Just after walking to the mountainside, the child had already fallen asleep on Xie Wuyi's shoulder, the shadow cast by his long eyelashes trembled slightly with Xie Wuyi's footsteps, looking very at ease.

Ji Qinglin stretched out his hand and gently stroked his hair, thinking: When he was about to carry him just now, he insisted that he could walk, but now it seems that he is already very tired, and he just kept going because he didn't want to cause trouble for others. Be tough.Sure enough, as Brother Zhong said, although this child is young, he is intelligent, sensible and well-mannered, no wonder everyone in the town loves him.

Soon, the three of them returned to the small town at the foot of the mountain. When they arrived at the previous inn, Ji Qinglin knocked lightly on the door, and soon they heard footsteps coming from far and near.

The footsteps stopped at the door, and Ji Qinglin knew that the shopkeeper was looking out again, so he passed the lantern to the crack of the door and said, "Brother Zhong, it's us."

"oh oh."

Brother Zhong responded, and quickly unloaded a piece of the board, raised his eyes to see the child behind Xie Wuyi, and said in surprise, "Amian!?"

Ji Qinglin put his finger upright in front of his mouth, signaling him not to speak loudly, Brother Zhong nodded quickly, removed a few door panels next to him, turned sideways to make room, and said in a low voice: "Come in, come in, he is What's wrong?"

Ji Qinglin said: "Don't worry, he just fell asleep because he was too tired, please make room for an empty room first, so that he can have a good sleep."

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly and said, "Oh, okay, there are plenty of vacant houses, come with me."

After speaking, he took the three of them to an empty room, opened the door and lit the lamp, and spread out the quilt on the couch.

Xie Wuyi gently put the child on the bed, Ji Qinglin took off his shoes and socks and put them beside the bed, covered him with a quilt, then turned around and said to Brother Zhong: "Let him sleep well, let's go out and talk."

Brother Zhong nodded and said, "Okay, there is a room next door, both of you go over there to rest for a while, and I'll get you something to eat."

Hearing what he said, Ji Qinglin realized that he hadn't eaten since last night's meal. It had been a day and a night, and he didn't feel hungry.

Thinking about it, Ji Qinglin smiled and said, "Thank you."

The two sat down in the next room, and after a while Brother Zhong brought two bowls of hot noodle soup.

Ji Qinglin took the bowl and put it on the table, knowing that he was very concerned about the matter in the mountain, so he roughly told him what he saw and heard in the mountain before.

After listening to Brother Zhong, he knocked his head and blamed himself: "Oh, it's my fault. I searched around the village last night, but I didn't expect to go to the house to have a look, causing him to hide under that bed for so long alone. , must have been terrified.”

Ji Qinglin comforted: "Brother, don't blame yourself. It was unexpected for you to encounter such a situation. How could you think of so much in a hurry. Besides, if he hadn't accidentally made a noise under the bed tonight, we wouldn't have thought that he was still hiding under the bed." personal."

Brother Zhong sighed, then frowned after a while and said, "Who on earth do you think did this? The owner and his family are all good people, and they are friendly and charitable on weekdays. It doesn't look like they have enemies!"

Ji Qinglin shook his head, they didn't find any other clues except for the difference in the food and drink, and naturally they didn't know who did it, but he had already ruled out the possibility of the enemy seeking revenge in his heart.

If it was the enemy's actions, it would be possible to attack the owner's family and even the subordinates in the village. Why would they go to such lengths to implicate the people who attended the banquet?

Thinking, Ji Qinglin said: "There are too few clues now, it is impossible to piece together the truth, and the child is still fast asleep, so we can only wait for him to wake up tomorrow and ask him if he has heard anything under the bed."

Brother Zhong nodded silently, stood up after sitting quietly for a while, pushed the two bowls of noodles in front of the two of them, and said: "You guys have worked hard this night, it's late at night, let's rest early after eating, I Don't bother."

Ji Qinglin nodded, got up to see him out and returned to the table, only to find that Xie Wuyi had already picked up his chopsticks and was quietly eating the noodles in the bowl with his head down.

Ji Qinglin asked strangely: "Huh? Don't you need to eat?"

Xie Wuyi replied indifferently: "It's not necessary, it's not impossible."

"Oh——" Ji Qinglin nodded with a long voice and said with a smile, "So you eat what you like, and you don't eat what you don't like, right?"

Xie Wuyi was silent for a moment, then let out a soft "hmm".

Ji Qinglin approached and said, "Is that a picky eater?"

The chopsticks in Xie Wuyi's hands paused for a while, speechless.

Ji Qinglin felt happy in his heart, pursed his lips and smiled secretly, for some reason, every time he saw Xie Wuyi's not-so-calm expression on his face, he was in a good mood, just like a child who succeeded in playing tricks on others.

He picked up the chopsticks and began to eat the noodles, but he thought in his heart: He didn't eat a good meal last night, but tonight he moved his chopsticks when it was just a bowl of noodle soup. This taste is really unique.

