"Moreover, if you want to build a building complex as big as the Shen family, which can accommodate more than 4,000 people, the labor, financial, and material resources used can be almost astronomical!"

Shen Ke nodded sympathetically: "It is said that this family was built during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and it took thirteen years to build. ”

"Maybe our first-generation ancestors simply had too much money to spend, purely because of a whim, they built their family on Guyun Mountain. Don't believe it, look at the ancestors on the family tree, which one of them doesn't have bad hobbies? Shen Xue pursed her lips and said disdainfully.

I immediately nodded with emotion, thinking, I don't know your ancestors, but just looking at this little girl and Shen Ke is enough, I don't dare to compliment the character of their Shen family.

After walking forward for a few dozen meters, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration in my mind, and I exclaimed: "Oops, I have ignored a very serious problem since just now!" ”

Shen Ke and Shen Xue both looked at me.

I scratched my head in embarrassment and said, "When we found the door, the lock on the door had already been opened, which means that someone had entered the back house before us, but the question was who was the one who broke the lock?" Also, whether he or they are still in the back house or not, and it is not even known whether they are friend or foe. ”

Shen Ke immediately came to his senses, and he hurriedly said, "Xiao Lu! Will Xiaolu be kidnapped by this gang? Will they do anything to her? ”

It's really a matter of concern, and the more the guy thinks about it, the more scared he becomes, and he can't help but speed up his pace.

I grabbed him and shouted, "Get out of here!" Do you know where they are? If you don't know, just look for me. Although it is not clear whether they have a direct connection with Xu Lu's disappearance, it should also be a clue that cannot be ignored! ”

After getting them to pay close attention to the anomalies around them, I began to take in the surrounding scene, inch by inch.

Most of the buildings here are not badly damaged, but there is a kind of depression and decline everywhere, like a blooming flower that suddenly withers at its most beautiful.

I leaned towards the nearest wall and gently stroked the black wall with my hand, the texture was very good, and there were no cracks, which was obviously very different from the words of my ancestors who had fallen into disrepair.

So more than a hundred years ago, why did the Shen family not live in such a good house with it empty, but instead closed it up, so that the rest of the people were all crowded into the front house of the family? Is there some unspeakable problem, or secret?

I shook my head, thinking again about the people we had entered in the back house in the first place, and wondering why they had come in, and the way they had come in was as rude and direct as my own.

Hehe, I like such people very much, but I don't know if they will be the doglegs sent by those real estate developers.

And the key point is, where are they now? If you still stay in the back house, you have to quit immediately, I don't want to be in danger before I find Xu Lu.

I had no clue about it.

Looking back at the curve that I had left in the grass when I walked over, my eyes suddenly lit up, and I quickly caught the flash of inspiration that happened in my mind.

That's right! Vestige! You can start with the traces!

Since someone has come in, then he should also leave something like us, although the traces of the grass can be blown by the wind, but what about the footprints on the ground?

The road in the courtyard, though paved with black-brown mud bricks, was only a little more than a meter wide, and the rest of the place was slightly moist with mud, and the long sea of grass obscured all the sight, so I don't believe that those people could walk on the stone path accurately.

I walked back to the door, pulled out a machete from my backpack, and slashed along the way, occasionally leaning down and carefully surveying the ground.

Shen Ke and Shen Xue both felt inexplicable, and thought that I was having a nervous disorder, so I naturally didn't bother to pay attention to their strange eyes, and I don't know how long I looked for it, just when I was tired and wanted to strike and let someone else take over, a footprint was revealed.

Shen Ke stretched his neck and only glanced at it, his whole body jumped up as if he was electrocuted, and his face suddenly turned pale.

"This footprint is Xiao Lu's!" Shen Ke shouted excitedly.

I let out a soft "oh" and stared at him and asked, "Where do you see that?" ”

"I'm sure!" He danced with his hand and compared the shoe print, saying: "I bought these shoes with Xiaolu, I remember the style and size of the shoes clearly, exactly the same as this footprint, and the pattern of the soles of the feet, you see, the sole patterns of this style are sold in limited quantities by the brand company." ”

I pondered for a moment and said, "Since you are so sure, it is very likely that this person is Xiaolu, but what is she doing in the back house alone?" ”

"She's alone?" Shen Xue raised her head in surprise.

"Not bad." I removed the grass around me, looked at the black ground and said, "Look, this footprint is more than three meters away from the brick road, but there are no footprints nearby."

"If she was kidnapped, there is no reason why her footprints are left behind, but someone else's footprints are not, what does that mean? First, there may be people with her, but they all walked on the brick road accurately and left no footprints, but in this case, there was no reason for them to let Xiaolu stay so far away from them alone; Second, it can only be explained that she is alone. ”

"Then why did she leave only one footprint?" Shen Xue was still puzzled and asked, "Where is the path she took to get here?" There are more than three meters from the brick road to this place, how can there be no traces of other footprints, could it be that she jumped over? ”

"As far as I know, she definitely doesn't bounce that well." I smiled bitterly because I couldn't explain it, and for some reason, there was a slight uneasiness in my heart.

Shen Ke shouted irritably: "Don't worry so much, since there are clues, let's find it quickly, maybe Xiaolu is still trapped in this maze, crying and waiting for us to save her!" "Finally, there was a clue, this guy was like a drowning man grasping at a straw, and his spirits were very high.

"Then you remove the grass first!" I handed him the machete in my hand.

Shen Ke was stunned and asked stupidly, "Why?" ”

I knocked his head, "There is only one footprint here, and the road leads in all directions, how can I judge where your little dew is going, find me a few more footprints!" ”

Seeing Shen Ke touching his head aggrievedly, Shen Xue covered his mouth and laughed: "Ye is silent, he is already stupid enough, if you knock his head again, this kid will become an idiot." ”