"Excuse me, is this the home of the embroiderer?"

Hearing the call, a woman with greasy hair, old and ugly face, and a red headscarf walked out of the room holding a baby in her arms.

"Who are you?" The woman saw the beautiful Lin Ruojin, then looked at the tall man in a long gown and a folding fan, wearing a mask, beside her, and subconsciously stepped back into the threshold.

"We are disciples of Qingyun Mountain. We have come here specifically to exorcise the demon. We want to ask you about the embroidered lady!"

The woman suddenly frowned upon hearing this, and pulled at a corner of the swaddling cloth with her dirty nails. She patted the baby in her arms and shook it, saying impatiently:

"Hasn't everything been said about that dead girl? She eloped with a poor boy from another village, and then died. She's been dead for a month, what else is there to ask?"

Lin Ruojin didn't expect that Xiu Niang's family would have such an attitude towards her death. She continued to ask: "But her death is problematic. You are her mother, right? Could it be..."

"I don't want to know!" The woman interrupted Lin Ruojin firmly. She spat and said with disgust: "I thought I could get some betrothal gifts after I recovered from the loss, but she ran away with another man. Her death is the retribution for our shame!"

Lin Ruojin felt a pang of bitterness in her heart. Her own flesh and blood died tragically in the wilderness, but what she received was such slander and insult.

Embroiderer, what a pitiful girl...

At this time, a yawning man came out of the inner room. It was almost noon, but he seemed to have just woken up. He walked out rubbing his eyes, but his eyes lit up the moment he saw Lin Ruojin.

"Oh, what a pretty girl, who are you looking for?"

"I……"

The woman glared at Lin Ruojin fiercely, as if she thought that Lin Ruojin's beautiful face and charming figure were deliberately meant to seduce her man. She said with a gloomy face and a sarcastic tone, "I'm not looking for anyone but you!"

The man kicked her angrily, not caring that she was still holding the child.

He turned around and pointed at the house in a flattering manner and said, "Let's go inside and talk."

inside the house.

Lin Ruojin stated her intention straight away, and the man's smiling face instantly fell. He scratched his greasy hair and sighed.

"Let me tell you this. My daughter wasn't killed by a monster. She was naked at the time, and her lower body was covered in blood. It was obvious that she was killed by a man! If she was killed by a monster, she would have been eaten clean by a monster. How could she be alive?"

Bai Wuxiang paused his hand that was tapping on the fan and looked at the farmer with some disgust. Lin Ruojin was okay.

My heart and eyes are filled with only disgust, nothing else.

The man continued: “Later, the village chief and his men wrapped the body in a piece of cloth and sent it back to our home. Since the death was not a pretty sight, they lied and said it was eaten by a wild beast.

Later, many married women with children were kidnapped in the village, never to be found alive or dead. It was also said that there was a lizard demon that ate women, so the embroiderer's incident was also blamed on it."

"Then is there anything left with her? For example, evidence that can prove the identity of the murderer? After all, it is your daughter. No matter what, we have to find the murderer!"

The man thought about it, then took out a piece of floral cloth from the cupboard and poured it on the table.

Click!

A red pendant fell on the table.

Lin Ruojin couldn't help but widen her eyes. She reached out and picked it up. It was exactly the same as the pendant that Zhenya gave her.

"Is this the embroiderer's pendant? There's only one?"

"How could it be hers? We don't have the money to buy her this kind of thing. There is only one." The man sat at the table, crossed his legs, scratched his ears and yawned as he continued: "At that time, the girl's body was bitten all over, and she was holding this thing tightly in her hand. I thought there was something good, but it turned out to be this. If I had known, I wouldn't have cut it off..."

As if realizing he had said too much, he stopped talking.

But Lin Ruojin had already guessed what he had done in order to open the clenched fist of the embroiderer.

Disgusting, so disgusting.

"Can you catch the real murderer? If you do, let us know."

"If you really catch him, will you avenge Xiu Niang?"

The man scratched his head and smiled, revealing his dark yellow teeth. He said with a smile: "It's been so long since the incident happened, and the person is dead. What's important is the present. My son needs money to support him!"

Lin Ruojin sighed deeply, pulled Bai Wuxiang and left this disgusting place without looking back.

On the way, Lin Ruojin took out the earrings that Zhenya had given him and compared them with the pendant he had just received.

It turned out to be a pair, and they both emitted a foul stench.

"Bai Wuxiang, do you smell anything?"

"Hmm, it smells like evil and resentment."

"Can you smell that stench, too?" Lin Ruojin excitedly held the pendant to her chest, but then pursed her lips solemnly, "Why would the other pendant be in his pigsty? Could it be that the Purple Bamboo Forest wasn't the first scene?"

