The little lady of Xuanmen has become popular in the sixth palace by fortune-telling

Chapter 184 Embroidery Thread
When Xu Anan arrived at the place, he saw a bunch of rats gnawing on chicken bones, and they dispersed when people came.

Mu Qing had a strange look on his face: "Isn't this what they were talking about? Rats chew bones at night."

I thought it was something for a long time.

Mu Yi pointed to the distance: "Look, what is that?"

I saw a few mice walking on the road dragging a bunch of hair that came out of nowhere. When they saw someone in front of them, they were frightened and got into the hole. The hair was too big and couldn't get into the hole. was left outside.

Village Chief Jian came from behind, and he also saw this scene: "This,... was this hair dragged out by mice?"

Mu Qing picked it up with a stick and covered the tip of his nose: "It stinks."

"Is this human hair? Where did this mouse get so much hair? Hey, there is a red embroidery thread in it."

Mu Qing took the lantern a little closer, and there was indeed an embroidery thread hidden deep inside.

Village Chief Jian's face turned pale, and he could even feel a cold air rushing from the soles of his feet into his limbs.

"Rats are social animals and like to live in dark and dirty places. The rats here probably grew up eating carrion."

Village Chief Jian's face changed again and again. This village was poor, where could the meat come from? Let's talk about rotten meat. .That's only. .

His lips trembled: "It shouldn't be. There is no one missing in our village. Where can this rat go to eat carrion?"

"Could it be that the coffins of the older generation buried on the mountain were bitten by rats?"

Village Chief Jian really couldn't find a reasonable excuse to explain this pile of hair, which appeared twice.

Xu Anan looked towards the houses next to him. No one turned on the lights, as if they were hiding from something. No one even came out to check on Xu Anan's movements outside.

"Let's go back."

Mu Qing quickly threw away the stick and threw the hair on the ground. After a while, rats continued to carry it without fear of death.

Village Chief Jian looked at the dim light in his home: "Old lady?"

No one responded.

"Old lady, where are you?"

There was no sign of Mrs. Jian Zhao in the house, so Village Chief Jian looked around in the yard in panic.

Jia Ying walked out tremblingly: "Grandma Jian is out."

Xu Anan's eyes narrowed: "Where have you gone?"

Jia Ying was about to cry but had no tears: "My subordinates didn't know that she followed a group of rats and she was gone when they chased her out."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mrs. Jian Zhao came back with a broken lantern. Seeing that everyone was there, she felt relieved and said, "You are back."

Village Chief Jian breathed a sigh of relief: "Guard Jia said that you and the mouse were gone, which scared me to death."

Mrs. Jian Zhao glanced at Jia Ying and said with a kind face: "No problem, I just went to drive away the rats. Several of them came at once. Where can I get food for them to eat?"

"It'll be good when Miss Xu comes back. Go down and have a rest. Alas, I'm getting really scared every day."

Mrs. Jian Zhao walked towards the house as she spoke. Xu Anan took a quick look at her and found that there was no problem at all.

The courtyard returned to calm again. Xu Anan yawned and locked the door. Village Chief Jian's room had a damp smell because it had been unoccupied for a long time. Although the quilts were clean, there was still a bit of dampness. .

Xu Anan looked at the big flower quilt, opened the cover, and instantly fell asleep.

This time, Xu Anan slept until dawn.Mu Qingmu didn't know where she was, so Mrs. Jian Zhao knocked on the door and called her for breakfast.

The breakfast at the farmhouse is nothing more than porridge and pancakes, plus a plate of pickles.

Because of the arrival of Xu Anan and others, the quality of life has improved a lot.

Yao Zhuoyu really couldn't worry about Xu An'an, so he drove a carriage over at dawn. Seeing that she was still drinking porridge slowly, he asked, "Miss, what happened last night?"

Xu Anan bit into the cake, which Jian Zhao made a little dry. She took another sip of water and said, "No, you should take people to the mountains to search in the next few days, especially the dark mouse holes, and check them carefully. "

Yao Zhuoyu, who received this task, was a little confused: "Just look at the mouse hole? What's so interesting about that thing?"

But this was Xu Anan's order, and Yao Zhuoyu immediately ordered someone to go: "Miss, please come back to the county with us today."

Xu Anan put down the bowl when he was full: "The scenery here is beautiful and the air is fresh. I have decided to stay for a few more days. In these days, you can search the mountains with the yamen at the entrance of the village. You can go back to the county in the evening."

"But..." Yao Zhuoyu was still worried.

"Just do it."

After Yao Zhuoyu left, Xu Anan began to wander around the village.

Just like yesterday, everyone in the village stayed behind closed doors.

"girl."

It was the woman from yesterday. She seemed to have run away secretly without telling her family.

"Girl, did you find anything? Those strange sounds sounded again yesterday."

Xu Anan replied: "The sound is mice gnawing chicken bones."

The woman's face turned pale.

"It's impossible. The chickens are all dead. Where did the chicken bones come from? And there are people crawling outside my yard. It's like the rustling sound of clothes rubbing on the ground."

Xu Anan raised her eyebrows: "Didn't you quietly take a look at what it was?"

The woman's face felt a little hot: "Women don't dare to go out at night. It's a rule set by our ancestors."

Xu Anan raised his eyes and looked at the peeping eyes hiding behind the window: "Your ancestors are really interesting, why are you not allowed to go out at night?"

"It is said that Jianjia Village was invaded by evil spirits in the past. At night, when evil spirits come out, this rule was made to protect the villagers. It has been followed for decades."

Xu Anan just wanted to say that these villagers must have been deceived. There is no evil spirit in this village. Where did the evil spirits come from?

"There are no evil spirits in your village." She took out the red embroidery thread: "Do you recognize this?"

Unexpectedly, the woman seemed to have seen something frightening, and she suddenly fell to the ground: "Don't come over, don't come over..."

Xu Anan frowned. When she raised her eyes, she noticed that some villagers had walked into the courtyard, looking at her with expressionless faces and empty pupils. They seemed to be holding axes in their hands.

Mu Qingmu also immediately held his sword to protect Xu Anan's side. The villagers were so frightened that they retreated into the house and closed the door tightly.

"Have the people in your village always been like this?"

The woman stood up holding on to the wooden fence on the side. She tried her best to avoid looking at the embroidery thread in Xu Anan's hand: "No, a year ago the villagers here gradually didn't like to go out to meet people, nor did they like to smile. They suffered from the disease. Old Man Jian's son has the same symptoms, and then there was a blood-sucking incident, and now he has locked himself at home, and the civilian woman doesn't know what to do."

Talking about this incident, she seemed to be less afraid: "Because my chickens also suffered a disaster. My husband went out that night and came back like this. I don't know what to do."

(End of this chapter)