Zhou Luancheng looked at Sheng Chengan calmly, signaling with his eyes that he should stop talking.
Chen Tiezhu was busy for a while: "Okay, I'm really sorry, this is the only empty room. You guys can either make do with it, or Pei Nuo can only sleep in this room. You guys go and make do with me."
He scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "It's just that my room is a bit messy, and there is only one bed, and there is no room for the three of us. Anyway, Pei Nuo doesn't know anything."
In his eyes, Pei Nuo is still just a child.
Zhou Luancheng thanked him again: "Okay, you go and rest first. I'm sorry it's so late."
Chen Tiezhu stepped back and waved his hands: "This is not a big deal, you guys take a rest first, if you have any questions, we can talk about it tomorrow morning."
Zhou Luancheng stood at the door and watched Chen Tiezhu return to his room. After a while, the lights in the room went out and he returned and closed the door.
Sheng Chengan was still very alert at this moment: "What should we do? Is there something wrong with this realgar powder? If we live here, won't we be walking into a tiger's mouth?"
Zhou Luancheng shook his head: "Maybe we were too nervous just now. The realgar powder was definitely not given today, which means it was given before and the effect was good. I think we are very safe tonight."
"Let Pei Nuo sleep first, we'll talk later."
Sheng Cheng'an coaxed Pei Nuo to lie down, but Pei Nuo had to hold the corner of his clothes before he would close his eyes.
I was so sleepy that I closed my eyes for only a few minutes before I fell into a deep sleep with deep breathing.
Zhou Luancheng sat on another bed. After making sure Pei Nuo was asleep, he lowered his voice and said, "I'll wait for Chen Tiezhu to fall asleep before I go out. Don't open the door or go out before I come back."
Then he handed a dagger he carried with him to Sheng Chengan: "Take this with you. If there is any emergency, you can protect yourself."
Sheng Chengan stopped being hypocritical and took the dagger and warned Zhou Luancheng: "You should be careful too. If something happens to you, Pei Nuo and I will definitely not be able to leave Zhulin Town."
Zhou Luancheng smiled and patted Sheng Chengan on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I will definitely come back."
He also told Sheng Cheng'an to lock the door after he left, and only left quietly after making sure that Chen Tiezhu was asleep.
Having walked this road during the day, even though it was night, Zhou Luancheng could still clearly find the place where he met Grandma Bu.
He remembered that it was from a very deep doorway. Now standing in front of the doorway, in the night, the doorway seemed even deeper and a little weird.
There seemed to be something sticking out of the doorway, emitting a faint blue light.
Zhou Luancheng made sure that there was nothing happening around before walking towards the door. As he got closer, he smelled a fishy odor.
It smells slightly like the odor of a rotting animal corpse, or the scent emitted by some cold-blooded animals.
He had come across this smell before when he was on a mission, so it was not unfamiliar to him.
He stopped, then slowly backed away, finding a dark place to hide.
Lurking in the dark, staring at the doorway.
After a while, a rustling sound was heard from the doorway, and then Grandma Bu came out with a hunched back and a cane. She was followed by a black cat with a black body without a single stray hair, and a pair of eyes emitting a faint green light in the dark night.
I think the thing that was glowing in the doorway just now should be this black cat.
Zhou Luancheng's night vision was still very good. He could clearly see that there was a dark-patterned snake thicker than an egg wrapped around Grandma Bu's neck.
The upper body of the snake pressed tightly against her cheek, moving flexibly, with a cold look in its eyes and occasionally spitting out red core, which was still a bit scary in the dark night.
Zhou Luancheng placed his hand lightly on his lower back. He had applied to bring a gun with him when he came out.
Grandma Bu stood at the doorway, looked around, and walked toward the middle of the road. After making sure that there was no one around, she grumbled to the black cat, "Old man, you're getting worse and worse. You get irritated at the slightest sign of trouble, and you almost ruined my good deeds."
The black cat stuck close to her legs, looked around, and meowed at Grandma Bu again.
Grandma Bu leaned over and patted its head, then stood up and touched the snake on its neck: "Let's go, we still have things to do when we get back."
After saying this, he walked slowly towards the doorway with his crutches and gradually disappeared into the depths of the doorway.
Zhou Luancheng didn't dare to move again. He was already certain that Grandma Bu must have a lot of poisonous creatures in her house, and the slight fishy smell in the air was emitted by these poisonous creatures.
Therefore, if he broke in, he would definitely be poisoned.
After thinking for a while, I decided to go somewhere else first.
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Sheng Cheng'an didn't dare to close his eyes the whole night, worried that Zhou Luancheng might be in danger. He also thought that they thought too highly of Grandma Bu, who was just an old woman who knew some unorthodox things.
But when he thought about the fantasy he had heard of, his heart was burning with discomfort.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, holding Pei Nuo's hand in one hand and holding a dagger in the other, he looked around the room, listened to the noises outside, and worried about Zhou Luancheng's safety.
This night was extremely torturous, and time seemed to pass by second by second.
Until the roosters crowed outside the window and the sky gradually brightened, Zhou Luancheng still didn't come back.
Sheng Chengan sat there with his body stiff. He wanted to stand up and stretch his neck, but before he could pull his hand back, Pei Nuo pulled him over tightly, held him in his arms, and murmured something.
The sound was very light, like some breaking sounds.
Sheng Cheng'an caught that Pei Nuo was talking in his sleep. Although he did not hear the details, he was sure that Pei Nuo said a complete sentence.
He squatted beside the bed with some excitement and gently touched Pei Nuo's face: "Pei Nuo? Xiao Nuo, what are you talking about? Say it again?"
Pei Nuo didn't say anything else, but just smacked her lips, hugged Sheng Cheng'an's arm, pressed her cheek tightly against his arm, opened and closed her little mouth, and fell asleep again.
Sheng Chengan was still a little surprised, because this showed that Pei Nuo could speak.
He gently rubbed Pei Nuo's cheek, trying to get her to say something else.
For a moment, I forgot that Zhou Luancheng had not returned yet, and I also forgot the time.
It was not until I heard Chen Tiezhu washing up in the yard, blowing his nose and spitting vigorously that I realized how late it was.
I looked at my watch. It was already seven o'clock in the morning and Zhou Luancheng hadn't come back yet!
Sheng Chengan was a little anxious. Even if he had discovered something, he should have come back by now.
"Comrade Zhou, are you guys up yet? I'm going to the town to buy some breakfast. Do you want to eat?"
Chen Tiezhu had finished washing up and was standing outside the door, shouting enthusiastically.
Before Sheng Chengan could respond, he heard a commotion outside, and then someone shouted, "A male body was found in the south of the town. He died this morning."
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