The sound of the bell echoing in the woods made Chi Mu tremble all over.
"Hmm? The ghost story is about to end, why is the bell ringing at this time? Now the monks in the hunchback temple are out begging for food, who rang the bell?"
Hearing the bell, Chi Mu felt very confused.
At this time, my father also carried his hunting rifle and walked down the mountain.
Chi Mu heard the noise and hid first.
Chi Mu came out again after his father left. He looked in the direction of the Hunchback Temple.
He suddenly realized that he might have missed something, and the strange conversation had not ended yet.
While going down the mountain, Chi Mu kept thinking about what he had missed.
The murderers who can be confirmed now are: Widow Chen, Ma Jinya, Jiang Feng, Zhang Mazi, Jiang Shaobo, and Li Tiezhu.
“By the way, I have always speculated that my father and Lin Zhang killed Lin Zhang’s wife, but I have never found any solid evidence.
Perhaps, it was only one of them who killed Lin Zhang’s wife, and there was also the relationship between my father and the other victims... We can’t just give such a vague conclusion.”
Chi Mu murmured and returned to his own store.
He saw Lin Miaomiao sitting alone on the threshold of the store with a small umbrella, seemingly waiting for Chi Mu.
When the girl saw Chi Mu, she burst into excitement.
The gloom in her eyes in the past is gone.
"Boss Chi, Boss Chi, you're finally here! You didn't open the door today. Usually, you always open the door when you come here."
Lin Miaomiao rushed to Chi Mu with smiling eyes.
Chi Mu smiled and touched her head: "Miao Miao, you are still waiting for me here in such a heavy rain, is there something wrong?"
Lin Miaomiao nodded and took out a doll from her schoolbag behind her.
"Yeah, I want to buy her a small hairpin, is that okay, Boss Chi? I have money with me today, so you don't have to give it to me, I can buy it myself!"
Seeing the doll in Lin Miaomiao's hand, Chi Mu was startled and subconsciously took a few steps back, getting goose bumps all over his body.
Although this doll does look cute, Chi Mu immediately thought of that horrible rule.
[3: The younger sister was carrying a doll on her back, and the mother's head was chopped off and buried in the ground. The younger sister loved to eat candy, but her candy was crushed and the doll was thrown away.]
This doll is obviously the one in the rules!
"Ahem, of course no problem, come in with me, Boss Chi will give you some candy."
Chi Mu immediately came to his senses, opened the door of the store and took Lin Miaomiao in.
Soon, he helped Lin Miaomiao find a pink hairpin on the shelf.
"Hey, do you think this is okay?"
"Wow, so cute!!!"
The little girl happily took the pink hairpin, her eyes full of stars, and gestured with it on the doll's head.
He looks like he can't let it go.
Seeing the little girl's happy expression, Chi Mu couldn't help but laugh.
But he felt angry when he thought about how such an innocent-looking little girl had been molested by those greasy middle-aged men.
Chi Mu could never figure out what the psychology of those beasts was like.
Lin Miaomiao is about the same age as their daughter. Don’t those beasts have any conscience? Don’t they have any morals?
"Boss Chi, this is the money for you..."
Lin Miaomiao didn't just play with the hairpin. She took the initiative to hand Chi Mu the money to buy it.
This time, Chi Mu did not choose to refuse.
He knew that this little girl was a girl with a particularly strong self-esteem. Even though she was extremely disgusted with what those beasts had done to her, she would take the initiative to repay Chi Mu.
It was enough to prove the kindness in her heart.
Even though she was such a little girl, she was...
Chi Mu clenched his fists, regretting that he reacted too slowly, otherwise he would have killed the beastly village chief with his own hands.
Looking at the doll in Lin Miaomiao's hand, Chi Mu suddenly had an idea.
According to the rules, "the younger sister carried a doll on her back, her mother's head was chopped off and buried in the ground, her younger sister loved to eat candy, but her candy was crushed and her doll was thrown away."
Does this mean that Lin Miaomiao witnessed the night Lin Zhang’s wife was killed?
The rules mentioned that the doll had been thrown away, but now it reappeared in Lin Miaomiao's hands, which was enough to prove something.
"Miao Miao, Boss Chi wants to ask you, do you know where your mother went?"
Chi Mu asked tentatively.
Unexpectedly, Lin Miaomiao did not show any sadness. She blinked her eyes and said innocently, "Dad said that Mom went to pursue her own happiness because she was not happy living with us.
Miaomiao just wants her mother to be happy, so it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t want to grow up with her.”
Lin Miaomiao's sensible look made Chi Mu's nose ache.
She is really sensible, so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.
——"Oh my god, Lin Miaomiao, this is so pitiful, woooo, come and be my sister, I will love her well."
——"Ah, Lin Miaomiao is so pitiful. Fortunately, this is a world of ghost stories. If there is such a little girl in reality, how miserable she would be!"
——"Didn't you notice? In this weird story, it is constantly emphasized that Lin Miaomiao likes to eat candy. This indirectly shows that her life is very bitter and she needs to eat candy to tell herself that there is sweetness in life."
.......
From Lin Miaomiao's answer to her mother, Chi Mu understood that she was not aware of her mother's death.
Chi Mu didn't want the girl to know about this, so he took the most expensive candy from the shelf and put it in Lin Miaomiao's hand.
"Miao Miao, remember to eat less sweets, otherwise you will get cavities. You don't have to be afraid of other little boys and uncles anymore. All the bad guys in the village are gone."
Chi Mu spoke softly to Lin Miaomiao.
The girl nodded heavily, she took a step forward, and kissed Chi Mu on the cheek unexpectedly.
"Thank you, Boss Chi... I wanted to die this summer, but you gave me a box of candies when I was most sad. They are really sweet as a spice in my bitter life, so I'd better continue to live."
Lin Miaomiao left, leaving Chi Mu with words that were not suitable for her to say at her age.
Chi Mu was not surprised either.
Because he knew that it was probably because Widow Chen had been attached to Lin Miaomiao for a long time, which made her mature in thinking and allowed her to say such words.
Looking at Lin Miaomiao's back as she jumped up and down holding the candy, Chi Mu's eyes became moist.
People who are bitter in their hearts only need a little sweetness to be satisfied.
I hope that from now on, she can forget the pain of the past and be happy with her new life.
[Ding! The host has gained 100% favorability with Lin Miaomiao, and now provides a hint for the host. The hint is "sister". ]
A long-lost system voice rang in Chi Mu's mind, and the prompts the system gave him were also very strange.
"younger sister?"
Chi Mu murmured these two words, connecting them with the rules of ghost stories, and fell into deep thought.
After a long time, Chi Mu's pupils suddenly contracted, and he finally realized an important clue that he had forgotten...
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