Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands-Chapter 495: A similar case

Gu Qinfan was filled with resentment and anger when he heard Xiang Zhu’s words. He knew that this stepfather of his was not a good person! So what if he was used to drinking this bitter poison? It didn’t change the fact that it hurt. He glared at the mer but Xiang Zhu wasn’t bothered by his anger.

He was bold and unscrupulous. After all, the entire village was behind him; who dared to report him? And since Gu Qinfan was the key to getting the money and comfort that they wanted, the entire village would keep him under their control.

He pinched Gu Qinfan’s mouth and poured the black liquid inside until not even a drop was left. After he was done, Xiang Zhu patted his hands and dusted the dirt off his clothes. Without even bothering to spare Gu Qinfan another glance, he stepped out of the wooden shed.

Poor Gu Qinfan was left on hay-covered ground. His hands were wrapped around his waist and he was glaring at the mer who had walked away. One of these days, he would make the entire village pay for the things that they had done to him.

Just wait.

Luo Huian was not aware of this little episode; she slept the entire train journey and when their station arrived, she washed her face and stepped out of the coach with a bag in her hands and a tired look on her face.

She was quite excited to ride a train when Luo Qingling told her that this small village didn’t have an airport and only a small train station, but after being woken up several times due to the yelling and screaming of the children, Luo Huian no longer felt any excitement.

In fact, she was dreading riding a train again. If possible, she wanted to fly back to the city instead of using a train.

"Here," Luo Qingling handed Luo Huian a small cup of coffee that she had purchased from the local shop near the station. "Make do with it for the time being; I will go and look for an inn where we can stay."

Luo Huian yawned and nodded. She too wanted to take a nap and didn’t refuse Luo Qingling’s goodwill.

"Should we go and look for a place to eat something first?" Duan Jia Xu spoke up when he heard Luo Qinglig say that she was going to look for an inn.

When everyone turned to look at him, he blushed slightly and said, "I am not hungry, but my mother once taught me that if we want to find out more details and information, we should take a small trip to a restaurant or something of the sort."

"As long as we are generous, the owner of the small restaurant will tell us whatever we want to know."

Luo Huian and Luo Qingling exchanged a look with one another. They agreed with Duan Jia Xu’s suggestion. They didn’t know anything about this small village because there was no information about this village on the internet, which struck them as weird.

No matter how backward this village was, how could there be no information? At least the name of the village should have popped up when they were searching about it, but they found absolutely nothing!

If not for Dong Geming, who told them where they could buy the tickets, they would have never found out that a train came to this village. In fact, it would be better to say that the train came to a stop at a small town.

As for the village, it was still fifty kilometres away from the town. There were no buses or trains that drove to that village; according to Dong Geming, in the past, the village did have a small bus that used to drive back and forth to the city and the village but after a little incident, the bus was stopped.

And what was the incident? No one knew about it.

There were countless rumours but no one knew whether the rumours were true or not.

"Then let’s go." Luo Huian raised her hand and said, "I want to eat spicy snails."

"It’s morning." Luo Qingling reminded Luo Huian.

"Who says that we cannot eat spicy snails in the morning?" Luo Huian asked with a frown.

"No one did but if you eat spicy food first thing in the morning, you will end up getting pimples," Luo Qingling kindly reminded her sister. "If you don’t want your face to get scarred, try to avoid something spicy to flare up your stomach."

Luo Huian: "..." Why were there so many rules!?

In the end, Luo Huian had no choice but to agree. They found a small restaurant that sold buns and porridge, where Luo Qingling helped them order four bowls of porridge and a few buns for the little fox. Though she didn’t like the dungeon spirit, she wouldn’t stoop so low to starve it.

To make the owner happy, Luo Qingling even asked for some noodles and stir-fry dishes.

The owner of the restaurant was a mer. When he saw the large order, he was beaming happily and started working at once. By the time he was finished cooking, an hour had already passed. However, neither Luo Huian nor Luo Qingling rushed the mer.

Since they wanted to collect information from the mer, they had to naturally treat this mer like their ancestors. After all, a wise woman once said: When an opportunity arises, don’t back down, even if you have to make a donkey your father.

Thus, the two sisters politely waited for the meal.

Once the mer was done, he brought the cooked meal and placed the dishes on the table one by one.

With a smile, he said, "I am sorry it took such a long time for me to finish cooking your order."

"It’s alright," Luo Qingling, who was skilled in interpersonal relationships, smiled at the mer and said to him, "We were also in the wrong for ordering so many things at once."

When the mer heard Luo Qingling’s apology, his unsettled heart eased a little. He then waved his hand and said to Luo Qingling, "It’s nothing. This is my job; there is no need to apologise." He paused and asked, "You don’t seem like you are from the town; are you here on a vacation?"

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"Yes, one of my colleagues told me that there is a village around this town where the scenery is really good." Luo Qingling mixed the noodles with the sauce and continued speaking, "We are here to enjoy the scenery and peace of the village. After all, you hardly find any peace in the city."

As soon as she finished speaking, the owner of the restaurant looked at her with a subtle gaze.

Seeing this, Luo Qingling paused and asked politely, "Is something the matter?"

The mer who was standing next to their table sighed and looked around before lowering his head and whispering, "Are you talking about the small village that’s on the outskirts of the town?"

"That’s right."

The owner’s expression turned even worse after Luo Huian replied to him. He bit his lip and said to them, "If you ask me, you shouldn’t go there."

"Why? What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with that village?" Luo Huian asked with a tentative voice. As soon as the mer looked at her face, he blushed furiously. Even though he knew that it was wrong as he was already married, he still wanted to do anything in his power to please this woman.

Before he knew it, he was already speaking. "I don’t know if you have heard about this but the villagers of that village are crazy. I don’t know what happened but those people suddenly locked themselves inside their village and never stepped outside."

"They have no connection with the outside world... what’s more..."

"What’s more?" Duan Jia Xu prodded.

"Those who go inside the village never return," the mer owner finished his sentence dramatically. He looked around his restaurant and then continued, "I have seen a few of my customers go to the village but they never returned. The families of those tourists came to look for them but they were turned away by the villagers, who said that the women and mer married someone in their village and moved."

"They even blamed the families of the tourists for taking away their children. Because of this the villagers stopped letting outsiders inside their village."

"Is it true?"

"I think it’s all lies," said the mer owner with a snort. "I think that those people were killed or sold by the villagers. How come everyone who went to the village married someone and went missing?"

"No matter how good-looking the mers of the village might be, why would a city woman look at them? Similarly, why would a woman look for a village mer?"

The mer then shrugged and remarked, "But no one knows the truth nor do we have any evidence; thus, the matter has been left alone for years."

As soon as Luo Qingling finished listening to the words of the mer, her expression changed slightly. She had heard of such a case!