When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

It is impossible to accurately know the passage of time underground, so now I come to the ground and look at the position of the sun, and estimate that it should be the afternoon.

In other words, at least two hours had passed since they went down into the well.

Chang Feizhang limped around Cheng Su, looking terrified.

After hearing about the situation underground, the people and soldiers who stayed in the village could not hide their fear, and most of the blood color disappeared from their faces.

Afterwards, Cheng Su only kept Hong Mingxu by his side. The two of them stood in the fire room where the skull was placed, and the others were scattered in the courtyard some distance away.

Cheng Su gave Hong Mingxu some instructions in the room. Hong Mingxu nodded and walked in front of everyone and said loudly: "Everyone, rest here and set off in half an hour."

After finishing speaking, Hong Mingxu went to a few soldiers, instructed them something, and then returned to the fire room.

After Hong Mingxu finished giving the instructions, the soldiers in the barracks immediately distributed the food that they had prepared in advance to everyone.

Each person was given two pancakes.

Lin Lezhi hadn't eaten a single bite of food since he got up in the morning and had been climbing up and down. He was already starving. He stacked two pancakes together and ate a quarter of them in one bite. His cheeks bulged.

Then a satisfied expression appeared on his face.

After all, it’s best to eat dry rice.

After distributing the food, two soldiers swallowed the dry food in their hands and immediately took something down the well.

However, they moved too quickly and their backs were turned when they took the things, so Lin Lezhi did not see clearly what they were.

The stomach had been hungry for too long, and the food was eaten faster than the brain. Soon, Lin Lezhi finished the bread in his hand.

like……

Not full.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s better than going hungry.

But... not everyone can face it with a normal attitude. They have bread in their hands that can fill their stomachs but have no appetite.

The people who had followed him down the well before had their hands holding the bread trembling slightly, with an expression as if a disaster was about to happen and fear in their eyes.

There are people who are filled with fear, people who pretend to be calm, and of course people who are completely out of the situation.

Lin Lezhi looked at Qiao Ying, whose face was full of joy. Qiao Ying, a person without any sense of sense, would not feel afraid. He was happily eating bread and running around in the yard. Any small thing that seemed insignificant to others could arouse his curiosity.

It could be a bug he had never seen before, or it could be a strangely shaped stone, but it would make him very happy, with a gleam in his eyes, and he would exclaim in amazement and laugh happily from time to time.

Suddenly, a curse was heard, and a commoner stood up suddenly. He shouted at Qiao Ying with fear and anger: "Can you shut up and be quiet? If you want to make a noise, get out!"

However, Qiao Ying did not think that the curse was directed at herself and was still immersed in her own world.

Such behavior will undoubtedly intensify the anger of the person who is angry.

Qiao Ying happened to be next to the man. Anger overwhelmed his reason. The man cursed and threw away the pancake in his hand. He grabbed Qiao Ying by the collar and shouted, "I told you to stop arguing. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

Qiao Ying met the eyes of the person in front of her, blinked a few times, then smiled, held up the new thing she had found and handed it over.

It's a smooth stone.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll give it to you, it's fun."

Qiao Ying said this with an innocent yet serious look on her face.

"It's fun!" The man gritted his teeth and almost squeezed out the sound. He waved away the stone in Qiao Ying's hand, then tightened his hand holding Qiao Ying's collar and said, "I'll let you have fun!"

As he said that, the man was about to punch Qiao Ying.

Seeing this, Jiang Lian'an frowned and immediately stepped forward, but because he did not expect it to turn out like this, and he was at a certain distance away, he could not stop it in time, and the people around him were also silent.

Just when the fist was about to hit Qiao Ying's face, Zhou Yuanliang, who was closest and had difficulty walking, blocked the fist and protected Qiao Ying behind him.

"Why are you so hard on a person who doesn't understand the five senses? It's not his fault."

Zhou Yuanliang spoke for Qiao Ying.

After hearing what Zhou Yuanliang said, the man looked very embarrassed and said angrily: "If it's not his fault, is it my fault? You didn't go down the well with him, so of course you don't know the situation down there. It's because of that old man Wu who stole our money and harmed people that all of us are going to die here."

"I've heard about the situation underground, and I know the situation isn't optimistic, but getting angry at him won't solve anything."

"You are saying this now. Have you forgotten how your father died tragically? This was all caused by Old Man Wu. You can't even tell the difference between good and evil and stand up to protect this idiot!"

Zhou Yuanliang's eyes suddenly tightened and he was speechless.

"Old Man Wu...Grandpa..."

Hearing them talking about Old Man Wu, Qiao Ying suddenly remembered something and whispered, "Grandpa...hungry..."

After saying that, Qiao Ying trotted to an inconspicuous corner of the courtyard.

Old Man Wu's body was lying there, covered with a white cloth and covered with blood.

Qiao Ying squatted down beside Wu Sanshan obediently, lifted the blood-stained white cloth covering Wu Sanshan, handed the unfinished cake in her hand to Wu Sanshan's mouth and whispered: "Grandpa, don't sleep, eat..."

Seeing that Wu Sanshan didn't respond, Qiao Ying covered her stomach and added, "Grandpa said, I'm hungry and uncomfortable."

Qiao Ying spoke in scattered pieces, but it was not difficult to piece them together.

Maybe Wu Sanshan had told him that if he didn’t eat well and was hungry, his stomach would feel uncomfortable.

In Qiao Ying's eyes, Wu Sanshan was just asleep, but in the eyes of others, it was horrifying to see a person talking to a bloody and smelly corpse.

"You can see that he is not normal at all. I really don't understand why you would sympathize with a fool who knows nothing."

"I also think what he said is right. Why should we sympathize with such a person? Even if he is a fool, he is born unlucky. Such a scourge will bring disaster to others whether alive or dead. What's wrong with saying a few words to him?" A person sitting on the ground next to him echoed with an angry look on his face, and then asked in confusion: "If I remember correctly, didn't you hate Old Man Wu the most when you were a child?"

Hearing this, Zhou Yuanliang's eyes, which had gradually calmed down, narrowed again, as if he had thought of something scary, and his hands at his sides clenched into fists.

Because he clenched his hands too tightly, his joints turned white and his hands were shaking slightly.