Because of the hard work of the poplar iron cow for many days and new achievements, Ding Sicheng gave them a few days off and let them rest and rest.

On the same day, Poplar Tieniu asked Ding Lingling and Hongxing to go out to find a show, and Poplar and Ding Lingling went to watch a movie.

The next day, Bai Yang came to Ding Lingling again and saw her holding a small porcelain bowl with some minced meat and steamed bun crumbs in it.

Bai Yang asked her what she was going to do, Ding Lingling smiled mysteriously and asked him to go out and have a look.

The two of them walked to the mouth of an alley together, Ding Lingling looked left and right and waited for a while, but never saw anything coming out of the alley.

"What the hell are you waiting for, stray dog?" asked Poplar again.

"It's not a stray dog, it's a raccoon cat!" Ding Lingling replied, "I don't know if it's a stray cat, it's clean anyway!"

"It's clean, it's not a stray cat, you don't need to feed it, do you?" said Poplar.

"You don't know how cute it is, and ...... It could be a stray cat!" Ding Lingling replied, "Anyway, when I first met him, he looked very hungry, chased me and barked all the time, and used his paws to pick up my legs and feet! Later, I helped him find something to eat, and after he finished eating, he rubbed on my lap for a long time before leaving!"

"So you're coming to feed it every day?"

"At first, I didn't want to feed it every day, but after feeding it once, it remembered me, and waited at the mouth of this alley every day, as soon as I passed by here, it immediately ran over to make love with me for a while, so I brought some food to feed it every day!"

"If that's the case, why don't you just bring it back?" asked Poplar again.

"I'm afraid it has an owner! I take it back, then its owner should be in a hurry! Besides, once we take the task, we won't be able to come back for many days, and I'm afraid that I won't have time to raise it when I come back!"

Ding Lingling's words were naturally reasonable, and Bai Yang didn't say more, just thinking about simply walking into the alley to take a look, when he suddenly heard the "meow" call, raised his eyes to look, and sure enough, a pretty beautiful raccoon cat walked out of the alley.

Ding Lingling happily immediately greeted her, and the tanuki cat raised its two front legs while calling, scratching and scratching at Ding Lingling, as if she was making love to Ding Lingling.

And its eyes are golden in color, not only very beautiful, but also have a sense of mystery.

Poplar couldn't help but love it, squatted down and watched Ding Lingling put the small bowl of food on the ground, and the tanuki cat immediately buried his head in eating it.

"It's so cute!" said Poplar, reaching out and stroking the smooth fur of the tanuki, "Have you ever thought that if this tanuki cat has no owner, or if it is lost and can't find its owner's house, who else will be able to feed it when we go out for a long time and can't come back?"

"That's right!" Ding Lingling replied, "Otherwise, let's follow it today to see if it has an owner, if not, I'll take it back, and when we go out, we can ask others to help take care of it!"

Poplar nodded, and the two of them waited together for the tanuki cat to eat with a happy mood.

After that, the tanuki cat wagged its tail and rubbed around at the feet of Ding Lingling and Poplar, the look was indeed pitiful and cute, Poplar reached out and wanted to pick it up, Ding Lingling hurriedly said: "Didn't you say that you want to follow it to find its owner?

Poplar smiled and gave up.

Ding Lingling squatted down, stroked the top of the tanuki cat's head, and said gently: "Little baby, where do you live now, can you take us to have a look?"

"Can it understand when you talk to it?" Poplar couldn't help but laugh.

Ding Lingling glared at him, then looked at the tanuki cat, actually "meowed" a few times, and suddenly turned her head and walked into the alley. But after walking not far, he turned around to look at Ding Lingling and Poplar, and called "meow" twice.

"You still say it can't understand human speech, right?" Ding Lingling was overjoyed and hurriedly hurried to catch up with the tanuki cat.

Bai Yang was very strange in his heart, and he also followed a few steps and walked side by side with Ding Lingling.

The two men followed the tanuki and walked down the alley, and soon turned into another, narrower alley, with a small courtyard at the top of the alley.

The tanuki cat climbed directly onto the courtyard wall, looked at Poplar and Ding Lingling at the head of the courtyard wall, "meowed" a few times, and then turned into the yard.

"It seems that this is its owner's home!" Ding Lingling said, slightly disappointed, "We don't have to worry about it, let's go back?"

Poplar nodded, and the two of them wanted to turn away, not wanting the kitten to "meow" and bark in the yard, and scratch the courtyard door with their paws.

Bai Yang and Ding Lingling looked at each other, Bai Yang stepped forward and stretched out his hand to knock on the door, and shouted twice: "Is there anyone in the yard?

There was silence in the courtyard and no one answered.

"That's kind of weird!" said Poplar.

"It's weird!" Ding Lingling stretched out her hand and pushed the courtyard door, "The courtyard door is bolted from the inside, there should be someone in the house! Could it be your man's voice, people don't want to pay attention to you?"

"Then you shout twice and try!" said Poplar.

Ding Lingling cleared her throat, and sure enough, she let go of her throat and shouted twice.

