Chapter 355 Suspicious Footprints
Although Mingzhu is a person in the stockade and still carries the mysterious aura of "grass ghost apprentice", the matter involves the safety of the whole village people. People have to consider handing over this woman who may be inextricably linked to the vampire Feng Junyang and ask clearly.
But when people rushed to the door of Afang's house and told her about the "trial" of the pearl, Afang's father, who was still sleeping late just now, jumped out like a monkey in a sweatshirt and blocked the door of the house with red eyes: "Why are you all coming to our house? Is it because our family is easy to bully? Is it because our Afang is not smart and has won your daughter-in-law? Who said she was your daughter-in-law?
This time, everyone was resolute and said, "I tell you, she has something to do with vampires. If you don't let her come out and ask, maybe your Afang will be killed by her!"
This sentence made Afang's father stunned. After thinking about it, he opened the door. Everyone's deterrent was useful, and he didn't want his stupid son to have an accident.
Afang Niang came down from upstairs and said with a panicked face, "She still hasn't woken up... So many of you came, but she didn't wake up..."
"What's wrong with her?" Ma Ben asked. Everyone in the stockade knew that Mingzhu was crying all day, but they didn't say that she was sick. Why did she get sick so quickly? She is in a coma!" Afangniang lamented, "I'm afraid she was devoured by insects!"
"The worms fight back?" The old stockade retorted in disbelief, "She has been following the fourteenth aunt for so many years, what cruel thing hasn't she done? Will she let the insect find the host and devour her? If she was so kind, she would not be the apprentice of the fourteenth aunt!"
"But she is really unconscious!" A Fangniang said helplessly, "And it's cold all over... It seems that there is no breath at all."
"Who knows if she took some strange medicine by herself? Liu Shishi's apprentice can really do everything! I heard that there is a medicine. After taking it, the descendants are like dead. They can hide the world and avoid unnecessary troubles... Isn't she taking this medicine?
"Yes, the brother just said that she ate and lived with a young man outside. She has been with that man for the past few months. Now that man has become the little leader of vampires. Do you think she will have any problem?"
Afang Niang asked in astonishment, "What did you say?" Is she with the same man outside? Then let her be with our family? Pooh! We don't want such a person! Go upstairs and call her by yourself. I won't go!"
"Let me go." Ma Ben came out and said, "You can also come up with a few people."
Two women and three older old people, as well as old four and six, followed the horse upstairs. The upstairs was a little crowded. Several people stood in front of the pearl's bed. The pearl seemed to be ignorant, with their eyes closed and motionless.
"Pearl! Pearl!" One of the women reached out and shook her, and then said, "It's really cold, like a dead man."
"My Ah Hua came to see her this morning. At that time, she was very good and gave Ah Hua some headwear. Why did she get sick so soon?" Another woman said.
"Let me see." Ma Ben stretched out his hand and twisted Ming
Pearl wrist.
As Ma Ben expected, Pearl's wrist did not have a pulse.
But to Ma Ben's surprise, he was so close to Mingzhu that his body did not have the same burning and impulse as vampires, which was completely different from the breath he had just felt in the bamboo forest.
Then that person may not be a pearl just now.
Ma Ben deliberately concealed a key fact when he told the murder of the people in the stockade: he found the same footprint on the vegetable garden, bamboo forest and the sand and gravel by the river. It was a woman's footprint, but the style of the shoes was not the cloth shoes worn by these women in the stockade. It is a rubber women's shoe. The lines of the soles are clearly visible. In order not to disturb more people to point the suspect Pearl, he concealed the discovery.
As soon as he came in, he noticed that the shoes beside Pearl's bed were just a pair of rubber shoes! When he walked over, he deliberately kicked them over. The lines on the soles of the shoes were indeed the same as those on the sand and stones by the river!
When he determined that the mutilated man was Mingzhu, there was no feeling in his body just now, which made him puzzled. Was it Mingzhu, or someone was deliberately guiding Ma Ben to point the spearhead at Mingzhu?
"How is she?" Lao Si asked in a low voice.
"I'm sure she's not drunk." Ma Ben said, "She just made a drunken illusion and confused the Afang family that she was drunk."
"Why did she pretend to be drunk and unconscious?"
Ma Ben did not tell these people that the pearls had no pulse, but he still said affirmatively, "She must have made these illusions that she knew that we had come to Miaozhai and wanted to ask her, so she avoided us in this way."
"This girl has changed." The old man in the stockade shook his head helplessly and said, "So, she really has a problem. Young people, I didn't expect that there was something wrong with our own people..."
"Old uncle, we dare not say who has a problem before it is clear, but she is more suspicious. I have something to discuss with you. Ma Ben said politely.
"You can say it."
"Can we stay here to guard her? Since she wants to avoid us, we have to face it and let her pretend, and there are times when she can't pretend.
"Here? Do you want us to make another room? The old man agreed.
"No. Just let the Afang family move out for the time being.
"Let the owner move?" The old man is a little unhappy.
Yes. Since Mingzhu has a problem, doesn't her accomplice know where she lives? The place where she lives is the most dangerous. Maybe her accomplices will attack the Afang family nearby. Ma Ben said, "And this place is surrounded by open space, which is not so hidden compared with other places. We can see this small attic in all directions, and the terrain is beneficial to us..."
When the old man heard this, he nodded and agreed. Another old man went down to discuss with Afang's family. Afang's father only heard that when the vampire might come to find Mingzhu, he would hurt their family. He was so scared that he hurriedly packed up something and pulled the stupid son and left, completely ignoring the difficult Afang Niang who was carrying a small bag behind him.
"Young people, do you still need the people in our village to be on duty tonight?" The old man asked.
"Continue to be on duty. Protect the elderly, women and children well, and the whole village still get together, which is still your previous plan. Of course, we will also send more people to help you. I hope no one will be hurt after dawn tomorrow..."
"What about here?" The old man pointed to Mingzhu and asked, "If you keep her, can you catch her accomplice?"
Ma Ben looked at the pair of Mingzhu's shoes in front of the bed, and his doubts aged. The footprints were clearly left by Mingzhu. If Mingzhu was found by herself when she hurt the eldest son, and Mingzhu abandoned the eldest son and ran back. At that time, the Afang family was sleeping and did not find her strangeness. She was afraid that she would be exposed, so Come back and create illusions in a drunken way... This process is quite time-sufficient, and it is too easy for a person to confuse others with physical strangeness.
"Hearing her may not lead to her accomplices, but at least, your stockade is safer." Ma Ben stood up as he said, and suddenly found a small window behind the bed! It was just blocked by the crimson gauze. If it hadn't been for the faint light there, it wouldn't have been found.
She can jump from this window without going through the front door...
"Brother, you have worked hard... It's getting late. You go back early to prepare for dinner and continue to be on duty at night... I will send my brothers to help you. Leave it to me. Don't worry, I will definitely make tonight a peaceful night.