Teacher Bai's full name is Bai Rushuang. After graduating from B City Normal University two years ago, she took the initiative to apply for a transfer to Qingliu Village to teach, responsible for teaching two subjects: Chinese and English.

According to people in the village, she has a very good personality and the children in the village like her class very much. Sometimes after class they will even pester Teacher Bai to go home with them.

She never gets angry and always has a smiling face. Everyone in the village recognizes this young and beautiful female teacher.

This was the information they learned from the principal after visiting the school at the entrance of the village.

Teacher Bai disappeared one night a year ago.

Someone in the village saw her carrying her small white bag and going up the mountain from the entrance of the scenic area, and they stopped her and reminded her that it was easy to get lost if she went up the mountain at night.

But Teacher Bai didn't seem to care. She waved her hand and said she was just going to look for something and would be down the mountain soon.

Then he disappeared.

But now, among the victims of Qiuluan, a woman who looks like Bai Rushuang was found...

This matter seems to be getting weirder and weirder.

Walking out of the school in the village, Shi Jin looked at the somewhat gloomy sky.

Yu You's camera was caught in the rain, so he rushed back to the inn as soon as he got down the mountain. Now, Yu Ci was the only one by his side.

Yu Ci’s expression wasn’t very good either.

Shi Jin knew that he should have some guesses in his heart now.

"Do you know the Chen family?"

Yu Ci stood beside him: "Not really."

The Chen family is a family that rose to prominence during the generation of Grandpa Chen, and is known as a "nouveau riche" in the circle.

In addition, most of the things they did were contrary to the ideas of the Yu family, and Yu's father looked down on them. As a result, Yu Ci didn't know much about the Chen family and only knew a few superficial things.

"But the Chen family is quite chaotic." Yu Ci said: "The only legitimate third generation members of the Chen family are Chen Zhen's two sons. The eldest son was paralyzed in a car accident a few years ago, and the second son, Chen Qishan, is a useless person."

Shi Jin frowned slightly: "What about Chen Yuan?"

It’s Chen Yuan again.

Yu Ci felt inexplicably unhappy.

He paused and looked away: "Chen Yuan is Chen Zhen's illegitimate daughter. She is not the only one. Chen Zhen has at least five or six illegitimate children outside, but he only brought Chen Yuan back."

With the addition of Wei Chan, the Chen family is now in a mess.

Everyone was thinking about fighting for power and profit, but Chen Yuan, who was traveling with a group of young ladies, seemed a little special.

But as the only illegitimate daughter taken back into the Chen family by Chen Zhen, is she as simple as she seems?

That may not be the case.

Thinking of this, Yu Ci glanced at Shi Jin and said, "Chen Yuan is not simple."

So you stay away from her.

Shi Jin just thought he was reminding himself: "I will pay attention."

Yu Ci choked.

But he quickly adjusted himself: "I have asked someone to keep an eye on the Qiuluan incident, and the fingerprints of the woman surnamed Bai have also been compared with the database. If there is any result, I will be notified as soon as possible."

Shi Jin nodded.

"So," Yu Ci turned his head and looked at Shi Jin with a serious expression: "Can you tell me the purpose of your coming to Qingliu Village now?"

Shi Jin paused.

After a while, he raised his eyelids: "Okay."

"But I want to make sure of one thing first."

——

What Shi Jin wanted to confirm was related to Tu Miao Quan.

He returned to the inn, found Qiu who was drawing at the counter, and asked her, "Do you know how to get to Tu Miao Spring?"

Ah Qiu was a little surprised: "Tu Miao Quan?"

"right."

"Let me think about it. I seem to have heard grandma mention it." Qiu frowned and thought for a long time. Finally, he shook his head apologetically: "Sorry, I don't remember."

"How about this, grandma is taking a nap now, I'll ask her for you when she wakes up."

Shi Jin's brows relaxed slightly: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Qiu smiled and said, "Hurry up and sit down. Lunch is ready. I'll bring it out and we can eat."

Lunch was a simple meal of three dishes and a soup, including crispy fried cabbage sprouts, colorful scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a stack of bacon that Aqiu made himself. The staple foods were corn and sweet potatoes.

When Shi Jin sat down at the table, Yu Ci, who had gone upstairs to change clothes, also came down.

He walked over and sat next to Shi Jin, holding a bag in his hand.

This bag seems familiar.

Shi Jin's gaze paused briefly on the bag. Before he could open his mouth, he saw the bag being pushed over, along with a glass filled with warm water.

Shi Jin was stunned.

"Take the medicine." Seeing that he didn't move, Yu Ci opened the bag of medicine and stuffed it into Shi Jin's hand along with the cup of water: "Your cold is not healed yet."

Shi Jin held the cup and pills in his hand. Hearing this, he hesitated: "This medicine..."

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with this medicine?"

Shi Jin pursed his lips slightly: "...It seems to be eaten after dinner."

This time it was Yu Ci who was stunned: "Really?"

But he quickly came to his senses, picked up the medicine box to check, and then took the pills back from Shi Jin without changing his expression, and said naturally: "Then let's eat first."

