Chapter 13 013: Rainy Night
It was raining heavily outside, and the sky and the earth were almost in a line, accompanied by lightning and thunder from time to time.
Not long after Qi Shan put on his clothes and fell asleep, he was awakened by the loud knocking on the door. Opening his eyes, he stood up, straightened his clothes, and was about to put on the wooden clogs to open the door, but Shen Tang opened the door before him.
The person who came was wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, looking anxious—
It is the village official of Qianjia Village.
Shen Tang turned sideways and invited people into the room.
"It's raining heavily outside the house, so the old man came in first to talk."
Cunzheng waved his hand and declined: "No, no."
Qi Shan stepped forward: "Old man Guan looks anxious, but something happened?"
"Did the two gentlemen see A Yan?" The wind and rain were blowing outside the house, and Muramasa's face was wet by the rain, and it was dripping down. He didn't bother to wipe it with his hands, and his voice was trembling, " That child... just missed one, and disappeared!"
Shen Tang asked suspiciously: "Who is Ah Yan?"
"It's the child who played with Xiao Langjun earlier."
He knew who Shen Tang was when he said that.
It turned out to be the kid who looked dumbfounded,
His name is "A Yan".
Shen Tang glanced at the situation outside the house and shook his head: "We have been in the house all this time, but we haven't seen him. When did he disappear?"
Muramasa: "Just now, a quarter of an hour at most."
When Shen Tang heard the words, his expression sank, visible to the naked eye.
A quarter of an hour is fifteen minutes.
The rain outside the house was so strong that even coir raincoats and bamboo hats couldn’t stop it. The wind howled and the rain poured down. You could vaguely hear the howling of wild animals from the mountains, which was so penetrating. A child disappeared in this weather, maybe it was taken away by jackals, tigers and leopards that came into the village?
This is what Muramasa is most worried about.
He said: "If it's naughty and runs out to play, it's okay, I'm afraid it will be snatched away by a big bug going down the mountain..."
In the past few years, the harvest has been drought and the harvest has been low. The taxation is heavy and there are wars everywhere. The life of the villagers is not good, and the wild animals in the mountains are also not good. It's just that it's okay to take away the livestock raised by the villagers, but I'm afraid that the child will be taken away.
Similar tragedies have occurred three times in the past two years.
Qishan took down the bamboo hat hanging on the wall, put it on his head, tied the rope, and said, "Don't worry, old man, I will help you to find the child, and you will find the child. Thinking about it better, maybe the child was killed by Zhuangzi. I don’t know if the next person will take it back…”
Muramasa sighed.
He also hoped that everything was just a false alarm as Qishan said, and that the child was not missing or being taken away by a big worm but was taken back, but he knew that the possibility of this was extremely slim. Ah Yan was not taken seriously, and the quality of life in Zhuangzi was just starving.
Half a month ago, I was taken back after staying in the village for four or five days—this was the result of the villagers of Qianjia Village meeting one of the old women and deliberately reminding them. With such bad weather tonight, don't expect them to pick up people in the rain.
Shen Tang said: "I will also help to find it."
Qi Shan glanced at it and said, "Forget it, and don't look at the weather outside? In case someone fails to find you and loses you."
The village is grateful for the help of Qishan, and does not approve of Shen Tang going out—this young man is still childish, at the age of eleven or twelve, he is still thin, and looks only five or six years older than Ah Yan.
"These worries are superfluous, why would I lose them? No matter how bad it is, it is better than letting the villagers find someone in the dark." Shen Tang borrowed a coir raincoat and bamboo hat from the village, and the village was worried and handed her a handful of firewood A knife, if you are unlucky and encounter a big bug, you can also hold it up.
"A Yan!"
Heavy rain made the ground muddy.
Although Shen Tang has good eyesight, he would step on puddles from time to time, splashing mud and water while walking, making the hem of his clothes dirty. After a quarter of an hour, she searched the fields near Qianjia Village but could not find Ah Yan, and the other villagers also had no harvest.
