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The moonlight is hazy and the shadows of the trees are swaying.
Su Man stood in the yard, listening to the servant's reply.
"Miss, we've looked around, but we can't find the Second Miss and Miss Si Xi."
"Have you notified the village chief?" Su Man asked.
“Yes, but…”
The servants looked at each other, hesitating and no one dared to speak, until one of the younger ones couldn't help but speak, "Don't even mention the village chief. We knocked on every door, but no one opened the door. I jumped into one of the courtyards. Miss, guess what happened?"
Su Man cooperated and said, "What's the matter?"
"Hey, nobody."
The servant clapped his hands, giving Su Man the illusion that he was performing a crosstalk.
The more experienced servant pushed him and turned to Su Man to explain, "It's not that there's no one, it's probably that they're all hiding and refusing to open the door."
Su Man frowned. If it were just one or two families, it would be fine, but now everyone is like this. Then she thought about what Si Xi had said before, that her cousin had been asking around in the village for information...
Could it be that he was discovered?
Si Xi had been following her for so long, and it was because of her that he disappeared. Su Man was getting impatient and made a quick decision, "You two form a team and expand the search area. I will go see the village chief myself."
“…”
Su Man sent all the servants to look for someone, and Xu Yuan took the initiative to accompany her to find the village chief.
The village is now deserted, like a dead city.
Along the way, Su Man could only hear the footsteps of herself and Xu Yuan. Behind the two of them were long shadows.
The further Su Man walked, the more she felt something was wrong. It would have been fine if there was no one there, but why was there not even a sign of life?
Not to mention chickens and cows, there wasn't even a guard dog to be seen.
Unlike Su Man who was observing the environment, Xu Yuan kept looking up at the sky, which made Su Man very curious. "What are you looking at?"
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