Chapter 70 Lamb (Part 1)
(You take off your blindfold.)
(Your left eyeball is red and swollen, and you notice a black flash not far away.)
(You come to the whirlpool and reach out to touch it.)
(The burning sensation in your eyes disappears immediately.)
(You find yourself standing in front of a grocery store.)
(Boss: “What do you want from me?”)
(You: “I just saw something here, maybe it’s my hallucination?”)
(The boss didn't say anything, just nodded.)
(You try to leave, but you find that as long as you move away from the store, your eyes will burn again.)
(You know this is the eyepatch's clue to you.)
(You are back in the store.)
(Boss: "What do you want to buy? Almond water?")
(You think for a moment.)
(You: "Boss, do you know where to buy mutton?")
(Boss: "You can buy mutton at the market. This is a small shop.")
(You: “I mean the lamb.”)
(The boss shook his head.)
(Boss: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Go away.”)
(You: “ What ?”)
(Boss: "If you don't leave, I'll call the police. Why would you buy this kind of stuff at such a young age? Get out of here now, or I'll call the police and have you arrested!")
(The boss shakes his fist.)
(You pouted, covered your left eye and left.)
(You rested for a while on the side of the road, and the swelling in your eye gradually disappeared.)
(You speculated that mutton is a slang term, and the boss should also be doing black intermediary work.)
(In some places, lamb and beef represent different kinds of drugs.)
(If this is true, then my parents were actually breaking the law by running a mutton business, which also confirms what my grandmother said: my parents betrayed their conscience.)
(You wait for a while, and the suona sound starts again.)
(You quickly found a place to hide.)
(The wedding procession appeared again, but this time my parents' car was not among them.)
(The Rat Bridegroom looks around on his horse and walks toward the store.)
(The Rat Bridegroom got off his horse and asked the boss to buy a bottle of almond water. Then the wedding procession disappeared.)
(You paused for a moment and took a sip of almond water.)
(You see the rat groom and the wedding procession again.)
(The Rat Bridegroom did not leave, but buried his head in digging a hole under the poplar tree next to the store. There was actually a wooden board under the tree, so he lifted it up and jumped in.)
(After a while, the Rat Bridegroom came out carrying a small suitcase and covered the wooden board with dirt again.)
(The wedding procession set out again and left the town.)
(You quickly ran to the poplar tree and dug out the plank again.)
(The wood becomes blurry in your vision and you take another sip of almond water.)
(You lift the wooden board and there is a bottomless passage underneath.)
(You grit your teeth and jump down.)
(It was pitch black in front of you, and you fumbled for a long time before you found the light switch.)
(This is a huge cellar, about the size of a classroom.)
(In the cellar were rows of shelves filled with bloody pieces of meat.)
(The pungent smell of decay and blood makes you frown.)
(This is known as mutton.)
(You looked closely at the texture of these pieces of meat and found that they were no different from ordinary mutton.)
(You can’t be sure if the lamb has any other symbolic meaning.)
(You walk to the end of the cellar and find a desk. You find a document on the desk, which is covered with thick fog and you can only make out part of the writing.)
(***contract)
(***Cost is***)
(Contractor: Gu XX.)
(This should be a contract. The fog covering it may mean that it is controlled by the Unspeakable. The cat bride and mouse groom may be the Unspeakable of this copy.)
(The content of the contract is unknown at this time, you speculate that the contracting party is your father.)
(You open the drawer of your desk and find another eyepatch inside. )
(You suddenly feel a dampness on your head.)
(You looked up and saw a large piece of squirming mutton on the roof, blood dripping from it.)
(All the lamb on the shelf falls to the ground and crawls towards you.)
(Mutton falls from the sky, covering your mouth and nose.)
(You feel suffocated.)
(Your eyes go dark.)
(you are dead.)
(The deduction is over!)
Gu Yi opened his eyes and looked into his neighbor's eyes.
“Isn’t this Xiao Gu?”
"Uh... hello." Gu Yi waved to his neighbor awkwardly, "I'll hide here for a while. Can you please not tell my parents?"
"Fine."
The neighbor blinked and pretended not to see Gu Yi.
Gu Yi squatted behind the door, listening to the suona sound gradually fading away, then ran out from the neighbor's yard.
There is a cellar under the poplar tree behind the store. In the cellar is the other half of the eyepatch, so the eyepatch will feel hot when it approaches the store.
The eye patch cannot function as it should for the time being, probably because it is incomplete.
There is strange mutton in the cellar. Before entering, you must find a way to deal with the strange mutton.
"So...what exactly is mutton?"
Gu Yi touched his nose and muttered to himself.
The neighbor tilted his head and looked over, smiling, "Xiao Gu, do you want to eat mutton?"
"ah?"
"We just happened to be cooking mutton for lunch. Would you like to try it?"
“No, no.”
Gu Yi waved his hand, and then he smelled a fishy smell coming from the room.
I was just thinking about the deduction scene , so I didn't notice this.
"What a shame." The neighbor shook his head and said, "It's so rare for our town to have a market. It's not easy to buy mutton."
"The market? Where is the market?"
"Don't you know? In Caishikou in the north, the vendors will go back tomorrow."
Gu Yi nodded.
There are no clues in the village for now, so why not go to the market?
Gu Yi rode his bike and soon arrived at Caishikou in the north.
There were many vendors at Caishikou, and the crowds made it difficult for Gu Yi to move.
There was a fishy smell on the stall.
There were not many stalls selling local specialties, but there were an outrageous number of vendors selling mutton . You could see one selling mutton almost every two steps you took.
“Mee-mee—”
One vendor even held two live sheep for sale, and there was a long line of people waiting to ask for the price.
“How strange…”
"Mee-mee!"
A lamb bit the rope and ran away, pushing the crowd away.
The townspeople came running over, surrounded the lamb, and pinned it to the ground. The vendor came over with a whip, cursing, and hit the lamb hard twice.
"Mee-mee!"
"Yell, yell, yell, yell, you're the only one who hasn't behaved well along the way. I'm going to punish you by not letting you eat for three days!"
“Mee——”
The lamb was tied up and twisted its body in despair.
Gu Yi and the lamb looked into each other's eyes, and he felt compassion, as if at this moment he and the lamb had a spiritual resonance.
"How much is this sheep?"
