In the hot summer, the afternoon sunshine makes people feel particularly lazy, and the crows are as wilted as an old man over fifty, whirling back and forth in the woods outside the fence...

Xia Lingyue was walking listlessly outside the courtyard wall, wandering around in boredom.

Ever since Fenhe mentioned the Laokeng bracelet, she had fallen into a state of anxiety and tastelessness.

"Shh! Keep your voice down! Don't make noise, and be good!"

A whisper, like a mysterious veil, floated out strangely from behind the rockery of the lotus pond and pavilion behind the corridor of the courtyard in the afternoon...

"Um?……"

In Xia Lingyue's heart, waves of strong doubts surged from her heart to the back of her head.

She couldn't help but stop and watch, and had no intention of reading the book in her hand.

"I know you have grievances, but you have to wait until night! Don't be so impatient and be obedient!"

Xia Lingyue quietly walked around to the bottom of the rockery. She quietly opened up a large piece of weeds beside the rockery and peered curiously.

"Oh! Don't be so impatient! Can you be a little patient?"

Through the gaps in the grass, a scene that was so shocking that her jaw dropped came into her eyes...

A wild cat with snow-white fur was on the bank of the lotus pond, eagerly eating a large piece of bloody meat spread out on the ground.

The person next to her with her back to her was wearing a red undergarment with disheveled hair. She seemed to be a woman. The voice she spoke to the cat felt very familiar to her, but she couldn't remember it for a moment.

"Eat slowly! Don't choke!"

The man actually took a knife in his hand, cut off a piece of flesh from his arm and put it on the ground. He saw the white cat howling "Ouch, Ouch, Ouch" and eating with gusto.

"ah?!!!!"

Xia Lingyue unconsciously felt a strong surge in her stomach. A strong and overwhelming discomfort tortured her so much that she almost vomited it out. However, she still suppressed her heart that was about to jump into her throat.

impulse.

"Xue'er! You have to be good! After eating today, you have to be obedient!"

I saw the ghostly woman tearing off a piece of meat from her arm and giving it to the cat and placing it on the ground.

"Xue'er?"

She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when she heard this name. Where had she heard this name before?

She rubbed her forehead hard, but for a moment she still couldn't remember anything.

"Be good, Xue'er! Let's go play after eating! Don't be naughty!"

The woman continued to tear the flesh off her body, but this time it was the flesh on her thighs.

She covered her mouth and stared with frightened eyes. Cold sweat oozed from her forehead. Her rapidly beating heart made her so frightened and weak that she almost collapsed...

"Hehehe... Our day of revenge is still to come!"

I saw the woman slowly picking up the cat on the ground, but there was a ferocious arrogance in the cat's manic and ferocious eyes!

"ah!!!"

The cat jumped up and bit the man's face tightly.

"Behave yourself! You disobedient thing! I told you, it's not that I won't give you food, but you have to wait for me to tear it apart and give it to you! Why are you so disobedient?"

After the woman screamed, she grabbed the cat's fat body and pulled hard. She heard a "whisper" and the cat bit her tightly in its mouth, tearing off a large piece of her skin.

"I told you not to be disobedient! Believe it or not, I will kill you!"

I saw the woman picked up the knife in her hand and stabbed the scary cat...

"Ah!!!!...No!"...

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"Miss! What's wrong with you? Miss! What's wrong with you?"

Fenhe pushed open the door with a pop, put down the rattan basket slung in her arm, and rushed to Xia Lingyue's study with worry.

"Ah I……"

Xia Lingyue looked around and found that she was lying on the table reading a book and fell asleep, and she was struck by a nightmare again!

"Miss! I heard you calling for help outside the corridor. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine..." Xia Lingyue clutched the book in her hand with lingering fear, obviously pretending to be calm on her sweaty face.

"Oh! Be good, Miss! Come on! Let's eat first! Let's go play after eating!"

Fenhe said as he walked to the table nearby and opened the lid of the rattan basket. Suddenly, the aroma of the food filled the air.

"Hmm...it smells so good! Miss! I brought you your favorite food today!" Fenhe said with a smile on her face.

"Wait...what did you just say?" Xia Lingyue's mysterious eyes were full of fear!

"What did I say?..." Fen He scratched his head and looked at her in surprise.

"Yes! What did you just say?"

