The moon was dark and the wind was so high that I couldn't see my fingers.

The rain in spring comes as soon as it comes, and the drizzle keeps falling. The night breeze is gentle and slightly cold.

On the official road from Niujiao Town to Xinlin County, in the dark night, Yunjing walked forward with an oil-paper umbrella in his hand. His feet did not touch the ground and he covered a hundred or ten meters in one step, just like a ghost.

Walking on the road on a rainy night, not a corner of his body was muddy or wet.

Along the way, everything within a radius of ten kilometers on both sides of the road was reflected in his mind.

He had walked this road many times, but never as carefully as this time.

In the afternoon, I heard at home that my sister Yun Xi’s little sister had gone to the county town but had not been heard from. He contacted the incident of missing children in Niujiao Town, so Yun Jing took advantage of his family to go to bed and came to check along the way.

It's best to gain something, and solve the problem by the way. It doesn't matter if you don't gain anything, it won't waste much time anyway.

The raindrops were ticking on the oil-paper umbrella, and the trees on both sides of the road were dancing in the night wind. To be honest, in the dead of night, walking alone in the wilderness, I really don't dare to walk alone in the wilderness without any courage. I have a poor psychological quality.

People, in this situation, I guess I always feel like there is something following me behind me...

Not long after, Yunjing arrived at the three-way intersection in the middle of the road. The inn was still there. The pace of this era was very slow. After many years, the inn was still the same, and it had not changed much from before.

Several carriages were parked outside the inn, and the dim lights inside the inn came out through the windows, casting swaying light and shadow on the muddy ground.

It was obvious that there were guests, a large number of people, and there was the faint sound of people changing glasses and chatting.

Yunjing didn't stop here. The inn was not his goal. After noticing that there was nothing worthy of attention here, Yunjing continued to move towards the county seat.

After leaving the inn for more than ten miles, Yunjing stopped at a place.

The road here is lined with dense woods, which continue for a long time, and the sounds of various animals can be heard in the darkness.

In the darkness, Yun Jing lowered his head slightly and looked at the muddy ground in front of him. With a thought, the mud and water separated, and a piece of wood splinter the size of a finger flew up.

This piece of wood is obviously not a naturally fallen branch, but broken from some kind of man-made wooden appliance, maybe a carriage, maybe something else, who knows.

"It's hard to tell from this fragment that there was a fight and killing in this place not long ago, but..."

Whispering in his heart, Yunjing looked around, and as his eyes moved, pieces of inconspicuous pieces soon flew up and appeared in front of him.

These things include rags, broken metal arrowheads, broken iron pieces, and even dark red soil...

"Not long ago, in the past two days, there should have been a brief fighting here. The traces were obviously cleaned up briefly, but some details were not taken care of properly. And judging from these remnants, everyone involved in the fighting was

It is done by people who have certain skills and are practicing martial arts, otherwise there would not be any fragments of the sword left behind."

Yun Jing analyzed the things he found inexplicably.

Then he looked at a tree on the side of the road. There were marks of two knife cuts on the tree, and a thread hung on the cracked bark. Yunjing deduced that someone should be being hunted, so

I leaned against the tree to take shelter, but accidentally my clothes got hung up, leaving lint.

There were a lot of car thieves and road bullies in this era, and just by looking at the things in front of him, Yun Jing couldn't tell whether they were related to the disappearance of the children in Niujiao Town.

Finally, Yunjing raised his head slightly and faced the distant woods on the left.

In that direction, two miles away from the official road, there were traces of burning, and the ground was scorched black, but the burned things had turned into fly ash, leaving no residue worthy of attention. To the left of the burning trace was a white dome.

In the forest, there were some bones scattered over a large area, which were obviously the beasts.

"Probably someone was fighting here two days ago. The traces were simply cleaned up. All the items were taken to the depths of the jungle and burned. The corpses were also left in the wilderness and became the prey of wild beasts. Were the corpses destroyed and no traces left?"

Thoughts flashed in his mind, but again, based on these words, Yunjing could not determine whether it was related to the missing children in Niujiao Town. After all, robbery and killings in the wild in this era are too common, the road is difficult to travel, and it is unsafe to travel far away.

, which is why many people never leave their hometown in their entire lives.

After stopping for a while, Yunjing continued to move forward.

Along the way, he noticed traces of fighting and killing many times, but the time was short and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Not long after, Xinlin County appeared in his sight, soaring into the sky, the cloudscape came to the sky above Xinlin County.

After patrolling with his mind, he could not find anyone who matched Yun Xi's description of the little sisters.

"My younger sister said that her little sister came to the county to visit relatives, but there was no one who matched the description. She does not rule out the possibility that she has left, but it is more likely that she did not come to the county at all. In this case, the place was ruined.

The location where the corpse disappeared is worth scrutinizing. After all, the trace is new and it happened not long ago..."

Thinking of this, Yunjing immediately returned.

If something happens to the little girl's friend, she will definitely be very sad. I hope it's okay...

Returning to that place again, Yun Jingzai carefully observed the surroundings, digging three feet into the ground. Except for finding some irrelevant fragments, he did not get any valuable information. Nature had wiped it out in two days.

Too many traces have been removed.

After pondering for a while, Yunjing realized that this was going to be difficult.

