On this day, Wu Hongwen turned home, and his expression became even more serious. When he met Xiao Cheng's eager gaze, he could only shake his head speechlessly. Xiao Cheng's eyes were red at the moment.

"Master, what should I do?"

Although she was a woman from the inner house, she had known about it for so many years with Wu Hongwen. The longer the case of missing population was delayed, the less she could find the person. Even if she found him, I am afraid...

Thinking of this, Xiao Cheng's tears fell down.

"Master, what should I do?"

Wu Hongwen sighed and reached out to pat her on the shoulder.

"Don't be discouraged. You can't give up easily until the last moment!"

After two days of this, he had to search the entire Nanjing city, but he still couldn't find the Chu family. Although Cheng Yinan, a man with poor character, was really in love with his wife. If such a thing happened, he would collapse in just three or four days!

Xiao Cheng was heartbroken when he saw this. After reporting to Wu Hongwen, he took his nephew to his home for care. His wife couldn't find him. Cheng Yinan was ill and was lying on the bedside. The water and rice did not enter. It was worse than the day. Xiao Cheng saw him like this, and he couldn't help crying every day. He wrote a letter to the eldest brother in the capital. The water on the other side could not save the nearby fire. He could only watch Cheng Yinan gradually became depressed.

Wu Hongwen refused to give up and kept thinking about ways to find her. However, the Chu family disappeared out of thin air in the world. None of the people nearby or the waiter in the shop had seen her.

"Where did this person go?"

Wu Hongwen was also a little exhausted about this matter. He sat alone in the study room this day, staring at the file on the table, and Wu Cheng spoke outside,

"Master, the master in front of me is very clear about asking me to buy land. I'll report to me!"

Wu Hongwen answered in a deep voice,

"Come in!"

Wu Cheng came in here to report,

"Master, the young man negotiated the price with the seller of the farm. It was 280 taels of silver per acre of good paddy fields, totaling 18 and a half acres, and it required 5,180 taels of silver. I asked the other party to spend less than 80 taels of silver, and I had to pay 5,100 taels of silver!"

Wu Hongwen nodded,

"That is, the price is negotiated, so buy it!"

Wu Cheng responded,

"Yes, Master..."

After thinking about it,

"Master, the fertile land is closely connected with the eldest lady's farm. I have seen it over and saw that there was a ditch between them, but the water was taken from the mountain. The mountain was a barren mountain and had no production. There was a small lake above, but it was the water source of the fields of the eldest lady and the eldest lady. Master... It's better to spend more money to buy it, so as not to change in the future and be controlled by others!"

The most important thing about this field manor is the water source. It doesn’t matter when it is abundant, but it can be seen during severe drought and dry water. If the water source is occupied by others, it will be subject to others. Wu Cheng is a mature person. If you take three steps in your work, you will be upright and persistent.

Wu Hongwen nodded when he heard this.

“It’s pretty good…”

After thinking about it, he smiled bitterly,

"The excess silver in my hand is only 5,000 taels. The rest is in the public account, and I have to support the cost of the family. I am afraid there is no excess silver to buy land..."

Paused,

"You go and call the eldest lady and ask her what she means?"

Wu Cheng left as he said, and soon Wu Xin'an came over. Wu Hongwen talked about the matter, and Wu Xin'an smiled.

"It's a big deal. The father doesn't have to call his daughter over. Just let Wu Cheng go and pay the money!"

Wu Hongwen said with a smile,

"After all, it's also an industry, you still have to understand it clearly!"

Wu Xinan nodded and said,

"Just buy it!"

After saying that, Wu Cheng asked Wu Cheng to go to his yard to find his mother to pay for money. Wu Cheng took the order. Wu Hongwen looked at his daughter and suddenly thought about it and asked.

"An An, do you know about Chu's disappearance?"

Wu Xinan was looking for books on the bookshelf and nodded after hearing this.

"I know! Everyone in this mansion knows?"

Wu Hongwen looked at his daughter taking a book called "Biography of the Nations", thought about it and asked slowly,

"It's not... because Yinan and Chu offended you, you hid the Chu family, right?"

This is also the old problem of Zhengming. Whenever a case is discovered, he will doubt all suspicious people!

Wu Xinan rolled his eyes when he heard this.

"Father, do you think your daughter is the one who does a loss-making business?"

"Oh...what do you say?"

"My cousin lives in that house. I collect eighty taels of silver in a month. Now he has moved out. I captured the Chu family again, and I have to find a place to live for her, provide food and drink, and find someone to serve her. I have to pay silver inside and outside. Am I full and full?"

After saying that, he stuffed the books in his hand back into the bookshelf.

"If I have time to capture her, it's better to let them stay in that house and collect cash every month!"