After a simple wash, the two of them lay side by side on the couch. Ji Qinglin didn't feel sleepy. He rested one hand on the back of his head and held the water mirror in his other hand to look at it. He said softly, "Actually, I don't quite understand. If it was taken away by someone, at most it means that the position has changed, if the silk thread has changed its direction, that's all, how could it just disappear?"

Xie Wuyi was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "I'm afraid it's not just being taken away."

Ji Qinglin was startled, tilted his head and said, "You mean...something may have happened to them?"

This was really beyond Ji Qinglin's expectation. Originally, he was glad that the food served in the food and drink was just drugs and not poison. At least it showed that the perpetrators did not intend to take human lives, but it was understandable. Could it be that the two babies might Already killed?

Ji Qinglin thought for a while, and immediately denied his own thoughts, saying: "No, if their lives are in danger, shouldn't the soul yuan be reincarnated again? In this way, the jade pendant should also be able to indicate their new birthplace, but So far, the jade pendant has not produced new silk threads, which should at least mean that they are still alive?"

He paused, then asked again: "Is there any situation that will cause the jade pendant to be unable to indicate the location of Yizhu?"

Jie Wuyi remained silent for a while, and said: "It has never happened before, but the tail of the fish is connected to the Yizhu, and the two ends of the connection are the memory and the soul element. If the connection is broken, it must be one of the two. damage."

Ji Qinglin thought for a while, and said: "But the water mirror has always been in our hands, and the memory has always been in the water mirror. What those people took away was Yizhu's body. In other words, it is probably their soul essence that caused the problem. Not a memory, is it?"

Xie Wuyi nodded: "It should be that some kind of change occurred in the soul element, which cut off the connection between it and Shui Jing."

When Ji Qinglin heard that the word he used was "some kind", he immediately understood: "You can't be sure about the specific change?"

Xie Wuyi nodded.

Ji Qinglin sighed slightly, although the conclusion of "soul yuan change" can barely be regarded as a clue, it is actually not helpful for finding the whereabouts of the twins and those missing persons.

Xie Wuyi heard him sigh, turned his head to look at him and said, "It's useless to think too much, I'll just check it out tomorrow."

Ji Qinglin also knew that what he said was reasonable, looked back at him and nodded, and put the jade pendant aside.

Xie Wuyi got up and put out the candle, lay back on the couch, stretched out his hand and pulled up the quilt on Ji Qinglin's chest, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Early the next morning, after Ji Qinglin finished washing, he went to the kitchen to find something to eat, and gently opened the door of the next door with Xie Wuyi while holding the dishes.

He went into the room and put down the dishes, only to see that the child had already sat up, was quietly leaning on the couch with his head down, lost in thought, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Ji Qinglin approached and smiled, "Amian, are you awake?"

Amian came back to her senses, smiled and nodded.

Ji Qinglin didn't wipe his face last night because he was afraid of waking him up. Seeing that his face was still black with a lot of dust, he got up and went to the washbasin to wring out a towel. Face."

Ah Mian put down the thing she was clutching in her hands and took the towel, only then did Ji Qinglin realize that what he was holding in his hand just now was the paper squirrel that he brought down from the village last night.

Ah Mian wiped her face seriously, handed back the towel and said, "Thank you brother."

Ji Qinglin nodded, raised his chin towards the table and said, "I brought you some food, can I serve it to you first?"

Amian looked over there, and immediately said, "Don't bother, I'll just get up and eat by myself."

As he spoke, he lifted the quilt and moved to the bedside to put on his shoes, walked to the table and sat down, suddenly seemed to remember something, raised his head and asked, "How did brother know that my name is Amian?"

Ji Qinglin thought that maybe he didn't know where it was, and explained: "This is the town below your mountain. That's what the owner of this shop called you when he saw you last night. His surname is Zhong. You may know him."

"Oh, I know, it's Uncle Zhong." Ah Mian nodded.

Ji Qinglin sat down and said, "I heard from him that your family name is Lu, so your name is Lu Mian?"

Ah Mian nodded and said, "Well, in the deep forest and the moonlight, there is a deer sleeping on a rock."

"It's so nice," Ji Qinglin said with a smile, "Did your father pick it up for you?"

"It's my mother," Ah Mian replied, "My mother said that when she was pregnant with me, she woke up one night and heard the sound of deer crowing, so she and my father followed the sound with a lantern and walked into the forest , I saw the bright moon hanging high and shining all over the ground, and a male and female deer guarding a cub sleeping peacefully beside a rock. I was born soon after I came back, so I was named this.”

After finishing speaking, Amian's eyes dimmed, and she frowned and said, "If my mother hadn't protected me last night, I should have been taken away together..."

Ji Qinglin originally wanted to wait for him to finish eating before asking these questions, but unexpectedly he mentioned it, patted the top of his head reassuringly and said, "Don't be sad, we will definitely bring them back, think back to what happened last night Let’s try to be as careful as possible, and see if we can find any clues in it, shall we?”

Ah Mian nodded, thought about it seriously, and then told them what happened yesterday in detail.

Early yesterday morning, the old people who came to the banquet arrived at the villa one after another. The owner of the villa accompanied them to play around in the villa, and arranged for them to rest in the afternoon. In the afternoon, he began to arrange the full moon banquet in the evening.

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