42. Speculation
"Maybe he doesn't mean that." Su Che said.
"He is your friend, not mine." Yuqin said calmly.
Su Che was silent for a moment and said, "He believes in me, and I believe in him."
Yuqin chuckled, "I understand, then, if Fang Bian and they really want to put you under house arrest, what would you do?"
Su Che's lips were pursed tightly, as if thinking.
Seeing this, Yuqin already thought about what he would do.
"He just said that Jiang Gou went to Mo Hen's residence last night?" She took the initiative to change the topic.
Su Che nodded.
"Come and take a look?" Yuqin asked.
Su Che stood up and just as soon as he opened his mouth, Yuqin put away the folding fan.
"I'll go with you." She said, "You don't have martial arts now. If the murderer is there, I can help you."
Su Che took a deep breath and walked out the door first.
...
Previously, the Tuo Shuai talked to Su Che about Mo Hen’s residence, so it was not difficult to find.
Of course, behind them, there were people following him, and that was the one sent by Fang Bian to stare at him.
Su Che did not throw these people away. This time he was open and not afraid of what others said.
When he passed outside the courtyard wall, he had already looked at the courtyard. There were no traces of fighting in the empty courtyard. With Jiang Gou's martial arts, if he fought here, it would have been damaged. Moreover, it was not far from the streets and alleys, so Jiang Gou was enough to show his warning.
Su Che thought to himself, could it be that Jiang Gou was leaving here or was already injured before he was here?
Over there, Yuqin was already pushing the yard.
"Oh," Su Che called out.
The yard door was not locked and opened as soon as it was pushed.
"You can't see anything just when you're outside." Yuqin said as she entered, "It's just a good time to take a closer look."
Su Che looked at the street behind him. The two Mo family disciples who were following him obviously wanted to stop him, but after he saw this, he did not move forward any further. However, one of them left quickly. Needless to say, he went to inform Fang Bian and others.
Su Che no longer hesitated and went straight into the yard.
The remaining Mo family disciples also hurriedly ran towards this side. They were responsible for monitoring Su Che, but they did not need to be sneaky. Anyway, they were discovered and they didn't care much about it.
In the courtyard, Yuqin held a fan in her hand and tapped her legs gently. She took a slow step, her eyes swept across the walls, and then looked at the ground.
Su Che walked across the stone road, looked at the main house, and locked on the door, so he did not make any rash mistakes.
As for the kitchen, woodshed, etc., he also looked at it a few times, but didn't think there was anything strange.
Yuqin stopped in front of the woodshed, did not step forward or walked away, but just looked like she seemed to have discovered something.
Su Che looked over and said, "What's wrong?"
"Look at the window over there." Yuqin said.
Su Che was slightly stunned, then looked to his right, and a window was closed tightly.
He had not discovered anything before, but at this time Yuqin reminded him that he could see something was wrong when he looked closely.
The walls on the window ridge and the window lattice are a little new. Although they are yellowed by wind and sun, they are still much cleaner than other places.
Su Che's eyes narrowed, he leaned over, reached out and touched it.
The wall skin was indeed very new, but it was not newly painted, but the original outer layer of the wall skin fell off, revealing a layer close to the blue bricks underneath. He didn't use much force, rubbed it with his hands, and then when the stone powder fell, his fingers suddenly paused.
As I felt like I had touched my hands, there were faint ups and downs on the wall under my hands. This was a very faint trace, as if I had pressed it out with my hands. But if I wanted to leave a handprint on the blue brick, I had to have extremely heavy force.
Su Che thought of a possibility and his eyes were slightly shocked.
"What did you find?" Yuqin asked.
Su Che hurriedly said, "A trace that seemed to be pressed by a hand."
Yuqin smiled faintly, "Sure enough."
Su Che touched the blue brick with his hand, then got up and walked over.
"You've noticed it a long time ago?" he asked.
Yuqin nodded, "Since Jiang Gou comes, he will naturally not be open and upright. He is looking for Mo Hen to see if he meets someone in private, so he must be eavesdropping outside the house."
Su Che thought for a while, and then said, "Last night, Jiang Gou eavesdropped outside the window. After being discovered, he stepped back in a hurry and pressed his hand on the wall, so he left a trace."
Yuqin nodded, "Maybe it was discovered, or maybe it was because she saw something and exposed herself in fear."
"What would that be?" Su Che asked subconsciously, but after asking, he couldn't help but shake his head. I'm afraid the only person involved knew about this matter.
Yuqin kicked her feet gently.
Su Che certainly would not think that her move was boring and immediately looked at it.
Yuqin kicked up some dust, but with her waved the folding fan, the dust went elsewhere like a wind before she could.
Su Che's eyes lit up, "It's this ground!"
The ground in the courtyard is not a farming place, and there is no need to overturn the soil from time to time, so the ground is of course solid, and even if it rains, it will not appear muddy.
But at this time, Yu Qin kicked her feet, the sand and stones on the ground were soft, and there was still obvious dust.
Su Che no longer hesitated and pointed a little around his feet with his scabbard. Sure enough, there were sags with soft sand on the ground.
He picked it with his sword sheath. Although there was some soil on the ground, he could vaguely tell from the traces that it was footprints, and the footprints that were trampled very deeply.
"Fill these footprints with new soil, but in order not to be seen, they are not stepped on." Su Che said: "This seems soft instead. When the wind blows, there will be dust."
Yuqin raised her hand, pointed to the window on the main house with a fan, and then looked at the woodshed in front of her, "Jiang Gou hurriedly retreated from the window, but unexpectedly someone had already hidden in the woodshed."
Su Che looked at the footprints deep on the ground and nodded, "And that man is also a master of body refining, and he attacked again. Jiang Gou lost his mind for a while and had no time to issue a warning."
"Is Jiang Gou dead here?" He looked around the courtyard and frowned, "But if so, there will be no traces of fighting here."
"Two reasons." Yuqin looked at him and chuckled.
Su Che's eyebrows were soothing, "First, the person who attacked was too good at martial arts, Jiang Gou was far from an opponent, and he lost the power of resistance within a few moves, and he had no time to warn him, and was finally thrown into the back mountain. Second, Jiang Gou recognized the identity of the person who attacked him, and left here for unknown reasons, so there was no trace of a fight here, so he died in the back mountain."
After hearing this, Yuqin blinked, "You are not stupid either."
Su Che was embarrassed for a moment and scratched his head.
However, he quickly said seriously: "I think the second possibility is not high. Jiang Gou told the Tuo Shuai that he was coming here, and Tuo Shuai will come here later. It is impossible for him to follow people without saying a word."
From the past interactions, including the words of Tuo Shuai, he could see that Jiang Gou was a calm person, and such a person rarely made mistakes in his work.
He promised Tuo Shuai and knew why he came here secretly, so even if he met someone he knew, he would find a way to notify Tuo Shuai.
What's more, the patrolman will pass by every once in a while, and he has many opportunities.
"But if it is the first possibility, even if the person who takes action is not a great practice, he will definitely be the best in half a step. He is still a foreign expert. Then the only one who meets this condition in the city is the only coachman."
Su Che said: "But based on my understanding of him, he will not do such a thing."
"Do you know him?" Yuqin said in confusion.
Su Che said: "I met him once when I was a child, but I heard the thief coach talk about him."
Yuqin didn't care about this and didn't look at it in detail.
"That's an outsider," she said.
Chapter completed!