Chapter 670 Rotten Vegetable Leaves
Hearing what Village Chief Wang said, Gu Yuanniang immediately came over and listened.
"I used to let Hongyue go out to buy vegetables. She was also responsible for the meals and drinks at home, except that sometimes you or Madam Gu would cook by yourself and let your Xiaosi go to buy vegetables. Hongyue is smart. She always buys the best vegetables when they are as cheap as possible. But these days, the vegetables are all bad. When I asked her, she said she didn't know. She obviously tried her best to choose the best ones. The vegetables are like this recently. Even the meat doesn't look fresh."
"At first I thought this girl was up to something, so I went to buy some vegetables and meat, but when I looked at it, it was still like this. I don't know why the dishes in Bai County suddenly became like this."
When Xu Miaomiao heard this, her frown continued. Gu Yuanniang next to her was also scared. She remembered what Xu Miaomiao had said to her some days ago, and she was really scared.
She looked at Xu Miaomiao beside her. Xu Miaomiao received her gaze and sighed. She also understood what Gu Yuanniang meant. She looked at Village Chief Wang in front of her and said, "I know about this matter. Village Chief Wang, you don't have to worry about it now. I will take care of it."
After hearing Xu Miaomiao's words, Village Chief Wang walked away.
Gu Yuanniang sighed and looked at Xu Miaomiao: "This enemy is coming with great force, but we don't even know where they are."
"Don't worry, at least we have the antidote, right?"
Gu Yuan's mother nodded. Xu Xi, who was standing by, still didn't quite understand what they were saying, so she walked to the swing next to her and started swinging on it.
"So what should we do now?"
"Since there's something wrong with the vegetables, let's go to the vegetable market first."
Hearing this, Gu Yuanniang nodded: "Okay, anyway, I've asked Qingshan to stay at home recently and stopped the classes at the academy first, so you don't have to worry."
"Um."
Xu Miaomiao nodded slightly, and the two left together.
Gu Yuanniang was right to do so. Since she didn't know what her enemy was, she might as well stay at home so that no accidents would happen.
It was clearly time to buy vegetables, but when they arrived at the vegetable market, there were only a few people inside. Xu Miaomiao handed a bamboo hat to Gu Yuanniang and said, "You'd better be careful. Put on this bamboo hat to avoid any accidents."
He took the hat from Xu Miaomiao's hand and put it on his head, then got off the carriage with Xu Miaomiao.
Not only were there not many people, but even the leaves of the vegetables were drooping. Just as Village Chief Wang had said before, there were no fresh leaves, only bad ones.
Xu Miaomiao didn't reach out to check, but Gu Yuanniang next to her spoke first: "Why are you moving all the vegetable leaves like this? Give me the good vegetables."
"My two ladies, you are really making things difficult for me. Don't just say that my dishes are like this. Go and have a look at Bai County now. Everyone's dishes are like this now."
The man said this with some dissatisfaction, and there was a hint of blame in his tone, as if he had been suppressing his anger for a long time and couldn't find a place to vent.
Xu Miaomiao looked around and found that it was exactly as the man said. All the dishes had become like this. Xu Miaomiaobin immediately said, "Don't blame me, my husband. I didn't mean that. I was just a little curious. Why did all the dishes in Bai County become like this? Even the meat was like this. What's wrong with the crops?"
There was a hint of inquiry and politeness in Xu Miaomiao's tone.
Hearing Xu Miaomiao's tone, the man's face really looked much better. He then slowly looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "You are right. There is something wrong with this vegetable field."
When he said this, the man looked around warily, then he put his head in front of Xu Miaomiao and whispered in her ear: "This lady, you don't know that our vegetable garden has been cursed."
"curse?"
Gu Yuanniang, who was standing by, sneered when she heard this: "You must have read too many picture books and guessed it yourself."
"If this lady doesn't believe me, she can just keep telling me."
Hearing what Gu Yuanniang said, the man was obviously a little unhappy. He looked at Gu Yuanniang with some dissatisfaction and spoke.
Hearing this, Xu Miaomiao hurriedly tried to smooth things over. She looked at the man and said, "Don't blame me, my friend. I didn't mean anything. It's just that this is the first time I've heard of this curse, so I can't help but be a little skeptical. Tell me about it. I like to hear these things."
Gu Yuanniang pulled Xu Miaomiao's sleeve. She really didn't understand why Xu Miaomiao was here listening to such nonsense.
Xu Miaomiao winked at her, and Gu Yuanniang stopped talking.
Looking at Xu Miaomiao, he sighed and could only listen to the person next to him start talking.
The man leaned close to Xu Miaomiao's ear in a mysterious voice and said to her, "In the vegetable fields of our village, there have always been some inexplicable ghosts in the past few nights, and when these ghosts pass by, the vegetables are like this."
"Then why can't it be man-made? It must be a ghost."
Xu Miaomiao looked at the man with some confusion as he continued to speak and smell.
The man smiled and continued to talk to Xu Miaomiao, "There used to be a Weaver Girl in our village. With her around, the crops in our village grew very well. But then the Weaver Girl suddenly died, and the vegetables started to rot. Although not as good as before, there is still something to eat. But before that, the people in our village moved the Weaver Girl's grave, and then ghosts started to wander around the village."
"We thought someone had done it before, so we had a few young men wait at the door to catch those ghosts. One day, they followed them, but when they got closer, there was no one, only an empty set of clothes. Just think about it, a set of clothes floating on its own, isn't it expensive? It's a coincidence. The same thing happened to several farmers nearby. Gradually, Bai County had no good food to eat. Speaking of it, it was indeed our fault."
"Since you know it is the Weaver Girl, why do you insist on moving the grave?"
Xu Miaomiao still looked at the person in front of her with some confusion and asked.
The man lowered his head and sighed, "It's all the fault of that madman in our village. Everyone respects the Weaver Girl, but that madman doesn't care about anything. The one who took her in was a girl from our village. Her parents were gone and she was sick, but she took in a madman. How could she survive? She died."
(End of this chapter)
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