Mu Xiyuan suddenly opened her eyes.
Although the body can't move, the feeling is very sensitive. Although it was under the lake, the heat of those hands clearly penetrated from the skin into the heart. The lips were separated, and a soft and warm air flow slowly came from the other side, the tightness in the chest eased a little, and Mu Xiyuan blinked.
In this close distance, he saw the other party's deep eyes. It is Qingqiao.
Lip points.
The figure let go of one hand and took him to the surface of the lake.
With a bang, the two broke out of the water.
Mu Xiyun gasped for breath, but was choked by the water splash and coughed to the death.
Gu Qingqiao hugged him in his arms and clasped his waist tightly with one hand, as if to rub his entire body into his body. After a moment, he let go of a hand and patted him on the back.
Qin Le hurriedly rowed the boat over, and stuttered a few words in a hurry: "Are you still okay?"
After finally coughing, Mu Xiyun was able to look around. The first thing that catches the eye is the face of Gu Qingqiao.
That face was originally fair, and at this moment there were shining drops of water. A few strands of wet black hair stuck to his cheeks, making his face even more white and black. Ying Ting's deep facial features did not smile at this time, and her pale thin lips pursed sternly.
that lip...
Mu Xiyun blushed suddenly, and with a guilty conscience, she turned her eyes away, and climbed up on the boat with one hand. One side of the boat suddenly got heavy and tilted, Qin Le almost fell into the water with an "Oops" sound.
Gu Qingqiao looked at him in a hurry, sighed helplessly in his heart, supported his waist with both hands, and pushed him onto the boat.
The three of them returned to the shore, Qin Le went to return the boat, Gu Qingqiao transported the cleaning formula, removed the water vapor and dirt on the two of them, and silently cleaned up the dragon's whiskers on the boat, then looked up and asked, "What's going on?"
Mu Xiyun had recovered from the panic at this time, and after thinking about it, she said helplessly, "I don't know, but suddenly the meridians moved in the opposite direction and couldn't play."
"Is the last cold poison attack still not healed?"
"Probably...probably..." That feeling was not exactly the same as before, but I couldn't find the reason for a while.
The two were silent for a while, but Gu Qingqiao's face was still not good. Mu Xiyun seemed to have suddenly returned to the afternoon of the snow removal demon decades ago, inexplicably a little guilty, and said softly: "Brother Gu, I'm fine now, don't be angry, okay?"
Gu Qingqiao raised his eyes, his eyes were full of worry. He looked into Mu Xiyun's eyes, as if he had something to say but didn't say it, finally lowered his eyes and said slowly, "Wait back to take the medicine!"
"it is good."
"Be careful next time!"
"it is good."
"Call me when you go into the water."
"it is good."
"and also… "
Gu Qingqiao finally raised his eyes, the corner of the mouth of the white-clothed immortal in front of him was curved, and his eyes were full of light.
The serious expression could no longer be maintained, Gu Qingqiao reached out and patted the top of his hair and smiled helplessly.
Qin Le ran back from a distance, wiped the sweat from his face, and asked, "Do you still want to go to the town's medicine hall?"
"Go." Mu Xiyun replied. After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gu Qingqiao and saw that he had no objection. He continued: "The herbs are all ready, so I will send them today, so as not to have to detour tomorrow."
The three walked towards the village together. Qin Le crossed Mu Xiyun and asked Gu Qingqiao, "Have you all come back? How was the trip to the valley?"
It turned out that the group of people who went to the valley returned to Longzhao Village at noon. Huang Zelin still stayed in the inn to study medicine with the two sisters. Gu Qingqiao quietly went to the village chief's house, and naturally he didn't see Mu Xiyuan and Qin Le. Not far from going out, I happened to meet the village chief's son and learned that the two had gone to Linghu.
When he ran to Linghu Lake, he only saw Qin Le alone in the boat, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, only then did he know that Mu Xiyun had not come up for a long time after entering the water.
Having said that, Gu Qingqiao glared at Mu Xiyun again, but saw that he was obedient and did not talk back. Tell them what they saw.
"At this moment, Elder Huang and the others are still tossing those medicines."
The town is not far from Longzhao Village, and the three of them soon arrived at the medicine hall. The shopkeeper of the medicine hall came out to collect the medicine in person, and thanked him repeatedly.
Seeing the shopkeeper's gloomy expression, Mu Xiyun couldn't help but ask a few questions.
The shopkeeper sighed, "Oh, it's not about my sister."
The three were at a loss when Feng Gu walked in from outside. I haven't seen each other for a few days, and this beautiful girl is also haggard, with red eyes and a handkerchief in her hand.
When she saw Mu Xiyuan, she suddenly rushed over like a drowning person seeing a life-saving straw.
Gu Qingqiao frowned as he watched Mu Xiyun help the girl up and comforted her softly. The shopkeeper then continued: "It's also a hard life to say. My sister was a widow early on, and she only lived with her only son. Unexpectedly, when the child was six or seven years old, he was kidnapped by someone."
"Abducted?" Mu Xiyun and Gu Qingqiao looked at each other, and both had an ominous premonition in their hearts.
