The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 157 Poppies (6)

The horned beast caused a commotion, but it didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but walked straight towards the person holding the food bag.The man's liver and gallbladder were torn, but he panicked for a moment and didn't know how to deal with it.The horned beast walked up to him, and unexpectedly stood up and grabbed the bag in his hand with its claws.

The man trembled, and he couldn't help but let go of his hand, and the bag fell to the ground.The horned beast didn't look at him, but just lowered its head, picked up the bag, and left.Lin Yubin and the others waited for it to leave for a while before they suddenly realized that their group of people had been robbed by a cat!
After the horned beast robbed the food, it went somewhere, and the people from the town hall also came back in twos and threes.At this moment, everyone believed what Ji Mingmei and I said, panicked in their hearts, didn't know what to say for a while, so they hurried back to Donglin Town while wiping away cold sweat.

They bid farewell to the master and servant of the Lin family at the entrance of the town, and wanted to go back to the town hall immediately to let us out, but when they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, they heard Ji Mingmei's horrified cry.When they rushed to the house, the horned beast had already left, leaving only the bag of food.

"So, the horned beast appeared in front of you just to snatch this bag of food?" Ji Mingmei tilted her head and said, looking a little confused, "Why do I feel that it seems to have ulterior motives?"

Didn't it have ulterior motives? It seemed like it just robbed a bag of food, but it immediately convinced the people in the town hall to believe our words.The deadlock that we can't even think about it, it will be solved as soon as it appears.These things just show that the horned beast knows me and will rescue us.

But I didn't say this, because I couldn't explain why the horned beast knew me. If I said it rashly, I'm afraid it would cause more trouble, and it might make people think that we and the horned beast are in the same group.The leader said a few words to us, and wanted to let us go out, but he caught a glimpse of the blood on our hands and asked, "Sir, are you injured?"

It's splashed in our faces when the horned beast swung its claws from the roof, and we wiped it off with our hands.I was about to tell him about this, but suddenly my heart moved, and I asked the leader, "Did you get hurt when the horned beast robbed you of your food?"

The man shook his head, "We were all scared to death at that time, how dare we fight with it."

"Then no one of you was injured at that time?"

"No. We haven't touched it at all."

"That's strange. These bloodstains were thrown by the horned beast. Since neither it nor you were injured, where did the bloodstains come from?" As I said, a thought slowly rose in my heart.

"We don't know either." Everyone in the town hall shook their heads blankly.

I took a look at Ji Mingmei, and suddenly walked out of the room with her, and searched carefully along the corner of the wall.Horned beasts come and go from high to high on the roof, so naturally they don't leave too many footprints on the ground, so we had a bit of trouble finding them.The people from the town office saw that we suddenly started to sneak around the corner, and almost arrested us again.

After turning two corners of the room, I saw something hidden in a clump of weeds at a glance, my eyes lit up, and I whispered: "I found it!"

"Sir, are you looking for this mousetrap?" The leader stared, and then he was a little puzzled, "But how did you know there would be a mousetrap here?"

"It told me." I raised my hand and gestured to them for the blood on it, "The horned beast didn't fight with you, and it came to the town hall with you, and the time does not allow it to fight again." If you go somewhere else, then the biggest possibility is that it was injured in the town hall."

"Oh," the leader was taken aback for a moment, "then... it won't blame us for this?"

As soon as I heard that he thought completely differently from me, I immediately swallowed what I was going to say later, I just shook my head to indicate no, then squatted down, took the mouse trap in my hand and observed it carefully.A few wood-colored cat hairs fell off the mousetrap, and there was a small pool of blood.

After looking at it carefully, I threw it back into the weeds.At this time, the person behind me was still a little worried, and was still talking about something.I sighed and asked him, "Can we leave?"

"Of course." The man hurriedly said, "If you have been wronged for a long time, please don't take offense."

We had a few polite words with him, and then we took our leave.As soon as he left the town hall, Ji Mingmei frowned and said, "Isn't the horned beast carved out of wood? How could it bleed?"

"That's the problem," I laughed. "What does this mean? It means that the horned beast is actually made of flesh and blood."

