Chapter 1370

Iluna paused, and stuffed the rolled parchment back into her small bag:

"However, judging from the current situation, the church speculates that it is highly likely that a vampire species has appeared locally. Sucking the blood of pure girls, but because of fear of the church's retaliation, they dare not harm their lives. The only doubt is why the victims are all flower-selling girl professions... could it be that the vampire species has some strange obsessive-compulsive disorder?"

"Haven't heard that there is a vampire species population in Lunder Valley. They generally do decent business near Huntington City in the United Kingdom."

Xia De said, although he thought it was possible that it was a vampire species brought over, he instinctively thought that things shouldn't be so simple:

"Lunder Valley is now in turmoil, so it will attract relics related to the earth. Just like the Midehillburg incident and the Pantanal incident, they will attract relics that don't often appear because of the distortion of the local environment. Go and investigate, what clues are there now?"

"The addresses of the girls who have returned home, I have them all here." Iluna stood up and patted her skirt lightly:

"Go and see those girls who have lost their memories, hope to have a harvest."

Every city has traditional slums, and because of the special valley terrain of Lunder Valley, the actual slums are mostly concentrated in the southwest of the city, and small villages that exist attached to the edge of the city.

Lunder Valley City itself is not very square, long along the northeast to southwest direction of the river, and short in other directions, so it is actually very convenient to visit the small villages living outside the city.

Xia De and Iluna then took a carriage at the entrance of the Bountiful Earth Hotel and got off at the edge of the city. When passing through the city walls and gates left over from the ancient city-state era, they also saw police questioning the identities of outsiders, perhaps they were also looking for clues to the missing flower-selling girls.

After leaving the city and crossing the wooden bridge of the moat outside the city gate, 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 carts and donkey carts transporting goods discussed business loudly, and traveling travelers hurried past, covering their noses to cover the smell of urine and the smell of chickens, ducks, and geese.

There are no house numbers in the small village, but the information Iluna got said that the little girl's house she was looking for lived by the river, and there was a dead willow tree at the door.

This is a very obvious feature. After a while, they found the two-story small house surrounded by fences. It is said to be two stories high, but in fact, the first floor is a common adobe house nearby, and the roof is a space simply built with bamboo and wooden boards to shelter from wind and rain. Because of the continuous earthquakes in the past few days, Xia De even felt that those wooden boards were a bit crooked.

A woman carrying a baby and wearing a headscarf was washing clothes on a washboard at the door while chatting with a woman drying quilts next door when they walked over. Iluna had already obtained the certificate of the local police station, and after simply explaining her identity, the woman washing clothes stood up and called the boy running around at the door.

After the boy received the "order", he ran toward the north of the village in cloth shoes with patches. After a while, the little girl Iluna was looking for followed him and ran over, holding a water bucket in her hand, and there was a not-so-big crucian carp in the bucket... The bucket was carried into the house by the boy, and the woman carrying the baby didn't seem to trust Iluna who looked a bit young, so the conversation took place in another corner of the courtyard, ensuring that the girl didn't leave the woman's sight.

A little girl named Mary Kara was a bit nervous, lowering her head and playing with her fingers while talking to Iluna, looking like she didn't want to communicate with strangers very much.

"Mary Kara, right? I am a police officer from the Lunder Valley Police Station, and this is my assistant. This time, it's still related to the week you disappeared. Since the last questioning, have you recalled any new details?"

Iluna said with a notebook, the little girl lowered her head and played with her fingers and couldn't speak, so Xia De searched his pockets, found a piece of white sugar and handed it to her.

The girl glanced at her mother at the gate of the courtyard, and quickly pinched that piece of sugar from Xia De's palm:

"Recalled nothing, like sleeping for a whole week."

"Since then, have you gone to sell flowers again?"

Iluna asked again, the girl shook her head:

"Father and mother said that it was too dangerous, they let me stay at home recently, next time I am taken away by human traffickers, I really won't be able to come back."

Her accent was a bit heavy when she spoke, and Iluna, who had just arrived locally, no matter how good her Karsenrik language was, had to translate in Xia De's low voice to fully understand:

"I see, that's fine."

Iluna looked at Xia De with sorrow, didn't expect that there was really no clue at all:

"Then, do you mind if we touch your forehead? It is said that some girls who came back had symptoms of low fever."

