Chapter Twenty-Three: The Journey to the West08 The secret room in the house

"Huh?" Ren Tianbai only heard it at first, but when he turned his head, he felt that something was faintly wrong, Tao Zhong said that he was not the one who abducted Cheng Yurou, and he really defended himself, but he only defended himself, what do he do with a long sigh every day? What is there to be in a trance? To be honest, he and Tao Zhong were just famous at the beginning, and they couldn't even say that they knew each other, could he really be a chivalrous and courageous man, and he was a little restless for his own grievances?

"Actually, it's pitiful!" Lao Zhukuai didn't seem to notice Ren Tianbai's face, but still sighed and said: "Tao Zhutou grew up in the Cheng family, and he actually has some affection for the young lady of the Cheng family, but it's a pity that he is just a small catcher, and Cheng catcher is a person who tends to be inflammatory, how could he marry his daughter to him? Since the disappearance of Miss Cheng's family, Tao Zhutou has also been like a different person, living in a simple house every day, and not even saying a word!"

"Then didn't he try his best to find out the whereabouts of Miss Cheng's family?" Ren Tianbai was slightly pondering in his heart, Tao Zhong had some affection for Cheng Yurou, but he only found out today, and the corner of his eyes hung a little Lao Zhu said quickly: "Since he has some affection for Miss Cheng, don't you want to do your best to investigate this matter?"

"I can't say that I am ...... dedication" Lao Zhu quickly picked up a shirt from the house, put it in his hand and looked left and right: "But most of them are defending you, Miss Cheng's matter, let him go to the house to ask for a sea fishing document, and it was delayed for a long time, which made Cheng Zhutou angry...... Hey, this looks like a shirt worn by a woman inside, Tao Zhutou is alone, how can there be a woman's clothes?"

"Show me!" Ren Tianbai's face moved, and he took the clothes, but he had never seen such clothes, and he could see whether they were used by women, but when he got closer, there was a faint layer of fat powder on it, and he was already a little puzzled in his heart and said: "You said that Tao Zhutou has lived in a simple place since Miss Cheng disappeared?"

"But isn't it?" Lao Yu quickly picked up a piece of clothing from the ground, looked at it in his hand, and said: "In the past, he was on duty, and he followed our brothers to drink and listen to the play, but since the Cheng family girl is gone, as soon as he is on duty, he will come back immediately, and as soon as the door is closed, he will buy a lot of vegetables, rice, oil and salt, and eat them for himself, and he will not partner with us again!"

"What a deep house!" Ren Tianbai became more and more puzzled in his heart, and walked towards the back room, but this was where Tao Zhong's bedroom was back then, and the clothes in it were even more messy, or even a dark grid blocked behind a New Year's painting, which was also pulled out, but it did not return to its original position!

Lao Zhukuai also followed into the bedroom, looked left and right, and said: "It's strange to say, I don't know if he owes someone a gambling debt, or has some emergency, and suddenly went in such a hurry, without even leaving a word, let us be small, I really can't figure it out!" He walked around the room to take a look, but he might as well kick a wooden bucket on the ground, there was still half a bucket of water in this bucket, and it suddenly fell to the ground, and the two hurriedly dodged, but Ren Tianbai suddenly saw that the water flowed under the bed, and immediately seeped in, and there was no water at all!

"It's weird!" Ren Tianbai and the old catcher both exclaimed, although Ren Tianbai has never done a quick catch, but he has also heard the truth, there are often lone thieves, or people with bad intentions, robbed treasures, or did some case, they hid in their own homes underground, buried deeply, so the catchers often investigate the case, will splash the ground with water, but where the flowing water does not gather, suddenly infiltrate into the place, it must have been recently excavated, at this moment what the two of them saw, it is clear that there is something wrong under this bed!

Ren Tianbai stretched out his hand and lifted it, he had already lifted a wooden bed aside, he didn't want to make a lot of force this time, only to hear a sound under the bed, revealing a three-foot square entrance, and the two of them suddenly changed color on their faces, could it be that Tao Zhong couldn't find anyone these days, but he was killed in his own home?

"Ren...... Ren Gongzi ......" Lao Zhukuai's face was a little surprised, and he grabbed Ren Tianbai's arm and said: "If there is a murder case here, you have to give me a witness today, otherwise the county master will ask me, and I will not be able to explain alone!"

Ren Tianbai didn't think about it, but he could also understand this old catcher's thoughts, Tao Zhong has been missing for a long time, if he is found dead in this underground today, this old catcher is afraid that he is the first suspect, why after so long, he still came to Tao Zhong's house, and he can find out where the strange place is, the county master must first suspect that it is the case that the old catcher has done!

"Don't panic first!" Ren Tianbai was a little calm, if he wanted to put it in the past, he must have been a little flustered, but now he has never seen such storms? People who have come and gone several times in the life and death pass, in front of this matter, he still holds on to himself, finds a ragged clothes, makes a torch, lights the fire, and looks into the hole, but he is a little stunned, there is no corpse under this, but it is a place that has been dug out of half a room, and there are a few pieces of furniture in it!

"What does Tao Zhutou mean by this?" The old catcher looked in by the firelight, and was also a little stunned, Ren Tianbai lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "I understand something, but please go down with me to take a look!"

The two of them entered the half of the room underground one after another, looking at the furnishings inside, a wooden bed, a few cabinets, none of which had never been brushed with tung oil, and it seemed to have been placed under it for a long time, somewhat decayed, and there were saws and planers piled up in a corner, Ren Tianbai asked the old catcher quickly: "Can Tao Zhutou do carpentry?"

"How can I do it!" Lao Zhu quickly raised his neck and said: "The carpenter of Tao Zhutou is in Huayin City, and it is also the number of ......" Before he finished speaking, he looked at these beds and cabinets, and woke up in shock, these things were not moved down from above at all, they were clearly dragged in by the wood, and they were made in it!

"He doesn't live in a decent house, what are you doing digging out this half of the room?" The old catcher quickly turned around below, and said with some doubts: "Could it be that it is uncomfortable to live above, and it is necessary to live here?"

Ren Tianbai opened the cabinet, shone the torch on the clothes inside, and sneered: "I live here, I'm afraid it's not him Tao Zhong!"

"Who could that be?" Lao Yu just asked, and when he turned around, he also saw the clothes in the cabinet, and his face changed: "Isn't this a woman......'s clothes?" Pottery...... Why does he secretly raise a woman? Is there anything unsightly about this woman?"

"Naturally, it's unseemly!" Ren Tianbai closed the cabinet again, looked at the old catcher and said quickly: "If you can see people, why don't you put them on it and raise them?" You just can't see it, you don't dare to see it, you can't see it, so you have to hide here, who is this woman, can't the old man guess it?"

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