Although the compass was carried on my back and dropped in an inconspicuous place under the rock, I still saw it at a glance.
I subconsciously prepared to pick it up, but then I hesitated and pretended not to see it.
Huqiu noticed the unusual expression on my face, so he asked in a low voice while others were not paying attention:
"Did you find anything?"
I looked at the compass calmly, "This is the compass I told you about!"
"Really?" Hu Qiu's expression changed slightly.
She obviously saw my plan and kept silent.
Xiao Qin's grandfather then said, "Both of you guests are from the city. Otherwise, you can go back and rest first while we go to the mountains to look for you!"
I looked at the terrain, nodded in agreement, and then pointed to the river below and asked an old man next to me: "This river doesn't look very deep. I don't know where it leads to?"
The old man replied subconsciously: "Oh, it leads to the back..."
As soon as this person said this, Xiao Qin's grandfather suddenly coughed, interrupting the villager's words. He smiled and said to me:
"This river is quite long, and we don't know where it leads to!"
"Oh, that's it. In that case, let's go back first!" I said, pretending to be nonchalant.
Then I took the lead and walked back. Xiao Qin's grandfather did not suspect anything and led the team behind me.
I always feel like there are hot eyes staring at us from behind.
Hu Qiu and I walked very quickly, deliberately keeping some distance from these villagers.
Hu Qiu asked in a low voice beside me: "What are you going to do? Don't you want your things?"
"How can I get it with so many pairs of eyes looking at it?" I had a headache.
Hu Qiu nodded, then changed his tone and said, "By the way, I suddenly discovered a problem."
"What's the problem?" I asked.
"Have you noticed that there are no young people in this village except Xiao Qin."
I was slightly stunned, but then I thought about it and it was really like this. Just now, Xiao Qin’s grandfather led nearly twenty people to help us find someone. Among these twenty people, there was not a single young man, and the youngest one was only four or five years old.
He looks ten years old, and the others are old men about the same age as Grandpa Xiao Qin.
"Is it possible that all young people have gone out to work?" I asked.
"I don't think so!"
Hu Man shook his head gently, "When I walked through the village just now, I observed carefully. Not only did I not see any young people, I didn't even see any children. Obviously there is something abnormal! Even if the young people go out to work,
, there must also be left-behind children!”
When Hu Qiu said this, I was a little surprised.
"What did Xiao Qin say?" I asked.
"This is what I can't figure out. What kind of secret does the longevity village you mentioned have?" Hu Qiu frowned.
"I don't care about the secrets here at all. I just want to find people now! I always have a bad feeling." I said with a frown.
"Okay, don't scare yourself, just get that compass back first!" Hu Qiu said.
"What can you do?" My eyes lit up.
"You act out a play with me and act by looking at my eyes!"
After saying this, Hu Qiu quietly took off a string of sandalwood beads from her wrist, pulled hard, tore the bracelet off, and threw a bead on the ground.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"You'll find out later!"
Hu Qiu smiled mysteriously, and then continued to walk forward calmly.
Every time he walked a few dozen meters, Hu Qiu threw a bead on the ground.
Soon we walked forward a few hundred meters, and almost half of the pillars she made were thrown away. She quickly put the remaining beads into my hands, and I calmly took them and put them in his pocket.
"You put the remaining pillars in your pocket and just leave two on top!"
I nodded quickly, already roughly understanding what she meant. According to Hu Qiu's instructions, after leaving two beads, I took out all the remaining beads and secretly put them into my pocket.
At this time, Hu Qiu pushed me hard, causing my body to stagger, and then angrily said with some displeasure:
"Why are you so careless? That thing costs thousands of dollars!"
I quickly said: "I didn't mean it."
"I don't care, I want you to help me find it! That's what my grandfather gave me!" Hu Qiu said angrily.
"How do you find this? The place is so big!" I was also a little angry.
The quarrel between the two of us attracted the attention of the villagers, and they quickly followed us.
"What's wrong? Why is there such a quarrel?" Xiao Qin's grandfather asked.
"Village chief, he lost my prayer beads, look!" Hu Qiu grabbed the broken prayer beads in my hand and showed it to Xiao Qin's grandfather...
"Is this thing expensive?" Xiao Qin's grandfather asked.
"Of course, it's tens of thousands of dollars!"
"It's so expensive!" Xiao Qin's grandfather's eyes widened.
The other villagers also looked surprised.
"My grandfather gave this to me, what do you think I should do with it! I hate you so much!"
Hu Qiu was anxious and pushed me hard again.
My hand was unsteady and another bead fell to the ground.
"I didn't mean it!" I explained with a crying face.
"It's all your fault, you have to help me find it, otherwise I won't be able to spare you!" Hu Qiu looked at me unreasonably.
"I'm looking for you, can't I just look for you?"
I pretended to grit my teeth, then bent down to pick up the beads that had just fallen from the grass.
"Village chief, you go back first, I'll go find the beads!" I said helplessly.
Xiao Qin's grandfather was really hesitant. His eyes flickered, and he seemed reluctant to let me act alone.
Sure enough, there is something weird! I sneered in my heart.
At this time, Hu Qiu suddenly said to Grandpa Xiao Qin: "Village Chief, can you help me look for it? This bead is very important to me. The place is so big and I don't know where it fell!"
Hu Qiu started crying as he spoke.
I was so impressed that I never thought that this girl had the talent for acting, and that she could even win an Oscar for her ability to make her cry just as she said.
When Qin Qin's grandfather saw Hu Qiu crying, he was immediately embarrassed, but he didn't say anything.
Suddenly my heart moved, and I said to everyone: "Excuse me, I won't let everyone work in vain. Whoever finds the beads, I will give him a thousand yuan in cash!"
At this moment, the villagers' eyes lit up.
I breathed a sigh of relief. These villagers really love money. This was inspired by Xiao Qin’s grandfather when you gave him money before.
No matter how weird these villagers are, it's impossible not to contact the outside world. In this case, money is needed.
The effect was immediate, and some people began to subconsciously lower their eyes to the ground. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed villager let out a sigh.
"Hey, I saw one!"
As he spoke, he ran two steps to the side, grabbed a bead from among some grass, and took it over as if he was offering a treasure with excitement.
I immediately pretended to be excited, and without saying a word, I counted out a thousand yuan in cash to him.
The red banknotes immediately made the villager excited. He counted them again and again, then quickly folded the money and put it in his pocket.
The other villagers were so envious that their eyes turned green little by little.
Then, without Grandpa Xiao Qin’s consent, they all turned around and went looking for beads!