The magpie perched on the branch above Liu's mother's head for a while before flying away. Liu's mother happily searched for her treasure, and soon she heard birdsong coming from above her head again.
Unlike last time, this time she immediately put on a stern face after hearing it.
Because what landed on her head was no longer a beautiful magpie with a melodious voice, but a crow that was entirely black.
Crows are the complete opposite of magpies. Crows have been an unlucky symbol since ancient times. In addition, the crows' calls are unpleasant and eerie. The joy that Liu's mother had just mentioned was instantly wiped out when she saw the crows.
She glared at the crow overhead and waved it away, yelling, "You son of a bitch, don't you look at yourself? Stop cawing here! Get out of here!"
But no matter how she waved her hand to shoo it away, the crows just wouldn't leave.
The crows perched on relatively high branches, and she, being only about 1.5 meters tall, couldn't possibly reach them.
Seeing that waving her hands and yelling at the crows in the light couldn't scare them away, she could only pick up pebbles from the ground and throw them at the crows. This time it worked. The crows were startled by the power of the pebbles and quickly flapped their wings and flew away. Before leaving, they very politely left behind a pile of freshly excreted, warm bird droppings, which landed squarely on Liu's mother's face, letting her have a taste.
Liu's mother: Finally, we can eat hot shit.
With a stern face, she wiped the excrement off her face and yelled, "You damned crow, you stinking crow, I'll pelt you with stones!"
She picked up the stones again and threw them at the crow, but the crow had already flown away.
"Gaga gaga! Gaga gaga!" Old woman, you can't catch me! You can't catch me!
Because encountering crows is considered unlucky, she didn't call out to Li Hongying and Liu Aiguo this time. The two were focused on searching for something and didn't notice her.
Because of this incident, Liu's mother felt uncomfortable and became absent-minded when looking for things.
She tripped over a stone while walking and fell to the ground. She cried out in pain and checked her knee after falling.
Liu Aiguo rushed over to check her injuries and told her to rest where she was, that she didn't need to search for the treasure anymore.
Liu's mother didn't want to rest, but the injury to her knee left her powerless.
By noon, the three of them still hadn't found anything.
Yesterday, Liu's mother was overjoyed, thinking that her family was about to become rich. For the first time ever, she took out some flour from the house and made pancakes with Li Hongying in the morning.
When it was lunchtime, everyone ate some pancakes, and Liu's mother had rested enough, so the three of them got to work again.
The whole afternoon passed in the blink of an eye, and with the sun about to set, they hadn't found anything, but they were all exhausted.
Li Hongying was very disappointed. She hadn't expected that even though she had brought Liu Aiguo and his mother along, and chosen the place where Zhuang Feifei was most likely to lose the necklace, she would still find nothing.
Could it be that the necklace isn't in this valley at all, but in the sixth valley?
It was because they failed to search the valley thoroughly that they didn't find it.
As darkness fell, Li Hongying was reluctant to leave, but fearing she might annoy Liu and her son, she said, "Aiguo, Mother, it's getting late. We should go down the mountain now and come back to look for him tomorrow."
Because she was too tired and had a knee injury, Liu's mother was too weak to continue searching, even if she wanted to.
"Okay, let's go home then. We'll rest for the night and come back tomorrow. Anyway, no one else knows this secret, so we're not afraid of anyone trying to steal it from us."
Liu Aiguo agreed with them. The three of them were exhausted after a long day and were almost dead when they got home.
That evening, Black Tiger and Fat Tiger also arrived here.
Fat Tiger said, "This is the last valley. Beyond that is a place Zhuang Feifei can't reach. If it's not here either, it proves that Zhuang Feifei did lie, and the necklace isn't in the valley at all. We'll need to go somewhere else to look for it."
"Let's look for it. If all else fails, we can search this entire mountain, just like Xue and Zhao, the educated youth, searched for that special badge before. They weren't as agile as us, but they weren't afraid. What are we afraid of?"
"Okay, if we don't find it in the valley, we'll look in the hills and other places."
"That's the only way."
The two cats were a little unhappy because they hadn't found the bloodstone necklace as planned. They searched the canyon in just half a night.
When they got home, it was still dark. Black Tiger went to find Luo Changtian, crawled into Luo Changtian's bed to sleep, and Fatty Tiger went directly into Luo Jingyan's space.
In the morning, after Luo Jingyan woke up, Pang Hu immediately told her the results of the search.
"Master, this is really too far-fetched. Either Zhuang Feifei is lying, or someone has already picked up that bloodstone necklace. However, I think the chances of it being picked up are very small, since almost everyone in that valley is rarely visited."
Another possibility is that Li Hongying found it, because besides us, only Li Hongying would deliberately look for it. "Although it really didn't want to admit it."
It's impossible to say that Luo Jingyan didn't care about the necklace at all, but she didn't feel too much regret either.
But she couldn't ignore the efforts that Fat Tiger and Black Tiger made in searching for the bloodstone necklace.
"Fat Tiger, this is just our guess. To know if Li Hongying has been found, we just need to see if she goes up the mountain again. If she has already been found, she definitely won't go up the mountain to look for her anymore."
“Master is right. We can keep an eye on Li Hongying. Anyway, we’ve searched all seven valleys. If Li Hongying hasn’t found it by now, it’s impossible for her to find the bloodstone necklace in those valleys.”
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