Chapter Fifty-Six: Night Worms That Bite People to Death?
As soon as the sky was bright, Xie Lingtian and the four of them rushed to Pingjiang Town.
It was past seven o'clock in the morning when the four of them arrived at the farmer's market.
It is estimated that it is early, and there are only pork stalls and small vendors selling breakfast in the surrounding market.
As for the area where medicinal herbs are sold, I haven't seen a few people coming.
Xiao Chen bought breakfast for four people and returned to the car.
"It's not easy to wait for the car from the township to the town, and the farmers have to wait until after eight o'clock at the earliest to catch the morning market."
Xiao Chen handed the fried dough dough soy milk to Xie Lingtian and the others and explained.
"Hmm." Xie Lingtian took it, but his eyes still scanned the market.
"Freshly fried fritters are crispy!"
Su Ruicheng nibbled on the fritters, drank soy milk, and when he saw that Xie Lingtian was not moving, he raised his eyes and said.
"Lingtian, what are you looking at? Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold. ”
Manager Shen and Xiao Chen saw that Xie Lingtian didn't move, and they didn't dare to eat.
"Thank you, isn't it unappetizing? Why don't we take a look around and see what's delicious. ”
Manager Shen mistakenly thought that Xie Lingtian couldn't get used to this, and hurriedly said.
"No, let's eat." Xie Lingtian said.
It's not that he doesn't dislike these breakfasts, but he is observing the environment of this market.
While eating, Xie Lingtian suddenly said.
"I see that the market also has monitoring, and if we call up the video of the day, it is more efficient than looking for it ourselves."
After hearing this, Manager Shen hurriedly put down the bun in his hand and said.
"That's right, Heavenly Master, look at my brain, why didn't you think of it!"
Manager Shen hurriedly took out his mobile phone, "I know the director of the market management bureau here, so I'll call him." ”
"Manager, it's too early, and the director hasn't come to work." Xiao Chen reminded, and then pointed to the second floor of the market.
"That's the monitoring room of the market, and when they go to work, we'll just talk to the supervisor here."
"Well, Xiao Chen has a point." Manager Shen nodded in agreement.
Although he knows some big leaders, his understanding of the grassroots is far less than that of the front-line salesmen.
Xie Lingtian didn't say anything more, finished breakfast, and waited until half past eight to get more people one after another.
Soon, Manager Shen communicated properly with the market management personnel and successfully checked the monitoring.
Ten minutes later
"Yes, it's this uncle!" Xiao Chen hurriedly stopped, pointing to the blurred figure in the surveillance screen.
Then, the picture at the same time was called up from several monitoring angles.
I could vaguely see that this was an old man in his sixties, with dark skin and a set of gray clothes, who looked like an extremely ordinary farmer.
However, even if someone was found, the staff said that they did not know the uncle, let alone have contact information.
Xie Lingtian and the others had no choice but to take photos, and then went downstairs to the scene to look for people.
The four of them took the photos one by one and compared them, and kept asking other farmers who sold medicines, and after more than half an hour, they finally had a trace of eyebrows.
Xiao Chen hurriedly called Xie Lingtian and the others over.
"This old man is next door to us, what are you looking for him?"
The aunt looked at the four people in front of her, with a hint of suspicion and vigilance in her eyes.
"Oh, auntie, we are a herb merchant who came down to collect medicine."
Manager Shen stuffed two big red banknotes into the aunt's hand and said with a smile.
"This uncle's medicine is in good condition, I want to contact him, if you know, tell us."
The aunt hurriedly excused herself, but she couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of Xiao Chen and Manager Shen, and finally accepted it.
But the aunt nervously looked west, and led the four of them to the corner before speaking cautiously.
"This old man, he died the night before, and he died inexplicably!"
The aunt's words made Xiao Chen, Manager Shen, and Su Ruicheng's faces change slightly, and they couldn't help but look at Xie Lingtian.
The aunt saw the expressions of the three of them in her eyes, and knew that it was Xie Lingtian who was in charge here, so she also looked at him.
"Auntie, you can lead the way." Xie Lingtian said.
Manager Shen accepted all the medicinal materials from the aunt and gave double the money, which made the aunt very happy.
Along the way, the aunt told everything she knew and heard.
"This Han Sanchui, unmarried, childless and daughterless, only has a ninety-year-old mother at home, and usually makes a living by collecting medicine.
Often a person goes deep into the Taiping Mountains and forests, sometimes a few days away, and always bragged to us when he came back, saying that he had seen the gods in the mountains, there were thousands of years of Ganoderma lucidum, and he also saw monsters.
Anyway, it's quite mysterious, and it scares the people in the village enough, but we don't believe it at all......"
The aunt said in detail, as if she was a relative living with Han Sanchui.
Xie Lingtian couldn't help frowning when he listened to the story told by his aunt.
Su Ruicheng saw that Xie Lingtian's expression was wrong, so he asked in a low voice.
"Lingtian, is there really such a bizarre thing?"
Although Su Ruicheng didn't know what happened to Xie Lingtian in the seven years he was away.
But he had seen Xie Lingtian's extraordinary force, and he must not be sure if he met a peerless master outside.
Therefore, he now feels more and more that these seemingly outrageous and strange things may be true.
"It's hard to say......" Xie Lingtian shook his head slightly, and then asked his aunt.
"Auntie, how did Uncle Han die the night before?"
When the aunt heard this question, her face couldn't help but become nervous.
"It's weird, we've never seen anything like this before!"
The eldest aunt paused, and continued.
"At about seven or eight o'clock the night before, a lot of white flying insects suddenly appeared in the village, buzzing and overwhelming, and scared people to death.
Later, these insects rushed to Han Sanchui's house and almost blew off the roof of his house!
Han Sanchui immediately ran out of the house, but those insects seemed to recognize him and swarmed on him.
He shouted for help as he ran, and when the people in the village saw this, some poured water on him, and some lit fires, but they couldn't get rid of those flying insects!
In the end, Han Sanchui was bitten to death by those flying insects, and he died a miserable death!
Some people say that it was he who picked the immortal medicine and offended the immortals in Taiping Mountain, so he suffered this fate! ”
In the end, the aunt trembled with fear.
When everyone heard this, their faces showed shock.
"I'll go, auntie, the more you talk about it, the more evil it becomes, what kind of insect is so powerful that it can bite people to death?"
Manager Shen was dumbfounded and asked with a snort.
"We call that flying insect 'night worm', I don't know if you city people understand it." The aunt shook her head and said.
"Night worms, what's that?" Xiao Chen also asked puzzled.
"It's supposed to be a mayfly." Xie Lingtian said suddenly.
"Mayflies?" Su Ruicheng hurriedly took out his mobile phone to inquire, and showed it to Xie Lingtian after a while, "Lingtian, is it this kind of bug?" ”
"Hmm." Xie Lingtian glanced at it, nodded and said.
"Mayflies, generally after laying eggs, will die after one night, according to common sense, they are not aggressive, and it is impossible to bite people to death."
"Yes, yes, this kind of insect can't hurt people at all, but that Han Sanchui was bitten to death, you say evil or not."
When the aunt heard Xie Lingtian's explanation, she quickly nodded in agreement.
"Is this Uncle Han really encountering something?"
As soon as Su Ruicheng asked, Xiao Chen and Manager Shen, who were sitting in the front row, couldn't help but tighten their bodies and shivered in unison.
They are just here to collect medicine, and they can encounter such a bizarre event?
I couldn't help but guess what Xie Tianshi did......