It's better to fall in love

Chapter 25

They came out a bit late today, Uncle Li had already gone out to work, only Aunt Li and Li Lan sat at the table to eat, and they were about to finish eating.

When Li Lan saw them, she unconsciously dodged her eyes, but her expression remained calm.Aunt Li was doing everything as usual, she didn't seem to know that Li Lan had already made a move.

The acting skills of the three are all good, at least on the surface they all pretend to be natural.As soon as Ling Se came downstairs, she asked casually: "Aunt Li, Sister Lan Lan, have you seen Yin Cui? I went to look for her just now, but she is not in the room."

As soon as Aunt Li heard this, she immediately understood what was going on, and subconsciously looked at Li Lan.Li Lan glared at her, and she quickly lowered her head and took a sip of porridge as if to cover up.

Only then did Li Lan look away, pursed her lips and said, "I don't know, I didn't see her either, maybe I went out early in the morning to get some air, why don't you go out and look for it?" When she was speaking, she didn't dare Looking at Bai Jiu and the others, their voices became a little tense.

"Ah, then let's go out and have a look." Ling Se said that she was about to go out, without any intention of eating.Bai Jiu and A Qiang also went out together, also not planning to have breakfast.

They had discussed it before, and the others were all tricked and Xiaosi was fine, the only difference was that Xiaosi had never eaten anything here.

Then, the medicine should be put in the food, so who would dare to eat the food here?

Aunt Li noticed this situation and couldn't help calling out to them, wanting them to have breakfast before going out.But Lingse said "We're not hungry", and sent Aunt Li away.

They walked out the door, seemingly casually choosing a direction to stroll around.Li Lan had already finished her breakfast at this time, seeing them walking towards her backyard, she immediately got up and stopped them.

"Hey, the backyard of my house is very messy, and there's nothing interesting, why don't you go to other places?" Li Lan looked a little flustered, but firmly stopped in front of them to let them pass.

This move almost made it clear that there was a problem in the backyard, but it also showed that they could no longer approach the backyard blatantly.They followed her wishes and left here, planning to go to Yincui when no one was around.

In the past two days, they have walked around the entire village several times, and they have an impression of the terrain here.And in the process, they also determined one thing: far fewer people live here than there should be.

Although they haven't gained much, they are still used to looking around every day, maybe they can find something.It's the same today, but Yin Cui is not here, Ling Se is alone, A Qiang offered to let Bai Jiu and Ling Se go together, and he acted alone.

The other two naturally disagreed, hoping that Ah Qiang could go with them.But it would be too inefficient to act together, so Ah Qiang finally refused.

"It's okay, I'll pay attention to propriety." These are Aqiang's original words.

Thinking that Ah Qiang is so experienced, there shouldn't be any problems, so Bai Jiu and Ling Se reluctantly agreed to the proposal.But unexpectedly, after the agreed meeting time, Ah Qiang's figure did not appear.

Ah Qiang is gone.

Bai Jiu and the two panicked a little.Yincui and the others still know the approximate location, but they have no clue about Aqiang, and they have no way of finding it.

"If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let him go alone." Both of them were very annoyed, but things had already happened, and it was useless to be upset. They had to come up with a solution as soon as possible.

At this time, Li Lan had already come out to greet them for lunch, and Bai Jiu looked at Li Lan, furious.But then his eyes rolled, and an idea appeared in his mind. He purposely shouted: "Both Yincui and Brother Aqiang are gone, what are you eating?" Actually, he wasn't that angry, but he I just wanted to test Li Lan and see her reaction.

"Is Ah Qiang... gone too?" Li Lan's expression suddenly became a little strange when he heard the news.Seeing Bai Jiu's angry look, she quickly comforted her: "Well, maybe they went out to play by themselves? Don't worry, maybe they will come back at night..."

Seeing the expressions of the two people in front of him getting uglier, Li Lan closed her mouth resentfully.She actually felt guilty in her heart when she said these words, and she knew where those two people went better than anyone else.

Bai Jiu gave her an unfriendly look, pulled Ling Se and turned around to leave, only saying, "We're not going to eat lunch, we're going to find our companions."

Judging from Li Lan's reaction, she probably didn't do Aqiang's disappearance, but she definitely knew where Aqiang was going.In this way, they had to make a long-term plan to see if there was any way to get the news out of Li Lan's mouth.

