The Whispering Verses Chapter 1415: Country life
Chapter 1415 Country Life
Eluna paused and stuffed the roll of parchment back into her small bag:
"However, judging from the current situation, the church speculates that there is a high probability that a vampire has appeared in the local area. It **** the blood of pure virgins, but it does not dare to harm their lives because it is worried about the church's retaliation. The only one The question is, why do the victims all work as flower sellers? Does that vampire have some weird obsessive-compulsive disorder? ”
"I have never heard of a vampire species in the Randall Valley. They usually do serious business in the northern part of the United Kingdom, near the city of Huntingdon."
Xia De said that although he thought it might be a vampire brought by the [Blood Spirit School], he instinctively thought that it couldn't be that simple:
"The land in Randall Valley is now in turmoil, so it will attract relics related to the earth. Just like the Middleburg incident and the Pantanal incident, the distortion of the local environment will attract relics that do not often appear. Go and investigate Wait, what clues are there now?”
"I have the addresses of the girls who have gone home."
Iluna stood up and patted her skirt gently:
"Go and see those girls who have lost their memory. I hope you can gain something."
Every city has slums in the traditional sense, and because of the special valley topography, the actual slums in the Randall Valley are mostly concentrated in the southwest of the city, as well as in small villages that exist on the edge of the city.
Randall Valley City itself is not very square. It is long from northeast to southwest along the river and short in other directions, so it is very convenient to visit the flower girls living in the villages outside the city.
Shad and Eluna then got on the carriage at the entrance of the Fertile Land Hotel and got off at the edge of the city. While passing by the city walls and gates left over from the ancient city-state, I saw police interrogating the identities of outsiders. Perhaps they were also looking for clues about the missing flower girl.
After leaving the city, walk across the wooden bridge over the moat outside the city gate. On the other side of the moat is a small village with dilapidated buildings. On Friday morning, it was quite lively here. Country people preparing to enter the city rested here. The owners of horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts carrying goods were discussing business loudly. Travelers passed by in a hurry, covering their noses to cover their urine. The smell of chicken, duck and goose.
There is no house number in the small village, but the information Iluna received said that the little girl she was looking for lived by the river, and there was a dead willow tree at the door.
This was a fairly obvious feature, and soon they found the two-story small house surrounded by a fence. It is said to be two stories high. In fact, the first floor is a common adobe house nearby, and the roof is simply built with bamboo and wooden boards to shelter from the wind and rain. Because of the continuous earthquakes in the past few days, Xia De even felt that those The boards are a little skewed.
The woman carrying a baby and wearing a headscarf was washing clothes on a washboard at the door when they came over, while chatting with a neighbor's woman who was drying her quilt. Iluna had already obtained her ID from the local police station. After briefly explaining her identity, the woman doing the laundry stood up and stopped the boy running around at the door.
After receiving the "order", the boy ran towards the north of the village on his patched cloth shoes. After a while, the twelve-year-old girl whom Iluna was looking for ran up with him, carrying a bucket in her hand. Inside the bucket was a small crucian carp.
The boy carried the bucket into the house, and the woman carrying the baby didn't seem to trust the young Iluna, so the conversation was held in another corner of the yard to ensure that the girl did not leave the woman. Sight.
The little girl named Mary Kala lowered her head nervously and played with her fingers while talking to Iluna. She didn't seem to want to communicate with strangers.
"Mary Carla, right? I am a police officer from the Randall Valley Police Department, and this is my assistant. This visit is still related to the matter of your disappearance for a week. Since being questioned last time, Did you recall the new details?"
Eluna said while holding a notebook. The little girl lowered her head and played with her fingers and was speechless, so Shade rummaged through his pocket and found a white sugar cube and handed it to her.
The girl glanced at her mother at the door of the yard, and quickly pinched the piece of candy from Shade's hand:
“I can’t recall anything, it’s like I slept for a whole week.”
"Have you ever sold flowers since then?"
Eluna asked again, the girl shook her head:
"My father and mother said it was too dangerous. They asked me to stay at home recently. If I am taken away by human traffickers next time, I really won't be able to come back."
Her accent is a bit thick when she speaks, and Iluna, who is new to the local area, no matter how good her Kasonlik is, can only be fully understood by Shade's low-pitched translation:
"That's okay."
Iluna glanced at Shade sadly, but she didn’t expect that there was really no clue at all:
"So, do you mind if we touch your forehead? It is said that some girls who came back have symptoms of low fever."
