Iluna paused, and stuffed the roll of parchment back into her small bag:
"However, judging from the current situation, the church speculates that there is a high probability that a vampire has appeared in the local area. He **** the blood of pure maidens, but because he is afraid of the church's revenge, he dare not harm their lives. The only doubt is, why The victims are all flower girls... Could it be that the blood-sucking species has some weird obsessive-compulsive disorder?"
"I haven't heard that there are blood-sucking populations in the Randall Valley. They usually do serious business in the northern part of the United Kingdom, near the city of Huntington.
Xia De said that although he thought it might be a blood-sucking species brought by the Blood Spirit School], he instinctively believed that things should not be so simple:
"The Randall Valley is currently in turmoil, so it will attract relics related to the earth. Just like the Mibao incident and the Pantanal incident, they will attract relics that do not appear often due to the distortion of the local environment. Go and investigate, Any clues now?"
"I have the addresses of the girls who have already returned home." Iluna stood up and patted her skirt lightly:
"Go and see those girls with amnesia, I hope I can gain something."
Every city has slums in the traditional sense, but because of the special terrain of the valley, the actual slums in the Randall Valley are mostly concentrated in the southwest of the city, as well as small villages that exist on the edge of the city.
Randall Valley City itself is not very square. It is long along the river from northeast to southwest, and short in other directions. Therefore, it is very convenient to visit the flower girl who lives in the village outside the city.
Xia De and Iluna got into the carriage at the entrance of the Fertile Land Hotel and got off at the edge of the city. When passing through the gates of the city wall left over from the ancient city-state era, I saw policemen interrogating the identities of outsiders. Maybe they were also looking for clues about the missing flower girl.
After leaving the city, walk across the wooden bridge over the moat outside the city gate. On the other side of the moat is a small village with dilapidated buildings. On Friday morning, it was quite lively here. The countrymen who were about to enter the city rested here, the owners of the carriages and donkey carts carrying goods were discussing their business loudly, and the travelers hurried past, covering their noses to cover their urine. Saowei and the taste of chicken, duck and goose.
There was no house number in the small village, but Iluna received information that the little girl she was looking for lived by the river, and there was a dead willow tree at the door.
This was a fairly obvious feature, and after a while they found the small two-story house surrounded by a fence. It is said to be two stories high, but in fact the first floor is an adobe house that is common nearby, and the roof is a shelter from the wind and rain simply built with bamboo and wood boards. Because of the continuous earthquakes a few days ago, Xia De even felt those The boards are a little skewed.
A woman with a baby on her back and a headscarf was washing clothes with a washboard at the door when they came over, while chatting with the woman who was drying the quilt in the neighbor's house. Iluna had already obtained the ID from the local police station. After briefly explaining her identity, the laundry woman stood up and called to stop the boy who was running around the door.
After the boy got the "order", he ran to the north of the village on his patched cloth shoes. After a while, the twelve-year-old girl whom Iluna was looking for followed him, holding a bucket in her hand, and inside the bucket was a small crucian carp.
The bucket was carried into the house by the boy, and the woman with the baby on her back didn't seem to trust the young-looking Iluna very much, so the conversation took place in another corner of the yard to ensure that the girl would not leave the woman's sight.
The little girl named Mary Cara lowered her head nervously and played with her fingers to talk to Iluna. She didn't seem to want to communicate with strangers very much.
"Mary Carla, right? I am a police officer from the Randall Valley Police Department, and this person next to me is my assistant. This visit is still related to your disappearance for a week. Since you were questioned last time, do you recall Any new details?"
Iluna held the notebook and said, the little girl lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers, unable to speak, so Xia De rummaged through her pocket, found a piece of white sugar cube and handed it to her.
The girl glanced at her mother at the gate of the yard, and quickly squeezed the piece of candy out of Xia De's palm:
"I don't recall anything, it seems like I've been asleep for a whole week."
"Since then, have you sold flowers again?"
Iluna asked again, the girl shook her head:
"Father and mother said that it was too dangerous. They asked me to stay at home recently. The next time I was taken away by human traffickers, I really couldn't come back."
Her accent is a bit heavy when she speaks, and Iluna, who is new to the local area, no matter how good Kasenlik is, can only fully understand it under Xia De's low-pitched translation:
"I see, that's fine."
