twin moon

Chapter 112 No.14 Scene [-]

Yuansui 11 years, the twenty-third of the first month.Finally, the spring of the new year has arrived, the weak snow has melted and the earth has recovered.Thousands of red and white plum trees bloom within a hundred miles of Yugu Lake, and falling flowers almost dye all the main roads connecting the two prefectures in pink.

The ice in the Yanjiang River also gradually melted from south to north.The icy snow water flowing down from the top of Qinglan Mountain poured into the river, causing the water level to skyrocket.The turbulent river flows down with icicles and flows straight down into the Yugu Lake. After nightfall, it freezes the fallen flower petals in the lake, thus forming a great spectacle in Weiliang.

It was almost dusk, in the quiet courtyard of Kunjie in Jingshu City, Ning Yue didn't know that there was such a fun place to go, but she just leaned on the corridor on the second floor facing the street as always, staring at the gloomy sky outside in a daze.

Dark clouds gradually gathered above the head, and before one knew it, the sky that could still see a few pieces of sunset glow was already as dark as midnight.Suddenly a bright white light split the darkness in front of her eyes, and the thunder seemed to explode right next to the girl's ears, causing her body to shake involuntarily.It was only then that she realized that before she knew it, it was the time of spring thunder and thunder.

Before and after the Huachao Festival, the streets are full of vendors selling sun cakes and colorful paper.Between lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured down from the sky.The crowd also dodged around like ants in a frying pan, and they all avoided the house in the blink of an eye.

If it were in the past, Ning Yue would definitely laugh heartily at such a scene.But now she was just resting her cheeks with her hands, unable to raise her interest at all.The reason is not only that Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin still have no news, but also that Kun Jie suddenly forbids her to run around without authorization on the grounds that the city is not peaceful.Right now, one of them is almost moldy in the yard alone, but he dare not easily disobey the other party's orders.

The red-haired girl let out a long sigh, as if this could relieve all the depression in her chest.At this moment, out of the corner of her eyes, she suddenly saw a figure flashing out from the corner of the street.The man pushed a somewhat worn-out wheelbarrow, limped across the street under the eyes of the girl, and walked quickly against the rain.

Although the other party was wearing a bamboo hat on his head and a thick coir raincoat on his body, his walking posture suddenly reminded Ning Yue of the mysterious cripple he met a month ago.

After arguing with Kun Jie about the cripple that day, Ning Yue took the opportunity to go out a few times to check around the mysterious mansion in the city, but found nothing unusual, let alone anything suspicious. Characters enter and exit from the courtyard.After another period of time passed like this, she suddenly learned from Granny Cen that a fire broke out in that house, and it was burnt to ruins, and all the people in it were also missing.

This incident made the girl unable to let go of it for a long time, and it gradually faded away as time passed.But now he suddenly saw the cripple again, and the suspicion that had always existed in his heart was aroused again.

"This guy doesn't fall off his rain gear. He must have gone out specially when there was no one on the street. And he walked in such a hurry that he wanted to run. He must be doing something good!"

Such thoughts popped up in Ning Yue's mind uncontrollably.She felt more and more that there must be some ulterior secret hidden in this lame man, and it happened that Kunjie and Granny Cen were not in the mansion today.Although she was not allowed to run around, she wanted to check it out!

Thinking of this, the red-haired girl immediately lifted her skirt and ran downstairs.The yard right now was full of chaos, and the servants were busy packing up the clothes that were hanging out to dry, and the yard was crowded.But the girl didn't even bother to pick up the oil-paper umbrella, and when she found the right time, she plunged into the pouring rain curtain outside the door.

"Miss Ningyue, Lord Kunjie said, you can't go anywhere!"

Her red hair was too conspicuous, and the people in the courtyard stopped immediately.However, the girl did not stop because of this, but instead accelerated her steps:
"I'm in a hurry to go out. If the mother-in-law and the others come back, they will say that I am sleeping in the room! If you don't help me, I will make you look good in the future!"

Ning Yue put down a threatening word and ran away.Even if the servants in the courtyard tried to stop him, they couldn't catch up anymore.

Along the way, the girl kept a certain distance from the cripple in front, and deliberately covered her eye-catching red head with a square scarf.The sound of pattering rain covered her footsteps, but it also made it difficult to track her.Several times, the figure of the cripple had completely disappeared in the light gray water mist, but fortunately, after turning a few street corners indiscriminately, it reappeared in her sight by accident.