"Yeah. The world is so big, where can I go to find it? It's been more than ten years, how many people have persuaded her, but she doesn't give up and asks people to ask around. A few years ago, a woman in a neighboring village who lost her child told her She, from here to the west, there is a mountain of monsters. There are monsters living in the mountain, and they especially like human children. The monsters will abduct the children, and they will not hurt them, but they will only be brought back to the mountain to raise them. They all go to the mountain to look for it, and some people have said that they really saw the child. It's just that the monster mountain only appears once every five years, and it happens to be the day when it will appear in a few days."
"There are such monsters?" Qin Le asked curiously.
"Hey," the shopkeeper sighed, "We don't believe it either, but my sister does. She packed her luggage a few days ago, so she had to look for it. The family couldn't beat her, so she left home today. went."
"Yes, I just went to see her off, and she is quite sure that she will be able to find the child." Feng Gu stopped crying at this time, and mourned: "But I heard that some mothers who went to find their children went to After a trip, I let go of my obsessions and went home to live a good life. Some never came back. Are the monsters there can eat people? Will my aunt be eaten when she goes!"
She raised her tearful eyes and looked at Mu Xiyun, "I beg Xianjun to go to the mountain and take a look. If there are really man-eating monsters, please save my aunt."
Seeing her request, the shopkeeper knew that it was difficult for someone to be strong, and he helped the person into the room half-coercion and half-consolation, and came back and sighed: "Don't take it to your heart, the immortals, this matter may be a rumor, it's just this child. I have been close to my sister since I was a child, and some of my words are unwilling to say anything, but the immortals will forgive me."
The three agreed and left.
On the way back to the village, Mu Xiyun frowned and asked Qin Le, "Have you heard of such a legend?"
Qin Le replied: "Every five years out of the mountains, and still catching the monsters of children? Many of these folklore are based on falsehoods and cannot be on the stage. But when I was a child, the servants in the family often frightened us. After the monsters were caught, I was kept in the mountains and couldn’t come out. At that time, I was forced by my elders to learn the exercises, but I hoped that monsters would come to catch me. Later, when I got older, I forgot about these things.”
Mu Xiyuan was delighted when she heard it, and then said: "It's groundless, there is no reason, since you say that, there must be a source. Later, I will go back to the village and ask the old people in the village. Even if I can't ask anything, we will do it tomorrow anyway. If you want to go west, go explore together.”
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gu Qingqiao, but saw that he was a little gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking. With Qin Le by his side, he couldn't ask a lot of questions directly, so he had to press down temporarily.
Back in Longpao Village, Qin Le went to his room to pack up, Gu Qingqiao really found out the prescription for relieving cold poison, took out the medicine bag prepared by Huang Zelin last time, fried the medicine and brought it to Mu Xiyun.
Knowing that he was wrong, Mu Xiyuan dried the concoction in one sip, and then smiled and begged for a maltose and put it in his mouth. He asked casually, "You looked serious when you were in the medicine hall just now. What were you thinking? Is there anything urgent?"
What are you thinking? Gu Qingqiao raised his eyes and glanced at Mu Xiyun, feeling a little stuck in his heart. Mu Xiyuan has always been good-natured, kind, humble and polite. In the past life, he was loved by many girls. Although he didn't see which fairy he had special feelings for at that time, he was not sure what his thoughts were in this life. The phoenix girl just now cried so pitifully that the pear blossoms and rained, and A Yun was also tender and caring. Could it be that he really had any thoughts about that girl
How dare you put that little thought in your heart and talk about it in detail
Not wanting to say anything on this topic, Gu Qingqiao frowned and said: "I don't know if I'm too sensitive, it seems that in a short period of time, children are missing everywhere. Evian Town, Qingxi Town, Hongye City and Shanhai In the city, we already know of several cases of missing children, and most of the missing children are under the age of ten."
Hearing these words, Mu Xiyuan also pondered: "Yes, I remember that I didn't hear about so many cases of missing children fifty years ago. Could it be that during this time, a big gang specializing in child abduction appeared?"
After a pause, he added: "Abducting and selling children to break up families is a heinous crime. If there is a chance, I will definitely investigate it to the end."
Gu Qingqiao was an orphan, and Mu Xiyuan also left her parents when she was a child. Both of them hated this kind of behavior.
In order to avoid trouble, Gu Qingqiao quietly returned to the inn. Mu Xiyun and Qin Le went to the big tree where the old people in the village rested in the shade, and found the old village chief.
After listening to the descriptions of the two, the old village chief looked at the three elderly people who were enjoying the shade together, and one of them said slowly, "Speaking of losing children, it has happened in all dynasties and dynasties. Take away orphans and children who cannot be supported by the family. However, ordinary people have their own spheres of influence and will also take into account their own reputation. As for some crooked people, abducting children and selling them to remote areas is difficult to trace. already."
Qin Le was stunned for a while. He grew up in the family, and never thought about the situation where his ignorant young son was forced to leave his hometown and be sold everywhere, so he couldn't help sighing.
"As for the legend of the opening of the mountain every five years," the old village chief said after thinking for a while, "it was rumored for a while before, and some people went to look for it. But the people who went to the mountain didn't encounter ghosts hitting the wall and wandering around in the mountains. I got nothing in one night, even if I was injured in an accident while climbing the mountain, almost no one really made it clear whether it happened or not. After a long time, no one believed it. "
"Does the village chief know where the mountain is in the rumor?" Mu Xiyun asked.
The old village chief thought for a while, "About two hundred miles west of here, Fenglin Town."
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The second volume is over, and the second volume begins to reveal the truth!
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