The small mountain village in the day has regained its picturesque appearance.

The three of them walked slowly along the village path to the small river south of the village. The river runs through the mountains, through the villages, and through the mountains, and if there is a way to get outside, it is most likely to be this waterway.

The world is big, and the food is the biggest.

Calculate the time, it's almost evening in the real world, and it's time for dinner. Li Heping skillfully raised a bonfire on the gravel beach by the river, and brought a pot from a nearby house, while Yan Yueming took it out of her bag and took out a small bag of rice.

"This rice is wash-free, just put it in water and cook it." Yan Yueming loves carbs, and only a sufficient intake of carbs can maintain his brain, otherwise no matter how full he eats, he will only feel supported.

The water for cooking comes from Xiaohe, and Yan Yueming only realized that she had forgotten to bring clean water, but the teacher said: "The natural water in the crevices, unless there are any rules and restrictions, is drinkable, don't care too much about the details." ”

Yan Yueming was taught, and when the rice was cooked, the first bowl was served to Li Heping. Li Heping was very happy, although this rice was a little hard cooked, it was the first bowl.

The side dish is a pot of smorgasbord soup, the meat is its own jerky, and it tastes good to cook in it, and the vegetables are provided by the courtyards of the small mountain village, which looks fresh and can't be eaten anyway.

After a hearty meal, it's time to get down to business. Walking along the river, the hall that Li Heping said was full of luggage, like the family that was about to flee.

The family lived by the river, so they had ducks. Ducks are not kept in the yard like chickens, but by the river, and a small plot comes out under a large tree, half in the river and half on the bank.

The ducks here also drowned, floating on the surface of the water, huddled together in a clump.

Thinking that she had just drunk the boiled meal in the river, Yan Yueming felt a little strange in her heart, but she could only comfort herself and not care about the details.

He then remembered the chickens that died in the water tank of Xiucai's family, and said: "The chickens will not take the initiative to jump into the water tank to seek death, and the ducks are unlikely to drown in the water, is that a problem with the water?" We drank the water and it was no problem, which means that it is not that the water is not clean, but that it is ......"

What is it? Yan Yueming frowned.

Li Zheng stood by the river and asked lightly, "What's in the water?" ”

Yan Yueming opened her mind, what is in the water? Water weeds, silt, and possibly water ghosts. But even if there are water ghosts in the river, there won't be water ghosts in the tank, right?

What else could be in the water?

Suddenly, Yan Yueming had a flash of inspiration, "Moon in the water!" ”

What is the biggest and most conspicuous vision in the village? There was no doubt about the Blood Moon!

Li Heping hugged his arms, "These chickens and ducks, the time of death should be at night, and there is a reflection of the blood moon in the water, so they died in the water." This is the most likely guess. ”

Yan Yueming: "Teacher, you said when you were at Wang Fu's house that you can't walk by the water at will. So now it seems that this rule applies to the entire mountain village at night? ”

Li Heping: "The key is still in the moon, not the water. ”

Yan Yueming nodded thoughtfully, because it was daytime, and during the day, they were fetching water from the river, and nothing unusual happened. Thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about the end, he scratched his head embarrassedly.

The seniors and teachers must have been clear in their hearts, but they gradually threw out the rules and clues one by one, mostly for themselves.

Yan Yueming cheered himself up again, he could.

Then they went into the house again. The strange thing Li Heping told in the room was full of luggage, all the valuable things that could be taken away were packed, and some bulky furniture was left.

The rules in this house are also simple, as long as you don't take anything from the house.

Li Heping had a rough look at it before, but this time he searched carefully again, looked around, and found that this person turned out to be "Pei Lang", the lover of Wang Fuhu's concubine.

Did Pei Lang know something? So pack up and run away overnight?

The adultery was discovered by Wang Fuhu?

With such doubts, Yan Yueming opened each package and looked at it, but found nothing. In the end, Li Zheng found a letter in the stove that had not been completely burned.

The letter paper was burned to the point that only a piece the size of a palm remained, and the handwriting on it came from the concubine, which was the same as that in the concubine's room. In the letter, she asked Pei Lang, who was in her heart, to have a private meeting with her during the wedding banquet.

Pei Lang wrote a note at the bottom of the letter: Are they crazy!

This sentence is more spoken than written, Yan Yueming guessed: "So the concubine invited Pei Lang to have a private meeting at the wedding banquet, at this time everyone was busy with the wedding banquet, and no one would find out about them, it was an excellent time for a private meeting." But after Pei Lang saw the content of the letter, he was excited and wrote this sentence on the letter. In the end, he didn't reply to the letter, but just burned the letter, and then packed his luggage and left. What made him choose to leave his lover behind and leave his homeland? ”

Saying that, Yan Yueming looked out of the house again, "He found that the duck in the house died mysteriously?" ”

"To figure it out, we have to sort out the cause and effect between these things." Li Heping said, his hand involuntarily touched his pocket, trying to find a cigarette to smoke. Seeing Yan Yueming standing in front of him, he remembered Li Zheng's attitude, and endured it stubbornly.