The longer the time, the less confident everyone is.
Shen Tang took the initiative to invite Ying: "I will go too."
Cunzheng sighed: "Then I will trouble the two of you to make a trip."
The villagers of Qianjia Village searched in the direction close to the mountain. The same was true for the child who was taken away by the big worm. After searching all night, they found intestines, minced meat and bones dragged outside in the grass at the foot of the mountain.
"Yanling is so magical, why doesn't it have the function of sheltering from the rain?"
Even though she was wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, Shen Tang was still drenched, and the feeling of the cold clothes sticking to her skin made her extremely uncomfortable. If the night wind blows into the gaps in the coir raincoat, it will cause goose bumps.
Qi Shan said: "Maybe."
Who made Yan Ling so much?
Moreover-
"Even if there is one, not all words can be learned. If there is such a word in the world, it is better to wear more rain gear."
Shen Tang jogged to keep up with his footsteps, and he didn't care if his steps were too heavy to splash sewage, it was already dirty anyway, no matter how careful he was, it didn't matter: "Is there any lighting that won't be wet by the rain? Night road, it is also convenient..."
Pray for goodness: "..."
Zhuangzi is not very far from Qianjia Village.
The two walked along the muddy path, one foot deep and the other shallow, and they found it after walking for a quarter of an hour. It was a courtyard surrounded by low walls, and the white wall of Daiwa could be vaguely seen. The courtyard was pitch black with no light, and from a distance it looked like a black shadow of a curled up beast.
Shen Tang stepped forward, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
Boom boom boom—
At this time, a thunderbolt jumped in the clouds, illuminating half of the sky, followed by deafening thunder.
She was worried that she couldn't hear it from inside, so she changed from knocking on the door with her fingers to knocking on the door with a fist, and gradually increased her strength—bang bang bang!
Just when she thought there was no one in the house, she vaguely heard a man answering impatiently: "Who is knocking on the door?"
After a while, the door opened.
The middle-aged man who opened the door wore a short brown robe and a kerchief on his head. He seemed very dissatisfied with someone disturbing people's dreams in the middle of the night, and swept Shen Tang and prayed for good with an unkind expression. Seeing that the two are tall and short, they are not very old, their expressions seem to be slightly relaxed, and they are a little more kind.
"Who are the two?"
Shen Tang replied: "We are travelers staying in Qianjia Village. I heard from the village official that the child named A Yan came from your village. He played in the village during the day and did not go back. He disappeared not long ago. The village official worried that he was killed by a big bug. Take it away, I'm looking everywhere."
After hearing Shen Tang's words, the middle-aged man relaxed a lot: "Oh, Ah Yan has already been picked up, please worry about it."
Did you pick it up? ? ?
Shen Tang frowned slightly.
Use the bamboo hat to cover and restore the normal color.
At this time, Qishan crossed his hands and saluted the man, and said with a gentle expression: "Your Majesty is fine, and I am relieved. It's just that it's dark and the road is narrow, and the wind and rain are heavy. Can you borrow your house for a while?" , let my brothers take shelter from the rain here?"
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment when he heard this.
But he still turned around to let Shen Tang and the two come in, and said: "You two are also running around in the rain for the sake of the children, just to avoid the rain, so of course you can. It's just that it's too late now, everyone in the house has already slept, so we can't entertain the two of you. I still hope to forgive you."
Pray for goodness: "This is nature, just have a roof to shelter from the rain."
The two followed the middle-aged man into the courtyard.
There are several trees planted in the courtyard, and hemp ropes for drying clothes are tied between the trunks. On the hemp ropes, there are seven or eight pieces of clothes for adults, and there is also a piece of starched and whitened and patched children's clothes.
Shen Tang glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and retracted his gaze without any trace.
Wow, it was recommended on the splash screen today, and the collection has increased a bit.
I don’t know if there are any new readers right now, hee hee (#^.^#)
(end of this chapter)