Chapter 056

Squeak –

The door that the two knocked on did not open, but the door next door was opened. Out of it came a gray-haired old woman on crutches, and she glanced at Li Xiaoxiao and the two. Then he waved to the two of them tremblingly, motioning for them to come over.

"Grandma, may I ask if this is Wenren Shiyue's house?" Ouyang Shujie walked over and hugged the old man and asked.

"Are you Shiyue's classmates?" the old grandmother looked Li Xiaoxiao and the two up and down curiously.

"Yes, we are Shiyue's classmates and her best friend, and Shiyue hasn't been to class for three days. We were worried about her, so we went to her house to see if something was going on. Li Xiaoxiao replied.

"Alas—" the old man sighed regretfully.

Li Xiaoxiao and Ouyang Shujie glanced at each other, and their faces changed.

"Is something really wrong with Shiyue?"

"You two don't have to worry about it, listen to me tell you slowly?" the old man pulled Ouyang Shujie to sit on a long stone in front of her house.

"Shiyue grew up under the watchful eye of my wife, smart and well-behaved, and very filial. is a rare good girl, but her life is a little hard, and she lost her father early. However, this child has been sensible since she was a child, and she didn't let her sister-in-law worry too much about her. I, a lonely widow, didn't bother her less, if it weren't for her, I'm afraid that I would have reported to Lord Yama a long time ago. The old man said, raising his withered hand and wiping his tears. "This miserable child......"

Grandma, what we want to know most now is Shiyue's current situation, where did she go. You might as well come and don't ramble, okay? We're not here to talk to you. Li Xiaoxiao wanted to ask out loud several times, but was stopped by Ouyang Shujie with her eyes.

"You are Shiyue's friends, you must help her!" the old man suddenly held Ouyang Shiyue's soft hand and said excitedly.

"What's wrong with Shiyue?"

"What's wrong with Shiyue?"

Li Xiaoxiao and Ouyang Shujie asked in unison, and after speaking, the two subconsciously glanced at each other.

"She, she's missing! it must have been three days ago!" said the old man with a worried face, "The moon girl will help me buy breakfast every morning and never stop, but I waited for her all morning that day and disappeared." I was still a little angry, thinking that the moon girl had forgotten my wife. I went to her house on crutches, and guess what......"

Li Xiaoxiao was speechless. Old man, can you not whet people's appetites, can you have something to say quickly. But in order to get the news of Shiyue, Li Xiaoxiao had to cooperate and ask, "What's the matter?"

"The moon girl is not at home at all. asked the sister-in-law of the flower, and she actually said that she didn't know the moon girl. How is this possible, the moon girl is her biological daughter, she actually said that she didn't know. Are you angry?" said the old man, wiping away his tears again. "And sister-in-law Hua seems to have changed into a different person, although she didn't like to talk in the past, she always smiled and nodded when she met, but this time she bombarded me irritably. ”

Li Xiaoxiao and Ouyang Shujie glanced at each other again, both revealing deep confusion. How can a mother forget her daughter the next day? Could it be that when she heard that Shiyue was kidnapped and blackmailed, she didn't dare to tell the truth, but she shouldn't deny the existence of her daughter because of reason.

"The old woman and I were confused for a morning, and then the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, so I told Uncle Wang on the street about it. He later went to the moon girl's house, but he also touched a gray nose. Eventually, the neighbors heard about it and wanted to find out. As a result, the result was the same, Sister-in-law Hua firmly denied that she knew Shiyue, and what was even more unbelievable was that she actually swore that she had always lived alone and never had a daughter. Let's stop bothering her. ”

The more Li Xiaoxiao listened, the more complicated things became. But one thing is certain, he and Ouyang Shujie are not looking for the wrong place, this is Ouyang Shiyue's home.

"If a good person disappears out of thin air, how can we, the neighbors, stand idly by. Besides, sister-in-law Hua and their mother-daughter relationship is so good, how can they deny the existence of the moon girl. We suspected that someone had kidnapped the moon girl, and finally Uncle Wang called the police, but in the face of the police's questioning, sister-in-law Hua still insisted that there was no moon girl in her house. This is too unreasonable, Sister-in-law's attitude, and even our neighbors think that we are hallucinating, and there is no such person as a moon girl in the world. ”

"What about the police's conclusion later?" asked Ouyang Shujie with a slight frown. She and Wenren Shiyue are best friends, although she has never met her mother, but she can see from Shiyue's usual words that her mother definitely loves her very much.

"What else can the police say, more is better than less. Although we urged them to find the Moon Maiden, they seemed perfunctory and didn't care much about it. The old man sighed. "After all, Sister-in-law Hua doesn't cooperate, speaking of which, she is the family member of the moon girl. ”

Li Xiaoxiao pondered for a while, he felt that Shiyue's matter was too strange. A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl disappeared when she said she couldn't see it, and as a mother, she flatly denied the existence of a daughter who had been raised for more than ten years, which was very unusual in any case.

"I think it's necessary for us to meet Shizuki's mother. Li Xiaoxiao looked at Ouyang Shujie solemnly.

Ouyang Shujie nodded. She also wanted to find out what happened to Shiyue quickly. As a best friend, she can't let Shiyue evaporate from such an unclear world.

The old man saw that the two of them were going to knock on the door of Wenren Shiyue's house again. opened his mouth to persuade: "It's useless, sister-in-law Hua won't let you in." ”

Squeak –

As soon as the old man finished speaking, the door of Wenren Shiyue's house opened. A woman who looked to be in her thirties or forties leaned out. When she saw Li Xiaoxiao and the two standing at the door of her house, a glimmer of brilliance flashed in her eyes, but it quickly dimmed again.

"Is it you two looking for Wenren Shiyue?" the woman asked. Her voice was hoarse.

Li Xiaoxiao hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, Auntie!"

"Then come in!" said the woman, turning back inside.

and Ouyang Shujie glanced at each other, and they both saw the incomprehension in the eyes of many parties, because it was too easy.

"Thank you, Grandma. ”

After the two said goodbye to the old man, they walked into Wenren Shiyue's house.

When you enter the courtyard, you will be greeted by a garden full of flowers and plants. They are arranged in a staggered manner on shelves or planted in courtyard fences. They are growing very well, and you can see that the owner takes care of them very carefully, and the inside and outside of the yard are like two worlds. Suddenly, Li Xiaoxiao's expression froze.

"These ......"

These are not ornamental flowers and plants, but medicines.

"What's wrong?" asked Ouyang Shujie suspiciously.

Li Xiaoxiao shook his head and said, "It's nothing, it's just strange, why are there so many medicinal plants planted in the yard." ”

"Medicinal plants?!" Ouyang Shujie pointed to the plants in the courtyard in surprise, "These are all medicinal herbs!"

"Yes, you see that one is a peony, the one with purple flowers is a half-branch lotus, is it very much like lavender, and the cluster of long leaves is a snake tongue grass, and the one with three petioles next to it is the one we often know Panax notoginseng, and you see that one meter or so is an autumn peony......" Li Xiaoxiao pointed to the plants in the courtyard, but the woman's hoarse voice interrupted.

"Isn't there something wrong with you two?"

The woman stood inside the door and looked at Li Xiaoxiao and Ouyang Shujie coldly.