Wu Hongwen thought about it and nodded,

"As An An's temperament, I really won't do this loss-making business..."

After saying that, he frowned again,

"I can't say that they are not today even though they are staying in your house..."

Whispered while thinking,

"Who got Chu away?"

Wu Xin'an was originally not concerned about his own affairs, but his curiosity was finally aroused by Wu Hongwen's words, so he asked curiously.

"Father, is there really no clue in Chu's disappearance?"

Wu Hongwen pointed to the file on the table.

"You have read a lot of words now, so you can read it yourself!"

Wu Xinan stepped forward and opened the file and looked carefully for a while, and frowned.

"I think it's really like someone has used a magic trick, and it disappeared out of thin air!"

Seeing this place, I was really curious. I was puzzled when I returned to my yard from Wu Hongwen. The girls and women were serving food, but lying on the bed, but their hearts were still like being grabbed by a cat, and they tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. After thinking about it, they simply lifted the quilt and sat up.

"Even if you can't sleep, you might as well go to that inn to have a look!"

After changing into the night clothes, she quietly went out, but went straight to the hospitality stated in the document to come to the inn. Her skills are now quite different. She was walking through the house on the street, flying eaves and walls as if walking on the flat ground, and her small body was in the dark, like a slutty swallow passing through the forest and a flying nightingale. She arrived at the place soon.

In the dark night, the inn was also pitch black everywhere, with only a lonely lamp in the hall illuminating light and dark. Since the guest disappeared for no reason in the inn, the government sealed the place. The shopkeeper could not do business anymore, so he had to dismiss the guys and stayed alone in the empty inn. At this time, he couldn't sleep. He only sat in the hall with the lonely lamp and ate a drink.

Wu Xinan entered this place without hiding her figure. She just swayed in so much that the drunken shopkeeper didn't know anything, and she was still lying on the table and muttering drunkenly.

Wu Xinan found the guest room where Li Cheng Yinan and his wife lived that day. Seeing that the seal of the government was attached to it, she took the Persian dagger on her waist with her backhand and gently moved it along the gap of the paper. After a moment, she picked the paper off intact. When she pushed the door gently, the person flashed in.

The room was so dark that she couldn't see clearly, so she lit the oil lamp on the table, covered the light with her hands, and began to search carefully in the room. The people from the government office, even Wu Hongwen, had searched countless times, but they had not found any clues.

Wu Xin'an came to search again and naturally did not expect much hope. Sure enough, after searching the room carefully, she had no gains. After thinking about it, she turned around and searched on the couch again. The things in the room and the messy bedding on the bed were still like the morning on the day Chu disappeared. Wu Xin'an carefully looked at the bedding with an oil lamp, but found nothing.

She still didn't give up. She stretched out her hand to lift the pillow, shook it gently for a few moments, but there was still nothing. She held the oil lamp around here and suddenly looked up at the top of her head.

There were two beams above his head. Wu Xin'an stepped on the table and took a closer look. He saw that there was no trace of people stepping on the dusty beam.

She still didn't give up, but she put on a stool on the table and held the oil lamp to look at the tiles on the beam. After a full incense stick, she finally found a few loose tiles.

The tiles on the house were covered with wind and rain, and dust accumulated in the gaps, so they were all blocked. However, a few pieces were obviously taken away and put back again. The traces could no longer be returned to their original position. The oil lamp approached and could be seen at a glance.

There was another tile slightly raised upwards. Wu Xinan reached out and pulled it gently. Something hit her head. She gently lifted the tile and something fell down.

Wu Xinan hurriedly reached out and copied the thing in his hand. He checked it with the oil lamp, but it was a small gray bead. She took it to her eyes and looked carefully for a while. Then she leaned to the tip of her nose and smelled it carefully. She couldn't help but frown.

"This taste...how do I have a little familiarity?"

Thanks to the tip of her nose, and in this quiet room, the air is not circulating, she can only smell it!

Wu Xin'an put the beads to his nose and sniffed them gently. There was a very thin and light smell. The smell was too light. Wu Xin'an didn't dare to suck it in big mouthfuls, for fear of sucking the smell away all at once, but he pinched his nose and sniffed it bit by bit for a long time.

"It seems...it's the smell of sandalwood..."

Wu Xin'an looked at the bead carefully. It was a small one with a hole in the middle. There were signs of wear around the hole and the surface of the bead. It seemed that it should be used frequently and should be one of the beads.

"Is there any other beads?"

Wu Xinan took out the oil lamp and looked around. He looked through the entire roof. There was only one bead. He also counted the moved tiles, which were just the size of a person who could pass by. He couldn't help but secretly said,
Chapter completed!