Two days had passed since they parted that night, and they had tried to get their hands on the people in the city, but since Guan Hu and Fu Chuyi died, passers-by had not only been more tight-lipped about their mention of the victims, but had also tried to pull them to report to the police to prove their innocence.

So after thinking about it, I still had to find a breakthrough from the northwest refugee village.

In the afternoon, they went back to the refugee village, and the doors and windows were still closed from house to house, but only the door of the house where Su Jingchen had an argument that day was open.

As soon as the couple who weeded in the yard saw them coming, they immediately rushed back to the house and were about to close the door.

Qi Yu's eyes were quick, and when the door was about to close, he stuck his hand on the crack of the door, so that the man couldn't close it.

The man was afraid of hurting him, so he had no choice but to let go.

"What's the matter?"

"It's still a matter of the victims."

"There's not much more to say." The man saw Qi Yu's hand withdrawn and immediately closed the door, only to find that there was still a foot stuck underneath.

"You all fled from Yangzhou, and although we have not experienced the affection of helping each other on the way, we can imagine it. Now that nearly 700 refugees are missing, and their fate is uncertain, can you live here in peace? ”

"There's nothing to say, let go!" After the man said that, he saw the woman take out a thick stick from the room and make a gesture to greet Qi Yu's leg: "If you don't roll, I'll break your leg believe it or not." ”

Qi Yu didn't shrink, and still said: "We have no relatives with refugees and no reason to sacrifice our lives to find out the truth for the sake of conscience, you are really so ruthless!" ”

The woman opened her mouth to say something, but her voice was dumb and she didn't say anything in the end, she just looked up at the man, and her face was a little moved,

The man looked down at the woman, gritted his teeth, and after a pause for a few seconds, he suddenly raised his voice and asked him to roll, but his mouth said that he was letting him roll, but his eyes brushed Qi Yu's left side and looked at the courtyard wall and then looked at Jinling City in the distance, and his right foot stomped lightly on the ground.

Qi Yu's heart moved, and he took out his foot. The man hurriedly closed the door, Qi Yu took a few steps back and walked to Su Jingchen's side,

The two walked to the wall and observed: a very ordinary piece of wall, a few pieces of loose soil piled in the corner of the wall, weeds climbing from the mound to the wall, and small white flowers hidden under the blades of grass, nothing special.

"Brother Su," Qi Yu was about to speak, but was interrupted by Su Jingchen: "Let's talk about it later." ”

Qi Yu nodded and left the courtyard with Su Jingchen and walked towards the city.

When I returned to the Drunken Wind Building, it was already night,

Su Jingchen sat at the table drinking tea, and Qi Yu half-leaned on the windowsill and looked at the Spring Breeze Pavilion in the distance and was silent.

After a while, Qi Yu asked, "Brother Su, what do you think?" ”

Su Jingchen put down the teacup: "Ask him where the rest of the refugees are now, he first looked at the corner of the wall, then looked at the Jinling City, and finally stomped on the ground,

Obviously, the last two tell us that the victims are in this Jinling City, and it is very likely that they are trapped underground, as for the first, the corner? Grass? Or flowers? Su Jingchen shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"In the corner... Grass... Flower... Flower?! Qi Yu narrowed his eyes: "Brother Su, have you investigated Chunfeng Pavilion?" ”

"Not really."

"Why? Don't you think there's a problem there? Qi Yu jumped down, walked to the table, sat down and looked at him.

"Doubted,"

"That..."

"The teacher has training, and you can't go in and out of the land of fireworks."

Qi Yu laughed: "Your master still has such old-fashioned rules? Don't enter the land of fireworks, hahahahaha, are you preparing to cultivate immortals? ”

Su Jingchen didn't speak,

Qi Yu suddenly thought of something, looked at Su Jingchen's eyes and said, "You can't have never been close to women, right?" ”

"Nope."

"Where's the male?"

"Not either."

"Hahaha," Qi Yu hung the table and laughed: "Brother Su, you haven't tasted love in your twenty years of life, it's amazing." ”

Su Jingchen looked at him and pursed his lips: "Is it funny?" ”

"It's not funny, it's not funny," Qi Yu said so, but he still held his stomach and laughed for a while before he retracted,

"I've always felt that there was something wrong there, and I suspect that the first clue that the man said was the flower, that is, the flower building. You stay here for a while, and I'll go and see. ”

"I'll go too."

"You're not going to the land of fireworks?" Qi Yu asked.

Su Jingchen glanced at him: "If it's really there, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of it." ”

"Su Jingchen, you're worried about me." Qi Yu looked at him with a smile.

"No, I'm afraid you're incompetent and bad at all." Su Jingchen stood up, flicked his sleeves, and walked to the bed.

