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If the Qingshui Sect and the evil Taoist priests of my great-grandfather's time could use those spells for good deeds, I don't think they would be spurned by the world today, they would not be blamed by history, and they would not let our descendants hate them.

After the ghost boy incident passed, there was no news of the loss of the child in Sanwangzhuang and the area near Sanwangzhuang, and it was considered to be back to normal, except for the parents who lost their children, their hearts were still dripping blood.

The lives of the common people in the area of Sanwangzhuang began to live like this day by day.

At this time, my great-grandfather was thinking about going to Kaifeng to take my great-grandmother and my grandfather home, after all, the case of the child's disappearance has been completely solved, and my great-grandmother and my grandfather no longer need to hide in their parents' house.

One day in mid-September, my great-grandfather borrowed a horse-drawn carriage from the villagers, went down to the river to catch a few big carp from the Yellow River, bought some gifts and snacks for relatives, and prepared to pick up my great-grandmother and my grandfather in Kaifeng the next day.

However, before my great-grandfather set off, my great-grandmother actually came back from Kaifeng, not only did she come back, but she also took Cai Zhang, the old housekeeper of Caifu, with them, and the two of them were not only dusty, but also panicked.

When my great-grandfather saw that the two of them looked abnormal, he didn't dare to catch up with the old housekeeper, nor did he dare to shout at my great-grandmother, he made a bowl of hot tea for my great-grandmother and Cai Zhang, and asked them directly what happened.

My great-grandmother didn't speak, although her face was abnormal, but there was affection in her eyes when she looked at my great-grandfather, and I think she missed my great-grandfather day and night.

The words were all said by the old housekeeper Cai Zhang, Cai Zhang said that he came in a hurry this time to invite his uncle to Cai's mansion, because in the past half a month, several creepy strange things have happened in Cai's mansion, even my great-grandmother has encountered it once.

The story began a month ago, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.

Mid-Autumn Festival, friends are no strangers, as for its origin, allusions, legends or something, you may know better than me, so I will not repeat it too much here.

In our place, I'm talking about our current countryside, the Mid-Autumn Festival, just the autumn harvest season, corn, soybeans, peanuts and other crops have matured, is the busiest harvest season of the year, so, we have a very plain Mid-Autumn Festival in the countryside here, that is, to buy two catties of moon cakes, first sacrifice the gods and stove princes at home, and then the whole family eats the moon cakes separately, just like the festival, just like the "Dragon Boat Festival", before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, we just harvest wheat here, Some people may take some free time to put on the oil pot and fry some sugar cakes, vegetable dumplings and the like, and then eat after worshipping the gods. In recent years, we have this kind of food here, I don't feel that the taste is very good, sticky and not a few, maybe the food is not the best quality, but when I was young, we didn't have zongzi here at all, let alone eat, and I haven't even seen it.

Note that, I don't dare to guarantee that all Henan villagers can agree with what I said above, I am only talking about the countryside in our area, and does not represent the entire Henan Province, nor does it represent the people in the city here.

As for these two festivals, there is almost no feeling in the countryside here, if you want to say that there is a feeling, it may be those people in the city, the holidays or something, they are given to them, and the festival is also for them. Of course, I'm not complaining, I'm not being cynical or anything, I'm just saying what is in my heart.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in the past, I heard my grandmother say that when the moon came out, the village chief would take the offerings to the river bank to burn incense and kowtow, and then put the millstone-sized river lantern in the river. If you catch up with the leap year, that is, the leap year of the kind of leap year every four years, the Mid-Autumn Festival is just after the completion of the autumn harvest, if you catch up with a big harvest, the people in the village not only want to sacrifice to the river god, put the river lantern, but also use straw to tie a big grass dragon, the grass dragon is full of pine oil torches, so that the whole dragon body looks like the teeth and claws, the fire is soaring, and then it is held by more than a dozen young men, dancing back and forth on the river bank, the grass dragon with the fire shining in the river is reflected in the river, it is very good-looking. These are no longer in our time, and the atmosphere of the festival is getting weaker and weaker......

Straight to the point. At this time, the Kaifeng Cai family, the Mid-Autumn Festival is more "Sven", after all, it is a scholarly family, Cai Wenye likes to follow the ancients, and the Mid-Autumn Festival will put a few banquets on their own balcony on the evening, and the whole family will gather together to drink and enjoy the moon.

Before drinking and feasting and admiring the moon, the woman in charge of the family is also required to cut moon cakes and watermelons, and set up a case to worship the moon.