Soon Yunjing raised his eyebrows and looked in the direction of the Sancha Junction Inn. At this moment, he remembered a detail that he had ignored before.

That is, the inn at Sancha Junction seems to have changed its owner!

Although this era often emphasizes the importance of property being passed down from generation to generation and not being sold off easily, so it is normal for the property to change hands, but it is always a good idea to keep an eye on it.

Moreover, Yunjing felt that the sudden change of ownership of the inn was too unexpected.

Yunjing passed there when he first went to Xinlin County, and stayed there many times. Until he returned from his study tour, the inn was still run by the original shopkeeper and his family. Why did it suddenly change owners?

The inn has been open for so many years. I think there are many people who have stayed there many times. There are many regular customers, but I have never heard anyone say that the inn is going to be sold. If the store wants to sell, how can it not talk to the regular customers?

Say hello?

This is a bit abnormal.

Of course, this was just Yunjing's suspicion. He was not familiar with the original owner of the inn. Maybe he had wanted to sell it a long time ago, but he didn't know it.

"This kind of fixed asset changes hands and must be registered with the government according to normal procedures..."

Thinking of this, Yunjing flew to Xinlin County again and secretly looked through the records in the Yamen file warehouse, focusing on the records of the most recent period, but did not find any transaction records.

Even so, Yunjing did not prejudge that the inn had been occupied by someone. Instead, he flew to Niujiao Town to look through the filing records, and then he actually discovered something.

That inn has been there for many years, so there must be records.

The fact is that the history of that inn can be traced back two hundred years ago, and it changed hands and was destroyed many times. However, that place is the only way from Niujiao Town to Xinlin County, and there are many people who need a rest and accommodation, so it continues to

now.

According to the records in Niujiao Town, the last time the inn changed hands was a month ago. It was sold to a man named Zhang Wang for three hundred taels of silver. It was a normal transaction and there was nothing suspicious about it. After all, not only

The government has records and there are intermediaries as guarantees.

"The problem is that the inn is so good, why did it suddenly be sold? The original shopkeeper is not very old, and he still wants a son. Even if it is inconvenient to run it when he is old, he can pass it on to his son to continue the business..."

Yunjing always felt that there was something fishy in this.

With his thoughts flickering, he decided to dig deeper and do it in secret. It didn't matter if he overthought it. If there was a problem, he could find it in time.

Then he obtained the identity information of the previous innkeeper through the transaction records of Niujiao Town, and then found his home address in the household registration warehouse...

"The home address of the old shopkeeper is the Sanchakou Inn, and that is their home. However, now that the inn has been sold, where have they gone?"

Originally, Yunjing wanted to use the other party's address to quietly see if there was anything fishy about the inn's change of ownership, but now he didn't know where to find the person.

In fact, it is not impossible for Yunjing to find out the whereabouts of the old innkeeper. After all, he has been running the business for so many years, so he must have acquaintances. He should be able to find out his whereabouts through visits to those acquaintances. If not, the waiter of the inn, or even

The people who help deliver goods there also know a thing or two.

But Yunjing felt that it was too troublesome. If there was any problem with the inn's change of ownership, he could just go over and secretly observe the new operator.

After such a long detour, in fact Yunjing's main purpose is still to investigate the missing children in Niujiao Town. At present, it seems that the inn is the most suspicious.

It's just suspicious. Make bold guesses and verify carefully. Even if there is nothing in the end, there will be no loss at all.

On a rainy night when I couldn't see my fingers, the inn was still standing quietly on the roadside at the three-way intersection. Yunjing came here again.

Not interested in blowing the cold wind outside, he went straight to the door holding an oil-paper umbrella.

But before he came to the door, he removed the power of his mind to drain away the rain. His feet were stained with mud when he stepped on the ground, and his body was also wet from the rain. His clothes were dusty and dirty.

Woohoo~!

In the kennel outside the inn, the always ferocious black dog saw Yun Jing, but it did not bark loudly like it did when it saw other people. Instead, it wagged its tail at Yun Jing, looking like it was getting close to him.

Yun Jing was not surprised at all by this. He was used to animals being close to him. He had not even experienced the mosquito bites that ordinary people complained about for many years.

Knock knock knock~!

Stepping onto the steps, Yunjing put away his umbrella and knocked on the door, saying: "Store, open the door."

Before Yun Jing came, there was the sound of people pushing cups and changing glasses inside, but as he knocked on the door, there was a brief silence inside, and then people continued.

The cloud scenery was clearly visible, and the people in the inn were a little surprised that there were still people coming so late. However, this kind of thing was normal, and they didn't pay special attention to it. This inn was opened here, so it missed the town.

people stay overnight.

Footsteps sounded, and soon the door opened, and a waiter carrying a lantern appeared inside.

He looked to be in his thirties, wearing a green robe and a small hat, and dressed as a normal store waiter, but Yunjing could clearly feel the blood flowing in the other person's body, and there were calluses on the mouth and fingertips of his right hand.

He is a martial arts practitioner, and he also has acquired mid-level cultivation.

"Not only the owner of the inn has changed, but also the waiter has changed. But having said that, the inn is open in this wilderness, it is normal for the waiter to have some skills. After all, it is difficult to open the store without a few moves. But the problem is, this waiter has some skills.

How much money does the inn make to be able to hire a mid-acquired martial artist as a waiter? Especially if there are more than one!"
To be continued...