After a night, the inn seemed calm and nothing strange happened.
Jie Ren and the other men got up one after another, and the three Lu Changgong brothers were already waiting downstairs.
Tang Peng was allowed to go out to buy supplies, but only for one hour.
An hour later, we had to set off no matter what.
Lu Changgong was alert to what happened last night and didn't sleep much. He was also thinking about purchasing supplies today, so he simply got up early and waited for Su Sijin.
Zheng Jie packed up and saw her three sons. She smiled gently and said, "I'll go buy some breakfast."
The three of them nodded. Zheng Jie had already stretched out one foot, then turned back and asked uncertainly, "If I go buy it again, will I buy the same thing as Si Jin?"
Lu Changming replied straightforwardly: "Just buy it. If you buy too much, you can eat it on the way. Mother, it won't be wasted."
If he hadn't been on the road of exile, if he hadn't had no money, if he hadn't been Lu Jiaqiong, if his eldest brother and third brother hadn't needed to see a doctor, he could have eaten the entire family's meal by himself.
Lu Changgong, who usually had no expression, was shocked. "Mother, isn't Sijin in there?"
Zheng Jie blinked and asked doubtfully, "Didn't Sijin go out to buy breakfast early this morning?"
"No, we've been sitting here since early morning. I didn't see anyone go out, nor did I see my sister-in-law."
Lu Changming looked at Lu Changgong in confusion, not understanding why Lu Changgong, who usually had no expression, suddenly became so frightened.
"Mother, go back in and look around. Second and third brothers, you can go look too."
Lu Changgong had a bad feeling. All the signs last night indicated that the inn should have taken some action, but everything was calm.
Several people looked around but still couldn't find anyone.
And not only Su Sijin is missing, but Lu Zhe's eldest daughter-in-law Guo Yanling is also missing, and there are two other girls. Four girls are missing at the same time, which is unusual.
Tang Peng came over and asked, "What's going on? I heard someone's missing?"
"No one left the inn this morning. The four of them must have disappeared last night." Lu Changgong handed the powder found in the room to Tang Peng.
"When we first entered the inn, we felt it was very strange. Someone was watching us. I knew my wife was knowledgeable about medicine. She smelled a faint fragrance, almost imperceptible."
"I smelled it too. I found the powder in the crack of the door, and it was exactly the same powder my wife smelled last night. I even reminded her to be more alert at night."
"I didn't expect that on a seemingly peaceful night, four women would disappear out of nowhere."
Tang Peng frowned, "You suspect the inn..."
Tang Peng omitted the unfinished words, and everyone understood the meaning.
Lu Zhanggong's inky eyes were dark and unclear. "We'll know after we interrogate Tang Jieren."
"Tang Jie, give me some help. I want to go look for my wife with my brother. We might be able to find her by following some clues."
"no."
Tang Peng objected without a second thought, "I can torture everyone in the inn, but we'll go find him, and you stay."
Lu Changgong is the most important among all the fugitives. If Lu Changgong runs away, his life will be gone.
"Tang Jieren, my wife and I have discussed this. If something happens and we get lost, we have an agreement that I will go and find her and the others quickly."
Of course, this was all made up by Lu Changgong in order to get Tang Peng to agree to let him go out and find someone.
Seeing that Tang Peng seemed to be wavering, Lu Changgong continued to lobby.
"If you're worried that I might run away, my mother, sister, and third brother will stay at the inn. I'll have the Jie people follow them. Now, Tang Jie people, you can rest assured, right?"
In the end, Tang Peng agreed, and Lu Changming went to find Su Sijin without telling Lu Changgong. Jiang Hong, who volunteered to help, also went with them. Tang Peng stayed in the inn to interrogate the innkeeper and the waiter.
Not getting any useful clues from the shopkeeper and the waiter, Lu Changgong used his experience in marching and fighting to speculate on the possible direction.
"downtown?"
Jiang Hong suspected that Lu Changgong had made a mistake. Shouldn't he lead his men in the direction with fewer people? How could he run in the direction with more people?
Lu Changgong nodded, "Second brother, let's go!"
Even though he seriously doubted Lu Changgong's judgment, Jiang Hong had no choice but to follow.
"Second brother, put me down." Lu Changgong patted Lu Changming's shoulder and motioned him to put him down.
Lu Changgong touched the red paint on the ground with his hand, rubbed it, put it to his nose and smelled it. His long eyelashes trembled slightly, like the vibration of a bird's wings.
"Follow this path and look carefully for the red mark."
"Brother, is this a mark left by my sister-in-law?"
"Second brother." Lu Changgong disliked his noisy nature.
“Here too.”
Jiang Hong discovered a hint of red on the ground not far away.
"It is certain that this is the mark left by my wife. All we have to do is look for the mark." After Lu Changgong finished speaking, his sharp eyes discovered a light green strip of cloth in the crevice of the stone.
"Everyone, pay attention to the light green strips of cloth." It was a piece of cloth torn from Su Sijin's clothes. Su Sijin tore it into strips and used it as a mark.
Su Sijin left them with a double mark.
Lu Changgong and others followed the marks to a burned-down house, which was overgrown with weeds and branches, and there was no sign of anyone having stepped on it.
"Brother, the mark disappears here? But this place doesn't look like a place where people can hide. Could it be that the mark is just a coincidence? It wasn't left by my sister-in-law."
Lu Changgong looked around, but no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think anyone had been here before.
"Impossible." That was the mark left by Su Sijin.
"Second brother, carry me over there and take a look."
Lu Changgong did not give up. Since the mark had reached here, it suddenly disappeared. Either the bad guys discovered Su Sijin's actions, or there might be a little-known secret passage here.
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