"...I remember these things were left by my sister. You put them all here after you moved in, right?"
Tang Chen nodded and said, "Most of them are here, but there are a few notebooks that I think are very beautiful, so they are left with me for borrowing. As for the rest, I checked and nothing is missing."
Wang Ruo looked at the overturned boxes and cages, thought for a moment, and said, "First, let me see the things you took out."
Wang Ruo carefully flipped through the notebooks that Tang Chen mentioned as interesting, but still found nothing. "These are just notes from places Wang Zhen visited before. They shouldn't be the person's target."
Hua Wuxin said, "That person's Qinggong skills are so strong that even you can't catch up. I guess there aren't many people in the martial arts world with such skills. I'll have people keep an eye on the movements of those masters who can be detected in the martial arts world."
"Um."
Tang Chen turned his head and saw that it was still pitch black outside the window. He couldn't help but yawn and urged, "Okay, Boss Hua, go back to sleep before it gets light."
Hua Wuxin didn't understand Tang Chen's meaning at first, and asked in confusion: "Aren't you going to rest yet?"
Wang Ruo waved her hand and said, "We can just stay here for one night. I'm too lazy to run away. I just saw that Tang Chen's bed is quite big. The three of us can squeeze in."
Hua Wuxin didn't have any objections. After all, she wasn't with another man, so there wasn't anything wrong with it. "Okay, then I'll go back first. You guys should get some rest early."
Tang Chen reminded: "Be careful on the way back, don't get hurt!"
"nonsense."
Tonight, besides them, there was another person toiling away in the night. After dark, Zhong Qin used the information he had gathered earlier to speculate on the activities of the missing persons. Unexpectedly, he actually spotted a sneaky man in black. "After searching for you for days, I finally caught you."
It was unknown whether the man in black did this on purpose or was just wandering around. Zhong Qin followed him and unexpectedly arrived at the Hot Spring Villa: "Why did he end up at the Hot Spring Villa? Could he be someone from the black market?"
Before Zhong Qin could think, not long after entering the villa, the man in black disappeared without a trace. She searched everywhere for him but couldn't find him. "Damn it, could it be that I lost him..."
Zhong Qin was searching carefully in the villa with a sword in hand. Suddenly, a figure flashed by from the side. Zhong Qin subconsciously chased after it with a sword and a fight broke out.
The two men stopped fighting when they reached a place with lights and asked in unison, "Why are you here?"
Zhong Qin put away her sword and, after making sure no one was hurt, continued to ask, "Boss Hua, what are you doing here in the dark?"
Hua Wuxin smiled and replied, "I just came back from Tang Chen's place. Are you chasing someone?"
Zhong Qin actually had some suspicions that the man she had just been chasing was connected to the black market, but thinking about his relationship with Wang Ruo, she said frankly, "...An uninvited guest led me all the way here and then disappeared. I was just trying to figure out where to look for him when you showed up."
Hua Wuxin smiled and said, "I'm living in this hot spring villa now. That person is really good at leading people. Where was the last time Mr. Zhong Qin saw him?"
Zhong Qin said very sincerely, "Near the hot spring."
Hua Wuxin stretched his body and stretched his muscles before suggesting, "We shouldn't have gone far now, let's go take a look together."
Zhong Qin hugged the sword and said, "In this case, it will be hard for Boss Hua."
Hua Wuxin jokingly said, "How dare I? I'm staying here temporarily. If that person throws dirty water on me, I won't be able to defend myself. Don't you think so, Mr. Zhong Qin?"
Zhong Qin smiled and said, "Boss Hua, you're joking."
The two masters jumped around on the roof of the Hot Spring Villa, and after a moment they reunited in the center. The black-clad man that Zhong Qin mentioned was nowhere to be seen. He must have either gone into hiding or found another way out. "Mr. Zhong Qin, this Hot Spring Villa should have a secret passage, right?"
Zhong Qin was stunned for a moment, then ran to the left and back with a serious expression: "...Oh no!"
After the two returned to the vicinity of the hot spring, Zhong Qin hurried to the rockery behind the hot spring. She didn't know what moved, but the rockery suddenly split into two halves, revealing a secret passage leading to the underground.
Hua Wuxin took out a tinderbox and observed the faint traces on the ground. He said that this secret passage must have been unused for a long time. Fortunately, there was a lot of dust, otherwise such a shallow trace would be difficult to find. "There are footprints. Where does this secret passage lead to?"
"Meiwu, the former residence of the madam," Zhong Qin said as she rushed into the secret passage, and Hua Wuxin followed closely behind.
...Feng Lai didn't know what happened to her tonight. When she woke up, it was still pitch black outside. Seeing Xixin and Yingchun were fast asleep, she didn't want to wake them in the middle of the night. She sat on the bed for a while, then casually found a piece of clothing to put on, and tiptoed out, ready to step on the moonlight.
Tonight, I didn't step on the moonlight, but I was bumped into by someone. Feng Lai was just about to scold the servant who had been so reckless in the middle of the night. Before she could turn around, the sudden, suffocating force on her neck made her struggle: "Ah!"
Qiu Liang, who had been guarding near Feng Lai's courtyard, originally wanted to return to Tang Chen because he felt that he was of no use here. But he hadn't taken two steps when he heard the noise from this side: "Who are you, breaking into my Qingliang Palace at night?"
"..." The man in black was hit by a poison needle and his hand went numb. Qiu Liang took this opportunity to snatch Feng Lai away and threw her aside: "Step aside, don't move."
"Well, be careful!"
The next morning, news spread that Qiu Liang, Zhong Qin, and Hua Wuxin had captured the assassin. When the residents of the valley heard that the missing person's killer might have been brought to justice, they subconsciously omitted the word "maybe." The thick, dark clouds that had once shrouded Qingliang Valley dissipated almost instantly.
Tang Chen wrapped his hands with a handkerchief and curiously picked up the poison they said the assassin had hidden in his teeth to commit suicide. After smelling it, his expression twisted in an instant: "No, this smell, big brother, how did you hold it in without fainting, and even put it in your teeth? I admire you."
Wang Yanzhou looked at Tang Chen helplessly and smiled, then turned around and his expression suddenly changed: "Tell me, where did you take those people? Who sent you here? Also, where did you know the secret passage to my hot spring villa?"
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