NFBE Chapter 166 Climbing the Mountain Late at Night
Chapter 166 Climbing the Mountain Late at Night
He excitedly tore off the oil paper sealing the jar, reached under the ash, and took out two "duck eggs".
Before the smile on Song Zeyuan's face faded, he saw that what he was holding in his hand was a stone about the size and shape of a duck egg.
"Stone? How could this happen?"
He took out a few more stones out of disbelief.
"No, that's impossible!"
He also helped when Wang Qiuyue sealed the jar before, and saw with his own eyes that the jar was full of duck eggs. How come they have all turned into stones now?
With such doubts, Song Zeyuan opened five or six jars in a row, but there was not a single preserved egg inside. It seemed as if God was playing a huge joke on him.
"It's Song Anning! It must be her. She replaced the duck eggs in the jar so early! She just wants us to starve to death!"
He cursed and kicked the jar hard. He looked so crazy that he didn't look like a five-year-old child at all, but rather like a mentally ill devil.
"Xiangxiang, you've noticed something's wrong, right? This isn't my brother at all."
But Xiangxiang didn't say anything. She had just seen Song Zeyuan look scary, so she quietly checked his body. Everything was normal. Could it be that he had inherited Wang Ying'er's memory and had some kind of mental illness?
This is the only shortcoming of the system's detection, which is that it cannot detect mental illnesses, so she cannot answer the master's questions.
"Master, do you think there is a possibility that Ayuan has also gone crazy?"
"Impossible! He's perfectly conscious, and I think he's even smarter and calmer than before."
Song Anning said firmly that she felt something was wrong when she was in the field, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
That's why I turned into an animal and followed, just to see what the trick was.
Time passed little by little. The sky was overcast all day, with large patches of dark clouds piling up. Raindrops finally fell in the evening.
As the moisture in the air increased, the frogs at the foot of the mountain and in the pond became active. When it got dark, the air was filled with croaking sounds.
At this time, several frogs coming down from the mountain were approaching Song Anning. When they saw a female frog lying in the grass, they all became excited.
"Xiangxiang, quickly open the protective shield, your master is in danger!"
"Hahaha, the shield is useless. They like you and have no ill intentions towards you, so the shield can't bounce off them."
"..."
"Then quickly turn on the animal communication function!"
"Hahaha, great, it's already opened. I'm going to start eating the melon."
After turning on the communication system, she instantly understood the strange calls of several male frogs.
"Laying eggs? Reproducing? Such a healthy female..."
Song Anning looked up at the sky in silence and shouted fiercely at the frogs, "Get out! Get out! Stay away from me! If you make any more noise, I'll stew you!"
"..."
Several frogs took two steps back in fear, feeling a little wronged. What a vicious female frog...
As the night deepened, several waves of frogs came around Song Anning for a while, but they were all scared away by her.
She made up her mind that if this continued, she would have to change back and go home! She wanted to go home!
Song Anyue, who hadn't eaten anything the whole day, cried for a long time. Xiangxiang said that the two little ones had no bedding and could only sit on the straw. Song Anyue was sleepy and hungry and had fallen asleep.
I thought the night would pass like this, but I didn't expect Song Zeyuan to open the door in the dark, look outside vigilantly, and then sneak out.
"It's so late, where is he going?"
Song Anning asked Xiangxiang to check the surroundings carefully, but there was nothing. After Song Zeyuan left the courtyard, he looked around again and then walked quickly up the mountain.
"Master, Xiangxiang is a little scared..."
Song Anning comforted Xiangxiang and followed her, pushing her hind legs hard. It was no wonder Xiangxiang was scared; she felt uneasy.
Song Zeyuan didn't sleep at night and sneaked up the mountain. It was definitely not something a five-year-old child could do.
He walked a long way in one breath until he crossed the back mountain and stood under a big tree. He took out a bamboo whistle from his arms and blew it rhythmically twice.
Not long after, a black figure appeared in front of Song Zeyuan.
The man was tall, with a black cloak covering his entire body and a silver ghost mask on his face. If Yu Xiaochuan was here, he would definitely find that this man's outfit was exactly the same as those on the island.
Song An Ning lay motionless in the grass beside her, her eyes fixed on the man who had just appeared.
Song Zeyuan fell to his knees and looked at the man in front of him longingly.
"I did everything you asked. Can you give me the things now?"
Song Anning widened her eyes. The brother in front of her was completely different from the one she remembered. Especially the voice and tone of his speech just now were so unfamiliar.
"It's not enough to just do this. Where are the things I want? Did you bring them?"
The man's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, similar to the voice of Yu Xiaohai she met last time. Ali's men had already started attacking her family.
Song Zeyuan shook his head and gave a brief account of what happened today, specifically mentioning that the jars were filled with stones and no preserved eggs.
“Waste, you must first give me what I want, and then I can get what you want.
And this thing, find a chance to put it in each family's well, and come back to me when you've finished this."
"Please, give me some silver, even a few coppers. My sister and I have no food to eat.
And that little pill, can you give me at least half of it, please, please."
Song Zeyuan knelt on the ground and kowtowed humbly, but the person standing beside him remained indifferent. He just took out a small bottle and shook it under Song Zeyuan's nose.
"Do you like the taste? You must be obedient and do as I say, then you will receive countless silver coins and pills.
Good boy, go do it..."
His voice was bewitching, like magic, causing Song Zeyuan to stand up in a daze, take the thing in his hand, and walk down the mountain mechanically.
Song An Ning had no intention of letting him go. He had come all the way here, so how could he just leave like that?
She pushed her hind legs hard, jumped forward several steps, and called out to Xiangxiang with her mind:
"Xiangxiang, put this guy in the living creature compartment!"
The mind-reading ability has been used up today. If I had known earlier, I would have used it on Song Zeyuan. I would definitely have known something more important.
But it doesn’t matter, there is still tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, she has plenty of time.
After she shouted, Xiangxiang started to move, and in the blink of an eye, the man was in the backpack.
"Take a good look. Is there anyone else around? If not, you can spend more money to expand the scope of the search."
"One hundred taels of silver!"
"Okay, let's get started..."
After the money was deducted, Xiangxiang's inspection range had extended to ten kilometers around, but apart from this person, the only other person on the mountain was Song Zeyuan who was walking down the mountain.
After taking the person in, Song An Ning changed back to her original appearance and followed Song Zeyuan in big strides.