Lu Qingyi's heart moved, and he raised his hand and pinched Shen Xi's little face.

"What are you doing?" Shen Xi pursed his mouth and looked at him with shining eyes, looking a little aggrieved.

"I haven't understood what happened last time, and you made a stupid thing again today, so I naturally want to get it back." Lu Qingyi said without hesitation.

Just as Shen Xi was about to fight back, he saw the person with a hurried look come to the bottom of the tree, staring at him like an owl.

Shen Xi was taken aback, but when he reacted, he couldn't cry or laugh.

"What are you looking at us like that?"

Xiao Ran was relieved to see that Shen Xi was fine, and muttered an explanation: "When the fire was burning just now, I went to the room to find Mrs., and when I saw that Mrs. was no longer in Mrs.'s room, I came out, but I couldn't find Mrs. anywhere." ”

Shen Xi couldn't help but smile: "You and I really have a tacit understanding!" ”

They all chose to go back to the empty room to find someone, but they happened to miss it, but fortunately, neither of them was injured.

When Lu Qingyi saw Xiao Ran, his expression sank again, and he took Shen Xi's hand and said, "Let's go down." ”

Shen Xi nodded, and rarely hugged Lu Qingyi's waist obediently. Lu Qingyi took him and jumped off the old locust tree.

Seeing that the faces of the two people were not very good, Shen Xi smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, okay, it's no wonder to him about this matter, who knows how this post station suddenly caught fire." ”

Lu Qingyi's eyes deepened slightly: "Maybe it's not a coincidence." ”

"You mean, someone set the fire on purpose?" Shen Xi was stunned, and when he reacted, the alarm bell in his heart was also a big one: "In order to stop us, that's why you killed us?" ”

"Don't worry, with me, I will never let you have an accident." Lu Qingyi's voice softened, and then added: "It's just that if it's really man-made, then we can't wait any longer." ”

Shen Xi nodded vigorously and agreed with Lu Qingyi's opinion. So the three of them didn't waste any more time on the road, but went to the junction of the two countries, the town that the person who guided Shen Xi said.

"Are you sure it's here?" Shen Xi looked around, a little puzzled.

Usually the people who work in the palace return to their hometowns, but they still have a certain amount of capital, and they will not survive in this dilapidated town, unless they are haunted by the thoughts of returning to their hometowns. It's just that before coming, Shen Xi checked all the information about the grandmother who left, and she was not from this town.

All this is becoming more and more suspicious.

"This town is not big, even if it is a door-to-door check, it won't take long." Xiao Ran spoke according to his years of experience.

"Then find a place to settle first, and then look for her traces, and don't miss any corner." Lu Qingyi gave an order.

The three of them went to the inn, which was the only inn in a small town, and it was sparsely populated, with the inn on the second floor and the tavern on the lower floor. From the outside, the upstairs looks dusty, and the few guests just order drinks and meals.

Although the place is not big, usually these places to rest are also the most proficient in connections, so Shen Xi walked straight to the shopkeeper who was counting the accounts in front of the counter, and said, "Hello, give us two rooms!" "Love

The "shopkeeper" raised his head, and his face looked a little unnatural.

Just now she hung her head, Shen Xi didn't recognize it, but now she realized that it was a woman, her hair was tied up randomly, she looked messy, she looked old, and her hair was half white.

The person in front of him made Shen Xi stunned for a moment before he reacted, and hurriedly opened his lips: "Excuse me, are you the shopkeeper here?" ”

"Staying in a hotel?" The woman asked in a hoarse voice.

"Hmm." Shen Xi nodded, and the woman glanced at the few of them, and finally lowered her head and took out two keys from inside.

When Shen Xi was about to take over, he stared at her and said, "Pay first." ”

"Okay." Shen Xi rolled his eyes and glanced at Lu Qingyi. Since he met him, Shen Xi naturally threw the money bag to him for safekeeping.

Lu Qingyi took out the silver, put it on the table, and said, "Shopkeeper, I just heard from people outside that your store has been open for more than ten years. I think you must know the terroir and people of this town very well, so I would like to ask you about something! ”

The woman hesitated for a moment, but finally saw the heavy silver placed by Lu Qingyi, and said, "I don't necessarily know." ”

Lu Qingyi said slowly, "About ten years ago, did you move a woman from this Mangzhen?" More than ten years ago, I was in my forties, and now I should be almost in the year of sixties. ”

The woman's body froze, and her eyes flashed with a hint of astonishment, but it disappeared in an instant.

"Nope." The woman said without hesitation: "I have been here for half my life, and I have never heard of such a person. ”

Shen Xi didn't give up, and continued to ask, "Think about it again." ”

The woman quickly retorted: "If you don't believe it, take the money and live elsewhere!" ”

"We live." Lu Qingyi pulled Shen Xi's arm and took the key without delay.

The three of them went all the way upstairs, Lu Qingyi gave Xiao Ran a look, he immediately understood, and went downstairs again.

When he walked into the room, Shen Xi pulled the corner of Lu Qingyi's clothes and said, "There is something wrong with her." ”

Shen Xi thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he said truthfully: "I see that this place is already very dilapidated, and there has been no running water in the account book for a long time, even if you don't know it, you won't even do business and drive us away." Also, her age seems to match that of the mother-in-law back then. ”

Lu Qingyi listened to Shen Xi's analysis and nodded with satisfaction.

"Not only is the age matched, but also the furnishings of this inn, all the ornaments seem to be more than ten years old, but because of the small number of people in this town and the reason for poverty, there is no business accumulated over the years."

Lu Qingyi's words paused, and after a while, he spoke again: "If you can't get in and out for a long time, I'm afraid that this inn will be empty a long time ago, and she should also roll up and leave." But on the contrary, she stayed here for many years with such a small amount of money. ”

Shen Xi reacted quickly: "In other words, this inn is not a lease, but her own land deed?" ”

Lu Qingyi nodded, but Shen Xi was still a little puzzled, and his good-looking eyebrows wrinkled slightly.