hotmtlnovel Chapter 581 Midnight Exploration
Chapter 581 Midnight Exploration
At night, it was quiet outside and there didn't seem to be any movement.
Pei Yan tossed and turned in bed, thinking about what Gu Chaoxi had said to him at that time.
Go back and rest early and don't go out at night.
Don't go out at night? She rarely emphasized this to him.
Pei Yan sat up from the bed suddenly. It was just talk that he should not go out at night. He should follow Gu Chaoxi's habit.
He pursed his lips, slowly got out of bed, put on his shoes, and walked out of the room quietly.
The house was quiet. After thinking for a while, he did not move the bolt on the door, but went to the backyard instead.
The courtyard wall was not very high, so I just pushed myself over it with my hands.
When he came out, he also took the kerosene lamp and matches for daytime use and tied them around his waist. He didn't dare to light the lamp at this moment, but just walked towards the direction of Gu Chaoxi's residence in the dark.
There were not many people walking around in the village, and most of them had turned off the lights.
It is relatively safe to walk outside at this time, as long as you don't make any noise.
As he walked to the side yard, he heard a tiny bird chirping.
Looking up, in the moonlight, there seemed to be a figure sitting on the courtyard wall.
The man sat on it and swung his legs, his lips curled up: "I knew you were coming."
After saying that, he jumped down from above, stood firmly on the ground, and then held Pei Yan's arm.
"Be careful." He held the man back.
Gu Chaoxi smiled indifferently. Pei Yan was underneath, so how could she fall?
She patted the dust off her buttocks, raised her hand to grab Pei Yan's hand, and then walked in a certain direction.
"Where to?" he asked in a low voice.
Gu Chaoxi didn't look back, but walked in the middle of the road based on his memory: "Go find Doctor Zhao."
She remembered how to get to Dr. Zhao's house, but she was a little afraid of the dark, so she said that to Pei Yan.
It would be bad if everything was said too clearly during the day and the villagers noticed something unusual.
She knew Pei Yan would be able to react, and here he came.
The two walked carefully along the way. Fortunately, there was nothing cluttered on the roads in the village, so they reached Dr. Zhao's house smoothly.
When they got outside his yard, they squatted next to the fence.
"Do you want a light? I have it with me."
Gu Chaoxi raised his hand and touched the kerosene lamp, stroking it twice: "Don't worry for now, I know you have it."
She had good hearing, and when Pei Yan came to find her, she had already heard the slight sound of the kerosene lamp on Pei Yan's body.
"Come over here and wait a moment." She pulled Pei Yan to the side and let him sit down next to the fence.
The height of the fence was just enough to block the height of the two of them after they sat on the ground, and the things planted on the other side were also very tall.
Even if the people in the house came out, they wouldn't notice there was someone here for a while.
What's more, the people inside are probably used to the villagers going to bed early, and they won't mind someone wandering around outside in the middle of the night.
After waiting for about ten minutes, I heard the door of Dr. Zhao's house creak open from the inside.
The person inside was holding a kerosene lamp, looked around, turned around and closed the door.
Then, he hurried outside with a box in his hand.
After leaving the fenced yard, head straight ahead.
After all, Dr. Zhao's home is far away from the river and the lake.
Gu Chaoxi waited until the light disappeared from his sight before he got up from the ground, patted the things on his body, and pulled Pei Yan up from the ground.
"Ayan, let's go in."
"You still have that piece of paper, right?"
She asked, raised her hand to push the door open a little and squeezed in.
Pei Yan responded and said that he always carried the thing with him, in case he needed it suddenly someday.
"Very good, let's find out where it was torn off from."
Although the workload seemed large, Gu Chaoxi quickly classified them.
This book must be one that is often read, so the sides are not too new, and even the title on the sides is a little worn.
In addition, the height of this book is not too high, probably just within Zhou Zhaozhao's reach.
After eliminating these, there aren't many left. After all, there are too many books on the bookshelf, and they don't look like they've been read much.
After searching for a while, they found the difference in a book.
The book was stuffed horizontally on top of several other books, and it looked a bit old when viewed from the side.
Pei Yan took the book down and flipped through it casually, and saw a torn page with a little edge left.
He compared that piece of paper with the one in the middle, and the edges seemed to match, which meant that this piece of paper was torn from this book.
Gu Chaoxi took the book and flipped through it, nothing special.
There are many annotations in the book, as well as some commonly used herbs.
Dr. Zhao should have known that a page of the book had been torn, but it is not known whether he took it seriously.
Judging from the location where this book is placed, I read it quite often.
Pei Yan put the book back in its place and looked at the page in his hand again.
Apart from the original text, there are no marks or traces of writing on it. It is very clean.
“Why did you tear this off?”
Gu Zhaoxi turned around and fiddled with the other bookshelves casually: "Maybe it's because this was the only one around at the time."
What if this book was occasionally taken out by someone, and when Zhou Zhaozhao discovered a secret, this book was the only one next to her?
So, in order to leave something behind, he tore off a page from the book at random.
As for this secret, it must be about Dr. Zhao.
"How do you know for sure that Dr. Zhao will go out at night?"
Pei Yan was a little unsure. Although he felt that something might have happened to Dr. Zhao because of Zhou Zhaozhao's death, he couldn't tell whether he would go out at night.
"It's simple. Zhou Zhaozhao's death is related to the cave, and Dr. Zhao knows about that cave."
Maybe it's too obvious to say that he knows it. Gu Chaoxi feels that Dr. Zhao has a great connection with the cave.
He even suspected that there was more than just Dr. Zhao in this family.
"He went out so late, just to go to the cave over there."
It was obvious that someone had lived on that cattail mat. That person could not be Dr. Zhao, but someone Dr. Zhao knew.
Otherwise he would not have put those herbs in the cave. She just found the record of those herbs in a book.
The leaves of that herb are effective in repelling mosquitoes, rats and ants.
Aren't mosquitoes, rats and ants the most likely to appear in dark and damp caves?
So, that's where those herbs came from.
The only person in the village who knows about herbal medicine is Doctor Zhao. If someone says that the herbs were put there by someone else, she would not believe it.