Mei Xiaoqi then asked us timidly: "I am from Meiguan Town, I am not a bad person, will you let me go too?"
I shook my head and said, "I can't let you go yet."
"Are you going to kill me?" His blood-stained face suddenly turned pale.
"No, we are protecting you. If you go back now, you will definitely be killed by the evil people in the clan. Also, we need your help to rescue those murdered girls." I explained to him.
Mei Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was so scared. I thought you were invited by the clan."
Qu Mo asked him alertly: "You are Mei Xiaoqi, and today is your 24th birthday, right?"
"How did you know?" Seeing his surprised expression, I was sure that it was Mei Xiaoqi.
I then told him that Mei Xiaoqing died because of his slip and that she ran to the north to seek help from us. Mei Xiaoqi burst into tears after hearing this. He was imprisoned in the dungeon and didn't know that his wife was dead. Seeing him so sad, we didn't know how to comfort him. When he calmed down a little, he talked about the victimized girls again.
Mei Xiaoqi said that he went to Shenxianju because he saw a girl with a stalk of sedge in her hair one night, which made him feel something was wrong. In addition, he had heard that there were always female tourists disappearing in the town, so he followed them to see what was going on that night, but he was caught by two bastards and locked up in the dungeon.
He didn't know where the girls were imprisoned in the back mountain, but he knew there was a mysterious place that not only prohibited tourists from going there, but also people in the town were not allowed to enter casually. He thought that the girls were imprisoned in this place, in the hanging coffin cave on the cliff behind the mountain on the left in front.
The direction he pointed to was the hill above the Ghost Tear Cave. It seemed that Boss Mei led us on the right path at that time, but he tricked us in the Ghost Tear Cave.
Shen Bing took out biscuits and ham from her bag. Mei Xiaoqi ate them ravenously and drank some water at the end. She looked much better. After resting for a while, Mei Xiaoqi stood up and moved around a bit. She felt that she had regained a lot of strength and took us to find the girls.
On the way, I asked him if there were any strange rumors around the Ghost Tears Cave, such as a mysterious female corpse. He said yes, it was on the side of the Hanging Coffin Cave, because the town has been continuing the custom of burial in caves and hanging coffins, and many people were buried in cliff caves after death. So there are many strange rumors, but most people were buried on the mountain wall far away from the Ghost Tears Cave after death. It is regarded as a forbidden area, and even the Ghost Tears Cave cannot be approached.
Tourists who come here must be led by a tour guide to go up the mountain. Otherwise, there are dangers everywhere in the mountain, such as the Wild Wolf Cave, the Ghost Tears Cave, and the most mysterious Dingwumaoliu Cave. Once you mistakenly enter, you can't even find your body. Even if you are lucky enough to survive and call for help, the police dare not go up the mountain without permission and will hand it over to Meiguan Town for search and rescue.
In recent years, many tourists have ventured to go up the mountain by themselves, but none of them have returned and no news has been heard of them. After he talked to us for a long time, he got back to the point and said that the mysterious female corpse was a secret that had been circulating in the town. Some people said it was related to Ding Wu and Mao Liu, and that she was buried on the side of Mei Guan's hanging coffin after her death, and no one was allowed to approach.
I said that the owner of the noble hanging coffin was called Mei Guan
Xiao Qi nodded and said that this man used to be a rickshaw driver. Everyone called him Mei Laoguan. Because he saved a nobleman, who was said to be a high-ranking official in the court, he was rewarded with a lot of gold and silver. From then on, he became a wealthy man in the town, and even the state government respected him very much. Therefore, the town was renamed Meiguan Town.
Shen Bing smiled and said, "Your names here are quite interesting, Mei Laoguan, Mei Dajiang, Mei Dahe, Xiaoqing, Xiaoshuang, and Xiaoqi. They are either old or big, or small."
Xiao Qi said, "Originally, we didn't name children like this. Lao Guan was just a nickname. I don't know when, but the clans in the town came up with a rule that all newborns in Mei Guan Town would be named with a small character. After they turned thirty, their names would be changed to Da, and after they turned sixty, their names would be changed to Lao. For example, my name is Xiao Qi, after I turned thirty, I would be called Da Qi, and after I turned sixty, I would be called Lao Qi."
We said "oh", and suddenly I had an idea. The clan changed the rules for a purpose, wasn't it to make people not to use numbers as names? It's already awkward to change Xiaoqi to Daqi, and if you call it Er, it's really Er, how can you call yourself Daer after you're thirty? You thought you were going to college!