"Over the years, every time I go back to Jingnan to accompany my father for the New Year, my father will go to the secret room, and he will come to the secret room, I'm afraid it's not to see these wooden boxes! If there was nothing in the chamber, he wouldn't have to run into the chamber in the middle of the night. Last year, my father wrote me a letter for the first time – I used to write a letter from the second of my father. In his letter, he said he would give me a few things—certainly not ordinary things. ”

"Is this the letter you're talking about?" Chen Jie took out a letter from his pocket.

"Yes, it's a letter. You see—you look at this paragraph—" Ran Shikai turned to the second one.

What Ran Shikai is referring to is:

"Although the father is in good health, but the spirit is not as good as before, the father is very lonely and lonely, sometimes, in the night, when he wakes up, he can no longer sleep, and he is alone in a daze at the empty room. As a father, I very much hope that you can come back, and the children have a job, and it is inconvenient to come back, so let them be, can you and your husband come back? In life, you don't have to worry, even if the family comes back, you don't have to worry about life. It makes sense to be a father. ”

We've seen this twice; There is indeed a lot of subtext between the lines.

Chen Jie folded the letter and put it in his pocket: "If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it later, you stand still and don't move." Chen Jie took the cover lamp from Ran Shikai's hand, squatted on the ground, moved the nest step by step, carefully inspected the ground, under the illumination of the light, a layer of dust and mouse feces could be clearly seen, and there were many mouse paw prints on the dust.

"Ran Shikai, have you been to these two corners?"

"No, I'm standing here, and I don't dare to go anywhere else. When I saw that the wooden box and the wooden box were empty, I went up. ”

Chen Jie found several sets of shoe prints on the northwest and northeast corners.

"Old Yan, come and see-"

Yan Jianhua moved two small steps to Chen Jie, half-squatting on the ground, and soon, he also saw several sets of shoe prints that Chen Jie saw.

Several sets of shoe prints reveal at least two things:

First, the shoe prints have not existed for a long time, because there are fewer mouse paw prints on the shoe prints, and they are relatively clear, and there are fewer mouse droppings, and there are many mouse paw prints other than the shoe prints, overlapping and blurry. Lots of rat droppings.

Second, judging from the size of the shoe prints, there are three sizes, which means that at least three people have entered the secret room.

The two men used their fingers to compare the size of the shoe prints, and the preliminary conclusion was that one set of shoe prints was 42 yards, one set of shoe prints was 41 yards, and the other set of shoe prints was 38 yards. Obviously, the size 42 and size 41 shoe prints are for men, while size 38 is for women.

At the end of the three sets of shoe prints, each has a rectangular border, and the rectangular border is located on the northwest corner and the northeast corner, respectively.

The rectangle frame is one large and one small, the large one is about forty-five centimeters long and thirty-five centimeters wide; The small one is about 40 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.

These two rectangular borders should represent two wooden boxes. Falling and non-dusting areas depict a rectangular border.

"Old Chen, what is that-" Yan Jianhua pointed to a black round, coin-sized thing; Next to the round thing there is a fist-sized rat hole.

Chen Jie stood up, chose a place without shoe prints to settle down, walked to the northwest corner, and picked up the round thing with the thumb and index finger of his right hand.