Lin Yuqiong's family is not as spacious as expected.

What Lin Yuqiong said about letting Chen Le sleep at her house actually means that she and her younger brother Lin Yuqing went to sleep with her grandmother, and then let Chen Le sleep on their beds.

How dare Chen Le?

My grandmother was already sick. What if something happened to them if they had to squeeze into a bed because of her own relationship?

It is basically the limit for two people to lie on the bed. If three people go down, they may not even be able to turn over.

Chen Le quickly said that he could just sleep on the floor with a mat.

There is basically no place to lie in the living room.

After working for a long time, Chen Le could only build a floor shop on the right, which is Lin Yuqiong and Lin Yuqing's room.

Lin Yuqiong took a mat for him and gave him a thick quilt to prevent Chen Le from freezing.

Because it's really cold here at night.

Then, Lin Yuqiong and Lin Yuqing lay on the bed, and Chen Le lay on the floor next to him for a night.

The little guy almost fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

Chen Le was tired for a day and worried that someone would knock on the window at night. Then he thought about Lin Yuqiong and fell asleep in a daze.

It was nothing to do overnight.

The next day, Lin Yuqiong got up early to cook and fed the chickens.

Chen Le got up late as usual.

In the morning, I also ate some porridge with Lin Yuqiong and Lin Yuqing.

Although Lin Yuqiong said that he would be careless of the guests.

But Chen Le felt that this was several times more comfortable than the days when you drink tap water every day at home.

In the morning, Lin Yuqiong was busy taking care of her younger brother's studies, and she also had to take care of her grandmother's ability to get up, wash, eat, get water, make food, and cook by herself.

He is completely a father and a mother.

In the past, Chen Le thought he was very hard and it was unwilling to live alone.

Now I finally saw something that was harder than myself. Lin Yuqiong not only had to take care of herself, but also had old people above and young people below.

Chen Le felt very uncomfortable when he looked at it.

He waited at the door for a long time before he saw that Lin Yuqiong had finally finished his morning work, walked out and said to him, "I'll take you to Aunt Zhang's house."

"Um."

Chen Le felt that Lin Yuqiong had a simple and rustic appearance, and had a beautiful heart.

The beautiful skin is the same, but the beautiful heart is nothing.

Moreover, her voice is very nice, soft and glutinous, and she is so beautiful that she gives people a sense of ethereality of clear water and green mountains.

As the two of them arrived at Zhang Liping's house, Lin Yuqiong also greeted loudly.

"Aunt Zhang, I'll come to see you."

Zhang Liping looks in her 40s, but half of her hair is gray.

Hearing Lin Yuqiong's greetings, he didn't even raise his head. He sat on the chair with a blank look, slowly knitting wool in his hand, but nodded symbolically.

Lin Yuqiong was also a little sad, but she still introduced that Chen Le was his friend and came here to take a look.

Zhang Liping didn't say anything, and she looked like she was immersed in the pain of losing her daughter.

Lin Yuqiong stopped talking, shook her head at Chen Le, and took Chen Le into Xie Manzhen's room.

This tiled house is similar to that of Lin Yuqiong's house.

It's just that Xie Manzhen's room is in the back hall.

The small room is almost visible at a glance.

Desk, chairs, beds, a few books, wardrobe, schoolbags underneath, dolls in the corner, that's all.

There were already many cracks on the walls of some eras.

Chen Le asked casually while flipping through the book in the drawer, "Xie Manzhen disappeared after breaking up 10 days ago, after you two came back from school? Who was the last person to see her?"

Lin Yuqiong thought for a while and said, "It's Aunt Zhang, Aunt Zhang said that that night, after the two of them had dinner, Manzhen went out for a walk, and when she came back, she went back to her room. Then, she woke up the next day and disappeared. At first, she thought it was going out, but later she found that she didn't come to eat lunch, so she felt something was wrong, so I accompanied Aunt Zhang to search everywhere..."

"So what time will it be the last time they meet?"

