Chapter Ninety-Eight: Lost Trace
There was also a white curtain on the window of that room, and the candlelight was shining inside. Jing Mo suddenly saw the shadow of a woman appear on the curtain, and the young man below stood still again. But the shadow of the woman in the window of the upper floor disappeared for a moment, as if she did not sit still, but only happened to walk around the window, so the shadow was faintly ignored. But therefore, it can be speculated that the young man's advance and retreat must have been several times.
When the boy saw that the shadow in the window was gone, he lowered his head again, and walked towards the center of the street, as if he was very sad. He walked two or three storefronts to the east, then stood and looked back at the window before continuing.
Nie Xiaoman had repeatedly told him to follow the young man's traces, and of course Jing Mo couldn't help but go back. Jing Mo was trying to follow from a distance, but the young man got into a small donkey cart parked in the corner and kept going. If Jingmo also finds a car, it will be too obvious? There will definitely be flaws, and there will be no time to do so.
Jing Mo looked left and right, at this time, there were few pedestrians here, and he couldn't find a sedan chair or anything, so he had to catch up. Jing Mo ran past several storefronts, and the car in front of him had already turned. Jing Mo looked a little anxious and wanted to speed up his running, when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him.
Is there anyone else chasing after them? Jing Mo was too strange, and when he looked back, he saw that there was a person chasing after him.
The man ran towards him and shouted, "Run! Stop it! You can't run! ”
What's going on? Why are there still people coming at me? Jing Moxuan couldn't help but be taken aback, so he stopped. The person chasing was short and dressed in black, and Jing Mo probably remembered that it was the person who was guarding opposite No. 7 just now. Is he really chasing himself?
Jing Mo looked around again, since there was no one else, of course he was chasing himself.
Jing Mo couldn't help but be confused, and had to stand still and wait for the man. In a moment, the man had run to him, glaring at him with angry eyes. Jing Mo thought to himself, could this guy really misunderstand what kind of villain he was? In this case, these headcatchers are really useless. This is really a way to catch thieves and disturb the people.
I heard someone shouting, "Who are you?" Why run away? ”
Jing Mo didn't get angry when he heard this: "Who am I, what does it matter to you?" Who escaped? You are mistaken! I'm going to follow a car in front of me, why are you blocking me? ”
Unexpectedly, this person still blocked Jing Mo's way, and he was a little reluctant: "Who are you?" Why are you chasing that car? ”
Jing Mo felt that the person's voice was a little familiar, and after taking a closer look, he saw that the other party's face was full of coarse and numbness, and he realized that this person was Jiang Jianxun, the head catcher who was called by the male servant during the day. However, his outfit had changed, and he was standing in the darkness again, and Jing Mo couldn't recognize it for a while.
Jing Mo's anger did not subside, and he shouted. "Are you Jiang Jianxun? Why don't you know me? I'm Su Jingmo, you saw me during the day, don't you remember? ”
When the man heard this, he was so frightened that he immediately knelt down, and kowtowed again and again: "Ouch, it turned out to be a bad master, I'm sorry." The little one has a pair of dog eyes, I was mistaken! ”
Although Jiang Jianxun repeatedly apologized to Jingmo, the car in front of him had disappeared because of this delay. Jing Mo looked at the appearance of Jiang Jianxun kneeling and begging for mercy, he was really angry, thinking that the imperial court has never been successful enough to raise such a batch of waste, and it is more than a failure, and now he is looking for a car to track it, but in fact, the direction is unknown, and it will only be in vain.
Jing Mo wanted to reprimand Jiang Jianxun a few words, but he was also ordered to guard here, and suddenly saw someone fleeing in the dark night, of course he felt suspicious. His pursuit is also for the sake of dutifulness, and although he is stupid and ridiculous, he cannot be blamed for everything.
At this time, Jing Mo remembered the second task given to him by Xiao Man, so he returned to the house where the young man looked at before. Jing Mo took a closer look, it was really No. 17, the layout of the gate courtyard was the same as that of Yan Dachuan's house that he had been to before, and it seemed that every family had exactly the same regulations.
Jing Mo thought back to the young man just now, although he didn't take a closer look in person, but it was estimated that his height and figure should be Tian Mengzheng. But what is he doing here? Where are you now? Thinking about it, I feel very sorry that I lost this opportunity to track.
Suddenly an old woman came out of the seventeenth. Jing Mo thought that he had two tasks here, and since the first one had failed, this second task had to be particularly cautious. Jing Mo deliberately stepped forward, pretending to walk towards the house. When he walked up to the old woman, he began to ask questions.
"Old man, is there a family surnamed Lin here?
The old woman was holding a basin of water in her hand, and it seemed that she had come out to splash water. She stopped suddenly.
"My family's surname is Lin, do you want to find my master?"
When Jing Mo heard her speak with a Wuxi accent, his heart moved even more, and he hurriedly asked, "What I'm looking for is from Wuxi for refuge." ”
"Exactly, exactly. Are you coming in? ”
"Well, is your master's name Lin Baiou?"
The old woman was suddenly stunned and said, "I don't know this. ”
Jing Mo said again: "He was the shopkeeper of a porcelain shop before? ”
"I don't know what he did before, but now he runs a raw silk workshop."
"Oh, don't you have two young masters in your family?"
The old woman shook her head again and again and replied, "I'm afraid you're mistaken. We don't have a young master in our family. ”
"How many people are in your family?"
"Except for the master, there are two rooms and there is no young lady."
Jing Mo saw that his goal had been achieved, so he pretended to say: "It seems that I really made a mistake, what I am looking for is a new move in yesterday, it seems that it is not your house." ”
The old woman shook her head again and again, "No, no." My family has been moving in for five or six days. ”
After she finished speaking, she turned around and left, muttering to herself, clearly complaining that Jingmo had delayed her work. It seems that tonight is to lose for a while and then win for a while, so Jing Mo found a car and prepared to rush to Gluttonous Cat Zhai to find Xiaoman.
Unexpectedly, when Jingmo arrived at Nie Xiaoman's mansion, Nie Xiaoman was not there. According to Wei Pu, Xiaoman had come back once, didn't even eat dinner, and immediately went out again. Wei Pu took out another letter from the desk drawer, saying that it was left by Nie Xiaoman. Jing Mo hurriedly opened it and took a look, there were not a few sentences in the letter.
The letter reads:
Jingmo:
There were inevitably more twists and turns in this matter, and I expected it everywhere. Now that the matter is critical, I can't help but deal with it first. If you get any news, please leave an abridgement. I'll talk about the rest tomorrow.
————Nie Xiaoman"
In such a small pond, it will actually stir up an uproar. This case is really unexpected, and there are too many twists and turns!
However, Jing Mo was puzzled: What did Nie Xiaoman mean after all when he said the twists and turns? How can there be a description of "critical"? Are there any other drastic changes here? What is the clue to which one is he doing now?
Especially Nie Xiaoman didn't even eat dinner, and then went to investigate the case, which shows that the matter must be very powerful. Jing Mo then wrote a summary of what he had just experienced and left it on his desk.
Then Jing Mo went back to his house, and he still had to eat this dinner.
On the morning of the nineteenth, Jing Mo had just eaten breakfast, and he was busy rushing to Nie Xiaoman's gluttonous cat zhai to inquire about the news, the climate on this day was much cooler than the previous few days. The road outside the gluttonous cat is a thick shade in the middle of summer, and it is more quiet than other roads. At this time, the breeze passed by, and the scattered fallen leaves danced in the air, and the bleak and sorrowful were already showing a strong autumn mood.