However, what Ning Yue didn't expect was that the other party didn't stop somewhere in the city as she expected, but went straight north and out of the city gate, walking all the way to the barren suburbs.

The rain was fading away.Ning Yue looked up at the sky, the dark clouds had gradually dispersed, and a pair of twin moons also rose from the sky.Now the girl has been following the cripple out of the city for more than half an hour, and she can't help feeling a little scared.However, the competitive idea finally gained the upper hand. She gritted her teeth and followed up boldly.

The other party didn't light a torch along the way, and I don't know how he could see the direction clearly, but he still moved quickly on the muddy road.Finally, after Ning Yue lost him again, she couldn't find the other party's trace at all.Borrowing the faint moonlight, she, who had already begun to retreat, suddenly vaguely saw several ruts of different depths left on the ground in front of her.

The rut turned into a small village at the end of the road not far away.There are no lights in the village, and I don't know if it's because of being too poor, or because the villagers who have worked all day have already gone to bed.The girl stood on the side of the road, hesitating, unable to decide whether she should move on or not.

The frogs in the fields beside the road croaked endlessly.Just as Ning Yue was about to turn around and leave, she vaguely heard something move in the grass behind her, and then several living creatures rushed out from her feet, which almost made her cry out in shock.

"Quack, quack."

Then a few calls of wild ducks calmed down the frightened girl.She laughed softly with some self-mocking, then untied the square scarf on her head, and stroked her long wet hair with her hands:

"Really, what are you doing to scare yourself? That cripple didn't notice me all the way, and he's already followed here. If he retreats halfway like this, I'm afraid he won't even be able to explain his wet dress?"

Now that she had made up her mind, Ning Yue plucked up her courage and walked towards the village.The ruts in the ground disappear in front of a farmhouse.The wooden door of the farmhouse was half-closed, and an unpleasant smell and the light of the candle were vaguely revealed through the crack of the door.The red-haired girl bravely opened the door and went in, but found that there was no one in the room, only an oil lamp that was about to bottom out, beating silently in the corner under the flickering flame.

In addition, more than a dozen pigs that had just been slaughtered were hung on the beams of the farmhouse.However, these pigs are a bit different from the ones the girl has seen in the market. Not only do they have no limbs, heads and necks, but even the skin on their bodies has already been peeled off.

The blood on one of the pigs has not yet clotted.Just when Ning Yue raised her head, two spots of bright red lightly dripped onto her face.The girl immediately shuddered and stepped back again and again, but unexpectedly, she stepped on a huge copper basin placed by the door.

What was contained in the basin was the stench of blood released from the bodies of those pigs, which immediately splashed all over the ground.The greasy filth made Ning Yue unable to maintain her balance, and she fell backward heavily.

The girl's heart trembled, and she stretched out her hand to pull a large bamboo basket beside her, intending to borrow strength.But after pulling and pulling, the bamboo basket was brought over and buckled.A few blood-stained things rolled out of the basket, and after a closer look, they found that they were actually several human heads with painful expressions and hideous faces!

What frightened her even more was that the deceased was not an ordinary land citizen, but a compatriot of her own race with fair skin and fine scales, who came from the seabed of Chanying!

Ning Yue felt her stomach churning, and she knelt on the ground and retched on the spot—it turned out that the dissected corpses she saw hanging from the beams were not pigs, but living creatures like herself. people!She finally realized that it was an extremely stupid decision to follow the crippled man out of the city. Even when she turned around and wanted to flee out the door, her hands and feet were weak, and she couldn't get up after falling several times.

At this moment, a figure slowly walked up to the girl from outside the farmhouse.The clothes on the other side's body were almost stained red with blood, and he was holding a sharp boning knife in his hand. It was the lame man from before!

After meeting Ning Yue, the other party didn't show any surprise, but instead showed a wicked smile full of greed:

"Girl, do you think you can still go after you get here?"

"The car you pushed before was actually loaded with corpses, right? The reason for transporting the corpses on rainy days is to allow the rain to wash away the blood dripping from the car without attracting the attention of others!"

The red-haired girl exerted all her strength, but she still couldn't suppress the tremor in her voice.At this point, she seemed to have no way out, so she wanted to ask the matter clearly in one breath.

"Really clever."