She added, and after the girl agreed, she and Shade touched her forehead. Eluna felt nothing, while Shade frowned slightly. He felt the whisper element, but it was very weak.
"So do you have anything else to tell us?"
So Iluna asked again, and the little girl looked at Shade, who gave her another piece of candy knowingly.
"If you want to ask for information, you can go to the intersection of Mason Street in the city and find little Lianna. She is the best florist among us, and she is also the most informed. If anyone knows the information, it must be It's her."
Although Shade was skeptical about this statement, Iluna still wanted to investigate, so the two planned to return to the city. When he said hello to the woman carrying the baby on her back and left, the woman was talking to a man who looked like a carpenter at the door of the yard, with a sad look on her face:
"I know this house won't survive the next earthquake, but we really have no money."
She turned to look at the second floor of the house:
"Now I can only pray to the gods to prevent another earthquake."
The carpenter with a scruffy beard is also in a bit of trouble:
"I know that everyone is having a hard time this winter. Didn't the thirteen-year-old son of the village widow go up the mountain just a week ago and was beaten to death by an unknown beast with great force? You also need strength. The village considers that if your house collapses, your neighbor Larry’s family will also suffer.”
“Didn’t Larry’s family run away from the village because all the fish they raised in the fish pond in winter died due to water quality problems?”
The woman asked immediately, and the carpenter shook his head:
"But as long as the house still belongs to them, the village must consider these things and borrow money to repair your house. Although I can ask for a very low salary, the material cost still has to be paid, right? Mine The apprentice has contracted the petrified plague. Now I am the only carpenter in the village who can work. If you don't come to me in the past two days, I will have no time at all when the weather gets warmer in a few days."
The things they talked about seemed to be related to the disaster in the Randall Valley since this winter.
Iluna looked at Shade. In just a few words, she understood the impact of the disaster on the ordinary people living in this land. She wanted to speak, but Shade stopped her.
Xia De knew that she wanted to give the woman money. The cost of materials to repair such a dilapidated house was actually very small. But Xia De believes that if you can’t do something like giving money for free, don’t do it:
"How much will it cost to repair this house?"
He then walked over and interrupted to ask. The carpenter looked at him and stretched out his finger:
"2 ohms and 6 pfennig is enough."
1 krone is equal to 7 euros, 1 krone is also equal to 95 pfennigs, and 1 krone can now be exchanged for about 13 to 14 pounds. So, it doesn’t really cost a lot of money.
"In this case, I will lend it to this lady. Although we don't talk about this anymore in this era, I still have some chivalry."
Xia De said, turning around and taking a look at the house:
"I know that you villagers need to use your savings to buy seeds and find a blacksmith to repair farm tools during spring plowing, so I will come back in the summer to ask for the money back. I will give you the lowest interest and pay me back 2 eur in the summer. 19Finney."
Eluna also came over at this time and listened to Shade's words.
"I'm not worried about you not paying back the money."
Shad pointed to the house:
"Your house is here, and it has been newly renovated. It will definitely not run away. If it runs away, it means that your family is facing the dilemma of not being able to even get the house. Even if I want you to pay back the money, you still have to pay it back. No. So, it’s relatively safe to lend you this money.”
The woman then stammered and wanted to thank her. After all, that house was indeed too dangerous now. She just said that the carpenter didn't want to repair it, but that he really didn't have the money.
Shad shook his head, took out the change from his pocket, then wrote an IOU, asked the woman to put her fingerprints on it, and then left with Iluna.
"Will you come and take back that money in the summer?"
The seventeen-year-old girl asked curiously. She thought what Shade had just done was right.
"If I could remember this, I would come."
Xia De replied, stuffing the IOU into his pocket and whispering in his heart:
"Don't remind me about this."
"She" smiled softly. Although the air in the countryside was a bit unbearable, the wind in the countryside was so gentle. Today is the last day of the Moon of Thin Stars, and spring is really coming.
Mason Street is the street where the Randall Valley Masons Association is located. Although it is located in the old city, it is quite lively with people coming and going. On the way, Shade explained to Iluna clearly what he had learned about the grudge between the Stonemasons Association and the Kasenlik royal family in the past two months, as well as Princess Margaret's preparations for this.
When the carriage arrived at Mason Street, the driver did not turn and stop as Shade asked. Instead, he stopped the carriage in advance:
"Sir, I'm afraid we can't go any further."