It turned out that the group of people who went to the valley returned to Longpao Village at noon. Huang Zelin still stayed in the inn to study medicine with the two sisters. Gu Qingqiao quietly went to the village chief's house, and naturally he did not see Mu Xiyuan and Qin Le. Not far from going out, happened to meet the village chief's son and learned that the two had gone to Linghu.

When he ran to Linghu Lake, he only saw Qin Le alone in the boat, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, only then did he know that Mu Xiyun had not come up for a long time after entering the water.

Having said that, Gu Qingqiao glared at Mu Xiyun again, but saw that he was squinting, and he was obedient and would never talk back. Tell them what they saw.

"At this moment, Elder Huang and the others are still tossing those medicines."

The town is not far from Longzhao Village, and the three of them soon arrived at the medicine hall. The shopkeeper of the medicine hall came out to collect the medicine in person, and thanked him repeatedly.

Seeing the shopkeeper's gloomy expression, Mu Xiyun couldn't help but ask a few questions.

The shopkeeper sighed, "Oh, it's not about my sister."

The three were at a loss when Feng Gu walked in from outside. haven't seen each other for a few days, and this beautiful girl is also haggard, with red eyes and a handkerchief in her hand.

When she saw Mu Xiyuan, she suddenly rushed over like a drowning person seeing a life-saving straw.

Gu Qingqiao frowned as he watched Mu Xiyun help the girl up and comforted her softly. The shopkeeper then continued: "Speaking of which, her life is also hard. My sister was a widow early on, and she only lived with her only child. Unexpectedly, when the child was six or seven years old, he was kidnapped by someone."

"Abducted?" Mu Xiyun and Gu Qingqiao looked at each other, and both had an ominous premonition in their hearts.

"Yeah. The world is so big, where can I go to find it? It's been more than ten years, how many people have persuaded her, but she doesn't give up and asks people to ask around. A few years ago, a woman in a neighboring village who lost her child told her She, from here to the west, there is a mountain of monsters. There are monsters living in the mountain, and they especially like human children. The monsters will abduct the children, and they will not hurt them. They just take them back to the mountain to raise them. They all go to the mountain to look for it, and some people have said that they really saw the child. It's just that the monster mountain only appears once every five years, and it happens to be the day when it will appear in a few days."

"There are such monsters?" Qin Le asked curiously.

"Alas," the shopkeeper sighed, "We don't believe it either, but my sister does. She packed her luggage a few days ago, so she had to look for it. The family couldn't beat her, so she left home today. went."

"Yes, I just went to see her off, and she is quite sure that she will be able to find her child." Feng Gu stopped crying at this time, and mourned: "But I heard that some mothers who went to find their children went to After a trip, I let go of my obsessions and went home to live a good life. Some never came back. Could it be that the monsters there can eat people? Will my aunt be eaten when she goes!"

She raised her tearful eyes and looked at Mu Xiyun, "I beg Xianjun to go to the mountain and take a look. If there are really man-eating monsters, please save my aunt."

Seeing her request, the shopkeeper knew that it was difficult for someone to be strong, and he helped the person into the room half-coercion and half-consolation, and came back and sighed: "Don't take it to your heart, the celestial gentlemen, this matter may be a rumor, it's just this child. Since I was a child, I have been close to my sister, and some of my words are unpredictable, but the immortals will forgive me."

The three agreed and left.

On the way back to the village, Mu Xiyun frowned and asked Qin Le, "Have you heard of such a legend?"

Qin Le replied: "Every five years out of the mountains, and still catching the monsters of children? Many of these folklore are based on falsehoods and cannot be on the stage. But when I was a child, the servants in the family often frightened us. After the monster was caught, I was kept in the mountains and couldn’t come out. At that time, I was forced by my elders to learn the exercises, but I hoped that a monster would come to catch me. Later, when I got older, I forgot about these things.”

Mu Xiyuan was delighted to hear it, and then said: "There is no reason for nothing. If you say that, there must be a source. I will go back to the village and ask the old people in the village later. Even if I can't ask anything, we will do it tomorrow anyway. If you want to go west, go explore together.”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Gu Qingqiao, but saw that he was a little gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking. With Qin Le by his side, he couldn't ask a lot of questions directly, so he had to press down temporarily.

Back in Longzhao Village, Qin Le went to his room to pack up, Gu Qingqiao really found out the prescription to relieve cold poison, took out the medicine bag prepared by Huang Zelin last time, and fried the medicine to Mu Xiyun.

Knowing that he was wrong, Mu Xiyuan dried the concoction in one sip, and then smiled and begged for a maltose and put it in his mouth. He asked casually, "You looked serious when you were in the medicine hall just now. What were you thinking? Is there anything urgent?"

What are you thinking? Gu Qingqiao raised his eyes and glanced at Mu Xiyun, feeling a little stuck in his heart. Mu Xiyuan has always been good-natured, kind, humble and polite. In the past life, he was loved by many girls. Although he didn't see which fairy he had special feelings for at that time, he was not sure what his thoughts were in this life. The phoenix girl just now cried so pitifully that the pear blossoms and rained, and A Yun was also tender and caring. Could it be that he really had any thoughts about that girl?

How dare you put that little thought in your heart and talk about it in detail?

Not wanting to say anything on this topic, Gu Qingqiao frowned and said: "I don't know if I'm too sensitive, it seems that in a short period of time, children are missing everywhere. Evian Town, Qingxi Town, Hongye City and Shanhai In the city, we already know of several cases of missing children, and most of the missing children are under the age of ten."

Hearing these words, Mu Xiyuan also pondered: "Yes, I remember that I didn't hear about so many cases of missing children fifty years ago. Could it be that during this time, a big gang specializing in child abduction appeared?"

After a pause, he added: "Abducting and selling children to break up families is a heinous crime. If there is a chance, I will definitely investigate it to the end."

Gu Qingqiao was an orphan, and Mu Xiyuan also left her parents when she was a child. Both of them hated this kind of behavior.

In order to avoid trouble, Gu Qingqiao quietly returned to the inn. Mu Xiyun and Qin Le went to the big tree where the old people in the village rested in the shade, and found the old village chief.