The lame man raised the knife in his hand to his mouth, stuck out his tongue and licked it, as if enjoying the process of teasing his prey.

"Who are these dead people? How did you find them? Why did you kill them?!"

"Do you feel that you are going to die, and you want to die to understand? You guys just refuse to live a good life, why do you want to meddle in other people's business?"

Ning Yue was thinking hard in her mind, trying to delay as much as possible to find a way to survive.However, the lame man in front of him didn't want to say any more.I saw his eyebrows raised, and he gestured towards the girl's back.

Only then did Ning Yue realize that there was another person hiding in the house.But before the girl had time to react, a gust of cold wind blew up from the back of her head, knocking her out on the spot!
In a trance, the girl only felt that her body became very light, as light as a feather on the wing of a swan goose, flying into the air with the wind.And not long after that, she vaguely felt that her body had become very heavy, as if it had been filled with lead, and she fell straight to the ground.

The moment she landed, Ning Yue's heart beat violently a few times, as if her out-of-body soul was pulled back to her body by a force.Under extreme fear, she couldn't help shouting:

"Little stammer, Ziyin—help me—"

"Miss, don't be afraid, you are already safe!"

A familiar voice slowly drifted to my ears.A warm current gradually gushed out from the limbs of the red-haired girl, allowing her to forcefully open her eyes.

At this time, she was no longer in the farmhouse, and the cripple's ferocious face was replaced by the worried Granny Cen.Ning Yue sat up from the couch in a jerk, and firmly held the old mother's hand:

"That cripple really has a problem! He killed several of our fellow clansmen with his own hands, and he seems to have already set his sights on us! So far, is Kunjie still unwilling to investigate?"

"Miss, who did you think was the one who launched a search in and out of the city last night, and finally rescued you from that farmhouse? Lord Kunjie already knew about the lame man, so don't worry about it. Rather, This time you ran out of the city without authorization, which made the adults very unhappy!"

"If he had believed me before, he wouldn't have sneaked out..." The girl suddenly felt a little wronged, and lowered her head to refute in a low voice.

"Aren't you still accusing the lord? He has a lot of things to do every day, so naturally he has to prioritize everything. No matter what the reason is, next time Miss will never be willful again. Do you hear me?"

Seeing this, the old woman couldn't help scolding.Ning Yue couldn't bear to see the other party worrying about her, so she finally nodded slightly in agreement, and asked again:
"Has the mother-in-law found out who the clansmen who were killed by the lame man are?"

"The few people who died were all the old subordinates brought ashore by these old people. Many of them have been promoted to be in charge, but after they have been lurking on land for a period of time, they have not heard from each other. It's just that I never thought that they would die here without a sound!"

Granny Cen nodded.Speaking of those subordinates who died tragically, she couldn't help but feel a little moved.

"But how would that cripple know their true identities?"

Ning Yue felt more and more that things were not as simple as they seemed, so she continued to ask, "I heard from my father that there are four ranks in the rebel party, namely the chief executive officer, the second-ranked deacon, and the law enforcement officer. And the three elders who hold the staff, and then there is the festival, and the lowest level of the fire. How can a person who can sit on the festival be so easily killed by a landman? Don’t you plan to continue, mother-in-law? Did you dig into it?"

"Since you know the division of ranks in the organization, you should also know that the three elders, the deacon, the law enforcement officer, and the staff member do not know each other, and the things under their jurisdiction are completely different. Master Kunjie dispatched law enforcement elders to investigate. As an old man holding a staff, he cannot make decisions on his own."

Grandma explained it like this.

"Since that's the case, has Kunjie started to arrange an investigation now? I suddenly have a feeling that the cripple deliberately took me to that farmhouse. Maybe he knew from the beginning that I was following him. But I died with these people Execution is a matter of the same clan, how did he know it, why would he let me alone?"

The red-haired girl did not give up, she muttered to herself as if possessed by a demon.The old woman in front of her shook her head, but didn't speak again.

"Oh, several people have already died, why are you so indifferent, mother-in-law?"

Ning Yue couldn't help being anxious, but her face suddenly changed, as if she suddenly remembered some details of the attack in the farmhouse the night before, "By the way, there should be another person in the farmhouse at that time, and it was he who attacked me from behind and knocked me unconscious Yes! This person—could it be the ghost in the clan that we have been looking for, but we have never had a clue? Could it be someone who is hiding beside us in this Jingshu City!"

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