"I don't know. When I was having breakfast, I realized that a child was missing. I couldn't find it anywhere, so I became anxious." The aunt burst into tears.
There are many children in the countryside, and every household is like this. When they are four or five years old, the adults just let them go and rely on themselves to eat and sleep.
The man in her family fell ill and passed away years ago, and there are five or six children in her family. How can she take care of so many children?
The youngest son was missing, more than five years old.
It was only after she heard that tigers had entered the village, that pigs had been snatched away from someone's house, and sheep had been snatched away from someone's house, that she started to pay more attention to it.
"Mr. Ji, you are very powerful in kung fu. Please go into the mountains and help me look for it. Maybe the tiger won't be able to eat it yet, woo woo woo." Although this is naive, what parent doesn't want such a chance? What if?
The tiger has eaten its fill of pigs and goats, so what if it temporarily lets the children go?
Village Chief Yao walked over with a solemn expression.
"Mr. Ji, tigers are much more ferocious than wild boars. You can't go."
"Aunt Sun, don't worry. I will organize the villagers to go into the mountains to search for the child. I will definitely find the child."
After all, Ji Xun is the son-in-law of the Jiang family and is not considered a native of the village. If something happens here, how will he explain it to his family?
"No, I have to go." Ji Xun affirmed: "The smell of blood in the valley is so strong, it must have attracted a lot of tigers, and you can't deal with it without me. Village Chief Yao, can you find a more lethal knife?
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Village Chief Yao thought for a while and asked the village butcher to bring his butcher's knife.
After finding the knife, they picked a dozen strong young men and hurriedly followed Ji Xun into the mountain with various weapons of their own.
"Aunt Sun, was there any blood stain when the child was taken away? Can you take me to your house to have a look?" Shen Yuyu walked to Aunt Sun holding a small snowball.
Xiao Xue Tuan has a keen sense of smell. Let Xiao Xue Tuan take a sniff and follow the smell to see if you can find anything.
"Okay." Aunt Sun took Shen Yuyu to her house.
Aunt Sun's family lives in a simple wooden house on the outskirts of the village. There is not even a wall outside.
"Auntie, did you hear any noise last night?" Shen Yuyu asked while looking around.
"No." Aunt Sun shook her head with a sad face, "I harvested peach blossoms all day yesterday, and I couldn't wake up after a long sleep. It's all because I slept so deeply, and it killed my baby.
There is no man in the house, and it is far away from the neighbor's house. There are many old and young in the house. Even if there is some noise at night, no one will get up and take care of it. It is quite pitiful.
Shen Yuyu walked around, and Aunt Sun said that the child might have been taken away after getting up in the middle of the night to urinate. What was strange was that there was no trace of blood around, but a few tiger footprints were found forty or fifty meters away from the house.
Looking at these tiger footprints, Aunt Sun began to cry heartbrokenly: "My poor Yao'er, you really fell into the tiger's mouth, wuwuwu.'
Although they all saw the tiger's footprints, Shen Yuyu always felt that something was not right.
How sharp are the tiger's teeth? I don't know how much blood it will bleed if you bite it, but it's not normal for the area around his house to be so clean.
"Auntie, please give my little ferret some of your little boy's clothes to smell, and let him follow the smell to find it."
"Okay." Aunt Sun quickly went into the house and took out a patched piece of clothing and handed it to Shen Yuyu.
"Xiao Xue Tuan, please smell it carefully." Shen Yuyu put his clothes under Xiao Xue Tuan's nose. After Xiao Xue Tuan smelled it, he jumped down from Shen Yu Yu's body and started sniffing around on the ground.
"Auntie, please stop crying. I just saw a hole in the back room of your house. I quickly found a way to repair it."
Shen Yuyu reminded Aunt Sun and followed Xiaoxuetuan away.
Children in the countryside are running around everywhere. Which corner of the village has not been visited? Small snowballs are jumping here and there, which is quite messy.
