After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

At the same time, Yuan Ge had pushed open the door that looked like it might fall down at any time.

The creaking sound of the door was accompanied by Jin Yunian's exclamation. He turned around and saw that Xu Chengjin and Lin Mu had chased out. He then retracted his gaze and looked back into the house.

At the door was a three-person-high Buddha statue. The temple had been abandoned for many years, and the statue was covered with layer upon layer of dust. The air smelled very bad, with a bloody, moldy, and strange odor. The smell was very strong, and the bloodstains in the room had not completely dried up. Apart from that, the entire temple was empty, without a single person, alive or dead.

Yuan Ge lowered her head and lifted her skirt, carefully avoiding the bloodstains on the ground and walked into the ruined temple. She looked around... There were broken straw mats scattered all over the place, pots and pans with broken corners, and a few rotten buns thrown away in the corner. There was also a fire under the Buddha statue with a rack on it. On the rack was a dirty kettle with a thin layer of ash on the thick scale inside.

Haven't used it for a long time.

Looking at the messy bloodstains on the ground and walls, although there are quite a few, there is no concentrated, large-scale splashing.

"Could it be that the fight was caused by an uneven distribution of the spoils? If that were the case, not everyone would be missing... Where can the injured, even the seriously injured, go?" Yuan Ge stood with his arms folded, muttering to himself as he looked at Song Wenyuan. The two said in unison, "Infirmary." Even if the injured were not sent to the clinic for treatment, someone had to buy medicine.

They are different from ordinary beggars. These people helped sell wine and should have saved a lot of money, so they should not be unable to afford even medicine for their injuries.

Song Wenyuan pulled the little girl who was looking around to his side, then turned around and instructed the flames that had just been inspected around the ruined temple, "Send someone to keep an eye on the major pharmacies in the city, and pay attention to the people who go to buy medicine for external injuries during this period." After saying that, he noticed that the little girl next to him was still craning her neck to look around, with the thick gauze wrapped around her neck for what she called "acting more realistically", making her look like a doll with a small head and a thick neck.

Quirky.

Song Wenyuan lowered his eyes and glanced at her, "What are you looking at? Aren't you afraid of spraining your neck again?" It seems like this little girl can't stop for a moment, or are all little girls nowadays so clever?

"Don't you think someone is watching us?"

Song Wenyuan could not notice anything - the little girl was already close to him, and now she was whispering even closer, almost leaning on his chest. It was not so much that he "heard" the sound as it was the trembling coming from his chest. What hit his nose was not the smell of blood, but the scent of soapberry and rose in the little girl's hair, which was rich and fragrant when he sniffed it.

Just like her, there is always a heavy and colorful background.

Song Wenyuan's whole body was stiff. How could he notice if anyone was staring at him? He just shook his head blankly, "It must be an illusion... Yanhuo has checked it all."

Was it an illusion? Yuan Ge looked back again. The empty temple was in full view, and the rickety door was open. But somehow, she felt as if someone was looking at her. The look was not malicious, but mostly curious.

Is it really just an illusion?

"I don't know what kind of martial arts this little girl has learned. She's as slippery as a loach. Lin Mu and I have been chasing her for so long, but we couldn't even catch a piece of her clothes." After a while, Xu Chengjin came back panting, with his hands on his waist and fanning himself quickly. As he spoke, he took out a hairpin from his bosom and handed it to Yuan Ge very naturally, "You women's things fell on the way and I picked them up. Can you tell what's wrong with them?"

It was a common white jade hairpin, decorated with a few tiny gemstones, and the workmanship was not too delicate. Yuan Ge lowered his head and sniffed it, "The hairpin is nothing fancy, but the fragrance is somewhat familiar... I smelled it when I went to Zuihuanlou before. The whole Zuihuanlou was filled with this scent. The girls in the entertainment places all like to use it... to please themselves."

"So, it's the girl from Zuihuanlou?" Xu Chengjin wondered who was behind Zuihuanlou, and thought to himself that Wen Qian couldn't be the one who could talk about going to Zuihuanlou so naturally. Once he became suspicious, he felt that this person had flaws everywhere, as if he had never thought of covering it up, or maybe he was just being confident... After all, even if he shouted about this kind of thing on the street, no one would believe it, right?

His eyes fell on the two people who were very close to each other, and for no reason, as if burned, he shrank back... But why did it have to be Wen Qian?

How could it be the Wen Qian of today?

He stood there with his brows downcast, his eyes only focused on the one-foot space in front of his toes, the fan in his hand also stopped, and the whole person felt as if he had suddenly drooped. Song Wenyuan glanced at him thoughtfully, then retracted his gaze to look at the little girl in front of him, and smiled faintly, "Mr. Xu is a frequent visitor of Zuihuanlou. Whether it is the smell of Zuihuanlou or not, let him smell it himself... Things in romantic places are always a bit mysterious, girls, don't touch them."

As he said this, he took the hairpin from Wen Qian's hand without saying anything and threw it back like trash, "Smell it."

The few remaining feelings of sadness disappeared instantly when the other person threw a meat bone to the stray dog.

Xu Chengjin bared his teeth at Song Wenyuan, revealing an inconspicuous fang that was never shown on weekdays, and said with a fake smile, "My nose has been blocked these past two days, I can't smell it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a slap fell on his head, from Master Jin behind him, "Serious business, it smells good! Stop making trouble!"

Here comes another one teasing the dog.

Xu Chengjin clenched his teeth and thought to himself what sins he had committed in his previous life, to have to meet such a few conscienceless people in this life. He had to do all the dirty work, and they were only responsible for shouting and yelling... That was fine, but now there was one more. Although he had already cursed the ancestors of the Song family and started to talk about the ancestors of the Jin family, he was honest on the surface. He lowered his head and sniffed. The smell was very light and vague. He was not sure whether he had Yuan Ge's dog nose. He sniffed hard again and nodded hesitantly, "Probably... right."

Not just "probably", but also "maybe".

This is unreliable stuff. Jin Yunian rolled his eyes and muttered, "I have wasted all these years in Zuihuanlou..." The last syllable was lost in the other party's glaring eyes. He understood, that look was called, "If you can do it, then do it!"

If he really went to Zuihuanlou, not to mention his own mother, even the old man would break his legs.

Jin Yunian stopped moving instantly.