I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

In the evening, the banquet was properly arranged.

Because Mrs. Lu still needs to breastfeed, there are many dietary taboos, and she is not allowed to drink alcohol, so she didn't plan to attend the banquet, so the owner asked her to start a stove alone, and made a meal for her in the room.

At the beginning of the evening banquet, the owner instructs Lu Mian to pay respects at the table with tea instead of wine, thanking all the elders for their hard work in coming to Luming Villa for the full moon banquet.

During the banquet, there was a great deal of excitement. While eating and drinking, the old people chatted freely about their parents' family affairs, from trivial matters of children and grandchildren to life encounters, and talked about everything.

Lu Mian was listening, and found it very interesting, but she was still thinking about her younger siblings, thinking: These old people have gathered here for a day, if the so-called "Fushou" is really beneficial to the younger siblings, I don't know what they are doing at this time. Has it improved.

Therefore, he quietly left the table and ran back to the room to visit his younger siblings.

When they got to the room, they saw their mother was eating, so Lu Mian sat beside her and ate some with her. While eating, the mother and son suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something strange outside.

The court was originally full of people, noisy and noisy, but suddenly there was no sound, as if everyone was silent at the same time.

Mrs. Lu felt that something was wrong, so she asked Lu Mian to stay in the room, and went out to check in the courtyard by herself.

A moment later, Mrs. Lu hurried back, turned around and quickly put the latch on the door, grabbed Lu Mian and stuffed it under the bed.

Lu Mian asked in astonishment, "Mother, what are you doing! What's going on outside!?"

Mrs. Lu covered his mouth, pushed him under the bed, knelt on the edge of the bed, held his face and said in a very serious voice, "Listen, Ah Mian, no matter what you hear or see later, Don't come out, don't make any noise, remember?"

Lu Mian was at a loss and said, "Mother..."

Mrs. Lu said anxiously: "Have you remembered?"

Lu Mian could only nod her head, but her heart was at a loss.

At this moment, there were rustling footsteps outside the door, Mrs. Lu pushed Lu Mian deep under the bed, covered it with a sheet, and stood up.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a dull knock on the door.

Mrs. Lu took a deep breath, pretending to be calm and said: "Who is it?"

An old female voice outside said slowly: "Madam, it's me, I'll see if the child is getting better."

Mrs. Lu raised her voice and replied, "Oh, it's Grandma An."

Granny An was the so-called blind woman who advised the owner to hold a full moon banquet before. She said she was blind, but she was not blind, but had serious eye diseases, with dirty eyes and blurred vision.

Ever since she came up with the idea that time, she has been temporarily living in the villa, saying that she wants to pray for the child every day, and she comes to this room to see the child from time to time.

Mrs. Lu went to the door and pulled the latch. As soon as the door was opened, she heard the sound of a sharp sword being unsheathed. Mrs. Lu called out, "What are you doing!?"

"Don't move, the sword has no eyes."

A man said in a deep voice, his voice sounded very vicissitudes, he seemed to be an old man who was about the same age as Granny An.

Lu Mian lay under the bed and nearly screamed, and quickly covered her mouth tightly.

From under the bed, he saw his mother's feet unsteadily taking a few steps back, as if a sharp sword was on the side of her neck threatening her to back down.

Then, several people walked in from the door, one of the feet should be Granny An, and the feet of the rest were covered by black clothes, and it seemed that they were all wearing large black robes that reached to the ground.

Two of them walked towards the cradle, stopped and paused for a long time, then turned around and walked quickly outside the house.

Mrs. Lu said angrily: "Why are you holding my child!? Who are you?"

No one answered.

After a while, the person who seemed to be the leader who spoke earlier asked, "Where's the older kid?"

Mrs. Lu asked as if she had just woken up: "Yes, where is Amian? Did you arrest him too!? He is just a child! What are you trying to do!?"

The leader turned around and said sharply, "I'm asking you!"

Granny An's legs trembled, and she said in a trembling voice: "I... I don't know where he went, and you all know that my eyesight is not good, and when it gets dark, I can't see clearly... Oh, Just now, I, I seem to have heard the owner of the estate ordering someone to go down the mountain to buy wine, probably... probably he went with him."

The leader was surprised: "Someone is going down the mountain!? Why didn't you say it earlier!?"

He seemed a little sullen, and said to the person next to him: "Go out and tell them to move faster, don't dawdle!"

"Yes." The man responded and walked out the door.

The leader turned to another person and said, "Go down the mountain to the car first. If someone goes up the mountain, try to hold them back and report immediately."

"Yes." This person also took the order and left.

After giving these instructions, the leader seemed relieved, and said arrogantly: "Mrs. Lu, time is running out, so I won't greet you. I was ordered to bring you back today. As for whether to bring a living person or a corpse, Madam can choose by herself." .”

Mrs. Lu said: "Who sent you here? Where are you taking us?"

The leader sneered and said, "If Mrs. Lu is still so noisy, she won't even have a choice."