"Don't you smell the smell of entering the mountain?" Shen Yuyu asked strangely.
The little snowball hissed a few times and was wandering around the village just because I didn't smell it.
After sniffing around the village for a long time, Xiaoxue Tuan raised his little head dizzy, completely losing his sense of direction.
Shen Yuyu slapped his forehead, "Look at my brain? If a tiger bites the child's clothes and carries him into the mountain, and there is no blood and no walking on the ground, what kind of smell will there be?" Xiaoxue thought in this situation. There should be nothing the group can do.
He called Xiaoxuetuan back, and then asked about the family who had lost pigs and sheep in the village, and went to inspect the scene.
There were a lot of blood stains outside the pig pen and the sheep pen. All the way into the mountains, there were messy tracks of at least three tigers. It looked like a tiger had visited it. It was completely different from the scene at Aunt Sun's house.
After some inspection, Shen Yuyu went to Aunt Sun's house again.
Aunt Sun was hurriedly repairing the house, and she didn't care about being sad anymore. There were so many children at home, and she couldn't survive without one more.
Returning from Aunt Sun's house, Shen Yuyu was a little surprised to find that Jiang Yingru's carriage was not outside the courtyard.
"Mom, where did Auntie and the others go?" Shen Yuyu walked into the courtyard. Without them, the courtyard was quiet.
Mrs. Gu was picking vegetables, and there was a pile of freshly brought cabbages piled on the table.
"I said I was walking around and looking at the scenery." Mrs. Gu said seriously to Shen Yuyu while picking vegetables, "Daughter, please don't run around. Stay away from the mountain. There are tigers."
"Well, I know, I just walked around the village."
Shen Yuyu sat over, picked up a Chinese cabbage, skillfully removed the yellow leaves and roots, and put it into a basin.
After a moment of silence, he asked Gu, "Where did they go? Did they have to drive the carriage?"
Mrs. Gu replied helplessly, "Your cousin has a young lady's temper and is afraid of getting her shoes dirty when she walks."
"Why are you so particular about coming to the countryside? By the way, mother, how many days are they here to play?"
"I heard your grandma said that she wants to live there for a few months or half a year. Who knows?"
"Having lived here for so long? Don't want to do business in the city? What kind of business do they do?"
"How do you understand? They say they are selling goods, so they must also hire someone to take care of them."
While the mother and daughter chatted, they picked the vegetables, washed them by the stream, and sent them to the kitchen to be cooked by the two sisters-in-law.
After the meal was ready, no one who went into the mountain came back. Even Jiang Yingru and her family didn't know where they went, and they didn't come back for lunch.
It was not until the beginning of Shenshi that the men who went into the mountains came back and brought back two pig and sheep skeletons that had been chewed to pieces.
The villagers had been waiting for the news for a long time, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when everyone came back.
Village Chief Yao asked about the situation and found out that after searching for a whole day, no trace of the tiger could be found. The pigs and sheep were taken away by them and eaten in the valley. Their old nest was nowhere to be found.
Looking at the pigs and goats that had been chewed down to only their skin and bones, Aunt Sun collapsed on the ground and howled loudly.
A five- or six-year-old child might be eaten alive, but would he still have bones left behind?
The village chief arranged for someone to send Aunt Sun home after she fainted from crying.
The men, who had been hungry all day, stayed at Jiang's house to eat, and everyone talked while eating.
"This kind of beast is so cunning. It doesn't move out during the day, but it launches surprise attacks at night. It's hard to guard against it."
"Really? Even if you have the ability to kill them, you may not be able to find their lair." Jiang Qicheng shook his head helplessly.
"What should we do? Can we find a way to drive them away?" Village Chief Yao frowned tightly.
"You can give it a try. Bring the gongs and drums and go up the mountain tomorrow.'
Before the men had finished their meal, Jiang Yingru and the others came back. As soon as they stopped at the gate of the courtyard, Xiao Xue Tuan rushed into the carriage with a flash of lightning.
