Wanghai County, Changping Village.
There was no need for Hongxiu to remind Yang Ruoqing that she had actually noticed what was on the other side of the road when she was on the wall.
The main road was built by Yang Ruoqing, who took over half of Yang Yongxian's work a few years ago, spent a lot of money on it, and built a nearly five-meter-wide stone road leading to Qingshui Town.
From Changping Village to Qingshui Town, it is a little over ten miles one way. Yang Ruoqing built this road for ten miles. Basically, he built a special route from Changping Village to Qingshui Town. Along this road, there are All the villages on the left and right benefited from it.
At this moment, at the end of the road, as far as the two of them could see, there were four or five black figures coming towards them quickly.
"Sister, those people are so strange. They came here in a carriage, but they still wanted to park the carriage where they were and walk over by themselves. What does this mean?" Hongxiu asked in a low voice.
Yang Ruoqing also couldn't understand this situation.
You said that if you are coming from the town or from another village, since there are carriages, and the road is not meters wide and is made of bluestone, even if it rains, there will be no mud that will trap the wheels.
Besides, it hasn't rained yet and the ground is very dry. Why do you have to park the carriage there and walk the remaining mile or so by yourself?
Aren't you tired from walking? So what do you need a carriage for?
Also, it was almost early in the morning. These people entered the village without lighting torches or lanterns. They walked quietly in the dark, with the moonlight above their heads being their only source of light.
"Their walking posture is so light and tiptoeing, as if they are afraid of disturbing others, and they are sneaky." Yang Ruoqing analyzed the other party's walking posture.
"Sister, are you here to steal something?" Hongxiu asked.
Because there had been a similar theft incident in Changping Village before, and it was also disguised as a ghost, causing people to panic.
"Stealing something? Probably not." Yang Ruoqing squinted her eyes and observed the figures approaching here.
"Could it be that bandits or bandits came to attack the place?" Hong Xiu came up with a new guess.
Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but want to laugh, "Your awareness of potential safety hazards is really quite good, but it shouldn't be that bad."
"Sister, who do you think they are? It's impossible for a normal person to enter the village so quietly at night!" Hongxiu tightened her cloak and asked again.
It was so cold that the dripping water turned into ice at night. She risked her life to accompany the gentleman to go out on business, but what was the reason for those people? Hongxiu can’t figure it out!
"In such a cold night, wouldn't it be good to hide in a warm bed and sleep?" She couldn't help but murmured in a low voice.
Because these people sneaked into the village, her and Sister Qing'er's plans had to be temporarily shelved, and they could only hide in the corner and spy.
"Sleeping under the covers?" Yang Ruoqing caught Hong Xiu's words and took a deep breath, her eyebrows slightly raised as if she had thought of something.
Hong Xiu did not disturb her thoughts, because Hong Xiu's eyes were firmly fixed on the moving black figures in front of her eyes.
Those people had arrived near the Luo family's yard. Their pace seemed eager, but at the same time they were cautious.
Yang Ruoqing also spoke out again at this time: "Take out the one guarding the carriage over there. What I saw when entering the village were three women and two men."
Hong Xiu nodded, "That's what I saw. One of the women looks a bit old. She must be almost fifty, right?"
Yang Ruoqing said: "That woman looks familiar to me. I seem to have seen her somewhere."
The other party is definitely not from Changping Village, but where have I seen him? Yang Ruoqing couldn't remember it for a moment.
Seeing that the five people over there had come over, Yang Ruoqing and Hong Xiu paused their conversation. They ducked down and successfully avoided the probing eyes of those people. After a while, they raised their heads again and found that the five people were heading towards them. Walking in the direction of the village, we are almost past Tangba.
Yang Ruoqing's eyes were blazing, and there was no trace of sleepiness at all: "Let's go, let's follow and take a look."
Hongxiu nodded.
The two followed the few people through the pond. When they arrived under the old maple tree, the five people in front stopped. They bumped their heads together and seemed to be discussing something in a low voice.
Yang Ruoqing and Hongxiu were both practicing masters, and their ears were unusually strong, so they both listened attentively.
But I heard one of the middle-aged men ask the eldest woman: "Sister, are you sure my brother-in-law is really hiding in Changping Village?"
The older woman gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, that old guy is not serious even at his age and has a house full of children and grandchildren. I beat him several times and he still argued with me!"
"We're going to catch him today and see how he can still quibble!"
"Sister, where should we go next? This village is too big and we have never been here before?" the middle-aged man asked again.
The older woman looked around as if she were looking for something on the ground. Then she pointed in one direction: "He went that way, let's go!"
Several people turned around and headed somewhere south of the village.
Behind them, Yang Ruoqing and Hongxiu also leaned out, looking suspiciously at the direction they were walking away.
"That direction is also the direction we want to investigate. Is it a coincidence?" Yang Ruoqing said to herself.
Hong Xiu said: "Ignore that for now, let's follow up and have a look."
Yang Ruoqing nodded, and the two hit it off and followed each other in a tacit understanding.
The few people talked in low voices as they walked, and stopped from time to time outside the small yards of the houses on the roadside as if to identify something.
He shook his head and nodded for a while, and finally, he went all the way to the south of the village and arrived outside the courtyard of Heifeng's house.
The woman who was hesitant before pointed to the courtyard of Heifeng's house and told the two men and two women behind her with great certainty: "This is it, I'm sure!"
One of the middle-aged men had already begun to roll up his sleeves and cursed through gritted teeth: "Damn it, my slap is already itchy!"
Another younger man said to the middle-aged man with a sad face: "Uncle, that is my father after all, please don't be so harsh!"
The middle-aged man glared at the young man, "Your father did something wrong to your mother, and you still plead for him? Do you have a conscience? Can you treat your mother?"
The young man looked at the older woman with guilt on his face.
The remaining two middle-aged women whispered to the side: "Let's not talk about that for now. Let's go in quickly and catch them. Don't let them escape!"
Everyone else nodded in unison, and then the young man climbed over the wall of Heifeng's house, went in, opened the wooden bolt on the back of the courtyard door for them, and let them into the courtyard.
Not far away, Hongxiu looked at the courtyard wall of Heifeng's house, expressing confusion.
"Sister Qing'er, you see, other people's courtyard walls have tried their best to heighten and strengthen them. The purpose is to prevent anyone from climbing in. Why is Heifeng's courtyard wall built the other way around? It's too easy to climb. ah!"