Qi Yu secretly said: "Eh, Su Jingchen, your ears are red!" ”

Su Jingchen stumbled under his feet after hearing this, and was about to draw his sword when he turned around, but Qi Yu saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly ran out like the wind, still muttering in his mouth, "Brother Su, I'll come to you later." ”

Su Jingchen looked at the confined door, put away his sword and lay on the bed, thinking of Qi Yu's frivolous and cowardly appearance, he laughed softly: The Nine Princes are much more interesting than the legend......

In the second half of the night,

Outside the Spring Breeze Pavilion, two black shadows sneaked into the backyard, and walked around the courtyard as if looking for something, the moonlight shone on their faces, and their appearance gradually became clear, it was Qi Yu and Su Jingchen.

Qi Yu rummaged around in the courtyard and said, "Su Jingchen, you said that this refugee wouldn't really be under the ground." ”

"I don't know, but I don't see anything unusual here."

"I've always been curious about the fact that the man asked me to come and save the 800 victims, obviously telling me that the victims were still alive, or some of them were still alive.

Even if Chang Du killed the more than 20 refugees for his son, but the rest of the victims are not related to the dead people, why doesn't he use money to settle it, the 800 disaster victims say less and more, plus the imperial court's disaster relief silver, he doesn't need to add much. ”

Su Jingchen glanced at him: "How can people's hearts be filled by money." He has been an honest official for nearly 30 years, not to mention whether the savings in his house are enough, even if it is enough, he allocates the money to the victims of the disaster and settles them, which is equivalent to having a handle in the hands of so many people.

When one of the victims runs out of money and has no way out, they will inevitably use this to blackmail him, you say, whether he will help or not, how many times can he help, and how much he can help. ”

Qi Yu nodded: "Makes sense." Then why didn't he choose to kill all the victims, but hid them, didn't he just keep the handle and wait for someone to find him? ”

Su Jingchen stopped his movements, raised his head to look at the east, and smiled: "Maybe it's because of your conscience, who knows." ”

The two of them groped along the wall, and rummaged through every part of the courtyard, but still found nothing, Qi Yu scratched his head on the spot: "Could it be that I thought wrong, or is the passage leading to the underground in the building?" ”

The two were about to leave to discuss again, when suddenly there was a light tremor on the ground, and the faint cry of a child suddenly rang out, which seemed a little abrupt in the silent night where the pins were falling and could be heard.

Qi Yu pricked up his ears to carefully identify the direction from which the voice came, and at a glance, he saw that Su Jingchen was already lying on the ground, and he frowned.

Qi Yu's heart moved and hurriedly lay down, and the child's cry came from the ground.

A few seconds later, there was another light tremor from the ground, and the child's cry disappeared, but the footsteps came out, and they were getting closer.

Qi Yu and the others immediately flew to the wall to observe the situation below.

I saw a man in Tsing Yi walking out of the kitchen, and it turned out to be the prefect's master Lu Youwei.

Lu Youwei rubbed the soles of his shoes on the steps, and after the shoes were finished in the mud, he took out a key from his waist, opened the back door of the Spring Breeze Pavilion and walked in.

Qi Yu and Su Jingchen glanced at each other, and after a while, after confirming that the master would not come back, he cautiously jumped down and flashed into the kitchen.

The two walked all the way to the stove along the mud footprints, Qi Yu looked at the huge water tank full of clean water, and looked at Su Jingchen: "Do you want to move away?" ”

Seeing Su Jingchen nodded, he said just do it, put a horse on the spot, took out the dantian with his strength, and moved the water tank half a meter away, revealing the position that was originally covered.

"No?" Qi Yu was very surprised when he looked at the ground that was unusual, and turned around the position under the original water tank: "How could it not be!" ”

Su Jingchen looked at the ground, the ground where the water vapor overflow of the water tank is generally covered with moss, not only is the ground not there, but it is cleaner than other floors. If you look closely, there is still a crack in the floor.

So Su Jingchen nudged Qi Yu, and Qi Yu was just about to ask, "Why are you pushing me", but Su Jingchen lifted a stone slab at his original feet.

Qi Yu looked at the light passage under the stone slab and swallowed his saliva, Su Jingchen glanced at him, got up and was about to go down.

Qi Yu grabbed Su Jingchen and pulled him behind him, and whispered, "I'll go first, you follow me." After saying that, he walked down with his long legs.

Su Jingchen looked at his back and raised the corners of his lips slightly, and when he saw Qi Yu turning his head to say something to him, he immediately lowered his face and hid the smile on his face.

As soon as Qi Yu turned around, he saw that his face was not good, and he rolled his eyes: What's the matter? What's wrong with this? Did you hurt him just now? No, it's not as delicate as a girl.

After thinking about it, I couldn't think of an answer, so I had to say, "Be careful, the steps are a little slippery." ”

Su Jingchen coughed unnaturally, "Got it." ”