is still a habit developed in the previous life, and Hua Jingyao doesn't want to drag the child into the case until she has no choice but to do so.

Yes, the matter in front of her has been taken as a case by her.

It's a pity that she can't even go to Shuntianfu to report the case now.

A woman went out for three days and didn't come back, Shuntianfu at most sent one or two officials to inquire if there was anyone who abducted a woman from a good family, or let people draw portraits with the memories of two children, and when there were floating corpses in the river, or when the dead were fished out of the well, they checked with the portrait, and if they were right, they were dead, and if they were not right, they would hang, and there were hundreds of cases like this kind of lost people in the yamen, not thousands and hundreds, for the yamen, this is not called a case, they will even say, the woman is eight out of ten, Nine ran away with the wild man.

Therefore, before the body was found, Hua Jingyao was not ready to report the case.

Yes, she thinks Mrs. Chen is dead.

The little nun in the temple said that Mrs. Chen loved her two sons very much, she saved enough for four years, and when she came to the capital to live in an inn, she took her son to live in the temple, even so, she did not forget to buy a windmill for each of her two sons to make them happy.

How could such a mother leave her two young children in the monastery and not come back for three days?

Unless she can't come back.

Hua Jingyao felt sad for a while.

Linlin has never met her biological mother, her father didn't mention it, and her mother never came to look for her.

It's my own mother who has died a long time ago, so I can't come to her.

"Zixuan, the temple is bitter, you take ten taels of silver to the temple, and ask them to open a small stove for those two children to make some good food." The food given to the pilgrims in the temple is also divided into several grades, the eldest princess of Zhaoyang lives here, and the food is the first class, like Chen Niangzi's mother and son, who live here in order to save money, are the worst. If it was usual, it would be enough, but now the two children are sick.

"The girl is really a bodhisattva." Zixuan said.

Hua Jingyao turned her head and said to Shi Yi: "Chen Hong spent five hundred yuan to rent the yard, you go and give the landlord five taels of silver, rent the yard, Chen Hong's rent for a month, now there are still a few days left, you compensate the landlord for the money of those days." ”

"Okay." Shi Yi replied with a smile.

Hua Jingyao said to Shi Ding: "You go to find a hoe and a shovel, let's go now." ”

There were hoes and shovels in the temple, and after a while, Shi Ding and Xiao Li, one holding a hoe and the other carrying a shovel, followed Hua Jingyao and walked towards the incense alley.

Similar to Hua Jingyao's guess, the landlady brushed the unmessed sideburns with her fingers, with a look of embarrassment, Shi Yi offered to compensate Chen Hong for the rent, and the landlady smiled, found a locksmith at the mouth of the alley, and opened the big lock on the door in three or two clicks.

Of course, the money to hire a locksmith is also from Shi Yi.

Seeing that the landlady and the locksmith were all gone, Hua Jingyao took Xiaoxi and Shi Ding Zhengda into the courtyard.

Shi Yi put the door on the bar from the inside, Hua Jingyao walked around the yard, the yard was very small, there were only three main houses, and a pomegranate tree was planted in front of the main house, and there were scattered fruits on the tree, which were small and did not grow well. The east chamber is a small hut for miscellaneous items, and there is a large water tank in front of the door, which is full of water, but there is no lid, and there is a layer of leaves and dust floating on the water, which looks very dirty.

The west chamber is the stove room, the cold pot and the cold stove, and the stove seems to have not been lit for a long time.

It also seems that no one has lived in the main house for a few days.

Hua Jingyao looked at the kang in the east room, there was soil on the kang table, but the edges of the table on the left and right sides were clean.

Wipe the kang table only wipe the edge of the table, not the table?

If you look closely, there is no quilt on the kang, only a bamboo mat, which should be the same as the furniture, all of which are old things left by the landlord.

Hua Jingyao narrowed her eyes and looked over from the side, and there were several places on the bamboo mat that were very clean and free of dust.

"Little fox, come and smell it." Hua Jingyao said.

The little fox only sniffed it and covered its nose.

"What's wrong, what do you smell?" Hua Jingyao also leaned over and smelled it, but she didn't smell anything except the unique smell of the old bamboo mat.

"Broken mats, stinky." The little fox said with a frown.

So it was, his nose was much more sensitive than normal, Hua Jingyao felt a little unpleasant, and the little fox smelled extremely bad.

Hua Jingyao couldn't help but feel a little pity for him, if this kid walked in front of the dung pit, wouldn't he faint to death?

The little raccoon squatted on the ground childishly: "It stinks, it's ......"

His voice stopped abruptly, and he suddenly leaned down, the tip of his nose touching the blue brick floor.

Hua Jingyao hurriedly squatted down and looked at the green bricks on the ground, the green bricks were old, but they were very clean.

At least compared to the rest of the house, the floor tiles, which should have been the dustiest most, were very clean.

"Does it smell?" Hua Jingyao asked softly.

"Hmm." The little fox didn't say anything more, like a beagle, crawling slowly on the ground with his hands and feet, his nose kept to the ground, and sniffed every brick carefully.

After a long time, he raised his face and grinned at Hua Jingyao, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh, but he seemed to cry: "Sister, I smell blood, it's blood, human blood." ”

Hua Jingyao stretched out her hand and pulled it up, and shouted loudly outside the house: "Sting, dig!" ”

"It's coming!" Sting got up with his hoe and walked towards the neatly paved green brick floor, he was born with divine power, and this time he used seven points of strength, and several green bricks suddenly shattered.

A moment later, a pit was dug into the ground, and there was nothing.

"Fox fox, smell again." Hua Jingyao ordered.

The little fox jumped into the pit, sniffed around, and shook his head at Hua Jingyao: "There is only the smell of earth, and there is no smell of blood." ”

"Let's go to those two rooms and smell it." Hua Jingyao said.

Soon, all three main rooms were smelled, but the little fox never smelled Fang Cai's bloody smell again.

"Did you notice?" Hua Jingyao said to Shi Yi and Shi Ding, "The floor of these two rooms is very dirty, with a lot of dust, but only the floor of the room is clean, and it looks like it has been carefully wiped with clean water. ”

Shi Yi touched the few stubbles growing on his chin, and thoughtfully: "Girl, you mean that the person was killed in that room, and the reason why the murderer wanted to scrub the ground clean was to wipe away the blood dripping on the ground." ”

"Well, that's it", there was a hint of sadness in Hua Jingyao's voice, "The fake monk Li Shaobai saw Chen Juren come here with Chen Niangzi, but the landlady only saw Chen Juren walking out of here alone, I also hoped that Chen Juren still had a trace of humanity, so I tied up Chen Niangzi and gaged her to be imprisoned somewhere in this house, but now it seems that it is a thing without humanity, and Chen Niangzi was still killed by him." ”

Shi Yi frowned, and then, he pulled the helpless little fox: "Go, follow me and smell it." ”

A moment later, Shi Yi came back listlessly with the little fox.

"There was no smell of burning corpses in the stove, and there was no smell of blood in the utility room." Shi Yi said.