"Flesh and blood?" Ji Mingmei repeated this sentence, stood still and looked at me with a stunned expression on her face, "You don't think that cat is a horned beast that came back to life!"

I smiled and nodded, already quite certain of this conjecture in my heart.

"But this world has never seen a wood-colored cat, and if it is an ordinary cat, how can it be so understanding?" Ji Mingmei still had some doubts and couldn't believe it.

"The fur color can be dyed, but a cat will not break free from a mousetrap, no matter how smart it is." I smiled slightly, "So, when that cat was on the roof of our house, there must be someone outside the house." .”

"You mean, it was this man who opened the mousetrap and rescued the cat; and the cat is so sensible because it was domesticated by this man?"

"It's not impossible. There are a lot of talented people in the market. Since some people can tame snakes and monkeys, why can't some people tame cats?"

Ji Mingmei was surprised for a long while, "Since this person rescued us, he must have no malice toward us."

"But he was the one who put us in trouble," I turned around and looked around, "so it's unknown whether he has any malice towards us. But what is certain now is that it's not the cat who knows me, but the person behind the cat. This man knows me."

"Who could this person be? If this matter has nothing to do with strange powers, then why did we see the master and servant of the Lin family, but turned into Yuan Chumo and the mayor when he died?"

"I haven't figured out the key to this, but I guess this person must have a deep connection with Donglin Cottage, because he has been protecting the collection of books in Donglin Cottage." In fact, I have vaguely thought of a person in my heart, but I still don't understand why this person knew me, so I didn't say anything to Ji Mingmei for the time being.

Ji Mingmei nodded and said to me: "Then what about us now?"

"Now? Of course I have to go back to sleep when I'm full!" I replied.Although many mysteries have not yet been revealed, but it is affirmed that the matter of the horned beast is man-made.

Looking at my appearance, Ji Mingmei suddenly laughed out loud, "Brother Xiushu, you scare me a little."

"Ah?" I was taken aback, "What are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid you're full and thinking of lust, hee hee!" Ji Mingmei giggled, walked over and took my arm, and then started walking with a sway.

I coughed lightly, and walked forward pretending to be calm, but I couldn't help but feel a little hot on my face, and the deer in my heart jumped like someone was chasing and killing me.Fortunately, the night is gentle and can cover for others.The night wind blows on the face, and there is a sweet smell, it is the night that is fermenting, spreading the message that a good night cannot be let down.

So the two of us walked gently into that good night.After returning to the hotel, we washed up a bit, and then Ji Mingmei said to me softly: "It's cold on the ground, don't catch a cold." Then she threw a pillow for me.

The pillow fell on my face impartially, and I couldn't breathe immediately.I have some doubts that this is not used to make me sleep, but to suffocate me.Ji Mingmei turned over on the bed, lying on her side and said to me: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." I laughed dryly, and took the pillow off my face. Thinking of the self-indulgence along the way, my face burned even more, and I hurriedly turned my back to her.I wanted to sleep right there, but who knew that Liang Ye was let down by us, and my sleep was confiscated in a rage.

I was tossing and turning during this sleep, and the rats who were about to wander off dared not show up, and hid in the corners to protest dissatisfied.I was actually worse than them, even though I tossed and turned, I didn't dare to say a word, for fear that Ji Mingmei would ask me again.

However, Ji Mingmei slept peacefully, only breathing evenly and long.Listening to the sound of breathing, I only felt peace in my heart, and unexpectedly calmed down, and soon fell asleep.When the sky is about to break, the night gives up the world to the day.After a reincarnation during the day, the soul came back, and through the mouth of a crowing rooster, it declared its dominion over the world.

We all woke up to the sound of crowing, Ji Mingmei slept well this time, she got up from the bed radiantly, stretched her waist and asked me how my sleep was.Naturally, I wouldn't tell her that I had a heart-to-heart exchange with a few mice last night, so I missed going to bed, so I made a few vague sentences to deal with it.

After each got up, we had breakfast in front of the hotel and planned to go to Lin's house again.I thought that since Lin Yubin was killed, there would be no one to ask about the Wenling landslide. Now that he is fine, I naturally want to find him again.