“Puff——”

Aqiu, who had been watching silently on the side, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Facing Yu Ci's sudden dangerous gaze, Qiu tactfully covered his mouth with his hand: "Well, you guys eat first, I'll go take lunch to grandma."

Yu Ci withdrew his gaze with satisfaction. He tilted his head and asked, "Do you want sweet potatoes or corn?"

The bamboo basket containing sweet potatoes and corn was a bit far away, and Shi Jin really couldn't reach it.

He hesitated and said, "Corn."

Yu Ci picked a big one for him.

The corn and sweet potatoes in the village are all grown by themselves, with plenty of fertilizer, so the corn is exceptionally large.

The smallest corn in the bamboo basket was as thick as Shi Jin’s forearm, not to mention the big ones.

Shi Jin looked at the corn handed to him, hesitated for two seconds, and finally took it: "Thank you."

"Hello Ivy Batty, what are you having for lunch?"

He was still upstairs when the cheerful voice rang out, but when he finished speaking he was already sitting across from the dining table.

Yu You picked a sweet potato from the bamboo basket with ease, and took a bite without peeling it. "Sure enough, the sweet potatoes I grow myself are still sweeter."

After taking a few bites of sweet potatoes to comfort his internal organs, Yu You finally remembered something: "By the way, what did you ask at the school just now? Did you ask about Tu Miao Spring?"

"I only asked about Mr. Bai's situation." Shi Jin didn't go into too much detail: "As for Tu Miao Quan, the principal said he didn't know either."

The principal was not from the village. He was a teacher who was assigned here when the school was founded. His understanding of the village was not much different from that of Yu You, who had looked up information about it.

Yu You sighed: "This Tu Miao Spring is really mysterious."

There is clearly such a place and there is information about Tu Miao Spring, but I just can't find the way.

That's strange.

Shi Jin didn't say anything.

He lowered his head and grabbed the corn in his hand, thinking about what had happened in the past two days.

Shi Jin’s habit of eating corn is a bit strange. He doesn’t like to chew it directly like others do. He dislikes that doing so will make the corn wrinkled and leave hard corn husks on the corn stalks.

He liked to use his fingers to pluck the corn kernels one by one, leaving behind the hard cores, until only a bare corn stalk was left.

Time warned him several times, but he couldn't change, so he simply stopped eating corn.

He was now thinking about something, and before he knew it he had started picking corn as usual.

Yu You looked at his actions, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Yu Ci noticed his gaze. He turned his head to follow Yu You's gaze and saw Shi Jin pulling corn with his head down.

There was a hint of smile in his eyes, and he lowered his voice: "Don't want to eat anymore?"

Shi Jin paused for a moment while pulling the corn.

He pursed his lips and said softly, "Yeah."

Probably because of the stomach problems caused by years of disordered diet, Shi Jin's appetite is average and his food intake is smaller than that of ordinary people.

He can eat a little more soft and glutinous rice or porridge, which are easy to digest, but his stomach will start to protest after a few bites of coarse grains that are not so easy to digest, such as corn and sweet potatoes.

He has a mechanism in his mind to measure the amount of food he eats. He knows clearly in his brain how much he is full, how much he eats to get stomachache, and what he eats to make his stomach uncomfortable.

When he had picked half of the corn, his brain had already sent him a signal, telling him not to eat any more. However, out of his love for food, Shi Jin was unwilling to throw away the remaining corn.

So he picked the corn slower and slower, and it took a while before he took a bite.

So good.

Yu Ci sighed inwardly.

He tried hard to resist the urge to touch his head.

After rubbing his fingertips twice, Yu Ci reached out to take the corn: "If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it."

Shi Jin refused to give it to him: "It can't be wasted."

"It won't be wasted." Yu Ci took the corn and filled a bowl with soup: "Drink some soup, it's still hot."

After placing the soup in front of Shi Jin, he picked up the half-missing corn and took a bite naturally.

Shi Jin was stunned.

Yu Ci glanced at him: "Why don't you drink?"

After a pause, he glanced at Shi Jin's stomach and raised his eyebrows: "Are you full?"

"without......"

Shi Jin's eyes stopped at the bitten corn, and her long eyelashes moved: "I have eaten it."

Doesn't he mind?

"What have you eaten?" Yu Ci looked at the corn in his hand and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Corn?"

Shi Jin pursed her lips: "Yeah."

After a pause, he added: "There is saliva."

It was a rare occasion for Yu Ci to see an expression other than coldness on Shi Jin's face, and it was embarrassment.

He curled the corners of his lips and admired it with great interest for a moment. Seeing that the calmness on the face of the young man in black was about to break, he raised his eyebrows and said in a teasing tone: "What are you afraid of? I don't mind."

Not to mention that the way his roommate was eating the corn by grabbing it, it was impossible for him to get his saliva on it. Even if he did, so what?

We are all roommates, what's wrong with eating some saliva?

At this moment, Yu Ci completely forgot how much he disliked the bread that Xu Qian had broken with his hands.

Shi Jin hesitated for two seconds, then pursed her lips and looked away.

Yu You, who had been watching the whole process, suddenly felt that the sweet potato in his hand was no longer fragrant.

The stomach that was just rumbling with hunger is now full;

——I’m full of dog food.