That day, my great-grandmother also worshiped the god of the moon, and her treatment in the Cai family at this time was almost the same as before she left the cabinet, she still lived in her own incense building, and she was still served by Xiaolan and Xiaoxiang, the only difference was that my great-grandmother had a three-year-old child next to her, that is, my grandfather.

These strange things up and down the Cai Mansion may have something to do with the maid Xiaolan next to my great-grandmother.

This Xiaolan is the little maid who took my great-grandfather and Wang Shoudao to find the body of the "flower ghost" in the past, and she is also one of the maids who helped my great-grandmother's paper figure stand-in when she sent the flower ghost.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, after accompanying my great-grandmother to worship the moon, the maid Xiaolan secretly told my great-grandmother that she wanted to leave for a while, which is similar to asking for leave now. My great-grandmother is a very open-minded and kind person, and has never looked at the two maids around her, Xiaolan said that she wanted to leave for a while, and my great-grandmother immediately agreed, after all, it is a big holiday, and the maids and servants are also people, and they should also find a place to be happy.

However, no one expected that Xiaolan would not come back after this trip, and after the banquet was over, my great-grandmother didn't care, thinking that she might be playing too crazy, so she took my grandfather back to the room to sleep.

The next day, that is, on the 16th of August, Xiaolan was still missing, and my great-grandmother felt strange at this time, so she asked Xiaoxiang, another maid next to her, to look for it, and Xiaoxiang searched the whole house, but she couldn't find it.

Because Cai Wenye said before, Xiaolan and another maid who helped my great-grandmother's paper man stand-in are no longer considered to be sold in Cai's mansion, they not only have free entry and exit, but they can also leave at any time.

My great-grandmother thought that Xiaolan might have left the house last night, and at this time Xiaoxiang told my great-grandmother that Xiaolan had not left the house, and had seen her before going to bed, and she was not seen until she got up early in the morning.

The maids in Caifu all live in the same big house, which is the same as the male family in Caifu, which is equivalent to the current collective dormitory. However, the men's residence is in the front yard, and the maids are in the backyard. Xiaoxiang's bed happened to be next to Xiaolan's, and Xiaolan's every move Xiaoxiang could detect.

The clothes were still there, but the people were gone, and probably after the maids had fallen asleep. My great-grandmother thought it was strange and told Cai Wenye about it.

At this time, the case of the disappearance of children is nearing the end, and the secret edict of the Tongzhi Emperor has been issued, although it has not yet been able to come to Kaifeng, but at this time, large-scale secret clearance of Taoism has begun across the country.

Perhaps because the secret edict has not yet come to Kaifeng, there is still occasional news of the disappearance of children in Kaifeng's generation. Cai Wenye felt that this maid Xiaolan might be the same as those children, and she was also missing.

So Cai Wenye asked all the family members to look for it in the front yard, all the maids and daughters-in-law to look for it in the backyard, and his second son took the people from the county government to look for it in the city, and tossed it for three or four days in one go, but he didn't even find the shadow of the maid Xiaolan.

Cai Wenye was a little unhappy at this time, and it was just a matter of those ordinary people who lost their children at home, after all, their preventive measures were limited, but there were a total of more than 100 people in Cai's mansion, more than 20 family members, and five or six martial artists, patrolling day and night, and in this case, they could still lose their maids, so what safety did they have in Cai's mansion, besides, his son was on an errand in the county government, and there were still missing people at home.

As soon as Cai Wenye frowned, the entire county moved, as if he had moved his whole body. The county government arrested the soldiers quickly and began a large-scale search for the whole city, almost turning the county upside down. Of course, nothing was found.

In the end, the county magistrate set up a special ...... One is similar to the current task force, a head catcher, with a few fast arresters, who are specifically responsible for solving the disappearance of the maid in Caifu.

Writing here, I have to say that the powerful are good, no one cares if the poor family's son is lost, and a maid in Cai's house is lost, so he is so popular.

Of course, I don't mean to belittle the maid, the maid is also a human being, and she is also raised by her mother's biological father. I'm just talking about things, compared to the feelings of people who have lost their own sons and daughters, the weight of the maid is much lighter, and Xiaolan's maid is already an adult, compared with children, children are a vulnerable group, and it is more worthy of the government to detect and pay attention.

The county government's task force was very motivated to solve the case, but the gains were very small.

In a blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the disappearance of the maid Xiaolan.

That night, just after the third watch, and the martial artists and family members in the courtyard also patrolled once, the entire backyard of Caifu was quiet. The waning moon in the sky was white, sprinkling a layer of frost on the ground, and the night was late and cold, and the whole courtyard was quiet and cold.

Strange things came at this time......