When they arrived at Lin's house, Lin Yubin was not at home.Steward Lin came out from the door and told us that he and Mrs. Lin had gone to Yuan's house to help with Yuan Chumo's funeral.I hesitated for a moment, and asked Guanshi Lin: "Didn't he ask why Yuan Chumo appeared in Donglin Thatched Cottage?"

Steward Lin lowered his voice and said, "What's the point of asking? It's just that the wife put the father-in-law in. Now that the father-in-law is gone, even if the husband asks, it will only hurt the relationship between husband and wife."

I thought so too, and Lin Yubin raised a concubine outside, which is also unreasonable.And Mrs. Lin felt guilty, maybe the husband and wife did not mention each other's mistakes.I was thinking in my heart, but I wanted to go to Donglin Thatched Cottage again, but the Lins and his wife were not at home, so it was hard to say this.

Since the matter of the horned beast has nothing to do with strange powers and chaos, then what we saw at the time was obviously Lin Yubin, but he turned into Yuan Chumo when he died, which is naturally a deception.It's just that I don't have a clue about this blindfold now, and it would be of great help if I could go to the scene of the incident again.

While hesitating, Manager Lin sighed: "It's really strange. I have been in the Lin family for so many years, and I have never seen a horned beast come back to life. How did the two of you encounter such a strange thing as soon as you arrived? Also, at that time, I saw a horned beast come alive. The person who came out of the middle was clearly the husband, but when he died, he became his father-in-law, this... how can we explain this?"

He muttered to himself, with a puzzled look on his face.I took the opportunity to say, "It's really strange, why don't we go to the library to have a look? Maybe we can find a clue."

I just asked him a question tentatively, but Guanshi Lin nodded his head and said: "Mr. is a person who has traveled from north to south, and he has seen a lot. Maybe he can find the reason for it." Open, let us go in.Ji Mingmei and I were overjoyed, and hurriedly followed him to the Donglin Thatched Cottage.

We walked all the way up to the third floor, to the back of the bookcase where the incident happened, and looked around while recalling what happened at that time.At that time, after the horned beast killed "Lin Yubin", "Lin Yubin" fell behind the bookcase.The bookcases in Donglin Thatched Cottage are all made of solid wood, thick and strong, and the two bookcases leaning back to back are much thicker than a person's body.

So at this time, we can't actually see "Lin Yubin" behind the bookcase. If there is something tricky about it, it must have happened behind this bookcase.But when the Donglin Thatched Cottage happened, Lin Yubin was in Xiyuan Town.This was confirmed by Yuan Chumo's eldest son, Yuan Haowen, so unless Lin Yubin had the ability to clone himself, he would never appear here.

So, why do we see Lin Yubin in Donglin Thatched Cottage?

After inspecting the library, I didn't find anything wrong, so I went to see Ji Mingmei.Ji Mingmei also shook her head slightly at me, we clearly knew that there was a ghost in it, but we couldn't find any traces, so we couldn't help but feel a little depressed.Manager Lin had been wandering around with us all the time, but seeing that we couldn't find anything, he suddenly fell down on the ground.

We were all taken aback by him, and before we could speak, we heard him say: "At that time, my father-in-law was lying here, and I will lie down and let the two of you see if we can find anything."

It seems that he is more anxious to find out the truth than we are.But it's no wonder, after all, he is the manager of the Lin family, so he will come here again in the future.We didn't tell him that the incident with the horned beast was human-made, and he felt uneasy. If he didn't understand the matter, he might not feel at ease in the future.

"I also picked up a book and threw it at the horned beast. I remember it was "Suiyuan Food List"," I said, "At that time, 'Mr. Lin' stood in this position and said that he wanted to clean up the dust of some books. , but I don’t know which ones.”

As I spoke, I roughly estimated where "Lin Yubin" was standing at that time, and then reached out, wanting to take a book from the bookshelf to have a look.Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand reached in, he clearly felt something touched.This thing seems to be a cold iron plate, which is placed on the side of the book.

(End of this chapter)