firewood."
"No, since something happened in the village, no one dares to go far anymore, even if they have to go up the mountain, they have ganged up several people, but you see that the footprints are all of average size, sparse and sparse, there must be only one person!"
"Who do you suspect?"
She thought for a moment and shook her head.
"If you were the parents of a roe deer and knew that a 'master' had come to the village, what would you do?"
"I'm not superstitious, so I won't believe in you...... 'magic stick'" she said disdainfully, but immediately reacted, "I heard that the roe deer mother believes in this very much!" Her face changed slightly, "It turns out that you deliberately didn't see them to be a temptation." β
I smiled, "The child is so sick, and my parents can still hold their breath and not rush to ask for help, hehe, the answer is already obvious." β
"You mean there's something wrong with the roe deer's parents?!"
"Tonight, we should be able to see."
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During the day, we wandered around the village, deliberately passing back and forth in front of the roe deer's house several times, at first we saw the roe deer's parents feeding the pigs in the yard, but when they saw the two of us, their expressions became very awkward, and they hurried back to the house, locked the door, and never came out again.
This added to Zhou Yi's suspicions, she said, it seems that there is really something wrong with these two people.
I drank again in the evening and asked Zhou Yi to be on time, but she refused, and warned me in a low voice, "Didn't you say that there would be business later?" Take it easy! β
After dinner, I went back to the house to sleep, and I didn't come out until the early hours of the morning, Zhou Yi didn't sleep, and waited anxiously.
We changed into light-colored clothes, which are easy to hide in the snow. I squatted in the backyard of the roe deer's house for more than half an hour, but I didn't see any movement inside.
Zhou Yiha moved his hand and moved his foot again, obviously frozen through. I said that you didn't drink it just now, what's the matter, now you regret it, right?
She looked at me angrily, "Who can guess if you have such a fancy belly?" Also, it's up to you, maybe you guessed wrong, and there is nothing wrong with the roe deer parents at all. β
After waiting for nearly an hour, just as I began to doubt myself, the back door of the house opened, and the roe deer father sneaked out of the yard with a deflated sack.
We followed all the way, straight to the mouth of the cave, the roe deer dad was very vigilant, looked back, saw no one around, and finally got into the cave, waited for a long time and did not see any movement inside, I decided to go up to see, but after taking two steps, I heard a scream in the cave, Zhou Yi and I didn't care about anything else, immediately rushed in, a look, stunned, the hole was empty, how could there be any figure!
Expected, but also unreasonable. This made me think of Tong Liu again, it seems that I was not wrong this time, I can figure this matter out, and the mystery of Tong Liu's disappearance out of thin air may also be solved.
We knocked and tried all over the cave wall, but did not find a clue, Zhou Yi said, there must be some secret door in this cave, but I don't know where the mechanism is, more than half an hour later, we touched every corner of the cave and still found nothing, I wanted to wait in the hole, but suddenly felt a shaking of the mountain, an earthquake.
Zhou Yi was concerned about the safety of the roe deer father, and he was as hot as a headless fly, so I simply carried her and rushed out of the hole, and as soon as the front foot stepped out, the hole collapsed, but fortunately, the earthquake was very weak, and it stopped in an instant, and a few big stones blocked the hole, but the inside was still intact, and Zhou Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
We couldn't move a stone with all our strength, and in the end we had no choice but to go down the mountain and ask the villagers for help.
Before entering the village, I saw a woman standing at the entrance of the village looking halfway up the mountain, it was the roe deer mother, Zhou Yi and I looked at each other, and walked up quickly.
"Auntie, there was an earthquake just now." Zhou Yi said.
"Well, it's scary." The roe deer mother did not leave the distance and replied casually.
"Actually, it's nothing, Xiaozhen, it's not dangerous."
"It's good if it's not dangerous, it's good if it's not dangerous!" The roe deer mother breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's nothing to do in the village, but it's enough to choke on the mountainβ" Zhou Yi said, "I just came back from there, and most of the mountain has collapsed, but fortunately, no one went up in the middle of the night." β
"It's good if there's no one, no one ......" the roe de mother replied absentmindedly, but suddenly her face turned pale and grabbed Zhou Yi's arm, "Fat girl, what did you just say?" β
"Auntie, my uncle is on the mountain, you tell me the truth, what the hell is going on with you?" Zhou Yi no longer went around in circles, and asked at the door.
The roe deer mother was hesitant and a little hesitant.
"Hey! Auntie, what time is this? If something happens to my uncle, how will you and the roe deer live in the future?! β
The roe de mother's eyes were red, "Fat girl, hurry!" Save people! β
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