"Aunt Yali?"

A-Yao knocked for a long time, but no one came to open the door for her.

She climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the courtyard, only to find that there was no one inside.

Where did Yali go?

She searched around the village and noticed something was wrong.

The last time she came to Qiaoniang Village, there were busy men everywhere in the village, but this time she walked in the village for so long, but she didn't meet anyone.

Where have they all gone?

As she walked down the village path, she shouted, "Aunt Yali—"

Perhaps the people in the village heard her shout, and a woman appeared.

"A-Yao? What are you doing here? ”

"Where's Aunt Yali? Why is she not at home? ”

The woman sighed softly, "Come with me!" ”

She chuckled in her heart, and her intuition told her that something was wrong in the village!

She was taken by the woman to the village where silkworms were raised, and met everyone in the village, as well as Yali.

Yali walked straight up to her, "You're here for this delivery, right?" ”

She didn't hide it, and nodded truthfully, "What's going on in the village?" Why didn't you deliver in the middle of the month? ”

Everyone couldn't help but sigh.

Yali led her out of the courtyard and stood outside the door talking.

"Auntie, what happened in your village?" Yao asked again.

"My silkworm babies are dying one after another, and now there are only a few silkworm babies left, and I'm afraid I won't be able to keep them."

"What's going on?"

Yali told her the truth about what happened.

After listening, Ah Yao immediately realized that things were not simple.

As soon as Qiaoniang Village put down the cooperation with others and only supplied A-Yao, their silkworm babies had accidents one after another.

This is definitely not a coincidence!

"Who has been to your village during this time?" Yao asked.

"Some merchants from Fengdu who have cooperated with our village have come before, and after I made it clear to them, they left."

After a pause, Yali asked, "Do you suspect that these merchants have harmed our silkworm babies?" ”

"There is no evidence at the moment, so we can't say that."

Yali sighed faintly, "I didn't expect that our Qiaoniang Village, which has been raising silkworms and weaving for so many years, would suddenly give birth to such a thing, and it will be the death of our Qiaoniang Village!" ”

Rather than saying that the sky is going to die, she prefers to believe that it is man-made.

After pondering for a moment, she raised her eyes to Yali, "Can you tell me everything that happened during this time?" ”

"Well, it's been ...... time"

According to Yali, one day they suddenly noticed a strange smell floating in the village, and they didn't care about it because it didn't cause any real harm.

Immediately after that, the silkworm baby had an accident.

The silkworm babies don't eat mulberry leaves, and they all die one after another.

Hearing this, Ah Yao suddenly interrupted Yali, "Wait! ”

Yali looked at her suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

"What did you just say?"

Yali recalled carefully and repeated: "There was a monster floating in the village, and then the silkworm babies had an accident, and they stopped eating mulberry leaves. ”

"You mean that the strange smell appeared in the village first, and the silkworm babies started to have accidents?"

"Hmm."

"Take me to see the mulberry leaves."

Yali was a little confused when she heard it, "It's the silkworm baby who has an accident, why do you want to see mulberry leaves?" ”

"The problem is very likely to be on the mulberry leaves."

"No, it won't! At first, we thought that there was a problem with the mulberry leaves, so we kept changing the mulberry leaves, and tried the mulberry leaves in the whole village, but the silkworm babies just refused to eat them. ”

Ah Yao said with a firm gaze: "Then what if there is a problem with the mulberry leaves in the whole village?" ”

"How is this possible?"

There are so many mulberry leaves in the whole village, how can there be problems at the same time?

"Take me to see the mulberry leaves first!"

"Okay."

Yali entered the house and said a few words to everyone, and then took A-Yao to see the mulberry leaves.

Ah Yao approached the mulberry leaf and smelled it, there was nothing strange about it.

"At first, we also suspected that someone was doing something on the mulberry leaves, but we washed the mulberry leaves with clean water, dried them and fed them to the silkworm babies, but it still didn't work."

After inspecting several mulberry trees, Ah Yao looked back at Yali seriously, "You guessed right, there is something wrong with the mulberry leaves." ”

"But we've already cleaned it."

"You can't wash it off with clean water."

Yali frowned, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"The mulberry leaves are sprayed with a special medicine, the smell of this medicine is very strong, that is, the smell you smell at the beginning, it slowly drifts away, you can't smell the smell, but the silkworm baby can still smell it, and it is this smell that makes the silkworm baby refuse to eat the mulberry leaves."

"How so?" Yali didn't dare to accept this fact, "They are all doing their hands on mulberry leaves, so what should we do?" ”

"Let me find medicinal herbs, boil some potions, you pick the mulberry leaves, soak them in medicinal water, you can cancel each other with the original taste, and then wash them with water, dry them and feed them to the silkworm baby."

"Okay."

Ah Yao took Yali to search the entire village, and finally found the herbs she needed.

Take the herbs back and boil them into a potion, immediately use them to soak mulberry leaves, soak a stick of incense, wash them with water, dry them and then give them to the silkworm baby to eat.

When it was almost dark, a woman hurried to Yali's house.

"Good news, village chief! The silkworm babies began to eat mulberry leaves. ”

"Great."

Yali got up excitedly, and her eyes began to redden.

The silkworm babies are willing to eat mulberry leaves, and there is hope for their village again.