After a while, no one answered. Only the meow of the tanuki cat has been lingering at the gate of the courtyard.

"Could it be that something happened to the people in the house? Why don't you jump into the yard and take a look?" Ding Lingling said.

Poplar nodded, lifted his breath slightly, and his whole body flew up.

The height of the courtyard wall was less than two meters, and the poplar didn't even put his feet on the courtyard wall, so he jumped directly into the courtyard.

The tanuki cat stood guard at the gate of the courtyard, and when she saw the poplar coming in, she immediately turned around and ran to a door facing the courtyard gate.

Poplar did not immediately follow the tanuki, but stood in the yard and shouted twice, "Is there anyone in the house?"

There was still no response for a long time, and then Bai Yang opened the latch of the courtyard gate and let Ding Lingling outside the courtyard gate in.

There were three blue-brick and black-tiled houses in that courtyard, which looked ancient, but they were neat. The two gates are also antique and very magnificent.

The tanuki cat stood at the door of the room, and kept turning its head to look at the poplar Ding Lingling, "meowing" and calling non-stop.

Ding Lingling walked up the steps of the house, reached out to pick up the tanuki cat, stroked its fur and asked it: "You keep calling it that, is it that your master has an accident in the house?"

The tanuki cat naturally couldn't answer, but jumped out of Ding Lingling's arms and quickly ran to a window on the right side of the door.

The window was pushed open by a large crack, and I don't know if there was a crack in the first place, or if it was a large crack that was knocked open by the tanuki cat.

The tanuki got in through the window and meowed and meowed in the house.

Poplar reached out and pushed the door, which was also bolted from the inside, so Poplar walked to the window, pulled it open, and jumped in through the window.

The eye is a large, spacious bedroom, with an old-fashioned wooden bed facing the window, but there is no sleeping person on the wooden bed.

Poplar stepped out of the bedroom, pulled the latch and opened the door.

"Have you found the owner of the house?" asked Ding Lingling.

"No!" Poplar shook his head, "There's a bedroom over here, but there's no one in the bedroom!"

As he spoke, he saw a door on the wall on the opposite side, on the left side of the room, on each side, and went over and pushed open the door near the door and looked in.

I saw that it was full of miscellaneous items, and it should be a utility room.

"It's strange that usually there are bedrooms on both sides of the living room, why is it that this one has only one bedroom, and the other is full of miscellaneous items?" said Poplar.

"Maybe this family is living with a bachelor, or a lonely old man!" Ding Lingling replied.

Poplar didn't answer again, but walked to the door of another room along the left corner, pushed the door and looked inside, but it was a kitchen.

In other words, the house has three rooms, the middle one is the guest hall, the right one is a large bedroom, and the left one is divided into two smaller rooms. A small room in the front is a utility room, and a small room in the back is a kitchen.

At the top of the living room, there is an old long offering table. Underneath the offering table is a table of eight immortals. There are also several wooden chairs with backrests next to the walls on either side.

A back door opened on the wall to the right of the table, but the back door was also bolted tightly from the inside.

"It's strange why the front and back doors are all bolted from the inside when there is no one in this house?

Ding Lingling also felt very strange, but she didn't say much, but turned to the big bedroom to investigate.

Poplar followed in, and saw that in addition to the old-fashioned wooden bed, there was also a large wardrobe in the large bedroom.

The wooden bed is placed against the wall on the right side of the bedroom, and the wardrobe is against the wall on the left.

And a wardrobe like this is a very grand piece of furniture in this era.

There is also a small wooden table next to the right side of the bed, on which a radio is placed.

Ding Lingling opened the door of the wardrobe, looked carefully inside, turned around for a long time, and said, "There are some clothes in the cabinet, and they are all men's clothes!"

Poplar also went to check and found that the cabinet was not only full of men's clothes, but also a considerable part of old-fashioned gowns, most of which were silk products.

"How does this look like the clothes of a rich man in ancient times? It seems that there must be an old lonely old man living here!" said Poplar.

"I think so, too, but if it's an elderly lonely old man, where did he go? It can't be that he really went out through the window, right?" Ding Lingling said.

Poplar had nothing to answer, so he could only turn his head to look at the tanuki cat that was circling around their feet, and ask it half-jokingly: "Little kitten, where is your master, can you tell us?"

He didn't expect the tanuki to react to his questioning, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as his words fell, the tanuki suddenly "meowed" again and got through the gap between the wardrobe and the foot of the wooden bed.

Because the wooden bed and the wardrobe are staggered, the tail of the wooden bed and the right side of the wardrobe form a boxy empty seat, and a wooden hanger about the height of the aspen is placed on the empty position.

The tanuki cat was in that small vacant position, scratching around the feet of the hanger with its two front paws, and "meowing" as it scratched.

"What does it mean? Is there a tunnel down here?" said Poplar.

After all, having been an archaeological team member for more than a year, Poplar easily thought of the "organ tunnel".

"This little kitten is very humane, maybe it's really authentic!" Ding Lingling said.

(See Chapter 484 of "Monster Corpse in the Secret Room")