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Yan Yueming was immersed in the world of thinking, unaware, and raised her eyes to look at Li Heping, her eyes bright, "I think it's a matter of the wedding banquet, right?" The source of everything came from this wedding banquet without a bride, and then there was a vision of the blood moon, and then the chicken and duck died mysteriously, and Pei Lang fled. Pei Lang had an affair with the concubine of the Wang family, so what was the truth behind this wedding banquet, he may have known, plus the duck died, he felt scared, so he ran away. The scholar didn't know, so the scholar didn't run away, he still went to the wedding banquet. ”

This reasoning is logical, and things are all strung together.

Li Heping struck while the iron was hot, "Let's go, let's go to Langzhong's house." ”

The distance between Lang Zhong's house is not very far, but the rules of his house are very weird, this can't be touched, that can't be touched, if you touch it, you will be poisoned, and the poison in it is strange.

Yan Yueming walked inside at a speed like a turtle crawling, and while crawling, she took out sterile gloves from her backpack, and asked Li Heping what was the biggest and most conspicuous vision? There was no doubt about the Blood Moon!

Li Heping hugged his arms, "These chickens and ducks, the time of death should be at night, and there is a reflection of the blood moon in the water, so they died in the water." This is the most likely guess. ”

Yan Yueming: "Teacher, you said when you were at Wang Fu's house that you can't walk by the water at will. So now it seems that this rule applies to the entire mountain village at night? ”

Li Heping: "The key is still in the moon, not the water. ”

Yan Yueming nodded thoughtfully, because it was daytime, and during the day, they were fetching water from the river, and nothing unusual happened. Thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about the end, he scratched his head embarrassedly.

The seniors and teachers must have been clear in their hearts, but they gradually threw out the rules and clues one by one, mostly for themselves.

Yan Yueming cheered himself up again, he could.

Then they went into the house again. I followed the house and searched in the house, and finally found a paper bag marked with the words "Menghan Medicine" in Langzhong's medicine box.

When I opened the paper packet, it was white powder.

Yan Yueming: "This is what it uses to medicine dogs?" ”

Li Zheng took out the knife, picked a little with the tip of the knife, carefully distinguished it under the lamp, and said, "I can't be sure, but the butcher does have this kind of thing at home, and it's in his bedroom." ”

At this time, Yan Yueming saw Lang Zhong's diagnosis and treatment log again. He thought of Wang Fuhu's son, and guessed whether there would be any of his cases in this booklet, and opened it to take a look, and sure enough.

Wang Fuhu's son was not born stupid, but fell into the water when he was a child, and after he was rescued, he became stupid. In the following ten years, Wang Fuhu asked Lang Zhong to go to the clinic for treatment many times, and the most common cause of illness was falling into the water.

It is understandable for a fool to fall into the water, after all, he has lost his basic ability to take care of himself, and if he is not properly cared for, it is possible for him to accidentally fall into the river. It is very unusual to fall into the water many times.

Yan Yueming has watched a lot of film and television dramas, and his imagination is very rich, these countless clues are entangled in his mind, and he has a faint flash of inspiration in his mind, but he didn't catch it.

If you don't catch it, you can only continue to explore.

The next stop was the one that burned down half of the house because the incense burner had fallen down.

The house was burned, so there was less to explore. But this is not a year, there are still people in the village who are doing happy events, and what are the people of this family worshipping at home with incense?

Li Zheng stood in the charred ruins, half-crouching, his gloved hands wiping the black ash on the ground. He looked back at the tables and chairs that had fallen to the ground, burned to charcoal, and his cold eyes were full of thought.

"The people of this family are standing inside and bowing outward. The incense candles were poured out, and the futons used for kneeling were lit. "Suddenly, he said.

"Stand inside, bow out?" Yan Yueming repeated this sentence and couldn't help but simulate it. Generally speaking, when people worship at home, they worship inside, or to the stove, and worship the king of the stove.

Facing the ...... outside Yan Yueming was shocked in her heart, "Worship the moon!" ”

On August 15, Mid-Autumn Day, this custom will be retained in rural areas.

But Yan Yueming can be sure that the day of the wedding banquet is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, because judging from the vegetables grown in the village, the thickness of the clothes that people dries, and various clues, it is spring.

It's a spring feast.

So, why worship the moon?

"Let's go, go to the next one." Li Heping made a decision immediately.

The next one went to the next, and then they found the pig dead in the mud pond, and all kinds of strange things appeared in front of them, which made people think about it carefully. Finally they came to a thatched hut where the yellow-haired and black-backed dog lived.

Yan Yueming was chased by that dog, so although she loves dogs very much, she is still a little stunned. It was normal for him to be afraid, and to his surprise, Li Zheng and Li Heping also stopped.

"What's wrong?" Yan Yueming was suspicious.

"Now it seems that all the animals in the village are almost dead, so why is this dog still alive?" Li Heping touched his chin and narrowed his eyes.

"There is a butcher in front, and a blood moon in the back." Li Zheng's voice was a little cold, "It shouldn't live." ”

Yan Yueming's scalp was numb.