Being hunted down as soon as you pass through

"Bang—crash—slap—"

This burst of noise grabbed everyone's attention, except for Gu Chensheng who had been looking at this side, Song Erniang stopped arguing, Mu Yichen stopped explaining, Zhang Bingbiao couldn't care less about listening, they all followed the sound come over.

With the sound of debris falling to the ground, everyone was silent for a while.

"Song Erniang." It was Mu Yichen's suppressed angry voice that broke the silence, "How do you explain?"

——Appearing behind the cover of mats, bamboo poles, and chopping firewood is a five or six-foot-high, two-foot-wide hole with messy edges, which is big enough for one person to pass through without effort.Another courtyard can be seen through the entrance of the cave. Obviously, this is where Chen Jinru got lost.

"This... I don't know about it, it's none of my business." Erniang Song's aura suddenly softened, but she immediately calmed down a little, "These things have been piled up in this yard since I bought them. I didn’t clean up the hindrance, who knew it would be opened later. I said why the mat was piled up so big, no wonder the money was so easy to talk about at that time..."

The four of them were no longer in the mood to listen to Song Erniang's explanation. Fu Changge went through the hole, followed by the rest.

Mu Yichen was anxious, and the second one came out of the hole, but almost bumped into Fu Changge, "Fu Shaoxia..." Mu Yichen was just wondering why Fu Changge stopped and didn't make room, so he looked up at the yard. The scene inside, also stunned——

Cobweb dust, dead leaves and rotting wood, coupled with broken bricks and tiles, this is obviously not a place for people to live.

"...Besides, the yard has been deserted for a long time, and I haven't seen anyone coming in or out since I moved in." Song Erniang's voice came through the courtyard wall, "...half of the yard is broken, there is no pavement and there is even a back street. I wish the house was submerged, and I can't even live in it. Then someone would buy it and rent it, and Miss Chen would go there if she has nothing to do..."

"This..." Zhang Bingbiao and Gu Chensheng also entered this courtyard, "Yeah, what is she doing here, Junior Sister?" Zhang Bingbiao asked suspiciously. He looked around, but he didn't see any newly broken bricks or tiles—— In such a dilapidated place, if there is a fight, there must be a lot of scattered bits and pieces.

There were no traces of fighting, and it was basically certain that Chen Jinru had come here. Could it be that she was putting on the rouge and not picking it up, and she got here by herself——Zhang Bingbiao had a very absurd idea in his mind.

"Ms. Chen must have discovered something, so she followed here." Fu Changge said.

"Then you mean, Jinru is himself..." Fu Changge's thoughts coincided with Zhang Bingbiao's, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by another voice.

"Hey, heroes, do you have anything else to do? If not, I can go back to look at the store." Song Erniang's high-pitched voice came from the other side, and no one answered, but she still said, "Oh, then I can go back gone."

Zhang Bingbiao shook his head, trying to shake the aftermath of that sharp voice out of his mind, "Jin Ru followed her by herself...but she didn't tell my uncle about anything..."

"Forget about that for now." Mu Yichen said in a deep voice, "Whether it's Jinru's girl or the people she followed, they have all left this broken courtyard now. The most urgent thing is to know where they went."

"There are footprints here." Gu Chensheng remained silent, and at this moment, he tapped his finger twice along the traces.

Hearing this, Zhang Bingbiao immediately stepped forward to check. There were some mud stains on the ground, and there were faint footprints on it, but they could not be seen clearly. "There should be two people standing here...or three." Zhang Bingbiao followed I walked around the yard, but found no other clues, "It seems that there are no footprints left by my junior sister." Even though the woman is wearing boots, the footprints left by the woman are still very different from those of the man, at least in terms of size. Excellent resolution.

"Here." Fu Changge walked back to the hole in the courtyard wall, "Is this Miss Chen's?" Fu Changge pointed to a trace of apricot-colored cloth on the bricks and tiles on the ground.

"Miss Chen must have been hiding behind the mat and listening to the movement in the yard. When she heard someone leaving, she hurriedly opened the mat and got in to chase after her. In a panic, the bricks and tiles scratched her dress." Fu Changge said , walked around the yard again, and walked straight to the gate, "but Miss Chen should be very careful, for fear of people turning back, so she walked out the door carefully along the wall. There are many debris under the wall, so she There are no obvious traces left." This yard is not like the rouge shop just now, the dead branches and sundries under the corner are piled up with almost no place to stay.

Zhang Bingbiao nodded in agreement with Fu Changge's inference, but his anxiety did not diminish at all. He walked up and pushed open the courtyard door, "Although this back street is still relatively quiet, it is very close to you when you go out." An avenue is full of merchants and vendors. There are people coming and going, and it is not easy to find the traces. There are only these footprints left in this yard, so where do we start?"

While talking, Gu Chensheng walked towards the half-collapsed house, he pushed the door and peeked out and came out, he just shook his head, "It's very messy inside, it doesn't look like a living place at all."

Fu Changge followed to the door, and also raised his head to take a look, but frowned slightly.He took a few steps into the house, looked down at something, then quickly came out, went to the courtyard and squatted next to the footprints.

At this time, Mu Yichen who was on the side spoke, "Wu Tu, don't worry about it so much, you go back to the mountain first, and then tell the senior brother in charge that I said it, bring a few more disciples down, and go door to door looking for it. Yes, Wu Tu, the few disciples you brought, didn’t all go to move the rouge box, call someone over here. Ah Pan, Fu Shaoxia, let’s go out along the back street with those disciples, and ask questions along the way. Ask. Even if Jinru finds someone to follow her, her stealth is still at a decent level, and someone will always see where she is going."

What Mu Yichen said was a very troublesome thing, but Zhang Bingbiao and Gu Chensheng also knew that if they wanted to go to Chen Jinru, there was only one way out.The two of them nodded in agreement and wanted to go out of the yard.

"Wait." At this moment, Fu Changge said suddenly, "I may know where the people that Miss Chen followed came from."

As soon as he said this, the three people in the courtyard looked sideways.

Fu Changge raised his hands, stained with gray-black mud, "The footprints in this courtyard are new, with a lot of mud stains. But the color of the mud stains is not ordinary soil, the mud is gray-black with green, It is mixed with fine sand and gravel." He lowered his head and sniffed lightly twice, then wrinkled his nose sharply, "... There is also a stench, which is very similar to... the mud around the waterways or river ditches."

"Besides, there is not only one trace in this yard. Although the house is messy, you can see many such mud stains. Most of them have completely dried up, but they are of different shades. I think those people brought them from here more than once. The muddy place went back and forth to this yard, so it is very likely that they will return to that place today. As long as they find out where the muddy place came from, Ms. Chen may have followed it nearby."

"The question now is, where are the hydrological channels around the city of Xinzhou?"

#####Thank you for reading this.