Mrs. Lu was silent for a moment, and said, "What do you want me to do?"

The leader said: "It's very simple, shut up and follow us honestly."

Mrs. Lu took a deep breath and discussed: "Then can you return the child to me first?"

The leader snorted softly, and said in a strange tone: "I will pay you back when I get to the place, but if you make any mistakes on the way, you can't blame me."

Mrs. Lu felt powerless when she saw him threatening the child, she was silent for a while, and finally resigned: "Okay, I'll go with you."

The leader didn't say any more, they held Mrs. Lu in the middle, and walked out of the house together.

Lu Mian lay under the bed, her hands and feet were already numb, but she kept her mother's words in mind, bit her lips tightly and did not dare to move at all, until the footsteps became farther and farther away, and all the sounds outside gradually disappeared. After an unknown period of time, Zhuang Zhong was completely silent, so he slowly and carefully crawled out from under the bed, went to the cradle and saw that his younger siblings were no longer there.

He wanted to hurry down the mountain to ask for help, but just as he reached the door, he heard footsteps coming from outside again, and hurriedly hid under the bed again, not daring to vent his breath.

This time, he couldn't judge whether those people had left, so he could only hide under the bed for a day and a night, until Ji Qinglin and Xie Wuyi appeared, he was really exhausted and made a noise, so he was caught by the two. After discovering it, I took it down the mountain.

After hearing this, Ji Qinglin couldn't help admiring Mrs. Lu.

When she went out to investigate, she must have seen the accident in the courtyard in the dark. Under such circumstances, she could still think of going back to the room to hide Ah Mian, and then pretending to be nonchalant to respond to the people outside the door.

It was precisely because of her appearance that she knew nothing about the changes in the courtyard that those people did not expect that she would have responded in advance, otherwise they would have searched the house, and in that case, Amian would not be able to keep her.

Ji Qinglin thought about it again, and suddenly felt that Granny An's response to the leader seemed a little strange.

Since she didn't see Ah Mian, she could just answer that she didn't know, but she deliberately mentioned that the owner sent people down the mountain to buy wine, which sounded like she was changing the subject to help Ah Mian cover up.

When Brother Zhong talked about this blind lady before, Ji Qinglin felt that her so-called suggestion of "gathering a lot of blessings" was ridiculous, as if she had just found a mysterious excuse to persuade Zhuang to host the full moon banquet.

Now after listening to Ah Mian's narration, she really appeared with those people, but her various behaviors seemed to be intimidated and coerced, so she had to do it.

From this point of view, the entire full moon banquet might be a game set up by those black-robed men, and this so-called blind woman was probably a pawn they used to mislead the owner of the village to hold a banquet.

It's just that Ji Qinglin is a little confused, what is the purpose of this game?

If it was only aimed at Luming Villa, why did he go to such lengths to let the owner host a banquet and gather so many old people?Could it be that their target is actually those old people?

Ji Qinglin was still confused, but he heard Xie Wuyi who had been silent beside him ask, "Amian, that Granny An, do you know her origin?"

As soon as Ji Qinglin heard this, he knew that he had also discovered the connection. Without other clues, it was indeed the best choice to start with Granny An.

Ah Mian pursed her lips and thought about it seriously, and said: "I don't have much contact with Granny An, only one time, she was sitting alone at the stone table in the backyard, lost in thought, and I saw that she seemed to have something on her mind, so I sat down and chatted with her After a few words, I realized that she was thinking about her grandson. She said that she had been away from home for a few days, and the grandson was entrusted to the neighbors to take care of her. She didn't know if she had enough food and clothing. At that time, she seemed to have mentioned a place called... Fisherman's House Bay."

"Yujia Bay..." Ji Qinglin muttered silently, and exchanged a glance with Xie Wuyi.

It seems that this Yujia Bay is the hometown of Granny An. Since she still has a grandson there, she must not leave it alone. Go and check there, maybe you can find some clues.

Seeing the exchange of glances between the two, Amian asked, "Brother, is Granny An also a bad person? Why did they arrest parents, younger siblings?"

Ji Qinglin came back to his senses, supported his shoulders and smiled slightly at him: "Okay, now you can eat at ease, and when you are full and have strength, let's go find your parents, younger siblings, okay?"

Ah Mian pursed her lips, nodded obediently, turned around and picked up the chopsticks, but suddenly seemed to think of something, put down the chopsticks and groped around her waist and said, "By the way, brother, when I first came out of the bed, I was in the cradle. found this."

After a while, he squeezed out something from under his belt and handed it to Ji Qinglin.

Ji Qinglin took a closer look, and his heart was shocked.

He had seen this thing before, and it was exactly the kind of embroidery needle-like thing that Xie Wuyi handed to Yinluo when he and Xie Wuyi first met by the lake.

Xie Wuyi frowned slightly, took the object from Ah Mian's hand, and asked, "Apart from listening and watching under the bed, did you smell anything?"