Shigego didn't like it, as if he was a liability, but he couldn't argue with that. Because it seemed that Lan Yue was better than him, he clearly remembered that she had never fought when she was in Jiangcheng before. Not only her, but also Anton, the two of them seem to be very powerful now, and they have only been with them for more than half a month, but they seem to have changed a lot.

As soon as he arrived in the capital, he noticed that there was something different between them, although he couldn't tell what was different. When they first arrived in the capital, their relationship was in a critical situation because of Ling's incident, and it wasn't until after Sniff's incident was over that it was considered normal, so he didn't ask what happened during the more than thirty days that he didn't come to the capital.

Besides, he never thought about what would happen in those more than thirty days, but now it shouldn't be like that, he has been in Tiangong Academy for so long and hasn't seen the school teach martial arts, so who did Lan Yue learn to fight with, it can only be what happened in those thirty days.

Shigego tried not to let himself think about it so much, but the more he forced himself not to think about it, the more doubts filled his mind. After Rong Ruo took Anton and they left, only him and Xiaorou were left in this house, which made him feel a little awkward, because he and Xiaoxin Xiaorou were not too familiar with each other.

Although Chongwu has lived in Ye Zhiqiu's house for a long time, he has to admit that the relationship between him and the two sisters, Xiaoxin and Xiaorou, is very ordinary, and even a little strange. It's not because the other party is difficult to get along with, in fact, he feels that the two sisters are more easy-going people, and the problem is actually with him.

He's not good at getting along with people, no, I should say he's not good at getting along with people. The reason why Chonggo was able to establish such a bond with Xinghe and them was purely because they lost their families together in Shiva Town, and then they lived together in Jiangcheng for two years. But in the interaction with strangers, he is completely inadequate, in almost every interpersonal relationship, he puts himself in a passive position, although he knows that this is not good, but it is too difficult for him to take the initiative to speak to people he doesn't know, this kind of character makes him and Xiaoxin and Xiaorou sisters not as familiar with Xinghe as they are.

Xinghe and they all lived in Ye Zhiqiu's house during that time, so Xiaorou should know something about that time, he wanted to ask her, but he didn't know how to speak, so he unconsciously dangled around Xiaorou several times.

Xiaorou noticed his abnormality and asked him, "Do you have anything to say?" ”

"Uh" Shigego scratched his head.

"What are you going to say, don't spit out?" Xiaorou was a little impatient.

"I just wanted to ask," Shigego hesitated, but was interrupted before he could ask.

"Wait, my sister is contacting me. Xiaorou interrupted him, covered her ears with her hands, and lowered her head to communicate with Xiaoxin, who was far away in the forest.

This magic is magical, Xiaoxin is obviously far away in the forest, but the two of them can cross such a distance to talk without barriers. Shigego was envious of this ability, because he couldn't do it, he didn't seem to have much talent in magic, he hadn't really learned any magic for so long, and Xinghe seemed to be doing it with ease, and he had to admit that he was even a little jealous, even though he knew it wasn't right.

Xiaorou quickly ended the conversation with Xiaoxin, "Sister, they have already entered the forest, and the hound seems to have smelled something. By the way, what did you just ask?"

Chonggo felt a little embarrassed, and finally squeezed the question out of his mouth and couldn't ask it again, "It's nothing, I'll go to the house and see if I can find anything." With that, he fled and left the place.

Originally, Shigego just wanted to find an excuse to leave temporarily and resolve the embarrassment, but then he felt that maybe he could really search this room carefully, because this room is so weird, there has been a disappearance, the hostess and Xinghe disappeared here, which makes the house look unsafe, but I heard that the disappearances in this village happen at night, so there should be no problems during the day.

Shigego planned to start at the top first, which was where they lived yesterday, and the contents of the room they had turned over when they were looking for Xinghe before, they were all very ordinary household goods, nothing special, which made him a little frustrated.

After the search for the third floor, Shigego went down to the second floor, where there was the owner's room, and they also visited when they were looking for Jasmine, but they didn't search it at that time. Shigego rummaged around the room, only to see two empty hangers on the floor next to the bed, which he thought was a little strange, but didn't understand what that meant.

He also saw another room on the second floor with a small bed and a mirror on the bedside table. Shigego walked over to the cabinet, opened the drawer, and found the first picture he saw in the room, which was of a little girl who looked like she was five or six years old, smiling happily.

The girl's picture reminded him of Rei, but he didn't seem to have seen Rei smile so brightly, and he didn't leave a picture of Rei. Photography was not unusual, but the cost of going to a photo studio was not a small amount for them at the time.

Shigego shook his head and stopped thinking about things related to Rei. He turned his attention to the photograph, remembering that he had just seen a box-like mark on the wall of Jasmine's room, which seemed to have been visited but removed. And the traces of the box in the living room, there must have been photos there, where did these photos or portraits go?

Jugo exited the little girl's room, thinking that if Jasmine hadn't thrown away the pictures or portraits, they would still be stored in the room. Mr. Balbo likes to pile up old things he doesn't need in the attic, but this is a flat-roofed house, and there is no attic, so where will Jasmine put her belongings?