"It should be 7 or 8 pm. Aunt Zhang said that Manzhen was admitted to university that day. She was happy and even made dumplings for Manzhen to eat. Although she didn't say the time, it was usually 7 or 8 o'clock."

"When she came over the next day, did she find that the quilt was neatly folded, and are there any signs of sleeping in the room?"

"I don't know this."

“…”

Although I wanted to ask Zhang Liping, seeing her dementia, I felt that smelling was useless.

Chen Le carefully searched in the room. Although it had been ten days, he still tried to find clues, such as blood, something broken and rubbed.

He even carefully checked under the bed and under the table, but there was still no clue, and the room was surprisingly neat.

It's the kind that looks like a girl's room at first glance.

There is no trace of fighting or struggle.

"Will the door of the house be locked that night?"

"Yes, usually if no one comes, Aunt Zhang will insert the latch at seven or eight."

The door of the house here is plugged in with a latch, and only the inside can be opened.

But the door of Xie Manzhen's room is locked with a door handle.

In other words, if you lock it, you have to knock the wooden door from the outside before you can come in.

Apart from the door, the only exit of this room is the window.

Chen Le pushed the window open outside, fixed it with small wooden strips, and carefully checked it, but found nothing.

Lin Yuqiong stood aside and shook his head and said, "Everyone in the village said that it was a water ghost who took people away silently while they were sleeping. So, the police came over and many people were missing so much, and there was no clue."

Chen Le held his chin with one hand and thought, "Is it a water ghost? Even if someone is dragged away in the middle of the night, I don't know that he will scream. I feel like this neighbor is so close that he must have heard it."

The house here has poor sealing properties, resulting in poor sound insulation, so you can hear it by shouting a little.

Even if one person slept so deeply, there were so many cases missing. Chen Le didn't think everyone slept so heavily.

I have to sleep like a pig, so I don’t know if I’m slaughtered.

Moreover, Chen Le discovered yesterday that there were actually people patrolling nightly updates in this village. If he really dragged someone out, how could he not fail so many times, and he would not even be seen by the vigilant.

It's really strange.

Chen Le even checked whether the floor below was solid, whether there were any holes or the like.

But neither.

Seeing Chen Le fiddling for a long time, Lin Yuqiong asked with some anticipation, "How is it, have you found anything?"

This made Chen Le sigh. Sure enough, it was too forced to come to find clues after about 10 days?

He thought for a while and said, "Can you take me to the places you usually go to see?"

"A place you usually go to?"

“…”

Then, Lin Yuqiong took Chen Le to the river, fields, and forest where she often played with Xie Manzhen.

Lin Yuqing took the lead in walking ahead and introduced.

"We can pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables in the forest. We often go to the forest to make some food and play. This should be our favorite place..."

As Lin Yuqiong finished speaking, what appeared in front of Chen Le was a beautiful flowerbed, which was a beautiful blue flower, like a blue sky.

As soon as you walk nearby, you can smell a soft and moving fragrance that is refreshing, even trying to make people fall into it and never wake up again.

As the wind passes, the delicate flowers lower their shy little faces, bringing up a beautiful sea of ​​flowers.

Moreover, there were some beautiful colorful butterflies flying over the flowers around them. The butterflies were flying over among the beautiful flowers as if they were competing for beauty.

Very beautiful.

Lin Yuqiong introduced, "This is a secret place that I and Manzhen discovered. We sowed the seeds together and planted these prickly flowers together."

"Inspiring the dish?"

"Well, we all call it that way. It seems that only our forest has it. It has a sweet fragrance and attracts butterflies, so we all call it a turquoise flower, and, most importantly..."

Lin Yuqiong said, and walked a few steps and squatted down and picked two flowers.

Then he came to Chen Le and handed him a flower and said, "We will come here to play when we are tired. The nectar in this flower can be eaten, it is very fragrant and sweet. You can eat it."

She said, putting the petals to her lips, sucking gently, revealing a bit of intoxication.
To be continued...