Yali turned her head to look at Ah Yao with red eyes, "Ah Yao, thank you." ”

"Auntie is polite."

She is helping Yali, and she is also helping herself.

It was late, so A-Yao stayed in Qiaoniang Village and stayed at Yali's house.

Early the next morning, Yali sent A-Yao to the entrance of Qiaoniang Village.

"You're going back to Fengdu so early?" Yali asked reluctantly.

"There are still a bunch of things to do in Fengdu, I must rush back as soon as possible."

"Alright! In the future, remember to come to see my aunt often. ”

"Hmm."

Ah Yao waved her hand to Yali, "Auntie, go back quickly!" If the silkworm baby has other problems in the future, you can send someone to Fengdu to find me, and I can come to Qiaoniang Village to help at any time. ”

"Your mother used to help us, and now you help us again, our village can't do without you." Yali joked.

"If I can't do without the best, then I will be able to treat myself as my home in the future."

"Silly girl, this is your home, and you are welcome to go home often."

"Hmm."

Yali seemed to think of something, and hurriedly called out to Ah Yao, "Ah Yao, I suddenly thought of something.

"What?"

"Huang Wensheng came to our village yesterday."

Ah Yao suddenly frowned, "Why did you only tell me now?" ”

"Huang Wensheng just passed by our village, looked outside the village, and left before entering the village, I didn't take this matter to heart, I was busy with the silkworm baby yesterday, so I forgot to tell you."

When she met Huang Wensheng on the road yesterday, she didn't think much about it, but she didn't expect him to come to Qiaoniang Village.

He didn't come here for no reason, there must be some purpose.

Seeing that Ah Yao didn't speak, Yali hurriedly asked, "Ah Yao, what are you thinking?" ”

She came back to her senses and shook her head at Yali, "It's nothing, auntie don't worry, take care of the silkworm baby with peace of mind, I'll ask about Huang Wensheng when I go back." ”

"Hmm."

Ah Yao and Ya Li waved their hands, got into the carriage and left Qiaoniang Village.

On the way back, she was still thinking about Huang Wensheng, and when she thought of what Huang Wensheng did to Zhou Jiaorui, her stomach felt uncomfortable.

Huang Wensheng met her and deliberately used Zhou Jiarui to disgust her.

It wasn't necessarily a bad thing for her that he was so blatantly provoking her.

He is Concubine Xiao, and if you want to deal with Concubine Xiao, you can start from his side.

Huang Wensheng, wait for death!

……

The carriage stopped outside the Su Mansion, Ah Yao got off the carriage, and the porter immediately stepped forward.

"The girl is back."

"Hmm."

"Girl, someone sent a letter yesterday."

The porter respectfully handed the letter up.

A-Yao took the letter and asked, "Who sent it?" ”

"It was sent by a child, and the child didn't leave anything, handed me the letter and ran away."

"Got it."

Ah Yao entered the Su Mansion with the letter, and opened it as she walked.

When she saw the contents of the letter, she suddenly stopped.

Standing in place and reading the letter back and forth several times, she hurriedly turned around and left Su's mansion.

When the porter saw her go out, he asked, "The girl is going out?" ”

Ah Yao didn't care about answering him, and went straight to Zhou Jiaorui's house.

When she came to the door of Zhou's house, she raised her hand and knocked on the door.

The door soon opened, and Zhou Jiaorui hurriedly poked her head out, "You're here, come in!" ”

Ah Yao followed Zhou Jiaorui into the house, "What are you writing to me to do here?" ”

Ah Yao was a little angry, Zhou Jiaorui was still entangled with Huang Wensheng, and her attitude towards Zhou Jiarui was very cold.

Zhou Jiaorui didn't take it to heart and poured her a glass of water.

"Let's drink saliva first!"

"If you have something to say, just say it, don't beat around the bush."

"I know you're complaining about me."

"Don't dare, I'm nosy, I won't do this again in the future."

"Are you angry with me?"

Ah Yao didn't answer.

Zhou Jiaorui smiled helplessly, didn't explain much about herself, and suddenly changed her words, "Huang Wensheng went to Qiaoniang Village yesterday. ”

She raised her eyes to look at Zhou Jiaorui.

"He pointed to Qiaoniang Village and said to me, in the future, the entire Qiaoniang Village will be his, and he will let you have no place in Fengdu."

It seems that the matter of Qiaoniang Village is related to Huang Wensheng.

"Why are you telling me this?"

Judging from the intimacy between Huang Wensheng and Zhou Jiaorui, she thought that Zhou Jiarui had chosen Huang Wensheng's side.

"I know that your stores are all supplied by Qiaoniang Village, and I want to help you."

Ah Yao asked rhetorically: "Didn't you already choose Huang Wensheng, why do you still want to help me?" ”

"I ......"

The words came to her lips, and Zhou Jiaorui swallowed them all back.

There is no need to say all those words to add invisible pressure to A-Yao.

Zhou Jiarui smiled indifferently, "After all, you have helped me, I will help you once, and we will be cleared up in the future." ”

"Just because I helped you?"

"Or else?" Zhou Jiaorui asked rhetorically.

She approached Zhou Jiaorui with burning eyes, "Then you look into my eyes and repeat what you just said." ”

"No matter how many times I say it, I'm always saying those words."

"Jiaorui, why did you come back to Huang Wensheng?" Ah Yao couldn't help but ask.