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Dinner was roast chicken and a few side dishes, which Luo Yao cooked himself. Luo Xinchen and Bei Zhenting, who hadn't tasted Luo Yao's cooking for a long time, had a big meal.

After dinner, Bei Zhenting dealt with the case.

According to Bei Zhenting's statement, the Southern Xinjiang Xindian asked for a very high price for the information they wanted. They bought information about the assassination of the Duke.

Following the information given by Xindian, he traced all the way back to Zhejiang Province and gathered the clues to Qinlin County, so that he could arrive in time when Luo Yao was in danger.

Luo Yao was not enthusiastic about the case, so after dinner he took his brother for a walk to help digest the food.

After dark, they ordered people to prepare hot water for bathing. The conditions were average, but fortunately the villagers had come down the mountain in the past few days to bring them some necessary supplies.

The big and the small took a quick bath and went to bed. After playing all day, they were both tired and fell asleep quickly.

Bei Zhenting finished his work and prepared to go to bed. He felt unhappy when he saw Luo Xinchen hugging Luo Yao tightly.

He climbed onto the bed quietly and pulled Luo Yao into his arms. Luo Yao, who was in his sleep, slapped him like slapping a mosquito. Bei Zhenting finally calmed down and lay flat on the bed to think about things.

In recent days, clues of the case have begun to converge on Qinlin County. Bei Zhenting has a strong premonition. This is also the reason why he kept the matter of the ghost village secret during the days when Luo Yao was unconscious. He vaguely feels that there is something hidden behind the haunting of the ghost village seven years ago.

It's strange that it's haunted, and it's also strange that there are no young men.

The day after the fire in Ghost Village, he carefully explored the Ghost Village under the guidance of the villagers, but found nothing.

We went to Xiaogui Village to inquire about the whereabouts of the young and middle-aged men. The village chief said that all the young and middle-aged men in the village had joined the army five years ago.

Bei Zhenting secretly sent people to investigate the whereabouts of these people and discovered that several of the garrison troops in Qinlin County had indeed registered and found people who matched their names. Although this seemed strange, the undercurrents in Qinlin County made it impossible for the civilians to identify the people in the army. It was difficult to determine the truth for a while, and the ghost village was ultimately unsuccessful.

According to villagers' recollections, when the haunting began, they were praying in the ancestral hall. A bonfire was lit in the large courtyard at the entrance of the hall, and halfway through, the moon split into two, and ghostly figures appeared in the sky.

A ghost in the sky? Bei Zhenting somehow thought of the kite Luo Yao had made.

The kite Luo Yao made was very strange. It was a weird-looking thing called an "octopus." When it flew, its tail danced all over its body, which was quite weird...

Could what the villagers saw be vaguely similar to a kite?

Two very round moons...

Bei Zhenting had a very poor imagination and really had no idea what the scene of two moons in the night sky meant. He thought it was an illusion created by the frightened villagers.

Unable to think of anything useful, Bei Zhenting closed his eyes and went to sleep.

The next day, before dawn, Bei Zhenting was awakened by the guards.

"Your Highness, there is an emergency in Little Ghost Village. This is a letter from Divine Doctor Ye."

Hearing that the letter was from Ye Qing, who was seeing a doctor in Xiaogui Village, Bei Zhenting hurriedly took it and read it.

It's not a definite thing. The old man who followed Ye Qing from Qingye Valley made a lot of noise in the middle of the night... pointing at the sky and screaming. Ye Qing hoped that Bei Zhenting could go to the Little Ghost Village to take a look.

Luo Yao was woken up and saw Bei Zhenting talking to the guards in a daze. He rubbed his eyes and called him.

Bei Zhenting drove the guards out, walked over and sat next to Luo Yao, patted his head, and said, "It's okay... Go back to sleep."

Luo Yao fell asleep in a daze. Bei Zhenting watched him for a while by the bed, then got up, dressed and left the tent. After giving a few instructions to the guards, Bei Zhenting rode out of the tent on horseback.

Xiaogui Village is far away and the road is difficult to travel, so he has to come back before Luoyao noon.

There was heavy fog and dew in the mountains in the early morning. After riding for a while, Bei Zhenting found it impossible to ride anymore, so he tied the horse to a tree trunk in the forest and walked up the mountain.

There was a shortcut taken by the villagers. After riding his horse for a while and practicing light kung fu for a while, Bei Zhenting arrived at Xiaogui Village at noon.

Following the guidance of the villagers, Bei Zhenting came to the thatched hut where Ye Qing was temporarily staying. Ye Qing looked anxious. When he saw Bei Zhenting coming, he quickly pulled him into the thatched hut.

There was a little old man lying on the bed, seemingly asleep. Bei Zhenting looked at Ye Qing in confusion.

Ye Qing: "Your Highness, this is the use of Sheli. The old man is too emotional."

"what happened?"

"Last night, the old man didn't come home late again. In the middle of the night, he suddenly came running back from outside, waking me up, pointing at the sky and shouting..."

"What did you shout?"

"I can't hear it clearly. It seems like he's talking about the moon." Ye Qing said uncertainly.

Moon...moon...two moons...

Is there a connection between them?

"Did you say anything else?"

Ye Qing: "He dragged me to see it, but I didn't see anything unusual when I went there..."

"Wake him up and ask him which direction the moon rises from." Bei Zhenting pointed at the old man sleeping on the bed.

Ye Qing nodded and sniffed something at the tip of the old man's nose. The old man suddenly sat up and gasped as if he was holding his breath.

As soon as he saw Ye Qing, he started chattering and screaming, jumped out of bed and dragged Ye Qing away.

Bei Zhenting followed him, and the three of them came to the edge of a forest behind the village. The old man pointed to the sky and babbled.

Bei Zhenting looked at the old man and found that he kept repeating a tune and gesturing with his hands. Ye Qing couldn't understand it, but Bei Zhenting understood some of what the old man meant.

"Old man, are you saying there's a round moon flying over there?"

The old man looked at Bei Zhenting with bright eyes. He tugged at Ye Qing's clothes, smelled his scent, and gestured again.

Ye Qing...many, many round moons?

What do you mean... Bei Zhenting frowned.

The old man was babbling and gesticulating randomly. Combining his reaction in Qingzhen, Bei Zhenting came to some conclusions:

It's very likely that the old man saw something during the massacre at Qingye Valley, and that thing appeared again...

A round thing that looks like the moon... What else could look like that? Can anything fly that high?

Bei Zhenting looked at the sky with no clue, so he sent a large number of secret guards to investigate the mountain in the direction pointed by the old man, and sent people to follow the old man. Only then did Bei Zhenting go down the mountain and return to the ghost village.

It was past noon when they returned to the ghost village. Luo Yao and Luo Xinchen had already eaten lunch. Learning that Luo Yao and Luo Xinchen had gone kite-flying, Bei Zhenting followed them. From a distance, he saw a large and a small pair sitting low, talking, so he walked over.

The two, one big and one small, tilted their heads to look at him, mouthing the same words: "My Lord, you're back!"

Bei Zhenting nodded, scratched Luo Xinchen's hair, and sat down next to Luo Yao.

"Yaoyao, do you know what can fly as high as the moon?"

Rocket? Satellite? Luo Yao didn't know how to answer this somewhat childish question.

Bei Zhenting guessed that Luo Yao might know what two moons were. He had noticed that Luo Yao was different from others very early on. Ever since he returned home and found out that Luo Yao could cook, he realized that Luo Yao was special.

Although everything seemed very strange, Bei Zhenting didn't want to ask Luo Yao what was going on, including who the man Luo Yao had called was. Bei Zhenting didn't want to ask Luo Yao.