With this question, Chongwu went downstairs, but just as Xiaorou was going upstairs, she looked up and saw him, and said, "I'm looking for you, what do you want to eat at noon, don't say it's too complicated, it's too complicated for me to get it." ”

Lunch, about the question of what to eat for lunch, Chongwu hasn't thought about it now, but he thinks he can do it, after all, he has lived in Jiangcheng for so long, and he still knows a little bit of cooking skills, but in the end he is not embarrassed to say that he will do it, but hesitated and replied, "Anything can be." ”

"Then I'll do it casually, don't say it's unpalatable. Xiaorou turned around and went downstairs.

"Wait. Shigego stopped her.

"What are you doing?" asked Xiaorou looking back.

"Have you ever seen a pantry or something like that in the house?" asked Shigego.

"Storeroom?" Xiaorou thought for a moment, "I didn't notice, but there's a locked house at the end of the corridor on the first floor, I don't know if it's not." ”

"Oh. Shigego walked down the stairs and towards the room.

The room was at the very end of the hallway, and the door was just a plain brass lock. Shigego took out the lock picker from his pocket (I really don't know why this word is forbidden) and walked over to the edge of the lock.

"What are you going to do?" Xiaorou's voice startled him by the sudden appearance, and he didn't notice that she was following her.

"I want to open it and take a look. Shigego replied, scratching his head.

"Use these things?" Xiaorou asked, pointing to the lock picker in his hand.

Shigego hummed a little embarrassed, the so-called lock opener itself is just two pieces of thin iron and wire, and it really doesn't look good. Regarding the skill of unlocking, he still learned it when he was in Jiangcheng, although he is not as powerful as Xinghe, but he still knows a little.

Shigego inserted the lock opener into the keyhole, put his ear to the door, and began to test the internal structure of the lock. However, what came to his ears the most was the breathing of Xiaorou standing behind him, and there was a person standing behind him watching him unlock the lock, which further led to his unsmooth unlocking, but he was embarrassed to say it.

Xiaorou stood behind and looked at it for a long time, and when she saw that he didn't open it, she asked, "Would it be faster for you to find the key?" ”

Shigego was embarrassed, and he blushed and said, "Let me try again." ”

He took a deep breath and carefully swung the lockbreaker, and finally he felt the spring being pushed into the correct position, and he took advantage of the situation to turn the lockbreaker and finally opened the door.

"Oh, that's pretty impressive. Xiaorou stood behind and sighed.

Chonggo's face flushed, he felt ashamed, if it was a galaxy, it would definitely not take more than half a minute to open, but it took him so long. He turned the doorknob and pushed open the door to the room, and a puff of dust came in his face.

When the dust cleared, Shigego walked into the room, yes, this was the storage room, there were a lot of small boxes in the room, and more importantly, he saw a few cloth-covered plates in the corner of the room.

He walked over and lifted the cloth from one of the plates. The room had no windows, only a little light came through the door, and he could only recognize the plates as portraits, but he couldn't see what was painted on them.

To do this, Shigego dragged a sketchpad outside the storage room.

"These are what you're looking for, what are they?" asked Xiaorou.

"It's like a portrait of Jasmine's room, I don't know why she's hiding. Shigego dragged the painting down the hallway, and in the sunlight he could clearly see what was painted on it.

It's a family portrait with Jasmine sitting on a chair in the center of the picture, and she's holding a little girl on her lap, the same little girl he saw in the picture on the second floor, but this one seems to be a little cuter, and a man who looks a lot older than Jasmine is standing wisely by the chair, this painting must cost a lot of money, Shigego thought.

Jasmine probably hid the painting because she didn't want to think about the sadness, after all, her family was missing. Xiaorou commented after reading the painting, "Wait a minute, my sister has contacted me again." ”

Xiaorou briefly told the two of them to cut off contact after finding something, according to her, Xiaoxin's side was also relatively smooth, the old hound didn't follow the smell, they kept moving forward, but now they are temporarily resting for lunch.

It seems that things are going well, they may be able to find Xinghe soon, Shigego thought to this and walked into the storage room again, he was going to take out the other two paintings to have a look, but because he was a little absent-minded, he accidentally kicked an old box.

The box overturned on the ground, and the contents leaked out at once, and he hurriedly picked them up into the box. They were old trinkets, candlesticks, forks, spoons and stuff, and a book.

Originally, Shigego didn't care about the book, but when he picked it up, he glanced at the cover, and he saw that there was a word written on it, the same word he had found on the fireplace last night, and he remembered that the word was called Crewe.

Chonggo walked out of the storage room with the book, handed it to Xiaorou, and asked her to take a look, the book was not too old, and many places were a little blurry, and he was a little unsure.

In the first half of the book, Xiaorou tells a story about a farmer who picked up a Maowen baby, took care of the Maowen baby, and sent him back to the forest. The farmer's kindness allowed him to gain Mao Wen's friendship and a large number of gems, which the farmer used to make a fortune, and used his best friend "Klu" in the ancient Mao language as his family name, and said that if the descendants of the family encountered any problems that could not be solved, they could go to Mao Wen in the forest for help.

As for the second half of the book, it is the genealogy of the Crewe family, but due to improper storage, the second half is mutilated in many places, and we can only roughly see what this family should be four or five generations from its founding.

Crewe is a surname. Shigego felt as if he had grasped something, but he couldn't remember it, and he racked his brains and didn't have a clue, so he had to give up.