The next day, Qingzhi rode to the town again, first to the farmer's house in the village southwest of the town, climbed over the wall and put on the dirty clothes that had been washed to light brown, then soiled his face and messed up his hair, and then climbed over the wall and went out of the courtyard.

When I arrived in the town, I came to the northernmost alley where I went yesterday, and when I saw that there was no one at the mouth of the alley, I stood in the corner of the alley and quietly looked into the alley.

The alley was empty and empty.

As she stood at the mouth of the alley and looked in, an old man who passed her yesterday suddenly said behind her, "Why are you thief here again?" ”

She glanced back and saw that it was one of the three old men who passed by her yesterday, and said, "How are you sure that I am a thief?" ”

The old man replied to her, "You are so sneaky, what are you not a thief?" As I told you yesterday, there are only lonely old people left in this town, and they all have no money, and the rich families are gone, and all the valuable things have been taken away. I said you thief, what are you doing at a young age, you have to learn well? You're here again, I'll report to the police! ”

She had to feign disappointment and leave the alley first, and when she came back a little later, the old man had already left the place.

When I looked into the alley again, there was still no one inside.

So she came to the gate of the courtyard next door to the east of the courtyard where the man in black came out yesterday, and listened to it for a moment with her ears on her stomach, but there was no sound in it, so she climbed over the wall with the help of a tree by the wall, and went to the courtyard.

Walking to the wall on the west side of the courtyard, she leaned against the wall and listened to the movement there.

After listening to it for a long time, I didn't hear any movement, and I thought that the people inside were all in the room and didn't come out.

It was a long time before a few footsteps were heard.

A voice said, "Little boy, you have asthma now, can you come out to bask in the sun like this?" ”

It was the voice of the man in black she had heard by the door yesterday that had stopped her.

"A little doctor said that I had to get in the sun every day to get better." Just listen to a voice reply.

Qingzhi heard it, this was Zheng Hangpei's voice.

"However, the doctor doesn't know where he is now, and you haven't improved much after so long, this method is really useful?"

She could hear it being another man in black.

The voice of the first man in black sounded: "By the way, isn't Dr. Kong here?" Call him out and listen. ”

Hearing this person's words, Qingzhi hurriedly paid attention to the footsteps in the courtyard over there, and soon heard the footsteps of two people, and soon she heard Zheng Hangpei's voice: "Doctor Kong, you are a doctor, may I ask if my leg disease will be better if I bask in the sun more." ”

I heard my father's voice sound: "If Zheng Gongzi's leg disease is due to the lack of sun, then basking in the sun is naturally beneficial, and trees that lack the sun for a long time are bound to be easy to break, and the same is true for human bones." ”

Just listen to Zheng Hangpei said: "Wang Kang, Liu Yi, you two listen, Dr. Kong also thinks so, I used to bask in too little sun, and I was stuffy in the house all day, and now I have to make up for the lack of sun exposure before." ”

Only then did Qingzhi know that one of Zheng Hangpei's two guards was named Wang Kang and the other was Liu Yi.

At this time, there was another footstep in the yard, and the footsteps came to the north in the middle of the yard and stopped, and then someone spoke: "Little Brother Pei, you drink this soup quickly and warm your body." ”

This voice was a little rough, it sounded unfamiliar, and she said in her heart that this person actually called Zheng Hang Pei as Pei's junior brother, so the relationship between the two was a little confusing.

Judging from the fact that he made soup for Zheng Hang Pei, he should have taken care of his daily life, but judging from his name for Zheng Hang Pei, he didn't look like a former descendant of the Zheng family.

I heard Zheng Hangpei say: "Thank you, Brother Dongzi." ”

Qingzhi said in his heart, who is this Dongzi brother? Isn't it the young man in green clothes who looked quite literate at the pharmacy yesterday?

When she was wondering, she heard another voice in the courtyard: "Zheng Gongzi, the medicine has been decocted, do you want to drink it in the courtyard?" ”

This voice is a bit gentle, and it is also an unfamiliar voice, whose voice is this?

Now it appears that there are currently five people in the courtyard.

She has seen two people in black, Zheng Hangpei She already knew, then, in addition to her father, there are two other people she doesn't know the situation, and one of them is probably a young man who appeared in the pharmacy yesterday.

Judging from the voice over there, the voice that made Zheng Hangpei drink tea sounded a little rough, it should be a rough person, and the person who asked him to drink the medicine should be a gentleman, so it should be the Tsing Yi man he saw in the pharmacy yesterday.

She decided to continue standing at the head of the wall until she heard the voices of everyone in the courtyard.

She needed to know how many people there were.

Moreover, she also had to know which house each of them lived in, or at least which house her father lived in, so that when she asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send someone to save her father, she would know which house to go to first to protect him from being harmed.

She stayed from morning to afternoon, convinced that there were five people living next door, because she had not heard the voice of the sixth person.

To determine which house her father lived in, she thought she would have to wait until the time she fell asleep at night.

Other times, it's possible for him to appear in any of the rooms.

In order to avoid alarming the people over there with the sound of her movements, she decided to leave the hospital all the time. On this day, she only ate in the barracks in the morning, and did not eat at any other time, and her stomach was already hungry.

But no matter how hungry you are, there is no choice but to endure it.

In the evening, before the end of the day, she sensed someone walking around in the yard next door, and she guessed that someone might be checking on the yard.

Sensing that there had been no movement, she climbed up a tree in her yard and stood on the treetops to look into the yard next door.

There was no one in the courtyard at the moment, three of the main houses on the north side of the courtyard were lit, and one of the side rooms on the east side was lit, and the rest of the houses were dark, and there were no inhabitants.

From time to time, there was a low sound of conversation in the room on the other side of the main house, and since the sound could be transmitted a little far away in the night, she could hear that Zheng Hangpei lived in the east room of the main house.

There was also a person in his house who accompanied him, occasionally talking to him a few words, it sounded like the person he called Dongzi who let him drink soup in the morning, she guessed that this Dongzi was probably the one who took care of Zheng Hangpei's food, clothing and daily life, so she guessed that he probably also lived in the main house to facilitate the care of Zheng Hangpei.

And the two men in black, she guessed that they should sleep in the west room of the main house, and they should sleep in the same room, if they want to protect Zheng Hangpei, they will definitely be in the same room with him.

Now, then, there is only one room with lights still on, and I don't know who lives there, that is, the side house to the east.

She guessed that her father must have lived in the East House.

Because my father has the most estranged relationship with them, it is also reflected in the past.

She didn't know where the young man who looked rather urbane lived. There are only five rooms lit up right now, could it be that he is already asleep?

As she watched from the tree, she suddenly heard a cough, it was her father's cough, it was from the east room, and she knew that her guess was correct.

He in the East House made her feel that things were a little easier. Because she could see from the tree that there was a window at the back of the east house, which was facing the wall between the two courtyards.

All she had to do now was creep over the wall and get to the back of her father's house.

Because everyone else is in the North House, if she is lighter, the people in the North House will not be able to listen to the movement here.