Watching the old man cutting the mutton, Hu Qiu and I became a little nervous. The scene of the black goat being beheaded appeared in my mind again.
If you behead your head but don't die, there will be a monster!
So I will not eat the meat of this black goat no matter what.
Xiao Qin's grandfather first cut off the front leg of a sheep. I don't know what he thought, but he wanted to give it to me to eat first. But at this moment, Zhou Qingyang, who had just sat down, stood up again and grabbed the sheep.
The leg of lamb was taken away.
"Old man, do you understand the rules? I paid 20,000 yuan, why should I give him this meat?"
He smiled coldly at me, then opened his mouth and tore off a piece of meat from the roasted brown leg of lamb, without Zhao Jiuzhou having time to stop him.
Zhou Qingyang chewed it with big mouthfuls and praised it profusely while eating.
"It's wild, this mutton is really good!"
Grandpa Xiao Qin frowned and stared at Zhou Qingyang. He watched helplessly as he swallowed the mutton, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
But in my opinion, this smile is full of weirdness!
Then he started cutting up the mutton.
Soon another lamb front leg was placed on the plate in front of me. Looking at the roasted and browned lamb leg in front of me, I had no appetite at all.
On the other hand, several people on the other side were all feasting. From the expressions on their faces, it could be seen that the mutton was indeed delicious.
Only Zhao Jiuzhou slowly took out a piece of dry food from the cloth bag he carried with him and started to chew it. He seemed to have no interest in the mutton in front of him.
This move attracted the attention of both Xiao Qin and Grandpa Xiao Qin, and the old man's eyes flashed.
"Why don't you eat?"
Zhao Jiuzhou slowly broke off a piece of dry food and stuffed it into his mouth, and said expressionlessly: "I am a vegetarian!"
Xiao Qin's grandfather frowned, nodded without saying anything, and then looked at Hu Qiu and me.
I quickly stood up holding my stomach and said, "Village Chief, I want to go to the toilet!"
Just as the village chief was about to speak, Xiao Qin stood up.
"I'll take you there, right in the yard!"
With that said, Xiao Qin stepped out and walked out. Hu Qiu said that she also wanted to go to the toilet, so she followed her out. Zhou Qingyang was so angry that his face was ashen and his eyes were blazing.
After walking out of the main room, we discovered that it was raining heavily outside. The rainwater flowed down from the blue tiles on the roof, passed through the ditch under the eaves, and flowed out from the water outlet in the yard.
Xiao Qin took us to the west side of the courtyard. Close to the courtyard wall, there was indeed a small hut, which was a very old squatting pit.
Growing up in the countryside, I knew that this kind of hut usually smelled bad, but I moved my nose slightly, but I didn't smell anything.
When I walked closer and took a closer look, I found that the inside of the latrine was very clean, as if no one had used it for a long time. There were traces of insects on the ground.
After staying inside for a while, I walked out, only to find that Xiao Qin raised her head and seemed to be looking in the direction of the arch bridge outside the village through the courtyard wall. Her face looked a little unsightly.
I was surprised and asked her what happened?
Xiao Qin looked worried and said, "The river is beginning to rise!"
"It rains and the water rises. Isn't this normal?" I said with a smile.
Xiao Qin glanced at me with complicated eyes, said nothing, turned around and walked towards the main room. After taking two steps, he suddenly turned around and asked:
"Do you still have the sachet I gave you?"
"With it, what's wrong?" I asked.
"Forget it, it's okay, you don't need it anyway!"
After saying this, Xiao Qin turned around and returned to the main room.
Hu Qiu and I stood in the rain, looking at each other, and we both saw the worry in each other's eyes.
"I think something is wrong with her." Hu Qiu said.
I clicked and naturally noticed that Xiao Qin was a little different from before. Moreover, she disappeared all morning and suddenly appeared again, which always made me feel a little weird.
When I think of the weird things that happened one after another before, my heart feels heavy.
"What should we do next? We can't just waste it like this, right?" Hu Qiu asked.
I was just about to speak when I suddenly heard something coming from behind Yuan Qiang, like something rolling.
I quickly made a silent gesture to Hu Qiu, walked around the toilet on tiptoe, and walked toward the innermost corner of the courtyard wall, because that was where the sound came from.
"Gululu, Gululu..."
The sound was very heavy and messy, and it sounded like someone was pushing something.
As the sound kept getting closer, it finally stopped outside the courtyard wall. After a while, I heard the sound of someone talking, and there was more than one person.
"Just leave it here."
"Okay, let's go back first!"
"Is it okay for the village chief? There are so many people there!"
"Don't worry, it's absolutely fine. There were more people last time, so it's the same thing."
"I'm a little worried. I don't know what Qin Han said to the couple!"
"It's useless to say anything. From the moment they came in, they were destined to stay here forever!"
"This traitor, when this matter is over, his mouth must be sealed with a rope!"
"Let's not talk about him yet, there is still someone we haven't found yet!"
"Oh, it's a pity that one of them died. Hurry, we must find him before dark!"
"Let's go, find someone first! Let's come back tonight!"
The conversation stopped here, and then the footsteps were heard gradually moving away.
Although the content of the conversation was not much, it made me feel chilly.
Sure enough, something happened to Hou Baoer and the others, but we just don’t know who of the two died?
At this moment, my body suddenly became tense and I felt a deep sense of self-blame. It was me who had harmed them.
Hu Qiu saw that my face was not very good, so he quickly came up and gently grabbed my hand.
"Jiuyang, now is not the time to be sad, at least one of you is still alive!" Hu Qiu said.
I suddenly woke up, Hu Qiu was right, there is still one person alive, we must save him.
At this moment, I was finally sure of one thing. The villagers in this village had lied to us. They were indeed not good people.
Thinking of this, my heart suddenly became cold. In this case, I have nothing to worry about anymore.
At this time, Hu Qiu let go of me and walked to the courtyard wall. After looking at it for a moment, he suddenly took a piece from the adobe wall.
Suddenly, a rectangular hole appeared on the courtyard wall, and Hu Qiu immediately looked out along the hole.
But then, Hu Qiu's expression changed.
She turned back and looked at me in shock.
"Jiuyang, come and see!"
"What's wrong?"
As I asked, I walked over and looked out through the hole in the wall. I couldn't help but be stunned.
Outside the courtyard wall, there was a row of huge wooden barrels neatly stacked.
These barrels should have been transported by these people just now.
I remember very clearly that Hu Qiu mentioned the existence of these barrels to me more than once, but why do they appear here?
I counted the number subconsciously, and there were quite a few, and there were exactly ten.