Chapter 35: Unexpected Results

The uncles didn’t blame Cheng Xin Ge, but instead, Uncle Wang stared nervously at the crowds at the airport, carefully scanning the area.

Uncle Li sighed and said, “There’s no need to look. There are so many people here, and we don’t know how far they can control the moths. Let’s go back and talk about it first.”

As for Uncle Chen, he said with a displeased look on his face, “Chengxin, did you apply medicine to Chengyi?”

Brother Chengxin said with a heavy face, “Master, I’ve already applied the medicine, but the moth…”

Uncle Chen sighed and said, “Let’s talk about it when we get back. This medicine can’t completely isolate the moth, at most it can just delay it. Li Pu, don’t throw away the moth’s body, bring it back, I’ll see if it’s a bloodline moth or a mutated species.”

After a brief conversation, the few of them left the airport in a hurry, with me in the middle, looking rather heavy-hearted. There was a car waiting at the airport exit, and it wasn’t until we got in the car that Uncle Li’s face looked a little less tense.

This feeling made me feel very uncomfortable. From the conversation between my uncle and the others, it was clear that they knew something. No, not just knew, but seemed to have a certain understanding of the village. But why didn’t anyone tell me anything?

Thinking about this, my face also became a bit ugly.Taoist priest

In Uncle Li’s study.

We were all sitting opposite each other, none of us looking good. Uncle Li and the others were obviously troubled, and neither I, Su Rou, nor Qin Huai could possibly be in a good mood.

After Li Shishu’s nanny brought the tea, and after Li Shishu had taken a sip, he said, “Chengyi, I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask. All I can tell you is that I didn’t know at first. It wasn’t until Auntie Liu (Li Shishu’s nanny) told me that someone was asking about you and me that I paid attention to someone. From that person, we discovered some things.”

I was silent because I could roughly guess the whole story from what Uncle Li said. Uncle Li must have found out that the person investigating him was Gao Ning, and then he found out about Gao Ning’s mysterious grandmother. They may not have known that the Miao people were targeting me, but Gao Ning, such a special person, targeting me must have aroused Uncle Li’s vigilance. After that, there may have been more investigations or events… They arranged such a trap, a trap that waits for the fish to bite.

Just thinking about this makes me a little sad. Is it that without my master, I have become a pawn, at the mercy of others in a dangerous game of chess?

If my uncle was not sitting across from me, and if the rules of respect for teachers and elders were not weighing on me, I might have turned and left, instead of just being silent.

Facing my silence, Master Wang coughed once and then said, “Chengyi, I know what you’re thinking. Your master said that you have a sensitive personality, and you really are quite sensitive. You must be thinking that we’re using you as bait, right?”

Sure enough, the Xiangzi pulse is superior to other pulses in detecting the human heart. Uncle Wang obviously hit the nail on the head. I snorted in disapproval.

At this point, Uncle Chen interrupted, “Chengyi, we admit that we have kept this from you, but it was never our intention to use you as bait. On the contrary, we were protecting you. If we hadn’t lured Gao Ning out like this, where do you think you would be right now? You might have been lured to the Death Village! The reason we didn’t tell you at first and let you go to Xiangxi was that we weren’t sure about some terrible things, so we had to take a risky move. Why did we choose such a dangerous method? It was because when we found out, you had already been marked by the village. Since that was the case, we decided to take this dangerous step to confirm some things once and for all.

Uncle Chen’s words were not very clear, and I guess there was something else he couldn’t say. But I could tell that they had only guessed something after I was marked, and they had let me go to Xiangxi in order to completely figure out the source of the danger.

But I was curious: “Uncle, what exactly do you want to confirm?”

“To determine whether you have inadvertently offended the people of that village, or whether you were targeted by the village before. To be honest, it’s fate. You accidentally offended the people of that village in Chengdu. Who do you blame for this? Moreover, Chengyi, the fact that you were targeted by the person you offended is not the same as being targeted by the village. We must be sure of this, so we let you take the risk and did not tell you, for fear of exposing any flaws. You must know that the people in the village are very scary. We are not afraid that you will expose any flaws and we will not be able to find out about this matter, but that they will find out something and directly put you to death. No, it is even more terrifying than death. Uncle Chen told me a lot in one breath.

I was so confused by all this that I couldn’t think straight. I already knew that this matter had been confirmed, and Gao Ning had told me that I had been targeted by the village.

Why are they targeting me? What do I have that is worth targeting?

I was filled with bitterness because from the behavior of my uncles, I already knew that this village was very scary, scarier than the old village chief, otherwise it wouldn’t be worth my uncles being on high alert.

My uncles must have known about this village, because Gao Ning had accidentally revealed that Old Li had contacted his grandmother. Gao Ning didn’t know much, and God knows what my master and the village had in common. Then, my uncles became so wary of this village.

“Actually, we didn’t neglect your protection. Your uncle Chen had to deal with something very important, so he decided to go to Guzhang County in Xiangxi a few days later to wait for you. But we never expected that before he finished his business, you had already been attacked by the bloodline moth. This made us even more vigilant and suspicious that you had been targeted by the village. Apo is just a small character, he shouldn’t have a relatively advanced kind of bloodline moth, but we can’t take any action until we are sure, because that village is really too scary… At first, I thought it was only Gao Ning who was after you, but when I saw that mark, I realized that things were serious. But you did provoke that village in Chengdu, called Apo… Uncle Li is not good at speaking, but he is still very serious in explaining to me.

I realized at this point that I was being sensitive and that I was being very inconsiderate. If my uncles didn’t care about me and just used me as bait, it would be impossible for them to know what I did in Chengdu.

This trap, to put it plainly, was set up for me. They wanted to find out who was behind me!

I could tell from their tone that they didn’t want to provoke the village, of course, as long as the village didn’t overreact.

At this point, Brother Chengxin spoke up: “Yes, Chengyi, my master can’t get away, but before he left, he told me that if we could be sure it was Apo, then the younger ones of us could solve it privately and cure the meat. If it’s definitely that village, then follow plan number two and bring you back without stopping. Your body was marked and then attacked, and my master and the others all judged that these Miao people wanted to lure you to that village, not to kill you. So, my master and the others told us to stay in Phoenix on purpose, pretending to be ignorant, in order to lure the snake out of its hole. They couldn’t help but come naturally, and the medicine of course could not completely block the bloodline moth, but only to delay the time. By then, my master should have arrived…”

“But I didn’t expect it to be Gao Ning, and so soon. You must have been very nervous that night, right?” I said to Chengxin with a wry smile.

“Yes, I was very nervous and ready to die. Later, it was Gao Ning, so I had to play along. In fact, I was very surprised at the time. You know why I resolutely refused Gao Ning and brought you back, right? Don’t blame my master, and don’t blame the elders for not being able to come in person. In fact, you are very important to them, but that matter is more important. About your master…” Chengxin said.

Suddenly, Uncle Li gave Chengxin a fierce glare, and Chengxin didn’t dare to say anything.

I suddenly became excited and grabbed Cheng Xin Ge by the arm: “What did you say about my master? What’s going on?”