Zhu Yan said: "So, it is no coincidence that the locust attacked your father alone. There must be some reason."
Xia Yuanqiu turned around and entered the room. He looked at Jie Bo, who was lying straight in the middle of the hall. His clothes had been chewed out with countless holes. His navy blue clothes were soaked with blood. His face was almost indistinguishable and his flesh and blood were blurred. .
She sniffed hard, turned to everyone and said, "Do you smell it? There is a very special smell."
Zhu Yan shook his head: "I only smell the scent of the medicine that killed the locusts. Are there other smells?"
Dean Bai also said he didn't smell it, but Old Man Li seemed to smell something. He hurriedly asked: "Is it a smell with a light fragrance?"
Xia Yuanqiu nodded. She squatted in front of Jie Bo's body and closed her eyes to listen carefully.
"That's right, this smell is emanating from Jie Bo. I think the locusts must have smelled this smell before they attacked Jie Bo crazily. After Jie Bo's death, the locusts also came smelling this smell. "
Xia Yuanqiu asked Xie Chen, "Has uncle always had this smell on his body before?"
Xie Chen shook his head: "I've never smelled it." He turned to look at his mother and said, "Mom, have you ever smelled it?"
Jie Fu said: "He is a farmer. Besides the smell of sweat, there is no other smell on his body. This smell suddenly appeared after eating that strange thing."
Mrs. Xie was not stupid. After listening to Xia Yuanqiu's exploitative words, she roughly understood why her husband suffered such a misfortune. The reason was all due to that inexplicable thing.
She couldn't help crying again, lying in front of her husband, crying and scolding her, complaining that he was fanciful and believed whatever others said. There was nothing in this world that could make people immortal, which made her widowed and husbandless. Times are tough.
Xia Yuanqiu heard another clue in her words. She immediately pulled Xie Chen aside and asked in a low voice: "You heard what my aunt just said. Someone told my uncle that that thing can make people immortal. My uncle just brought him home. Who is that person and what his intentions are? You’d better find out immediately!”
Xie Chen knew that the matter was of great importance, so he immediately nodded and said: "I understand, I will try to trick my mother when she becomes more emotionally stable!"
Xia Yuanqiu looked at the corpse lying on the ground again and said, "You'd better bury my uncle immediately and seal it with a sarcophagus to prevent the smell from coming out. Otherwise, it will definitely cause another plague of locusts!"
Although Xie Chen is reluctant to leave, his father has passed away and his burial is imminent.
Dean Bai left a few guards behind to help, and he and Old Man Li returned to the academy first.
Xia Yuanqiu was worried about Xie Chen's family, so he and Zhu Yan simply stayed and waited to see what would happen.
In the evening, Xie Chen twisted a man back home, kicked him to the ground, and said angrily: "Come on, why do you want to conspire with my father? My father treats you well, why do you want to harm him?" ?”
Xia Yuanqiu and Zhu Yan heard Xie Chen's angry roar in the back hall and immediately rushed to the front yard: "Xie Chen, what's going on?" Xia Yuanqiu asked hurriedly.
Xie Chen pointed at the middle-aged man who was kicked to the ground and said angrily: "That's him. He was the one who bewitched my father. That lump is a treasure. If you eat it, you will live forever. That's why my father brought it home."
Mrs. Jie, who came after hearing the sound, immediately rushed forward and kicked the man, crying and scolding her at the same time, but the man never said a word, not even a cry of pain.