Trick

With a lot on her mind, Wanwan walked slowly to the kitchen. Before she entered the house, she heard a low conversation in the kitchen.

"Son, you have been in Qiuci with the master for more than half a year. You must have learned a lot of skills, right?" It seems that it is the cook.

"Well... mother, the master said that the son's mind is quite flexible. Let the son study hard. Maybe he will hand over the shop to the son in the future." It seems that the cook's son has just returned from Qiuci with the master of the Lin family.

"Really? God, it's great..." The cook's voice was almost choked.

"Alas... mother, the son doesn't want to go to Qiuci anymore..." The son's voice was extremely discouraged.

"What's wrong?" The cook was surprised.

"Mother... the mirage in the desert that night scared my son to death... If it weren't for the fact that I have been doing business in the desert for many years and have experience, you would never see your son again!" The son's voice was still trembling slightly, as if he was still frightened.

The cook was surprised, "What happened?"

The son sighed, "It was noon that day, and we were all drowsy from the sun. Just when we were exhausted, a five-story building with carved beams and painted buildings suddenly appeared in the desert. There were countless beautiful women dancing enchantingly on the building, and there were beautiful songs that went straight into our ears... At that time, all the people who followed the master, even the horses, were stunned and couldn't move. A man from Qiuci who followed couldn't hold back and ran straight over... Thanks to the master's rich experience, he raised sand to block our sight and shouted loudly for us to cover our ears with cloth strips, so that we could walk away from the building... And the Qiuci man, when we found him, was already a dried-up man..."

Wanwan's heart was shaken! Mirages, mirages... Aren't these common at the seaside in my hometown? It is said that the breath of the sea clams condensed into clouds and mist, forming an illusion in the air. If someone believed it and walked into it, they would become the food of the clams... How come it appeared in the desert? !

The cook paused for a while and asked again, "What does the mirage look like?"

The son sighed, "Mom, let me tell you this, don't you think our house is like a huge mirage? There is a lack of water in the desert. Even among the wealthy families, which one is like our Lin Mansion, with small bridges and flowing water, green trees and red flowers everywhere? Look at the tiles on the wall and the scaly tiles on the roof. Which one looks like the desert in the Western Regions?"

The cook said hurriedly, "Son, don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense..."

Wan Wan tried to hold the teacup steady in her hand, and the conversation between the mother and son in the kitchen came again, "Mom, it's you, don't you find that the young master is different from before?"

The cook lowered her voice quickly, "Son, don't talk nonsense! The master's family is not something we can talk nonsense about. The young master is not the same as before. Master, there is no big change. He just encountered "sand haze" when riding in the desert. He fell off the sand hill and broke his leg. You have been away for more than half a year, so you are not used to it when you come back. What's the difference!" The son muttered, "Master's leg is fine. You all said it was broken by riding a horse; but what about Master's eyes? Master and Madam are both from the Central Plains. How can Master have a pair of green eyes? Even if this is the Western Regions, how can the master's family have Western blood? ! I think that Master looks like the demon in the mirage!" The voice of the cook suddenly rose, "Who, who said that Master's eyes are, are green? ..." Wanwan's body trembled violently, and the teacups on the tray trembled and collided with each other, making a clanging sound. A vigilant voice came from the kitchen, "Who?!"

Wanwan didn't care about the teacup and tray. She threw the cup to the ground with a clatter, and ran into the bamboo forest next to the kitchen. The bamboo leaves rustled past her ears, and Wanwan's heart was already in a mess. How could she care about the pain in her body?

Mirage, sea, killing people - although Wanwan didn't want to connect these chains, these links kept appearing in front of her, as if forcing her to connect them together!

In this way, there is only one possibility, only one answer! That is - the mermaid also came from the East China Sea to Loulan in the desert, and used his magic to transform into a mirage in the desert to lure passers-by, and then eat them!

Wanwan ran desperately, tears flying with the wind. Could it be that Lin Meisheng is the mermaid? Or, the mermaid possessed Lin Meisheng? !

Why did the mermaid come to the desert? Doesn't the mermaid need water? Why did he ask for trouble? Could it be that all this is related to him?

The dream of that night came to her, and Wanwan seemed to have fallen into a dream, with the mermaid's voice rumbling in her ears, "I just want to find you, find you..."

Suddenly, she stumbled and fell to the ground with a plop, crying out of her throat - if this is true, if she really led the mermaid to Loulan, then those people who died in vain in the desert, whether it was the husband of the crazy Wang family's sister-in-law, or the man from Qiuci mentioned by the cook's son just now, they, they were all implicated by her!

"Hey, the one in front, don't run! Who are you? What did you hear?!" The cook's son's voice came from behind, and it seemed that he was about to reach behind him!

Wanwan wanted to get up, but found that her legs were as hard as lead and she couldn't get up! Seeing that the figure of the cook's son was already a few steps away, under the heavy bamboo shadows, she could clearly see the cold expression on his face!