She said again, and after the girl agreed, she touched her forehead with Xia De. Iluna didn't feel anything, but Xia De frowned slightly, he felt the whisper element, but it was very weak. "Then do you have anything else to tell us?"

So Iluna asked again, and the little girl looked at Xia De, and Xia De gave her another piece of sugar knowingly. "If you want to ask for news, you can go to the intersection of Stonemason Street in the city and find little Liana. She is the best at selling flowers among us, and her news is also the most well-informed. If anyone knows the news, it must be her."

For this kind of statement, although Xia De was skeptical, Iluna still wanted to investigate, so the two planned to return to the city. When saying goodbye to the woman carrying the baby, the woman was at the gate of the courtyard, talking to a man who looked like a carpenter. The woman was full of sorrow:

"I know this house can't withstand 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, don't have another earthquake." And the sloppy carpenter was also quite embarrassed:

"I know that everyone didn't have a good time this winter, didn't the thirteen-year-old son of the widow at the head of the village go into the mountains a week ago, and as a result, was slapped to death by a beast with great strength? You also have to consider the village's considerations. If your house collapses, the neighbor Larry's family will also suffer."

"Didn't Larry's family run away from the village because the fish raised in the fish pond in winter died due to water quality?"... The woman asked immediately, the carpenter shook his head:

"But as long as that house still belongs to them, the village has to consider these things... Borrow money to repair your house, although I can ask for very low wages, the material costs still have to be paid, right? My apprentice has petrification plague, now the only carpenter who can work in the village is me. If you don't find me in the last two days, after the weather gets warmer in a few days, I won't have any time at all."

These things they discussed seemed to be related to the disasters in Lunder Valley since this winter.

Iluna looked at Xia De. In just a few sentences, she understood the impact of the disaster on these ordinary people living on this land. She wanted to speak, but was stopped by Xia De.

Xia De knew she wanted to give the woman money. The material cost of repairing this kind of dilapidated house is actually very small. But Xia De thought that things like giving money for nothing, it's better not to do it if you can:

"How much money does it take to repair this house?"

He then walked over and interrupted to ask. The carpenter looked at him and stretched out his fingers: "2 Oer 6 Fenny is enough."

1 Crown equals 7 Oer, 1 Crown also equals 95 Fenny, and 1 Crown can probably be exchanged for about 13 to 14 pounds now. So, this really doesn't need much money.

"Since this is the case, I will lend it to this lady. Although our era doesn't talk about these things, I still have some knightly spirit."

Xia De said, turning to look at the house:

"I know you villagers still need to take out savings to buy seeds and find blacksmiths to repair farm tools during spring plowing, so I will come back to ask for this money in the summer. I will calculate the lowest interest for you, pay me back 2 Oer 19 Fenny in the summer."

Iluna also walked over at this time, listening to Xia De speaking. "I'm not worried that you won't pay back the money."

Xia De pointed to the house:

"Your house is here, and it has been newly repaired, it definitely won't run

. If it runs, it means your family is facing a predicament where even the house can't be wanted, so even if I want you to pay back the money, you can't pay it back. So, lending you this money is relatively safe."

The woman then stammered and wanted to thank him. After all, the house was indeed too dangerous now. She just made excuses to the carpenter not because she didn't want to repair it, but because she really had no money.

Xia De shook his head, took out change from his pocket, and then wrote an IOU, letting the woman press her fingerprint, and then left with Iluna.

"Will you come to take back that money in the summer?"

The seventeen-year-old girl asked curiously, she thought what Xia De did just now was very right. "If I can remember this matter, I will come."

Xia De answered, stuffed the IOU into his pocket casually, and said softly in his heart: "Don't remind me of this matter."

"She" smiled gently. 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 Star Sparse Moon, spring is really coming.

Stonemason Street is the street where the Stonemason Association of Lunder Valley is located. Although it is located in the old city, it is also quite lively with people coming and going. On the way, Xia De explained clearly to Iluna the grievances between the Stonemason Association and the Karsenrik royal family he learned in the past two months, as well as the preparations Margaret made for this.

And when the carriage arrived at Stonemason Street, the coachman didn't turn and stop according to Xia De's request, but stopped the carriage in advance:

"Sir, I'm afraid we can't go forward."

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