In the afternoon, some players were forced to go out to work with the Tao family, and the earth building seemed particularly empty.

Lian Wu originally planned to go to another room to continue looking for clues, but was taken away by a fellow member of the Tao family, who said that they were preparing for a wedding.

In the weaving room on the third floor, many male members of the Tao family were already embroidering and weaving.

A man in his 40s stuffed a box of needles and thread and a piece of red cloth with patterns on it into Lian Wu's hands.

"This veil must be embroidered within two days. Remember, only men and the bride can touch it; other women are not allowed to touch it. The pattern on the veil must be embroidered with gold thread, and the tassels around it must be sewn securely. If you make any mistakes, Grandma will not forgive you."

[Side Quest: Embroidering a Veil]

【Countdown: 48:00】

Fortunately, this task was not required to be carried out in the weaving room. Lian Wu folded the red cloth and stuffed it into the cloth bag, and put the needle and thread into the interlayer.

"But where do we get this golden thread?"

When Lian Wu got the sewing box, she opened it and saw that there was no gold thread inside. It was just ordinary thin cotton thread, but it was dyed golden yellow.

"Go find your sixth aunt. She manages the Tao family's money."

"Ok."

Lian Wu returned to the room with a bulging cloth bag, feeling quite helpless about having picked up a side quest for nothing.

Most players are not good at embroidering patterns. Most of those who can have learned it before entering the Amazing Memory. After entering the Amazing Memory, almost no player will learn this skill that has no lethality.

Unfortunately, Lian Wu had mastered many small skills during the hundreds of years he had lived. Although he could not be said to be proficient in needlework, he was good enough at embroidering patterns.

As for Sixth Aunt, Lianwu remembered that Zhou Yixi mentioned that a bug was placed on her, so Zhou Yixi should know where Sixth Aunt was.

On the other side, Feng Ling finally found all the bells from everywhere.

Feng Ling took a bell from the potted plant. The silver bell, half the size of a palm, was painted with exquisite patterns and the word "Tao" was engraved inside.

Feng Ling kept this bell secretly. He wanted to see how the bell would ring alone when the grandmother woke up.

The bells on the first floor are even smaller, only the size of a finger joint. Each bell is hidden in a red lantern and covered by red and gold tassels.

The golden little bells are hard to notice among the others.

But Feng Ling's eyes are different from those of ordinary people. Under the sunlight, one can even see a deep golden color in his eyes.

The phoenix is reborn from the ashes, and its eyes are the sharpest.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Feng Ling reached out and took away a golden bell.

In addition to the fist-sized copper bell on the eaves of the third floor, he took away one or two bells from the first and second floors.

The material of the bells seems to reveal the identity of the owner of the room on each floor.

The third floor is where the younger generation lives, and they use copper bells without any patterns. The second floor is where people of slightly higher generation live, and they use silver bells with patterns.

Then the only one who can live on the first floor is my great-grandmother.

But originally, grandma slept on the second floor during her nap. Could it be that she slept on the first floor at night?

Or is there someone with a higher status than Grandma?

Feng Ling kept the doubt in mind and continued looking for anything unusual in the building.

Xie Ning relied on his seniority and stayed in the kitchen to watch them clean up.

The Tao family is large, so they need to prepare a lot of food for each meal. As a result, the younger generation in the kitchen have to start preparing ingredients for the next meal as soon as they finish preparing one meal and clean up the dishes.

Baskets of fresh ingredients were neatly arranged in the corner. Xie Ning almost fell asleep watching them wash dishes and vegetables.

He picked up a corn from the side, peeled it, and started to take a bite.

Xie Ning smiled with satisfaction. The fresh corn was indeed sweet.

This action scared the other juniors. One of them hurriedly counted the amount of corn to make sure it would not affect dinner before he breathed a sigh of relief.

The younger generation closest to Xie Ning stepped forward to give earnest advice.

"Uncle, if you're hungry, there are still steamed buns in the pot. These ingredients are all limited. If the dishes are missing, the whole kitchen will be punished. Please be kind and go somewhere else to play."

What Xie Ning wanted was for the other party to show weakness. He swallowed the corn kernels in his mouth and said, "Answer me a few questions, and I'll go play somewhere else."

"Uncle, please ask."

This young man couldn't wait for Xie Ning to leave the kitchen.

"Do you know where Sister Tao Nian is? I haven't been back here for a long time. When I came back again, Sister Tao Nian was actually getting married."

"Uncle, only my grandmother knows about this. Usually when someone gets married in the earth building, everyone else doesn't get to see the bride."

"If you can't see the bride, how come you can't even see the groom this time?"

The younger generation was frightened by this question and hurriedly lowered their voices: "Shh, uncle, this cannot be said in public. If you really want to know, come to the back of the stage after dinner and I will tell you quietly. But you have to keep it a secret for me. If the elders knew I told them, they would break my legs."

"Okay, if you don't come, I'll come to this kitchen every day."

Xie Ning achieved his goal, but he didn't forget to make a threat before leaving.

[Hahahahahaha, you're sweating profusely, bro~]

[Hmm? When did an S-rank player appear?]

[The person above clearly hasn't read the forums. Xie Ning was an S-rank player two years ago, then got stuck in a dungeon and was only brought out by Hua Meng a while ago.]

"Yeah, everyone in the livestream room, I'm an old player who's returned. I'm broke and have to rely on others to get items. Sigh~ My life is miserable~"

Xie Ning had nothing to do so he started to amuse the audience in the live broadcast room. Anyway they didn't know that the huge bounty had gone into his hands. It would be unjust not to take advantage of the situation!

Other players like to turn off the reward notification sound to avoid being distracted in the dungeon, but Xie Ning is different. He likes to hear it.

Listening to the constant sound of rewards, Xie Ning could hardly suppress the smile on his face.

Hua Meng, who was assigned by the Tao family to sweep the floor not far away, saw Xie Ning's happy expression at a glance. She knew without a doubt that he had made a profit.

Xie Ning naturally saw Hua Meng as well and walked straight towards him.

After getting closer, Hua Meng quickly kissed Xie Ning on the corner of his mouth.

"Well, you're good. It's fine if you're bullying your teacher and ancestors, but now you're even targeting your own uncle."

Hua Meng cooperated perfectly with Xie Ning's role-playing and jokingly asked, "Then why didn't my uncle hide?"

"After two years of not seeing you, you've really become more and more shameless."

Xie Ning knew when to stop and then told him about the young people in the kitchen.

"I have a clue here. There are bloodstains on the edges of many of the stone bricks on the floor of the earthen building, especially on the bricks above the drainage ditch. Someone died here, and probably more than one."

This wasn't Hua Meng exaggerating, but the bloodstains were scattered across too many locations. Normally, who would circle a tulou after killing someone? And yet, almost the entire edge of the drainage ditch around the center of this tulou was covered in bloodstains.

The location was so regular that Hua Meng even suspected that a sacrificial ceremony had been held here.

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