"We should ask that Zhenya. He has a close relationship with the village chief, so maybe he knows a lot."

"Then I'll ask now!"

"You're not allowed to go!"

Lin Ruojin was startled by the sudden cold shout. She quickly took a step back and looked at the stunned Bai Wuxiang vigilantly.

"what happened?"

"I think you just looked a lot like Baili Shun..."

night,

Lin Ruojin was sitting on the roof, staring at the moon in the night sky in a daze. Bai Wuxiang jumped onto the roof with a tray of sliced ​​watermelons and leaned over to sit next to Lin Ruojin.

He was very close to her, almost shoulder to shoulder, and Lin Ruojin did not immediately avoid him as she did in the past. Seeing that she did not refuse, Bai Wuxiang unconsciously raised the corners of his lips.

"Eat some melon. It's an apology from the village chief."

"Have you found out?" Lin Ruojin took the watermelon handed to her by Bai Wuxiang with a smile and took a small bite. "What did Zhenya say?"

Bai Wuxiang explained what he had found out one by one.

After hearing this story, Lin Ruojin suddenly felt that the melon in her hand also had a fishy smell.

"Are Xiu Niang's parents siblings?"

"Yes. One of them was ugly and the other was weak, but they got together and gave birth to Xiu Niang, which was against ethics. During the process of raising her, she was molested by her father many times. Later, he wanted to sell her to a butcher who was nearly 40 years old for money. Xiu Niang couldn't stand it anymore and eloped with a boy from another village."

"The boy from another village, is he her lover?"

"That man, whose appearance and name were never seen or heard by anyone in the village, suddenly appeared in the village from the sky and snatched away the embroiderer on the day she married the village butcher..."

Bai Wuxiang looked at the woman in front of him whose red lips were slightly opened due to being too surprised, and gently wiped the watermelon juice off her cheek with his sleeve.

"I checked again. The villagers said that the man might be a human trafficker who used his handsome appearance to deceive ignorant girls so that he could sell them for money. I think the embroiderer was killed by this man. The pendant in the embroiderer's hand when she died had a strong evil aura, and it was the same as the aura of the lizard demon clone that appeared in the purple bamboo forest yesterday. This item must belong to the lizard demon..."

"So, I made a shallow guess, would Ruojin like to hear it?"

"Well, you tell me, I want to hear it!"

"The rumored lizard demon who likes women is actually most likely a female demon. It did come into contact with the embroidered girl. The lizard demon disguised itself as a man from another village and took her away. However, its purpose was not to eat her but to take her away from that disgusting marriage and family.

After the lizard demon sent the embroiderer to the purple bamboo forest and they parted ways, not long after, the embroiderer was brutally insulted and killed by villains. The biggest suspect was the butcher who had escaped from marriage.

When I came here, I informed Bi Ruyue and others, and they have already gone to find the butcher to investigate. "

Lin Ruojin blinked. She had obtained too much shocking information from Bai Wuxiang's inference.

"Is the lizard demon trying to avenge the embroiderer? Why did he kidnap the women in the village?"

Bai Wuxiang took off his fox mask, looked at the village with smoke rising from the chimneys, chuckled and said again: "Have you noticed? The differences between the women in the village?"

Lin Ruojin followed his instructions and recalled all the women he had met since coming to the village.

seemingly……

The pretty ones are very pretty. The not-so-pretty ones are too ugly.

If it chooses to eat beautiful women, then it is really a monster with good taste.

"Moreover, the girls who were abducted, including the village chief's daughter, are all related to the matchmaker who died in the pigsty. A monster's pendant actually appeared in the pigsty. That pigsty is likely the beginning of everything."

A terrible guess came to his mind. The watermelon in his hand tasted like wax. Lin Ruojin swallowed the last bite with all his might, put the rind on the tray, wiped his hands and asked with a smile: "You found so much in the short time you were out?"

"No, I asked other people for help. They helped me with everything and did everything for me."

"Did you give money?"

"They are both chivalrous and righteous." Bai Wuxiang reached out and picked up the wet handkerchief from the tray and gently wiped her hands. "When they heard that they could kill monsters and save people from danger, they were so excited that they came to help me without asking for any money."

Lin Ruojin looked at her clean fingers and suddenly said with emotion: "There are still many good people in the world!"

At this moment, the two men who were walking beside the grave carrying shovels suddenly sneezed.

"I'm afraid I'll catch a cold after digging here for so long. Should we bury it back?"

"Bury it! We can't let anyone find out that this grave is empty."

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