While Song Liyun was grabbing and pulling at its scalp, Black Gold was unusually docile, even squeaking and tugging at the iron chain around its neck, wanting Song Liyun to untie it.
Song Liyun would never so easily believe that a ferocious monkey that could store food and had killed two people could be so easily subdued.
She chuckled and said, "No rush. I'll come see you again tomorrow. If you satisfy me, I'll release you."
Seeing that his trick had been exposed, Hei Jin instantly turned hostile and opened his mouth to bite Song Liyun...
"Snap!" Song Liyun kicked it, and the fierce monkey rolled into the corner of the room, its iron chain taut.
Song Liyun pounced on him and unleashed another flurry of blows.
After all this commotion, the moonlight had already begun to wane, and more than an hour had passed since Song Liyun sneaked out of her residence. She couldn't afford to delay any longer.
She took out water, peanuts, and corn and placed them next to Black Gold, whose nose was crooked, mouth was drooping, body was covered in blood, and he was on the verge of death.
These are all nutritious foods that monkeys love but can't find in the mountains.
The iron chain around its neck, the wounds on its body, and the delicious food in front of it will make the intelligent beast Black Gold figure out what it should do.
Whether to choose to have a full meal or to have a full meal every day, we'll have the answer by tomorrow night.
On her way back, Song Liyun was extra careful.
This is near a military camp. If we are discovered here, it's a small matter if we are seen as a monster; we might be beheaded as spies.
Walking in the shadows all the way was surprisingly smooth.
After pushing open the half-closed wooden door and quietly lying back in bed in the dark without disturbing anyone, Song Liyun breathed a sigh of relief. At least no one had noticed.
On the watchtower outside the military camp, Zhao Tingduo, wearing half a green leather mask, squinted at the dark figures that appeared and disappeared in the distance.
Beside him, a guard, his face pale, glanced at the "thing" that had already disappeared into the distance and whispered, "Third Young Master, this place is not clean. You should go and rest!"
Zhao Tingduo didn't move. The cool night wind blew, and sweat beaded on the soldier's forehead.
Just then, Commander Luo rushed over and said to Zhao Tingduo, "Third Young Master, the troops are ready and waiting for you to set off."
"Okay!" Zhao Tingduo looked at the grove of trees in the distance again. The moonlight was hazy, and only the branches were swaying. Nothing else could be seen.
He frowned slightly, turned around, and stepped down from the platform.
Broken Gold Town was rumored to be a "ghost town," and there were many rumors in the military camp. Unexpectedly, when I climbed up to a high place, I actually saw that strange thing.
If he didn't have to get back to Xiashi Pass before dawn, he would have definitely chased after them to find out the truth and catch these charlatans.
Nothing happened in the middle of the night, but unexpectedly, just before dawn, the laborers and the military camp started making a commotion.
Torches illuminated the surroundings, and amidst calls of varying pitches, a woman's wailing rang out: "Yan'er, Yan'er, where are you?"
It turned out that just before dawn, when Aunt Cui called everyone to get up and make breakfast, she discovered that her daughter, Xu Yan'er, was missing.
Not only was the bed messy, but her little jacket was also left in the bed, indicating that she had gone out without wearing any clothes.
Granny Cui initially thought her daughter had gone to the outhouse, but the bed was cold and there was no one in the outhouse. Granny Cui panicked and woke up the others who were still sleeping in the room to search together.
Song Liyun was also dragged out of bed; she had only slept for a little over two hours and couldn't even open her eyes.
When he heard that Xu Yan'er had not returned home all night, he was so shocked that he couldn't even fall asleep.
When she came back last night, the door was ajar. She thought she had forgotten to close it properly when she left. It seems that Xu Yan'er has been gone since she left.
Song Liyun felt uneasy. She knew that Xu Yan'er had followed her out, but she didn't know that an accident had happened.
In any case, we need to find the person first.
So a large group of people began searching the bushes and ditches near their lodgings, but found no clues, so they searched further afield.
The commotion caused by the migrant workers naturally attracted the attention of the military camp, which also sent people to search for them.
There is strength in numbers.
As dawn broke, they finally found Xu Yan'er in a dry ditch, a little over a kilometer from the migrant workers' dormitory, where she was sheltered from the wind.
She was huddled in a haystack, wearing only a thin shirt, her lips were blue from the cold, and she was barely breathing.
The person was brought back by Xue Xiaoqi.
Upon hearing that a girl had gone missing among the laborers, Xue Xiaoqi, who was planning a wonderful life, became extremely anxious, fearing that something had happened to the person she had just taken a liking to. Without even asking any questions, she led her men to search outside.
The result was a charming and pitiful Miss Xu...
She must have been freezing, because as soon as Xu Yan'er got close to someone and felt a bit of warmth, she clung to Xue Xiaoqi and wouldn't let go.
Xue Xiaoqi, who was full of youthful vigor, had never experienced such a scene before. He was immediately moved and felt a pang of heartache when he saw the pitiful look on the person in his arms.
In front of everyone, he took off his own clothes and draped them over Xu Yan'er, then carried her all the way back.
The laborers were in an uproar, and even Luo, the military commander, pounded his fist on the table in the barracks.
"Investigate this thoroughly. Find out who has a disobedient penis and get a castrator to cut it off."
He felt a pang of anxiety as soon as he heard that a girl had gone missing among the migrant workers, convinced that some scoundrel had been unable to contain himself and was flirting with her.
In recent years, the Yunzhou government has been causing trouble for the Zhenbei Army in every way, and their robbery of laborers is already provoking trouble.
If the migrant workers are returned to their homes without any problems, the matter will be resolved peacefully, and any further fuss from the government will only amount to empty words.
If chaos were to break out and people were ruined... Luo Baihu dared not even think about it.
Besides, the Third Young Master just reminded me last night...
Luo Baihu was covered in a fine sheen of sweat. He not only ordered an investigation but also sent a military doctor to check on the laborers' shed.
Hearing that the girl had only been cold all night and was otherwise unharmed, Luo Baihu was relieved, but then cursed under his breath: "Women are so troublesome, even taking the wrong route to pee in the middle of the night."
Song Liyun's worries lasted until the doctor said Xu Yan'er was unharmed. After expressing sympathy for her getting lost even when going to the outhouse, she went back to her own business.
She had already uncovered the truth about the "haunted house" that night, and now she couldn't wait to have her own private space.
Haunted house?
It's a haunted house?
When Song Liyun expressed her desire to visit a "haunted house," Xue Xiaoqi, who was in charge of selecting a house for the Song family, and Song Zhenping both objected.
Xue Xiaoqi was in charge of managing miscellaneous affairs for the laborers, and settling the military households was also one of his tasks.
But Xu Yan'er had just been found, and he had held that soft, cuddly body in his arms that morning. So he was somewhat indifferent to the disobedient Song Liyun, let alone going to see such an unreliable thing as a "haunted house".
If you were still six parts enthusiastic after choosing the land yesterday, now you're down to three parts.
Xue Xiaoqi only wanted to finish his work here and then go visit that poor girl.
He ignored Song Liyun and said to Song Zhenping in a serious tone, "You should choose a house in town. Daping, these kinds of things should be decided by the men in the family. Women are all talk and no action, what do they know?"
Song Zhenping thought of the rumors about evil spirits harming people, and when he saw the girl who was bewitched and almost lost her life that morning, he felt very scared: The house that Yun'er wanted to see was naturally the best in town, but he heard that it had been burned down and was a haunted house. What if the rumors were true and there were evil spirits inside?
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