"I just said I brought you your favorite food today!" Fenhe said innocently.

"No! It's in front!" Xia Lingyue looked serious and didn't look like he was talking nonsense to her.

"Uh... Miss! I can't remember!" Fenhe smiled apologetically at her: "Maybe Miss, please remind me! Maybe I can still recall a little bit!"

"Ah! Forget it! I can't remember it either. I'll ask you again when I remember it!"

"Um!"

Fenhe took out the food from the rattan basket and said to Xia Lingyue: "Miss! I wonder if you have heard of it?"

"What did you hear?" She heard Fen He's solemn tone, and her mysterious sixth sense struck her anxious heart like an urgent drumbeat.

"Oh! Forget it! Miss, I'd better wait until you have eaten before I tell you!"

Fenhe suddenly realized that she had spoken uncontrollably and slipped out some words that she shouldn't have mentioned at this untimely meal.

"What's the problem? Just tell me! I haven't had much appetite lately. I'm also looking at what food you brought me. I just plan to taste it casually to fill my stomach. In fact, it's no different from not eating.

!" She sighed.

"Miss, what's going on with you recently? Are you worried about anything?"

Fenhe handed a bowl of delicious-looking soup in front of her.

"It's nothing to worry about..."

There was an obvious trace of exhausted laziness in her voice.

"Okay then! I'll tell you!" Fenhe looked at her holding the soup bowl in boredom, with a look of anticipation on her face.

"I wonder if you've heard? A dead body without skin and flesh was found by the lotus pond this morning!" Fen He's expression was quite heavy when she said this.

"ah?!!!!......"

Xia Lingyue's hand holding the bowl couldn't help shaking violently, and her face turned pale instantly.

"Really? What's going on?"

Her heart felt as if she was being chased by a ghost at this moment, and the overwhelming sense of urgency made her whole heart seem to be floating on the water.

"No one knows what's going on yet!" Fen He said helplessly.

"No one said how it was discovered? Didn't anyone else see any clues when it was discovered?" The panic in Xia Lingyue's heart became more and more intense.

"Miss! This is also the question that everyone is wondering about!"

Fenhe smacked her cheeks and began to fall into deep thought: "I remember it! I think I heard a sentence from Nanny Lin in the morning. Now that I think about it, I'm quite curious. In fact, I don't know what it means! After all,

We girls like you often don’t understand what the old grandma says, so no matter how confused you are, it’s not good to break the casserole and ask the truth!”

Although there was an innocent expression on Fen He's face at this moment, in fact, a shadow flashed across her eyes like lightning, and she secretly glanced at her.

"What did she say? Come on, tell me!" When she heard this, Xia Lingyue could no longer hold back.

"The slave could only hear Nanny Lin shaking her head and sighing sadly. She said this child is really pitiful! How long will it take to pay off such a painful experience?" Fen He rubbed her forehead and thought about it seriously again, and she was sure.

Said: "Yes! That's what she said, how long will it take to pay off such a tragic experience?"

Fen He turned her head in confusion and stared at Xia Lingyue: "Miss! Can you understand what Nanny Lin means?"

"I'm not sure either, but based on what you said, I feel like maybe Nanny Lin knows something."

Xia Lingyue's gaze quietly glanced outside the window, and she sighed and said: "Although I am just guessing! Or maybe the old man has such a compassionate character! Besides, Grandma Lin has always been soft-hearted...

..”

"But..." Fen He swallowed and changed his hand with a clenched cheek: "But do you know? Who is that dead body without skin and flesh?"

"Is it possible that there are no traces of suspicious behavior around there? There is absolutely no way to test it, no evidence to check?" During the strange conversation, Xia Lingyue's originally anxious heart could not help but

It escalated into panic.

"Of course it is! Otherwise, how could people be so panicked?" Fen He sighed.

"Ah...if that's the case, it's really a mystery who that person is!"

"No! Even the skin is gone. Who knows who it is? Who knows who tore off whose skin?"

When Xia Lingyue heard the words "tear off the skin" in Fen He's words, she was suddenly frightened and trembled all over. The soup bowl in her hand suddenly slipped out of her hand and fell with a "pop"

Debris was scattered everywhere on the ground, and the sound of soup remnants breaking into bowls clearly frightened the crows who settled on the apricot branches in the courtyard and accidentally slipped and fell...

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Chapter completed!