What Shi Yitong said was not wrong at all. On this matter, Grandpa Shi Yitong absolutely did nothing wrong. But for that cat demon, this must have been a huge blow.
"Maybe... that Jinhua cat felt desperate for human beings because of your grandfather's affairs, so it did that to the old couple's son." I murmured.
"Well, that's hard to say." Shi Yitong sighed, "That's why I told you, we have to go to that bamboo forest quickly, find that cat demon quickly, and ask what's going on."
I nodded and set off with Shi Yitong to the bamboo forest with wild sugarcane.
The two of us spent 20 yuan for the fare, and took a taxi to the wild bamboo forest, but the appearance of the bamboo forest was quite different from what we had imagined.
In the diary of Grandpa Shi Yitong, this place was clearly described as a comfortable fairyland, but what we saw when we got off the car was a mess of soil turned upside down and bamboos crumbling here and there, not to mention wild sugar cane. I didn't see half of them. Instead, there were some bits and pieces of sugarcane husks on the ground, which seemed to have been peeled off with a knife and thrown away casually.
"This... how could this be like this." Shi Yitong and I were both dumbfounded.
At this time, the taxi driver stuck his head out of the car window chewing gum, and said to us, "Boys, you are too late. The bamboo shoots and sugarcane have been dug up by people at this time. This small forest is like this Big, it was almost dug up last week. But I still know a place where there are probably wild bamboo shoots, how about it, do you want me to take you to have a look?"
There was a chill in my heart, and I forced a smile to the driver, "No, thank you."
The driver shrugged, spit the gum on the ground, and drove away. Only Shi Yitong and I were left dumbfounded at the messy bamboo forest.
"Even if this is the place Jinhua cat liked to come to before." I said helplessly, "Do you think it will come again now?"
Shi Yitong also had a look of despair, but he still wanted to struggle, "Well, maybe that's it? We've all come here, so how do you know if you don't look for it?"
So the two of us walked into the small forest with one foot deep and the other shallow. The inside of the forest was even worse than it looked outside. Not only had the soil been turned over, but the bamboos were also turning yellow, and the leaves were almost wilted. We walked around these rickety bamboos and walked in. There should have been a small stream in front of it, but it was blocked by mud at this time, and there was no water flow.
The more we go forward, the more despair we feel. It seems that it is impossible for Jinhua cat to come to such a place destroyed by human beings. Our only lead was cut off yet again.
"Oh, let's go." Shi Yitong scratched his head helplessly, "There is no other way."
I nodded, although I felt a little sad, but there is no point in spending any more time here.
But at this moment, a shout suddenly came from behind us.
"Hey, you two! Stop!"
Shi Yitong and I were taken aback and turned around. Standing not far behind us was a young girl, pinching her waist and staring at us ferociously. Those who didn't know thought we owed her money.
"There are no more bamboo shoots in this bamboo forest, and there are no more sugarcane!" The girl said fiercely, "Hurry up, go back!"
"What are you doing?" Shi Yitong replied inexplicably, "What we are doing here is none of your business, is this bamboo forest opened by your family?"
"What? I don't care! Don't destroy the bamboo forest any more!" The girl widened her eyes and ran up to us, pointing her finger at our noses, "Get out of here, or I won't be polite !Did you hear me?"
I looked at the girl and found that her waist was bulging, and after a closer look, I laughed. What is the thing pinned to her waist if it is not a hoe
"I said, you are also here to pick out bamboo shoots, right?" I pointed to the small hoe on her waist and said, "You want to drive us away, but you are actually just afraid that we will rob you of the last bamboo shoots?"
Probably because I pointed out her purpose straight to the point, the girl's face turned red and white, and she was speechless.
"That's right." Shi Yitong immediately agreed with me, "Besides, we're not here to pluck out bamboo shoots and chop sugarcane, okay? It's too rude for you to chase people indiscriminately as soon as you come up!"
"What, what? Didn't you come to pick out bamboo shoots?" The girl seemed a little embarrassed.
"Of course not." I said helplessly, and spread out my hands for her to see. "We neither carry a hoe nor a machete. How do you tell us to gouge out bamboo shoots and chop sugarcane? Do we use our hands?"
The girl seemed to realize that she had misunderstood us now, but out of face, she stuck her neck and said, "Well, anyway... you two are sneaky, and you don't look like a good person!"
Shi Yitong and I looked at each other, is this girl competing with us
"Aren't you stupid? We're here to find the Jinhua cat!" Shi Yitong said bluntly, and he blurted out before I could stop him.
"Jinhua cat?" Unexpectedly, the girl rolled her eyes and became interested instead, "What is Jinhua cat? Is it a cat?"
"It's a cat demon! Even if you tell me, you don't understand!" Shi Yitong snorted, determined to anger the girl on purpose.
I rubbed my forehead with a headache, and my premonition told me that Shi Yitong was going to cause us a big trouble this time.
Sure enough, the girl became interested all of a sudden, and kept chasing after us to ask questions.
"Cat demon? What is that? A monster? Are there really monsters in this world? Oh, don't go! Tell me!"
Shi Yitong also realized that he had accidentally said too much just now, and now he was terribly embarrassed, but he couldn't get rid of this girl.
As soon as we turned the corner, the girl came up from behind again.
"What does the monster look like? Have you ever seen it?" The girl walked around from the back to the front, and then from the front to the back, chasing us and asked, "Then what kind of cat monster, why is it here? Why are you looking for it?" It? Hey, tell me, I really want to know!"
Shi Yitong looked at me asking for help, with an expression of not knowing what to do. I sighed helplessly, and stopped. The girl chasing after me bumped into my back, causing her to rub her nose in pain.
"Hi, what's your name?" I asked.
"Ah? Did you ask me?" The girl foolishly pointed to her nose, "I, my name is Moxue."