If you don't eat for a long time, your physical strength will be unbearable, but this is not a problem for Bai Jiu and Ling Se, they can just eat a few mouthfuls of weeds on the side of the road.They searched all the way in the direction where Ah Qiang left, and suddenly saw a middle-aged woman standing at the gate of their yard. The woman was looking around, as if she was... letting out the wind.

Seeing the two of them, a trace of obvious panic flashed across the woman's face.Seeing that the two had already walked in front of her, the woman laughed dryly, and asked a little nervously, "You two...what's the matter?"

Her voice was very loud, as if she was reminding someone.There were still some rustling sounds in the room, but as soon as the woman's voice fell, the sound disappeared.

There was a sudden silence all around, only the whistling wind and the chirping of cicadas under the scorching sun.Bai Jiu narrowed his eyes, not hiding the suspicion in his eyes.

Ling Se didn't speak, but just stared at the woman with deep eyes.The woman broke out in cold sweat when he saw him, she couldn't help but cleared her throat, and said cautiously: "...Uh, two?"

"Our companion is gone," Ling Se said suddenly, and the content was straightforward without any twists and turns.He glanced at the yard meaningfully. Although the door was closed and he couldn't see anything, the woman subconsciously blocked Ling Se's gaze with her body.

Ling Se withdrew her gaze and looked into the woman's eyes again, "...do you know where they went?" The second half of the sentence came late.

"He...they?" The woman repeated subconsciously, with some doubts in her tone.But soon, she reacted and denied again and again: "No, I don't know, why don't you go look elsewhere?"

At this time, the door behind the woman was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man came out, followed by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.Seeing Bai Jiu and Ling Se, the man pretended to be surprised and shouted: "Yeah, it's you, what's the matter with you two coming to my house?"

Why is it pretending to be surprised, because the man's expression is really a bit fake.

But this man looked familiar, Bai Jiu looked at him carefully again, and quickly recalled the people he had met in the past two days in his mind.

Soon, Bai Jiu remembered.This is the person they met when they came out to investigate the situation for the first time. At that time, this man invited himself to live in his house very warmly!

Lingse is still talking to this man, but this man always avoids Lingse's questions vaguely.Ling Se frowned, unwilling to waste any more time with him, she turned around and was about to leave, but at this moment, the man seemed to have changed his mind again, and started talking to Ling Se enthusiastically, talking about everything.

He also winked at the boy behind him. The boy pursed his lips, and after hesitating for a while, he also came forward and got close to Bai Jiu.

Bai Jiu didn't know why, but a trace of vigilance still rose in his heart.However, this boy is a rare young man in the village, maybe there will be some clues about him?

Thinking of this, Bai Jiu observed the boy more carefully, but to his disappointment, he couldn't see anything special about him.His appearance is fairly handsome, but not outstanding, and his speech and behavior are normal, there is no problem.

It's just that this boy spoke hesitantly, as if he didn't want to chat at first, but he had to chat for some reason, so he was very reluctant to find a topic.This is strange, since you don't want to talk, why do you force yourself?

Bai Jiu sensed something was wrong.

But just as he was about to remind Ling Se, something happened.Bai Jiu heard a muffled sound, and then Ling Se fell heavily to the ground.

Bai Jiu was startled, and subconsciously felt something was wrong.A sense of crisis suddenly surged in his heart, as if some danger was coming behind him.His ears moved, and he vaguely heard a piercing sound coming from behind him, but before he could avoid it in time, he felt a sharp pain coming from the back of his head.

He fell to the ground with inertia, his elbows chafed in the rough ground.He tried to stand up, but the pain made his eyes black.

Vaguely, he heard the voices of some people talking from beside him.

"What are you doing with such a heavy hand? What if you beat someone to death!"

"Isn't it because I was nervous and didn't control my strength well... Hey, don't talk about this, just bring people in!"

Bai Jiu felt a fever in his chest, and he knew that it was Xiao Si who wanted to come out to help him.But he firmly pressed his chest, not letting Xiao Si do this.

He heard a lot of noisy voices and footsteps around him, there were so many people here, and Xiaosi was no match for him when he came out.In this case, he must not be allowed to come out to take risks.

The warm feeling gradually receded, and the leaves of the four-leaf clover shook slightly, as if comforting the people on the ground.Bai Jiu could feel his anxiety, but he couldn't respond.

Blood dripped slowly from the back of his head, slid down his neck, and finally fell to the ground.Bai Jiu only felt his head getting dizzy. Before he passed out, he heard someone yelling.

"Fuck! This person won't die, right? Hurry up and call Lao Liu over to show him!"

Hearing this sentence, Bai Jiu couldn't hold on anymore and fainted.