Iluna glanced at Xia De sadly, but she didn't expect that there was really no clue at all:
"Then, do you mind if we touch your forehead? It is said that some of the girls who came back had a low-grade fever."
She said again, touching her forehead with Shad after the girl agreed. Iluna didn't feel anything, while Xia De frowned slightly. He felt the whispering element, but it was very weak. "So do you have anything else to tell us?"
Although Xia De was skeptical about this statement, Iluna still wanted to investigate, so the two planned to return to the city. When I greeted the woman carrying the baby and left, the woman was at the gate of the yard, talking to a man who looked like a carpenter. The woman looked sad:
"I know the house won't survive the next earthquake, but we really don't have the money."
She turned to look at the second floor of the house:
"Now I can only pray to the gods that there will be no next earthquake." The sloppy bearded carpenter was also a little embarrassed:
"I know everyone is having a bad time this winter. Didn't the thirteen-year-old son of the widow in the village go to the mountain for a week, but was shot to death by an unknown beast with great force? You also need to measure the people in the village Consider, if your house collapses, your neighbors, Larry's, will suffer too."
"Didn't the Larry family run away from the village because the fish raised in the fishpond in winter died due to water quality problems?"
The woman immediately asked, and the carpenter shook his head:
"But as long as the house still belongs to them, the village will have to consider these things... Let's borrow money to repair your house. Although I can ask for very low wages, the cost of materials still needs to be paid for, right? My apprentice got the petrified plague, and now I am the only carpenter in the village who can work, if you don’t come to me in the last two days, I will have no time at all when the weather gets warmer in a few days.”
These things they talked about seemed to be related to the disaster in the Randall Valley since this winter.
Iluna looked at Shad, and in just a few words, she understood the impact of the disaster on these ordinary people living in this land. She wanted to speak, but Shade stopped her.
Xia De knew that she wanted to give the woman money, and the cost of materials to repair this kind of dilapidated house was actually very little. But Xia De believes that if you can do something like giving money for free, you can’t do it:
"How much will it cost to repair this house?"
So he went over and interjected. The carpenter looked him over and held out his finger: "Two ohms and six pfennigs are enough."
1 kroner is equal to 7 ore, and 1 kroner is also equal to 95 pfennigs, and 1 kroner can be exchanged for about 13 to 14 pounds now. So, it really doesn't cost much.
"In that case, I'll lend it to this lady. Although we don't talk about it in this era, I still have some chivalry."
Xia De said, turned and glanced at the house:
"I know you villagers, you still need to spend your savings to buy seeds and find a blacksmith to repair farm tools during spring plowing, so I will come back in summer to ask for the money back. I will give you the lowest interest~www.mtlnovel.com~Repay me in summer 2 ul 19 pfennig."
Iluna also came over at this time, listening to Xia De's words. "I'm not worried that you won't pay back the money."
Shad pointed to the house:
"Your house is here, and it's newly repaired, so you won't run away
. If you run away, it means that your family is facing a dilemma that you can't even get the house. Even if I want you to pay back the money, you still can't pay it. Therefore, it is relatively safe to lend you this money. "
The woman then stammered and wanted to thank her, after all, that house is indeed too dangerous now. It's not that she didn't want to repair the carpenter just now, but because she really has no money.
Xia De shook his head, took out the change from his pocket, wrote an IOU, and asked the woman to put her fingerprint on it, before leaving with Iluna.
"Will you come to get that money back in the summer?"
The seventeen-year-old girl asked curiously, she thought what Xia De did just now was right. "If I could remember this, I would come."
Xia De replied, stuffing the IOU into his pocket casually, and said softly in his heart: "Don't remind me about this."
"She" smiled softly, although the air in the country was a bit unbearable, but the wind in the country was so warm. Today is the last day of the rare moon, and spring is really coming.
Mason Street is the street where the Randall Valley Mason Association is located. Although it is located in the old town, it is quite lively with people coming and going. While on the road, Xia De explained to Iluna clearly what he had learned about the grievances between the Stonemasons Association and the Royal Family of Carsonrick in the past two months, and Princess Margaret's preparations for it.
When the carriage arrived at Mason Street, the coachman did not turn and stop according to Xia De's request, but stopped the car ahead of time:
"Sir, I'm afraid we can't go any further."